Choose to be kind over being right and you’ll be right every time.
Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success.
Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It’s being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond.
Reading is a gift. It’s something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on.
Life is a process – just one thing after another. When you lose it, just start again.
Learning to stop sweating the small stuff involves deciding what things to engage in and what things to ignore. From a certain perspective, life can be described as a series of mistakes, one right after another with a little space in between.
Children listen best with their eyes. What you do is what they hear.
Many people spend their entire lifetimes wishing that other people would acknowledge them. They feel this especially about their parents, spouses, children, and friends.
Even though we often mess up, most of us are doing the best that we know how with the circumstances that surround us.
What interferes with this peaceful feeling is our expectation of reciprocity.
If we would just slow down, happiness would catch up to us.
You are what you practice most.
Life isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Nothing is ever good enough the way it is.
One of the most dynamic and significant changes you can make in your life is to make the commitment to drop all negative references to your past, to begin living now.
The old adage, ‘If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is’ isn’t always correct. In fact, the suspicion, cynicism, and doubt that are inherent in this belief can and does keep people from taking advantage of excellent opportunities.
We deny the parts of ourselves that we deem unacceptable rather than accepting the fact that we’re all less than perfect.
Try to maintain the perspective that, in time, everything disintegrates and returns to its initial form.
Ironically, when you surrender your need to hog the glory, the attention you used to need from other people is replaced by a quiet inner confidence that is derived from letting others have it.
The key to a good life is this: If you’re not going to talk about something during the last hour of your life, then don’t make it a top priority during your lifetime.
Meanwhile, life keeps moving forward. The truth is, there’s no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when?