Self-help books (a few that I have personally read) and a quote from each:
The Prophet – Kahlil Gibran
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls…sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone. Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
The Road Less Traveled – M. Scott Peck
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.
The Four Agreements – Don Miguel Ruiz
When you feel good, everything around you is good, when everything around you is great, everything makes you happy. You are loving everything that is around you, because you are loving yourself. Because you like the way you are. Because you are happy with your life. You are happy with the movie that you are producing, happy with your agreements with life. You are at peace, and you are happy. You live in that state of bliss where everything is so wonderful, and everything is so beautiful. In that state of bliss you are making love all the time with everything that you perceive.
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Conversations with God – Neale Donald Walsch
The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen Covey
But until a person can say deeply and honestly, “I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,” that person cannot say, “I choose otherwise.”
The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle
All problems are illusions of the mind.
A New Earth – Eckhart Tolle
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
The Way of Zen – Alan Watts
For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
The 4 Hour Work Week – Timothy Ferris
A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.
The 48 Laws of Power – Robert Green
Law 4: always say less than necessary.
A Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Outliers: The Story of Success – Malcolm Gladwell
The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.
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