“You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, I release the need for this in my life.”

Don’t die with the music still in you.

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

As you awaken to your divine nature, you’ll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

Change your inner thoughts to the higher frequencies of love, harmony, kindness, peace, and joy, and you’ll attract more of the same.

It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.