“One of the greatest struggles of the healing process is to forgive both yourself and others and to stop expending valuable energy on the past hurts.”

Life was never meant to be safe. It was meant to be lived right to the end.

When your life begins to harm you, know that you have taken a detour from your true path.

To heal illness, begin by restoring balance.

When I look at someone’s face, I look beyond that face and into the cellular memory in my heart that says, ‘Finally you and I have met again. And now we must find out why’.

Seeing and admitting the truth about ourselves, about our role in creating our own problems, and about how we relate to others is vital for healing.

Every single choice we make is either going to enhance the spirit or drain it. Every day, we’re either giving ourselves power or taking it away.

To love yourself, truly love yourself, is to finally discover the essence of personal courage, self-respect, integrity, and self-esteem. These are the qualities of grace that come directly from a soul with stamina.

The moment you come to trust chaos, you see God clearly. Chaos is divine order, versus human order. Change is divine order, versus human order. When the chaos becomes safety to you, then you know you’re seeing God clearly.

Knowing that every single day is so filled with potential – you cannot wait for life to give you anything. You have no right to feel entitled. You are not entitled to anything.

Human reasoning can never answer the mysteries of our lives.

Managing the power of choice, with all it’s creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience.

You will always receive help within a second of a prayer. To recognize the help, you must see everything in your life from that second on as a part of the answer to your prayer.

By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

Get bored with your past, it’s over!

Never, ever mistreat someone who loves you. Because you’re not entitled to that love.

Silence is a learned practice that requires far more than just not talking. Not talking is not silence; it’s just not talking.

I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

You drain your energy in proving your worth to the world then wonder why you feel so empty.

To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.

Seeing the energy of ‘SNL’ made me want to be a part of it. If that was a job, I thought, that was the job I wanted. That was my plan. Comedy.

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

When he left, you spent all your energy holding on to him. You could be happy if you let go.

A lot of us have energy that we can tap into. We sell ourselves short.