Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.

Healing fails to occur because it is much easier to injure another than to heal oneself.

You need only choose ... then keep choosing as many times as necessary. That is all you need do. And it is certainly something you can do. Then as you continue to choose, everything is yours.

You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.

It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.