In America, we're not making anything anymore. China and other countries are making our products. We are rebuilding China.
But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.
You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.
Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.
Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.
Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.
Don't worry. Don't apologize. Don't cower behind the defeated security of there is no 'room for someone like me'. There isn't room for any one of us. It's up to you to make a place for yourself in the world. So get to work.
A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.
There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.
I like 1. e4 very much, but my results are better with 1. d4.
If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there's a mysterious way in which that truth will find you.