We should know when to stop doing something that's reached its natural endpoint, even if it means a great deal to us.

It's not comfortable to confront emotional experiences you're trying to avoid.

Major personal decisions should be made not by asking if it will make you happy, but if this choice will enlarge or diminish you.

Spending your life helping others is a life well spent. While this is generally true, it gets tangled up with issues of guilt and self-esteem.

It is useful to remember that everyone is just winging it all the time. The lesson to be drawn is not that this will throw us in utter chaos, but that you, unconfident, self-conscious, potentially have as much to contribute to your field as anyone else.

Much of our troubles arise from trying to control what is not in our control - such as the future. We want to know that things will work out later on. But we never can.

The demands on our time continue to increase, but our capacities remain mostly fixed. In an attempt to get on top of everything, we'll generate more tasks.