The best defense against being hurt is to feel good about yourself and the way a person responds to you says more about them, than about you.

Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.

Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.

Whatever we can't love or accept in another, is a mirror of something we can't love or accept in ourselves.

Relying on another is an expression of attachment, not love, a manifestation of insecurity and suffering, not understanding the true nature of our lives.

When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.

What seems good turns bad, what seems bad turns good. It is an endless cycle.

Change is the very basis of our life, not to be fought, to be welcomed and tasted, to be seen for the gift it truly is.

All the insight we will ever need to live well will come from fully being who and where we are.

In a relationship if you are giving and getting nothing back in return, stop giving so much, and spend time being. Give to yourself, be who you are.

The sense that my world is stable and stationary, that change will never come and that all will go on continuously as it is, is the nature of all delusion.

My mother works in a bank, and my dad is the head of my management team and also works in finance.

I was home schooled starting in seventh grade.

If you love something and stick with it, you will get phenomenal results.

Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.

You're coming to Buzzfeed's homepage not for yourself, but to find something to share with someone else.

Nothing in life and nothing that we do is risk-free.

Remember the saying, What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger? It's true!

Religion is the biggest influence on the intellect and the decadence of a people.

Terrorist bombings, like rampage shootings, are events that maximize the amount of publicity per amount of damage. That's why people do them, because they know they will set off a media frenzy.

The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and to challenge ourselves without being crushed.