“I would rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I’m not.”

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

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.

What I hate the most. Not everyone in the industry wants to see me win. I proved to everyone that I am better than them and the most important thing is to be here.

Social and economic hatred, on the other hand, reinforced the political argument with that driving violence which up to then it had lacked completely.

The mind thinks thoughts that we don’t plan. It’s not as if we say, ‘At 9:10 I’m going to be filled with self-hatred.

What makes men obey or tolerate real power and, on the other hand, hate people who have wealth without power, is the rational instinct that power has a certain function and is of some general use.

A man may hate cruelty and lies, but if he’s never given an opportunity to show what he’s made of, no one will remember him when he dies.

It is so tiring to hate someone you love.

I am not opposed to the white race as charged by my enemies. I have no time to hate anyone. All my time is devoted to the up-building and development of the Negro Race.

The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved.