“A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile.”

“Stress, anxiety, and depression are caused when we are living to please others.”

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

“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it …”

“Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.”

“To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.”

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

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.” 

“You have to dream before your dreams can come true.”

“You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.”

“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.”