“Man…sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.” ~The Dalai Lama
“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into
the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover
will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.”- Alan Alda
A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. - Lao Tzu
"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes."- David Abraham
"The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist."- Guillermo Del Toro
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."- Wayne Gretzky
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him".- Buddha
"Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life." — Confucius
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually,
who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”- Marianne Williamson
"To mantain a powerful pulse in our lives, we must learn how to rhytmically spend and renew energy".- Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
"Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional."- Tim Hansel
"Training our mind through peaceful abiding, we can create an alliance that allows us to actually use our mind, rather than be used by it." - Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche (on meditation)
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."- Napoleon Bonaparte
“The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.” - Richard Moss
"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."- Socrates
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” – Brian Littrell
"I love friends, I want more friends. I love smiles. That is a fact. How to develop smiles? There are a variety of smiles. Some smiles are sarcastic. Some smiles are artificial - diplomatic smiles. These smiles do not produce satisfaction, but rather fear or suspicion. But a genuine smile gives us hope, freshness. If we want a genuine smile, then first we must produce the basis for a smile to come.".- The Dalai Lama
“You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.” - Paulo Coelho
"Any form of stress that prompts discomfort has the potential to expand capacity – physically, mentally, emotionally or spiritually – so long as it is followed by adequate recovery." - Loehr and Schwartz
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." — Oprah Winfrey
"Bones heal, spirit recovers, and what is left is who you are and what you have become." - Bryon Friedman
"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.".
- Tommy Lasorda
"From what we get in life, we make a living. From what we give, we make a life". - Arthur Ashe
"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must move faster than the lion or it won't survive. Every Morning, a lion wakes up, and it must move faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It doesn't matter if you're the lion or the gazelle. When the sun comes up, you'd better be moving." - Maurice Green
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought." - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (physiologist credited with discovering vitamin C).
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside; awakens." - Carl Jung
"People will think that because genes play a role in something, they determine everything. We: again and again, people saying, "It's all genetic. It can't do anything about it." That's nonsense. To say that something has a genetic component does not make it unchangeable." - Eric Lander (Leader of the Human Genome Project)
"I will not fear. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." - Bene Gesserit
