If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series…
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Quotes tagged ‘Self-Direction’
Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
There's a point when you go with what you've got. Or you don't go.
It is easier to act your way into a new way of thinking rather than to think your way into a new way of acting.
Though their values are liberal and their methods unconventional, ENFPs are incredibly driven folk who almost always have a clear-cut goal in mind. They don’t want to go wherever the wind blows them – they want to embody the storm. And they’ll take down whatever stands in their way.
You can have all the faith you want in spirits and the afterlife, heaven and hell, but when it comes to the world, don't be an idiot, because you can tell me that you put your faith in God to get through the day but when it comes time to cross the road, I know you look both ways.
— Sara B. Cooper, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com
Patient: Times changes everything. House: That's what people say. It's not true. Doing things changes things. Not doing things leaves things exactly as they were.
Destiny is for losers. It’s just a stupid excuse to wait for things to happen instead of making them happen.
One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do.
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never even have imagined. The coincidences or little miracles that happen every day of your life are hints that the universe has much bigger plans for you than you ever dreamed of for yours…
Every great change is preceded by chaos.
Within every desire is the mechanics of its fulfillment.
When the pain of being the same becomes greater than the pain of being different, you change.
To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.
When you make a choice, you change the future.
You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.
The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.
I thought it would all fall into place. I’ve changed my mind. Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions.
The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions.
Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.