“The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”

The true mark of maturity is when somebody hurts you and you try to understand their situation instead of trying to hurt them back.

“If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”

“Your emotions make you human. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. Don’t lock them away. If you ignore them, they just get louder and angrier.”

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.

“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.”

“Sometimes we can feel like we are not good enough, but it is important to remember that we have nothing to prove others. Love and respect yourself each and every day.”

“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.”

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” 

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

Not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do is the secret of happiness

“If you’re in the luckiest one percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.”