Some people are a degree of impatience away from wishing a year were only a few weeks long.

For our success to happen, millions of billions of things, the vast majority of which were neither in our control nor in our awareness, needed not only to happen but also to happen how, when, where, and—in some cases—for how long, they have happened; and to happen to the things and the people to whom they have happened.

Gratitude tends to attract the things for which we are grateful in advance.

Some of the people who we envy for having something we lack envy us for lacking something they have.

For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.

We ought to readily share our successes with those with whom we readily share our problems.

It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make).

After some point, working harder makes achieving the goal harder or even impossible.

Some people are each envious of the person they used to be.