“When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness. I’ve lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that.”
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Internal Thermostat
“Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy. When we exceed our inner thermostat setting, we will often do something to sabotage ourselves, causing us to drop back into the old, familiar zone where we feel secure.”
—Gay Hendricks
Elevate Your Average
“Every person is average because every person has an average. The only way to get better is to live above your average and create a better average.”
—Michael Bernoff
Matter & Energy
“All the life of the universe may be regarded as manifestations of energy masquerading in various forms, and all the changes in the universe as energy running about from one of these forms to the other, but always without altering the total amount.”-Sir James Jeans
Fluid & Flowing
“Development is not a linear ladder, but a fluid and flowing affair, with spirals, swirls, streams and waves, and what appear to be an almost infinite number of multiple modalities.”
-Ken Wilber
A Little Wiser
“I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.”
-Charlie Munger
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
-Paulo Coelho
A Caring Friendship
“Caring for but never trying to own, may be a better way to define friendship.”
–William Glasser
Going Forward
“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt