That silent gap between your thoughts is your window to the cosmic mind.

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.

Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.

No matter what the situation, remind yourself "I have a choice."

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

The love you feel in life is a reflection of the love you feel in yourself.

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.

When the mind wants to hope it refuses to listen.

Things are wonderful when we look at them with magic in our hearts.

...as I am not fond of giving advice, having seldom seen it taken

Your responsibility to be ready for the fight, never ends.

[His coat] emitted an odor of bus station so desolate that just standing next to him you could feel your luck changing for the worse.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.

My full name is Lauren Lee Smith. Of all the names I could have been given, that's the one I got. Lauren Lee Smith. It has all the personality of a toaster.

I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience of thinking.