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“I’d like to be the person I could have been but never was.”
“Be the change that you wish to see most in your world.”
if you make even one person smile during your day or brighten the mood of even one stranger, your day has been a worthwhile one.
are your troubles really that big? Are the problems you have experienced or the challenges you might currently be facing really as serious as you have made them out to be?
the tougher you are on yourself, the easier life will be on you.
by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled; and by doing brave acts, we come to be brave.”
happy people have often experienced as much adversity as those who are unhappy. What sets them apart is that they have the good sense to manage their memories in a way that enriches their lives.
“It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what may happen.”
“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
I call the first thirty minutes after you wake up “The Platinum 30” since they are truly the most valuable moments of your day and have a profound influence on the quality of every minute that follows.
“if your priorities don’t get scheduled into your planner, other people’s priorities will get put into your planner.”
“You are not here to merely make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”
With a healthy dose of inspiration, you will quickly raise your life to a whole new plane of living.
“in a sound body rests a sound mind.”
our bodies need to be treated like temples and considered sacred if we hope to live life fully and completely.
“Those who don’t make time for exercise must eventually make time for illness.”
All of the great wisdom traditions of the world have arrived at the same conclusion: to reconnect with who you really are as a person
to come to know the glory that rests within you, you must find the time to be silent on a regular basis.
And saying that you don’t have enough time to be silent on a regular basis is a lot like saying you are too busy driving to stop for gas
the first step to becoming the person you want to be is identifying the traits of the person you want to be.
To cultivate the habit of getting up earlier, the first thing to remember is that it is the quality rather than the quantity of sleep that matters most. It is better to have six hours of uninterrupted sleep than ten hours of restless, broken sleep.
Life change takes time, effort and patience. But the results you will receive make the initial stress you experience more than worth it.
I often wonder why we, as human beings, spend so much of our lives focusing on the negative aspects of our most difficult experiences rather than seeing them for what they truly are: our greatest teachers.
Begin to see your troubles as blessings, resolve to transform your stumbling blocks into stepping stones and vow to turn your wounds into wisdom.
our character is shaped, not through life’s easiest experiences, but during life’s toughest ones.
It is during life’s most trying times that we discover who we really are and the fullness of the strength that lies within us.
… have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present, you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.
With all the obligations, stresses and activities that fill our days, we have forgotten how to laugh.
“We don’t laugh because we are happy. We are happy because we laugh.”
“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
We all travel different roads to our ultimate destinations. For some of us, the path is rockier than for others. But no one reaches the end without facing some form of adversity.
If you have never visited the valleys, the view from the mountaintop is not as breathtaking.
Remember, there are no real failures in life, only results. There are no true tragedies, only lessons. And there really are no problems, only opportunities waiting to be recognized as solutions by the person of wisdom.
“The hand that gives is the hand that gathers.”
‘the person who tries to do everything ultimately achieves nothing.’
“The person who chases two rabbits catches neither,”
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
How high you will rise in your life will be determined not by how hard you work but by how well you think.
knowing how to read but failing to do so puts you in exactly the same position as the person who cannot read but wants to.
The mind is a strange creature in this regard: the things you want it to remember it forgets, but all those things you want it to forget, it remembers.
The sign of deep moral authority appears in the individual who consistently does what he ought to be doing rather than what he feels like doing.
All too often, we spend our days waiting for the ideal path to appear in front of us. We forget that paths are made by walking, not waiting.
The smallest of actions is always better than the boldest of intentions.
The greatest gift you can give to your children is the gift of your time.
You will never be able to eliminate a weakness you don’t even know about. The first step to eliminating a negative habit is to become aware of it.
reflect on your weaknesses and vow to transform them into strengths that will add richness and energy to the way you live.
“Anyone can become angry — that’s easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not easy,”
The problem with losing your temper on a daily basis is that it becomes a habit. And like most habits, a time arrives when it becomes second nature.
“The Tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside of us while we live.”
A newspaper with a headline revealing the latest tragedy will sell more copies than one announcing the latest scientific breakthrough. The real problem is that it is easy to get addicted to reading and watching negative news.
