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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Whoever expects punishment already suffers it, and whoever has deserved it expects it.

Retire yourself into yourself, but first prepare yourself there to receive yourself: it were a folly to trust yourself in your own hands, if you cannot govern yourself.

Moreover men commonly deceive themselves in respect of the love which they imagine others bear them, nor can ever be sure of it until they have put it to the proof.

Therefore it must be inferred that good counsels, whencesoever they come, are born of the wisdom of the prince, and not the wisdom of the prince from good counsels.

Therefore, if he who rules a principality cannot recognize evils until they are upon him, he is not truly wise; and this insight is given to few.

Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of life-energy.

The ultimate effect of parasitism is always a paralysis of the will and an inability to compel oneself into any course of action for the moment unpleasurable and exhaustive.

The athlete trains for his race; and the mind must be put into training if one will win life's race.

Many of us imprison ourselves in the narrow limited poverty thought, and then, like caged eagles trying in vain to get free, we beat out our wings against the bars we have ourselves put up.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself

For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.

the sensible make their life pleasanter and more endurable by mitigating their sorrows with the consideration of their blessings, while most people, like sieves, let the worst things stick to them while the best pass through