The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin S. Sharma. Selected quotes XI

-Make a written inventory of your weaknesses. Satisfied people are far more thoughtful than others. Take the time to reflect on what it is that might be keeping you from the life you really want and know deep down you can have. Once you have identified what your weaknesses are , the next step is to face them head on and attack your fears. If you fear public speaking, sign up to give twenty speeches.
-Fear is nothing more than a mental monster you have created, a negative stream of consciousness.
-When you conquer your fears, you conquer your life.
-No experience is inherently painful of pleasant. It is your thinking that makes it so.
-It is all a matte of conditioning.
-The best way to beat your fears is by doing the thing you fear.
-Understand the anatomy of fear. It is your own creation. Like any other creation, it is just as easy to tear it down as it is to erect it. Methodically search for and then destroy every fear that has secretly slid into the fortress of your mind. This alone will give you enormous confidence, happiness  and peace of mind.
-When you erase fear from your mind, you start to look younger and your health becomes more vibrant.
-What sets highly actualized people apart from those who never live inspired lives is that they do those things that less developed people don't like doing, even though they might not like doing them either.
-Truly enlightened people, those who experience deep happiness daily, are prepared to put off short-term pleasure for the sake of long-term fulfillment. So they tackle their weaknesses and fears head on, even if dipping into the zone of the unknown brings with it a measure of discomfort. They resolve to live by the wisdom of kaizen, improving every aspect of themselves ceaselessly and continuously. With time, things that were once difficult become easy. Fears that once prevented them from all the happiness, health and prosperity they deserved fall to the wayside like stick men toppled by a hurricane.
-Happiness comes through the progressive realization of a worthy objective. When you are doing what you truly love to do you are bound to find deep contentment.

The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin S. Sharma. Selected quotes X

-Good people strengthen themselves ceaselessly.
-Success on the outside begins with success on the inside.
-Never be reluctant to ask even the most basic of questions. Questions are the most effective method of eliciting knowledge.
-When you have taken the time to build a strong character full of discipline, energy, power and optimism, you can have anything and do anything you want in your outer world.
-When you have cultivated a deep sense of faith in your abilities and an indomitable spirit, nothing can stop you from succeeding in all your pursuits and living with great rewards. Taking the time to master your mind, to care for the body and to nourish your soul will put you in a position to develop more richness and vitality in your life.
-No man is free who is not a master of himself.
-Strength of character, mental toughness and living with courage.
-The degree of courage you live with determines the amount of fulfillment you receive. It allows you to truly realize all the exquisite wonders of the epic that is your life. Those who master themselves have an abundance of courage.
-Philosophy of kaizen: constant and never-ending enrichment of the mind, body and soul.
-The only limits on your life are those that you set yourself.
-When you push beyond your limits, you unlock mental and physical reserves that you never thought you had.
-Push yourself daily. Work hard to improve your mind and body. Nourish your spirit. Do the things your fear. Start to live with unbridled energy and limitless enthusiasm. Watch the sunrise. Dance in a rain shower. Be the person you dream of being. Do the things you have always wanted to do but didn't because you tricked yourself into believing that you were too young, too old, too rich or too poor. Prepare to live a soaring, fully alive life.
-Life favors the prepared mind.

The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin S. Sharma. Selected quotes IX

-You will never be able to hit a target that you cannot see.
-Goal-setting will make your life magnificent. At the very moment that this is done, natural forces will come into play which start to transform these dreams into reality.
-Know your outcome.
-Enthusiasm is one of the key ingredients for a lifetime of successful living.
-Life pretty much gives you what you ask from it. You change your life the moment you set your goals and start to seek out your Dharma.
-Concentrate every ounce of your mental energy on self-discovery. Learn what you excel at and what makes you happy. Whatever it is find your passion and then follow it.
-What are shaped and fashioned by what we love. Goethe.
-Five step method to reach objectives:
. Forming a clear mental image of the outcome.
. Getting some positive pressure on yourself.
. Never setting a goal without attaching a timeline to it.
. The Dream Book: fill it with all your desires, objectives and dreams.
. The Magic Rule of 21: for new behavior to crystallize into a habit, one had to perform the new activity for twenty-one days in a row.
-There are three mirrors that form a person's reflection; the first is how you see yourself, the second is how others see you and the third mirror reflects the truth.
-Never do anything because you have to. The only reason to do something is because you want to and because you know it is the right thing for you to do.
-There is tremendous power in a ritual.
-A day without laughter or a day without love was a day without life.
-Never neglect to see the exquisite beauty in all living things.
-There is no chaos in this Universe. There is a purpose for everything that has ever happened to you, and everything that will happen to you.. Every experience offers lessons. So stop majoring in minor things. Enjoy your life.
-Passion is the word you must constantly keep at the forefront of your mind as you follow your mission and attain your goals. A burning sense of passion is the most potent fuel for your dreams.
It is the passion for life, the joy of waking up every morning, full of energy and exhilaration.
-What lies behind you and what lies in front of you is nothing when compared to what lies withing you.

The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin S. Sharma. Selected quotes VIII.

-Trust yourself. Create the kind of life you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself  by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into the flames of achievement. Foster C. McClellan.
-We are living in a very troubled world. Negativity pervades it and many in our society are floating like ships without rudders, weary souls searching for a lighthouse that will keep them from crashing against the rocky shores.
-He who serves the most, reaps the most, emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually. This is the way to inner peace and outer fulfillment.
-People who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened.
-Never let the weeds of impure thought and action take the garden of your mind. Stand guard at the gateway of your mind. Keep it healthy and strong.
-The purpose of life is to have a life of purpose.
-Lasting happiness comes from steadily working to accomplish your goals and advancing confidently in the direction of your life's purpose.
-Everyone of us has a heroic mission whilst we walk this Earth. We have all been granted a unique set of gifts and talents that will readily allow us to realize this lifework. The key is to discover them, and in doing so, discover the main objective of your life.
-The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
-The things that are most important should never be sacrificed to those things which are the least important.
-Goal-setting is the starting point.
-If I have seen farther than others, it is simply because I have stood on the shoulders of great teachers.

The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin S. Sharma. Selected quotes VII.

-There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
-It doesn't matter what other people say about you. What is important is what you say to yourself. Do not be concerned with the judgment of others as long as you know what you are doing is right. You can do whatever you want to do as long as it is correct according to your conscience and your heart. Never be ashamed of doing that which is right; decide on what you think is good and then stick to it.
-Every second you spend thinking about someone else's dreams you take time away from your own.
-Fatigue is a creation of the mind. Fatigue dominates the lives of those who are living without direction and dreams. Your tiredness is nothing more than a mental creation, a bad habit  your mind has cultivated to act as a crutch when you are performing a tedious task. Your interest and mental focus give you energy.
-When you consistently direct your mind to live in the present you will always have boundless energy, no matter what time the clock reflects.
-Only those who seek shall find.
-Techniques to master your mind: the Heart of the Rose, Opposition Thinking, the Secret of the Lake

The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin S. Sharma. Selected quotes VI.

-Self-knowledge is the stepping stone to self-mastery. Step two is to appreciate once and for all that just as easily as you allowed those gloomy thoughts to enter, you can replace them with cheerful ones.
-Most people don't give any thought to the nature of their thoughts and yet, the quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life.
-Weak minds lead to weak actions. A strong, disciplined mind can achieve miracles.
-If you want to live to the fullest, care for your thoughts as you would your most prized possessions. Work hard to remove all inner turbulence.
-You truly cannot afford the luxury of even one negative thought.
-Everything is always created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.
-If you hope to make remarkable improvements in your outer world you must first start within and change the caliber of your thoughts.
-These teachers would rise at 4 am as they felt that the early morning possessed magical qualities from which they could benefit.
-The sages would look into the waters of the still lake and envision their dreams becoming reality.
-The mind works through pictures. Pictures affect your self-image and your self-image affects the way you feel, act and achieve. When you run inspiring, imaginative pictures through the movie screen of your mind, wonderful things start to happen in your life.
-Imagination is more important than knowledge. Einstein.
-Creative envisioning: see yourself as you want to be. The magic of visualization can be applied to so many situations. Your mind has a magnetic power to attract all that you desire into your life. If there is a lack in your life it is because there is a lack in your thoughts.

The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin S. Sharma. Selected quotes V.

-Do you want to know why most people sleep so much?
Because they don't have anything else to do. Those who rise with the sun all have one thing in common: a purpose that fans the flames of their inner potential.
- Worry causes your precious mental energy and potential to leak.
-Start taking risks. Shake up your life a bit. Get rid of the cobwebs. Take the road less traveled. The best thing you can do for yourself is regularly move beyond it. Stop being so practical. Take the time to think. Discover your real reason for being here and then have the courage to act on it.
-Ten minutes of focused reflection a day will have a profound impact on the quality of your life.
-One must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind him to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and a mystery.
-Persist and spend longer and longer periods savoring the heart of the rose.
-Remember, either you control your mind or it controls you.
-There is power in silence and stillness.
-Opposition thinking: whenever a negative slide comes up on the screen, take swift action to replace it with a positive one.

The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin S. Sharma. Selected quotes IV.

-With one eye fixed on the destination, there is only one left to guide you along the journey.
-Luck equals preparation with opportunity.
-The very fact that you have a desire or a dream means that you have the corresponding capacity to realize it.
-The secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it.
-Your passion must improve or serve the lives of others.
-Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued. It must ensue. And it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself. Viktor Frankl.

The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin S. Sharma. Selected quotes III.

-To liberate the potential of your mind, body and soul, you must first expand your imagination.
-Dare to dream that you are more than the sum of your current circumstances. Expect the best.
-When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all of your thoughts  break their bonds: your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person than you ever dreamed yourself to be. Patanjali.
-The price of greatness is responsibility over each of your thoughts.
-The boundaries of your life are merely creations of the self.
-The less you focus on the end result, the quicker it will come.

The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin S. Sharma. Selected quotes II.

-Never overlook the power of simplicity.
-Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your heart.
-Worry drains the mind of much of its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul.
-You truly cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought, not even one.
-What really separates people who are habitually upbeat and optimistic from those who are consistently miserable is how the circumstances of life are interpreted and processed.
-She was an eternal optimist. She perceived opportunity in what had happened.
-No matter what happens to you in your life, you alone have the capacity to choose your response to it. When you form the habit of searching for the positive in every circumstance, your life will move into its highest dimensions. This is one of the greatest of all the natural laws.
-There are not mistakes in life, only lessons.
-The laws of nature always ensure that when on door closes another opens.

The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin S. Sharma. Selected quotes I.

-Life is no brief candle for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. George Bernard Shaw
-Sure I am that this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond my endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us. Winston Churchill.
-In you deathbed you will never wish you spent more time at the office.
-Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
-Everything happens for a reason. Every event has a purpose and every setback its lesson. Failure is essential to personal expansion. Never regret your past. Rather, embrace it as the teacher that it is.
-Life is all about choices. One's destiny unfolds according to the choices one makes.
-Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended. Alfred Lord Whitehead.
-How can you care for others if you cannot even care for yourself? How can you do good if you don't even feel good? I can't love you if I cannot love myself.
-When the student is ready, the teacher appears.
-It's only when you have opened your own heart that you can touch the hearts of others.