In his book Getting Things Done, David Allen shares a crucial insight: You can’t do a project. You can only do the next step.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Through challenge and difficulty, we learn to see life differently than before.
Your personal truth is your gift to the world.
The problem with a philosophy or a belief is that you soon start changing the facts to fit it.
The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.
Four minutes of eye contact brings people closer to each other better than everything else.
There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on.
It's so hard to find the place somewhere in the middle of the best and worst I've felt.
When you're as hot as you are, no amount of ice will do.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...