Don't let your past dictate your future

You have a nearly a 0% chance of affecting change in others' attitudes, behaviors, and skullduggery. However, you have a 100% chance of affecting your own attitude, behavior, resiliency, and reaction...

You are joy, looking for a way to express. It's not just that your purpose is joy, it is that you are joy. You are love and joy and freedom and clarity expressing. Energy - frolicking and eager....

When hiding ourselves behind religiosity becomes the order of the day, grace is left by the wayside; without being honest about our own sin, we will never show compassion toward others. If we are to...

Doubt is a creature within the air. It grows when someone hesitates.

Ladies! I encourage you NOT to be so easily flattered by what a man has. Be flattered by his strength, courage, integrity, and character as a man. Be impressed by his ability to be honest, faithful,...

The rider evolved to serve the elephant.

If you're not happy in life then you need to change, calibrate, readjust... flush your negative energy and fill it with positive energy; How do we do that you might ask? well I would start by making...

It's daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest...

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers - - of persistence, concentration, and insight - -...

Don't judge what you don't know.

If you don't laugh at yourself, who will you laugh at?

Truly enlightened people never seek to be like others, but rather strive to be superior to their own selves.

If you achieve perfection, you die.

In that first deal, I said too much. This was not a shock to anyone who knows me. Once I identified this weakness, I sought help to correct it. I turned to Maureen Taylor, a communications coach, who...

If you push the fear away, the only version of fear available to you will be its crazy, irrational, or contorted version. If you're willing to feel it, and merge with it, its energy and wisdom will...

What bullshit excuses do you have for not going after whatever it is that you want? Please

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. - Socrates

It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter - nothing can justify that sacrifice.

Not only should you be testing your project as you create it, you must most seriously test your creation as it begins to resemble a final product. So you know what you have - so you can improve it. So...

And while his mother's lecture had gone over his seven-year-old head, Pasquale saw now what she meant - how much easier life would be if our intentions and our desires could always be aligned.

the only thing you can do with your life is give it away. You'll find yourself feeling purposeful if you can find a way to always be in the service of others.

Benjamin Franklin once observed, While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Habits are the invisible architecture of daily life. We repeat about 40 percent of our behavior almost daily, so our habits shape our existence, and our future. If we change our habits, we change our...

It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.

Deliberate practice to describe this style of serious study, defining it formally as an activity designed, typically by a teacher, for the sole purpose of effectively improving specific aspects of an...

Meddlers, both, we be, and always with the hope that our meddling will leave in our wake a more beautiful tapestry than that we first encountered.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allot myself the luxury of living it so badly.