If you think there's something you need in order to be happy, then you believe in lack. Then believing you lack, you will create more lack.

Your future isn't programmed by your past; it's programmed by your thoughts.

Depression might have chosen you, but you don't have to choose it back. Sometimes happiness comes with bootstraps, but so what? Pull 'em up. Choose joy.

We think we need to create ourselves, always doing a paste-up job on our personalities. That is because we're trying to be special rather than real. We're pathetically trying to conform with all the other people trying to do the same.

The only thing missing in any situation is that in which you are not giving

We think that because we dwell inside our bodies that we are separate from other people who dwell inside theirs.

The path to self-esteem lies in getting over yourself. There is nothing to esteem about our smaller dramas; it's our commitment to something beyond ourselves that is truly estimable to ourself and others.