We could search the whole world and never find another being more worthy of our love than ourselves. - Noah Levine

If our definition of happiness is "experiencing that which is pleasurable," we are going to be disappointed a lot of the time.

Recovery is also the ability to inhabit the conditions of the present reality, whether pleasant or unpleasant.

Everything is impermanent—every pleasure, every pain, every body. But the survival instincts crave permanence and control. The body wants pleasure to stay forever and pain to go away forever.