“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”

“Don’t focus on negative things; focus on the positive, and you will flourish.”

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

“Instead of complaining about your circumstances, get busy and create some new ones.”

Your diet is not only what you eat.

“That is what compassion does. It challenges our assumptions, our sense of self-limitation, worthlessness, of not having a place in the world, our feelings of loneliness and estrangement. These are narrow, constrictive states of mind. As we develop compassion, our hearts open.”

Be the reason somebody’s faith in humanity is restored.

You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger.

“Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.”

Life is about balance. Be kind, but don’t let people abuse you. Trust, but don’t be deceived. Be content, but never stop improving yourself.

“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.”

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”