53 quotes found
“Enthusiasm is a form of social courage.”
“Work harder to appreciate your ordinary day.”
“Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.”
“I'd always vaguely expected to outgrown my limitations.”
“What's fun for other people may not be fun for you- and vice versa.”
“I should pursue only those habits that would make me feel freer and stronger.”
“The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet every...”
“Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.”
“There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up.”
“Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but everyday is a clean state and a fresh opportunity.”
“The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.”
“... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to...”
“Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.”
“Accept myself, and expect more of myself. Give myself limits to give myself freedom. Make people happier by acknowledging that theyre not feeling happy. Plan ahead to be spontaneous; only with care...”
“Once I started trying to give positive reviews, though, I began to understand how much happiness I took from the joyous ones in my life---and how much effort it must take for them to be consistentl...”
“I often learn more from one person's highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that detail universal practices or cite up-to-date studies.”
“Studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn't relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other hand, not expressing anger often allows it to disappear without leaving ugly traces.”
“Experts say that denying bad feelings intensifies them, acknowledging bad feelings allows good feelings to return.”
“Although we presume that we act because of the way we feel, in fact we often feel because of the way we act.”
“Say no only when it really matters. Wear a bright red shirt with bright orange shorts? Sure. Put water in the toy tea set? Okay. Sleep with your head at the foot of the bed? Fine. Samuel Johnson sa...”
“When I thought about why I was sometimes reluctant to push myself, I realized that it was because I was afraid of failure - but in order to have more success, I needed to be willing to accept more ...”
“I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly”
