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...

Right Response to Reality - the Three R's - is the fundamental principle of morality, of sanctity, and of sanity.

Things are realized in reality to a lesser extent than exaggerated praise.

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...

I'm not sure what I am anymore... Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to me―a big collection of brainwashing, surgeries, and cures... That, and all the mistakes I've made....

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.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

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.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us even in our soundest sleep. I know of no more...

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see a lot of people doing it.

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.

Fear is the little death, daughter. It kills in tiny pieces.

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...