The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values-carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
watching someone else have the success you want is painful but you have to trust that you’ll find your own way to it
We Carry the Sky
mckayla robbin
Everything in life is a mental picture. Every goal you have begins as a picture in your mind. And anything you don’t like about yourself or your life can be changed by changing your mental pictures. Never forget: Even forgiveness is a mental picture.”
Psycho-Cybernetics
Maxwell Maltz
Every day, think as you wake up, ‘I am fortunate to be alive. I have a precious human life. I am not going to waste it,’”
The Book of Joy
Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Carlton Abrams
We create most of our suffering, so it should be logical that we also have the ability to create more joy. It simply depends on the attitudes, the perspectives, and the reactions we bring to situations and to our relationships with other people.
The Book of Joy
Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Carlton Abrams