Ground Map Quotes by Gordon Livingston

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

— Gordon Livingston

It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place.

— Gordon Livingston

Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.

— Gordon Livingston

Past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.

— Gordon Livingston

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

— Gordon Livingston

“any relationship is under the control of the person who cares the least.”

— Gordon Livingston

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

— Gordon Livingston

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

— Gordon Livingston

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

— Gordon Livingston

“It is our determination to overcome fear and discouragement that constitutes the only effective antidote to the sense of powerlessness over unwanted feelings.”

— Gordon Livingston

Our greatest strengths are our greatest weaknesses.

— Gordon Livingston

We are all prone to the myth of the perfect stranger

— Gordon Livingston