QUOTATIONS TO HELP YOU LIVE A GOOD LIFE

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Happiness and success in life are not the result of what we have, but rather how we live. What we do with the things we have makes the biggest difference in the quality of life. 

Happiness
Outcomes
Success

Carl Jung 

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

Emotions

Bede Griffiths

The religions are like separate fingers, and are quite distinct. But if you trace them to their source, the palm of the hand, you see that they all come together in their depths.

Spirituality

Mark Twain 

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; if can lift men to angelship.

Outcomes
Values

Edmund Spenser  

It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Happiness

Unknown

They don’t erect statues to critics.

Authenticity
Gratitude
Happiness
Leadership

Jeremy Bentham 

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure… they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.

Emotions
Mindfulness

Benjamin Disraeli 

Nothing can resist the human will that stakes even its existence on its stated purpose.

Purpose

Werner Erhard

“When you create a purpose, your whole life changes. Unlike a goal, which establishes some end point in an already existing direction, when you create a new purpose it establishes a new direction for your life, and given that the direction of your life has changed, your whole life changes.”

Outcomes
Purpose

Tony Robbins

What you consistently speak with emotional intensity, you will experience, you will create, and you will become. The words that you speak with emotional conviction become the life you live – this is your heaven or this is your hell.”

Emotions
Outcomes

Unknown

“Begin to live as though your prayers are already answered.”

Emotions
Energy
Gratitude
Happiness

Unknown

“The Art of Fulfillment is the ability to experience not only the thrill of the chase, but also the magic of the moment, the unbridled joy of feeling truly alive.”

Alignment
Happiness

Chris Guillebeau 

No one has ever been self-taught.

Identity
Perspective

Chris Guillebeau 

The opposition you will face will come in many different forms, but the most common are gatekeepers, critics, and the widespread acceptance of mediocrity.

Business
Career
Integrity

Victor Hugo 

One can resist the invasion of an army, but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

Mindfulness
Perspective
Values

David Stern 

Every franchise needs a face, for the competitiveness of the team as well as the comfort of the fans.

Business

Vedic text

You have control over action alone, never over its fruits.

Action
Responsibility

Roy Spence Jr. 

If you have a purpose and can articulate it with clarity and passion, then everything makes sense and everything flows.

Purpose

Flip Wilson

What you see is what you get.

Authenticity

Jerry Jampolsky

Consider perception as “a mirror not a fact.”

Perspective

Tai T'un

“Were I to await perfection, my book would never be finished.”

Writing

La Rochefoucauld 

Few know how to grow old.

Spirituality

Tim Ferriss 

I ended up going through all of my earthly belongings and getting rid of 80% of them. As soon as I did that, it became easier to prioritize everything I did and enjoy everything I had.

Happiness

Unknown

Socrates recommended that we should “always be occupied in the practice of dying.” 

Energy
Gratitude
Perspective

Buddha 

It doesn’t remember how long you have forgotten, only how soon you remember.

Action
Outcomes

Rainer Maria Rilke 

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Perspective

Émile Zola

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Perspective

George Patton

If a man does his best, what else is there?

Action
Authenticity
Career
Energy
Success

Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Perspective

Mark Twain

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Identity
Mindfulness
Perspective

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