“Don’t surround yourself with people who just affirm you. Surround yourself with people who challenge you.”

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

The past does not equal the future.

There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.

If you want to change your life you have to raise your standards.

Repetition is the mother of skill.

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Activity without purpose is the drain of your life.

Power moves with you when you have an intent to serve more than yourself.

The simple truth is, the more we care about others, the more alive and engaged we’re going to feel.

Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.

In the dynamic experience of life, problems come and go, but the human spirit endures.

Your income right now is a result of your standards, it is not the industry, it is not the economy.

If you can’t, you must. If you must, you can.

Consciousness is a concept that can sound esoteric, but all it really means is caring.

Everybody’s life is either rewarding or an example.

The U.S. affirms freedom of speech.[Vladimir] Putin is no friend of freedom of speech.

My purpose here is to affirm that the unitive state is a hidden path in itself, a movement in its own right that ultimately leads to no-self (no true-self and no-union). In short, the unitive state is the hidden path to no-self.

Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.

I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.

It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.

We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is also a selection of values, a coordination of hierarchies, a more amply developed sense of individual responsibility.

Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.

But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.