Keep it Simple and Sane (Barb Rogers) I skipped a lot of this, and just skimmed through since I felt I already do all these, but the author writes well hence had picked it up. While skimming, saw these two that capture the essence of the book and I agree wholeheartedly with both.

• If others can't see past your outsides, its because they are living with their own heaviness and limitations, and the best thing you can do is to leave them to their business and hope someday they will find some understanding.
• What does "free to be" mean? For me, it means living in the moment, exactly as Iam, doing the best that I can do, and always striving forward. It means accepting that Iam not perfect, I will never be perfect, but I don't have to be. Its about leaving other people, and a God of my understanding to their business and taking care of mine. It is not my job to change the world or anyone in it, but to live in the truth of who Iam, what I can, where and when I can, and leave the rest to a power greater than I.

SOWING AND REAPING/LAW OF RECIPROCITY

• "The universe is completely balanced and in perfect order. You will always be compensated for everything that you do." -- Brian Tracy
• "Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results." -- James Allen
• "We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar." -- William James

• "How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust, chills the ardor to excel." Edward G Bulwer-Lytton
• "There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes." Edward G Bulwer-Lytton
• "Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best." Edward G Bulwer-Lytton
• "Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them." Aristotle
• "The energy of the mind is the essence of life." Aristotle
• "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." Aristotle
• "I confess I have the same fears for our South American brethren; the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. They are the result of habit and long training, and for these they will require time and probably much suffering." Thomas Jefferson