Standing alone is better than being around people who don’t value you.

“The antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most likes to creep into truth.”

Be of good heart.

“With all great deceivers there is a noteworthy occurrence to which they owe their power. In the actual act of deception, they are overcome by belief in themselves. The founders of religions are distinguished from these great deceivers by the fact that they never emerge from this state of self-deception, though a moment of clarity when doubt overcomes them may be ascribed to an evil antagonist. Self-deception has to exist if a grand effect is to be produced.”

Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

Every difficulty is refining you. Every painful time is developing something in you that can only be developed in the tough times. Without the tough times, you wouldn’t reach the fullness of your destiny.

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”

“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.