Pain is part of life. Suffering is an option.

Understand that all emotions serve you. Those you once thought of as negative emotions are merely calls to action. For example, if you feel frustrated it means that you believe things could be better, and they're not. This is a call to action telling you there's something you must do to make this better now. This "negative" emotion is actually a gift if you use it effectively.

Find someone worse off than you and help them. It will put your life in perspective.

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Expectations send unconscious signals that people respond to.

There are many people who live in what I call 'No-man's Land,' a place where you're not really happy, but you're not unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place. It's a place where people numb themselves to their dreams. It's where they dismiss hope and accept what's in front of them instead of driving toward what they really want in life.

I always tell people happiness comes in one word: progress. I don't care what you achieve.