“Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”Tagged: Loving Yourself, Time, Value Yourself, Wisdom
“Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.”Tagged: Love, Falling in love again
“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.”Tagged: first lines of books, Life, The Road Less Traveled
“It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.”Tagged: Problems, Spirituality, Education
“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult--once we truly understand and accept it--then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact…”Tagged: Life, Acceptance, Truth
“Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”Tagged: Time, Value
“It is not so much that they fear the risk of committing themselves as that they basically do not understand what commitment is all about. Because their parents failed to commit themselves to them as children in any meaningful way, the grew up without experience of commitment. Commitment for them…”Tagged: Commitment, Childhood, Psychology
“I learned, however, that the loss of balance is ultimately more painful than the giving up required to maintain balance. It is a lesson I have continually had to relearn. As must everyone, for as we negotiate the curves and corners of our lives, we must continually give up parts of ourselves. The…”Tagged: Life, Learning, Growing Up Digital, Sacrifice
“There is nothing beyond the limits of our vision. If we decide to study something, we can always find the methodology with which to do it.”Tagged: Life, Learning
“It is not so much what our parents say that determines our world view as it is the unique world they create for us by their behavior.”Tagged: Life, Spirituality
“Even when we truly understand these matters, the journey of spiritual growth is still so lonely and difficult that we often become discouraged.”Tagged: Life, Learning, Spirituality, Loneliness
“We are often most in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.”Tagged: Life, Learning, Confusion, Uncertainty
“Anyone who genuinely loves knows the pleasure of loving. When we genuinely love we do so because we want to love.”Tagged: Life, Love
“As long as one marries, enters a career or has children to satisfy one’s parents or the expectations of anyone else, including society as a whole, the commitment by its very nature will be a shallow one.”Tagged: Life, Love, Commitment
“Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a profound tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.”Tagged: People, Judgement
“The more honest one is, the easier it is to continue being honest, just as the more lies one has told, the more necessary it is to lie again. By their openness, people dedicated to the truth live in the open, and through the exercise of their courage to live in the open, they become free from fear.”Tagged: Life, Honesty, Truth
“Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live,’ said Seneca two millennia ago, ‘and what will amaze you even more, throughout life one must learn to die.”Tagged: Life, Death, Grow, Learning
“The feeling of being valuable—‘I am a valuable person’—is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.”Tagged: Life, Self-Love
“So if your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution. First, you cannot achieve them without suffering, and second, insofar as you do achieve them, you are likely to be called on to serve in ways more painful to…”Tagged: Life, Suffering, Growing Up
“Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.”Tagged: Love, Self-Love, Loving Yourself