It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

Moliere

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Confucius

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough

Robert Heller

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

Richard M. Nixon

All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Anthony Robbins

I have great faith in fools self-confidence my friends call it.

Edgar Allan Poe

Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.

Mike Mills

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Karl Von Clausewitz

Ecco che cos'era la vita, che cos'era l'esperienza, che cosa inseguivano coloro che andavano in cerca di avventure, ecco a che cosa mirava l'arte: ritornare a casa propria, ai propri affetti, riprendere la vita

Boris Pasternak

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Jimi Hendrix

You gotta find what you like and let it kill you.

Kinky Friedman