Make the urge to continue stronger than the desire to quit.

Every adversity brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage.

In my journal I logged this comment: On the day that I was officially a grown woman, I felt anything but feminine rather, befouled from the sweat of hard physical labor and the stinking mud. I wanted nothing so much as to sleep for a week.

I'm going to mess up. But I'm going to get back, you know, and get after it and try to do better the next day.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.

Run The Jewels, me and Mike, and our connection and everything, came out of a period of time where I had personally lost everything.

We'd all like to increase pleasure and minimize pain, but the truth is, suffering, even collective suffering that we're going through, is often the earmark that some real change is happening.

If you can recognize and accept your pain without running away from it, you will discover that although pain is there, joy can also be there at the same time. Some say that suffering is only an illusion or that to live wisely we have to "transcend" both suffering and joy. I say the opposite. The way to suffer well and be happy is to stay in touch with what is actually going on; in doing so, you will gain liberating insights into the true nature of suffering and of joy.

If you find yourself at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.