We turn pain into suffering by adding on all kinds of beliefs, interpretations and judgments to it.

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.

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.

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.

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Poor people can't understand this: It's not what you do that creates a fortune, but who you are.

I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.

I was so shy and so quiet, and the only time I had my own voice and I could really connect with people was when I was singing or on stage.

Poverty is a great equalizer

Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!

We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond.