I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still read more

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly read more

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other read more

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months read more

When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.

They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to read more

They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either.

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with read more

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

There is no original truth, only original error.

There is no original truth, only original error.

The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.

The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.

Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at read more

Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.