The Four Enemies to a happy life and how to defeat them

• Anger, hatred, and fear are those emotions that poison our soul.
• There are three forms of patience: tolerant, insightful, and forgiving.
• Patience is recognizing the capacity that we all have to just grin and bear it, and appreciating how resilient you are.
• Forgiving patience is to forgive anyone who harms us, no matter in what way.

• Our inner voice defines how we orient ourselves to the world.
• Those who are self-centered experience a "subjective fluctuating happiness," while those who are more selfless experience "authentic-durable happiness," which means a deep "contentment and plenitude or inner peace."

• This is the voice that settles for mediocrity, and which sees life as a sad collection of misfortunes, with a few laughs if you’re lucky.
• The source of this self-loathing is, in some ways, the Secret Enemy. The more preoccupied we are with ourselves, the more we obsess over private happiness.

Love is the single panacea for all four enemies: it wants what is best for others, and so defuses the Outer Enemy, love is what forgives and accepts and serves as the antithesis of the Inner Enemy: anger, hatred, and fear, love sees others not in terms of what they can do for you but from their point of view, and helps and supports others, which undoes the Super-Secret Enemy