The only way to not be forever sad is to admit that we are, for the moment, sad. - Alexi Pappas

The most important thing we can do with regard to our goals is to have integrity: Simply put, we should always want to try our best.

I used to think that my Always Try Hard Rule was the only way to avoid becoming like my mom, but now I saw that blindly obeying this rule had in fact made me more like her than I ever wanted to be.

The brain behaves similarly with emotional trauma: When we create a personal law in response to trauma, the law can become hardwired into your brain so strongly that when you encounter even vaguely similar situations much later, your mind reacts with irrational intensity.