Author: chris

  • Use what you know now

    Use what you know now

    Forgive yourself for what you didn’t know before you knew it. You cannot judge your past self by the standards of the person you are today. That version of you did the best they could with the tools they had; your job now is to use your new tools to build something better.” ~ Maya…

  • Whatever you do, do it completely. Don’t do it half hearted. Do it more than anybody else would. Keep your standards high. Care about the details most people will never even notice.

  • Choose again

    Choose again

    The beginning is always today. One decision. One commitment. One new start. You cannot change the past. But today you can choose goodness. And what you keep choosing, you become.” ~ Mary Shelley

  • There is one thing. Just one thing. Above all else. That I hope you will remember.

  • Walk until the world looks different

    Walk until the world looks different

    Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.” ~ Søren Kierkegaard

  • Give away thing you wanted most

    Give away thing you wanted most

    The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.” ~ David S. Viscott

  • Be careful what you become good at. You can become excellent at worrying, complaining, pleasing people, avoiding discomfort and staying busy. Practice courage instead. Practice honesty. Practice gratitude. A life is shaped by whatever you repeat often enough to become automatic. Learn to leave sooner. Leave the job that is hollowing you out. Leave the…

  • If there were just one thing

    If there were just one thing

    Don’t sleepwalk through life. Take chances on things that matter. Keep your promises. Buy the ridiculous dessert. Laugh until you can’t speak. You have been given a brief turn at being alive; don’t spend so much of it watching from the sidelines that you forget to live. ~ Anthony Hopkins

  • Don’t pass it on

    Don’t pass it on

    My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.” ~ Maya Angelou

  • If I could tell my younger self only one thing, I’d say: don’t waste your life trying to impress people. Find out what you believe, what you love, what you’re good at, and build your life around that.  If I had only one sentence, it might be this: become someone you can trust. Keep the…

  • Your life does not need to look impressive from the outside. It needs to feel good from the inside. Enough sleep. People you trust. Work that means something. Time outside. Things that make you laugh. A mind that isn’t constantly at war with itself. Build a life you enjoy living, not one that strangers would…

  • Make sure you have something to look forward to. A meal next Friday. A walk tomorrow morning. A holiday six months away. A friend coming over. A book beside your bed. Happiness isn’t only appreciating what is here. Sometimes it’s having a small light waiting for you further down the road.

  • There are two ways to wake up. You can think, ‘Here we go again’. Or you can think, ‘I get to go again’. Same morning. Same day. Same life. Two completely different ways of experiencing it.

  • Try being five years old again for an afternoon. Look at insects. Jump into the water. Ask ridiculous questions. Eat something because you love it. Run somewhere for absolutely no reason. Look at the moon as though you’ve never seen it before. Growing older is compulsory. Losing your wonder isn’t.

  • For the next 24 hours, pretend you’ve been sent back. You’re 90 years old. Somehow, impossibly, you’ve been given one day inside your younger body again. You get to see these people again. Live in this home again. Walk these streets again. Now go and experience the day you would have begged to have back.

  • Imagine someone offered you £10 million for the rest of your life. There’s only one condition: You don’t wake up tomorrow. Would you take it? Of course not. Which means waking up tomorrow is worth more to you than £10 million. Try to remember that when your eyes open.

  • Try this tomorrow morning. Before touching your phone, stand by the window. Look outside. Take one deep breath. Then say: “I get another one.” Another morning.Another chance.Another small piece of this extraordinary thing called being alive. Start there.

  • Stop for a moment

    Stop for a moment

    If I could give one piece of advice it would be: don’t wait for a perfect moment to appreciate your life. There will never be a time that’s free of uncertainty or difficulty. But there will always be something worth noticing, if you choose to look for it. ~ Emma Thompson

  • Let them

    Let them. Let them judge. Let them doubt you. Let them question the decisions you are making. Let Them be wrong about you… …Instead of wasting your time worrying about them, start living your life in a way that makes you proud of yourself.” ~ Mel Robbins

  • Every kind word makes kindness a little more natural. Every honest decision makes honesty a little easier. Every courageous act makes courage a little less frightening. The person you become is practising, whether you realise it or not. Your future self is being shaped by things that feel too ordinary to notice today. That’s why…

  • the people you admire began with the conviction that they had something worth offering the world. Believe in yourself first. The rest has a way of following. Be careful not to confuse a moment with a person. We have all said things we regret, made poor decisions, and behaved beneath ourselves. If someone had judged…

  • Go all in

    Go all in

    Whatever you do in life, make sure you’re in it with all your heart. If you’re not, get out. Once you decide to go all in on something that matters, life rearranges itself around that decision.” ~ Keanu Reeves

  • Slow down

    Slow down

    Whenever you feel yourself becoming impatient, remember this: rushing rarely saves time. More often, it creates mistakes that need to be corrected later. A few extra thoughtful minutes today can spare you hours of regret tomorrow.” ~ Doris Lessing

  • The day you were never promised

    The day you were never promised

    “Every morning I wake up, I remind myself that no promise was made for today. That’s where gratitude begins—in knowing this moment is a gift I didn’t earn, but still get to live.” ~ Johnny Cash

  • Keep going

    Keep going

    Keep Going. Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going… If you don’t give up on something you truly believe in, you will find a way. Tough situations build strong people in the end.” ~ Roy T. Bennett

  • You leave fingerprints everywhere

    You leave fingerprints everywhere

    You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. ~ Jane Goodall

  • Eaten up by nothing

    Eaten up by nothing

    We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” ~ Charles Bukowski

  • Look at the stars

    Look at the stars

    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren’t worse.” ~ Oscar Wilde

  • Become worthy

    How do you find a good spouse? The best single way to find a good spouse is to deserve a good spouse… To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want.” ~ Charlie Munger

  • Don’t become ordinary to yourself

    Don’t become ordinary to yourself

    Somewhere between childhood and adulthood, most people forget that existence itself is extraordinary. Don’t be one of them.” ~ Ernest Hemmingway