Our success and happiness depends not on simply knowing where we stand, but in where we are wanting to go.
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
Worry, shame, and fear can't be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.
To influence others to change, you must be able to frame that change in terms of the future, and in a way that has value to all concerned.
Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn't there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?
When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.
Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.
Our past is not, as some fear, a series of events carved in stone that we must carry around for the rest of our lives... but a kaleidoscope of experiences that, when viewed through different lenses, can 'color' (change) how we see our present and future.
When 'Being Rushed' is the problem . . . Rushing is never the solution.
You can't 'cope with' change anymore than you can 'manage' stress.
As we interact with others, we can either be a person who is bringing out their best or pointing out their worst. Regardless, however, our choice is always more information about us than them.
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
You can't fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
It's not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.
Trusting fear, while fearing trust and happiness often creates a less than happy life.
Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body (melatonin) - It?s not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into.
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
You never want to tie your responsibility to another's irresponsibility.
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid.
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?
Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.
The key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.
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