Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield/Quotes
Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Ridicule is the best test of truth.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
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Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell
Ten thousand hours is equivalent to roughly three hours a day, or 20 hours a week, of practice over 10 years… No one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery.
—Daniel Levitin
Practice isn't the thing you do once
you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.
Henry Ward Beecher/Quotes
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
The way of a superior Man – David Deida
Feminine bad moods and hysterical emotions - take the moment as a challenge to your ability to conquer the world, and your woman, with love. train yourself to master the world— Give your gift. Keep your breath full. Keep your body strong. Keep your attention present. No matter what your woman says or does, give
her love. Press your belly into her. Smile. Scream and then lick
her face. Do whatever it takes to crack the shell of her closure,
get your love inside that crack, and touch her heart. Learn to
enjoy her anger, her tears, her silent hardness. The world will give
you the same at times.
There is a specific exercise you can perform throughout sex
and also during the approach to orgasm. By doing this exercise
you will convert the direction of the orgasm, so instead of ejaculating
out your penis, you will "ejaculate" up your spine, experiencing
intense bodily bliss and emotional openness, far beyond
the quick pleasure and depleted peace following an ejaculative
orgasm.
To practice this exercise, you must learn to consciously contract
the muscles of the floor of your pelvis. This area includes
your genitals, anus, and perineum, which is the space between
your anus and genitals. This exercise of contracting your pelvic
floor feels a lot like you are trying to stop yourself from going to
the bathroom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson/Quotes
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Napoleon Hill – Think and Grow Rich
“By the first day of January, 19.., I will have in my possession $50,000, which
will come to me in various amounts from time to time during the interim.
“In return for this money I will give the most efficient service of which I am
capable, rendering the fullest possible quantity, and the best possible quality of
service in the capacity of salesman of (describe the service or merchandise you
intend to sell).
“I believe that I will have this money in my possession. My faith is so strong
that I can now see this money before my eyes. I can touch it with my hands. It
is now awaiting transfer to me at the time, and in the proportion that I deliver
the service I intend to render in return for it. I am awaiting a plan by which to
accumulate this money, and I will follow that plan, when it is received.”
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox gave evidence of her understanding of the power of the subconscious
mind when she wrote:
“You never can tell what a thought will do
In bringing you hate or love-
For thoughts are things, and their airy wings
Are swifter than carrier doves.
They follow the law of the universe-
Each thing creates its kind,
And they speed O’er the track to bring you back
Whatever went out from your mind.”
There are seven major positive emotions, and seven major negative emotions.
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Every night, over a long period of years, I held an imaginary Council meeting with
this group whom I called my “Invisible Counselors.” The procedure was this. Just before going to sleep at night, I would shut my eyes, and see, in my imagination, this group of men seated with me around my Council Table. Here I had not only an opportunity to sit among those whom I considered to be great, but I actually dominated the group, by serving as the Chairman.
1. “Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.” ―James A. Michener
2. “Winners never quit, and quitters never win.” ―Vince Lombardi
3. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” ―Nelson Mandela
4. “How long should you try? Until.” ―Jim Rohn
5. “There is no failure except in no longer trying.” ―Elbert Hubbard
6. “You just can’t beat the person who won’t give up.” ―Babe Ruth
7. “Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.” ―Winston Churchill
8. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” ―Dale Carnegie
9. “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” ―Harriet Beecher Stowe
10. “You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up.” ―Chuck Yeager
11. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” ―Thomas Edison
12. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ―Confucius
13. “If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.” ―Jesse Jackson
14. “Survival can be summed up in three words―never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.” ―Bear Grylls
15. “Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” ―Conrad Hilton
Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now
Problems are mind-made and need time to survive. They cannot survive in the actuality of the Now.
darkness cannot survive in the presence of light.
the joy of Being depends on nothing outside itself.
You "get" there by realizing that you are there already.
You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God. There is only one point of access: the Now.
If you observe unconscious behavior in your partner, hold it in the loving embrace of your knowing so that you won't react. Unconsciousness and knowing cannot coexist for long - even if the knowing is only in the other person and not in the one who is acting out the unconsciousness. The energy form that lies behind hostility and attack finds the presence of love absolutely intolerable. If you react at all to your partner's unconsciousness, you become unconscious yourself. But if you then remember to know your reaction, nothing is lost.
Learn to give expression to what you feel without blaming. Learn to listen to your partner in an open, non-defensive way. Give your partner space for expressing himself or herself. Be present. Accusing, defending, attacking - all those patterns that are designed to strengthen or protect the ego or to get its needs met will then become redundant. Giving space to others - and to yourself - is vital.
Seen from a higher perspective, conditions are neither positive nor negative. They are as they are. And when you live in complete acceptance of what is - which is the only sane way to live - there is no "good" or "bad" in your life anymore. There is only a higher good - which includes the "bad." You are not pretending anything. You are allowing it to be as it is, that's all. This "allowing to be" takes you beyond the mind with its resistance patterns that create the positive-negative polarities. For example, when a loved one has just died, or you feel your own death approaching, you cannot be happy. It is impossible. But you can be at peace.
When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore.
