The word is like a seed, and the human mind is so fertile, but only for those kinds of seeds it is prepared for. - Don Miguel Ruiz

If you take your happiness and put it in someone’s hands, sooner or later, she is going to break it. If you give your happiness to someone else, she can always take it away. Then if happiness can only come from inside of you and is the result of your love, you are responsible for your happiness.

Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you’re expecting a reward.

Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe
they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.