“Tracking my fear of exam results and the other branch fears that appeared led me to the root: fearing I couldn’t make my parents happy”

You can’t be anything you want. But you can be everything you are.

To walk down the same old path and find a new stone is to open your mind.

You are who you are when no one is watching.

Higher values propel and elevate us toward happiness, fulfillment, and meaning. Lower values demote us toward anxiety, depression, and suffering.

All things are temporary and that we can’t truly own or control anything.

We think that success equals happiness, but this idea is an illusion.

A monk mind practices detachment. We realize that everything—from our houses to our families—is borrowed.

Find me someone who has gone to the darkest parts of their own character where they were so close to their own self-destruction and found a way to get up and out of it, and I will bow on my knees to you. You’re my teacher.

Because the only thing that stays with you from the moment you’re born until the moment you die is your breath. All your friends, your family, the country you live in, all of that can change. The one thing that stays with you is your breath.

The more we define ourselves in relation to the people around us, the more lost we are.

If you follow your bliss, he said, doors will open for you that wouldn’t have opened for anyone else

We say things to ourselves that we would never say to people we love

Too often we love people who don’t love us, but we fail to return the love of others who do.

What’s on your news feed is feeding your mind.

Everyone has a story, and sometimes our egos choose to ignore that. Don’t take everything personally—it is usually not about you.

So people who come to this place, stay here for a while, and then continue their journey. Sounds like a hotel to me.

How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.

At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom – but I have them tailored.

How can such scary looking parents create something so cute?

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

When I’m in drag, I don’t always want to be spoken to, but I love being looked at. Nobody puts that much work into how they look to be ignored.

You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.

The smiling face is never out of fashion, so always keep smiling.

I am not as simple as I look.