Quotes from Books

You are the only one who can change your life.

If you want to change your life, you have to stop doing the things that are holding you back.

Your thoughts shape your reality; make them count.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

You can’t be a powerful and life-changing presence for some people without also being a joke and an embarrassment to others.

The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience.

You are not special. Your problems are not special. Your struggles are universal.

Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.

The only thing harder than starting a company is running a company.

There are no easy answers to hard problems.

As a founder, you have to be able to make decisions without perfect information.

The thing that has helped me most in life is my faith in God.

I don’t care what my rifle is. I care about what’s in my heart.

The only thing I can do is my job, and that’s to protect the people I love.

You know that when I hate you, it’s because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.

I’m not sure what I expected. I’m not sure what I wanted.

You’re not a monster. You’re just a girl.

I’m not going to let you go. Not now, not ever.

We are not only irrational, but we are predictably irrational.

The way we see the world is often a reflection of the way we expect it to be.

Our irrationality is not just a flaw; it is a fundamental aspect of human behavior.

Understanding the hidden forces that shape our decisions can help us avoid pitfalls.

The only thing that ever stands between you and your highest good is your own belief that you don't deserve it.

Your zone of genius is the place where your greatest talents and passions come together.

The Big Leap invites you to discover the power of your true self and embrace your full potential.

The key to successful influence is to understand the principles behind it.

People are more likely to comply with requests when they feel a sense of obligation.

Scarcity increases the perceived value of an item or idea.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Change before you have to.

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

I never liked the idea of being a writer. I didn't want to be a writer; I wanted to be a poet.

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Courage, dear heart.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

I am my own special creation.

Love is an act of will – namely, both an intention and an action.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through love.

To love well is to experience life fully.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The greatest gift you can give to others is your presence.

Therapy is not about the therapist; it’s about the relationship.

We can never know what our lives will be like when we are in love.

The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life’s most intense fulfillment.

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart.

The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of other people, but my own silence.

Is there no way out of the mind?

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components.

There is no such thing as an average writer; every writer has a unique voice.

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so... get on your way!

And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)

Once a king or queen in Narnia, always a king or queen.

Courage, dear heart.

It is the first step that is hardest.

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to be happy.

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

I thought I could remove grief by a process of will.

What you love most will be the thing that you will grieve for the most.

Investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.

The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.