“There are no bad emotions, only bad expression of the emotion.”

“Emotions are teachers. They’re the windows of your soul. Emotions help you understand what’s happening inside you.”

“When we suffer loss, we need that grieving process to heal us. How can grief heal us/ By feeling our grief, we acknowledge our pain. When we acknowledge our pain, we acknowledge ourselves. And love always heals.”

“Don’t tie your happiness to your destination but to your development.”

“Focus is the master switch of your entire life.”

“Every time you’re focused on the bad things happening in your life, you’re drinking your own poison. And you’re killing yourself slowly day by day.”

“Focus on the good in your life.”

“When you’re overwhelmed with negative emotion, give yourself the wonderful Gift of the Gap.”

“Pause. Ponder. Pray. Because wisdom doesn’t shout. Wisdom speaks in whispers. It’s only when you’re quiet inside that you’ll hear the faint voice of wisdom speak to you.”

“There are two pains in this life: The pain of restraint and the pain of regret. Which pain do you want?”

“When you give yourself the Gift of the Gap, you’re choosing the pain of restraint. It’s painful because it’s so much easier to shout when you’re angry, or to give up when you’re frustrated, or to be a coward when you’re afraid.”

“The pain of restraint is uncomfortable. But the pain of regret is unbearable.”

“Let God put His arms around you in your grief, in your panic, in your rage, in your loneliness...When you do that, something beautiful happens: You experience healing. Because what you feel, you can heal.”

“It was St. Ignatius who said that we should never make major decisions during moments of desolation (extreme sadness) or consolation (extreme happiness) but during times of inner peace.”

“But love - if you give it away every day - has a way of washing the poison away from your life.”

“Most of the things that bother us today mean absolutely nothing in the future.”

“Even when you don’t feel like doing the right thing, just do the right thing anyway.”

“You’re too big to be bothered by small things.”

“I believe that most of our anger, deep down, comes from fear. An angry person is usually afraid. Insecure. Threatened.”

“Hurt people hurt people.”

“Imagine that you have a 100-liter love tank. But broken people in your life have a one-liter love tank. Compared to your love, their love is puny. Their puny love can’t satisfy your humongous love tank. But realize that their puny love is all they’ve got. It may not be much to you, but they’re giving you their all.”

“Wisdom is the art of knowing what to overlook” - William James

“Don’t ask the person who hurt you to repay you - he’s not capable of repaying you. He doesn’t have the resources to do that. You’ll just be shortchanged. Whatever repayment he gives you won’t be enough anyway.”

“If someone hurts you, you don’t have to hurt him back. Because of the way God’s universe is designed, any injustice done by a person will find its way back to that same person.”

“Don’t ever make the massive mistake of forgiving people with conditions. Don’t ever say, ‘I’ll forgive him if he asks for forgiveness,’ or ‘I’ll forgive if he admits his mistake,” or ‘I’ll forgive if he repents’. If you do that, you’re making your happiness dependent on other people’s decision. That’s insanity. Why? Because you deserve to be happy. You deserve to be free. Forgive without conditions! Forgive whether that person accepts it or not, admits it or not, or apologizes for it or not. It doesn’t matter. Forgive anyway. Love anyway. Give anyway. Because it all bounces back to you, multiplied in hundredfold!”

“Despair is when you feel helpless; Insecurity is when you feel worthless. Despair is being hopeless about what you see outside you; insecurity is being hopeless about what you see inside you.”

“Feel your feelings but follow your faith.”

“What you focus on flourishes.”