Choose to be kind over being right and you’ll be right every time.
Each of us places varying degrees of significance on what’s really relevant and important, and we can almost always find fault with the way someone else is thinking or behaving. We can usually validate our own versions of reality by focusing on examples that, we believe, prove us to be right. In short, the way we see life will always seem justified, logical, and correct – to ourselves. The problem is, everyone else has the same assumption.
Love your plant whether it blooms or not, whether it lives or dies.
When you allow yourself to be bored, it takes an enormous amount of pressure off you to be performing and doing something every second of every day. Now, when either of my two children says to me, “Daddy, I’m bored,” I respond by saying, “Great, be bored for a while. It’s good for you.” Once I say this, they always give up on the idea of me solving their problem.
Fear is the single most self-defeating emotion in our lives.
This is pretty simple stuff. But the truth is, the reality of making money and wise decisions isn’t very complicated. However, not many people understand the importance of a don’t-worry attitude. If you do, you’re one step ahead of the game.
We form opinions and then spend our entire lifetimes validating what we believe to be true.
100: Live This Day as if It Were Your Last.
Benjamin Franklin said it best: “Our limited perspective, our hopes and fears become our measure of life, and when circumstances don’t fit our ideas, they become our difficulties.
Mental health has commonly been called conscience, instinct, wisdom, common sense, or the inner voice. We.
Remember, when you die, there will still be unfinished business to take care of. And you know what? Someone else will do it for you! Don’t waste any more precious moments of your life regretting the inevitable.
Success originates in the mind and translates into the material world.
In low moods we lose our perspective and everything seems urgent.
While most of us wouldn’t write ourselves a nasty letter, read it, and then feel offended, this is precisely what we do with regard to our thinking. We.
Your thoughts always create your emotions. Understanding the significance of this fact is the first step in escaping from unhappiness and depression.
You’ll also notice that, as you reach out and let others be “right,” they will become less defensive and more loving toward you.
No one has the right to force you to violate your own privacy.
The more patient you are, the more accepting you will be of what is, rather than insisting that life be exactly as you would like it to be.
Compassion is something you can develop with practice. It involves two things: intention and action.
We take our own goals so seriously that we forget to have fun along the way, and we forget to cut ourselves some slack.
We take simple preferences and turn them into conditions for our own happiness.