Through my own trials, I have found that it is not enough to know what to do - we must act on that knowledge in order to have the lives we want.

This wasn't a hunger for a bigger house or a faster car. This was a far deeper hunger: a hunger for living with more meaning, with more festivity and more satisfaction.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present. Marianne Williamson

When Michelangelo was asked how he created a piece of sculpture, he answered that the statue already existed within the marble. God Himself had created the Pieta, David, Moses. Michelangelo's job, as...

There is a light that shines in the darkness, which is only visible there.

If you can't put your soul into something, give it up and leave that stuff to someone else.

Your perception of the world and the way you see yourself in it has created within your mind a concept, a philosophy, of the way you believe things to be.

Any day that we don't give up puts us one day closer to success.

POTENTIAL IS A PRICELESS TREASURE, LIKE GOLD. ALL OF US HAVE GOLD HIDDEN WITHIN, BUT WE HAVE TO DIG TO GET IT OUT.

Let each of you esteem and look upon and be concerned for not merely his own interests, but also each for the interests of others. Philippians 2:4

a man cannot fulfill his purpose if he is living for applause, approval, and affirmation in this world. It simply will not come - not enough, certainly, to answer the needs of his soul.

You have to dig down and find some part of you that doesn't care what people think, doesn't care if it's hard, doesn't care if it hurts, doesn't care if you have to momentarily experience humiliation,...

Price writes that money is a function of My Own Natural Energy Yield. In essence, whatever we hold in our minds and hearts will either enhance or obstruct our ability to receive - not just money but...

This bothers me because I see it as a lack of diversity in our conception of what kinds of things people should do.

Getting angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way—this, certainly, is not as easy as it sounds.

People, especially successful people, are habitual creatures. They're organized. This makes them productive - Gus Mitchell

Make Every Man Want You: How to Be So Irresistible You'll Barely Keep from Dating Yourself!

People are afraid to concentrate because they are afraid of losing themselves if they are too absorbed in another person, in an idea, in an event. The less strong their self, the greater the fear of...

The more the feeling of incapacity and the lack of genuine will increase, the more submission or obsessive desire to please one's whims and insistence on choosing proliferates.

It's much easier to control our perceptions and emotions than it is to give up our desire to control other people and events.

Then no matter where you are, in a crowded restaurant or on some desolate street or even in the comforts of your own home, you'll watch yourself dismantle every assurance you ever lived by. You'll...

The soul is a verb. . . . Not a noun.

I'd learned something, all right, about the power of attraction, and Nee was right, it was potent. But I'd also learned that the self might want one thing, but that didn't mean it was right. Isn't...

Self-actualizing people see the unfolding of God in everyone that they meet. They go beyond appearances. They are friendly with anyone and everyone regardless of class.

All human giving is fiction giving. Only the Absolute nonfictively owns; hence only the Absolute can nonfictively give; hence the mortal who believes that he or she owns, stands no chance of receiving...

Don't have children until you're ready to be a creator and give birth to creators. It is wrong to have children out of need, it is wrong to use a child to soothe your loneliness, it is wrong to create...

Famously, Gloria Steinem once advised women that they should strive to become like the men they had always wanted to marry. What I've only recently realized is that I not only have to become my own...

There comes a time in every young woman's life when she must learn to trust the evidence of her own senses, of her own experiences, if it does not confirm what she has heard from others.

One must love everything.

The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one's life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that live in river...