There isn't anything in your life that cannot be changed.

The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind

Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.

When you do not seek or need approval, you are at your most powerful.

Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering.

By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

Grant me the grace to dissolve my negative thoughts about myself today. I breathe the grace of kindness into my heart. And may the grace of healing flow abundantly to every one in need of help.

Never blame another person for your personal choices - you are still the one who must live out the consequences of your choices.

You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.

There is no such thing as a simple act of compassion or an inconsequential act of service. Everything we do for another person has infinite consequences.

Being of service is not an option, it is a biological necessity. Every kind of action we do for someone is a reanimation of our own life force - and of the other person's.

mystery is not founded in ignorance, mystery is founded in imagination

When we hold onto worry, regret, and anger, peace of mind, strength of body, and freedom of spirit eludes us.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

You only get one chance of an England debut.

Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments.

I take literature as a really serious human activity. It's not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and performative, but I think it's really serious.

Economic history is the most fundamental branch of history; not the most important. Foundations exist to carry better things.

Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.

I usually have an idea that I want to build on and let the music take me where I wanna go.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.