“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.”

When you do not seek or need approval, you are at your most powerful.

Healing is a different type of pain. It’s the pain of becoming aware of the power of one’s strength and weakness, of one’s capacity to love or do damage to oneself and to others, and of how the most challenging person to control in life is ultimately yourself.

If you don’t appreciate what you have in life right now, whatever it is, you will never realize your purpose. Without appreciation, you will never become strong enough to respect yourself.

The love that flows through your heart purifies not only your own spirit, but the love you share with others.

Your spirit is the part of you that seeks meaning and purpose. It’s the part drawn to hope, that will not give in to despair.

While we measure our own success in terms of our personal comfort and security, the universe measures our success by how much we have learned.

Wounds are the means through which we enter the hearts of other people. They are meant to teach us to become compassionate and wise.

Master your responses to external events–don’t attempt to control them.

Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering.

Spiritual maturity is measured not by the sophistication of a person’s opinions, but by their genuineness and the courage necessary to express and maintain them.

People know when they’ve betrayed themselves. They are very much aware when they are not honest with themselves. They hear the voice that says, “You shouldn’t have said that” or “You know that’s not right.”

If you betray yourself, you are no different from the people who hurt you. What’s the difference between those people who hurt you and what you are doing to yourself?

Developing personal power includes learning not to negotiate your self-worth for the sake of someone else or sell yourself short for a job.

You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you’ll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.

Act on your inner guidance, and give up your need for ‘proof’ that your inner guidance is authentic. The more you ask for proof, the less likely you are to receive any.

Healing requires taking action-it is not a passive event.

Sometimes people rehabilitate and reform their lives into being a great person when they make awful choices as children.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.

For my life, I need to make my own choices.

To succeed, you also have to know how to make choices and how to think more broadly.

Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy.

Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.

Our choices affect everyone around us. There is no such thing as “individual risk” or “individual wellness.