LIFESTYLE
QUOTES TO LIVE BY
Here's some quotes we live by at Project Stackhouse.
Give them a read. Maybe one will inspire you.
It's with our experience that given the proper context, the right quote can trigger the intention or inspiration that ultimately leads to sustained action. Be present in a conversation with someone whose 'done it before', or read a book about someones experience and allow yourself to listen to the message.
If you feel the lesson learned applies to you, then internalizing it and maintaining an awareness of it through your journey can prevent you from ultimately coming to the same conclusion years down the road.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo Da Vinci
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Do no harm to others. Be true to yourself. To me, being a good human being, and the way to true inner happiness, is through altruistic actions, being mindful of others.
- Eric Rupert
If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.
- Tony Robbins
You see inspiration is so important because it fires up the imagination. The greatest gift I think all human beings have is the capacity to be inspired. If you are inspired, even if you don’t understand it, hold onto it. And then one day, it just all makes sense.
– Mae-Wan Ho
The professional learns to recognize an envy driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had the guts.
– Steven Pressfield
Your effect on others is the most valuable currency.
– Jim Carrey
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
- Tony Robbins
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an after thought. Eat the delicious food. Walk in the sunshine. Jump in the ocean. Say the truth you're carrying in your heart like hidden treasure. Be silly. Be kind. Be weird. There's no time for anything else.
- Nanea Hoffman
