Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.
I've always thought that each person 'invents' their lives. We have only one chance, and however we've lived it determines the kind of person we are.
You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.
The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers.
You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
You have grown from your struggles. They made you who you are today. They are part of your story, but they do not define you.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
Life as it appears to us is always a compromise between the soul's desire and the world's limitations.
