"Understand and challenge your personal narrative. Narratives become choices and actions - which become your life."

"All defensiveness and emotional tumult is a fear response because of your need for acceptance and ruthless control of the territory of your safe fantasy world."

"Allow sunshine and light into your rooms and life!"

"What is a human but a choice maker? Choices are powerful. Choices change history. Choices change the world. Remember your power!"

"Innocence still lives within our hearts and the child within each of us knows right from wrong."

"Growth and empowerment requires reflection and facing the frightening, ugly, hard and unbearable reality."

"We must resist impulses to attack people, their credibility or their nature, and focus only on sharing our own positive creations, contributions, ideas and solutions."

"In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love."

"All things are accomplished by the meditative act of releasing illusions and simply becoming."

"If you make it right with yourself, it will be right with the whole world."

"Words of affirmation are powerful. Words change lives, words and ideas change the world."

"All pain in life comes from suppressing your true identity."

"Most so-called success in the world is slavery."

"The struggle is beautiful."

"Something is reflecting our thoughts back to us in obvious and not so obvious ways."

"Choose to be pro-active, assertive and self-defining."

"We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day."

"Surrender is not a weakness, but rather an empowering state of humility."

"What we do to others, we do to ourselves.."

"The fulcrum of resistance is in your mind where you pit yourself against the weight of the external."

"You are powerful, if you choose to be."

"If you relax your mind, it can begin working for you."

"Begin accepting the gift now, and have every beautiful and good thing in life - and then share."

"Balance in life is the key to everything."

"The Arts are the only acceptable theatre of war for peace."

"Opportunity will always meet you exactly where you stand."

"They say our suffering is an inevitable part of the human condition, just accept it. But the greatest human skill is that of a choice maker."

"The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity."

"When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak, be our silent statement."

"Witnessing a selfless act brings tears to remind us how we should be treating others."

"You would not believe what skill, power and ability your total intelligence possesses until you lose your balance."

"Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch."

"The world is not what it is supposed to be. We are tragically off course."

"If some people came into contact with anything real they would be shocked out of their minds."

"Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul, dreadful losses that rupture your perceived reality. Pain so visceral and unrelenting that even death itself can begin to look like a welcomed and kind benefactor."

"We are all damaged. We have all been hurt. We have all had to learn painful lessons. We are all recovering from some mistake, loss, betrayal, abuse, injustice or misfortune. All of life is a process of recovery that never ends. We each must find ways to accept and move through the pain and to pick ourselves back up. For each pang of grief, depression, doubt or despair there is an inverse toward renewal coming to you in time. Each tragedy is an announcement that some good will indeed come in time. Be patient with yourself."

"You can become instantly successful with a simple thought, but long-lasting and pronounced success comes to those who renew their commitment to a mindset of abundance every minute of every hour of every day."

"Let it all go and enjoy the profound gifts found in your quiet places."

"Your suffering is there to inspect you and perfect you. We are made complete by our pain."

"Forgiveness can help you to be sane."

"There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy."

"We must reject the artificial and embrace what is real and true: truth in food, community, relationships and self."

"One person really can make a difference. Each person is the revolution."

"Don't allow others to make you feel small. You came to this world to grow and to explore and touch the miracles and marvels of life."

"Your future begins with your next thought."

"You are the greatest undiscovered adventure of your lifetime."

"Stay in the middle of the bell-curve of social norms and follow along, or you will find out the about freedom you never had."

"Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity."

"Do not be limited by the judgements of others."

"Look in your disappointments for the resolve to transform your experiences into solutions."