Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?

To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!

Literature is a power to be possessed not a body of objects to be studied.

Maybe wrist corsages cut off circulation to the brain? I mean, is that why so many girls do stupid things on prom night? I was really going to have to investigate this further, I decided

Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away.

I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long.

Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.

Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.

I always have a plan, but then I'm always ready to throw the plan out, and everyone's ready to make a radical left turn if necessary.

Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?