Tom Walsh Quotes

So it's important to remember that our job isn't to solve other people's problems for them, but to help them to discover the ways that are most effective and most practical for them to deal with their...

This need to be right has put a huge burden on me, one that I never deserved to have to carry. Part of it, I know, is cultural--in this age of information at a moment's notice, we've come to expect pe...

Life is not about control or making things happen in the ways we think they should happen. In fact, it's rather arrogant for us to be on this planet that's been here for so long and expect to be able...

Our culture values independence and isolation far too much, it seems to me--we have a hard time making ourselves part of things, of making ourselves responsible to others, and trusting others to be th...

Just for today, i’ll focus on the people i’m with. . . .        In this day and age, it’s astonishing to see how many people feel that it’s not rude to ignore the people they’re with while they talk o...

Education is a choice. We don't become educated by watching television, and we don't learn a whole lot having similar conversations with the same, safe people day after day. Our education comes from p...

For today, i'll hold on to my dreams and respect them. .

Am I corrupted if I believe that the people who think alike are more admirable and estimable than those who think for themselves? If no one thought differently, then where would our innovations come f...

When someone does something that hurts us, it’s easy for us to think that if we forgive that person, we’re doing so for his or her sake.  The truth is, though, that we ourselves benefit the most from...

How we like to hold on!  Sometimes we’re unwilling to let things go just because we know them, and they feel safe to us, even if we’re talking about something like behaviors that harm us, like defensi...

Every minute your mouth is turned down you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

So thank you for who you are and for all of your contributions to this world in which we live. Thanks for focusing on the positive, for the more of us who do so there are, the more positive life and e...

I started to discover the meaning of happiness when I started to discover--and practice--the art of acceptance. When I started to accept life for what it was and I started to accept whatever situation...

But no matter how life looks at the moment, if we trust that it looks this way for a reason that will help us and others in the future, we can deal with this moment with a much stronger sense of purpo...

It's easy to get lost in our own heads. It's easy to allow the thoughts and worries and plans and hopes to take on their own lives and control our minds in such a way that we lose sight of all that's...

We lose our ability to live fully if we neglect or ignore our responsibility to the other people who share this planet with us. We simply cannot reach our full potential without the insights and obser...

There’s an elegance to simplicity.  Keeping things simple allows us to enjoy things more fully, without raising our expectations to unrealistic levels.  Very often the most important thing that we can...

It seems that the more we learn about our work, the easier and the more interesting it becomes to us. Tasks that used to be tedious now make sense, and we see how they're related to other elements of...

Today, I am glad that I’m me—I’m glad that I was born who I am, that I’ve learned what I’ve learned, and that I’ve become who I am.      I am happy and grateful for my life, and I shall not waste time...

Unfortunately, we don't have all that many good examples to follow. The people that our cultures label as "successful" are the ones who have become wealthy or famous or celebrities, but the truly succ...