A few rare individuals refuse to live limited lives. They drive through tremendous amounts of pain—from rejections and failures to shorter moments of embarrassment and anxiety. They also handle the small, tedious pain required for personal discipline, forcing themselves to do things we all know we should do.

161

The Tools

Get

Explore more quotes

Higher forces must be experienced directly, and that takes effort. That means you'll face the same stark choice I did: demand proof that you'll never receive, or use the tools in the face of your doubts. When I stopped thinking and focused on the tools, my reward was life changing faith.

Robb Lejuwaan

227

It’s a paradox; only when you desire fear, will you be able to take action in its presence—which is what courage consists of.

Robb Lejuwaan

217

Fear is almost always linked to an image you have of something terrible happening in the future. To develop courage, you have to give up this illusion of future certainty.

Robb Lejuwaan

211

There’s a hidden, inner strength that you cannot find unless you push yourself through adversity.

Robb Lejuwaan

201

“The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too … raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.”

Robb Lejuwaan

149

The Comfort Zone is supposed to keep your life safe, but what it really does is keep your life small.

Robb Lejuwaan

186

Most of us choose avoidance instead. As a result, we don’t live up to our potential, never becoming fully ourselves.

Robb Lejuwaan

161

The more intense the pain—and the more aggressively you move into it—the more energy you’ll create.

Robb Lejuwaan

161

Abuse a man unjustly and you will make friends for him.

Edgar Watson Howe

All history, and most especially the history of the 20th century, argues against placing ideas in the saddle and allowing them to ride mankind. Too often, they end up riding individual men and women into mass graves.

Terry Teachout

The best thing for my creative process is a deadline.

Jeff MacNelly

Overall I think that the most important thing is to have true friends, and always to stay true to yourself and never try to be somebody that you're not.

Diego Boneta

I think life is pretty awesome.

Anne Wojcicki

If you live for fame, men may turn against you.

Matthew Simpson

Jam Cruise is actually a comfortable place for me. My jamming skills and my improvisational skills have improved immensely as I've gone more solo, because I've had this opportunity.

John Oates

I always recognized that modeling would allow me to see and do a lot, so I looked for opportunities to learn and grow.

Christy Turlington

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

Richard P. Feynman

My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough to say something based on rumors that were flying around.

Wolf Blitzer

'Alien' is one of my all-time favorite horror films - that has a great monster.

Jackie Earle Haley

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Macklemore gets a Grammy over Kendrick Lamar. I still can't get over that. But again, it's not Macklemore's fault. It's the way of the country.

Ato Essandoh

I'd rather believe in something and be wrong, than believe in nothing and be wrong.

Claudialyn Rodriguez Cosentino

God is in the sadness and the laughter in the bitter and the sweet. There is a divine purpose behind everything and therefore a divine presence in everything.

Neale Donald Walsch

This administration in Washington that's in power now clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need, but it's the most qualified to make the most central decisions for every American in every area.

Rick Perry

After a breakup, it takes a couple weeks for the fog to settle, but it's always a period of self-priority and growth. Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.

Brittany Murphy

Know thyself If I knew myself Id run away.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body the two are ever united.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Moana is an incredible heroine. She's strong... She's got her two feet firmly planted. She's definitely grounded.

Auli'i Cravalho

As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home.

Buzz Aldrin

It is such a complex matter we live within it is impossible to track logic and decision making really so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.

Alva Noto

I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.

Iman

The family is inclusive of not just your genetic family, but the people that you meet along the way.

Jane Seymour