Understand that it is not the mountain that you must master, but yourself

To recover from our loss of attention, it is not enough to strip out our distractions. That will just create a void.

Emotionally mature people are innately courteous because they naturally honor boundaries. They’re looking for connection and closeness, not intrusion.

Their righteousness is righteousness indeed, for from henceforth they do the will of God and fulfill the law themselves.

The human brain evolved in intimate conjunction with the hand.

Trade as little as possible.

God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.

Around 13,000 years ago, as glaciers melted rapidly all over the world, conditions in Japan changed spectacularly for the better, as far as humans were concerned.

The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.

Because personality changes more than we expect with time, experience, and different contexts, we are ill-equipped to make ironclad long-term goals when our past consists of little time, few experiences, and a narrow range of contexts.