The right attitude toward any negative state begins with understanding that its only authority over you is a direct reflection of your attitude towards it.

Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view.

Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to you as permanent, don't believe it.

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.

If we only knew how many times our seemingly clever comment cut straight into the heart of the person with whom we have just spoken, it is we who would bleed.

I am willing to walk toward, and then through, whatever may be seen in the moment as being greater than myself.

The smallest effort to remember the Divine, or even one of its timeless truths, connects you to a calmness whose power is in that secret strength found in all things deep.