“If you do different, you will have different. If you begin to require more of yourself, that in and of itself is different.”

You must learn that you do not have to be angry just because you have the right to be.

If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don’t carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.

Take the high road, there’s a lot less traffic up there.

When you allow a person’s words to upset you, you’re giving away your power.

Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we’re capable of.

Learn when’s a good time to shut up

I’ve never eaten a taco, and I don’t plan to.

Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.

Can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

You can’t change other people or (some) conditions; you can change only your reactions to them.

You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.

First, you’re going to have to stop using food for anything other than nutrition. You cannot continue to use food to celebrate, or as a companion, or for entertainment, or comfort. You cannot medicate yourself, your mood, or pain with food.

In the meantime, let’s agree that what makes a problem big is simply that it’s yours.

These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends’ children, the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.

To recognize one’s own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

When I wake up, I begin my search for you.

Rising from the ashes on wings of tomorrow. Her strength carries her into the dawn of new beginnings.

You may just be my new beginning or the absolute end of me.

I love summer and sunny days but there’s a certain magic in rain. There’s a promise of new beginnings and growth that comes with rain.

I’m seeking endings for tales that have never begun.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.