There are no rules of worship. He will hear the voice of every heart that is sincere.

It takes half our life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

Gratitude turns what we have into enough.

There are people you meet who become impossible to forget. They were not sent to you by accident, but instead, destined to open a doorway to a different version of your life.

Sometimes what didn’t work for you really worked out for you.

Three great forces rule the world. Stupidity, fear, greed.

How you talk to your parents says a lot about you. I don’t care how old you are.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.

The kernel of all jealousy is lack of love.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. It makes life so much easier.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question, and not finding it, than we do from learning the answer itself.

The solution is simple. The solution is spiritual. The solution has nothing to do with the problem.

The peace you want is already in you. You just can’t feel it because the mind is making too much noise.

Gratitude and attitude are not challenges, they are choices.

You cannot be who you are going to be and who you used to be at the same time.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire.

Make room for things that matter by removing everything that doesn’t.

Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is pointless. A solution never comes out of worry.

Heal, because we have children who don’t deserve the broken version of us.

If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It’s not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.

In the end only 3 things matter. How much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson afterward.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.

Thanks change, sometimes it hurts, sometimes it hurts a lot. Sometimes it’s for the best.

When you accept what is, every moment is the best moment. That is enlightenment.

Grief never ends but it changes. It’s a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith. It is the price of love.

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes including you.

Everything on Earth is borrowed. There is no “mine” or “yours”. There is only “ours”. Even time is borrowed. We kill over a plot of land that belongs to our mother earth. All you have is what you came with and what you leave with, your spirit.

If you could erase all the mistakes of your past,  you would also erase the wisdom of your present.Remember the lesson not the disappointment.

The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.

Consistency is more important than perfection.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Give yourself some grace. You are amazing.

Patience is not the ability to wait, but to keep a good attitude while waiting.

Art is to console those who are broken by life

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

The practice of love can be expressed in one sentence. Do not harm others.

You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.

Practice the pause.

When in doubt, pause.

When angry, pause.

When tired, pause.

When stressed, pause.

And when you pause, pray.

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and whatever you resist persists.

You learn who you are by unlearning who they taught you to be.

Anything that is beautiful and true is always very simple.

You will never know how strong you are, until being strong is the only choice you have.

It has been said, “Time heals all wounds”. I do not agree. The time wounds remain, in time the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it’s never gone.

When our time on Earth is done money or material things will not matter. But the love, time and kindness we’ve given others will shine on and live forever.

Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.

Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.

May every kind thing you do be out of love, not for love.

Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

The soul has been given its own ears to hear the things the mind does not understand.

Be careful who you trust. Salt and sugar look the same.

Even after years of addiction, trauma and mental illness, you can live a beautiful life.

Everything good that has happened to me has happened as a direct result of helping someone else. Everything.

The Elimination Diet

Remove anger, regret, worry, resentment, guilt and blame. Then watch your health and improve.

Forgiveness doesn’t mean you accept what they did. It means what happened doesn’t control you anymore.

Why are you always praying? Because I know what happens when I stop.

Believe in yourself so much that people can’t really figure out if you’re crazy or dedicated. Keep going.

Sobriety is never owned. It’s rented and the rent is due every day.

Forgive yourself for not knowing earlier what only time could teach.

You don’t heal by understanding everything. You heal by letting go.

Sometimes growth feels like boredom because chaos is no longer familiar.

Control ego when you are winning. Control thoughts when you are losing.

Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again.

Every new beginning is a gentle reminder that God isn’t finished with your story yet.

One who speaks with a true heart is a person of great power.

Evil destroys even itself.

Your task is not to heal toxic people. Your task is to heal in yourself what connected you to them.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Don’t let the hard days win.

You can’t fight smoke with a sword. Meaning: Not every problem can be overcome with force. Some obstacles call for patience, clarity, or understanding.

The final stage of healing is using what happens to you to help other people.

You’re afraid to surrender because you don’t want to lose control, but all you had was anxiety.

Make decisions based on reason. Not emotion.

Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.

Biggest lesson in life, don’t ever think it can’t happen to you.

You cannot apply kindness and understanding to others if you have not applied it to yourself.

You can’t change the past and you can’t predict the future, but you can ruin the present by worrying about both.

If I had a dollar for every girl that found me unattractive they would eventually find me attractive.

There is no success like failure.

Sometimes you just have to die a little inside in order to be reborn and rise again as a stronger and wiser version of you!

In life, it’s important to know when to stop arguing with people and simply let them be wrong.

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive. Inner peace does not.

There is but one thing of real value – to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

Nothing will harm you from losing, unless you lose your position with God.

The oldest, shortest words “yes” and ”no” – are those which require the most thought.

Remember when you are dead, you do not know, you are dead, it is only painful for others. The same applies when you are stupid.

The further you go in understanding yourself. The more you realize that the kingdom of God is within.

Life isn’t about pleasing everyone, it’s about hurting no one.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Instead of fighting the world, kill your ego.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

The more a man knows, the less he blames others.

The best teachers are those who point you into the direction of where to look, but do not tell you what to see.

We think too much and feel too little.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man of logic.

25 years ago we had Johnny Cash, Bob Hope and Steve Jobs. Now no cash, hope or jobs. Please God, don’t let Kevin Bacon die.

We are all one. Only egos, beliefs and fears separate us.

Give it to God and go to sleep. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

Nobody is going to pour the truth into your head. It’s something you have to find for yourself.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

He who dares not offend, cannot be honest.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Anything that triggers you, is teaching you what part of yourself needs healing.

