With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Fatigue is the best pillow.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Never find fault with the absent.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

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.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Humble people ask for help.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

Mine is better than ours.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me ‚Jackie Who?‘.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.

I think we need more idiot control.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.