Quotes from Matthew Kelly

Fully engaged people believe the future can be bigger than the past, and they believe they can directly influence that bigger future. That's our No. 1 job as leaders, to convince people of those two things.

Nobody will do their best work until they have lots of white space on their calendars.

nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

By doing exactly the same things we did yesterday, but with a new mind-set, we are able to inject incredible meaning into the most mundane things—

If children develop a love for learning, they will become lifelong learners—and continuous learners tend to be successful at everything they turn their attention to.

La felicidad es en gran medida como la riqueza y la sabiduría: aquellos que la poseen generalmente no necesitan hablar de ella, y aquellos que constantemente están hablando de ella generalmente no la poseen.

The most important things are almost never urgent. That's why it's essential that we schedule them.

Some people are hungry for comfort; others are hungry to belong; still others for success, sex, safety, adventure, security, travel. To be human is to be hungry. Do you know what you are hungry for?

Our lives change when our habits change. Resistance hates good, strong, positive habits in your life.

The day you fall in love with learning, your life changes forever.

Loneliness is not brutal like that, but it can be a painful way to learn. Interestingly, solitude is the cure for loneliness. When we are afraid of being alone, we should go into it. Dive deep into it. Solitude teaches profound lessons, especially about ourselves. Feeling lonely has value. Sometimes we need to turn inward to discover what we need to hold on to and what we need to let go of.

DO NOT LET YOUR LIFE BE LIKE A SHOOTING STAR, WHICH LIGHTS UP THE SKY FOR ONLY A BRIEF MOMENT. LET YOUR LIFE BE LIKE THE SUN, WHICH ALWAYS BURNS BRIGHTLY IN THE HEAVENS, BRINGING LIGHT AND WARMTH TO ALL THOSE ON EARTH. LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE!

When you know you are doing the will of God, that alone is enough to sustain your happiness. When you don't have that, all the possessions in the world cannot sustain happiness in the depths of your heart.

until we learn to be comfortable alone—and more than that, to enjoy our own company—we are not really ready to live a bold and passionate life. And until we learn this lesson we are unconditionally unprepared to be in any kind of significant relationship with another person.

Loneliness, or solitude, or perhaps both, teach us who we are deep down beyond the influences of parents, teachers, friends, and current culture. Loneliness and solitude teach us what is really important and what is trivial nonsense. Loneliness is a form of hunger, and hunger is good for us. Loneliness and solitude teach us gratitude. Yes, there are differences between the two, but they intermingle and often it is impossible to separate them.

Nunca faltes a tu tiempo de oración diaria. Si surge algo inesperado, hazlo más temprano, pero nunca pospongas tu oración. Si lo haces, te encontrarás casi inevitablemente al final del día habiendo estado ocupado con tantas cosas que significan muy poco en el gran esquema de las cosas, pero sin pasar tiempo con Dios de esta manera tan poderosa y personal

No one person can satisfy our immense desire for happiness. And it is not fair to attach that hope to any one person. So many relationships have died under the weight of this misplaced expectation.

A lot of our modern lifestyle is based on having things. Jesus rejected the idea that things should have a primary place in our lives. Other than the clothes on his back and the sandals on his feet, he had nothing. And his teachings constantly affirmed that people were primary and things were secondary.

The Church has a vision of wholeness and holiness for the human person, and everything the Church does should help her members to become more perfectly who God created them to be.

One man's trash is another man's treasure. And that is true not only of things but also of experiences and problems.

Embrace the now, and the future will be richer and more abundant because you had the wisdom, courage, and discipline to embrace this moment.

We need friends who help to make us whole, not friends who add to our dividedness.