Finally, get involved in something that’s meaningful to you—a hobby, a charity, a political cause.
JAY SHETTYIt is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.
More Jay Shetty Quotes
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We think that success equals happiness, but this idea is an illusion.
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Strengthened my resolve.
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Tracking my fear of exam results and the other branch fears that appeared led me to the root: fearing I couldn’t make my parents happy
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When you try to live your most authentic life, some of your relationships will be put in jeopardy. Losing them is a risk worth bearing; finding a way to keep them in your life is a challenge worth taking on.
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Don’t judge the moment.
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When you’re brushing, just brush. When you’re showering, just shower.
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But when we look for the good in others, we start to see the best in ourselves too.
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I wish is code for I don’t want to do anything differently.
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A monk mind practices detachment. We realize that everything—from our houses to our families—is borrowed.
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Revenge is the mode of ignorancev-vit’s often said that you can’t fix yourself by breaking someone else.
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You don’t get to be a jerk just because you’re skilled.
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Criticizing someone else’s work ethic doesn’t make you work harder.
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You are not your success or your failure.
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Remember, saying whatever we want, whenever we want, however we want, is not freedom. Real freedom is not feeling the need to say these things.
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Most of our communication is nonverbal.
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When we bluff our way through life, pretending to be who we are not, we end up looking worse than we truly are.
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So people who come to this place, stay here for a while, and then continue their journey. Sounds like a hotel to me.
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No matter how much we grow, we are never free of daily chores and routines, but to be enlightened is to embrace them. The outside may look the same, but inside you are transformed.
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Negativity is a trait, not someone’s identity.
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Actually, the greatest detachment is being close to everything and not letting it consume and own you. That’s real strength.
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Life’s too short to live without purpose, to lose our chance to serve, to let our dreams and aspirations die with us.
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It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.
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Cancers of the Mind: Comparing, Complaining, Criticizing.
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You can’t be anything you want. But you can be everything you are.
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Fear makes us fiction writers.
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We are all connected; to each other, biologically. To the Earth, chemically. And to the rest of the universe, atomically.
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