It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.

When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.

Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.

The components of happiness are quite simple. Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now. In its true form each quality includes all the rest, for happiness is whole, and one feels whole when genuinely happy.

Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking back, but they are confining when I need to act in the present.

Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.

I don't need a "reason" to be happy. I don't have to consult the future to know how happy I feel now.