Virtually all of life's ills boil down to mindlessness. If you can understand someone else's perspective, then there's no reason to be angry at them, envy them, steal from them.

Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events.

Life consists only of moments, nothing more than that. So if you make the moment matter, it all matters

Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.

What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see.

Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers the same mindlessness.

People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will be greater.

When people are not in the moment, they're not there to know that they're not there.

The rules you were given were the rules that worked for the person who created them.

Wherever you put the mind, the body will follow.

We should open ourselves to the impossible and embrace a psychology of possibility.

Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.

How do I say 'kiss me' in French?" she whispered."Embrasse moi."Oh yes, even that sounded better in French.

Few people are spoken of in the way they would choose

Don't talk about the problem. Be a part of the solution.

The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.

We need schools to force kids to learn things they have no use for.

I don’t know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net.

...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.

There are more and more taboos about calling something, anything, ugly.