#setting

It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#drama #friends #friendship #holding-out-for-the-best #honoring-yourself

Look around you at the people you spend the most time with and realize that your life can’t rise any higher than your friendships. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#friendship #holding-out-for-the-best #letting-go #letting-go-of-negative-people #loving-yourself

Stop inviting people who don't celebrate you to your party! It's YOUR life - you have the right to be exclusive. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#friendship #honoring-yourself #letting-go #loving-yourself #moving-on

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. ↗

— Cecil B. DeMille

#success #goal-setting

I carry a torch in one hand And a bucket of water in the other: With these things I am going to set fire to Heaven And put out the flames of Hell So that voyagers to God can rip the veils And see the real goal. ↗

— Rābiʻah al-ʻAdawīyah

#lennon #goal-setting

Why are murder mysteries so popular? There's a 3-part "formula" (if you want to call it that) for a genre novel: (1) Someone the reader likes and relates to (2) overcomes increasingly difficult obstacles (3) to reach an important goal. The more important the goal, the stronger the novel. And the most important goal that any of us have is survival. That's why murder mysteries are more gripping than a story titled "Who Stole My TV Set. ↗

— Lois Duncan

#goal-setting

We should set our goals; then learn to control our appetites. Otherwise, we will lose ourselves in the confusion of the world. ↗

— Hark Herald Sarmiento

#confusion #goals #self-control #world #goal-setting

The basis of drama is ... is the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realizes that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilization and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable. The example Aristotle uses, of course, is Oedipus. ↗

— David Mamet

#goal-setting

Be aware that how you feel has a direct impact on your thinking process. When we set standards for ourselves they seem objective, but standards and goal-setting are totally subjective and personal." From The Biology of Success. ↗

— Robert Arnot

#decisions #success #goal-setting

Set goals so big that unless God helps you, you will be a miserable failure. ↗

— Bill Bright

#heaven #heavenly-father #jesus #goal-setting