He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

Men never think their fortunes too great nor their wit too little.

Who you are is a necessary step to being who you will be.

I feel there are two people inside of me - me and my intuition. If I go against her she'll screw me every time and if I follow her we get along quite nicely.

An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool - shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple - teach him. He who...

The truth is forced upon us very quickly by a foe.

Neither blame nor praise yourself.

He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.

This comprehension of our own personal misery makes us equally understanding of the misery of others. How can one who is really convinced of his own frailty, weakness, and inconstancy, dare to condemn...

Genuine love is ever constant, unchanging. There is no separation by degrees, levels, or kinds. There is no comparison or judgment since there is just one kind and it is inside everyone. Ego and the...

Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God - given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having...

You're only as strong as your biggest weakness.

He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices

Think about yourself because selfishness is everywhere

Life may become difficult when you are out of sync with your heart - felt desires.

The water shines only by the sun. And it is you who are my sun.

There are misplaced expectations, once you recognize those, you are only left with smart ones. To "expect yourself" to expect nothing {from others} is going against human psychology. Expectation is...

The healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

I honestly didn't realize at the time that I was dealing with myself. But I suppose it's true that I developed a therapy that provides the things I needed for so many years and never got.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Careful, Sandi. You're about to let your bulldog mouth overload your bird - dog bite.

Just because anyone can, doesn't mean everyone can.

Sorry. I would be bad for you.

We don't want to eliminate the ego completely. Otherwise we'd be wandering around the house each morning, drinking coffee for hours, saying, 'Who the hell am I?' We need the ego to sustain a sense of...

Relationship Time to Aloneness. Having a companion fixes you in time and that of the present, but when the quality of aloneness settles down, past, present and future all flow together. A memory, a...

Self importance is pride of a soul.

At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.

A wave has a right to live her life as a wave, but she must also learn to live her life as water because she is not only a wave. She is also water. And water lives without the fear carried by the...