Philosophy
Your personal philosophy is your greatest determining factor.
A warrior's ultimate act is to lay down his sword.
All that arises passes away. The Real is the eternal and the infinite.
In the Now, in the absense of time, all suffering disolves. There is no salvation in the future condition or in any possesion.
How you do anything is how you do everything.
Whisper words of wisdom... Let it be.
If you have a BIG problem in your life, all that means is that you are being a small person.
There are no problems, only situations.
World peace begins with inner peace which can only begin Now.
Commit yourself to continual learning throughout life.
If you have to eat a frog today, make it the first thing of the day to get it over with. Corollary: If you have two frogs to eat, eat the uglier one first.
A long time perspective is the key to fortune, but tomorrow is never promised today.
Your fear is the sharpest definition of your self. Lean into the edge and grow.
Get comfortable feeling uncomfortable.
At the end of the day I ask myself who I have been today not only what I've done. We are human beings not human doings.
The purpose of a goal is what is makes of us.
Focus on what you want not what you don't. Focus on opportunities not obstacles.
Everything must grow or die, you're never done, and things will never be handled.
Everything must contribute.
For every giver there must also be a receiver and for every receiver there must also be a giver.
Live, give, and receive with your heart and arms wide open. Without doing this fully you are cheating everyone.
Change your thoughts and you change your world. Witness your thoughts and awaken to realize you are not the thinker.
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
The power is in the sharing.
Choose to check your baggage, and give everyone you meet a clean slate. Expect others' best intentions and they'll appreciate it and live up to them.
Make your purpose in life what you are doing now, and there will be an innate quality in what you do.
We all get what we MUST have. Chances are if you're not totally committed to what you want, you won't get it.
The #1 reason most people don't get what they want is they don't know what they want.
If you shoot for the stars you'll very likely at least hit the moon. Corollary: If your goal is to be comfortable, chances are you'll never be rich, but if your goal is to be rich, chances are good you'll end up mighty comfortable.
What you focus on expands. Practice abundance, not scarcity.
Where attention goes, energy flows, and results show.
Choose to think in ways that will support you in your happiness and success instead of ways that do not. One thing you can always control is what things mean to you. Decide in advance to not turn mole hills into mountains, to use stumbling blocks as stepping stones, and to see the rain from the plants' perspective.
Failure is natural, and is an event not a person. Every master was once a disaster, and there wasn't a winner that wasn't once a beginner. Risk looking like a fool.
My inner world creates my outer world. Corollary: If you want to change the fruits you have to focus on changing the roots!
Action is the bridge between the inner world and the outer world.
If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.
Bad habits are easy to form, but hard to live with. Good habits are hard to form, but easy to live with.
Training and managing your own mind is the most important skill you could ever own, in terms of both happiness and success.
If one's cup of tea is already full there is no room for any more. If you think you already know you cannot learn and grow.
If you think you know it all, you don't. If you think it's impossible, it isn't. If you think you're alone, you aren't.
It is amazing what gets accomplished when there's no worry over who gets the credit.
The order to success is: BE, DO, HAVE not the other way around.
Big winners never gape at another's gaffes.
Keep the spotlight on them, and they'll think you're a star!
People only care how much you know after they know how much you care...about them.
When you are justifying, blaming and especially complaining you become a living breathing "crap magnet".
Combine your knowledge, none of us are smarter than all of us.
Welcome greatness... it lives all around you.
Choose to: think the best about others.
Be enthusiastic - Put people up, not down.
Smiling is the quickest way to make a good impression.
Develop the ability to find ability in others.
Help others... be liked, be right, be a winner.
Think AND instead of OR.
Until you show you can handle what you've got you won't get any more.
Get your ego out of the way, replace the word "I" with "we" and "you" with "let's"!
Inspire someone... to be the best they can be.
Treat every person as the most important person you'll meet that day.
Be an exception, not an exemption.
Think like a person of action, act like a person of thought.
Commit yourself to something bigger than yourself.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does!
Go for it!
Get started. Do it NOW!
Start an epidemic... of enthusiasm.
Throw your heart over the bar, and your body will follow.
Don't waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin and inspiration will find you.
Never let weeds grow over your dreams.
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom.
Never chase a lie.
Never laugh at anyone's dream.
Never make excuses - They paralyze you.
The only thing keeping you from getting what you want is your story about why you can't get it.
The road to someday leads to a town called nowhere.
Celebrate what you want more of.
Make promises sparingly. Keep them faithfully.
Develop a tolerance for failure. Failure is a wonderful teacher.
Have no limits.
Never kill an idea.
Pursue character before prosperity.
Be loyal.
Ask, "What if?"
Take time to improve yourself. You don't have time to criticize others.
Create an atmosphere of forgiveness.
Make your word your bond. Have a code of honour.
Self-discipline equals freedom because it means you are in charge.
Don't belittle, be BIG!
What the mind conceives and believes, it achieves.
Training is the difference between success and failure.
Teachers speed up evolution.
If you have the why, the how is easy.
Jump into the future for a brighter tomorrow.
Dream BIG dreams!
I feel terrific, I am unstoppable!
Have a passion for excellence.
Learn to say NO! to the good... so you can say YES! to the great.
Words echo, but your examples thunder. Teach at the school of example because man will learn at no other.
After you cross the river, burn your boats. (No regrets)
Be unpopular when necessary, stand for what you believe in.
If you don't stand for something, you fall for anything.
Never be ashamed of what you believe.
The day we stop learning is a sign that death is near.
Bless that which you want.
If you are not fully, totally and truly, committed to creating it, chances are you won't.
Share your knowledge, it's the pathway to immortality.
Be gentle to the earth and our planet will be gentle to you.
Great love and great achievements involve great risk.
Remember that sometimes, silence is the best answer.
Never let up when you are ahead.
Don't blow your own horn...or you might miss the music.
When you rise, you also shine.
The right place and the right time is here and now.
Courage is what it takes to admit that you were wrong.
Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
You're alive...live it that way!
You won't get far ahead before you crash if you are driving your life looking in the rear view mirror.
The value of one good friend? Priceless.
Give without hesitance and you shall receive great abundance.
When you hit a road block look for the detour.
The length of time to reach your goal depends on the intensity of your desire.
Teach a man to fish, and you'll feed him for life.
Persistence and determination are omnipotent
God's delays are not denials unless you give up. God is more interested in your character than your convenience.
Wanting to quit is normal, but just because you want to quit doesn't mean you have to quit. Decide in advance to never quit!
Make a BIG plan and set a BIG goal not because it is easy, but because it is hard, because it is that goal that will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and others too!
Every moment is either a test or a celebration
Optimism is the father that leads to achievement.
Supervise your thoughts because they determine your life.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Ask not, what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one...
Finding is reserved for those who search, not those who hope, and not those who wish.
Produce all that you can. Far more than you need for yourself and your family.
I've had many problems in my life, many of which never actually happened.
What seems impossible one minute becomes, through faith, possible the next.
It's not how far you fall, it's how high you bounce.
Own your outcomes.
Self-esteem precedes performance. You perform in accordance with your belief, you don't perform and then begin to believe that you're good enough.
Everyday is the superbowl in the game of life. There's no scrimmage or dress-rehearsal.
Reading is standing on the shoulders of giants.
Reading is the greatest way of vicarious learning.
The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming.
You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your potential and stretch it to the limit.
Surround yourself with friends who ask more of you than you do of yourself. Good friends shouldn't tolerate mediocrity in each other.
Comparing to worse, using softeners, and rationalizations only train you to accept mediocrity and prevent you from becoming more. Reasons as appropriate as they may be don't give you results.
The antidote to rationalization is self-honesty and is a quality of all great leaders.
If there's one thing to be a fanatic about it's your health! The bible puts it this way: "Treat your body like a temple." A temple, that's a good word. A temple, not a woodshed, a temple! Why? Because the body and mind work together, and the body is the physical support system so that the mind can dream the dreams and the heart can believe that it's possible and then go to work and make it happen.
Why do angels fly? Because they take themselves lightly!
You can choose the vicious cycle or the victor's circle.
If I'm ever unsure as to whether or not to kiss a pretty girl, I'll give her the benefit of the doubt.
We can't solve problems using the same thinking we used when we created them.
Life always gets harder near the summit.
Success walks hand in hand with failure.
Take the honourable path and you cannot go wrong.
Creativity, in education, is as important as literacy.
All children are born artists. The trick is to remain an artist as we grow up.
If you want what you've never had, you'll have to do what you've never done.
There are only two ways to live your life. One, is as though there are no miracles. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Miracles happen not in opposition to nature, but in opposition to what we know of nature.
It is not true that the up cycle is good, and the down cycle bad, except in the mind's judgement.
Happiness and unhappiness are in fact one. Only the illusion of time separates them.
Joy is uncaused and arises from within as the joy of Being. This is the peace of God.
Enlightenment lies in non-resistance, non-judgement, and non-attachment. It is not achievable in the past or future, only Now.
Wisdom is not a product of thought.
When you make friends with the present moment, you feel at home no matter where you are.
A journey of 1000 miles begins with one step
Take on difficulty while it is still easy
The sage does not attempt anything very big, and thus achieves great things
No tree has branches so foolish as to fight amongst themselves
There is no way to hapiness. Hapiness is the way.
Be strong by bending
Productivity is the source of wealth.
Success is not an entitlement. It must be earned everyday.
Be there. Be useful.
It makes as much sense to have a smoking section in a restaurant, as it does a peeing section in a pool. :)
It's not a performance. It's an experience.
Water, its strength shows, when obstacles, its course, oppose. Water, its shape forms, when an opportunity, for flexibility, informs.
The sea stays low and because it stays low all the rivers and all the streams empty into it. Because it stays humble.
Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, "you owe me." Just imagine what we can do with a love like that. It can light up the whole world.
Be bewildered. Awe is all around you.