Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?

You are within God. God is within you.

I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.

As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.

The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

A pilgrim is a wanderer with a purpose.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well being that places harmony in ones life.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life ? bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Do not believe in me or any other teacher, rather trust in your own inner voice. This is your guide, this is your teacher. Your teacher is within not without. Know yourself, not me!

When love fills your life all limitations are gone. The medicine this sick world needs so badly is love.

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God; it is a sincere seeking for a good thing; and it is a concentration on the thing sought, with faith that it is obtainable.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will createan inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

When you do something for world peace, peace among groups, peace among individuals, or your own inner peace, you improve the total peace picture.

I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

There are a lot of people out there who think that I am their worst enemy, and I don't even care if these people exist.

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

I'm not the type of person who goes through all this effort for a movie, and then doesn't care if anybody sees it. I want them to see it, and I want them to see it on the big screen.

On January 1, 2006, Medicare will begin to offer a prescription drug benefit, and for the first time, it will place an emphasis on preventive care and early treatment of disease.

I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.