Every time you feel miserable, there is present an excellent opportunity to make a big step forward.

Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.

The only method of receiving love is to give love, because what we give out must come back.

You can have anything you want, providing you first let go of wanting it.

We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.

There is more pain from holding on to the thought of pain than there is in the situation itself. If you let the world strike you, it will do so less cruelly than your own imagination.

All unhappiness is caused by our trying to be limited, to be an ego. The more we are our Self, the happier we are. We will never be completely happy until we are completely being our Self.

Don't probe darkness to understand light. Don't dwell on sickness to be healthy. Don't indulge in thoughts of lack to have supply.

The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.

The vast majority of people's concept of love is actually hate, more or less. “I need you, I must have you, I can't live without you, you're mine,” is all non-love.

Feeling sad about anything is holding onto it. Say, 'This is something I have to let go of,' and immediately you will feel better.

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.

I hate it when you answer a question with a question." "No you dont, you think its charming.

Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.

My last page is always latent in my first; but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as I write.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

They say cats have nine lives. I've had 12 already and I don't know how many more I'll have.

Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.

Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.

She tries to get a waitressing job for a while - I mean, she's looking for a while before she finds Coyote Ugly - and it's hard to get a waitressing job in the city.