At the bottom of every person's dependency, there is always pain, Discovering the pain and healing it is an essential step in ending dependency.

The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.

Who you allow into the circle of your life will make the difference in the quality of your life.

The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.

The moment you make the internal changes necessary to obtain your goal, the outside world changes instantly.

Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where you are.

Everything that happens to me is the best possible thing that can happen to me.

The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations.

The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.

You don't need to be a scientist to know how powerful your imagination is.

You are not alone in your quest to be who you want and have what you want.

Fake feeling good. ... You're going to have to learn to fake cheerfulness. Believe it or not eventually that effort will pay off: you'll actually start feeling happier.

It's important for us to latch onto the people that we love.

The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.

Don't you like when the winter's gone, And all of a sudden it starts gettin' warm? The trees and the grass start lookin' fresh, And the sun and sky be lookin' their best.

It is more important to know the properties of chlorine than the improprieties of Claudius!

The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.

You could start a fire with the heat between you two. You're mistaking bitter animosity for heartfelt affection.

You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation.

In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.

Contentment and happiness! Do everything happily. Walk, talk, sit happily; even if you complain against somebody, do it happily.