Words Aptly Spoken - Paradoxes of Our Times

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints.

We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less.

We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time.

We have more degrees but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, yet more problems; more medicine, but less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.


We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.

We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life.

We’ve added years to life, not life to years.
We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor.

We conquered outer space but not inner space.
We’ve done larger things, but not better things.

We’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.
We’ve conquered the atom, but not our prejudice.
We write more, but learn less.

We plan more, but accomplish less.
We’ve learned to rush, but not to wait.

We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men and short character; steep profits and shallow relationships.


These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare; more leisure, but less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition.

These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes.
These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throw-away morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill.

It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom.

Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.

Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to
you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.
Remember to give a warm hug to the one next to you because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn’t cost a cent.


Remember, to say, “I love you” to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it.

A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.

Give time to love, give time to speak and give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.

From Dr. Bob Moorehead - Words Aptly Spoken

Learning by Doing is Learning from Failures Quotes

Tell me, I will forget. Show me, I may remember. Involve me, and I will understand.
Chinese Proverb

Or a different version:

I read – I forget
I see – I remember
I do – I understand


The only way to learn to do anything: Just do it = Childlike learning (speaking, walking, etc).

Also: Many arts and special skills like dancing, singing, swimming and martial arts are all learnt by going to an expert or a teacher who makes us learn by doing rather than by listening to lectures or reading books.

Because, by doing, we are given an opportunity to fail.

While doing we tend to fail and failures are very important in the learning process.

Nobody likes to fail.

Once we fail we start wondering what went wrong. Thus at that point of failure a profound learning takes place.

Failures are the stepping stones to success.

One thousand days to learn; ten thousand days to refine.
Japanese Proverb

Being Different Quotes - Be You - Be Yourself Quotes

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.
Bruce Barton 

There is just one life for each of us: our own.
Euripides

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
Charles Evans Hughes

From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict which each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time.
F.A. Hayek

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E.E. Cummings

Always show the you in you that makes you the you that you are.
Chidinma Obietikponah

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
Charles Evans Hughes

Commandment Number One of any truly civilized society is this: Let people be different.
David Grayson

Why am I upset when I think that I'm different from everybody else, but angry when I realize that I'm the same?
Heather Heine

I didn't belong as a kid, and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset, then my early life would have been much easier.
Bette Midler

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
Anita Roddick

Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.
Rick Pitino

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Dr. Seuss

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
Samuel Johnson

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Johann von Goethe

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
Fanny Brice

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
Marianne Moore

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. Andre Gide

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut


Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
M. Scott Peck

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
Cecil Beaton

We boil at different degrees.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you want to stand out, don't be different; be outstanding.
Meredith West

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
Charles M. Schwab

All eyes see a different world. All minds live in a different world. Why do we feel the need to force someone to see and live our way? When we do this, we lose sight of our world.
Bobby Lambert

God & Heaven - Help Quotes

Heaven never helps the man who will not act.
Sophocles

Wisdom and Love - Love and Self-love Quotes

Love is the foundation for wisdom

Buddhism perceives love and compassion as going hand in hand with wisdom, as if they were the two wings of a bird. 

Wisdom in this context refers to the realization of the truth of life that sets the mind free of its obsessions, fixations and mental negativities. Ultimately the truth is revealed in a profound understanding that our ego-consciousness, along with its sensory functions, is in a state of separation from the true Self, experienced as one with the unconditioned, non-dual Ultimate Reality, or the great cosmic Mind as trans-personal psychology prefers to call it. At that realization, the dualistic ego is instantly dissolved into the egoless true Self, the great Mind, that embraces all beings in love and compassion. 

Paradoxically we cannot hope to attain that wisdom if we do not have a loving and compassionate heart to start with.

At this point, an analogy may be helpful: A fertile land with propitious climatic conditions can yield a good crop of corn, but without healthy corn seeds to start with, how can a good harvest be possible? This means that wisdom and love and compassion come in an interactive circle. 

The practice of loving-kindness (metta practice), which includes first and foremost the practice of forgiveness, tolerance and sympathetic understanding as mentioned above, is thus of vital importance to attain spiritual enlightenment.

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"Wisdom tells me I am nothing; love tells me I am everything. Between the two my life flows."
Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Loving ourselves is the foundation of love and compassion for others.

