Personal growth is the most powerful force for change on earth. I believe that personal growth can help anyone change anything.

our tomorrow isshaped by the choices we make today, consciously or unconsciously

How we feel (emotions) determines what we do (our actions/behavior) which directly determines the results manifested inour life.

All pain, pleasure and self-limitation either originate in theconscious mind or is accepted uncritically from an outside source.

The most important thinganyone who is looking at a career, especially students, can do is toremember that strengthening and developing your employ-abilityis your personal responsibility.

If you don’t take control of yourcareer development, it’s highly unlikely that anyone else will!

The best way to prepare for life is acombination of formal traditional education, reading, seminars, and workshops, coupled with experience as well as tapping into the knowledge of experienced people.

Your self-esteem and emotional strength relies solely onhow you think and how you see things around you.

Work and Life are not separate spheres. They are integratedmoments in life that happen throughout the day.

The idea that “work” competes with “life” ignores that “life” is actually the intersection and interaction of four major domains: work, home, community, and the private self.

Our life is an odd mixture of different moments of action andinaction, work and rest.

You understand the logic behind the illogical, Alyssa. It's in your nature to find tranquility amid the madness. And that's what we're doing here. We are giving our food a fighting chance.

But life is not like that. You are not an airline. You can't remove a single olive from every salad served in first class and save one point two million dollars.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose aiming at something outside self.

All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.

The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

I haven’t met God and I haven’t been to heaven, so I’m skeptical.

You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.

Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom.

No food or drug will ever do for you what a fresh supply of oxygen will.