Lines I underlined

John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.

I've got out at last, said I, in spite of you and Jane! And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!

Suffering is always the result of an error in thinking. It is an indication of being out of harmony with the laws of the universe.

Be specific and do not keep changing your mind. All thoughts count and produce results. Changing your mind all the time “confuses” the universe.

Whatever you put your attention to gets energy from you and grows.

Do not let your mind dwell on dissatisfaction even if you are now feeling dissatisfied. That only feeds and supports dissatisfying conditions.

Speak to yourself and ask yourself your questions, expecting an answer. You will soon develop a knack of getting answers from within. They come as feelings, not words; but you can get what they mean, you can get the gist or the gestalt of them.

Insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result.

Things take the time they take. Don't worry.

Every day has something in it whose name is Forever.

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

Once a day, after you’ve done your day’s work, go back to your documentation and find one little piece of your process that you can share.

Artists love to trot out the tired line, “My work speaks for itself,” but the truth is, our work doesn’t speak for itself. Human beings want to know where things came from, how they were made, and who made them. The stories you tell about the work you do have a huge effect on how people feel and what they understand about your work, and how people feel and what they understand about your work effects how they value it.

Winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt.

The Dip is the long slog between starting and mastery.

But inevitably, Dad would storm out of the house and pull out of the driveway, and I'd chase after him, crying and wailing until my throat hurt. I usually blamed Mom for upsetting him, for making him leave.

If your cat gets animated when you turn out the light, it's because the time for her to hunt has come.

Cats feel no need to exhibit the equivalent of a smile, since they're naturally solitary creatures.

In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

Trust your hard work is unlocking doors you can't see yet

Most customers will do nothing. They'll never buy from you again, but they'll almost never ask for their money back.

A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea.

Without someone to say yes, all that's left are unpublished writers who tell themselves no.

If someone gave you two weeks to give that speech or write that manifesto or make that decision, would that be enough time? If two weeks aren't enough, are four or twelve or a thousand?

If you hear my idea but don't believe it, that's not your fault; it's mine. If you see my new product but don't buy it, that's my failure, not yours.

Never do anything just for the money.

If you're not saying "HELL YEAH!" about something, say no.

You're lucky to own your own business. Life is good. You can't prevent bad things from happening. Learn to shrug. Resist the urge to punish everyone for one person's mistake.

There's a big difference between being self-employed and being a business owner. Being self-employed feels like freedom until you realize that if you take time off, your business crumbles. To be a true business owner, make it so that you could leave for a year, and when you came back, your business would be doing better than when you left.

The children were playing while Holston climbed to his death.

I also know that I can always earn more, so I don't use taxes as the primary factor in my decisions.

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) notes that the average cost per hire is $4,425. If they've already spent nearly $5,000 recruiting you, and thousands more training you, would they really want to lose you?

Are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't paint, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what Resistance is.

Steven Pressfield's words, quoted in the book

Dependency is a fact; it is not a choice or a preference.

We are all emotionally tethered for life to someone who is both an irritating stranger with maddening habits and the person who wept for joy when we were born.

We are drowning in books; we have no time to reread the books we love and we appear condemned to a permanent sense of being under-read compared to our peers and to what the prestigious voices have declared respectable.

Execution is the single greatest market differentiator.

i wish they complimented my songs like they do my legs

Good for her! Not for me.

It takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for.

A brand is a person's gut feeling about a product, service, or organization.

Many of us are colorblind to the joys and complexities of our lives, and it is because we are missing a part of the foundation. We want to be authors but have no desire to develop the discipline it takes to sit down and write for four hours a day for years on end.

Your fear is the most boring thing about you.

Creative living is a life driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear.

Hygge is about an atmosphere and an experience, rather than about things.

If you save a little money now, you’re still not a millionaire. If you go to the gym three days in a row, you’re still out of shape. If you study Mandarin for an hour tonight, you still haven’t learned the language. We make a few changes, but the results never seem to come quickly and so we slide back into our previous routines.

Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about the processes that lead to those results.

If you keep saying something is a priority but you never act on it, then you don’t really want it. It’s time to have an honest conversation with yourself.

The more we focus on what could go wrong, the more we change the energy around the entire situation and actually attract negativity to it.

Being human means living with constant reminders of failures, insecurities, and mishaps, even though most of us have daily victories worthy of praise and even celebration.

We compliment our friends daily for the little things they do; why shouldn’t we compliment ourselves as well?

Everything is figureoutable.

Clarity comes from engagement, not thought.

I've always loved Saint Francis of Assisi because he was the saint who loved all the little animals. Whenever you see a statue of him, you'll often spot a bird or two resting on his shoulders.

You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it.

Gay people don't actually try to convert people. That's Jehovah's Witnesses you're thinking of.

Gay people don't actually try to convert people. That's Jehovah's Witnesses you're thinking of.