As the Buddha observes, "You can travel around the world to search for someone more lovable than yourself, and yet that person is never to be found."

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Self-love, however, should not be confused with narcissism and ego-centeredness.

It comes from a process of healthy personal growth in which the actualization of our personal potentials, especially in the service of others, brings us joy and happiness, and enhances our self-worth rather than self-conceit.

To love ourselves is to be continuously in touch with this source of joy and happiness, and to learn to appreciate the goodness we have in us.

Self-love in this sense is eroded by all egoist and narcissistic tendencies, including self-aggrandizement and self-abasement.

Conversely it is enriched by our willingness to open our hearts and minds to accept all situations and all people, to touch our pain and sorrow with tenderness, and to reach out to others in need of help. Out of self-love the power of love and compassion grows. It is a power so warm as to heal, so strong as to overcome, and so radiant as to illuminate. The potentials of that power are indeed within all of us - a precious inner resource that we all can and should learn to develop, and to benefit from.


from The Buddha on Compassion - An Existential Approach, By Chen Yu-Hsi
Read the full text here.

Search Within Yourself Quotes

People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.
Ramona L. Anderson

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
Krishnamurti

Laugh Quotes - Laughter Quotes - Smile Quotes

Your Smile, Your Laughter have Enormous Power!
Don't underestimate the positive energy that is in you.
Laughing also positively impacts your immune system.


If you can’t smile, don’t open a shop.
Chinese Proverb

A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Charlie Chaplin

A smile will gain you ten more years of life.
Chinese Proverb

Laughter is the best medicine.
Proverb

Laughing deeply is living deeply.
Milan Kundera

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.
Giacomo Leopardi

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world.
Peter Ustinov

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
Victor Borge


Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Henry Ward Beecher

Dale Carnegie Quotes - Quotations

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
Dale Carnegie

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
Dale Carnegie

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Dale Carnegie

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Dale Carnegie

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale Carnegie

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Dale Carnegie

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
Dale Carnegie

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
Dale Carnegie

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
Dale Carnegie

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
Dale Carnegie

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
Dale Carnegie

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Dale Carnegie

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
Dale Carnegie

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible.
Dale Carnegie

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
Dale Carnegie

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Dale Carnegie

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
Dale Carnegie

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
Dale Carnegie

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Dale Carnegie

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
Dale Carnegie

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie


Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Dale Carnegie

Keep on raging - to stop the aging.
Dale Carnegie

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Dale Carnegie

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
Dale Carnegie

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Dale Carnegie

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegie

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Dale Carnegie

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
Dale Carnegie

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
Dale Carnegie

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
Dale Carnegie

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
Dale Carnegie

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
Dale Carnegie

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
Dale Carnegie

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
Dale Carnegie

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Dale Carnegie

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
Dale Carnegie

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Dale Carnegie

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Dale Carnegie

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale Carnegie

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Dale Carnegie

Charm Quotes - Being Charming Quotes

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
Henry Van Dyke - quotes about being thankful

A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.
Edgar Saltus

Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
John Mason Brown

Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
Havelock Ellis


Charm is... a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
Albert Camus, The Fall


Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Oliver Herford


Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
Henri Frédéric Amiel


All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise


Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
Logan Pearsall Smith


(On charm: )It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.
James Matthew Barrie, What Every Woman Knows


There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.
Josh Billings


It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde


Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.
Jean Paul Richter

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
Logan Pearsall Smith

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
Aldous Huxley

There are charms made only for distance admiration.
Samuel Johnson

We are all born charming, fresh, and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
Judith Martin

Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
John Mason Brown


Forbidden things have a secret charm.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus


There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
John Erskine

Finish It Quotes - Complete It Quotes: Get It Done

Too many men work on parts of things; doing a job to completion satisfies me.
Dick Proenneke

The Alchemist Quotes - Paul Coelho Quotes

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.

When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force.

If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.

It's not often that money saves a person's life.

When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought.

Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the Language of the World.

It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.

If I am really part of your dream, you will come back one day.

May love be your guide in every moment of your life.

As he mused about these things, he realised that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.

The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return. We know that, and we are used to it. Those who don't return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from the earth. They become part of everything... They become the soul of the world.

I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living now.

