When you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you create the biology of courage.

Self-compassion - being supportive and kind to yourself, especially in the face of stress and failure - is associated with more motivation and better self-control.

My favorite definition of the mindful path is the one the reveals itself as you walk down it. You cannot find the path until you step on to it.

Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows.

Chasing meaning is better for your health than trying to avoid discomfort.

When you choose to connect with others under stress, you can create resilience.

The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.

You can deal with stressful life experiences with strength from past ones.

When your mind is preoccupied, your impulses—not your long-term goals—will guide your choices.

People come up with resolutions that don’t reflect what matters most to them, and that makes them almost guaranteed to fail.

The development of willpower -I will, I won't and I want- may define what it means to be human.

Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.

All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home...and every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like a stranger to me.

No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries.

As the yellow gold is tried in fire so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

What payoff are you getting for remaining stuck at this point in your expansion?

I don't want people to think about my age. Notbecause I don't want them to know my age, I just don't want them to think about it, I don't want itto be a factor.

Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by the navy.

I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.

I was weirdly obsessed with music until I was 11, and then I turned into a nerd.

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.