Here’s a formula I can use to improve my life. I imagine that tomorrow is my last day. Knowing this, I ask if yesterday was a day well lived. If I could have done better, I try to make the most of today. Repeat daily.
If you keep your head in the clouds and your feet on the ground, you will become a very tall person.
The force of habit is very strong. If I could just make a few habits good ones, the Force would be with me.
Do not see yourself in the uneven mirror of other people’s perceptions.
If you want to see Heaven, you will have to die yourself.
Look for solitude among the crowd. Look for silence among the screams. Look for serenity among the chaos. Be like the lotus flower, that lives in the swamp yet rises above it.
The Universe only sends weak signals of opportunity. Listen carefully and act early.
The best conversations I can have are with myself. The best work I can do is inner work. But I am too busy talking with everyone around me. And I am too busy working on what matters to others.
If you feel you are fully in control of your life, you aren’t driving fast enough. If you aren’t failing, you aren’t aiming high enough.
The sweeter you want your tea to be, the more sugar you have to put into it.
A student called me for advice on choosing among three excellent job offers. I told her to choose the job that is closest to her passion and furthest from her comfort zone.