Byron Katie

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

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

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

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

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

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

You are writing your children’s future with your answers.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

The philosophy of life indicates that our principal business on this planet is the gaining of experience.

People who consistently win have a clear and thoughtful strategy. They know what they need to do and when they need to do it. They write it down so they stay on course, and avoid any alternative that does not get them closer to the finish line.

You have the duty and gift of living. You don’t have the right to sit on the sidelines–use your life and get back into the game.

You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

It takes years to find your voice and seize your real estate.

The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don’t want to do.

Change can come in either of two important ways: Start behaving positively or stop behaving negatively.

I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find how far one can go.

No matter how carefully and assiduously and how deeply you bury shit, the American public will find it and buy it in large quantity, It’s true, absolutely true.

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

If you ever get started on the right path to change, there is one important precondition you have to meet. You must rid yourself of that gnawing and overpowering sense of urgency and panic that always seems to appear on the scene.