Live

People worry about missing out on life if they slow down, but life is what’s happening right here, right now.

When we’re standing at the fork in the road, what’s important to grasp is that the road doesn’t matter. Whether the one less traveled or the one well-trodden, there’s no way to really know what kind of journey we’re choosing. Since we’ll never be able to walk that second road and know where it led, we may as well enjoy the one we’re on.

What do I want to do given that life is only 500,000 hours long?

I’ve worked at a club where many wealthy people like to frequent.

What I’ve noticed about the wealthy (although not always their wives) is that nothing seems to really bother most of them.

Some would wear no socks with their tennis shoes and not care what anyone thinks (because they have billions?). Some would wear the same shirt everyday. Some would be told no, and they wouldn’t flinch.

The most important relationship that you have in life is the one that you have with yourself. Voices of other people will come and go, but the voice in your head is never going away. If you have an unpleasant relationship with the voice in your head, you’re probably going to have unpleasant life.

No woman is going to save you. You have to save yourself. Once you are in a good place mentally, emotionally, physically and financially dating becomes 100x easier.

The future has many names. For the weak, it’s unattainable. For the fearful, it’s unknown. For the bold, it’s ideal.

The movie is about a man who finds himself living the same day over and over again. He is the only person in this world who knows this is happening, and after going through periods of dismay and bitterness, revolt and despair, suicidal self-destruction and cynical recklessness, he begins to do something that is alien to his nature. He begins to learn.

We see that life is like that. Tomorrow will come, all we can do about it is be the best person we know how to be. The good news is that we can learn to be better people. There is a moment when Phil tells Rita, “When you stand in the snow, you look like an angel.” The point is not that he has come to love Rita. It is that he has learned to see the angel.

GPA does not equal intelligence.

It’s a measure of your ability to “play the game” of school via things like weighted courses. It measures obedience, not intelligence.

The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you’re walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That’s the moment you may be starting to get it right.

If you’re in a relationship and you believe that the grass is greener on the other side, that you need a new partner to make you happy, you’re wrong.

The grass is greenest where it’s watered.

Yes, you need to make sure you selected the right partner.

But oftentimes, people will leave relationships because they think their partner is the problem even though they are the ones who aren’t investing in a relationship.

The grass is never greener on the other side of the fence, it’s greener where you water it.

If you’re in a toxic relationship right now, you don’t need another relationship. You need to work on yourself so that you can attract the right partner.

My best investment is the investment I made in myself.

My teacher taught me that the greatest investment you can ever make is in your own growth because from that, everything else expands. I always tell people to work harder on yourself and at your job. Invest in yourself.

Happiness is just having something to look toward to.

Live with total integrity. Be transparent, honest, and authentic. Do not ever waiver from this; white lies and false smiles quickly snowball into a life lived out of alignment. It is better to be yourself and risk having people not like you than to suffer the stress and tension that comes from pretending to be someone you’re not, or professing to like something that you don’t. I promise you: Pretending will rob you of joy.

Does Cheney say angry things? Of course. But he never sounds angry when he’s saying them! “I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my faults,” he says with a smile. “If you want to be loved, then go and be a movie star.”

The worst possible meeting is when the person you are meets the person you could have been.

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes… but when we look back, everything is different.

In his Inaugural Address, the 41st President of the United States said this: “We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it. What do we want the men and women who work with us to say when we are no longer there? That we were more driven to succeed than anyone around us? Or that we stopped to ask if a sick child had gotten better, and stayed a moment there to trade a word of friendship?”

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies become unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself.

This is one of the most urgent problems for civilized man. He has created civilization to give himself security. Security for what? For boredom? His chief problem seems to be that most human beings need a certain amount of challenge, of external stimulus, to stop them from sinking into the blank stare and blank consciousness of the idiot.

Most people are, in the most ordinary sense, very limited. They pass their time, day after day, in idle, passive pursuits, just looking at things — at games, television, whatever. Or they fill the hours talking, mostly about nothing of significance — of comings and goings, of who is doing what, of the weather, of things forgotten almost as soon as they are mentioned. They have no aspirations for themselves beyond getting through another day doing more or less what they did yesterday. They walk across the stage of life, laving everything about as it was when they entered, achieving nothing, aspiring to nothing, having never a profound or even original thought. This is what is common, usual, typical, indeed normal. Relatively few rise above such a plodding existence.

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Choosing to be busy is a choice of investment of time.

Be bold in your caring, be bold in your dreaming and above all else, always do your best.

I treat myself as if I was my best friend. I love her to bits and can always give good advice to her and lift her up. So I think to myself what I would say to her or want her to know if she was feeling this way instead of me.

“I can’t help but feel like I’m missing out on having great adventures.”

Every bit of life is a “great adventure” and the minute you appreciate the small things, you won’t need a big travel experience to feel something.

Don’t settle for mediocre friends, jobs, love, relationships and life.

Surround yourself and only date people that make you a better version of yourself, that bring out your best parts, love and accept you.

What does your conscience say? — ‘You should become the person you are’.

Because they’re doing things with their life. Think of what you wish to accomplish, then find someone who has done it in a way you respect.

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

Looking just at existing competitors can give you a false sense of security. You should compete against what someone else could be doing, not just what you can see people doing.

It led to far too much boasting. This is an irreversible mistake because once you boast, even if you shut up, people are not going to forget what you said.

Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself.

The safest way to try to get what you want is to try to deserve what you want. It’s such a simple idea. It’s the golden rule. You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.

There is no ethos, in my opinion, that is better for any person to have. By and large, the people who have had this ethos win in life, and they don’t win just money and honors — they win the respect and the deserved trust of the people they deal with.

Plus, there is huge pleasure in life to be obtained from getting deserved trust. Reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets — and can be lot in a heartbeat.