So i went to deliver a book to a customer and he ended up giving me loads of books to go and read. The first from the collection i received from him is a very powerful book by Robin Sharma. The book is Discover Your Destiny. These are some of the statements i gained from the book.
Enjoy!
1. No one takes you seriously when you take yourself too seriously you know.”
2. “Every human being needs to carve out the time to articulate a philosophy for his or her life.
3. “Every person must define how he wants to live and what his biggest life will look like.”
4. “Most people spend more time planning their summer vacations than they do planning their lives.”
5. “Without a philosophy, you will live your life according to other people’s wishes. You’ll be like those lemmings following the crowd as they walk off the cliff to their deaths.”
6. “Most people don’t discover how to live until it’s time to die and that’s a shame. Most people spend the best years of the lives watching television in a subdivision. Most people die at twenty and are buried at eighty. Please don’t let that happen to you.”
7. “Only you can discover your destiny.”
8. “Success is important but significance is even better.”
9. “I’ve never seen a U-Haul following a hearse on the way to the cemetery.”
10. “How we show up when we meet the turning points of our lives has a big influence on how our lives ultimately unfold.”
11. “I measure my life not by decades but by deeds.”
12. “I’ve learnt that lasting happiness comes by giving, not getting.”
13. “A little fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.”
14. “Be like the sun: the sun gives all it can give. But in return, all of the flowers, the trees, and all the plants grow towards it.”
15. “Life does not listen to your logic; it goes on its way, undisturbed. You have to listen to life; life will not listen to your logic; it does not bother about your logic.”
16. “Your life is a treasure and you are so much more than you know.”
17. “Trust the winter of your sorrow will yield to the summer of your joy, just as the brilliant rays of the morning always follow the darkest part of the night.”
18. “Fear not the unknown for it is where your greatness resides.”
19. “Death is only one of the many ways to lose your life.”
20. “It is a truth that in our darkest times, we are willing to go the deepest.”
21. “The mind is limited while the heart is limitless.”
22. “Give up the drop, become the ocean.”
23. “Your wounds must be turned into your wisdom.”
24. “You are far greater than you have ever dreamed of being.”
25. “Learn from life and allow it to take you where you are meant to go.”
26. “To be enlightened is to be all light: one who is all light has no shadows, no dark side, no fears, no anger, no resentments and no limitations.”
27. “The whole reason we are alive I believe is to grow into our greatest selves and remember the truth about who we fundamentally are.”
28. “Where you stumble, there your treasure lies.”
29. “But we grow most from our greatest challenges.”
30. “You are the hero or heroine of your life.”
31. “The best way to learn is to teach”
32. “Without a philosophy, you just might find yourself on your deathbed and wonder “what if my whole life was a lie”?
33. “What fun is life without a hint of mystery? What joy is life without a little adventure?
34. “Whoever enters The Way without a guide will take a hundred years to travel a two-day journey.”
35. “It’s hard to believe that we live in a world where most people are more concerned with following the crowd and doing what everyone else is doing than living the dreams.”
36. “Do not live your life as a timid soul, my friend. Get into the arena, forget about the critics, and play big with the gifts of your days.”
37. “There is but one failure in life and that is the failure to try.”
38. “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one tries to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw.
39. “To take risk to provoke fear, anger. But to take risks is to be most alive.”
40. “Big risks, big life. Small risks, small life.”
41. “To get to the wells, the driver needs to be willing to go deeper and visit the places that the timid souls would never visit.”
42. “Spending time alone in silence everyday is a tool that will help you awaken and reclaim your authentic power.”
43. “We never get more than we can handle.”
44. “Reading the book of another person is a reflection of their truth.”
45. “The purpose of life is to return to wholeness.”
46. “And people who do not have any self-respect have no idea how to give respect to others.”
47. “Mind, body, emotions, your spirit.” Four awakenings.
48. “If you don’t act on life, life will act on you.”
49. “Wise people remind themselves that everyday could be their last.”
50. “Each day is an opportunity to make a difference in how our obituary will read.”
51. “Life is a gentle balance between making things happen and letting things happen.”
52. “The heroic life is living the individual adventure. To refuse the call means stagnation.”
53. “Know thyself and you’ll know the universe and the gods.”
54. “What the caterpillar sees at the end of the world, the master sees as the butterfly.”
55. “To have a better life, we must keep choosing how we are living.”
56. “Adversity calls forth the soul’s courage to bear unflinchingly whatever heaven sends.”
57. “Forgiveness is the fruit of understanding.”
58. “Living an excellent life is a manifestation of self love.”
