Debbie Ford

A compassionate heart will lift you out of the pain and suffering of your own world because it knows that everyone is doing the best they can, given their state of consciousness and the histories they're dragging behind them.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

Beneath the surface of your ego's insatiable cravings, your authentic desires are waiting patiently for you to acknowledge, claim and express them.

Your desires will source you with the inspiration to release your outdated beliefs and let go of whatever behavior is keeping you stuck in the past.

You have been called to be who you are - the whole luminous light. No one can dim your light when you are fully present to the depth and breadth of it.

No one can deny who you are unless you are, in some way, minimizing the power and the force of your divine substance.

Divorce is a time of change. It really rocks a foundation of most people's lives. When we have our heart broken or our dreams taken away from us, it is a time of growth and change.

It's only when we are able to see our own behavior that we are able to wake up and start making conscious choices.

Sometimes we can't see our own selves, our own shortcomings, but it's so easy to see somebody else's.

I always felt like if I lived in true authentic self-expression and lived in service and in support of many other people, I would be exempt from having to deal with yet another crisis in my life. I was wrong.

Yes, I was mad at God because of the cancer diagnosis. I thought I should have been protected because of the work I do in the world.

God never gives us more than we can handle. Everything that comes our way is coming our way so that we can grow and evolve.

We have to choose faith even if we don't feel it. Or hold on to a friend who has faith.

What I would say to anybody facing any life challenge or disease is that that is courage - to choose life, to keep looking at what's good.

If you don't have a doctor that inspires you, no matter what you have, you should find one that does. Because I feel like my doctor helped me stay alive.

To me, the soul is a part of us that never dies. It's what we come in with.

Often, psychological laziness will have you switch your life over to autopilot and fall asleep at the wheel rather than stay awake to what will fulfill your heart's deepest desires and your soul's purpose.

Real change happens when you feel genuinely inspired, turned on by possibility and unwilling to settle for anything less.

I believe my love of beauty and my ability to see what works is a gift I was given by God.

It is still breathtaking to me to watch people bring love, preciousness and kindness to their inner world, allowing the light of God to shine through their eyes so that the beauty of their soul can come forth.