Quote of the Day - Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
“I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.”
“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
“Never forget where you’ve been. Never lose sight of where you’re going, & never take for granted the people who travel the journey with you.”
“Every man knows that his highest purpose in life cannot be reduced to any particular relationship. If a man prioritizes his relationship over his highest purpose, he weakens himself, disserves the universe, and cheats his woman of an authentic man who can offer his full, undivided presence.”
“You might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physically or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”
Stop Hoping for Completion of Anything in Life
Most men make the error of thinking that one day it will be done. They think, “If I can work hard enough, then one day I could rest.” Or. “One day my woman will understand something and then she will stop complaining.” Or, “I’m only doing this now so that one day I can do what I really want with my life.” The masculine error is to think that eventually things will be different in some fundamental way. They won’t It never hends. As long as a life continues, the creative challenge is to tussle, play and make love with the present moment while giving your unique gift. - David Deida
“Which among us cannot say that some of our greatest learnings have come from mistakes we’ve made? A mistake can teach us something we never forget; it spotlights an area for growth. Can you let yourself experience the perfection of your imperfection? Nurturing yourself by accepting you will fail at times doesn’t mean you don’t try to avoid failures. But when they come you refuse self-judgement. You let past mistakes be just that—past. Your attitude is that yesterday ended last night. You recognize that there is a statute of limitations on past errors and refuse to wallow in self-punishment year after year.”
“I start by deciding where the market would have to go for me to be wrong. That’s where I place my stop. That means that it’s not difficult for me to get out of a position if the market goes there. The most common money management error I see is people setting stop losses that are really pain thresholds. When the market reaches their stop, they don’t really want to get out because they still think they are right.”
“If you don’t set a baseline standard for what you’ll accept in life, you’ll find it’s easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that’s far below what you deserve.”
“It is only when we decide that ‘ordinary’ is an insult, that we become the more exquisite miracles we were born to be.”
“Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all.”
“Don’t allow the approval and attention of others to destroy you. Remain humble and grateful for all your accomplishments, and know that a force greater than your ego is always at work in your life.”
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
“Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.”