Because people become fascinated with pictures and words, and wind up forgetting the Language of the World.

In his pursuit of the dream, he was being constantly subjected to tests of his persistence and courage. So he could not be hasty, nor impatient. If he pushed forward impulsively, he would fail to see the signs and omens left by God along his path.




No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

Although my aim is to understand love, and although I suffer to think of people to whom I gave my heart, I see that those who touched my heart failed to arouse my body, and that those who aroused my body failed to touch my heart.

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. You've got to find the treasure, so that everything you have learned along the way can make sense.

"There is only one way to learn," the alchemist answered. "It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of this wisdom. That's what I mean by action.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

What's the world's greatest lie? It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe.... The soul of the world is nourished by people's happiness.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.


The boy didn't know what a person's "destiny" was. It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny.

At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny.

“If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur."

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.


What happens once will never happen again. But what happens twice will surely happen a third time.

People learn early in their lives what is their reason for being.

When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the fire that gradually they gave up the vanities of the world. They discovered that the purification of the metals had led to a purification of themselves
Life attracts life.

... And that dream, day by day, became less important. May be cause it wasn't really his dream.

The fear of suffer is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered while was chasing its own dreams.

God is where you let Him in.

We all get prepared to kill dragons and end up being eaten by the ants of the details, which we've never given attention.

Don't you ever allow doubts to paralize your actions.

Don't think about what you've left behind.

All you have to do is contemplate a simple grain of sand, and you will see in it all the marvels of creation. Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World, and it will one day return there.

People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey Quotes - Summary

Summary


Be Proactive.
Being proactive means taking responsibility for every aspect of your life; initiative and taking action will then follow. Change starts from within. Make the decision to improve your life through the things that you can influence rather than by simply reacting to external forces.

Begin with the End In Mind.
Document your perception of your vision in life. Develop a principle-centered personal mission statement. Set long-term goals. Visualize.

Put First Things First.
Prioritize thoughtfully. Work on short-term goals but not at the expense of seemingly less urgent tasks that are in fact very important. Work on your personal mission, balance between production and building production capacity.

Think Win/Win.
Look for mutually beneficial solutions.

Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood.
The basis for good interpersonal relationships.

Synergize.
Describes a way of working in teams. Value differences, collaborate, use creativity. “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”

Sharpen the saw.
Regain and build production capacity/capability by engaging in carefully selected (and balanced) recreational activities that will allow personal renewal (physical, mental, social/emotional and spiritual).



Quotes, all by Stephen Covey


Look at the word responsibility—“response-ability”—the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.


Effective people are not problem-minded; they’re opportunity-minded.


You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.”


While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people.



Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of the soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more than the total weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.


The key is not to prioritize your schedule but to schedule your priorities.



Trust is the highest form of human motivation.



Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.



Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do—learn, commit, and do—and learn, commit, and do again.



Someone once inquired of a Far Eastern Zen master, who had a great serenity and peace about him no matter what pressures he faced, “How do you maintain that serenity and peace?” He replied, “I never leave my place of meditation.” He meditated early in the morning and for the rest of the day, he carried the peace of those moments with him in his mind and heart.



Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context.



A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others.



The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based.

Live Life to the Fullest - Accept Things and People brought by Fate - Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Marcus Aurelius

similar:

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Marcus Aurelius



And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Marcus Aurelius

Be Bold, Be Brave! … Or be Prudent? – Boldness Quotes, Fortune Quotes

Then indecision brings its own delays,


And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;

What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

Menander



And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.

Bible



A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer



Act honestly, and answer boldly.

Danish Proverb



Fortune befriends the bold.

John Dryden



If the Creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Arthur Koestler



When the mouse laughs at the cat, there's a hole nearby.

Nigerian Proverb



The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness.

Victor Hugo



Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

Jean Anouilh



Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.

William Hutchinson Murray



Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

F. L. Lucan



Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Emily Dickinson



Here is a philosophy of boldness to take advantage of every tiny opening toward victory.

Arnold Palmer



In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest.

Titus Livius



It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



Fortune favours the bold.

Virgil



When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take -- choose the bolder.

William Joseph Slim



The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

Norman Vincent Peale



Boldness is a child of ignorance.

