Note To Self Quotes

They say the truth will set you free, but what they neglect to mention is what happens when the truth isn't what you want to hear.

One of the benchmarks of great communicators is their ability to listen not just to what's being said, but to what's not being said as well. They listen between the lines.

Laurie Buchanan

People who are adept in healthy self-expression exercise front-end consideration before speaking.

Laurie Buchanan

Be bigger presence at work. Race up ladder (joyfully, w/smile on face), get raise. Get in best shape of life, start dressing nicer. Learn guitar? Make point of noticing beauty of world? Why not educate self re. birds, flowers, trees, constellations, become true citizen of natural world, walk around neighborhood w/kids, patiently teaching kids names of birds, flowers, etc. etc.? Why not take kids to Europe? Kids have never been. Have never, in Alps, had hot chocolate in mountain café, served by kindly white- haired innkeeper, who finds them so sophisticated/friendly relative to usual snotty/rich American kids (who always ignore his pretty but crippled daughter w/braids) that he shows them secret hiking path to incredible glade, kids frolic in glade, sit with crippled pretty girl on grass, later say it was most beautiful day of their lives, keep in touch with crippled girl via email, we arrange surgery here for her, surgeon so touched he agrees to do surgery for free, she is on front page of our paper, we are on front page of their paper in Alps? Ha ha.

George Saunders

The dead only knows their world.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Any belief worth embracing will stand up to the litmus test of scrutiny. If we have to qualify, rationalize, make exceptions for, or turn a blind eye to maintain a belief, then it may well be time to release that belief.

Laurie Buchanan

The most important progress and success can't be seen. If you can validate yourself internally, then external validation becomes a byproduct.

Brittany Burgunder

Joy is inexplicable peace that comes from within.

Laurie Buchanan

Doing something for the mere joy of it—for one's self or others—is quite possibly one of the best returns on an investment of time that a person can receive.

Laurie Buchanan

When we inhabit our own life—stop doing things based on the approval of others—we offload baggage and trade up to joy!

Laurie Buchanan

sometimes even the worst dreams are better than this reality

If you are on social media, and you are not learning, not laughing, not being inspired or not networking, then you are using it wrong.

today my heart was ripped in twoone half for me, one half for you take a half and keep it neari have mine and will always be here crossing paths before the endonce a lover, forever a friend

confront your greatest fearsvoice your biggest problemsacknowledge your tiniest issuesthe longer you stay silentthe louder they becomethey won't disappear if you ignore themthey will spread and affect all aspects of your life