Most people are not choosing entertainment over ambition but anesthesia over the discomfort of beginning. - Kpaxs

If your peace depends entirely on the world behaving gently toward you, then your peace will always be fragile.

But if your peace depends on your ability to process, reject, transform, or outgrow negativity, then you possess a source of strength that circumstances cannot fully control.

It is important to clarify that protecting the mind is not the same as becoming emotionally numb.

A strong person is not someone who feels nothing. Strength is not the absence of hurt. It is the refusal to let hurt become corruption.

You can feel pain without becoming bitter.

You can feel anger without becoming cruel.

You can feel disappointment without becoming hopeless.

You can feel fear without surrendering your direction.

Freedom is being able to feel something without immediately obeying it.

The fastest personality test is giving someone a tiny amount of authority over someone who cannot easily punish them back.