It’s not what you gather but what you scatter that tells you what kind of life you’ve lived.
Tag: people
Take someone who doesn’t keep score, who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he’s free.
Once upon a time, there was an old farmer who had worked his crops for…
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Sometimes we need help from others. And sometimes others need help from us. Whether it’s…
Connection is one of the most powerful forces in the universe. It is the lifeblood…
Per his Wikipedia page, Jordan Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist and a professor of…
When there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do you no harm.
We quickly get offended when people criticize us or gossip about us behind our backs, and understandably so. But what if we took a moment to remember all the wrong things we’ve said and done in our lives (or thought) that nobody knows about. The truth is we are a lot worse than people think. Remember this when you feel tempted to get offended, even if people are not being truthful or giving you a fair shake. What should offend us is the garbage we allow our minds to be polluted with—the same bad energy we recycle back into the world. It’s more important to have a pure heart than a pure reputation. And, at the end of the day, it’s the only thing we have control over.
Imagine you have $86,400 in your account and someone steals $10 from you. Will you be upset and throw all of the $86,390 away in hopes of getting back at the person that took your $10? Or move on and live? Move on and live, right. See, we all have 86,400 seconds every day, so don’t let someone’s negative 10 seconds ruin the rest of the 86,390. Don’t sweat the small stuff, life is bigger than that.
A shark in a fish tank will grow to be 8 inches, but in the ocean it will grow to 8 feet or more. A shark will never outgrow its environment and the same is true about you. Change your environment and watch your growth accelerate.
According to recent data from the World Happiness Report and General Social Survey (link), Americans…
Benjamin Franklin famously quipped, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except…
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
People traveling to the United States for the first time often don’t know what to…
What is it about me that others would change if they could?
The average person speaks around 15-25,000 words in a day. Going a day without conversation…
All the joy the world contains has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains has come through wanting pleasure for oneself.
Our culture is littered with misconceptions about sleep. I often hear things like “If you…
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.
Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.
There are very few men—and they are the exceptions—who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment.
Work expands so as to fill up the time available for its completion.
Just as a treasure exposed is quickly spent, so also any virtue that becomes famous or well publicized vanishes. Just as wax is quickly melted by fire, so the soul is emptied by praise, and loses firmness of virtue.
The Gifts of Imperfection is one of my all-time favorite books. And I know I’m…
Imagine a 30-year old man in the US making $13 an hour working a blue…
HelloTalk is the world’s leading language exchange application. Thousands of people regularly use the program…
When I first got a copy of Mark Manson’s bestseller, I was a little put…
In this article I will say something that flies in the face of conventional wisdom.…
While others search for what they can take, a true king searches for what he…
