Kindness always works with the most important person — YOU. Be kind for you, not others.
If you look at today through the eyes of the past, you can never see what the present moment has to offer.
When teaching someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary, and more from the way the boundary is established.
You have to learn how to take care of yourself. Who you need, is you. It was always about and for you.
A person who is humble would never be abusive or selfish; so don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.
If you have never found yourself, the best place to look is in your loneliness, and rock-bottom is even better.
When you commune with your ever-present inner calm, you are released from the madness and pain of all outer turmoil.
We are what we think about and meditate on. Look around people! America is a buffet of violence; a total immersion.
The easiest way to leave the past behind is to remember that love does not live in the past, only memories — love lives in the present.
The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed.
When is the last time your computer restarted you? Don't forget about nature. Recreation means to re-create yourself.
If you want more opportunities you have to become an opportunity for others. As you advance yourself your opportunities advance too.
People who are hard on others are usually very hard on themselves, and the pain they inflict on others is a reflection of the pain they inflict on themselves.
Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant; both victim and aggressor.
We conform to pain until we don't notice it anymore; it's what you call — numb — and it tragically blots out our pleasure too.
Some people run from pain their whole lives, and what pain they do not digest they inflict upon others.
A person at peace can immediately recognize a consciousness in crisis, whereas those in crisis cannot fully understand themselves or others.
When you walk in peace you will literally see attackers shattering themselves against your inner-calm.
That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket.
One simple kindness toward another person can be the seed that paves the way for them to set their life's course on a path that creates more positive changes in the world than we could ever hope to make in many lifetimes.
I have represented farmers in federal court during the Iowa farm crisis. A farmer from Butler County. I don't think Sen. Grassley had that life experience. It's just a simple difference of who we are and where we've come from.
