Resisting Happiness Quotes

“Wherever you find excellence, you find continuous learning. They go hand in hand. Wherever you find that continuous learning is missing, you find mediocrity.”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

“Knowing that death is not far off brings remarkable clarity. After that news, there is no middle ground; something is either very important or not important at all.”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

“Addiction in all its forms, large and small, serious and less serious (no addiction is trivial), is one of the central themes of our lives. Identifying our own addictions of thought and action is part of each person’s spiritual journey. Food, control, talking too much, work, sex, pornography, alcohol, drugs, always being right, noise, negative thinking, negative humor, skepticism, cynicism, minimalism…the list is varied and endless. It doesn’t matter what it is for you, and it doesn’t matter what it is for me. What matters is how we respond.”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

“God loves ordinary things. The world is always trying to seduce us with the extraordinary. The culture fills our hearts and minds with spectacular dreams about hitting home runs, but life is about getting up every day and hitting a single.”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

“be kind because everyone you’ll ever meet is fighting a hard battle.” Wow. What a fabulous insight.”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

“You don't have to go to Mass if you can tell me the one thing that you are going to do while I am at church with all your brothers that is more important than going to church and thanking God for another week of life”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

“When you are discouraged or caught up in procrastination, simply do the tiniest thing to move whatever you are working on forward.”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

“On the day you decide to intentionally start denying yourself, your life will improve in a thousand ways. It is a lesson I am now trying to figure out how best to teach my children. It is not about saying no to them; it is about teaching them to say no to themselves. These”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

“In order to have a healthy financial life that balances earning with spending, and saving with giving, one must be able to delay gratification. In order to raise children to become the-best-version-of-themselves, one must be willing to delay gratification.”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

“The ability to delay gratification is intimately linked with success. You cannot succeed at anything unless you are willing and able to delay gratification.”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

“If you want a Coke, have water. If you want the steak, have the salmon. If you want to take a shortcut, go the long way. If you want to cut a conversation short, hear the person out. If you want to stop working, push yourself to go on for another thirty minutes. Give up the little things, not to punish yourself, but as a short prayer and to strengthen your will.”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

“I continue to believe that we can learn more in an hour of silence than we can in a year from books.”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

“The fear of being alone is the father of many relationships that never should have been. When we choose to be with someone because we are afraid of being alone, we dishonor ourselves and the other person.”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

“Whatever your age, if you have not yet fallen in love with learning, begin that love affair today. How? Go wherever your interests lead you. It is the perfect place to start. Rekindle a childlike curiosity. Ask why a lot. Free yourself from outcomes; you don’t need a reason and you don’t need to accomplish anything. I”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

“If you sense that something is missing in your life, stop ignoring it. Start paying attention to it. God is trying to tell you something.”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

“It is perhaps the result of a culture that prefers us to be passive. The passive me says: “Feed me”; “Entertain me”; “Hold me”; “Love me”; “Listen to me”; “Tell me I matter”; “Make me a priority”; “Don’t make me think too much or work too hard”; and so”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

“The hardest war to win is one you don’t even realize you are fighting, and the hardest enemy to defeat is the one you don’t even know exists. Every day you are at war with resistance.”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

“When you do break through resistance, celebrate that, and then press on to live the life God imagined for you before the beginning of time. And if you ever feel discouraged or defeated, remember this: Every moment is a chance to start anew, a chance to turn it all around.”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

“What makes a great friend? Our best friends are those people who encourage and challenge us to become the-best-version-of-ourselves.”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

“The only thing these online connections and communities prove is that as human beings we have an incredible need and hunger for meaningful interaction with each other.”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

“People come into our lives for a reason. Some are messengers; other are teachers. Some are healers, and others are coaches and counselors. Some people come into our lives for only a season, but their fingerprints remain all over our lives until the end.”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

“Your friendship with others is not to be taken lightly. You are changing the direction of your friends’ lives, for better or for worse. Sooner or later, we all rise or fall to the level of our friendships.”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

“Be gentle with yourself, be gentle with others, and never stop striving to be all that God created you to be: the-very-best-version-of-yourself.”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

“One of the most important reasons to be gentle with ourselves is because if we cannot forgive ourselves, we will struggle to forgive others. And if we cannot forgive ourselves or others, we will resist even God’s forgiveness. When we are gentle with ourselves, when we are patient with ourselves, we develop awareness, and awareness breeds compassion. And every person who ever crosses your path needs a little compassion.”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about redeeming them—every day begin anew.”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

“Being gentle with yourself consists of realizing your faults, failings, and weaknesses, and dealing with them appropriately. God doesn’t want us to beat ourselves up. He wants us to press on and try again.”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

“Four words: Be gentle with yourself. It turns out they are some of the wisest words anyone has ever shared with me.”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

“We lose our sensitivity to sin in exactly the same way. After a while, a big self-destructive behavior doesn’t look that bad among all those little self-destructive behaviors.”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

“All of life’s regrets come from not having the discipline to overcome resistance and delay gratification in order to build a bigger future. In the same way, when we slay resistance we are always glad we did.”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness