On the importance of disappointment:  ,
My second encounter with trying to be an artist was heartbreaking. It took me 77 failures to get a book published. We learn a lot from disappointment… It really doesn’t matter how many times we fail, as long as we keep going. And it’s not disappointment that actually crushes us. What hurts the most is always trying.  ,
On going through problems:  ,
Whatever’s going on in our life, we can make it stronger by how we see it, and then by what we do. But step one, instead of feeling like subjects, we say to ourselves, how can I discover some goal in what I’m going through right now, even though it’s so hard?  ,