Gordon Livingston Quotes

#1. Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask.

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#2. Only bad things happen quickly, ... Virtually all the happiness-producing processes in our lives take time, usually a long time: learning new things, changing old behaviors, building satisfying relationships, raising children. This is why patience and determination are among life's primary virtues.

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#3. There are no maps to guide our most important searches; we must rely on hope, chance, intuition, and a willingness to be surprised.

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#4. We also need to learn the art of letting go: of the past, of unresolved grievances, of our younger selves. Nobody gets out of here alive.

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#5. Our greatest strengths are our greatest weaknesses.

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#6. If the map doesn't agree with the ground the map is wrong

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#7. Everything we are afraid to try, all our unfulfilled dreams, constitute a limitation on what we are and could become.

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#8. It is our determination to overcome fear and discouragement that constitutes the only effective antidote to the sense of powerlessness over unwanted feelings.

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#9. We are not what we think, or what we say, or how we feel. We are what we do.

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#10. We are all prone to the myth of the perfect stranger

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#11. Past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.

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#12. Money cannot buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.

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