The key is to learn to respect and honor the complications of other people's lives

We need to habituate better thinking to appreciate more of your day because that has a neurological correlate.

I'll have a lot of wrinkles on my face, but I feel like my heart will be fat and full.

We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy

I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth. We're all built with illusions. And they break.

I believe that life is about doing. It's about changing. It's about transitioning. I can't imagine, as a human being, not being able to grow.

Letting go of someone we love is the hardest thing we will ever do. Some people never surrender to love for the fear of being hurt. But to not have loved, to not have felt the immense joy it brings, would have been a far worse kind of death.