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- Reclaim Your Balance & Vitality!
- Get More Confidence & Authenticity!
- Love Your Feelings & Emotions!
- Why Not Get Organized?
- Happier Love & Relationships
- Start Thinking Bigger!
- Seize Your Vision, Goals & Take Action!
- Grow Your Wisdom & Spirituality
- Boost Your Work & Career!
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1. Balance & Vitality!
What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
Something’s got to give. Don’t let it be you.
Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
Be afraid not of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I’m doing.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.
2. Confidence & Authenticity!
Where do you need to think for yourself? When we begin to cultivate awareness of our thoughts and emotions, we begin to see just how much we live according to other people’s and society’s beliefs and actions. Don’t get upset by this. Just get in touch with how you really think and feel inside and begin to express your authenticity.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
Too often we don’t trust our own deepest truth; it makes us feel too vulnerable or it seems incongruous with the person we think we are or must be.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
3. Feelings & Emotions
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
The common bond that holds us all together is the question, ‘Do I matter?’
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
4. Get Organized!
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, we have left undone those things that we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.
It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you’d like to succeed at.
The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.
5. Love & Relationships!
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
When you do not require a person to show up as you imagine you need them to be, then you can drop expectation. Then you love them exactly as they are. Yet this can only happen when you love your Self exactly as you are
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
If you make a choice that doesn’t please your mate, your friends, your mother, or whoever, the world will not fall apart – the people who truly love you want you to love yourself.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
6. Thinking Bigger!
It is only by questioning what people take for granted, what people hold to be true, that we can break through the hypnosis of social conditioning.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
It may make your blood boil and your mind may not be changed, but the practice of listening to opposing views is essential for effective citizenship. It is essential for our democracy.
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
7. Vision, Goals & Taking Action!
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it!
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.
It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you’d like to succeed at.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said faster horses.
We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
8. Wisdom & Spirituality
It may make your blood boil and your mind may not be changed, but the practice of listening to opposing views is essential for effective citizenship. It is essential for our democracy.
Be afraid not of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Sometimes happiness is only a sadness away.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion
9. Work & Career!
(One for the girls) I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
Avoid committees and consensus in developing big, distinctive business model advantages. Individuals have big, distinctive ideas; committees and consensus turn big, distinctive ideas into mundane ideas.
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.
If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said faster horses.
