Choose The Life You Want » Quotes

Never Alone

Patrick Mathieu — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:04:26 +0000

“Follow your heart, aim with your mind, and… remember you’re never alone.”

- The Universe (aka Mike Dooley at tut.com)

We Need Dreamers

Patrick Mathieu — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:00:11 +0000

photo by Fields of View

I can often get caught up in being too practical or too logical. If you ever catch me doing that, please remind me of this quote:

“The problems of this world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”

- John F. Kennedy

Byron Katie on Being Safe

Patrick Mathieu — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:38:10 +0000

“When we try to be safe, we live our lives being very, very careful; and we wind up having no lives.”

- Byron Katie

Choose Your Miracle

Patrick Mathieu — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:42:50 +0000

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.”

- Albert Einstein

(The only part that Einstein left out is that which option you choose is entirely up to YOU!)

Reason and The Heart

Patrick Mathieu — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:21:55 +0000

“The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.”

- Blaise Pascal

Lance Armstrong on ‘Time’

Patrick Mathieu — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:03:36 +0000

“Time is limited, so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have just one chance to live this particular day right, and to string my days together into a life of action, and purpose”

- Lance Armstrong

What Are You Prepared To See?

Patrick Mathieu — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:54:48 +0000

“People only see what they are prepared to see.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

So ask yourself: “What kind of life am I actively looking for?“

Of Critics and Courage

Patrick Mathieu — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:44:09 +0000

“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought Is The Sculptor

Patrick Mathieu — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:54:58 +0000

“Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.”

- Henry David Thoreau

How To Treat People

Patrick Mathieu — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:43:59 +0000

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

- Goethe

(Note from Patrick: I think that there is a lot of truth in this quote. And it becomes even more powerful if you turn it on yourself! Imagine if you treated YOURSELF as if you are what you want to be!)