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Sometimes, like a feather blowing in the wind, the best you can do is travel as the wind takes you.
Try reframing ambition so the focus is on the goal of becoming a better person regardless of how you compare to others.
Work hard, grow, and make a difference in the world, but please feel good about yourself.
Please stop looking at what you don’t have. What you don’...
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look instead at the billions who have less.
Only when we look down do we realize how fortunate we really are!
Gratitude is a sure path to happiness.
grateful is a matter of mind-set. When you look down, you learn to invite more gratitude into your life.
his greatest fear was losing someone he truly loved.
It’s now your turn to reflect on your own hardships. As you do so, be fair and realize that while you might not be the luckiest person alive, you surely aren’t the unluckiest.
Love Is All You Need
I love butterflies. I don’t care what kind, what color, or what size. I just love them.
Sometimes as I walk to work, a butterfly will start to fly gracefully right in front of me.
because I just love every single butterfly that has ever existed.
and I respect them for the perseverance they show in their short lives despite their fragility.
Love—true love—is real.
unconditional love is felt but not understood.
“I love” and nothing more—no reasons or preconditions, no expectations and no
Unconditional love is real. It’s the only emotion that’s not generated by a thought in your head.
She makes me feel happy, and therefore I love her or He makes me feel safe, and therefore I love him.
We love the ocean, the stars, the birds,
The True Joy of Love There’s no happiness without love.
with no expectations—no demands from your beloved—the joy of love settles in because:
“No expectation” never turns into a missed expectation.
The true joy of true love is in giving it.
The more love you give, the more you get back.
Love follows the same law: true love can’t be destroyed; it just changes from one form to another.
it does one better than energy: it attracts the love of all beings to you. Like a savings account, the more love you deposit, the more it grows and multiplies so that when it’s time for you to withdraw, even more will be there for you.
law of conservation—or multiplication—of love. Love never goes to waste. The more you give it away, the more loved you will feel.
Mother Teresa, Gandhi, His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Never in business have I heard of a free and renewable resource that offers such spectacular returns as love.
you can love all other beings—the trees, the rocks, and the bees.
Once loved, most of them drop the masks and turn real.
Gently remove the mask of ego and love what you see underneath.
I’ve worked with some of the world’s most difficult politicians, and even in them I found many who are human inside.
When it comes to those (very few) who are so deeply locked in ego that their true selves never surface,
He would give people with an unshakable ego...
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No missed expectations. Just peace.
Love Yourself How can you love anything, or expect anything to love you, if you don’t love yourself?
Nothing causes more unhappiness in the Western world today than the widespread deprivation of self-love.
Someone needs to be above and someone below for there to be an average in the first place!
The warmth, soft touch, and gentle communication we get from our parents as newborns reduce our stress. When we feel safe, our brains trigger the production of feel-good hormones
Treat yourself as you would treat a loved child. Give yourself warmth, love, and tenderness. No good can ever come from harshness. Love is all we need.
The thing he did best was accepting himself for who he really was.
As long as it was the best he could do, he would never blame himself for failing to hit a particular target.
Love yourself for doing your best.
Force yourself to write at least one thing a day that you’re proud of. Write down every compliment you receive: what it was, who said it, and what prompted it.
visit your journal whenever you feel that you’re not good enough.
