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John Dryden observed, “We first make our habits and then our habits make us,” while Virginia Woolf wrote, “the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”
timeless words of Publilius Syrus, “Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.”
“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that crushed
every minute you devote to thinking about someone who has wronged you is a minute you have stolen from a much worthier pursuit: attracting those people who will help you.
The Juiceman’s Power of Juicing by Jay Kordich.
As Helen Keller said, “No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.”
Leonardo da Vinci said, “Through the window of the eye, the soul regards the world’s beauty… Who would believe that a small scene of nature could contain
Persian proverb “I wept because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet.”
French physician Albert Schweitzer observed, “I don’t know what your destiny will be but one thing I do know: The only ones among you who will be happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.”
John Guare’s play Six Degrees of Separation,
movie Jerry Maguire,
The time to start building your legacy is today, not ten years from today when you “have more time,” because we both know that time will never arrive.
Greatness comes from beginning something that does not end with you.
Every human being has a deep need for affection and most people will be delighted you took the initiative. And if they do not respond to you, so what? Rather than viewing it as rejection, see it as their loss and politely move on to the next person who can benefit from all you have to offer.
The Artist’s Way
wellspring
“All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.”
Without deep concentration, your mind will be your master rather than your servant.
time slips through our hands like grains of sand and the time to live life greatly is not tomorrow but today.”
One’s sense of mortality is a great source of wisdom.
The Dialogues.
by plato
If you are not as fulfilled or as happy or as prosperous or as peaceful as you know you could be, stop blaming your parents or the economy or your boss and take full responsibility for your circumstances.
George Bernard Shaw said, “The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”
Rudyard Kipling, “If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, yours is the earth and everything that’s in it.”
reward you receive is determined not by how long you work but by how much value you add.
To get more from life, you need to be more in life.
“If you follow the crowd, the place you will most likely end up at is the exit.”
To live a richer, more rewarding life, it is essential that you run your own race.
Stop bending to the demands of social pressure at the expense...
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they did not care about what other people thought of them. Rather than letting public opinion dictate their actions, they had the courage to let their hearts drive them.
Christopher Morley, who said, “Read every day something no one else is reading. Think every day something no one else is thinking. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”
Emerson: “It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
Einstein, Picasso, Galileo or Beethoven.
Montaigne said, “The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point.”
the person who tries to do everything ultimately accomplishes nothing.
We are not our thoughts. Instead, we are the thinkers of our thoughts.
epiphany
hearse
Emma Goldman noted, “I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.”
Erica Jong said, “Take your life into your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
is easy to get caught up in the trap of thinking that this day does not matter much given all the days that lie ahead of you.
As golf legend Ben Hogan said, “As you walk down the fairway of life, you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.”
To form your own mastermind alliance, find three or four people you feel you could learn from and who would get along well with the others of the group.
Albert Camus once wrote, “In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.”
“We see the world, not as it is but as we are.”
Our greatest human endowment is the ability to reframe and reinterpret a difficult circumstance in a more enlightened and empowering way.
In handling any problem, we must have the courage to assume a measure of responsibility for whatever situation we are in and then realize that we also have the capacity to use the setback to our advantage.
“If it’s going to be, it’s up to me”
If we don’t act on life and take action to make things happen, it will act on us and give us results we might not want.
you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot do both.
