“Whatever is attained through cleverness is short-lived and always turns out to be eventually self-defeating. Cleverness divides; intelligence unites.” – Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose

“Don’t seek happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeing is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it.” – Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening  to Your Life’s Purpose

“Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.” – Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose

“Bogged down, spinnin’ your wheels, out of time, frustrated, stressin’? It’s the details. You’re messing with the details. Just get clear on your vision — the end result. Think, think, and let go. Follow your impulses, do what you can, act as if, and know you’ve done your part.” – Mike Dooley, Notes From The Universe 

“Success doesn’t come to you; you go to it. With a winning attitude, anything is possible.” – Wally Amos, The Path To Success Is Paved With Positive Thinking

“The Truth of Life is right here for everybody, as it has always been, but only the ones who ask questions receive the answers and discover the truth. When we ask questions, deeply wanting to know the answers, we will attract the answers in a form that we can understand.” – Rhonda Byrne, The Secret Daily Teachings

“What is it in them that you find most upsetting, most disturbing? Their selfishness? Their greed? Their need for power and control? Their insincerity, dishonesty, propensity to violence, or whatever it may be? Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.” – Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose

“How do you let go of attachment to things? Don’t even try. It’s impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them. In the meantime, just be aware of your attachment to things.” – Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose

“Introverts are offered keys to private gardens full of riches. To possess such a key is to tumble like Alice down her rabbit hole. She didn’t choose to go to Wonderland — but she made of it an adventure that was fresh and fantastic and very much her own.” – Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking

“The next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the powers of quiet.” – Susan Cain, The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking