Via self-talk we give our mind instructions on what we expect of ourselves and so behave accordingly. Change the instructions and we change the outcomes.

Emotions are the road signs to your happiness.

Social media allows us to subjugate feelings and problems we don't want to confront, like emotional eating or substance abuse, thus perpetuating our problems and delaying our happiness.

Utter frustration often precedes the breakthrough so stick with it and have faith in your journey.

Assumptions close doors. Intrigue opens them.

When you walk around feeling quietly upset, frustrated, angry or some other negative emotion, people around you will detect it to some degree or another, even if only subconsciously.

Whatever you focus your mind on, you will consciously and subconsciously work towards.

Your eyes will contradict your words if your words contradict your thoughts and feelings.

Jealousy is when their reflection in the mirror that is your progress, is attacked rather than appreciated, begrudged rather than understood.

Our emotions are encoded in the heart signals we emit. Use the energy you feel to know how they are feeling.

How we make people feel shapes how they feel about us.

My philosophy was if they weren't calling you names, you weren't doing anything.

The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

If you're smart or rich or lucky Maybe you'll beat the laws of man But the inner laws of spirit And the outer laws of nature No man can

People don't acknowledge loneliness in themselves, and don't appreciate its benefits, the reflection and attentiveness that come with it, the deepened acquaintance with oneself.

What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?

The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

I love people and I love to be around people.

I like risky parts - abrasive characters the audience won't necessarily like.

I like to think I'm positive and optimistic about things generally, but what I write does tend towards the darker end of the spectrum.