As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don’t have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

Forget the past.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Some people would like me to be round again.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

The reason I became 297 pounds is because that was comfortable. What was very uncomfortable was running. What was very uncomfortable was being on a diet. What was very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn’t want to face. And I also realized, when I was really big, I had no growth. Why? Because I was living comfortable.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.