Francis Bacon



Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

Tobias G. Smollett



People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

Dale E. Turner



It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

Walter Scott



Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

Akhenaton



Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

Francis Bacon

Just Do It Quotes

There is no failure. Only feedback.
Robert Allen

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.
Virgil Thomson


If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.
It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
Grace Hopper

Dr. Phil Quotes - Dr. Phil McGraw Quotes

I'll promise you the worst possible thing we can ever do, is have suffering with no meaning and no purpose.

Dr. Phil McGraw



The most critical choice you'll ever make is the one you make about what you're going to do with this. The past is over. The future hasn't happened yet. The only time is now.

Dr. Phil McGraw



So sometimes you have to give yourself what you wish you had gotten from mom or dad.

Dr. Phil McGraw

Everybody should have the opportunity to do and be everything they can be.

Dr. Phil McGraw



Are you doing what you're doing today because you want to do it, or because it's what you were doing yesterday?

Dr. Phil McGraw



You can't change what you don't acknowledge.

Dr. Phil McGraw



It's time to get real!

Dr. Phil McGraw



It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.

Dr. Phil McGraw



We teach people how to treat us.

Dr. Phil McGraw



I’m pretty passionate about things I do, and particularly at this age, because I don’t have to do the things I don’t want to, and I’ve got more things that I do want to do than I can do.

Dr. Phil McGraw



Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means.. the bottom line.. then for me it’s if the family is healthy and happy.

Dr. Phil McGraw



I am so committed to delivering the information, the stimulation, getting people thinking, get them talking, getting them moving, get them into changing in their lives that I just get absorbed into that, and I forget that we're on television.

Dr. Phil McGraw



I think we pull the trigger on divorce in America way too quickly. I think if you're going to get a divorce, you've got to earn your way out, and that means you've got to do all the work. You have to turn over every stone, investigate every avenue of rehabilitation you can before you quit.

Dr. Phil McGraw





You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.

Dr. Phil McGraw



Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration.

Dr. Phil McGraw



Awareness without action is worthless.

Dr. Phil McGraw



Failure is no accident.

Dr. Phil McGraw



Get up each morning, look at yourself in the mirror, and see yourself not as someone who is overweight or out of shape, but as the someone you will become.

Dr. Phil McGraw



If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

Dr. Phil McGraw



Life is a marathon, it's not a sprint.

Dr. Phil McGraw



Obesity has overtaken cancer as the No. 1 cause of avoidable, preventable death in American society. It's an epidemic-level problem.

Dr. Phil McGraw



Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

Dr. Phil McGraw



Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.

Dr. Phil McGraw

Sometimes you've just gotta give yourself what you wish you were getting from someone else.

Dr. Phil McGraw



The most you get is what you ask for.

Dr. Phil McGraw



The quickest way from A to B is not always at the most feverish pace.

Dr. Phil McGraw





You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

Dr. Phil McGraw



You have the duty and gift of living. You don't have the right to sit on the sidelines--use your life and get back into the game.

Dr. Phil McGraw



You're only lonely if you're not there for you.

Dr. Phil McGraw



But I can tell you that I have a serious commitment that parents need to do whatever they can to protect children, sometimes from themselves.

Dr. Phil McGraw

When you don't respond to what happens in the world, you don't respond to what people say to you. What you do is respond to what you say to yourself about what they say to you. It's all about you, it's not about them.

Dr. Phil McGraw



If you are going to trust somebody, trust yourself, not somebody that doesn't seem to have your best interest at heart.

Dr. Phil McGraw



One of the things I believe is that we're in the biggest teen crisis in the history of this country.

Dr. Phil McGraw

Who Moved My Cheese Quotes

Two mice and two little people are confronted with change in a 'bad' way: their cheese is gone!
Cheese represents happiness and success - the perfect topic for Successful Living Quotes - Quotes for A Happy And Successful Life!

While the mice understand the situation right away and start a search for new cheese, the humans react quite differently. One of them is afraid but then starts a journey to find more and different cheese; the other prefers to victimize himself, taking no action.

These are some important lessons from Who Moved My Chesse? (by Spencer Johnson):

The old cheese actually wasn't that good when compared to the new cheese.

The old cheese didn't mysteriously disappear, but had dwindled from continuous eating.


If You Do Not Change, You Can Become Extinct.


