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“Since consumption attracts spending and production attracts earning, becoming a net producer may help you better fulfill your holistic needs. It may also endow you with abilities to become more useful to others, and you may even increase your sense of accomplishment and self-esteem.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“if you live much of your life without being sensitive to your own demise, you can also become complacent to the point of allowing your life to pass by.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“By rewarding people and holding them accountable as needed, you may be able to encourage good conduct to thrive and bad ones to diminish. This may deter people from abusing resources or violating rules, and you may even prompt them to become more responsible and contributive.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“By brightening your beliefs and everyday reactions to things, you may make others more inclined to interact with you and see you favorably. This may make them more likely to respect your inputs and help you out, and you may even become more likely to obtain the outcomes or goals you seek.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“Your food instinct is at work during most of your waking hours, and can provide you with many signals about what, when or how you should eat.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“Remember, the real aggressors are not going to hold back and play by the rules. This is why you want to train holistically by going through a variety of scenarios — so that you don’t get caught up by surprise when a new scenario hits you.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“If all you do is cut corner or exploit your surroundings, then the dissatisfied parties may eventually bring about your failure.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“As you eliminate more and more bad influences around you, you may become more skilled and more knowledgeable in curating people. This may lead you to associate with more people who can support you, and you may even get more peace of mind whether you are at work or at home.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“Indeed, by reminding yourself that your offerings might be life-changing, you may begin to see selling from being annoying to being a duty: it’s a greatest thing you can do to show that you are a valuable human, and it’s a greatest thing you can do to lift people out of poverty.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“As you strive to become the most attractive version of yourself, you may come to realize that being attractive is really about improving the world.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“By going beyond short-term gains and trading in a way that everyone wins, you may be able to foster exchanges that truly improve your surroundings.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“Just as you can allow your outcomes to determine how you behave and react, you can also choose to reclaim your agency and apply it to your own circumstances. By exercising this unique right of selecting your own responses, you may turn from a victim to an agent who is more in control of your life.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“In fact, by continuing to narrow your focus on high-income tasks, you may realize that people need you to improve your rate and help them too.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“Physical health is not something that is a given. Rather, it is something that has to be continually maintained.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“If you continue to exhibit many behaviors that are burdensome to people, you can also prompt them to see you as a taker who is only in it for themselves. This may cause them to treat you as a liability that worsens their problems, and you may even become increasingly isolated and devoid of health.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“Personal sustainability — sustainability at the personal level — may be the most fundamental form of sustainability we should tackle, because without it, other forms of sustainability may become improbable or even impossible.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“By staying close to the people who are your true supporters, you may cut off many relationships that are transactional, abusive or harmful.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“In fact, as you allow controlled shock to transform your life from the inside out, you may discover that it is these moments of shock that make you feel the most alive.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“You may see your grudges hurt you more than they hurt your enemies.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“By making conflict resolution one of your utmost priorities, you may come to realize that it is by transcending conflicts that humans can flourish.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“By letting go of your personas that restrict what you say and do, you may find that it’s more liberating to act like you are and say what you think. This may help you express yourself better and connect with others more deeply, and you may even reduce your stress and garner more allies or support you need.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“If you make a habit of dismissing or catastrophizing your setbacks, you can also fall into a feedback loop that causes those reactions to magnify.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“As you spend more hours and gain more valuable experiences under the sun, you’ll develop a keener sense on what counts as good sun exposures over time. You would be able to tell whether a skin tingling is great for your body — or whether it is a sign that you are mistaken and “burning yourself alive”.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“By structuring your practices to avoid major money pitfalls, you may be able to spare yourself from losses in income or rises in spending. This may help you make better decisions in your career, investments and savings, and you may even maintain better control of your family’s financial destiny.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“If you’re like many, you may even strive to improve your mental health while exposing yourself to many things that can actively hamper it.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“By capitalizing on your blessings rather than your mishaps or misfortunes, you may be able to defuse your negativity and improve how you behave and think.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“By proactively resolving relational issues without dodging or imposing, you may be able to defuse many clashes without dramas or externalities.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“Money is just the current main medium for exchanging valuable things.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“If you want to conquer the beliefs that hinder your achievements, you would want to maintain the habit of challenging your thoughts on a regular basis.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“By choosing foods that are minimally processed and that retain much of their structures, you may be able to enjoy meals that are less polluted and more nutritionally sound.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond