26. Our problems are really our blessings¹ if we use them to grow stronger.

27. Anyone can run away; it’s super easy. Facing problems and working through them, that’s what makes you strong.

28. When you have two good options, always go with the one that scares you the most, because that’s the one that’s going to help you grow.

29. Courage is being scared to death, and then taking the next step anyway.

30. Sometimes our greatest insight² comes from our failure, not from our accomplishments³.

31. You need to screw⁴ up to learn. You need to experience it all to create greatness.

32. Just because you don’t understand something now doesn’t mean the explanation doesn’t exist.

33. Not knowing everything about your future is a good thing.

34. Don’t worry about what you can’t control and you may liberate⁵ yourself.

35. People of average ability often achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most people succeed simply because they are determined⁶ to.

36. Temporary happiness isn’t worth long-term pain.

37. Patience can be bitter, but the seeds you plant now will bear sweet fruit.

38. The less you expect, the more pleasant life gets.

39. The more you are in a state of gratitude⁷, the more you will attract things to be grateful for.

40. The things you take for granted⁸, someone else is praying for.

41. It usually isn’t what you have or where you are or what you’re doing that makes you happy. It’s how you think about it all.

42. Do not dwell⁹ so much on creating your perfect life that you forget to live.

43. You are not in competition with anybody except yourself; plan to outdo your past not other people.

44. To admit that you were wrong is to declare that you are wiser now than you were before.

45. Humans see what they want to see.

46. If you spend too much time judging yourself, you won’t have any time to love yourself or anyone else.

47. At the end of the day, you can either focus on what’s tearing you apart or what’s holding you together.

48. Look through the front windshield and not the rearview mirror.

49. You don’t get to choose how you are going to die, or when. But you can choose how you are going to live, right now.

50. Be done with regrets; they are an excuse for people who have failed. You still have a chance.