Pain and adversity are powerful vehicles to promote personal growth. Nothing helps you learn, grow, and evolve more quickly. Nothing offers you as big an opportunity to reclaim more of your authentic power as a person.

Nobody comes to Earth to dodge problems. We come here to take 'em on.

The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.

I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.

You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.

Sometimes when you say goodbye, that's the right thing to do in a relationship.

That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and then some.