In the corporate world, I had been so busy being busy, I never had time to think about life. And yet reflection and contemplation are among the most important of all business skills. I’ve since realised that in this informations-led world we live in, ideas are the commodity of success and the most effective people are the most effective thinkers
He did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time of crying in the corner of the dark cave and thought of it as when he learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn’t work. It wasn’t just that it was wrong to do, or that it was considered incorrect. It was more than that–it didn’t work.
Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.”
(via rest-run-replenish)
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own.
And you know what you know. You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.”
“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try!”
Dr. Seuss
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Maya Angelou
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away”
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
(via freshcleanfit)
(via explore-blog)
I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.
