The values scale test
Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.
Be yourself — not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be.
If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures.
Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest.
Success in life means living by your values.
You can fake virtue for an audience. You can’t fake it in your own eyes.
You don't need to justify your love, you don't need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master.
It’s easy to be kind when others treat you well. The challenge is to preserve your loving-kindness when they treat you badly—to preserve goodwill in the face of ill will.
Chase your passion, not your pension.
No matter what you say about your priorities, where you spend money and your time will prove them out.
Priorities are the things you need to get right so the things you love can thrive.
A famous Persian proverb hung on my aunt’s kitchen wall reads, “I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet."
We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.