J. Robbins Quotes

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.

In the end what will prevail is your passion not your tale, for love is the Holy Grail.

One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires.

You have to eat your technique. Digest it. It's in your blood, but you're not concerned with it anymore.

There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.

Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way. Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things which afford us the greatest privacy

Every day is Judgement Day. Always has been. Always will be.

There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?

I'm always loading my brain with new ways of looking at something.

Emotion is created by motion. Whatever you're feeling right now is related to how you're using your body.

Find someone worse off than you and help them. It will put your life in perspective.

Resolutions require only words. Results take action.

Labor is service and service is life. And when we serve something more than ourselves, we feel alive.

I prime my mind. I wake up every morning and say, "Look, if you don't have 10 minutes for yourself, you don't have a life." I take 10 minutes.

Here's a two step formula for handling stress. Step number one: Don't sweat the small stuff. Step number two: Remember it's all small stuff.

People who succeed at the highest level are not lucky; they're doing something differently than everyone else.

If there's anything you're not happy about-in your relationships, in your health, in your career-make a decision right now about how you're going to change it immediately.

Whatever you focus on you're going to feel.

And always remember the ultimate truth: life is not about money, it's about emotion.

It's not leadership by position that allows people to succeed; it's the capacity to influence the thoughts, the feelings, the emotions, and the actions of other human beings.

I believe therapy can be done more rapidly. I'm into your finding the source of what's making you think and feel the way you do and shifting it quickly.

The best way to get trained is to get mentored - live or by reading or watching videos by masters. That way, you start executing based on lessons from the best.

The difference between success and failure is not which stock you buy or which piece of real estate you buy, it's asset allocation.

Leaders anticipate. Losers react

If we get total certainty, we get … bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a second human need, which is uncertainty. We need variety. We need surprise.

The quickest, simplest, and most powerful way I know to handle any emotion is to remember a time when you felt a similar emotion and realize that you've successfully handled this emotion before.

When life's conditions don't equal your expectations you are unhappy, have no expectations only appreciations (especially in the area of relationships)

It doesn't matter what you achieve, if you don't keep growing you'll feel dead.

The only way for us to have long-term happiness is to live by our highest ideals.

The one thing you can do for others is the manage your own life. And do it with conviction.

Keep your eyes out for #‎ magical moments, they're everywhere! Live with passion today and everyday!

Loss is imaginary. Nothing ever disappears in the universe; it only changes form.

We all have our own story. And we stay attached to our story. This can stop us from growing and living. You wanna make your life better? Change your story, change your life.

People are my greatest resource.

With goals you can create the future in advance.

You have to make the shift from being a consumer in the economy to becoming an owner-and you do it by becoming an investor.

High self-esteem comes from feeling like you have control over events not that events have control over you.

Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any limitation of the past.

I have no delusions that I'm the only source of improving people's lives or that I'm even the right source. My style is intense, and it's not going to be right for everybody.

I was like, "If I don't change my mind, if I don't change my heart, if I don't develop some skill, I'm always going to be sleeping in my car."

Whenever somebody reaches above their own limitations - I always tell people, the best time to go give is when you have nothing.

Initiating and going through a divorce with four kids can be a brutal experience, but also a tempering one. It gave me perspective and insight to be able to find the love of my life.

That's basically what I have people do, I have them become aware. Once you set a goal, once you become aware of something, it becomes part of your consciousness.

You can't raise a happy, more resilient kid if you're not a happy, more resilient adult.

Unless you feed your mind, those suffering states will take over.

Many people are passionate, but because of their limiting beliefs about who they are and what they can do, they never take actions that could make their dream a reality

Disney has a bible for their characters, so that people who draw Disney characters have to make them look correct.

The wall of silence in the Interior Ministry, which protects those who are widely believed to have ordered this and similar crimes, remains intact.

Entering the waters of baptism is something we do. The be that must precede it is faith in Jesus Christ and a mighty change of heart.