What Would You Do If You Weren't Afraid?


When you move beyond your fear, you feel free.


Change Happens (They Keep Moving The Cheese)

Anticipate Change (Get Ready For The Cheese To Move)


Monitor Change (Smell The Cheese Often So You Know When It Is Getting Old)


Adapt To Change Quickly (The Quicker You Let Go Of Old Cheese, The Sooner You Can Enjoy New Cheese)


Change (Move With The Cheese)


Enjoy Change! (Savor The Adventure And Enjoy The Taste Of New Cheese!)


Be Ready To Change Quickly And Enjoy It Again & Again (They Keep Moving The Cheese)

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Quotes From Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture

Quotes from Randy Pausch's "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"

Randy Pausch was a professor at Carnegie Mellon and give his 'last lecture' after he was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. 

What would you say in your last lecture?


Randy Pausch:


It’s not about how to achieve your dreams. It’s about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

I probably got more from that dream and not accomplishing it than I got from any of the ones that I did accomplish.

You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.

Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.

Head fake learning is absolutely important, and you should keep your eye out for them because they’re everywhere.

Don’t complain. Just work harder. That’s a picture of Jackie Robinson. It was in his contract not to complain, even when the fans spit on him.

Find the best in everybody. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.

The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people.

It’s pretty easy to be smart when you’re parroting smart people.

It’s very important to know when you’re in a pissing match. And it’s very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.

Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.

On whether the 'virtual worlds' created by his student project teams' work: 'I can’t tell you beforehand, but right before they present it I can tell you if the world is good by the body language. If they’re standing close to each other, the world is good.'

If you’re going to do anything that is pioneering you will get those arrows in the back, and you just have to put up with it. I mean everything that could go wrong did go wrong.

And he said: "Randy, it’s such a shame that people perceive you as so arrogant. Because it’s going to limit what you’re going to be able to accomplish in life."

You just have to decide if you’re a Tigger or an Eeyore.

I have a theory that people who come from large families are better people because they’ve just had to learn to get along.

Loyalty is a two way street.

When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody’s bothering to tell you anymore, that’s a very bad place to be. Your critics are your ones telling you they still love you and care.


Be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity.

Don’t bail. The best of the gold’s at the bottom of barrels of crap.

Syl said: "It took me a long time but I’ve finally figured it out. When it comes to men that are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do." It’s that simple. It’s that easy.

You can’t get there alone. People have to help you and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth. Being earnest.

I’ll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term.

Apologise when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.


Be good at something, it makes you valuable.


Get a feedback loop and listen to it. Your feedback loop can be this dorky spreadsheet thing I did, or it can just be one great man who tells you what you need to hear. The hard part is the listening to it.

Religion Quotes

Different Views on Religion - Open Up - See What Makes You Tick:

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
Abraham Joshua Heschel


Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.
Jesse Ventura

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
Albert Einstein


The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me?
Leo Tolstoy

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
Seneca


One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.
Arthur C. Clarke

People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.
Ramona L. Anderson


I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.
Albert Einstein

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Albert Einstein


I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious ourselves.
Albert Einstein

Creativity Quotes

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
George Lois

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
Linus Pauling

Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.
Thomas Disch

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
Pablo Picasso


No great thing is created suddenly.
Epictetus

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Erich Fromm

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw

I will master something, then the creativity will come.
Japanese Proverb

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.
Erich Fromm

Eveyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original ideas closer together.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
Rollo May


One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A. A. Milne


The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But it is why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.
Abraham Maslow

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Arthur Koestler

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Oscar Wilde

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein quotes

Creative minds are rarely tidy.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Buckminster Fuller

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
Ray Bradbury


It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.
Carl Sagan

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
Edward de Bono

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
Henry David Thoreau

Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.
Lillian Hellman


The things we fear most in organizations -- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances -- are the primary sources of creativity.
Margaret J. Wheatley

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
Marie Antoinette

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams


Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt


All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
Julia Cameron


A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is "trying things to see if they work."
Ray Bradbury

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buckminster Fuller


Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
Rita Mae Brown


The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
Saul Steinberg

It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life.
Barthold Georg Niebuhr


You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
Nietzsche

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant


An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
Virginia Woolf


The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Albert Einstein

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Beatrix Potter

Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James