Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
- Topic: Accountability, Choice, Decision
- Location: Zion National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Everything good is costly and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty.
In all Chaos there is a Cosmos, In all Disorder a secret Order.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and . . . each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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The two qualities that chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is you own and that it is your only one.
He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason.
You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.
The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.
When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.
Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.