Steve Maraboli

"Your perceptions create your reality."

"Embrace your spirituality but don't turn your back on your humanity."

"Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it's when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author."

"Fear can only grow in darkness. Once you face fear with light, you win."

"Hiding from your history only shackles you to it. Instead, face it and free yourself."

"It's inspiring to see all the wonderfully amazing things that can happen in a day in which you participate."

"When you're in love, your soul feels healthy."

"Regret is a spiritual scar."

"It is those who can see the invisible that can do the impossible."

"The nourishment of our souls comes from the smiles of others."

"The ability to passionately express opposing opinions is the greatest sign of a healthy democracy."

"I'm no longer being paralyzed by your opinion, I'm moving forward with my truth."

"My life is far too precious and my mission too important to allow either to be chaotically diluted by a lack of order."

"Finding happiness should not be seen as finding a needle in a haystack. Happiness is within. Each day is a blessing that brings an abundance of happiness. Therefore, finding happiness should be like finding a gift in a stack of gifts."

"Do not allow yourself to be damaged by yourself."

"The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself."

"When we are judging everything, we are learning nothing."

"If you want something you've never had you have to be willing to do something you've never done."

"Just because you are available for a relationship doesn't mean you are ready for one."

"Intent paired with action builds the bridge to success. You can't just want it; you have to do it, live it...BE it!"

"When you say "I" and "my" too much, you lose the capacity to understand the "we" and "our"."

"One of the most spiritual things you can do is embrace your humanity."

"There is an unlimited amount of power to be found in simplicity. Keep your intent and action simple and the doors of success, happiness, and abundance will fly open for you."

"The art of letting go is simply about personal empowerment. Realizing what you're in charge of, realizing what you control, and more importantly, what you don't control."

"One of the most spiritual things you can do is acknowledge the human aspect of your life. Once you acknowledge the human aspect of your life you'll recognize the spiritual fuel that ignites that human engine."

"I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me."

"Gratitude enhances your ability to see beauty. It's like seeing beauty in HD."

"The purpose of fear is to raise your awareness not to stop your progress."

"We can all fight the battles of just one day. It is when we add the burdens of two uncontrollable days, yesterday and tomorrow, that we get overwhelmed."

"Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual."

"While intent is the seed of manifestation, action is the water that nourishes the seed. Your actions must reflect your goals in order to achieve true success."

"Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it."

"God's calling requires action. When God calls you, he calls collect ... you better be willing to accept the charges of your calling."

"It has been my experience that a bi-product of order is preparedness. And if chance favors the prepared mind, then I am ready!"

"This is a mathematical universe. We are surrounded by equations and summations. Your life: the current state of your life and life itself is a direct summation of the equation you have created. Your life is a reflection of many choices you have made at the innumerable amount of choice-points you've crossed. Great endeavors are the summation of a great and deliberate equation."

"Don't be disheartened by the forces of evil. Nothing can happen that God hasn't allowed. Even resistance is all part of grand orchestration. The devil always has you right were God wants you."

"The value of a moment is immeasurable. The power of just ONE moment can propel you to success and happiness or chain you to failure and misery."

"At any given moment the choice to be happy is present — we just have to choose to be happy."

"If you intend to change, decide what you want and live your life accordingly."

"Life is the definition you give to events that occur."

"Look around you. Everything changes. Everything on this earth is in a continuous state of evolving, refining, improving, adapting, enhancing … changing. You were not put on this earth to remain stagnant."

"Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgments and create the space for new understanding."

"You are what you are because it's what you have chosen to be. If you're unhappy, YOU MUST CHANGE FROM THE INSIDE OUT."

"How would your life be different if … You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day … You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey."

"Today stretches ahead of you waiting to be shaped. You are the sculptor who gets to do the shaping. What today will be like is up to you."

"Your actions should be so dedicated that no one should have to ask you what you want."

"NEVER be surprised by your own success!"

"Your agreement with reality defines your life."

"Free yourself from the inauthenticity and disempowerment of your story."

"Happiness is the gauge that measures your relationship with God."