“The gratitude you receive from others is a reflection of your genius.”

But what if we took it one step further and made an effort to actually transform our pain into something beautiful? What if we went full out and made an effort to transform other people’s pain into something beautiful?

People magazine with a bag of sour cream and onion chips always makes be feel a bit trashy. But good trashy.

It’s a great privilege to dream.

Shift your energy from protecting yourself from failure to squeezing the life out of life.

The cosmos doesn’t measure sweat and hours for reward. The cosmos deals in the currencies of joy and satisfaction.

Apologizing makes me feel vulnerable. And strong. Expressing gratitude makes me feel vulnerable. And strong. Maybe there’s something to this vulnerability/strength connection, eh?

If your goals aren’t synced with the substance of your heart, then achieving them won’t matter much.

Love the necessary hard work.

If you try to keep your most sacred ambitions off of your weekly calendar and your most genuine traits off of your resume, then you’re missing out on the power of real integrity.

Your life unfolds in proportion to your courage.

What if desire wasn’t an urge to be tamed, but a beacon of truth to be followed?

Forget about being impressive and commit to being real.

Gratitude is like love or fresh air – you can’t get too much of it.

The moment you say yes to acting on your desire is the real beginning.

Don’t let your want for perfection become procrastination

Don’t let perfection become procrastination . Do it now.

One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

I’m not a genius. I’m just a hard-working guy.

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.

“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.