There is no choice between being kind to others, and being kind to ourselves. It is the same thing.

Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.

Giving kindness does as much good as receiving it...Kind people are healthier and live longer.

If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy.

Being kind is the simplest way to become who we really are.

If we could be sure of everyone and everything, trust would have no value

It's all really very simple. You don't have to choose between being kind to yourself and others. It's one and the same.

We are used to thinking in terms of what we can teach our children. Maybe we need to ask ourselves what we may learn from them.

We can proceed according to the planned itinerary, strenuously trying to make life conform to our needs, or we can adapt to whatever we meet and flow without effort.

Generosity is, by definition, disinterested.

The transition from rebellion to acceptance has an extremely important consequence. . . in which we start seeing life as a training school, to teach us what we need to learn.

Ask empowering questions daily so your mind can focus on new possibilities and solutions instead of problems.

In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and present was certain of giving.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend upon yourself.

Gloria Steinem in the women's movement. Eleanor Smeal of the Feminist Majority. There are all of these great wonderful women I've met that are so inspirational.

How's it going down there?" "It's weird. They're too polite, they talk funny, and stuff has too much shine on it. But the coffee's worse than Central's, so that's something.

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

I do not have much confidence in the political system and never did. My goal has always been to change people's minds because as long as people demand more government, they will get it.

What was God doing before the divine creation?

There are serious budgetry issues that need to be worked through. Playing a game of lying about what's in the content of legislation isn't going to get them anywhere.