Perfectly Yourself Quotes

“The reason most of us fail to achieve real and sustainable change in our lives is because we focus too much on the desired outcome and not enough on the progress we are making.”
― Matthew Kelly, Perfectly Yourself: Discovering God's Dream For You

“1. I will proactively seek out my mission in life in these four ways: by choosing the-best-version-of-myself in each moment, by doing what I can where I am right now to help others celebrate their best selves and to make the world a better place, by exploring how my talents and passions can be put to use to serve the needs of others, and by listening to the voice of God in my life.”
― Matthew Kelly, Perfectly Yourself: 9 Lessons for Enduring Happiness

“Thoughts create actions. Actions create habits. Habits create character.”
― Matthew Kelly, Perfectly Yourself: Discovering God's Dream For You

“Work is not everything, but when you are doing work that doesn’t engage you or, worse yet, work that you despise, it can massively affect every other aspect of your life. It is simply impossible to create enduring happiness without finding an approach to work that allows you to thrive. Ideally this means finding work that you are passionate about, but even if you are not in your dream job—or don’t know what your dream job would be—there are ways to thrive at work.”
― Matthew Kelly, Perfectly Yourself: 9 Lessons for Enduring Happiness

“The-best-version-of-ourselves isn’t something we strive for and never achieve. It is something we achieve in some moments and not in others.”
― Matthew Kelly, Perfectly Yourself: Discovering God's Dream For You

“We need friends who help to make us whole, not friends who add to our dividedness.”
― Matthew Kelly, Perfectly Yourself: Discovering God's Dream For You

“La felicidad es en gran medida como la riqueza y la sabiduría: aquellos que la poseen generalmente no necesitan hablar de ella, y aquellos que constantemente están hablando de ella generalmente no la poseen.”
― Matthew Kelly, Plenamente Tú: Descubre El Sueño Que Dios Tiene Para Ti

“Recuerda lo siguiente en todo momento: ser tú mismo nunca te conducirá a destruirte de ninguna forma o en ningún grado. Ser verdaderamente tú nunca te llevará a una versión minimizada de ti. Y ser tú implica que todo lo que hagas y digas ayudará a otros a convertirse en una versión mejorada de sí mismos.”
― Matthew Kelly, Plenamente Tú: Descubre El Sueño Que Dios Tiene Para Ti

“Personality tendencies and talents should be accepted, but character defects should always be challenged. God loves you as you are—but he loves you too much to let you stay that way.”
― Matthew Kelly, Perfectly Yourself: Discovering God's Dream For You

“Hacia el ocaso de su vida, él solía recordar cuando lo entrevistaban: “Cuando era niño, mi mamá me decía constantemente: Pablo, si te haces soldado, llegarás a ser general y si te haces cura llegarás a ser papa. En cambio, decidí ser pintor y me convertí en Picasso”.”
― Matthew Kelly, Plenamente Tú: Descubre El Sueño Que Dios Tiene Para Ti

“I'm not hurting anyone' is another attempt to avoid personal responsibility in a world where everything we think, do, and say affects someone, something, sooner or later. Your actions profoundly affect your inner reality, and sooner or later your inner reality will seek an outer expression through your words and actions or your silence and inaction.”
― Matthew Kelly, Perfectly Yourself: 9 Lessons for Enduring Happiness

“We are afraid because we don’t know how things are going to work out, but things are going to work out.”
― Matthew Kelly, Perfectly Yourself: 9 Lessons for Enduring Happiness

“3. I will develop a healthy sense of self by engaging my greatest talent—my ability to be the difference that makes the difference in the lives of other people.”
― Matthew Kelly, Perfectly Yourself: 9 Lessons for Enduring Happiness

“The worldly scope and scale of your unique mission is irrelevant; what matters is that you embrace the role that is especially suited to you.”
― Matthew Kelly, Perfectly Yourself: 9 Lessons for Enduring Happiness

“A mission doesn’t have to be lifelong. Many are temporary and usually prepare us, in ways unknown to us at the time, for some future mission.”
― Matthew Kelly, Perfectly Yourself: 9 Lessons for Enduring Happiness

“Time is either used wisely or wasted foolishly.”
― Matthew Kelly, Perfectly Yourself: 9 Lessons for Enduring Happiness

“If we are to be happy, it will be as ourselves.”
― Matthew Kelly, Perfectly Yourself: 9 Lessons for Enduring Happiness

“We begin by turning to God in prayer. “Teach me your ways, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name” (Psalm 86:11). Lord, inspire me to live an undivided life. Cast everything out of my life that creates an obstacle to the unified life you created me to live, and give me the courage to make decisions that defend and celebrate unity of life. Amen.”
― Matthew Kelly, Perfectly Yourself: Discovering God's Dream For You

“Embrace the now, and the future will be richer and more abundant because you had the wisdom, courage, and discipline to embrace this moment.”
― Matthew Kelly, Perfectly Yourself: Discovering God's Dream For You

“Only in the classroom of silence can we gain the calm and clarity that allow us to know when to wait patiently and when to push forward impatiently, when to plan diligently and when to live spontaneously. It is in the quiet of our own hearts that we learn how to calmly manage the present and passionately create the future. It is this calmness and clarity that will allow us to realize what we are called to and what matters most. Finding our place in the world and beginning to fulfill our mission is then nothing more than a matter of time. A man or woman who takes time in quiet reflection sincerely seeking to find his or her place in the world will not be ignored. First will come the inner calm, then will come the desire to serve, and then will come a wonderful clarity of purpose. Guided by that calm and clarity, we begin to affect what we can affect, and only then do we truly begin to have an effect.”
― Matthew Kelly, Perfectly Yourself: 9 Lessons for Enduring Happiness

“The reason is that for so many years he has been developing a deep reserve of internal calm, so deep that the external unrest cannot disturb it. Interior calm gives birth to calm action.”
― Matthew Kelly, Perfectly Yourself: 9 Lessons for Enduring Happiness

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― Matthew Kelly, Perfectly Yourself: 9 Lessons for Enduring Happiness

“Working halfheartedly may reap you the same financial compensation as working with all your heart and soul, but it will slowly begin to rot your heart and mind and soul. Humans were not designed for halfheartedness. So often I have heard people talk about how they will get back at their boss by being lazy or dragging their feet on a project. This is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”
― Matthew Kelly, Perfectly Yourself: 9 Lessons for Enduring Happiness

“Working halfheartedly may reap you the same financial compensation as working with all your heart and soul, but it will slowly begin to rot your heart and mind and soul.”
― Matthew Kelly, Perfectly Yourself: 9 Lessons for Enduring Happiness