The belief that you have no choice but to keep suffering through whatever frightens you is like believing you have to hold onto a scalding cup so that you won't spill your coffee!

Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.

What good is any feeling we may have about ourselves, if it only lasts as long as others agree to it?

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

Real freedom isn't subject to how others estimate our value; it is in realizing that none are free who find their sense of worth wondering how others measure their lives.

Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education.

If you love getting gifts - and who doesn't - then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the present moment.