Other people may not agree with your decisions, but you are not here to sacrifice your peace for other peoples’ preferences. You are here to learn, grow, and love—and

In short, the moment we stop thinking is when our happiness begins.

“I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”

What I'm saying is that although we experience a lot of pain in our lives, suffering is optional. In other words, pain is unavoidable, but how we react to the events and circumstances that happen in our lives is up to us, and that will dictate whether we suffer or not.

Thinking is the root cause of all our psychological suffering.

Our feelings do not come from external events, but from our own thinking about the events. Therefore, we can only ever feel what we are thinking.

Thoughts create. Thinking destroys.

Don’t try to use your intellect to figure it out — you won’t. As soon as you intellectualize it, you've missed it.

"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”