Our greatest strengths are our greatest weaknesses.

- Gordon Livingston

Only bad things happen quickly, . . . Virtually all the happiness-produ cing processes in our lives take time, usually a long time: learning new thin…

- Gordon Livingston

We also need to learn the art of letting go: of the past, of unresolved grievances, of our younger selves. Nobody gets out of here alive.

- Gordon Livingston

Past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.

- Gordon Livingston

Everything we are afraid to try, all our unfulfilled dreams, constitute a limitation on what we are and could become.

- Gordon Livingston

There are no maps to guide our most important searches; we must rely on hope, chance, intuition, and a willingness to be surprised.

- Gordon Livingston

If the map doesn't agree with the ground, the map is wrong.

- Gordon Livingston

We are all prone to the myth of the perfect stranger

- Gordon Livingston

Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask.

- Gordon Livingston