We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.