Achievement tells us something about a person’s performance under particular conditions.
It does not tell us the value of the person.
Tag: Life Quotes
The Values and The Logic of Living
Values are not conclusions reached by logic.
They are directions of living that organize logic.
Values supply the direction, logic provides the route.
Is Love a Feeling?
Some people stay in relationships long after they have stopped asking whether a meaningful life can be built there.
Others leave at the first sign of difficulty, assuming that the absence of excitement means love has ended.
Love requires effort.
But effort cannot make every relationship workable.
And the loss of butterflies does not mean a relationship is unworkable.
The challenge is learning the difference.
What does it mean to be perfect?
The word perfect comes from the Latin perfectus.
It originally meant complete.
Not flawless.
Not superior.
Not better than others.
Complete.
The problem-solving mind spends much of its time convincing us that something is missing.
Yet before we were successful or unsuccessful, admired or rejected, confident or insecure, we were already human.
Perhaps perfection is not becoming someone else.
Perhaps it is living fully as the person you already are.
You are not an unfinished human waiting for permission to exist.
Seeking Comfort
When comfort becomes you compass,
emptiness can become your destination.
Living With ACT
The paradox of ACT is that many people arrive through thinking,
but heal through living.
To Live Without Regret
To live without guilt is to live without mistakes.
To live without mistakes is to live without risk.
And to live without risk ultimately turns living into lifelessness.
Living With Differences
“We are not meant to match.
We are meant to meet.”
— Starfly Chua
Better People, Better Country:
A Psychological Blueprint for a New Philippines
Living Healthily vs. Living Wisely
“We are often far more focused on who we are, when we would be wiser to focus on what we most deeply and enduringly desire.”
— Hank Robb
A Life Beyond Just Feeling Good
One unintended consequence of the prevailing disease or mental disorder model is that life slowly becomes a competition over who feels the best, the happiest, the most confident, or the least distressed.
But if feeling good were the ultimate purpose of living, we would expect our final tributes and epitaphs to celebrate people mainly for how good they felt about themselves.
We know that’s rarely the case.
Most obituaries are not about who felt the happiest.
They are about what people did.
How they loved.
What they built.
Who they helped.
What they stood for.