A failure is not a loss. It’s a gain. You learn. You change. You grow.

The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. Learning for instance, to eat when he’s hungry and sleep when he’s sleepy.

Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object.

You can’t always wait for the perfect time. Sometimes you just have to jump.

Stop being tormented by everyone else’s reaction to you.

‘As the number of police killed in the line of duty continues to decline, while the number of civilians killed by police rises, the question of whether ordinary Americans have any meaningful civil recourse against officers who violate their rights has taken on pressing importance. On Monday, the Supreme Court effectively answered “no.