Actually we do not heal. What we really do is let go.

Throw away the idea that healing is forgetting. The real result is no longer reacting to old triggers with the same intensity as before. The memories are still there, but they do not have the same power over your mind.

Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.

There is a gentle peace that surrounds you when your faith becomes stronger than your fear.

When something bad happens you have three choices. Let it define you, let it destroy you or let it strengthen you.

Success and failure are both part of life, and both are not permanent.

Never believe in a one sided story. It always has some missing pages.

Life becomes peaceful when you switch from expect to accept.

Sometimes our stop-doing list needs to be bigger than our to-do list.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Some people could be given an entire field of roses and only see the thorns in it. Others could be given a single weed and only see the wildflower in it. Perception is a key component to gratitude and gratitude is a key component to joy.

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom. I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.

21 days can build a habit. 90 days can build a new lifestyle. It takes 3 months to change your life essentially. It’s not easy, but it’s simple.

And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.

The less talent they have, the more pride, vanity and arrogance they have. All these fools however, find other fools who applaud them.

The esteem of others is outside our control. We must attend instead to healing ourselves.

Both faith and fear demand you to believe in something you can’t see. You choose.

One reason people resist change is because they focus on what they have to give up instead of what they have to gain.

Someone needs to hear this: You can’t save somebody who isn’t willing to participate in their own rescue. It’s pointless.

The cafe karma has no menu. You get served what you deserved.

Nothing in life is to be deferred, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may be fearless.

It’s simple: Treat yourself well, while not harming others. Treat others well, while not harming yourself.

It’s on you to get you where you want to be. Get busy living or get busy dying.

Gratitude is the ability to see the grace of God, morning by morning no matter what greets us in the course of the day.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

This above all – To thine own self be true. And it must follow, as the night the day thou canst not then be false to any man.

Everyone loves you when you let everything slide, but the moment you start setting boundaries and holding people accountable you become the one that’s difficult.

Actions speak louder than words! You can apologize all you like, but if your actions don’t change, your words are meaningless.

If you can’t be corrected without being offended you will never grow in life.

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

You will never be able to escape from your heart so it’s better to listen to what it has to say.

Our differences are many, our purpose is one, to live in peace and sobriety and to help those who have none.

Sometimes you face difficulties not because you are doing something wrong, but because you are doing something right.

Pain changes people. Some become rude, some become silent, some become wise.

Don’t ask, why is this pain here? Ask, what would a good man do with this? The first question makes you a victim. The second makes you a captain.

The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of trick learned while mastering the art of living.

Desire only in what you control – your effort, your honesty, your kindness. Want anything else, and you hand your peace to others.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Don’t let the shadows of yesterday’s failures darken the sunshine of tomorrow’s dreams.

You can’t transmit something you don’t have.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes it’s the quiet voice that says, I will try again tomorrow.

The question isn’t whether we’re addicted to something, but how conscious we are of the patterns that drive us.

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Next week has been exhausting.

It’s not who is right but what is right that is important.

Grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change directions when I see them coming and the wisdom to not try to smack some sense into them when I cannot avoid them.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

When things change inside you, things change around you.

Note to self: When things feel overwhelming, remember one thought at a time, one task at a time, one day at a time.

To be a fool at the right time is also an art.

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.

I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots. (The day has arrived)

If you replace the I in ill with we, ill becomes well.

Most of the people who died yesterday had plans for today.

To be able to choose the line of greatest advantage instead of yielding in the direction of the least resistance.

Detachment is not that you should own nothing, but that nothing should own you.

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.

Tap into that one fear that drives greatness – The fear of regret.

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

Your peace sometimes requires you shutting your mouth too. Even when you’re right.

If you focus on the hurt, you will continue to suffer. If you focus on the lesson, you will continue to grow.

In this world you can search for everything, except love and death. They find you when the time comes.

God wastes nothing. Good days give happiness. Bad days give experience. Worst days give lessons and best days give memories.

Happiness isn’t about getting what you want all the time, it’s about loving what you have and being grateful for it.

Just remember once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Accept what is, let go of what was, have faith in what will be.

Opinion should be a result of thought, not a substitute for it.

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.

Look for the answer inside your question.

Me; be kind, you never know what someone is going through. Also me; nice turn-signal fuck-face.

Keep your heart soft and your boundaries strong.

A bad attitude is like a flat tire, you can’t get very far until you change it.

There is a certain pride in a man that will give and give, but to come and accept is another thing.

When you are wrong, admit it. When you are right, be quiet.

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

The only way to achieve peace is through understanding.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of losers.

When you can’t control what’s happening, challenge yourself to control the way you respond to what’s happening. That’s where the power is.

To be happy you must first eliminate two things: the fear of a bad future and the memory of a bad past.

Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that death will tremble to take us.

A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one’s own ignorance.

Protect yourself from your own thoughts.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Ability gets you there. Character keeps you there.

In the game of life, death always wins, all we can do is choose how to play.

When trust is broken, sorry means nothing.

If you focus on hurt you will continue to suffer. If you focus on the lesson you will continue to grow.

Wisdom Works. True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

You don’t find purpose. You build it through action.

To be even minded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom lies in remaining unmoved by fortune or misfortune.

Three solutions to every problem: Accept it, change it or leave it. If you can’t accept it, change it. If you can’t change it, leave it.

We can win in life by avoiding two things. Comparing with others and expecting from others.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.