We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.

Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.

The only method of receiving love is to give love, because what we give out must come back.

You can have anything you want, providing you first let go of wanting it.

There is more pain from holding on to the thought of pain than there is in the situation itself. If you let the world strike you, it will do so less cruelly than your own imagination.

All unhappiness is caused by our trying to be limited, to be an ego. The more we are our Self, the happier we are. We will never be completely happy until we are completely being our Self.

Don't probe darkness to understand light. Don't dwell on sickness to be healthy. Don't indulge in thoughts of lack to have supply.

The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.

The vast majority of people's concept of love is actually hate, more or less. “I need you, I must have you, I can't live without you, you're mine,” is all non-love.

Feeling sad about anything is holding onto it. Say, 'This is something I have to let go of,' and immediately you will feel better.

Human love is needing the other one. Divine love is giving to the other one.

... I'll tell her about Tia. I'll tell her how beautiful she was and how brave. And I'll tell her the most important thing of all: that her mother loved her better than her life.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

The main source of good discipline is growing up in a loving family, being loved and learning to love in return.

I get to surf every day.

Think of suffering as being washed.

Humans are able to give very good feedback. You can't tell with an animal what they feel.

With every physical pain, my moral fibre unravels a little.

Beloved, let the fact of what our Lord suffered for you grip you, and you will never again be the same

There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.

I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.