Your Quotes

Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Going to the gym is great for your body, but it's also great for your mind.

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.

You totally value and respect your body as you get older.