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“The best way out is always through.”

“When we smile, the muscles around our mouth are stretched and relaxed, just like doing yoga. Smiling is mouth yoga. We release the tension from our face as we smile. Others who run into us notice it, even strangers, and are likely to smile back. It is a wonderful chain reaction that we can initiate, touching the joy in anyone we encounter. Smiling is an ambassador of goodwill.”

“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”

“Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.”

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”

“The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.”

“Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.”

“Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.”

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”

“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.”

“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”

“We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.”

“Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.”

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”

“Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

“Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins. Feel the love, the longing and the fear in your bones. Open your heart to who you are, right now, not who you would like to be. Not the saint you're striving to become. But the being right here before you, inside you, around you. All of you is holy. You're already more and less than whatever you can know. Breathe out, look in, let go.”

“What you think you become.”

“Watch your thoughts, they become words.”