Until our loyalty to our comfort zones becomes too uncomfortable to bear, we won’t be forced to seek something genuinely greater than whatever it is we once thought was best.

I often look around at older people and wonder how we’ve confused “respecting your elders” with allowing them to believe it’s okay to stop learning after age 23 and let them sit and fester in the prejudices of the generation in which they were raised.

The love you really want is your own. What you’re seeking in someone else is what you aren’t giving to yourself.

Never realize that bit by bit, you created the life you never really wanted with the pieces you never really chose.

Anxiety is usually bred out of

He says that the two fundamental elements self-esteem boils down to are self-efficacy, which is “a sense of basic confidence in the face of life’s challenges,” and self-respect, “a sense

As though being loving is being devoted, rather than being strong and honest and true and sometimes walking away.

People who understand this use their time wisely: They eliminate unnecessary decision-making, reduce distractions, minimize what doesn’t matter, and

Don’t confuse a broken dream with a broken future. Don’t confuse a broken heart for a broken life.