Abhi

“The past you speak of is nothing more than a story skilfully compiled by ‘you now’. Please understand this point.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“He is saying not just to love one’s neighbour, but to love them as much as one loves oneself. If one cannot love oneself, one cannot love others. If one cannot believe in oneself, one cannot believe in others. Please think of the phrase as carrying that connotation. You are insisting that you cannot believe in other people, but that is because you have not managed to truly believe in yourself.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and wisdom always to tell the difference.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“when people consistently move in the direction of growth, feelings of happiness and life satisfaction tend to come along for the ride as an epiphenomenon of growth.”
― Scott Barry Kaufman, Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization