Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you’re doing something virtuous.

Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf.

If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.

Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they’re moving toward getting it.

If you’re burned out, learning something new or doing something creative is the cure.

Little by little, the process of writing your ideas in your Daybook will change the way you feel about not following up on every one of your good ideas, because it becomes so clear that planning, designing, and making a record of your ideas in something called a Scanner Daybook isn’t making a promise; it’s the way inventive people enjoy themselves.

In the days before automobiles, people in horse-drawn wagons used to sleep if they were tired. They didn’t worry about getting lost, because the horse knew the way home. Your heart knows the way to your gifts. You can trust it to take you to them.

If you’re unhappy, something important is going on. When your body hurts, it needs attention. When your heart hurts, it needs just as much attention. Your mind knows what you’ve been taught, but your heart knows who you really are.

There is always a realistic way to fulfill any dream. There has never been a dream that you can’t have – at least, not the heart of it, not the part you love the most.

You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you.