Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.
Try your best to make goodness attractive. That's one of the toughest assignments you'll ever be given.
Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.
Silence is so powerful, so important. There is so much to be learned from it.
In appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred.
We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others.
The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground.
Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.
Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.
The greatest gift that you can give another person is to gracefully receive whatever it is that they want to give us.
I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.
What really matters is not just our own winning but helping other people to win, too.
Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction.
The best teacher in the world is someone who loves what he or she does, and just loves it in front of you.
We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.
Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.
Whatever we choose to imagine can be as private as we want it to be. Nobody knows what you're thinking or feeling unless you share it.
The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.
Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
It's a miracle when we finally discover whom we're best equipped to serve.
Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.
There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.
Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.
Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.
My hunch is that if we allow ourselves to give who we really are to the children in our care, we will in some way inspire cartwheels in their hearts.
Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.
You bring all you ever were and are to any relationship you have today.
I don't think anyone can grow unless he's loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be.
Love isn't a state of perfect caring, it is an active noun like struggle.
It's important to know when we need to stop, reflect, and receive. In our competitive world, that might be called a waste of time.
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
Fame is a four-letter word; and like tape or zoom or face or pain or life or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.
One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.
Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.
I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers - so many caring people in this world.
It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life.
I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self.
Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.
Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.
