“I think that most of us feel like something is missing from our lives. And I wondered then if Knight's journey was to seek it. But life isn't about searching endlessly to find what's missing. It's about learning to live with the missing parts.”— Michael Finkel, amazon.com
“We define authenticity as purchasing on the basis of conforming to self-image. 'I like that, I am like that.' Authenticity is about buying into a product that confirms what you already think, or want to think, about yourself. Of course things like quality and durability are all mixed up in that; the…”— Jim Gilmore, amazon.com
“This is your life. Do what you want and do it often. If you don't like something, change it. If you don't like your job, quit. If you don't have enough time, stop watching TV. If you are looking for the love of your life, stop; they will be waiting for you when you start doing things you love. Stop…”— Holestee Manifesto, amazon.com
“The fusion of knowledge and action is the recognition of one's infinite potential.”— Swami Chetanananda, amazon.com
“There is no freedom without uncertainty. But in that freedom, we open ourselves to pass from the battlefield of the warrior, into the cremation ground and, from there, to live as the hero of a truly inspired life.”— Swami Chetanananda, amazon.com
“The very effort to control events means that we restrict ourselves and others to the current level of our own imagination. We fail to recognize other possibilities inherent in a situation because we are too busy trying to make it turn out the way we think we want it to.”— Swami Chetanananda, amazon.com
“Winning a gold medal would surely be wonderful, but would it make me the hero of my own life? Would it sustain me through the pain and suffering that accompany us through life? Winning a gold medal can certainly be the mission of a life, but my goal is to be at peace with myself, and with others. To…”— Swami Chetanananda, amazon.com
“Older people report higher levels of contentment or well-being than teenagers and young adults. The six elders put faces on this statistic. If they were not always gleeful, they were resilient and not paralyzed by the challenges that came their way. All had known loss and survived. None went to a jo…”— John Leland, mobile.nytimes.com
“We have been trained to think in terms of sin and punishment. These ideas disempower us by stressing that we are weak and wrong. The empowering way is to view trials as lessons and opportunities to choose differently. We can transcend the odious notion of being sinners cloaked in guilt, awaiting pun…”— Wayne W. Dyer, amazon.com
“Goal competition says that one of the greatest barriers to achieving your goals is the other goals you have. In other words, your goals are competing with one another for your time and attention. Whenever you chase a new goal, you have to pull focus and energy from your other pursuits. This is basic…”— James Clear, jamesclear.com
“In the book world, we often talk about the power of racial inclusion — and in this respect we’re beginning to see a real shift in the field — but many other facets of diversity remain in the shadows. For instance, an uncomfortable number of children out there right now are crouched beneath a metapho…”— Matt De La Pena, time.com
“A love that’s alive is also constantly evolving. It expands and contracts and mellows and deepens. It’s not going to be the way it used to be, or the way it will be, and it shouldn’t be.”— Paula G., markmanson.net
“It was once suggested to me that, as an antidote to crying, I put my head in a paper bag. As it happens, there is a sound physiological reason, something to do with oxygen, for doing exactly that, but the psychological effect alone is incalculable: it is difficult in the extreme to continue fancying…”— Joan Didion, vogue.com
“Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Although now, some years later, I marvel that a mind on the outs with itself should have nonetheless made painstaking record of its every tr…”— Joan Didion, vogue.com
“The grave's a fine and private place, but none do there embrace. Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the tidal bore on the Amazon, or touch their children. And that's what there is to do and get it while you can and good luck at it.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them,…”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“Rest when you’re tired. Take a break when life stales. Take time to recharge your battery. Energy isn’t something you have—it’s something you are. To give and give and give, to put out without taking in, depletes your battery. It drains you, runs you down.”— Melody Beattie, amazon.com
“All human activity is prompted by desire. There is a wholly fallacious theory advanced by some earnest moralists to the effect that it is possible to resist desire in the interests of duty and moral principle. I say this is fallacious, not because no man ever acts from a sense of duty, but because d…”— Bertrand Russell, amazon.com
“The real me isn't the person I describe, no the real me is the me revealed by my actions.”— Malcom Gladwell, amazon.com