Thom

I recently attended a meeting of an advisory board in Washington DC. At it, I met Thom, an extraordinary man who I intend to partner with on future projects because he is a person of great qualities.

Thom has written several books, one of which contains a collection of quotes to illustrate his points on self-actualization. What I liked about it is that it includes, but extends beyond the bounds of commonly quoted wisdom. Here’s a sampling.

“Growth is never about focusing on someone else’s lessons but only on our own.”
- Marianne Williamson

“Our greatest tool for changing the world is our capacity to change our mind about the world.”
- Marianne Williamson

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you want to continue what you are getting, just keep doing what you’ve been doing.”
- Les Brown

“Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”
- Les Brown

“What you intend is what you become.”
- Gary Zukav

“Thoughts are like boomerangs.”
- Eileen Caddy

“He who conceals his disease cannot hope to be cured.”
- Ethiopian proverb

“It’s not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out where the strong man has stumbled or where the doer of great deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena. Whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. Who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again. And who, while daring greatly, spends himself in a worthy cause so that his place may not be among those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
- Theodore Roosevelt

“Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.”
- Marianne Williamson

“What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.”
- Stephen Covey

“We have friends and users who come to us in the same guise. Friends are angels who encourage us to grow, and we feel gratified when we’ve followed their encouragement. Users are unctuous little toads who enlist us in their failure, and we agonize when doing their lowly bidding.”
- L. Ramsey Peird

“We are what we repeatedly do.”
- Aristotle