Byron Katie

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

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

You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

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

There is no mistake in nature.

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

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

If you don’t know what it is you want – and I mean specifically – then you won’t even know when you have it.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else’s.

Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don’t want to do it.

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

[To Robertson] I think you should move to California. Malibu is paradise. You can always change your mind. Why don’t you just let me put this together? I’ll get you a house in the Malibu Colony.

The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Life is a full-contact sport, and there’s a score up on the board.

Do any of us really have a clue? We don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow. Or what word will come up in a conversation that will change our lives. You can be in the shower and scrubbing under your arm and find a lump that wasn’t there yesterday. I’m doing things here and now. Life is evolving. Every day life evolves.

Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren’t my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

I don’t believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work.

Love is not the absence of hate; hate will always exist. Love is holding our head high and forever moving forward with kindness and compassion in spite of what hate may bring, because no amount of darkness can drown out our light if our light has been lit within.