We can build our habits only on the foundation of our own nature.
We manage what we monitor.
We often learn most about ourselves by learning about other people,
We should make sure the things we do to feel better don’t make us feel worse.
What I Value What’s most satisfying to me: saving time, or money, or effort? Does it bother me to act differently from other people, or do I get a charge out of it? Do I spend a lot of time on somethi...
What I do most days matters more than what I do once in a while. That kind of self-encouragement is a greater safeguard than self-blame.
Colorful tin trays from my grandmother? A friend confided
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars
Making. A habit requires no decision from me, because I’ve already decided.
What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while. You
Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us mastery over ourselves is destructive. And whatever liberates our spirit while giving us mastery over ourselves is constructive.
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?...
And the
When I focus on the way men or husbands generally behave, I start to lump Jamie along with half of humanity. I find myself feeling angry or annoyed with Jamie for things he hasn't even done.
When I think of myself in the third person, many things become clearer.
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including...
When Obligers have the external accountability they need to meet their inner expectations, they don’t experience any sense of limitation or self-frustration—and of course many environments, such as th...
When deciding what to buy, remember that some things are easy to buy—but then we have to them. If they're not used, they don't enhance our lives; they just contribute to guilt and clutter.
When it comes to fake food, I’m like Samuel Johnson, who remarked, Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult. In other words, I can give something up altogether, but I can’t indulge...
When it comes to fake food, I’m like Samuel Johnson, who remarked, Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
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