1. “No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can.” – Byron Katie
2. “If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying!” – Byron Katie
3. “Every time you try to change someone, you are trying to change someone that doesn’t exist. They only exist in your head. People are who you believe them to be.” – Byron Katie
4. “I am a lover of what is, not because I’m a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.” – Byron Katie
5. “This is true freedom: a mind that is no longer deceived by itself. Ruth:.” – Byron Katie
6. “If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”” – Byron Katie
7. “The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.” – Byron Katie
8. “Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.” – Byron Katie
9. “My happiness isn’t dependent on anyone else’s.” – Byron Katie
10. “God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God’s intention: It’s exactly what is in every moment.” – Byron Katie
11. “Who cares if you’re enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?” – Byron Katie
12. “Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.” – Byron Katie
13. “Reality is always kinder than the stories we tell about it.” – Byron Katie
14. “It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.” – Byron Katie
15. “All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.” – Byron Katie
16. “The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.” – Byron Katie
17. “I’ve always been just me, but I was the last to know that it was all right.” – Byron Katie
18. “The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first.” – Byron Katie
19. “Problems can exist only in a past or future.” – Byron Katie
20. “When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.” – Byron Katie
21. “You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?” – Byron Katie
22. “Mind is infinitely creative. And when it’s not stuck, that’s where the joy comes from. Something happens, and the way we think about it, understand it, see it, is actually hilarious, whereas before it used to depress us.” – Byron Katie
23. “Mind is everything. There’s nothing that it’s not.” – Byron Katie
24. “You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.” – Byron Katie
25. “The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.” – Byron Katie
26. “Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.” – Byron Katie
27. “Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?” – Byron Katie
28. “Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.” – Byron Katie
29. “For me, if somebody tells me to go away, that is an opportunity: for me to give the person a better life, to realize where not to be, and to see what could be even better than being with that person I love.” – Byron Katie
30. “The basic realization that other people can’t possibly be your problem, that it’s your thoughts about them that are the problem – this realization is huge. This one insight will shake your whole world, from top to bottom.” – Byron Katie
31. “It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.” – Byron Katie
32. “There’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.” – Byron Katie
33. “The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.” – Byron Katie
34. “The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.” – Byron Katie
35. “Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.” – Byron Katie
36. “If I think that someone else is causing my problem, I’m insane.” – Byron Katie
37. “The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious.” – Byron Katie
38. “Stress never feels as natural as peace does.” – Byron Katie
39. “If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren’t true – whereas prior to questioning, you absolutely believe them. How can you live in joy when you’re believing thoughts that bring on sadness, frustration, anger, alienation, and loneliness?” – Byron Katie
40. “I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not.” – Byron Katie
41. “Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.” – Byron Katie
42. “There are no new stressful thoughts. They’re all recycled.” – Byron Katie
43. “Some of us are returning to sanity, because we’re tired of the pain. We’re in a hurry. No time to mess around.” – Byron Katie
44. “But when you think you’re supposed to do something with it and imagine that you’re the doer, that’s pure delusion. Just follow your passion. Do what you love. Inquire, and have a happy life while you’re doing it.” – Byron Katie
45. “Your parents are your projection-nothing more.” – Byron Katie
46. “No one outside me can hurt me. That’s not a possibility. It’s only when I believe a story that I get hurt.” – Byron Katie
47. “Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.” – Byron Katie
48. “My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.” – Byron Katie
49. “I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.” – Byron Katie
50. “When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.” – Byron Katie
51. “The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.” – Byron Katie
52. “The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.” – Byron Katie
53. “Whatever happens is the best thing that could happen.” – Byron Katie
54. “Once the mind is met with understanding, it can always find its way home.” – Byron Katie
55. “Arguing with reality it like trying to teach a cat to bark.” – Byron Katie
56. “You cannot hurt me. Only I can do that.” – Byron Katie
57. “It’s a wonderful world when you have what you want at all times.” – Byron Katie
58. “When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.” – Byron Katie
59. “Because if it hurts, it’s your thinking that’s hurting you.” – Byron Katie
60. “Insanity is arguing with reality.” – Byron Katie
61. “If you don’t like your world, question your thoughts about it.” – Byron Katie
62. “Love the world as your self; then you can care for all things.” – Byron Katie
63. “Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.” – Byron Katie
64. “The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours.” – Byron Katie
65. “If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.” – Byron Katie
66. “It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.” – Byron Katie
67. “So there’s only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That’s why I say, “Who cares if you’re enlightened forever?”” – Byron Katie
68. “We’re all five-year-olds. We don’t know how to do this thing called life. We’re just learning how.” – Byron Katie
69. “Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.” – Byron Katie
70. “The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.” – Byron Katie
71. “Don’t believe every thing you think.” – Byron Katie
72. “Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.” – Byron Katie
73. “And when people die, it’s so wonderful that they never come back to tell you.” – Byron Katie
74. “Reality is always kinder than your thinking.” – Byron Katie
75. “When you act like a teacher, it’s usually because you’re afraid to be the student.” – Byron Katie
76. “For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.” – Byron Katie
77. “Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.” – Byron Katie
78. “That’s what inquiry is for, to break through stressful mythology. These.” – Byron Katie
79. “You can only see what you believe – nothing else is possible.” – Byron Katie
80. “No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.” – Byron Katie
81. “Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future.” – Byron Katie
82. “When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.” – Byron Katie
83. “Behold your world! The judgments you believe just created it.” – Byron Katie
84. “Love asks for nothing. Only personalities want something.” – Byron Katie
85. “The last story: God is everything, God is good.” – Byron Katie
86. “Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.” – Byron Katie
87. “I saw that we’re all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.” – Byron Katie
88. “Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.” – Byron Katie
89. “The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.” – Byron Katie
90. “It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.” – Byron Katie
91. “When you’re seeking love and approval, many thoughts are aimed at deciphering the behavior of the people you care about, or theorizing about what’s going on in their minds.” – Byron Katie
92. “Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.” – Byron Katie
93. “Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you’re believing an untrue thought.” – Byron Katie
94. “We’ve been looking outside us for our own peace. We’ve been looking in the wrong direction.” – Byron Katie
95. “And as long as we believe what we believe-until that is questioned-there’s no progress as a human race. Again, we still have war. So, effective rehabilitation is to question what we believe. When that happens, everyone gets out of prison.” – Byron Katie
96. “Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?” – Byron Katie
97. “There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.” – Byron Katie
98. “Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.” – Byron Katie
99. “All sadness is a tantrum.” – Byron Katie
100. “If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.” – Byron Katie
101. “If you argue against reality you will suffer.” – Byron Katie
102. “Never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.” – Byron Katie
103. “Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.” – Byron Katie
104. “Nothing ever goes wrong in life.” – Byron Katie
105. “Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories.” – Byron Katie
106. “Maybe everything we’ve ever done has been for love.” – Byron Katie
107. “How do I know I don’t need what I want? I don’t have it.” – Byron Katie
108. “Gratitude is what we are without a story.” – Byron Katie
109. “You can’t drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought was true wasn’t. And when the truth is seen, there’s nothing you can do to make the lie true for you again.” – Byron Katie
110. “You can’t change what you haven’t realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own.” – Byron Katie
111. “There is nothing that isn’t true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.” – Byron Katie
112. “We don’t hear what someone said; we imagine what they meant.” – Byron Katie
113. “Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.” – Byron Katie
114. “If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.” – Byron Katie
115. “A thought is harmless unless we believe it.” – Byron Katie
116. “You don’t have to feel bad to act kindly. Love doesn’t stand by, it moves with the speed of clarity.” – Byron Katie
117. “Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.” – Byron Katie
118. “Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.” – Byron Katie
119. “Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.” – Byron Katie
120. “When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.” – Byron Katie
121. “Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.” – Byron Katie
122. “Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.” – Byron Katie
123. “Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know.” – Byron Katie
124. “Without an uninvestigated story, there’s only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that’s revealed after the pain and fear are understood.” – Byron Katie
125. “No one can give you freedom but you.” – Byron Katie
126. “We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.” – Byron Katie
127. “I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.” – Byron Katie
128. “So what is it with your mother that you haven’t worked out yet?” – Byron Katie
129. “If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.” – Byron Katie
130. “The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.” – Byron Katie
131. “Heaven: “This is wonderful. I could stay here forever.” Hell: “This is not quite perfect.” – Byron Katie
132. “Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.” – Byron Katie
133. “If you think the cause of your problem is ‘out there,’ you’ll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.” – Byron Katie
134. “After you’ve been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought “She doesn’t love me,” you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: “Oh, I’m not loving myself in this moment.”” – Byron Katie
