Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.

I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there is no surer way to repair yourself than to repair them.

I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

The most amazing speeches are a mix of fear, expertise, and practice.

Loneliness why do you accompany me if I wish to be alone?

And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.

Read much, but not too many books.

Give your problem all the thought you possibly can before a solution is reached. But when the matter is settled and over with, worry not at all.

Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.

This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.

There is an intuitive knowing within us that we are eternal but this gets covered over with the noise we create while identifying with the impermanent.

I came up and was a first-round draft pick and there was a lot of hype and a lot of expectation, and I enjoyed that. Have I also seen the other side of that? Absolutely.

All stress begins with one negative thought.