Byron Katie

I don’t let go of concepts – I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

Love is kind, it’s clear. It’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.

We may appear to be mean, but we’re really only frightened.

Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.

When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.

There is no mistake in nature.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.

One side of unhealthy relating is if you are always pursuing or always retreating.

You are the daydream I am supposed to have for the rest of my life.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we’re so busy now.

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

When you make changes in your life, make sure you’re moving toward the things you want.

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

I’m constantly reemerging in my life.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that’d mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There’s just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent’s voice to resonate in the children’s ears.

The basically simple things are best, whether it’s automobiles or diets or philosophy.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it’s only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity.