Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is feeling the fear, the doubt, the insecurity, and deciding that something else is more important.

Happiness is like being cool, the harder you try the less it’s going to happen. So stop crying. Start living.

The more you desperately want to be rich, the more poor and unworthy you feel, regardless of how much money you actually make.

What pain do you want in your life? What are you willing to struggle for? Because that seems to be a greater determinant of how our lives turn out.

We can only be truly successful at something we’re willing to fail at. If we’re unwilling to fail, then we’re unwilling to succeed.

Diversions come and go. Pleasure never lasts. Variety loses its meaning. But you will always be able to choose what you are willing to sacrifice, what you are willing to give up.

Don’t hope for better. Just be better. Be something better. Be more compassionate, more resilient, more humble, more disciplined.

The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.

Happiness is not something you achieve. It’s not something you do or someplace you get to. Happiness is something you inhabit.

Challenge yourself to find the good and beautiful thing inside of everyone. It’s there. It’s your job to find it. Not their job to show you.