“...the longer one stays in full flight from reality, the more painful will be the landing.”

“...frankly, many times, the people that we resent either have no idea about it or could care less.”

“We are not obliged to like everyone, only to love and forgive everyone, sometimes from a distance.”

“Ego doesn't want us to be loving, forgiving and kind to each other or even to ourselves.”

“Desire as a motivator for achievement and even for survival isn't a bad thing. It's when desire drives us to grab more than our share or harm others that issues arise.”

“Our reputations are so out of our control that it's laughable how much time and effort so many of us put into trying to "control" them.”

“I finally understood that what we put into the world, into the universe, often has a way of coming right back to us.”

“To get something different, you must do something different.”

“You have two voices: the one you speak with and the one you think with. While the former is the one others hear, of greater importance is the one you hear.”

“You cannot think negative and have a positive life. Meaning you cannot sow tomato seeds and expect pepper fruits.”

“However you see the world, realize that you can be successful if you do the work. Being positive and doing nothing will generate nothing. Being negative and fighting everything that cross your path...”

“By thinking mostly about everything that has gone wrong, is going wrong, and can possibly go wrong, the thinker is bound to end up in a lousy mental and emotional state.”

“Yakov spent the whole day playing his fiddle; when it got completely dark, he took the notebook in which he recorded his losses daily, and out of boredom began adding up the yearly total. It came t...”

“Try giving up all the thoughts that make you feel bad, or even just some of them, and see how doing that changes your life. You don't need negative thoughts. All they have ever given you was a fals...”

“If you don't mind them and accept that they don't like you, you'll see that you won't return the negativity.”