Quote On Personal Development

“Often, people build stories in their mind which have no basis in the contours of reality. Those which build these images, are building such images which are based on their relatively limited sense of understanding about the particular subject or person. This is a "fill in the blank" reality, which often manifests itself into the hearts and the minds of those who have a "fill in the blank" mindset, not the person with the here said reality.
The universe is designed in a way that reflects itself, just like a mirror, showing you exactly who you are to yourself, not who others are. Your largest and most concealed insecurities have their way of presenting themselves to you in a fashion that is relative to your self designed way of communication.
This short writing is a reminder that your preconceived notions on a particular subject or person, are a construct of your inner mind and emotional-relational well being and not of others. This is one of the largest fundamental truths in which you must have large insight to carefully watch who and what you massacre with your personal thoughts.
Having a keen sense of control on this subject will lead you to enlightenment in many platforms of life.” 
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/personal-development

Wealth & Personal Development Quotes

Making money and creating wealth is one of my weakest areas – knowledge wise – when it comes to self-improvement.

So I thought it would be useful for me – and hopefully for you too – to put together a list of some of the best quotes on wealth and money that I have come across.

I especially like the ones by William A. Ward, Benjamin Franklin, Gandhi and the last one by Henry Ford.

Enjoy!

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.
William A. Ward

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Seneca

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
Ayn Rand

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Erich Fromm

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
Jim Rohn

The person who doesn’t know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn’t know where his last dollar went.
Unknown

I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.
Robert Bosch

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.
Kahlil Gibran

It’s not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages.
Henry Ford

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
Gandhi

When a fellow says it ain’t the money but the principle of the thing, it’s the money.
Artemus Ward

He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience.
P.T Barnum

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Norman Vincent Peale

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
Simone Weil

It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.
George Lorimer

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
Benjamin Franklin

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.
Maya Angelou

Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are.
James W. Frick

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn

Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That’s not just a catchy slogan. It’s the very essence of successful investing.
J. Paul Getty

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry Ford

http://www.positivityblog.com/index.php/2007/06/06/25-inspirational-quotes-on-wealth-and-money/

Our Emotions Are Our Navigational System

You know many people never really think about their emotional health and well-being until they hit a point of crisis or breakdown.

In reality our emotions are our navigational system, and yet many people have not been well equipped to relate to their emotional experiences. They struggle to understand the way that they are feeling and lack an emotional language. This leaves them uncertain and afraid of any intense emotional experiences, sometimes even the good ones. But the reality is that everything that we feel is vital to us and of value. We have this extraordinary navigational system and it's made up of all of our emotions. Every single emotion that we have, we need and we would be incomplete without the full range.

Sometimes the most difficult times in our lives actually create a kind of doorway to a greater level of awareness, a place in time when we shift to greater level of consciousness and understanding.

Whatever is going on, I guarantee that your emotions are informing you and whatever your feelings are telling you, whether it's comfortable or uncomfortable, whether it's easy or uneasy, it's good information. Our emotions connect us to the deepest parts of ourselves. They are invisible and yet powerful beyond measure. Sometimes we can look really OK on the outside and yet be really not ok on the inside. No one sees how we are really feeling.

Historically, we live in a culture that reinforces the perception that any uncomfortable feelings are wrong, or bad. If you feel unease, then you have some kind of disease, some kind of illness.
If you are stressed and experiencing intense, difficult and challenging emotions and you seek medical help it is highly likely that the very first line of support that you will be offered will be some form of medication. Sometimes this is valuable; however, this is not always the case. Whilst I am not actually anti-medication, what I am longing to see is an appropriate and thoughtful system of diagnosis, with an appropriate level of interest and inquiry.

It is essential that we develop a culture of what I call "non-judgmental inquiry," an emotionally aware culture of interest and inquiry, without judgement and criticism, with a desire to look deeper. Without this we are fueling a climate which reinforces the perception that any form of emotional difficulty is a bad thing, indeed something to be frightened of.

To my mind the solution is not to take a pill so that you can continue to be stressed, but do it better; or to take a pill to enable you to develop a tolerance to something that isn't actually ok. When this happens our navigational system is being shut down.

Human beings are 100 percent relational. We live in a continual state of relationship, both with ourselves and with everything around us. We are in a continual relational flow both internally and externally. Our emotions give voice to our deepest inner needs, they let us know when things are going well for us, and in no uncertain terms, they let us know when they are not. So many of us have never learned any kind of emotional language or developed an ability to really listen to ourselves. We have this extraordinary navigational tool and yet we haven't learned to use it, let alone value the full range of our emotional experiences.

So many of our emotions get labelled as bad or negative and yet this good/bad, positive/negative kind of definition is a very narrow description, and one that doesn't recognize how important all of our feelings actually are. I'd like to reclassify these headings with a new definition. I'd like us to consider our emotions as falling into, either the easy comfortable camp, full of joyful happy relaxed emotional experiences, or the uneasy uncomfortable camp, full of the more challenging and difficult experiences.

None of the above states of being are bad. If you're feeling something in the uneasy, uncomfortable camp, this is informing you, it's telling you that something is going on and we need to learn to listen to this and to use this valuable information.

Our emotions are the vehicle that enables us to be fully relational, our emotions are continually informing us and they give us the information we need to navigate our lives. This emotional information then generates highly charged emotional energy. This energy gives us the drive and the power to fuel thought into action. The intensity of our emotional experience can literally rocket from 0 to 1,000 miles an hour in seconds. If we are unable to listen to ourselves then we are unable to take charge of these highly charged actions. They become re-actions, rather than reflective choices.

Learning an emotional language is absolutely at the core of emotional health and emotional well-being. It's also at the core of any healthy cultural and social system of living. We cannot possibly generate external relationships that are responsive and healthy until we have a responsive and healthy relationship with ourselves.

When you have a healthy, vibrant, alive, emotional relationship with yourself. You can also then have a healthy, vibrant, alive, emotional relationship with everyone and everything else.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jenny-florence/our-emotiona-are-our-navigational-system_b_5770634.html