Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!

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.

One of the most important rules for me is: Don't ever defend myself. If we could put this one principle into practice, how much more simple life would be.

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

No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.

The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.

Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds or to quietly have my own life?