“The mind which renounces once and forever a futile hope has its compensations in ever-growing calm.”

“Have the courage of your desire.”

“Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.”

“Life I fancy would very often be insupportable but for the luxury of self-compassion.”

“I have the happiness of the passing moment and what more can mortal ask?”

“The mind which renounces once and forever a futile hope has its compensations in ever-growing calm.”

“Knowing the self is the biggest truth. If we find the truth within, we have found God.”

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”

“What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.”

“I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept once and for all that there is only ...”

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”

“Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”