“We are responsible for our own relationships, their successes, their failures, the good times, the bad times. Take responsibility for creating the relationships that you desire.”

“Sometimes being overwhelmed by emotions can leave you speechless but even then it is important to identify the correct emotion.”

“Arrogance created to project a self-image of superiority is the very trait that demonstrates to others deeply hidden inferiority.”

“Unhealthy relationships keep our self-esteem low.”

“When you lack self-esteem, people you encounter can feel it like an invisible barrier separating them from you; conversely, confidence helps people to feel connected to you.”

“Remembering our personal growth that resulted from negative life experiences makes new obstacles easier to embrace.”

“We prefer to imagine brutal wars and atrocities as events that "just happen" every now and then, much like tornadoes or lightning strikes; this metaphor suggests that we can't generalize from them,...”

“The people of Hiroshima went to work at once to restore human society in the aftermath of the great atomic flood. They were concerned to salvage their own lives, but in the process they also salvag...”

“Along with individual responsibility goes some societal responsibility to enable young people and their parents to do what they need to do. Otherwise, what is a society?”

“Self-care is never selfish, but it may feel that way when you live a frenzied life.”

“And if I'd be left alone in the woods again, I smiled to think how I'd find new gifts and thrive. At the end of a long trail and the beginning of the rest of my life, I was committed to always lovi...”

“I wish that people would stop destroying other people just because they were once destroyed.”

“What work a person does to earn a viable income shapes their thinking patterns, buttresses their sense of self-worth, and affects how they adapt to predictable and unpredictable obstacles.”

“You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.”

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”