We are born poets. we become orators.
Opportunity: it's not really scarce. It's everywhere. If you really were any good, you'd be overwhelmed by it.
The fastest way to destroy love is to make a goal out of it, because people who are trying to be loved come from a place that they're not loved.
Transformation is the shift of the principle which orients the person's life, which is ordinarily the principle of gaining satisfaction. Essentially what organizes life for most of us is an attempt to gratify our needs; our psychological needs, our material needs, our personal needs. . . Individuals transform when there's a shift in the principle which orients their life from one of gaining satisfaction to one of expressing the satisfaction they've already got.
Consider that all accomplishment is constituted by a series of resolved breakdowns.
At all times and under all circumstances, we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.
So long as you do not know who you really are, this will be difficult. You may have to give up a lot of things to which you may be attached. You may have to give up your resentments, your anger, your upset, your annoyance, your desire to punish.
Every great thing requires a great sacrifice.
Know how to drive safely when it's raining or when it's snowing. The two conditions are different.
No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.
Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.