QUOTATIONS TO HELP YOU LIVE A GOOD LIFE

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Lee Ross

“[ Optimism] is not about providing a recipe for self-deception. The world can be a horrible, cruel place, and at the same time it can be wonderful and abundant. These are both truths. There is not a halfway point; there is only choosing which truth to put in your personal foreground.”

Perspective
Values

Arab proverb

“The way bread tastes depends on how hungry you are.”

Ethics of the Fathers

“Find that place where there are no men; go there; and there strive to be a man.”

Sadhguru

“right now the most important thing in the world is raising human consciousness. Tremendous technologies have come. The problem is not of technology. The problem is of compulsiveness. When we say compulsiveness, it’s just absence of consciousness. If we were conscious human beings, we would use everything for our wellbeing and everybody’s wellbeing.”

Integrity
Love
Mindfulness

Yogananda 

All nature’s treasures and forces wait upon and willingly serve those who realize their divine identity. Such people do not seek prosperity; it seeks them.

Identity

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Action

Abraham Lincoln 

You have to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Cynthia Greenwald 

Inside boldness is effortlessness.

Albert Einstein

“Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience.”

Ramana

The world one sees does not even exist.

Eric Hoffer

You can never get enough of what you do not really want.

Brilliant Joseph Miller

When what we want is God, more of anything will never be enough.

Spirituality

Nelson Mandela

“There is no passion to be found in playing small in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”

Action
Money

Smiley Poswolsky

“The antidote to fear is taking action toward our goals.”

Action
Outcomes

Amelia Earhart

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”

Action

STEVEN PRESSFIELD, The War of Art

“Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.”

Alignment
Outcomes
Purpose

Garrison Keillor

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”

Writing

Martin Buber, author of I And Thou (1923)

“I am no philosopher, prophet, or theologian. I am simply a man who has seen something and who goes to a window and points to what he has seen.”

Unknown

Complaining is viral misery. Term = blamethrower. Complaining is like bad breath, it’s always easier to detect when it’s coming out of someone else’s mouth.

Responsibility

Hegel

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

Unknown

Everything we hear is an opinion. Everything we see is a perspective.

Identity
Perspective

The Dalai Lama

Love is the absence of judgment.

Unknown

Clutter is simply delayed decisions.

Action

Rabindranath Tagore

That side of our existence whose direction is towards the infinite seeks not wealth, but freedom and joy.

Happiness

Tagore

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

Perspective
Spirituality

Anais Nin

“The secret of a full life is to live and relate to others as if they might not be there tomorrow, as if you might not be there tomorrow. It eliminates the vice of procrastination, the sin of postponement, failed communications, failed communions. This thought has made me more and more attentive to all encounters,…

Presence
Relationships

Lady Mary Worley

“Nakedness is uncomely as well in mind as body. Otherwise put, fig-leaves are as necessary for our minds as our bodies, and ‘tis as indecent to show all we think as all we have.”

Authenticity
Mindfulness

SLW

We’ve got people sleepwalking through the most sacred ceremony we know of (life) into oblivion.

Action
Alignment
Energy

Alan Mulally

“My job, my unique contribution, is to hold myself and the team accountable. To have a plan, to follow the disciplined plan, and the process, and the expected behaviors. That’s it.”

Responsibility

Beethoven

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets.

Outcomes