“In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.”

“It’s not who you are that holds you back. It’s who you think you are.”

“You cannot change what you refuse to confront.”

“Stay afraid but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.”

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”

“You can’t change the facts of the past, but you can add new layers of meaning to it. By revisiting it, writing about it, using it as an outlet for creative expression…you can slowly reconstruct how you view your past and how it fits into the narrative of your life.”

“Be not hasty in making friends; and do not cast off those whom you have made.”

“Spend your time with people who make you happy - not with people you have to impress.”

How to be your own best friend

“If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.”