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Life is a verb. We try our best. We don’t always do our best.

Life’s not easy…don’t try and make it that way. It’s not fair, it never was, it isn’t now, it won’t ever be.

They may be truths to me, but don’t think that that makes them mine… because you can’t own a truth.

Give others and yourself more credit. It just happened, you witnessed it, you just did it, believe it.

One thing you can depend on people being…is people.

Happiness demands a certain outcome, it is result reliant.

If happiness is what you’re after, then you are going to be let down frequently and be unhappy much of your time.

Life is not a popularity contest. Be brave, take the hill but first, answer the question, “What is my hill?”

It’s just as important where we are not as it is where we are.

We give thanks for these things and that gratitude reciprocates, creating more to be thankful for. It’s simple, and it works.

An honest man’s pillow is his peace of mind, and when you lay down on the pillow at night, no matter who’s in our bed we all sleep alone.

We have created a fictitious ceiling, a roof, to our expectations of ourselves, a limit — where we think it’s all too good to be true.

I have never had any trouble turning the page in the book of my life.

You are going to make mistakes — own them, make amends, and move on. Guilt and regret kills many a man before their time. Turn the page, get off the ride.

Instead of denying these fears, declare them, say them out loud, admit them, give them the credit they deserve.