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61 " You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” - Carl Jung "
― Gary John Bishop , Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life
62 " If you’re sometimes talking about how “unfair” life is, you’ll start to act according to that view, "
63 " People are little more than a living conversation, both internal and spoken. A dialogue in a body. A skin-and-bone bag that talks, and it talks about everything, and the limit of that talk is the limit of that life. Period. "
― Gary John Bishop , Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back
64 " There’s a reason why so few make it out of the trap of their own mind. The trap all too often seems to be just fine from day to day. "
65 " Your past dominates your potential. You don’t live a life of “anything is possible”; you live a life of “some things are possible, given my past. "
66 " the person who views success as if it were just around the corner will not only work his butt off to achieve it but be energized and alive to it and all the while acting on that fundamental view of success. "
67 " You’re never going achieve your true potential if you’re hooked by what other people think. "
68 " We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.” - Aristotle "
69 " You don’t ask for that raise because you fear you might not get it. You don’t ask that person out because you’re afraid they’ll say no. You don’t start a business or write that book or apply to that college or even go to the gym because . . . what’s the fucking point, right? I mean, you’ll only fail again, won’t you? "
― Gary John Bishop , Wise as Fu*k: Simple Truths to Guide You Through the Sh*tstorms of Life
70 " When you are free to be open and available, with nothing held back, no lies, no withholds or half-truths, you really are your most expressive, most alive self. "
71 " Look at your own, “dark spots”, the parts of your life where you are most ineffective, where it seems like you have lost or are currently losing.You see, our thoughts are so powerful that they are constantly pushing you toward your goals, even when you don’t realize what those goals actually are! Your brain is wired to win..!You’re always winning because your brain is wired to. The trouble comes when what you really want—on a subconscious level—and what you say you want are different, sometimes radically so.. "
― Gary John Bishop
72 " When the responsibility for the quality of your life lies with anyone but you, you become the victim. "
73 " Perspective check: you currently exist on a planet inhabited by millions of species of animals, draped in oceans and mountains with gushing volcanoes and waterfalls and creeping deserts; spinning in an endless universe, with stars and suns and solar systems that stretch wildly beyond anything your limited little imagination can muster—and yet you’re fucked up because your job sucks or you are carrying more weight than you want or your nose is bigger than your friend’s or your phone is three models older than everyone else’s. "
74 " The next time you’re feeling or experiencing any sort of negative or diminishing thought that disempowers you, move on immediately. Act independently of that thought. More specifically, act in a way that’s in your best interests rather than in a way that is dominated by how you automatically think and feel. "
75 " That’s your personal assertion: “I embrace the uncertainty.” Meet it head on. Cherish it. Enjoy it. "
76 " make the time to take your time. "
77 " Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant. Either you control your destiny, or your destiny will control you. Life won't pause for your pauses and procrastinations. It won't stop for your confusions and fear. It will continue right along without you. "
78 " You’re never going achieve your true potential if you’re hooked by what other people think. In fact, you could change your life overnight if you simply abandoned the notion that other people’s opinions matter. "
79 " Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson "
80 " We are wired to win—we just have to point ourselves in the right direction so we can win at something we consciously choose. "