"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"There's a bizarre pecking order that nobody cares anything about except people who are in that world." - David Foster Wallace

"One can buy anything but good character, decency, and sensitivity; those are not for sale."

We need to realize that we truly are not our thoughts...

"Our thoughts come from the egoic mind. We are the awareness that hears the thoughts.

When you talk to yourself inside your mind, to whom are you actually talking? It is your awareness, and that is who you are, that is your being. Not the thoughts.

Your thoughts are just constructs of your egoic mind. You can actually choose to let them float on by without believing or engaging them, should you choose to."

From Tiny Buddha

"The most important things are the hardest to say." - Stephen King

"Anxiety goes away only when we learn what it’s teaching us. That is when we can move on."

From Tiny Buddha

 “Sometimes we have to go right into the fire in order to find our true healing.” - Jack Kornfield