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

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

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

“Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.”

“Don’t lose hope. When the sun goes down, the stars come out.”

“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”

“If you think friendship is easy, then you have never had a true friend.”

“Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.”

“The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.”

“Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.”

The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.

“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.”