Money is nothing to us; it's merely the symbol of success. We are the greatest idealists in the world; I happen to think that we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the...

If you achieve perfection, you die.

If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something, and grow wiser.

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...

One day, I told myself, one brave and magnificent day, I will actually be cool. I

I have come to realize that all the saints I've known have been accidental ones - people who inadvertently stumbled into redemption like they were looking for something else at the time, people who...

Work on the deficiencies you're most embarrassed by.

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.

What is wrong with you? Many, many things.

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.

When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord,...

As Plato said, every soul is deprived of truth against its will. The same holds true for justice, self-control, goodwill to others, and every similar virtue. It's essential to constantly keep this in...

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.

Worry divides the mind. The biblical word for worry {merimnao} is a compound of two Greek words, merizo {"to divide"} and nous {"the mind"}. Anxiety splits our energy between today's priorities and...

It was, in part, a longing – common enough among the inventors of heroes – to be someone else; to be more than the result of two hundred regimens and scenarios and self-improvement campaigns that...

Brandy says, The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger....

Almost every project could be done better, and an infinite quantity of information is now available that could make that happen.

Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.

Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.