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You need to remember that your excuses are seducers, your fears are liars and your doubts are thieves.”
“Anyway, let me simply say that the place where your greatest discomfort lies is also the spot where your largest opportunity lives.
Life’s way too valuable to hang with people who don’t get you.
“Done Is Better Than Perfect.”
‘one who sweats more in training bleeds less in war.’
‘Everything will be okay in the end. And if it’s not okay, it’s not the end,’” he
“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
You only need a heart full of grace.
narcissists
“Our culture tells us to pursue titles and trinkets,
The more powerful a person truly is, the less they need to promote it. And the stronger a leader is, the less they need to announce it.”
“Today is a glorious day and I’ll live it at excellence, with boundless enthusiasm and limitless integrity, true to my visions and with a heart full of love.”
“Victims have big TVs. Leaders own large libraries.”
have no clue what my authentic values are, what I want to represent as a leader, why I’m building what I’m building, what really makes me happy and how I want to be remembered when I’m no longer here.
‘The knowledge that I’ve got enough.’”
Comparison is the thief of joy,’” responded the billionaire. “Someone will always have more fortune, fame and stuff than you do. Think about my earlier point about detachment and embracing the wisdom of knowing when enough is enough.”
But your past is a place to be learned from, not a home to be lived in.”
Her mother had once told her that if you are fortunate enough to fall in love even two or three times within a lifetime, make each of these stories count fully.
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”
‘Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.’”
She’d found love. She was still in excellent health. She had so many things to be grateful for: two eyes to see the splendors of this wonderful world, two legs to explore it all, food on her table each night at a time when billions have empty bellies. And a roof over her head for ample shelter. She had wise books to read in her library, work that fed her creativity and, as the billionaire said so often, an opportunity to achieve outright mastery not only to benefit herself but also in service of society.
Life is too short to take things too seriously. And at the end of her life, what would matter most would not be whether those venture capitalists had ownership of her enterprise, but who she became as a human being. And the quality of the craft she produced. And how many people she helped. And how much she laughed. And how well she lived.
“All these early mornings will make me an icon someday.”
“I’d agree that getting back to being more innocent brings the magic back to our lives.”
Every human being you meet has a lesson to teach, a story to tell and some dream in their heart that longs for your support.
