Quotes from Matthew Kelly

Life is about saying yes to the things that help you become the-best-version-of-yourself and no to the things that don't.

We become the stories we listen to. But perhaps the more important question is, what stories do you listen to? What stories are forming your life?

For the day we accept that we have chosen to choose our choices is the day we cast off the shackles of victimhood and are set free to pursue the lives we were born to live. Learn to master the moment of decision and you will live a life uncommon.

On the one hand, we all want to be happy. On the other hand, we all know the things that make us happy. But we don't do those things. Why? Simple. We are too busy. Too busy doing what? Too busy trying to be happy.

Connecting with people in a powerful way is a skill that must be developed, nurtured, and practiced.

There will be tough times—there are for everyone. There will be times of fear and trembling. There will be times of discouragement and disillusionment. Have courage, smile, keep your chin up, laugh often, be kind to yourself, stay focused, be gracious and appreciative, think happy thoughts, and carry on regardless.

Knowing that death is not far off brings remarkable clarity. After that news, there is no middle ground; something is either very important or not important at all.

Every journey to something is a journey away from something

Dedicate yourself above all else to becoming the-best-version-of-yourself. It is the best thing you can do for your spouse, your children, your friends, your colleagues, your employees, your employer, your church, your nation, the human family, and yourself.

Your weaknesses are the key to the unimaginable bigger future that God has envisioned for you. Your strengths are probably already bearing all the fruit they can. They will continue to bear those good fruits in your life, but at some point they will begin to plateau. Your richer, more abundant future is intimately linked to your weaknesses.

Every disciplined effort has its own multiple reward.

We tend to overestimate what we can do in a day and underestimate what we can do in a week.

The most devastating form of loneliness is not to be without friends; rather, it is to be surrounded by friends and never to be truly known.

God never goes back; he always moves forward. ... God always wants our future to be bigger than our past, and God always moves forward.

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

we are reminded more than ever that we are not independent. We are interdependent. We rely on one another for the fulfillment of our legitimate needs and the satisfaction of our deepest desire. Life is not simply about the selfish pursuit of the-best-version-of-ourselves. Rather, the more we contribute to helping others become the-best-version-of-themselves, the more progress we make in the attainment

part of growing to maturity, part of growing up, requires that we recognize and accept that we cannot have it all.

Consumption. And if the culture doesn't have a vision for the human person, it certainly doesn't have a vision for the family. In fact, the culture would prefer that every family be broken, because a broken family needs two dishwashers, two lawnmowers, ant two of almost everything else. And if culture could break families up two, three, four ways, it would prefer that.

our lives is almost always a result of those things we habitually think and those things we habitually do. Life is the fruit of discipline, or lack of it. We are our habits. For example, you cannot separate Tiger

we are much more interested in developing self-expression than we are in developing selves that are worth expressing. Personal preference has triumphed over the pursuit of excellence.

feelings are one of the most inconsistent aspects of the human person.

If you don't break from the tensions of daily living, they will break you.

Destruction always comes from within. It

The fundamental difference between pleasure and satisfaction is that pleasure cannot be sustained beyond the activity producing it.