Action is stronger than subjectivity. No matter what you feel or think, you can still act.

Our sense of self-worth is the single most important determinant of the health, abundance, and joy we allow into our lives.

Everyone everywhere live[s] a confused, bitter search. Reality never matched their dreams; happiness was just around the corner - a corner they never turned. And the source of it all [is] the human mind.

If we agree on everything, only one of us is necessary.

If there is a central theme to what I called "a peaceful warrior's approach to living," and to The Four Purposes of Life, it is that there may be innumerable techniques or methods one can learn (from the Eastern spiritual cultures and from the Western psychological tradition), but that above and beyond all these technologies waits the school of everyday life.

As poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, "We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water." Simplicity has power. And living on purpose comes to this: Just do it. How much simpler can we get?

Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.