Jay Shetty

Just keep doing it.

Higher values propel and elevate us toward happiness, fulfillment, and meaning. Lower values demote us toward anxiety, depression, and suffering.

The six lower values are greed, lust, anger, ego, illusion, and envy. The downside of the lower values is that they so readily take us over when we give them space to do so, but the upside is that there are a lot fewer of them.

It is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others.
—Daisaku Ikeda

“Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.”

We have three core emotional needs, which I like to think of as peace, love, and understanding

a threat to one of the three needs: a fear that bad things are going to happen (loss of peace), a fear of not being loved (loss of love), or a fear of being disrespected (loss of understanding).

feeling overwhelmed, insecure, hurt, competitive, needy, and so on

These negative feelings spring out of us as complaints, comparisons, and criticisms and other negative behaviors.

can increase aggression toward random, uninvolved people, and that the more negative your attitude, the more likely you are to have a negative attitude in the future.