Robin S. Sharma · 224 pages
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“I wept because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet.”
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it,”
“How high you will rise in your life will be determined not by how hard you work but by how well you think.”
“Kindness, quite simply, is the rent we must pay for the space we occupy on this planet.”
“Forgiving someone who has wronged you is actually a selfish act rather than a selfless one.”
“pain is a teacher and failure is the highway to success.”
“He who asks may be a fool for five minutes. He who doesn’t is a fool for a lifetime,”
“the tougher you are on yourself, the easier life will be on you.”
“You will never be able to eliminate a weakness you don’t even know about. The first step to eliminating a negative habit is to become aware of it.”
“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that crushed it.”
“for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die. For the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It’s a sort of splendid torch which I’ve got to hold up for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
“if you have failed more than others, there is a very good chance you are living more completely than others.”
“Children come to us more highly evolved than adults to teach us the lessons we need to learn.”
“We walk this planet for such a short time. In the overall scheme of things, our lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity. So have the wisdom to enjoy the journey and savor the process.”
“The real secret to a life of abundance is to stop spending your days searching for security and to start spending your time pursuing opportunity.”
“One of the lessons I have learned in my own life is that if you don’t act on life, life has a habit of acting on you.”
“It is so easy to magnify our problems and lose sight of the many blessings we all have to be so very grateful for.”
“Sleep is like a drug,” he explained. “Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time, vitality and opportunities.”
“Son, when you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die the world cries while you rejoice.”
“There is nothing in the world more valuable than friendship. Those who banish it from their lives remove as it were the sun from the earth, because of all of nature’s gifts, it is the most beautiful and the most pleasing.”
“There is in the worst of fortune the best chances for a happy change.”
“A meaningful life is made up of a series of daily acts of decency and kindness, which, ironically, add up to something truly great over the course of a lifetime.”
“Every second you dwell on the past you steal from your future. Every minute you spend focusing on your problems you take away from finding your solutions. And thinking about all those things that you wish never happened to you is actually blocking all the things you want to happen from entering into your life. Given the timeless truth that holds that you become what you think about all day long, it makes no sense to worry about past events or mistakes unless you want to experience them for a second time. Instead, use the lessons you have learned from your past to rise to a whole new level of awareness and enlightenment.”
“On his deathbed, Aldous Huxley reflected on his entire life’s learning and then summed it up in seven simple words: “Let us be kinder to one another.”
“Spring has past, summer has gone and winter is here. And the song that I meant to sing remains unsung. I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument.”
“And saying that you don’t have enough time to be silent on a regular basis is a lot like saying you are too busy driving to stop for gas — eventually it will catch up with you.”
“Find your calling. I believe we all have special talents that are just waiting to be engaged in a worthy pursuit. We are all here for some unique purpose, some noble objective that will allow us to manifest our highest human potential while we, at the same time, add value to the lives around us.”
“you cannot pursue success; success ensues.”
“Feminism', we have had to destroy.”
“She made each suture perfectly—one neat stitch after another—until they were lined up across Archer’s wounds like sharp black letters, as if every set of stitches was a healing word Doc had written to keep his skin together. There”
“(LuAnn) Whatever. That'll teach me not to build my life around a man whose favorite book is Atlas Shrugged. Listen, kid." She waggles her finger, as if scolding me. "Nothing good comes from Ayn RAnd. Trust me on this.”
“Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.”
“Christianity is constantly in danger of being hijacked by people who act out in hatred - by people who will not even hear the cries of their victims, let alone own up to their guilt.”
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