We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

My life has been very full.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

I came up from a difficult background.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‚call attention to yourself,‘ or ‚think you were smart.‘ My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson’s disease.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

The fact is that since you’re a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you’re here on earth. It’s all perfect… and so are you!

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.