“The simple way to distract from fixing your own life is to fix someone else.”

Knowledge is power. But power is useless unless you use it. 

Unhappiness and pain is temporary. Your entire life can change in a year

No one deems you unrealistic after your triumph.

Innovation is no longer optional, its necessary.

Never accept other’s people limits as your own.

Become your biggest advocate. Drop the doubts, fears and insecurities.

Expectations keep us in a victim role. It keeps us blaming & stuck.

You will never reach a goal if you believe every path you take is going to be easy.

No one doubts you after you succeed. Everyone needs proof but you don’t. You know what you’re capable of.

Drop perfectionism, develop persistence.

An expectation is a hidden agenda with control at its root.

The best thing you can do for yourself is find a way back to center – the quicker, the better, the healthier, the better.

Where opportunity meets passion. Beyond that, dreams are possible.

My healing isn’t a choice to abandon others, it’s a choice to no longer abandon myself.

If the world grows darker, our light shines brighter.

Make space to feel both grief and gratitude.

I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.

Being specific about what you want and how you will achieve it helps you say no to things that derail progress, distract your attention, and pull you off course.

I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I’m enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.

We live in a world where too many minds are distracted while their souls are asleep.

Be with someone who loves you with eyes closed. No surface distractions.

Train yourself to let go of what distract your purpose.

Less rushing, more lingering. Less distraction, more noticing. Less comparison, more gratitude.

Love the work, love its worth. Distractions everywhere, interfering. Slowing down the train. Learn to love it daily, the rest leads to pain.