Resisting Happiness QUOTES

2 " Knowing that death is not far off brings remarkable clarity. After that news, there is no middle ground; something is either very important or not important at all. "

― Matthew Kelly , Resisting Happiness

4 " You don't have to go to Mass if you can tell me the one thing that you are going to do while I am at church with all your brothers that is more important than going to church and thanking God for another week of life "

― Matthew Kelly , Resisting Happiness

6 " It is perhaps the result of a culture that prefers us to be passive. The passive me says: “Feed me”; “Entertain me”; “Hold me”; “Love me”; “Listen to me”; “Tell me I matter”; “Make me a priority”; “Don’t make me think too much or work too hard”; and so "

― Matthew Kelly , Resisting Happiness

8 " Whatever your age, if you have not yet fallen in love with learning, begin that love affair today. How? Go wherever your interests lead you. It is the perfect place to start. Rekindle a childlike curiosity. Ask why a lot. Free yourself from outcomes; you don’t need a reason and you don’t need to accomplish anything. I "

― Matthew Kelly , Resisting Happiness

10 " In every moment of every day, resistance is there, waiting to pounce. The hardest war to win is one you don’t even realize you are fighting, and the hardest enemy to defeat is the one you don’t even know exists. Every day you are at war with resistance. "

― Matthew Kelly , Resisting Happiness

12 " How does resistance manifest? It wears a thousand masks, many of which are so effective we don’t even recognize resistance is behind them. Laziness, procrastination, fear, doubt, instant gratification, self-loathing, indecision, escapism, pride, self-deception, friction, tension, and self-sabotage are just some of the ways resistance manifests its ugly self in our lives and causes us to settle for so much less than God has imagined for us. You cannot become the-best-version-of-yourself unless you wake up every morning ready to slay resistance. It stands between you and the person God created you to be. Resistance stands between you and happiness. You have to break through resistance in order to accomplish even the smallest tasks. I catch myself in a battle with resistance several times a day. "

― Matthew Kelly , Resisting Happiness

14 " The first lesson is that you never defeat resistance once and for all. It is a daily battle. "

― Matthew Kelly , Resisting Happiness

16 " We all have cycles of thought or behavior that need to be broken. We have all tried to break these cycles over and over again, and failed over and over again. Addiction in all its forms, large and small, serious and less serious (no addiction is trivial), is one of the central themes of our lives. Identifying our own addictions of thought and action is part of each person’s spiritual journey. Food, control, talking too much, work, sex, pornography, alcohol, drugs, always being right, noise, negative thinking, negative humor, skepticism, cynicism, minimalism…the list is varied and endless. It doesn’t matter what it is for you, and it doesn’t matter what it is for me. What matters is how we respond. "

― Matthew Kelly , Resisting Happiness

18 " If you want a Coke, have water. If you want the steak, have the salmon. If you want to take a shortcut, go the long way. If you want to cut a conversation short, hear the person out. If you want to stop working, push yourself to go on for another thirty minutes. Give up the little things, not to punish yourself, but as a short prayer and to strengthen your will. "

― Matthew Kelly , Resisting Happiness

20 " In order to have a healthy financial life that balances earning with spending, and saving with giving, one must be able to delay gratification. In order to raise children to become the-best-version-of-themselves, one must be willing to delay gratification. "

― Matthew Kelly , Resisting Happiness