Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So, if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life.
I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn't give up. Then I wrote one more book.
Success isn't about how much money you make. It's about the difference you make in people's lives.
Like a great poet, nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. There are simply a sun, flowers, water, and love.
There's a spirit that grabs me, and it's in every one of you guys, but the questions is, how much time are we wasting?
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them. " "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. " "Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization. " "The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get.
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. You cannot eliminate habits that no longer serve you. You can only replace them with new habits that support your goals. Moment by moment, you need to live with awareness and structure the habits that you include or exclude in your days.
Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.
Happiness isn't a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heavy heart of one moment of sadness; if I can, how and then, prompt a happier view of human nature, and make my reader more in good humor with his fellow-beings and himself, surely, I shall not have written in vain.
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
In your hands you hold the seeds of failure or the potential for greatness. Your hands are capable, but they must be used and for the right things to reap the rewards you are capable of attaining. The choice is yours.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. " "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.
When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.
Whoever wants God intensely, finds Him. Go and verify it in your own life.
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.
