People frequently fail when they try to do everything at once. They approach a massive project and quickly get discouraged. Taking small, but high-value steps takes less time, and you learn more in the long run.
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People frequently fail when they try to do everything at once. They approach a massive project and quickly get discouraged. Taking small, but high-value steps takes less time, and you learn more in the long run.
Forget about finding your passion. Instead, focus on finding big problems.
Treat your customers like they own you. Because they do.
You have to know yourself and know what you can carry. If you're not comfortable, no matter how well dressed you are, you're not going to look right. I'd rather be happy and feel comfy.
In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: 'When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?'
And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Do you not see then that for yourself also to change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature?
As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.
Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.
Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.
Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
I'm not in the speech making business. I'm not in the seminar business. I'm not in the writing book business. I'm in the changing lives business.
Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.
The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.
We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.
Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
It seemed to me the way it must feel to people who cut themselves on purpose. Not pretty, but clean. Not good, but void of regret. I was trying to heal. Trying to get the bad out of my system so I could be good again. To cure me of myself.
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