Words to live by

You can't control what other people think of you

 you can control how you treat people, but you cannot actually control what they think. The idea that behaving a certain way will elicit a certain response is a delusion that will keep you puppeteering through your life. It will distance you from the person you want to be and the life you want to live. And the person you want to be and the life you want to live. And for what? People are going to judge, criticize, condemn, love, admire, envy, and lust based on their own subjective perceptions regardless.

Hard Work Guarantees success

if you're looking for any one particular outcome as the end goal of you hard work, you're most likely going to end up disappointed. The point of hard work is to recognize the person it makes you, not what it "gets" you (the former you can control, the latter, you can't).

Diverse

the world is diverse of many people and opinions, which will likely offend you at some time. if you are try to be the focal point of everyone's life and ascribe meaning to everyone's comments, you will lead a difficult life. Changing how other people think is not how outraged you get around others, but how you are willing to explain, teach, and share. Defensiveness never proceeds growth, it stunts it.

Take care of yourself first, and be self sufficient, you cannot help others until you take care of yourself.

Life is a journey, not a destination

It does matter how slow you go, as long as you do not stop

a journey of thousand miles begins with one step

when you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don't have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied any time.

success is a journey, not a destination, the doing is often more important than the outcome