135. “The receiving is the giving. It’s the most genuine thing you can give back. That’s what they wanted to give you in the first place.” – Byron Katie
136. “I have had the privilege of losing everything.” – Byron Katie
137. “Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.” – Byron Katie
138. “It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.” – Byron Katie
139. “Reality doesn’t wait for our agreement or approval. It is what it is. You can count on it. Gary:.” – Byron Katie
140. “We don’t attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to tbe true in the moment.” – Byron Katie
141. “Dying is everything they were looking for in life.” – Byron Katie
142. “When you run in fear, it’s square into the wall.” – Byron Katie
143. “The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.” – Byron Katie
144. “When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.” – Byron Katie
145. “When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts.” – Byron Katie
146. “Nothing external can disturb us. We suffer only when we want things to be different from what they are.” – Byron Katie
147. “I am entirely motivated without anger. The truth sets us free, and freedom acts.” – Byron Katie
148. “The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.” – Byron Katie
149. “Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.” – Byron Katie
150. “As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.” – Byron Katie
151. “The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious. Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed. It can never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.” – Byron Katie
152. “To argue with reality is to argue with God.” – Byron Katie
153. “Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.” – Byron Katie
154. “It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.” – Byron Katie
155. “There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves.” – Byron Katie
156. “When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want.” – Byron Katie
157. “You can argue with reality all you want, or you can stop arguing long enough to understand it and be free.” – Byron Katie
158. “I have discovered that in every language and every country I have visited, there are no new stories. They’re all recycled. The same stressful thoughts arise in each mind one way or another, sooner or later.” – Byron Katie
159. “You are the effect of your story, that’s all.” – Byron Katie
160. “Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination – ev en you.” – Byron Katie
161. “Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around.” – Byron Katie
162. “It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine” – Byron Katie
163. “Seeking comfort, you give yourself discomfort.” – Byron Katie
164. “Asking the questions – that’s what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again.” – Byron Katie
165. “Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.” – Byron Katie
166. “What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?” – Byron Katie
167. “Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?” – Byron Katie
168. “Fear is always the result of an unquestioned past imagined as a future.” – Byron Katie
169. “To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.” – Byron Katie
170. “I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God’s.” – Byron Katie
171. “You are what exists before all stories.” – Byron Katie
172. “Who would you be if you didn’t believe this lie?” – Byron Katie
173. “You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.” – Byron Katie
174. “We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.” – Byron Katie
175. “Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.” – Byron Katie
176. “The perfect world is created when the mind is free to see it.” – Byron Katie
177. “When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.” – Byron Katie
178. “There’s only one thing harder than accepting this, and that is not accepting it.” – Byron Katie
179. “When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.” – Byron Katie
180. “Your story is your identity, and you’d do almost anything to prove that it’s true. Inquiry into self is the only thing that has the power to penetrate such ancient concepts. Even.” – Byron Katie
181. “Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn’t.” – Byron Katie
182. “I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.” – Byron Katie
183. “Ultimately, I am all I can know.” – Byron Katie
184. “To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don’t know anything finer than that.” – Byron Katie
185. “Until you look forward to all criticism, your Work’s not done.” – Byron Katie
186. “People don’t need sudden revelations. They get what they need when they need it, thought by thought by thought. It’s a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself.” – Byron Katie
187. “There is no mistake in nature.” – Byron Katie
188. “Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.” – Byron Katie
189. “The moment it begins to question itself, the mind becomes so clear that it starts working with itself rather than with the body’s identification.” – Byron Katie
190. “I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.” – Byron Katie
191. “I am a lover of what is, not because I’m a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.” – Byron Katie
192. “The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.” – Byron Katie
193. “Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.” – Byron Katie
194. “The most powerful spiritual practice is to hang out with the people who criticize you. You don’t even have to do that physically, since they live right here in your head.” – Byron Katie
195. “Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.” – Byron Katie
196. “When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you’re mentally out of your business.” – Byron Katie
197. “Your parents are your projection-nothing more.” – Byron Katie
198. “When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.” – Byron Katie
199. “If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying!” – Byron Katie
200. “There are no new stressful thoughts. They’re all recycled.” – Byron Katie