Every day brings new choices.

The way we do anything is the way we do everything.

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.

Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.