“...It isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference.”

“It isn't stress that makes us fall - it's how we respond to stressful events.”

“Human tendency is to make mountains out of molehills. Yet when we examine our problems...we realize it's how we look at them...that really makes the difference.”

“Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance?”

“Could it be because it reminds us that we are alive, of our mortality, of our individual souls- which, after all, we are too afraid to surrender but yet make us feel more miserable than any other thing? But isn't it also pain that often makes us most aware of self? It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from the world, that no one and no thing hurts along with one's burned tongues and skinned knees, that one's aches and pains are all one’s own. Even more terrible, as we grow old, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us. Our own selves make us most unhappy, and that's why we're so anxious to lose them, don't you think?”

“The choices we make in our life don't have to define us. It's what we learn from them that's important.”