Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love.
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.
Grief feels so strange. It comes in waves, sometimes gentle, sometimes crashing over you. And in between, there is a kind of numb feeling, where you just wait for the next wave.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
You can't make a cloudy day a sunny day, but you can embrace it and decide it's going to be a good day after all.
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Begin your day, upon awakening, with prayers of gratitude, requests and affirmations that they are being answered always ending with more gratitude.
Subject and object are not separate so called objective reality is projected by our subjective consciousness.
We owe some of our successes to people who did not want to help us more than we do to those who have helped us.
I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
For yesterday I was not the one I was. For Today I am what you made me who I am and for tomorrow I leave it up to you oh God!
Love yourself first to fill your heart with bliss. Now give it away with humility, love, and gratitude.
We need to live in a culture that values and respects and looks up to and idolizes women as much as men.
My feeling on the subject of sex with a man is don't give it up unless you're willing to give him up. Not in the beginning. Sex is power!
The number one joy indicator, the one thing that will predict whether someone feels joy in their life or not, is the practice of gratitude.
