See it better than it is, or you have no future. Without vision, there is no possibility of improvement.
People are not their behaviors.
Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird.
The quality of one’s life is directly related to the quality of questions one asks oneself.
Identity is this incredible invisible force that controls your whole life. It’s invisible, like gravity is invisible, but it controls your whole life.
Job dissatisfaction is the number one factor in whether you survive your first heart attack.
One belief that I’ve developed to carry me through extremely tough times is simply this: God’s delays are not God’s denials.
If you lose 50%, it takes 100% to get back to where you started-and that takes something you can never get back: time.
The race of life is a marathon, not a sprint.
If you pursue enrichment and growth, you must increase your references by pursuing ideas and experiences that wouldn’t be a part of your life if you didn’t consciously seek them out.
If your life’s worth living, it’s worth recording.
The greatest leverage you can create for yourself is the pain that comes from inside, not outside. Knowing that you have failed to live up to your own standards for your life is the ultimate pain.
Who you spend time with is who you become! Change your life by consciously choosing to surround yourself with people with higher standards!
What we focus on determines how we feel. And how we feel – our state of mind – powerfully influences our actions and interactions.
The quality of your life is the quality of where you live emotionally.
Having an identity that is specifically linked to your age or how you look would definitely set you up for pain because these things will change. If we have a broader sense of who we are, our identity never becomes threatened.
If people maintain the belief systems that empower them, they’ll keep coming back with enough action and enough resourcefulness to succeed eventually.
All decision-making is a values-clarifying exercise.
If there’s anything you’re not happy about-in your relationships, in your health, in your career-make a decision right now about how you’re going to change it immediately.
Most people aren’t really happy, but they aren’t unhappy enough to do anything about it. That’s a dangerous place to be.