Steve Maraboli

Sometimes the greatest storms bring out the greatest beauty_ Life can be a storm, but your hope is a rainbow and your friends and family are the gold.

Your fear of the truth does not hide or dilute it.

The greatest enemy to fear is truth.

Religious structure often dilutes the spiritual experience.

Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.

Once you start recognizing the truth of your story, finish the story. It happened but you're still here, you're still capable, powerful, you're not your circumstance. It happened and you made it through. You're still fully equipped with every single tool you need to fulfill your purpose.

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

Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.

A lot of books in the self-help section of your bookstore really belong in the fiction section.

I feel like when I give trust that isn't earned, I receive hurt that isn't deserved.

It's a cycle... Religion is a source of relief for those who seek to anesthetize the pain that comes from following its beliefs.

The path to misery is paved by the tears of those trying to make others happy.

Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.

It is love__ nature to be expressed.

When people tell me they can__ afford to join a gym, I tell them to go outside; planet Earth is a gym and we__e already members. Run, climb, sweat, and enjoy all of the natural wonder that is available to you.

I don't know what's wrong with this world, but I do know what's right with it: Love. I have studied enough history to see that no matter how cruel the behavior of tyrants and no matter how dark the moments have been, Love has always prevailed. Always.

Ideas and philosophies have a shelf-life. They must be kept fresh and renewed or they will spoil. If left unattended, the same ideas and philosophies that once nourished you and helped you grow can poison you and make you sick. Become aware of new ideas that can refresh your way of life and be open to the fact that your old ideas and philosophies can work for you for some time, but when the shelf-life has passed, those ideas and philosophies could also harm you.

In every ancient religious and sacred text, faith is a verb; a thing to be demonstrated. It is in modern days that we have diluted faith from an act to a philosophy.