"The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one's negative experience is itself a positive experience."
"……when a person has no problems, the mind automatically finds a way to invent some. I think what most people——especially educated, pampered middle-class white people——consider "life problems" are really just side effects of not having anything more important to worry about. It then follows that find"
"I wanted the reward, not the struggle. I wanted the result, but not the process. I was in love with not the fight, only the victory. And life doesn't work that way. Who you are is defined by what you are willing to struggle for."