Stephanie Stansbury > Stephanie's Quotes

“Happiness- in part at least- the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.”
― Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I can do.”
― Jana Stanfield

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”
― Albert Einstein

“Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Everyone must choose one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret”
― Jim Rohn

“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Семейное счастие

“There are three trips you take to India: the one you think you’re going to have – that you plan for; the one you actually have; and the one you live through once you go back home.”
― Erin Reese

“At some point almost everyone makes a choice. Some of us don't even notice it happening, most don't get to plan it in advance, but there's always a moment when we take one path instead of another, which has consequences for the rest of our lives. It determines the people we will become, in other people's eyes as well as our own. Elizabeth Zackell may have been right when she said that anyone who feels responsibility isn't free. Because responsibility is a burden. Freedom is a pleasure.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“The idea that regret is a fair but tough teacher can really piss people off. “No regrets” has become synonymous with daring and adventure, but I disagree. The idea of “no regrets” doesn’t mean living with courage, it means living without reflection. To live without regret is to believe we have nothing to learn, no amends to make, and no opportunity to be braver with our lives.”
― Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

“In my 35 years of studying moral psychology, I have come to see this as one of humanity's greatest problems: we are too quick to anger and too slow to forgive. We are also hypocrites who judge others harshly while automatically justifying our own bad behavior.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness