Habits and Character
Watch your habits; they become character. – Lao Tzu
Watch your habits of thinking, acting, eating, speaking, drinking, moving, . . . you become that.
You may delay, but time will not. – Benjamin Franklin Time marches on, with you or without you. If I can add another “quote:” The future is no place to place your better days – “Cry Freedom” – Dave Matthews Band Whatever it is you want to do, get started. If you’re not sure what that…
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. – Albert Einstein Attachments, as any Buddhist will tell you, are – at the very least – problematic. So, if you’re going to hang your “future hat” on anything, hang it on a goal. (Not people as they are…
Sometimes someone else says it better than you ever can; with that in mind here’s a post from Seth Godin: Forgive yourself for not being the richest, the thinnest, the tallest, the one with the best hair. Forgive yourself for not being the most successful, the cutest or the one with the fastest time. Forgive…
“We must be the epitome — the embodiment — of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become. ” – Earl Nightingale What we are, we attract. What we lack, whether in belief or fact, we repel….
Everybody’s heard the saying “That which does not kill you makes you stronger,” Nietzsche I believe said it, or something very similar. It’s wrong though, or at least woefully incomplete. (Or, it’s incomplete in the way we use the words these days.) Nowadays people think that if bad stuff happens to you, you get stronger….
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. – Milton Berle Self-explanatory…