Quotes About Values

My wife used to say that her idea of hell would be marrying Ghandi, Ben said ... Think about it: Ghandi was always the good one. Everyone else looked so rude and loud and self-centered by comparison.

Being powerful and successful on earth through evildoing was not a true mark of superiority.

Let the grass die. I let almost all of my indoor plants die from neglect while I was writing the book. There are all kinds of ways to live. You can take your choice. You can keep a tidy house, and when St. Peter asks you what you did with your life, you can say, 'I kept a tidy house, I made my own cheese balls.

Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe... Are my values then so diametrically opposed to those that nature preserves? This is the key point.

Bob, medyan?n memlekete nas?l düÅŸüneceklerini söylemek konusundaki baÅŸar?s?n?n s?n?rl?, fakat hangi konular? düÅŸünüp tart??acaklar?n? ve neye deÄŸer vereceklerini göstermek konusunda ciddi bir yönlendirici olduÄŸunun fark?ndayd?.

GeliÅŸmiÅŸ Bat? dünyas?n?n, olanaklar? ve ihtiÅŸam?yla çok zengin olduÄŸu zannedilse de çoÄŸu zaman insan kalbindeki güzellikleri öldürür.

Öylesine s?n?rlanm???z ki kendi kayg?lar?m?zla, sürekli dönüp baÅŸa geliyoruz, öyle ki art?k doÄŸru ile yanl???, yasad??? hevesle en saf ideal aras?ndaki fark? bile ay?rt edemiyoruz. Ä°ngmar Bergman

How do you become an adult in a society that doesn't ask for sacrifice? How do you become a man in a world that doesn't require courage? Those

self-determination theory, which holds that human beings need three basic things in order to be content: they need to feel competent at what they do; they need to feel authentic in their lives; and they need to feel connected to others. These values are considered "intrinsic" to human happiness and far outweigh "extrinsic" values such as beauty, money, and status.

How do you become an adult in a society that doesn't ask for sacrifice?

Bluntly put, modern society seems to emphasize extrinsic values over intrinsic ones, and as a result, mental health issues refuse to decline with growing wealth. The more assimilated a person is into American society, the more likely they are to develop depression during the course of their lifetime, regardless of what ethnicity they are.

The best way to be missed when you're gone, Is to stand for something when you're here

The art of leadership is understanding what you can't compromise on.

Contenerse es casi como robar.» Neil Young

When you know what you stand for, you don't need to compete

This leads to an interesting thought: you get to choose the tribe you will lead. Through your actions as a leader, you attract a tribe that wants to follow you. That tribe has a worldview that matches the message you're sending.

to behave as our parents do—to cherish what they cherish and believe what they believe. And for a while, that's as it should be. But as adults, sometimes we have our own desires, our own hopes, that are at odds with how our parents view the world.

Just because something has always been done a certain way does not make it right.

What's right isn't always popular, and whats popular isn't always right.

Not everyone wants to take up meditation, but most people can feel an alignment with values like mutual respect, insightful investigation, listening to one another. Meditation is a way to help those values become real in day-to-day life, helping people to understand themselves more and more and have a way to not get lost in old patterns.

A key barometer to help us weigh the rightness of our actions is self-respect.

if we really look at our actions with eyes of love, we see that our lives can be more straightforward, simpler, less sculpted by regret and fear, more in alignment with our deepest values.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes

Those who have no sons rarely attach any importance to the priorities of those who do, but they resent them deeply.)