Richard Carlson

“we tend to focus on the annoying expectation”

— Richard Carlson

Will this matter a year from now?

— Richard Carlson

“100: Live This Day as if It Were Your Last.”

— Richard Carlson

You can't have a better past.

— Richard Carlson

“Don't sweat the small stuff.”

— Richard Carlson

We have to shore this thing up like a New Orleans levy.

— Richard Carlson

“its helpful to step back and see the bigger picture”

— Richard Carlson

You are what you practice most.

— Richard Carlson

Choose to be kind over being right and you'll be right everytime.

— Richard Carlson

Try to maintain the perspective that, in time, everything disintegrates and returns to its initial form.

— Richard Carlson

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

— Richard Carlson

“In a low state of mind, everything seems really bad and worse than it probably is.”

— Richard Carlson

Choose being kind over being right, and you'll be right every time.

— Richard Carlson

Circumstances don't make a person; they reveal him or her.

— Richard Carlson

People who live the most fulfilling lives are the ones who are always rejoicing at what they have.

— Richard Carlson

Make living your life with absolute integrity and kindness your first priority.

— Richard Carlson

Noone knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it…

— Richard Carlson

Minding your own business . . . includes [avoiding] eavesdropping, gossiping, talking behind other people's backs, and analyzing or trying to figure out other people.

— Richard Carlson

Even though we often mess up, most of us are doing the best that we know how with the circumstances that surround…

— Richard Carlson

Ironically, when you surrender your need to hog the glory, the attention you used to need from other people is replaced by…

— Richard Carlson

No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever…

— Richard Carlson

It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great…

— Richard Carlson

...when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to be serious…

— Richard Carlson

“Irrespective of what happened yesterday or last year, and what may or may not happen tomorrow, the present moment is where you…

— Richard Carlson

Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's…

— Richard Carlson

“Almost universally, when people look back on their lives while on their deathbed [...] they wish they had spent more time with…

— Richard Carlson

“If you can begin to see that your thoughts are not the real thing – they’re just thoughts, and as thoughts they…

— Richard Carlson

If, however, you take a moment to observe how you actually feel immediately after you criticise someone, you'll notice that you will…

— Richard Carlson

It's the recognition that other people's problems, their pain and frustrations, are every bit as real as our own - often far…

— Richard Carlson

Wholeness or health is our natural state. The nature of healing involves removing obstructions to this natural state and bringing individuals into…

— Richard Carlson

One of the mistakes many of us make is that we feel sorry for ourselves, or for others, thinking that life should…

— Richard Carlson

The old adage, 'If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is' isn't always correct. In fact, the suspicion, cynicism,…

— Richard Carlson

“As our appreciation of happiness in relationship increases, we take notice of the things that tend to take us away from this…

— Richard Carlson

“Get Comfortable Not Knowing There once was a village that had among its people a very wise old man. The villagers trusted…

— Richard Carlson

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is…

— Richard Carlson

“In our relationships, weatherproofing typically plays itself out like this: You meet someone and all is well. You are attracted to his…

— Richard Carlson

Something wonderful begins to happen with the simple realization that life, like an automobile, is driven from the inside out, not the…

— Richard Carlson

“Wise people throughout history have been those who saw that while life is real, life’s problems are an illusion, they are thought-created.…

— Richard Carlson

When your goal is to build people up, to make them feel better, to share in their joy, you too reap the…

— Richard Carlson

“Once you understand that you are the thinker of your own thoughts, and that your mind doesn‘t produce ‘reality’, it produces ‘thoughts’,…

— Richard Carlson