"We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret."
"I'll start tomorrow = I'll quit today."
"In order to love who you are you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you."
"You could be the master of your fate. You could be the captain of your soul. But you have to realize that life is coming from you and not at you."
"Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. Does this make pessimism wrong? Not really. Optimism, after all, is a self-fulfilling prophecy, too."
"We hear what we want to hear."
"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the ocean in a drop."
"I am bad, and that is good. I will never be good, and that's not bad. There's nobody I'd rather be, than me."
"Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about."
"If every time someone ask you a question, and you have to say the right answer, your whole life is a test."
"To know thyself is the ultimate form of aggression."
"Nature always sides with the hidden flaw."
"Friends come and go, enemies accumulate."
"Where you stand depends where you sit."
"Use yourself against you for your own good."
"80% of outcomes stems from 20% of inputs or causes."
"If you consume enough advice, it all cancels out. Find out for yourself what works for you."
"Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world."
"Doubt like wind tests a tree
not to uproot it,
but to help it know
exactly how deep it grows"