Quotes from Maria Shriver

courage is walking through your fear with faith.

Dear God, thank you for unexpected gifts of love that are all around me. May I continue to stay open to finding them, seeing them, and letting them into my heart. Amen.

Try to put in the hearts of your children a love for home. Make them long to be with their families. So much sin could be avoided if our people really loved their home.

Having kids - the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings - is the biggest job anyone can embark on. As with any risk, you have to take a leap of faith and ask lots of wonderful people for their help and guidance. I thank God every day for giving me the opportunity to parent.

Having kids — the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings — is the biggest job anyone can embark on

you are the leader you've been looking for

Forgiveness is letting go of the need to feel like a victim. Work on it. You'll lighten your load—the load of negativity you carry around.

Your life is like a mosaic, a puzzle. You have to figure out where the pieces go and put them together for yourself.

Listen: You can't short-circuit the learning process. It takes time to get to the top, and that's good-because by the time you get there, you'll have learned what you need to know in order to stay there.

Comparing how you feel on the inside (bad) to the way someone else looks on the outside (great) is a losing proposition. It's an impossible standard.

Prayer is talking to God. Meditation is letting God talk to you." —Yogi Bhajan

I stressed out trying to figure out what I could say. I ate licorice. I stressed some more. I ate Dots. I stressed out even more-and wiped out a bag of Swedish Fish. And then I wrote.

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently." —Pema Chödrön

Starting at the bottom is not about humiliation. It's about humility—a realistic assessment of where you are in the learning curve.

But I've learned that living in either the past or the future keeps me up in my head, out of reality, robbing me of the present.

May today there be peace within May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith May you use those gifts that you have received and pass on the love that has been given to you May you be content knowing that you are a child of God Let this presence settle into your bones and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise, and love It is there for each and every one of us. —Saint Teresa of Avila

It takes courage to care. It takes passion to stand up for someone or something you believe in and care about.

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough." —Oprah Winfrey

So, if you're feeling down, confused, or shaken, read the Prayer of Saint Francis. If you're feeling elated, vindicated, or boastful, read the Prayer of Saint Francis. It's withstood the test of time, because it works.

FAILING IS A PART OF LEARNING.

In this day and age it's really stupid to be stupid about financial matters. It doesn't do you any good to make money if you don't know what to do with it other than spend it.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do.

As Steve Jobs pointed out, life can either be limiting, safe, and secure or it can be wide open, creative, and sometimes scary.