people who place their mental well-being over immediate convenience.

They recognize that infallible composure is not emotional intelligence.

They don’t confuse a bad feeling for a bad life.

dissatisfaction fuels you. You’re creating problems in one area of your life to balance out thriving in another, because your happiness is in a mental container.

We’re more nostalgic for things that never happened than we are grateful and present in the things that are.

“He looked at me funny; I knew he hated me.”

Getting unstuck is realizing that you were never stuck in the first place; you only stopped to ask yourself, “Is this what I’m here for?”

Hard work guarantees success. If you’re looking for any one particular outcome as the end goal of your hard work, you’re most likely going to end up disappointed. The point of hard work is to recognize the person it makes you, not what it "gets" you (the former you can control; the latter, you can’t).

people up by what they repeatedly do. What you would say if you could tell every single person in the world just one thing.