What's unfortunate is that some people in your life may not wish the absolute worst for you, but they certainly don't want you to have the best. What's fortunate is that those people reveal themselves fairly easily.

I have been given so much in life merely for knowing how to ask for it.

I don't think something can constitute a journey unless it leaves one's world looking different than before.

Offer a man something he's starved for, suddenly take it away, and watch hell ensue.

Action wanes anxiety because when you act, you improve the circumstance you were anxious about which then improves the thought you're responding to.

The most effective way to understand the dissonance between our thoughts about reality and reality itself, is to consider how many times we've felt like our world is ending and how many times it actually has.

I began to care a lot less about embarrassment after running into somebody who for months, I feared I would, and realizing afterward that my life was no different after the encounter than before.

If I were to ask you to open two novels, and compare the circumstances of each protagonist, asking you to chose who is “better,” you may find this ridiculous. You may tell me these characters have been forged in two different worlds, around different people, and they each have their own inherent purposes. They’re traveling different paths, and they’ll traverse their paths at different speeds, as their meant to. Great. So as such, never again compare yourself to another.

Compassion is a function of strength.