He is my fate. He's my soul mate. He pervades my whole existence. So, of course, I often ignore him.

Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self.

If I pretend to myself that I'm different from the way I truly am, I'm going to make choices that won't make me happy.

Did I have a heart to be contented? Well, no, not particularly. I had a tendency to be discontented: ambitious, dissatisfied, fretful, and tough to please...It's easier to complain than to laugh, easier to yell than to joke around, easier to be demanding than to be satisfied.

We are happy when we are growing.

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period.