Life Is What You Make It Quotes

“It didn't matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.”
― Peter Buffett, Life Is What You Make It: Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment

“Money followed; it never led.”
― Peter Buffett, Life Is What You Make It: Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment

“Your life is yours to create. Be grateful for the opportunity. Seize it with passion and boldness. Whatever you decide to do, commit to it with all your strength … and begin it now.”
― Peter Buffett, Life Is What You Make It: Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment

“Life is random, neither fair nor unfair.”
― Peter Buffett, Life Is What You Make It: Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment

“She taught me that everyone had a story worth listening to. This is another way of saying that everyone has something to teach.”
― Peter Buffett, Life Is What You Make It: Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment

“In some ways, it's easier to settle for someone else's version of success than to risk falling short at one's own.”
― Peter Buffett, Life Is What You Make It: Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment

“If trust is the core value that allows us to meet the world in a cheerful stance, then tolerance is the equally important quality that allows us to deal with the realities of differences and conflict. Let's be honest: If people were all more or less the same — if there were no differences in race, religion, sexual orientation, political leanings — life would in some ways be easier. But, boy, would it be dull! Diversity is the spice of life. Our ability to embrace diversity makes our own lives richer.

Conversely, whenever we fall victim to prejudice or unadmitted bias, we make our own lives smaller and poorer. You don't believe that women are the equal of men in the workplace? Well, your world has just shrunk by half. You have a problem with gay people? Well, you just deprived yourself of 10 percent of the population. You're not comfortable with black people? Latinos? You get my drift. Keep giving in to intolerance, and eventually your world contains no one but you and a few people who look like you and think like you; it gets to resemble a small, snooty, and deathly dull country club! Is that a world worth living in?”
― Peter Buffett, Life Is What You Make It: Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment

“values are the steady currency that earn us the all-important rewards of self-respect and peace of mind.”
― Peter Buffett, Life Is What You Make It: Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment

“They understood that finding a passion was a difficult and mysterious process, one that required freedom and could only be hampered by family pressure. So we were encouraged to choose for ourselves. Moreover, we absorbed the lesson that what mattered was not the status or monetary potential of our choice, but the honesty and wholeheartedness with which we chose it. If”
― Peter Buffett, Life Is What You Make It: Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment