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Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.

We don’t set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people’s hearts.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

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

The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.

Think progress, not perfection.

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.

We must reject not only the stereotypes that others hold of us, but also the stereotypes that we hold of ourselves.

Your value will be not what you know; it will be what you share.

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.