60 Quotes found
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism."
"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls."
"Your past does not equal your future."
"Identify your problems, but give your power and energy to solutions."
"People who fail focus on what they have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will feel like at the end."
"Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life."
"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped."
"Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of another."
"Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind."
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
"Yes We Can!"
"We are the change we have been waiting for."
"There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America."
"We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours."
"it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds."
"You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you."
"If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress."
"A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things."
"Life is a sequence of experiences through which we can grow, if we choose to."
"If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten."
"What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work."
"I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course."
"Having an education is one thing, being educated is another."
"Having an education is one thing, being educated is another."
"As you solve one set of problems, new ones appear. That is part of the nature of life."
"I always tried to be correct, not politically correct."
"A society to be successful must maintain a balance between nurturing excellence and encouraging the average to improve."
"If you do not know history, you think short term. If you know history, you think medium and long term"
"The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope."
"There are neither bad nor good emotions. They exist to convey a message from your subconscious. Learn to make friends with unwanted emotions, and you will discover more about how your inner mechanism works."
"Most people seem to live as if on autopilot. No one has taught them the rules of the game called life - and no one has given them the instruction manual for how their mind works: the reason why they keep experiencing what they experience, may it be wanted or unwanted experiences."
"Dating is the implicit path of growth where your romantic partner is the side effect of all the personal development you've done so far."
"The only thing that’s keeping you from getting what you want is the story you keep telling yourself."
"Every problem is a gift – without problems we would not grow."
"Conflict well done is an opportunity for growth."
"Treating people with warmth and attentiveness is a rare gift today, at a time when others do not dare to be themselves."
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."
"You are what you do, not what you say you'll do."
"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."
"The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."
"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."
"There's no coming to consciousness without pain."
"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."
"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."
"Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge."
"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. "
"Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event."
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being."
"How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole."
"We cannot change anything unless we accept it."
"Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling."
"The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents."
"The man who is completely at peace within himself no longer needs validation. He can simply be. The rest will fall into place in the moment. He can choose to act, or not to act."
"Between what other people do and how you react to them, there is a gap where you can choose how you actually want to respond. A reaction happens automatically but choosing your response requires self-awareness. Building this self-awareness is like training a muscle - it grows through practicing mindfulness."
"Life offers us challenges for us to grow."
"Everyone has blind spots. But not everyone is brave enough to look inward and accept their subconscious behavioural patterns. Unfortunately, we can't avoid this step if we want to grow and live a fulfilling life. Our stories and recurring experiences will repeat themselves until we integrate what we are unaware of."