All Quotes By Tag: Values
“Our challenge as adults is to develop a strong voice that is uniquely our own, a voice that reflects our deepest values and convictions. Once we are comfortable within that voice, we can bring it to our most important relationships. We can choose to move to the center of a difficult conversation–or we can let it go. We can speak–or decide not to. Whatever we choose, we can head back to the sandbox with clarity, wisdom, and intention. By doing so, we can strengthen the self and our connections, and have the best chance of achieving happiness during our time with each other.”
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“There is a part of us in everyone else.”
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“If we aren’t willing to pay a price for our values, if we aren’t willing to make some sacrifices in order to realize them, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.”
“…alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.”
“…alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging,”
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“If you do not discover the treasure, treasure will never discover you.”
“One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most.”
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“It’s the ‘everyday’ experiences we encounter along the journey to who we wanna be that will define who we are when we get there.”
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“Your purpose is your why.”
“If you didn’t earn something, it’s not worth flaunting.”
“Without struggle, success has no value.”
“Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly attempt to indulge. Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy—a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind’s fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer. Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions.”
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“Money can’t buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.”
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