“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit”

Learn when’s a good time to shut up

I’ve never eaten a taco, and I don’t plan to.

Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.

Can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

You can’t change other people or (some) conditions; you can change only your reactions to them.

You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.

First, you’re going to have to stop using food for anything other than nutrition. You cannot continue to use food to celebrate, or as a companion, or for entertainment, or comfort. You cannot medicate yourself, your mood, or pain with food.

In the meantime, let’s agree that what makes a problem big is simply that it’s yours.

These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends’ children, the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you’re comfortable with it.

The truth doesn’t have versions, it just is.

This is no dress rehearsal.

Life’s managed, not cured.

I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me.

Drama and crisis are currency to them because they love the power to make people react. They thrive on a good fight, a good scandal, a good drama.

It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

Daily ripples of excellence -over time- become a tsunami of success.

A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.

The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the same thing over and over. You have to fall in love with boredom.

The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.

I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn’t on the list of the high-achieving.

Less gossiping, more learning. Less complaining, more excelling. Less walls, more bridges. Less fear, more courage.