I am still mostly a moron, I do get into bad moods, I am not a perfected being.

Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they’re out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.”)

There’s no point in being unhappy about things you can’t change, and no point being unhappy about things you can.

When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.

Meditation suffers from a towering PR problem.… If you can get past the cultural baggage, though, what you’ll find is that meditation is simply exercise for your brain.

The getting lost and recovering - that is the meditation.

If you're meditating and it's easy, you're either enlightened or you're cheating.

The act of catching yourself wandering and coming back to your breath is a bicep curl for your brain.

Happiness, it turns out, is a skill-one that you can train, just like you train your body in the gym. This is the next big public health revolution. Get on board.

Prepare like no other, know that there was nothing left for you to do when it's all said and done. This way a loss is just a stat. The better man will always win if he prepared like no other.

Meditation is hard. You are constantly trying to focus on one thing, usually your breath, and your mind is going to go berserk.

The air was filled with phantoms... and... the misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power forever.

The only true love ends up with DEATH !

Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.

You never want to tie your responsibility to another's irresponsibility.

How are you feeling?" "Like someone massaged me with a cheese grater." -Clary & Simon, pg.297-

We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.

God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something.

Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision