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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

We don’t have to do all of it alone. We were never meant to.

Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us. They go together.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just one step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.