“Love is the Answer, God is the Cure!”
“It’s been my observation I said, “that you humans are more than the sum of your history. You can choose how much of your ancestry to embrace. You can overcome the expectations of your family and your society. What you cannot do, and should never do, is try to be someone other than yourself–Piper McLean.”
“Throughout the English dictionary you will find only one most selfish one letter word- I”
“Before this moment, I have never wished to be something other than what I am. Never felt so keenly the lack of hands with which to touch, the lack of arms with which to hold. Why did they give me this sense of self? Why allow me the intellect by which to measure this complete inadequacy? I would rather be numb than stand here in the light of a sun that can never chase the chill away”
“See yourself living in abundance and you will attract it. It always works, it works every time with every person”
“When you’re seventy-five, you are still going to be you.”
“Money is only used for two things. One, it s to make you comfortable, and the more comfortable you are the more creative you will become. And the other purpose is it enables you to extend the service you provide far beyond your own presence.”
“Learn to say to the abuser in a firm voice, Stop it. Do not explain yourself, your needs, or what you mean. Simply call a halt to the abuse, and let that be your final word.”
“If not in the moment, where do you propose to live?”
“Fault is past tense. Responsibility is present tense. Fault results from choices that have already been made. Responsibility results from the choices you re currently making, every second of every day. There s a difference between blaming someone else for your situation and that person s actually being responsible for your situation. Nobody else is ever responsible for your situation but you. Many people may be to blame for your unhappiness, but nobody is ever responsible for your unhappiness but you. This is because you always get to choose how you see things, how you react to things, how you value things.”
“The sheer act of persistently expressing our thoughts on some subject causes us to learn more about that subject, even when no new information has been provided from without.”
“We erect a statue in our own image inside ourselves - idealised, you know, but still recognisable - and then spend our lives engaged in the effort to make ourselves into its likeness.”
“Whenever you write down a perception or an idea, you reinforce the behavior of being perceptive or creative. Whenever you fail to describe or record such insights, you reinforce the behavior of being unperceptive and uncreative. Simple, isn’t it?”
“Just get started.”
“Meteorologists seem to be better at forecasting the weather (at least in the short term) than we are at forecasting our own mood in the future.”
“What is it that inspires you? What do you love to do? What would you do for free? At the beginning of my busi-ness career, my why was to become a millionaire—not a good why! And why not? Because that is an aspiration rather than a why. Aspirations, I have found, won’t fuel me when the going gets tough. But a true “why” will.”
“How do you sleep when there is so much to say and no one to listen?”