Jay Shetty Quotes

Do not let other people's definition of success and happiness dictate your choices.

No matter how dissatisfied you are with your pyramid, don’t promote people without reason. They will only let you down. The biggest mistake we make is to assume that everyone else operates just like us. We believe that others value what we value. We believe that what we want in a relationship is what others want in a relationship. When someone says, “I love you,” we think they mean exactly what we mean when we say “I love you.” But if we think everyone is a reflection of ourselves, we fail to see things as they are. We see things as we are.

The Monastic Way quotes Benedictine monk Dom Aelred Graham as saying, “The monk may think he has come [to the monastery] to gain something for himself: peace, security, quiet, a life of prayer, or study, or teaching; but if his vocation is genuine, he finds that he has come not to take but to give.

I’d love to share this idea with you” or “Have you ever thought of it this way?

If you're in love with the day-to-day process, then you do it with depth, authenticity, and a desire to make an impact. You might be equally successful either way, but if you're driven by intention, you feel joy.

Other people can help you, but if you're not trying to understand yourself, nobody else can do it for you.

Life’s too short to live without purpose, to lose our chance to serve, to let our dreams and aspirations die with us.

Humility comes from accepting where you are without seeing it as a reflection of who you are. Then you can use your imagination to find success.

Jim Carrey once said, “I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of, so they can see that it’s not the answer.

We may feel empty, lost, broken, and hurt, but the soul is unbreak-
able. The Bhagavad Gita spends seven verses talking about the indestructibility of
the soul. “That which pervades the entire body you should know to be indestruc-
tible. No one is able to destroy that imperishable soul. The soul can never be cut to
pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by
the wind. This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble, and can be neither
burned nor dried. It is everlasting, present everywhere, unchangeable, immovable
and eternally the same.

We are all connected; to each other, biologically. To the Earth, chemically. And to the rest of the universe, atomically.

The emotion you fall asleep with at night is most likely the emotion you’ll wake up with in the morning.

Our identity is wrapped up in what others think of us — or, more accurately, what we think others think of us.

There are distractions, of course, but meditation doesn't eliminate distractions, distractions, it manages them.

To build your competence without regard for character is narcissistic, and to build character without working on skills is devoid of impact. We need to work on both in order to serve our souls and a higher purpose.