Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Change is situational. Transition, on the other hand, is psychological. It is not those events, but rather the inner reorientation or self-redefinition that you have to go through in order to incorporate any of those changes into your life. Without a transition, a change is just a rearrangement of the furniture. Unless transition happens, the change won't work, because it doesn't 'take'.
Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
You will fall many times in life, but you will pick yourself up and become stronger and wiser for each trouble you pass.
God calls each and every star by name. It’s not likely He has forgotten yours.
You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.
Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.
If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
Never finish a negative statement; reverse it immediately, and wonders will happen in your life.
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Not every sky will be blue and not every day is springtime. So on the spiritual path a person learns to find this kind of happiness without needing nice things to happen on the outside. Rather, you find happiness by being who you really are. This isn't mystical. Young children are happy being who they are. The trick is to regain such a state when you are grown and have seen the light and dark sides of life.
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’
The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
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.
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