The next time you catch yourself starting to feel bad about anything, immediately stop everything you are doing for a moment and, as simply and as honestly as you can, ask yourself: "Is this what I really want?

In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are

Walk lightly through life.

Trying to change ourselves in order to please others - so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval - is like cutting a flower into pieces so that it will fit into a vase.

Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry.

The nature of what the Divine notices about you is completely different from the nature of what you do to get noticed.

Far better is it for you to go through one small thing that frightens you than to make a thousand plans for an imagined fearless day to come.