If something is worth doing, it’s worth doing badly.
It’s a Secret of Adulthood: I can’t make people change, but when I change, others may change; and when others change, I may change.
One day, I’d stop twisting my hair, and wearing running shoes all the time, and eating exactly the same food every day. I’d remember my friends’ birthdays, I’d learn Photoshop, I wouldn’t let my daugh...
Work harder to appreciate your ordinary day.
In other words, even though one coin certainly isn’t sufficient to make a man rich, a man only becomes rich by adding one coin after another.
When Churchill was running for office for the first time, he went door to door to ask for votes. He knocked on the door of an irritable man who, when Churchill introduced himself, said, Vote for you?...
An unmade bed is a common broken window, which is why Make the bed is one of the most popular happiness-project resolutions, and in fact, as Charles Duhigg points out in his fascinating book The Power...
Day three days a week for six weeks,
Procrastinators may resemble Sprinters, because they too tend to finish only when they’re against a deadline, but the two types are quite different. Sprinters choose to work at the last minute because...
Associate with people who are likely to improve you. —SENECA, Letters from a Stoic
Pushing myself, I knew, would cause me serious discomfort. It's a Secret of Adulthood: Happiness doesn't always make you feel happy. When I thought about why I was sometimes reluctant to push myself,...
Getting one extra hour of sleep each night would do more for a person’s daily happiness than getting a $60,000 raise.
The second reason rewards pose a danger for habits is that they require a decision. A habit, by my definition, is something we do without decision making.
One of the best ways to make myself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy myself.
I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasn't going to change unless I made it change.
IF IT’S ON THE CALENDAR, IT HAPPENS
Habits eliminate the need for self-control.
If you’re not failing, you’re not trying hard enough. Over-the-counter
If you’re not failing, you’re not trying hard enough.
Of all the things that wisdom provides for living one’s entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship. You
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