“Whenever you are faced with darkness… Search for your inner light.” —Jeneen Miller, Author Pieces of Victory”
“Success is a product of focus. Focus comes from having a purpose. Having a purpose comes from being needed. Being needed comes from serving others.”
“Without having a vision for life, people perish. They waste their lives clinging onto the past, and allowing the weight of their regrets, mistakes, failures and missed opportunities to hold them back from drawing up compelling life visions for themselves, filled with goals bigger than themselves.”
“It s how you start and if you finish.”
“Most people don’t like to admit they’re wrong or accept that their perception of reality isn’t helpful nor accurate. People become attached to their beliefs because their identities are so tightly wound up in them. The fondness of familiarity sets people up for failure: their goals get put on hold because they’re burdened with limiting assumptions about their capabilities and potential to go with the flow, take risks and make things happen.”
“The beginning is hard, [Levin] went on. By the end of the day they re restless. Part of it is endurance, part of it is motivation. Part of it is incentives and rewards and fun stuff. Part of it is good old-fashion discipline. You throw all of that into the stew. We talk a lot here about grit and self-control. The kids know what those words mean.”
“This was a helpful step in gaining a new perspective on my past, and my past was a significant proportion of who I believed myself to be. It felt like I had hacked into my own past. Unravelled all the erroneous and poisonous information I had unconsciously lived with and lived by and with necessary witness, the accompaniment of another man, reset the beliefs I had formed as a child and left unamended through unnecessary fear. Suddenly my fraught and freighted childhood became reasonable and soothed. ‘My mum was doing her best, so was my dad.’ Yes, people made mistakes but that’s what humans do, and I am under no obligation to hoard these errors and allow them to clutter my perception of the present. Yes, it is wrong that I was abused as a child but there is no reason for me to relive it, consciously or unconsciously, in the way I conduct my adult relationships. My perceptions of reality, even my own memories, are not objective or absolute, they are a biased account and they can be altered.”
“ou can t think your way into acting differently, but you can act your way into thinking differently.”
“If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren t looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren t looking within.”
“Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung. We make rules that frustrate achievement. We prematurely write off people as failures. And, most of all, we become much too passive. We overlook just how large a role we all play—and by we I mean society—in determining who makes it and who doesn t.”
“Those 3 things—autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward—are, most people agree, the 3 qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying. It is nor how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five, It s whether our work fulfills us.”
“Marita doesn t need a brand-new school with acres of playing fields and gleaming facilities. She doesn t need a laptop, a smaller class, a teacher with a PhD, or a bigger apartment. She doesn t need a hight IQ or a mind as quick as Chris Langan s. All those things would be nice, of course. But they miss the point. Marita just need a chance. And look at the chance she was given! Someone brought a little bit of the rice paddy to the South Bronx and explained to her the miracle of meaningful work.”
“Once you get into the desert, there s no going back. And, when you can t go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.”
“If we cannot embrace our own aloneness, we will simply use the other as a shield against isolation.”
“The first woman you need to make friends with is yourself.”
“Self-care is refreshing for the soul and makes you a vibrant person”
“My whole life I ve had to push through my own death threats. I m a woman with fluctuating hormones and emotions. Period.”