You Are Not Your Bank Account

"You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You’re not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love."

-— Anne Lamott

Try To Be Better Than Myself

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."

-— Mikhail Baryshnikov

What You Focus On Comes To You

"If you walk in with fear and anger, you’ll find fear and anger. Go into situations with what you want to find there.… When you worry, you’re holding pictures in your mind that you want less of.… What you focus upon, you become. What you focus on comes to you. So hold in your mind what you want more of."

-— John Roger

Connect To The Natural Abundance in Life

"Use a skill or talent you have — cooking, accounting, decorating—to help someone who could benefit from it. It’ll jumpstart  your transition from a go-getter to a go-giver, and reconnect you to the world and to the natural abundance in your own life."

-- Arianna Huffington

Don't Let The Same Problem Make You Miserable

"Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say “so what.” That’s one of my favorite things to say."

—- Andy Warhol

Everything We Do Count

"If we really want to live we must have the courage to recognize that life is ultimately very short, and that everything we do counts."

-- Arianna Huffington

The Joy of Life

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

-— Rabindranath Tagore

Constantly Give Yourself Retreat

"People look for retreats for themselves, in the country, by the coast, or in the hills … There is nowhere that a person can find a more peaceful and trouble-free retreat than in his own mind.… So constantly give yourself this retreat, and renew yourself.

-— Marcus Aurelius

The Greatest Weapon Against Stress

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."

-— William James

Want To Stop Procrastinating?

"Start a self-help group or podcast on how to stop procrastinating. It’s tough to be the leader of a group that teaches people to not procrastinate if you’re a procrastinator yourself. Leading other people in how to stop procrastinating can make it easier for the leader to stop procrastinating, too."

-- Sean D. Young