If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.

If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.

It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Some things are best mended by a break.

Act as if someone just said there’s no reason to be afraid.

Pretend you’re more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.