“Here’s a thought that haunts me: What if we are designed as sensitive antennas, receptors to receive love, a longing we often mistake as a need to be impressive? What if some of the most successful people in the world got that way because their success was fueled by a misappropriated need for love?…”Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“It’s no wonder I hid from the world. It’s no wonder parties made me tired or I got exhausted after I spoke. It’s no wonder criticism made me angry or I overreacted to failure. I think the part of me I sent out to interact with the world was, in some ways, underdeveloped, still trying to be bigger…”Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“I’ve come to believe a person’s love for you can’t grow unless you hold that person loosely.”Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“A group therapist created a terrific visual example of what a healthy relationship looks like. She put three pillows on the floor and asked a couple of us to stand on the pillows. She told us to leave the middle pillow open. She pointed at my pillow and said, "Don, that's your pillow, that's your…”Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“It’s true our lives can pass small and unnoticed by the masses, and we are no less dignified for having lived quietly. In fact, I’ve come to believe there’s something noble about doing little with your life save offering love to a person who is offering it back.”Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“My friend looked at me confused. He laughed a little, then sighed, then teared up. “It’s true you’re bad at relationships,” I said, “but it’s also true you are good at them. They’re both true, old friend.” I reminded him of all the people who love him and all the people he’s loved. I told him I…”Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“His prescription to experience a deep sense of meaning, then, was remarkably pragmatic. He had three recommendations: 1. Have a project to work on, some reason to get out of bed in the morning and preferably something that serves other people. 2. Have a redemptive perspective on life’s challenges.…”Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“I no longer believe love works like a fairy tale but like farming. Most of it is just getting up early and tilling the soil and then praying for rain. But if we do the work, we just might wake up one day to find an endless field of crops rolling into the horizon. In my opinion, that’s even better…”Tagged: The Art of Awareness, How To Think
“It costs personal fear to be authentic but the reward is integrity, and by that I mean a soul fully integrated, no difference between his act and his actual person. Having integrity is about being the same person on the inside that we are on the outside, and if we don’t have integrity, life becomes…”Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology, Philosophy
“Here are two things I found taking the long road, though: Applause is a quick fix. And love is an acquired taste.”Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology
“We don’t think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either.”Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“Sometimes the story we’re telling the world isn’t half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.”Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“I began to wonder what life would be like if I dropped the act and began to trust that being myself would be enough to get the love I needed.”Tagged: Life, Wonder, Love, mysterious
“I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your…”Tagged: romance, liking someone, confessing feelings, Confession of Feelings, Confession
“The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.”Tagged: Human Body, Regeneration, Change
“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”Tagged: Perfection, People, Love, Idealism
“I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By beauty, I mean the feeling you have suddenly glimpsed another world, or looked into a portal that reveals a kind of magic or romance out of which the world has been…”Tagged: Books, Bibliophile, Reader, Words, Escapism
“The only way that we actually change is by overcoming hard things.”Tagged: Lewis Howes Podcast, Change, Overcoming, Struggle