So Do You. Quotes
If we were teenagers, I could kiss you. But I’m on a platform behind a counter wearing a name tag and we’re too old to be young.
I think that time might be different for young people. The minutes longer, stronger, more vibrant.
Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it’s too late.
I was there laughing and joking with everyone else, but it’s like there was some part of mestanding back, watching, thinking, “Is this as good as it gets?
That's the thing about freewill: Every decision we make is a choice against something as much as it is for something else.
You just think that your future or you intend to devote yourself to the humanity. The choice is in your hands
You still don’t get it, Clark, do you?’ I couldhear the smile in his voice. ‘It’s not your choice.
So you know what mean when I say that I don't think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You're just pulled to that person like true north, whether it's good for you or bound to break your heart.
The way you live each day is a sentence in the story of your life. Every day, you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point.
The healthy life: It’s not just about losing the weight
The traits that bother you in other people are the Coping Skills they developed automatically, as a result of their life experience.
It's not the number of contacts you cultivate but the diversity and depth of connections that leverage your opportunity to use best talents more often to accomplish more.
From the moment I could even understand what “respect” was I knew it was not a choice but the ONLY option.
Young men do not respect girls they can take advantage of - and they do not as easily take advantage of girls they respect.
Geez, what do I need to do, use semaphore? I told you I was unclaimed.
All conversation, big or small, is about painting word pictures of your experiences for other people. The more
Make a concise statement clearly and you should only need to say it once.
Clarity is a sign of intellectual energy.
You’re going to make something wonderful of yourself. I promise.You’re doing just fine.
We are leashed by societal norms, defined by our willingness to conform, but limited only by our imagination.
Live life as an observer but not a spectator. Learn the rules, get in the game, break some rules. Live. Experience. There is no exhilaration to be achieved sitting on the bench.
Walk away from gossip and verbal defamation. Speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.
Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them.
I felt like I wasn’t living thoroughly enough — I was distracted in ways I wouldn’t be if I’d been born in 1929.
Now is the only time you have. Change is happening. Give up your desire to control the world
It could have happened lots of ways. But this is the way it happened. This is the path we took. This is our story.
The Irish way of telling a story is a complex and elaborate one, complete with wild exaggerations, a certain delight in improbable fantasy, and a heightened sense of drama.
God is the story nature tells to those who are listening.
Be wary of the praise of men
What you think about me says more about you than it does about me.
Acceptance is an active response to a temporary situation
Accept that you will not always deal with situations with polished sophistication but trust that you have the power and exercise the will to improve how you cope.
Chase and I are in this for the long haul. I've stood before him and he's stood before me. And this is what it's all come down to: Chase Gartner is my future, my forever. And I, I am his.
You unlock the door to greater levels of excellence and success when you accept who you are. It is from the point of acceptance that we can create a masterful life.
When I accept myself, I am freed from the burden of needing you to accept me.
The better the writer, the more complicated the dangler.
I don’t know why I told you all those things, but I did. Maybe it was because I’m a drunk, and sometimes drunks like to confess.
There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that sustained and consecutive thought. It is the hardest work in the world.
Collaboration requires focusing on everything from vision and values to how individuals can feel they are making a real contribution.
Set a clear focus in your life, and fear will be crowded out. The more you fix your eyes on God’s purpose for you, the more you will overcome your fear.
whenever we stop doing something, we start doing anything
