The Personal Sustainability Handbook Quotes

“By making conflict resolution one of your utmost priorities, you may come to realize that it is by transcending conflicts that humans can flourish.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“By proactively resolving relational issues without dodging or imposing, you may be able to defuse many clashes without dramas or externalities.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“No matter how terrible an individual may behave, always treat them with a basic level of respect and dignity. Not only would it increase your chance of getting your message across, but it would also make them more likely to react more favorably.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“By rewarding people and holding them accountable as needed, you may be able to encourage good conduct to thrive and bad ones to diminish. This may deter people from abusing resources or violating rules, and you may even prompt them to become more responsible and contributive.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“By not conveying what needs to be conveyed to maintain some short-term harmony, you can also prevent others from making decisions that are informed and mature. This may cause many problems to remain unsolved or deteriorate, and you may even lose people’s trust and become less well-regarded by others.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“By honing your presence in each of your social encounters, you may be able to convey to them that their inputs and necessities matter. This may prompt them to open up further and confide more things to you, and you may even receive more favors that can end up improving your own condition.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“By aiming to become the most authentic version of yourself, you may begin to express your uniqueness better and transcend conformity.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“By letting go of your personas that restrict what you say and do, you may find that it’s more liberating to act like you are and say what you think. This may help you express yourself better and connect with others more deeply, and you may even reduce your stress and garner more allies or support you need.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“If you continue to exhibit many behaviors that are burdensome to people, you can also prompt them to see you as a taker who is only in it for themselves. This may cause them to treat you as a liability that worsens their problems, and you may even become increasingly isolated and devoid of health.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“By making an effort to understand people’s actions and beliefs, you may come to realize that your viewpoint is just a drop of all the perspectives. This may help you see through your personal biases and self-centeredness, and you may even strengthen your rapport with others and become people-savvy.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“As you strive to become the most attractive version of yourself, you may come to realize that being attractive is really about improving the world.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“But isn’t attractiveness a notion that varies from one to another? To some degree. But not fundamentally so. In fact, we tend to be attracted to things that enhance our own survival, and these include both physical and non-physical qualities.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“If you spend your days broadcasting your not-so-pleasant traits to others, you can also cause them to downgrade your image and form bad impression of you.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“By uncovering your principles and putting them into practice, you may become a more congruent person whose values and behaviors are in sync. This may boost your confidence and reduce your stress or inner turmoil, and you may even garner more trust or resources from those who value integrity.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“When you witness a symptom or criticism toward an issue, don’t use positive thinking to downplay or deny its seriousness. Instead, use positive thinking to make the situation better.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“By brightening your beliefs and everyday reactions to things, you may make others more inclined to interact with you and see you favorably. This may make them more likely to respect your inputs and help you out, and you may even become more likely to obtain the outcomes or goals you seek.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“As you eliminate more and more bad influences around you, you may become more skilled and more knowledgeable in curating people. This may lead you to associate with more people who can support you, and you may even get more peace of mind whether you are at work or at home.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“By staying close to the people who are your true supporters, you may cut off many relationships that are transactional, abusive or harmful.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“If possible, try to let go of people or assets that don’t serve your needs — such as fake friends, bad partners, fancy gadgets and flashy properties. This may help you simplify your network or your possession structure — which in turn may help you eliminate many unforeseen liabilities.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“By structuring your practices to avoid major money pitfalls, you may be able to spare yourself from losses in income or rises in spending. This may help you make better decisions in your career, investments and savings, and you may even maintain better control of your family’s financial destiny.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“And by adjusting your thinking from 'I must' to 'I get to give or receive money', you may come to realize that your transacting parties are not your adversaries.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“By acknowledging that your life gets better by giving and receiving money, you may come to see these transactions not as obligations but as blessings.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“By going beyond short-term gains and trading in a way that everyone wins, you may be able to foster exchanges that truly improve your surroundings.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“In fact, by continuing to narrow your focus on high-income tasks, you may realize that people need you to improve your rate and help them too.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“If all you do is cut corner or exploit your surroundings, then the dissatisfied parties may eventually bring about your failure.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“As you continue to offer more things to your fellow humans, you may realize that selling is not a sin but a means for fostering prosperity.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“Indeed, by reminding yourself that your offerings might be life-changing, you may begin to see selling from being annoying to being a duty: it’s a greatest thing you can do to show that you are a valuable human, and it’s a greatest thing you can do to lift people out of poverty.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“If you want to get the best career you can possibly get, you would want to make sure that it complies with the many principles of selling.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“As you continue to manage money based on your long-term needs, you may realize that many plan their life around money when it should be the opposite.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“By understanding the nuances between different incomes and expenses, you may begin to see how you are not on the money trajectory you should be. This may lead you to passivize your incomes and 'investivize' your expenses, and you may even begin to alter your financial choices for your benefits.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond