Chasing after a pleasure to ease a pain is like running after a breeze to cool you down.

You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a learning experience instead of a proving one.

Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view.

Listening to your own mind gives you "good reasons" why you should be fearful over unexpected events is just like being friends with someone who thinks it's funny to find new ways to hurt you!

No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.

Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you're in is like trying to organize your monthly bills by throwing them into a blender

Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion