Saturday, March 16, 2013

What's missing in many people's beliefs about success?



“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi


“If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.” ~ Steve Maraboli

“It's never easy to admit you've made a mistake, but it's a crucial step in learning, growing, and improving yourself. You have to examine, among other things, how to learn from your mistakes. You can only learn from a mistake after

Sunday, March 3, 2013

So who’s in control of your life? Who’s pulling your strings?


“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” ~ Oscar Wilde



“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.” ~ Virginia Woolf

We are so desperate for the approval of others that we live unhappy and limited lives, denying huge swathes of ourselves and failing to do the things we really want to do because we’re worried about what other people will think. Just as drug addicts and alcoholics live impoverished lives to keep getting their fix, so we impoverish