“Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.”

You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.

It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.

If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.

The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.

Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.

Until you can love what is – everything, including the apparent violence and craziness – you’re separate from the world, and you’ll see it as dangerous and frightening.

When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.

It’s not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It’s particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.

It’s not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.

Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.

Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.

When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.

When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.

To argue with reality is to argue with God.

Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.

Bees and butterflies in my belly with you on my mind they chase each other around.

Fear lives in the mind of doubt. Courage lives in the minds of those who dream.

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

And again my mind runs to you in the way that rivers can’t help but return to the salt.

To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.

The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.

I can’t think of a striker in the world who has scored so many important goals, never mind a midfielder.

When my husband Edgar and I were courting, he said he couldn’t wait to have a baby. It was only after we were married that he changed his mind and decided that I should have the baby.