“A critical task of science is to provide clear nomenclature — precise terms that sharpen our understanding of patterned phenomena in the outside world and inside the mind,” – Dacher Kelter
“A new wave of thinking about power reveals that it is given to us by others rather than grabbed. We gain power by acting in ways that improve the lives of other people in our social networks.” – Dacher Kelter
“Today’s popular notion of the self mistakes feelings and desires for self-knowledge.” – Leah Finnegan
“If you look at the people in your circle and don’t get inspired, then you don’t have a circle, you have a cage.” – Nipsey Hussle
“Your body is not your masterpiece, it’s your paintbrush to transfer your insides onto the canvas of your life – where others can see it and be inspired and comforted by it.” – Glennon Melton (paraphrased)
“A grudge is a wound that you cling to, hoping to be rewarded for it.” – Shaun Roundy
“Toxic masculinity is not manly, it’s apeish. Don’t just toughen up, dare to soften up and love everyone.” – Shaun Roundy
“God is more interested in changing you than changing things for you so you don’t have to change.” – Shaun Roundy
“The best way to change your future is to change the version of the past you carry with you.” – Shaun Roundy
“Most of what we give meaning to is based on what we compare it to.” – Peter Sage
“If you are complaining about something that has already happened, then you’re wasting your time.” – Peter Sage
“Life is not a comfort-centric experience, but a growth-centric experience.” – Peter Sage
“The strongest force in the human personality is the need to remain consistent with how you define yourself.” – Tony Robbins
“Humility is our most misunderstood and underappreciated virtue. It’s the opposite of what most people think and twenty times better. It doesn’t mean being less than anyone else, but transcending the concept of competition.” – Shaun Roundy
“If you’d rather be loved than envied, then rather than struggling to be cool and attractive, strive to be alive and interested.” – Shaun Roundy
“It takes energy and effort to pay attention to someone. If you can’t do that, you’re not in a conversation. You’re just two people shooting out barely related sentences in the same place.” – Celeste Headlee
“What then is time? If no one asks me, then I know. If I wish to explain it to someone who asks, I know it not.” – St Augustine
“Don’t Cling to a Mistake Just Because You Spent a lot of Time Making it.” – Aubrey De Graf
“Don’t Cling to a Mistake Just Because You Spent a lot of Time Making it.” – Aubrey De Graf
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” – Annie Dillard
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” – Annie Dillard
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.” – Rumi
“We define reality by the portrait of our past, which is doomed to become our future unless we alter it in the present.” – Shaun Roundy
“Beneath every behavior is a feeling. And beneath every feeling is a need. And when we meet that need rather than focus on the behavior, we begin to deal with the cause, not the symptom.” – Ashleigh Warner
“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.” – William Shakespeare
“Don’t only bloom where you are planted, plant yourself where you bloom.” – Shaun Roundy
“What didn’t you do to bury me, but you forgot that I was a seed.” – Dinos Christianopoulos
“If you want someone to eat humble pie, it’s much more likely if you add a little sugar to the recipe.” – Shaun Roundy
“Life is amazing. And then it’s awful. And then it’s amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it’s ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That’s just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it’s breathtakingly beautiful.” – L.R. Knost
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
“I don’t necessarily have to like my players and associates, but as their leader, I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.” – Vince Lombardi
“Integrity is courage over comfort, choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy.” – Brene Brown
“It’s all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.” – Rob Gilbert
“Personality is just a combination of habits, of states of thinking and acting and feeling in the world, and we can change these habits.” – Scott Kaufman.
“Your body is not your masterpiece – your life is. It is suggested to us a million times a day that our bodies are projects. They aren’t. Our lives are. Our spirituality is. Our relationships are. Our work is. Stop spending all day obsessing, cursing, perfecting your body like it’s all you’ve got to offer the world. Your body is not your art, it’s your paintbrush. Whether your paintbrush is a tall paintbrush or a thin paintbrush or a stocky paintbrush or a scatched up paintbrush is completely irrelevant. What is relevant is that you have a paintbrush which can be used to transfer your insides onto the canvas of your life – where others can see it and be inspired and comforted by it.” – Glennon Melton
“Happiness is a reaction to doing and being something else, so be grateful, be engaged, be expressive, connected, confident, curious, active, awake, inspired, alive, interested, hopeful, healthy, loving, forgiving, and take another step toward a worthwhile goal.” – Shaun Roundy
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you want to live in a better world, then make a habit of encouraging and rewarding excellence. If all you care about is adequate, then that’s what you’ll get.” – Shaun Roundy
“Fighting only destroys the enemy. Kindness destroys enmity.” – Kesari (movie)
“Your relationship with yourself becomes the template for all the other relationships you form.” – Diane Von Furstenberg