“This is essential because without a properly functioning ego, you have no center for making healthy choices and decisions. All too often, your decisions are based on the fear of getting in trouble or getting abandoned, rather than on the principles of having meaningful and equitable interactions with the world.”
“Mindfulness is a perspective of benign curiosity about all of your inner experience.”
“No one on this earth is an exact copy of you. In that sense, you are unique and extraordinary. You are born a winner. When you remember this, you keep winning. When you forget this, you start losing.”
“My book is not only about the coronavirus, but also how we overcome in the new world. We need to have more optimism and learn from this. There are silver linings all around us.”
“I can read a thousand words and have every one of them drift past my heart without touching any part of it. Or I can read a handful of words and have them seize my heart with such a grip that I will be forever held fast. Such is the difference between the art of writing and the lesser task of arranging words.”
“I closed my eyes, feeling tears slide down my cheeks, and I reached out to the thing within me that I d kept hidden for so long. I m sorry, I whispered to it. I m sorry I left you so long in the dark. I m sorry, but I m ready now.”
“It s kinda like how we have to do with ourselves. Get rid of the things that don t do us any good. If it won t help the rose grow, you ve gotta let it go.”
“Approaching the writing process as one of my favorite games and adjusting its design so that I couldn’t wait to engage in working on the book was of big help and enormous fun.”
“To change your reality, you must change your mentality.”
“The thought of deleting things permanently from life is painful. Moving them into recycle bin is easy. Take a break from things for 28 days and see if you want them back or not.”
“Go. Quit. Give up the ghost, motherfucker.”
“become a counter-predator willing to defend yourself against anyone who tries to overpower you.”
“Instead of limiting your imagination by current circumstances and constraints, imagine a world in which some key constraints don t exist, and ask yourself how you or your institution might respond.”
“What then is the criterion that the mind uses to select an infinitesimal minority of possible outcomes to worry about?”
“No one should expect a caged lion to rule the jungle”
“Your mental energy links to your physical energy. Without it, your mind will suffer.”
“Boredom creates breakthroughs. You must leverage your boredom productively to become more successful.”