Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an “Extreme Makeover: Planet Edition” right after he finishes putting Satan in his place once and for all?
Never let life’s Iagos – flatterers, dissemblers – onto your train.
In December 2013, a tourist in Melbourne fell off a pier and plunged into the sea while checking Facebook on her phone. She still had it in her hand when she was rescued.
Too many of us leave our lives – and, in fact, our souls – behind when we go to work.
You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You’re not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love. – ANNE LAMOTT.
Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.
I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids.
The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly – indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.
In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right.
Fearlessness is the mother of reinvention.
The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it.
There is a purpose to our lives, even if it is sometimes hidden from us, and even if the biggest turning points and heartbreaks only make sense as we look back, rather than as we are experiencing them. So we might as well live life as if – as the poet Rumi put it – everything is rigged in our favor.
We take better care of our smartphone than ourselves. We know when the battery is depleted and recharge it.
We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.
The happiest people are the most giving people.
We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.