Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.

People don’t cry when they lose their hope. They cry when they get it back.

You will know how to stop suffering as soon as suffering ceases to be valuable. If you are in pain, you are being led.

No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things.

It isn’t necessary to know exactly how your ideal life will look; you only have to know what feels better and what feels worse…Begin making choices based on what makes you feel freer and happier, rather than on how you think an ideal life should look. It’s the process of feeling our way toward happiness, not the realization of the Platonic ideal, that creates our best lives.

Anyone who comes into your life, under any circumstances, has something to teach you.

I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.