59. “Synchronicity is God’s way of remaining anonymous. There’s a higher intelligence at play whose logic we often cannot understand.”
60. “Extremism in any form is unhealthy.”
61. “To be unconscious as to what life is about and why we are here is to be caught up in a misrepresentation.”
62. “When you shift from compulsion to survive into a heartfelt commitment to save, your life cannot help but explode into success.”
63. “It takes great strength to leave the crowd and be true to your original nature. But that’s what leadership is all about – leaving the crowd and being true to who you really are. You don’t fin diamonds in store rooms, sandal trees in rows, lions in flocks, and holy men in herds.”
64. “Self-examination is the first step to personal greatness.”
65. “We are divorced from our original nature. We have grown into false figments of our once magnificent selves.”
66. “The soul would rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else’s.”
67. “Nothing is more important than having the bravery to live your own life.”
68. “Confusion always gives rise to clarity.”
69. “You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.”
70. “It’s time to come to your senses. You are to live and to learn to laugh. You are to learn to listen to the cursed radio music of your life and to reverence the spirit behind it and to laugh at its distortions. So there you are. Nothing more will be asked of you.”
71. “Nothing so destroys the heart as the knowledge that you had the chance to manifest the gorgeous potential that you were meant to be and you refused to accept the call.”
72. “To refuse to accept the call of your best life is to insult the force that created you.”
73. “There’s nothing wrong with a man crying. Never forget that a person closed off from his feelings lacks sensitivity, compassion and empathy. Such people are of the kind who start wars, commit crimes and spread hate. Do not avoid your feelings. They are essential part of the authentic person you are.”
74. “It’s been said that laughter is the shortest distance between human hearts. When we laugh together, all the social constructs that keep us apart fall to the wayside and we connect as real people.”
75. “We are all bonded together at an invisible level and a voice of knowing within me told me to disregard this truth was to buy into the illusion fostered by the crowd. We are not separate. I appreciated. We are connected with unseen ties.”
76. “I have since discovered that we can connect with each other through the common sharing of our pain. If everyone in the world came together for half an hour and shared all of the personal suffering they have endured over the course of their lives, we would all be friends. There would be no enemies, there would be no wars.”
77. “Dreams are the language of the soul.”
78. “Life is lived in the now.”
79. “Fix your course to a star and you can navigate any storm.”
80. “The only people without problems and adversity are six feet under the ground.”
81. “No hardships ever last.”
82. “No setbacks are forever.”
83. “No mystery lasts eternity.”
84. “The universe is not ignorant of your heart longings.”
85. “I am not on this earth by chance. I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink into a grain of sand.”
86. “Life is on the wire. The rest is just waiting.”
87. “The best move you can make is to work on your self-relationship.”
88. “Most people have lost connection with themselves. They have forgotten who they truly are.”
89. “Know yourself and I promise you your destiny will find you.”
90. “There is a giant asleep within every person. When that giant awakes, miracles happen.”
91. “Self-service is the rent I pay for living on this wonderful planet.”
92. “Yes, daily choices would have a big impact on the way my life turned out.”
93. “You do your best and then let nature do the rest.”
94. “I have a duty in respect to life, to let my light shine and take action around my dreams.”
95. “Life is a growth school, ideally created to give us opportunities to learn on the planet. We live on ‘schoolhouse earth.’
96. “Within your heart all answers lie. Walk towards your fears and then you’ll learn to fly.”
97. “We are born fearless and with wide-open hearts. We are born knowing the natural laws that rule the world and why we are here. But-and I know you know this. We want to please those around us and fit into the crowd.”
98. “You see, life is all about education. Each day will teach you the lessons you need to learn if you pay attention to it.”
99. “Life is such a fragile thing. I never truly knew that until now. It is a priceless treasure that we are given to guard and make use of to the best of our ability. That it will not come again is what makes it sacred.”
100. “I’ve since learnt that reflection is the mother of wisdom.”
101. “We must pay attention to life. We must frequently be in connection with our dreams.”
102. “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
103. “Become a person of action, one of those indomitable souls who go out and hunt down the greatest life. Do the best that you know how to do. And then let go and accept whatever comes to you with a happy heart and perfect certainty that this is what nature intended for you.”
104. “Nothing good comes without some sort of sacrifice.”
105. “Go for long walks in the wood.”
106. “Listen to your favorite music.”
107. “In every winter’s heart lies a quivering spring. Behind the veil of each night waits a smiling dawn.”
108. “Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment that the miracle is in the here and now.”
109. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
110. “The longest life is incredibly short when measured against the benchmark of eternity.”
111. “In order to awaken your life, it’s important that you die while you are alive.”
Thank you.
OKORO 