There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

For the general public or psychos on Facebook, for everyone who’s made one negative comment about me, I’ve probably gotten 250-300 positive comments.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

For me, ‚risky‘ is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Good luck has its storms.