Isolation is a dream killer.
What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.
Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.
The first step is to find out what you love – and don’t be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music.
Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.
It’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
When you start using senses you’ve neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
It’s only too late if you don’t start now.
We all need to learn a new language for love – a language that speaks not in socks, pancakes, and paychecks, but in shared fascination with physics or poetry, delight in each other’s uniqueness, and mutual practical and emotional support.
What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love.
If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
Find what you love, because greatness is based on great gifts. If you love something, you can count on the fact that you are genetically gifted at it.
Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.
Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you’re doing something virtuous.
Irreverence is a declaration of independence.
Real Dreams don’t require you to abandon your family, quit your job, and move to Tahiti with your paintbrush. They just require that you search your soul for that deep dream you put aside-and go for it. And watch your life light up.
Whenever you do what you really love, your heart lifts, your mind opens, and everything changes. You wake up. That’s what true adventure really is.