Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

Man must conquer some more territories and to expand the influence of the kingdom to a higher horizon

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

I almost think of nerd brains as rattlesnake venom; like, you can milk it. You can milk the pulpy venom out of the nerd brain and use it for good if you want to.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.

Kids are great. You can teach them to hate what you hate and, with the Internet and all, they practically raise themselves.

When ALL is said and DONE, What will matter to our Heavenly Father will be how well we have Kept Our Covenants and how much we have tried to follow the example of our Savior, Jesus Christ.

I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.

If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.