Whatever human endeavor we choose, as long as we live our truth, it is success.

Now I know what success is: living your truth, sharing it.

Decide what your truth is. Then live it.

No matter how smart we may think we are, no matter how committed we are to our truth, we can lose our way.

Ask yourself: what is it, that if I believed it down to my core, would change everything?

The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know.

One thing I've learned: we don't stumble accidentally into an amazing life. It takes decision, a commitment to consistently work on ourselves.

Pain doesn't last. And when it's gone, we have something to show for it. Growth.

If there's a definition of freedom, I think it's this: living life on your terms.

Success and failure come and go, but don't let them define you. It's who you are that matters.

The things I carry are my thoughts. That's it. They are the only weight. My thoughts determine whether I am free and light or burdened.

The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.

Technology is an extension of our hands and our feet, not our spirit.

I'm the oldest of three girls. My sisters say I can be bossy.

Oh, how I like those little mortifications that are seen by nobody, such as rising a quarter of an hour sooner, rising for a little while in the night to pray!

Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.

There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers.

Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only onereality.

Education is cheap; experience is expensive.

Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.