Byron Katie

There is no mistake in nature.

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

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 you want nothing from anyone else, you’re safe for anyone to be with. Including yourself.

Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.

I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.

We change every minute, never the same. If there’s no room to express the changes there can’t be any truthfulness.

I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

Nothing endures but change.

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet.

I haven’t put a pencil to a piece of paper, working out a problem, in years; I do it in my head.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Children have helped me a lot.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

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