The Second Rule of Ten Quotes

“Put down the flashlight, pick up the mirror.”
― Gay Hendricks, The Second Rule of Ten: A Tenzing Norbu Mystery

“Usually when I feel like there’s no time, it really means I haven’t made time for myself.”
― Gay Hendricks, The Second Rule of Ten: A Tenzing Norbu Mystery

“The odds are great, so great as to be almost impossible. But they are no greater than the odds against a soul landing in a human incarnation. And you,” Rinpoche was staring right at me, “you have beaten those odds. And so I ask you, what are you going to do with this opportunity?”
― Gay Hendricks, The Second Rule of Ten: A Tenzing Norbu Mystery

“I don’t need any outside enemies. I have a perfectly good one residing right between my ears.”
― Gay Hendricks, The Second Rule of Ten: A Tenzing Norbu Mystery

“dislike that phrase What can you do?, or, as my highly eloquent contemporaries put it: Whatever. The shrug, the attitude, dismisses any possibility of things changing. It’s self-perpetuating paralysis.”
― Gay Hendricks, The Second Rule of Ten: A Tenzing Norbu Mystery

“I allowed myself one more thought. Maybe, just maybe, everything was pretty fine, just the way it was. Tank lived that way. Why not me?”
― Gay Hendricks, The Second Rule of Ten: A Tenzing Norbu Mystery

“unless you were me, once again distorting reality so it would fit a negative mindset. I don’t need any outside enemies. I have a perfectly good one residing right between my ears.”
― Gay Hendricks, The Second Rule of Ten: A Tenzing Norbu Mystery

“I checked my messages before I started driving. I had three. The first was from Verizon, letting me know I could save more money by spending more money.”
― Gay Hendricks, The Second Rule of Ten: A Tenzing Norbu Mystery