“Next time you reach for your wallet to buy a metaphorical rubber frog, don’t let the lure of the material induce you to forgo all the happiness benefits of the experiential.”
― Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending
― Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending
“Your potential, the absolute best you’re capable of—that’s the metric to measure yourself against. Your standards are. Winning is not enough. People can get lucky and win. People can be assholes and win. Anyone can win. But not everyone is the best possible version of themselves.”
― Ego Is the Enemy
― Ego Is the Enemy
“Life is unpredictable, and it likes to remind you of this at the most inopportune times. In order to be successful, you must be flexible. Things won’t go your way. Life will throw a wrench in your plan as soon as you finish constructing it.”
― Tony Robbins: 101 Greatest Life Lessons and Quotes From Anthony Robbins
― Tony Robbins: 101 Greatest Life Lessons and Quotes From Anthony Robbins
“In failure or adversity, it’s so easy to hate. Hate defers blame. It makes someone else responsible. It’s a distraction too; we don’t do much else when we’re busy getting revenge or investigating the wrongs that have supposedly been done to us.”
― Ego Is the Enemy
― Ego Is the Enemy
“We seem divided between an urge to override our senses and numb ourselves to our settings and a contradictory impulse to acknowledge the extent to which our identities are indelibly connected to, and will shift along with, our locations.”
― The Architecture of Happiness
― The Architecture of Happiness
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