... [T]here are two forms of jealousy, the constructive kind and the destructive kind. The constructive kind is closer to admiration than true jealousy, and she told me to focus on that one. If I see something I like in someone else, I should view them as role models and strive to achieve that or something similar.
My 5-year-old son has just started reading. Every night, we lie on his bed and he reads a short book to me. Inevitably, he’ll hit a word that he has trouble with: last night the word was “gratefully.” He eventually got it after a fairly painful minute. He then said, “Dad, aren’t you glad how I struggled with that word? I think I could feel my brain growing.” [...] I decided to praise my son not when he succeeded at things he was already good at, but when he persevered with things that he found difficult. I stressed to him that by struggling, your brain grows.
Don't raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.
Not having heard something is not as good as having heard it; having heard it is not as good as having seen it; having seen it is not as good as knowing it; knowing it is not as good as putting it into practice.
The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.
It's hard to separate [...] discomforts from feeling like "this isn't the right thing". What would [life] be like if it was only a groove?
via The Nerdist
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
You cannot let a fear of failure or a fear of comparison or a fear of judgement stop you from doing what's going to make you great. You cannot succeed without this risk of failure. You cannot have a voice without the risk of criticism. And you cannot have cannot love without the risk of loss.
Artist: Jim Benton
Changing your plans in life or getting lost isn't so bad. If Bugs Bunny made the correct turn at Albuquerque, he wouldn't have had a single adventure and just would have gone to a boring carrot festival
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in.