But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of
the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise."
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions
Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.
We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.
Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.”
We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.