“Feel that life likes you just the way you are; otherwise, it would have made you differently.”

I hope you find, as I did, that happiness comes from noticing and enjoying the little things in life.

Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures – as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part.

Find your center and stay there. It will allow you to live your life to its maximum.

Accept periods of suffering with gratitude, knowing that suffering can teach you very important lessons.

Everyone gets the same twenty-four hours in a day, the difference is how you use it.

Wishing is good for us. Daydreams, fantasies, castles in the air, and aspirations All drive us forward, Impel us to make things happen. They also tell us a lot about ourselves.

Think of the world in these terms, as larger in scale than the human. This is a healthy corrective to the commonplace view that people own the land, which exists to serve their purposes. Think big and live small.

Happiness need not be analyzed.

A still tongue keeps a wise head.

A true smile is when the mouth and the heart coordinate with each other.

Our wishes come straight from our core, And they are loaded with vital information About who we are and who we can become. Keeping track of our wishes Helps us tap into the energy That propels us to go after our happiness.

Find your center and stay there.

See yourself as a small child, fragile and vulnerable, and breathe in. Smile with love to this small child within yourself, and breathe out.

Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over.

Right underneath your thoughts and negative emotions exists an ocean of love. You have but to quiet the mind to experience it.

I like to serve chocolate cake, because it doesn’t show the dirt.

…I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn’t have met, and who didn’t like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.

Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.

When it comes to reflexes, i’m like a cat. I’m catwoman. I’m invulnerable. The only reason he got a piece of me is because of the rain. Cats don’t like water. It impairs us. It’s our kryptonite.

Open to everyone, regardless of where they come from, what they look like, how they worship or who they love.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

An Experiment, like every other event which takes place, is a natural phenomenon; but in a Scientific Experiment the circumstances are so arranged that the relations between a particular set of phenomena may be studied to the best advantage.