“It may be necessary to change our brand, catch phrases, strategy, design, etc. once in awhile. It may give us competitive advantages. But a change that demands the change of the SOUL of who we're doesn't deserve to be entertained.”
Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
“Spiritual bypassing
separates us from our humanity and all its messiness and struggles
and pain and It makes us feel good briefly.”
Source: Being: A Journey Toward Presence and Authenticity
“Overcoming procrastination is not, I repeat, not about cramming additional work into your day . . . overcoming procrastination is about simplifying your life to make space for the activities that matter most.”
Source: The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret
“Today, I'm drawn to repurposing for so many reasons: It allows me to live a more financially pared-down and simple life in which it's possible to work a little bit less and live a little bit more.”
Source: Handmade Home: Simple Ways to Repurpose Old Materials into New Family Treasures
“Il n'y a pas si longtemps, la procrastination était ma pire ennemie, mais, depuis que je m'efforce de simplifier ma vie, elle a fait place à l'efficacité.”
Source: Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste
“Winter's not for adding things but for cutting things. It's the best season, the safest one, actually, to look closely at all the tangled branches of your life - the travel, the committee work, the various projects, the hobbies that have become burdens or obsessions, the trivial pursuits, the diversions; or the ingrown snarl of things, the lists in your head of people and situations to worry about, the proliferation of responsibilities that aren't really yours - and ask honestly if these are bearing fruit or just sapping energy. And then, without apology or even caution, cut to nothing all that which gives nothing.”
Source: Spiritual Rhythm: Being with Jesus Every Season of Your Soul
“Contrary to the indoctrinated notion that reducing existence to the essentials is for half-wits and losers in this golden age of technological ‘progress,’ simplicity isn’t simplistic—or at least it doesn’t have to be.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me. Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits.”
Source: Walden or, Life in the Woods
“-O què t'estimaries més quedar-te soltera?
Potser sí que ho hauria preferit. I si un dia necessitava un home... doncs bé, el podria haver sense donar-li cap dret sobre la seva vida.”
Source: Perquè ha mort una noia
“Si sigues soltera, es porque no te has topado a la naranja, la verdadera, la correcta, por la que te vas a querer exprimir todo el jugo. O porque ya te la topaste, ya te exprimiste, y cuando no hubo más que exprimir, la dejaste ir porque, para ti, la felicidad y tu estabilidad son más importantes que vivir acompañada.”
Source: Mesa para una