Gordon Livingston Quotes

There are no maps to guide our most important searches; we must rely on hope, chance, intuition, and a willingness to be surprised.

Past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.

Our greatest strengths are our greatest weaknesses.

It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place. By nature, we are emotional creatures. Often we live and react based on feelings, not logic. Feelings are wonderful, but when we become tied to a particular thought or belief we tend to ignore the fact that change might be necessary.

If the map doesn’t agree with the ground, the map is wrong.

Life’s two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask.

Only bad things happen quickly, . . . Virtually all the happiness-produ cing processes in our lives take time, usually a long time: learning new things, changing old behaviors, building satisfying relationships, raising children. This is why patience and determination are among life’s primary virtues.

Everything we are afraid to try, all our unfulfilled dreams, constitute a limitation on what we are and could become.

We are all prone to the myth of the perfect stranger

We are not what we think, or what we say, or how we feel. We are what we do.

Money cannot buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.

We also need to learn the art of letting go: of the past, of unresolved grievances, of our younger selves. Nobody gets out of here alive.