If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid. Kindness comes first. Always.

Treat yourself as if you already are enough. Walk as if you are enough. Eat as if you are enough. See, look, listen as if you are enough. Because it's true.

It's never been true, not anywhere at anytime, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale.

Most of us spend our lives protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened.

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company

What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.

Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest.

If you pay attention to when you are hungry, what your body wants, what you are eating, when you've had enough, you end the obsession because obsession and awareness cannot coexist.

We eat the way we eat because we are afraid to feel what we feel.

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage.

If you think your job is to fix what is broken, you keep finding more broken places to mend.

Let love, joy, peace, and hope be the guiding lights of your life today, tomorrow, and forever.

The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.

The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for.

Moses probably danced a little, right? You don't part the Red Sea without having some moves.

I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.

I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.