“With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.”

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.

You become what you think about all day long and those days eventually become your lifetime.

Happiness is not something that you get in life, hapiness is something that you bring in life.

Each experience in your life was absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment.

When you are able to shift your inner awareness to how you can serve others, and when you make this the central focus of your life, you will then be in a position to know true miracles in your progress toward prosperity.

If you don’t make peace with your past it will keep showing up in your present.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

If you knew who walked beside you at all times, on the path that you have chosen, you could never experience fear or doubt again.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

Your children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn’t matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I’m going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy.

Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.

We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.

Value is not determined by those who set the price. Value is determined by those who choose to pay it.

My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.

I have a right to live my life and just be me with whoever I choose. We just do the best we can.

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

There comes a time in every person’s life when he has to choose the course his life will take.