You can still make your point clearly and firmly, but there will be no reactive
force behind it, no defense or attack. So it won’t turn into drama. When you are fully conscious,
you cease to be in conflict. "No one who is at one with himself can even conceive of conflict,"
states A Course in Miracles. This refers not only to conflict with other people but more
fundamentally to conflict within you, which ceases when there is no longer any clash between the
demands and expectations of your mind and what is.
There are cycles of success, when things come to you and thrive, and cycles of failure,
when they wither or disintegrate and you have to let them go in order to make room for new
things to arise, or for transformation to happen. If you cling and resist at that point, it means
you are refusing to go with the flow of life, and you will suffer.
Failure lies concealed in every success, and success in every failure.
What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness.
Illness is not the problem. You are the problem - as long as the egoic mind is in control.
Anything "bad" that happens in your life - use it for enlightenment. Let it force you into intense present-moment awareness - and see what happens. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.
Suffering does not diminish in intensity when you make it unconscious.
When you deny emotional pain, everything you do or think as well as your relationships
become contaminated with it. You broadcast it, so to speak, as the energy you emanate, and
others will pick it up subliminally. If they are unconscious, they may even feel compelled to
attack or hurt you in some way, or you may hurt them in an unconscious projection of your
pain. You attract and manifest whatever corresponds to your inner state.
When there is no way out, there is still always a way through. So don't turn away from the
pain. Face it. Feel it fully. Feel it - don't think about it! Express it if necessary, but don't create
a script in your mind around it. Give all your attention to the feeling, not to the person, event,
or situation that seems to have caused it. Don't let the mind use the pain to create a victim
identity for yourself out of it. Feeling sorry for yourself and telling others your story will
keep you stuck in suffering. Since it is impossible to get away from the feeling, the only
possibility of change is to move into it; otherwise, nothing will shift. So give your complete
attention to what you feel, and refrain from mentally labeling it. As you go into the feeling,
be intensely alert. At first, it may seem like a dark and terrifying place, and when the urge to
turn away from it comes, observe it but don't act on it. Keep putting your attention on the
pain, keep feeling the grief, the fear, the dread, the loneliness, whatever it is. Stay alert, stay
present - present with your whole Being, with every cell of your body. As you do so, you are
bringing a light into this darkness. This is the flame of your consciousness.
At this stage, you don't need to be concerned with surrender anymore. It has happened
already. How? Full attention is full acceptance, is surrender. By giving full attention, you use
the power of the Now, which is the power of your presence. No hidden pocket of resistance
can survive in it. Presence removes time. Without time, no suffering, no negativity, can
survive.
The acceptance of suffering is a journey into death. Facing deep pain, allowing it to be,
taking your attention into it, is to enter death consciously. When you have died this death, you
realize that there is no death - and there is nothing to fear. Only the ego dies.
The word God is limiting because it implies an entity other than you. God is Being itself, not a being.
The incomprehensible fact is that you are not conscious of God.
The way of the cross is a complete reversal. It means that the worst thing in your life,
your cross, turns into the best thing that ever happened to you, by forcing you into surrender,
into "death," forcing you to become as nothing, to become as God - because God, too, is nothing.
Enlightenment through suffering - the way of the cross - means to be forced into the
kingdom of heaven kicking and screaming. You finally surrender because you can’t stand the
pain anymore. You then don't need pain anymore. How much
more time do you think you will need before you are able to say "I will create no more pain,
no more suffering?" How much more pain do you need before you can make that choice?
If you think that you need more time, you will get more time - and more pain. Time and
pain are inseparable.
Your friend is stuck in a relationship with an abusive partner, and not for the first time.
Why? No choice. The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it
knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful, at least it is familiar. The mind always
adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That's
why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment.
Only through accessing the power of the Now, which
is your own power, can there be true forgiveness.
Stephen Covey - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Insecure people think that all reality should be amenable to their paradigms. They have a high need to clone others, to mold them over into their own thinking. They don't realize that the very strength of the relationship is in having another point of view. Sameness is not oneness; uniformity is not unity. Unity, or oneness, is complementariness, not sameness. Sameness is uncreative...and boring. The essence of synergy is to value the differences.
When you see only two alternatives -- yours and the "wrong" one -- you can look for a synergistic Third Alternative. There's almost always a Third Alternative, and if you work with a win-win philosophy and really seek to understand, you usually can find a solution that will be better for everyone concerned. You can exercise the courage in interdependent situations to be open, to express your ideas, your feelings, and your experiences in a way that will encourage other people to be open also. You can value the difference in other people. When someone disagrees with you, you can say, "Good! You see it differently." You don't have to agree with them; you can simply affirm them. And you can seek to understand. You can be synergistic within yourself even in the midst of a very adversarial environment. You don't have to take insults personally. You can sidestep negative energy; you can look for the good in others and utilize that good, as different as it may be, to improve you point of view and to enlarge your perspective.
Tony Robbins Morning & Evening Power Questions
Morning Power Questions
- What am I happy about in my life now?
- What am I excited about in my life now?
- What am I proud about in my life now?
- What am I grateful about in my life now?
- What am I enjoying most in my life now?
- What am I committed to in my life now?
- Who do I love? Who loves me?
Evening Power Questions
- What have I given today?
- What did I learn today?
- How has today added to the quality of my life or how can I use today as an investment in my future?
I have decided to add these to my daily routine towards a better life for me! Its a part of my "master plan" towards success. ;)
If I tell people about it, it makes me accountable!
