Your culture sets your expectation for what is ‘normal.’
The closer we are to someone, the more likely we are to imitate some of their habits.
Here’s the punchline: You can break a habit, but you’re unlikely to forget it.
The first step to changing bad habits is to be on the lookout for them.
You need to know who you want to be. Otherwise, your quest for change is like a boat without a rudder.
Siddhartha considered the ways of the demon, and in that moment he struck.
If your attitude is one of gratefully searching for God’s truth & goodness in any situation, it will change your life.
Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in som...
But sometimes genius is anything but rarefied; sometimes it's just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen. (p313)
A day in which you learn something isn't a complete loss.
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. ... What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
A happy birthday is measured not in the amount of gifts one gets, but in the amount love one receives.
If knock the door once and it remains lock, do not turn away. With persistent knocks, the door will be open.
I am not ashamed of my failures. It is only a foot-stones for building my success.
You can't truly, deeply and sustainably motivate anybody until you know what their motives are - what motivates them...?
Why is it that such a basic education such as not quitting or not giving up is always continued to be taught? When we drive to a destination and hit a stop light or a train do we turn back around no b...
I love people who choose to surprise the sad ones, Just to make them smile!
When it comes to achieving, what matters is you to know, what you really want and make up your mind to believe in your own efforts that you will achieve and you will make it with ease.
Being positive in a negative situation is not naive. It's leadership.
Putting in effort is like riding a bicycle on train tracks, you will get to where you want to go but you will feel every bump along the way.