Excellence in life, is like a play. For your real life play, the quality of the actors you bring on your life’s stage, determine your success. Always choose the best, most excellent actors.

Your power to choose can never be taken from you. It can be neglected and it can be ignored. But if used, it can make all the difference.

Confidence is a life ingredient that is essential to success and wholeness. It is perhaps the single most important trait that enables seemingly average people to do and become all that they can. And the...

Allowing people to contribute in your life is a leap of faith. And that comes gradually with self actualization and overcoming fears of uncertainty.

A Credo: For the 21st Century eudaimonas architect of choosing…choose. to. live.awakened. entirely. wholly.wildly powerful, deeply masterful, authentically creative,thriving. this is not a hoped-for possible self.[reminder: we were born this way]needing not to learn the skill of being...

The rough must always accompany the smooth. Without one or the other one learns nothing about oneself.

Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.

I’d always vaguely expected to outgrown my limitations.

No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

And if anyone has trouble understanding that, well, they can kiss my ass.

Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but … life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for

What you have to decide… is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you’d want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is...

It was only after two years’ work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a...

Settling for what is comfortable is one of the biggest enemies to our enlargement…In every season of life…we need to be committed to enlarging our personal capacity (even when it’s not comfortable). We need to...

Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

During self-reflection, the realization came that revolution begins within.

The most important freedom is the freedom to be all you’re destined to be

In my experience, I’ve found myself to be inexperienced. But at least I found myself. Some people spend their lives searching in vain.

Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

First find your crown and then wear it, then your crowd will come towards you with ovations

There is no greater moment in life than that when we discover the unique design which has shaped our lives from the moment of birth, save one:The instant we recognize destiny, accept it and then...

As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: “What is his point of reference here?” But begin with yourself: examine yourself first.

We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great courage. We enjoy and even thrill to godlike possibilities we...

I’m like Waldo, in that I’m trying to find myself. And I’m wearing a red and white striped sweater.

Whatever you is, Onion,” he said, “be it full.

If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the...

Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?

Gen. Matthew Ridgeway “intended not to impose his will on his men, but to allow the men under him to find something in themselves that would make them more confident, more purposeful fighting men. It...

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately happy. What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization.

Before I’ll take my clone on as a pupil in the craft of writing, he must prove his worthiness. He must write 100 thoughts down, of which 10 might be interesting. If he’s done that,...

Mannequins can’t dress themselves. Stones go wherever you throw them.

To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have her independent existence and she will continue nonetheless to exist...

Within you, you will find everything you need to be complete.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

The greatest way to overcome resentment of past is by gratitude of present. What you have, your friends your family, the things that you have overcome but most importantly what you plan to do now....

By not letting me turn you into something you’re not, you’ve helped me be more of myself.

A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization!

As we habitually engage our inner wisdom–in thought, word and deed– the latent possibilities of living our highest wholeness awakens.

The journey was a surreal dream. This world was about knowing the person you’d always wanted to be and setting your foot down to it, remembering the person you’d thought you were as a child...