No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.

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

Any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation because there's always more to see.

The real quality of our life is not determined by what we have won from it, but by what we have discovered within it.

Better that the whole world should turn against you... than you should consent to turn against what is true within you.

Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you're in is like trying to organize your monthly bills by throwing them into a blender

The vast majority of our troubles and heartaches would simply vanish from view if only we could remember - before we act - that we are made victims mostly by our own tendencies.