“Emotions are the road signs to your happiness.”

“Social media allows us to subjugate feelings and problems we don't want to confront, like emotional eating or substance abuse, thus perpetuating our problems and delaying our happiness.”

“The long-term pain suffered by suppressing emotions is far greater than the short-term pain of confronting them.”

“Confident people tend to evaluate their opinions alongside those of others and then follow their intuition.”

“Being your authentic self exudes a quiet confidence.”

“Thoughts repeated over time, no matter how incorrect, become consolidated in our minds as beliefs because weve repeatedly affirmed them over and over again.”

“Habits are infinitely more beneficial to the aspiring student than motivation. Motivation may get you started, but habits keep you going.”

“Just know that the achievement of anything grand takes consistent effort year after year. Motivation can uphold you intermittently, but it has too few calories to sustain a life.”

“Systems and processes will always surpass motivation.”

“The seeking of a mate shall be undertaken with due preparation and care. A life-bond should never be contemplated as a light thing--unlike a legal union or sanctified joining, the sealing of souls ...”

“I dont have cookie-cutter relationships, Rumi. Women arent iPhone apps that I download and discard!”

“In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." ...”