“Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.”

If you don’t make peace with your past it will keep showing up in your present.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

If you knew who walked beside you at all times, on the path that you have chosen, you could never experience fear or doubt again.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

Your children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn’t matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I’m going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

When you’re at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Once you believe in yourself and see your soul as divine and precious, you’ll automatically be converted to a being who can create miracles.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.

I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education – that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.

Let no man’s place, or dignity, or riches, puff him up; and let no man’s low condition or poverty abase him. For the chief points are faith towards God, hope towards Christ, the enjoyment of those good things for which we look, and love towards God and our neighbor.

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

There are those who believe justice and dignity are reserved only for some people. Young men have died in police custody, and the growing heel of poverty has worn down harder on children of color…We must fight back.

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It’s fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.