Here are some best quotes from “Who Will Cry When You Die” by Robin Sharma
“A meaningful life is made up of a series of daily acts of decency and kindness, which, ironically, add up to something truly great over the course of a lifetime.”
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it,”
“Sleep is like a drug,” he explained. “Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time, vitality and opportunities.”
“Anyone can become angry — that’s easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not easy,” taught Aristotle.”
“You will never be able to eliminate a weakness you don’t even know about. The first step to eliminating a negative habit is to become aware of it.”
“If you have not read today, you have not really lived today. And knowing how to read but failing to do so puts you in exactly the same position as the person who cannot read but wants to.”
“Every second you dwell on the past you steal from your future. Every minute you spend focusing on your problems you take away from finding your solutions”
“Every time you fail to do the right thing, you fuel the habit of doing the wrong thing. Every time the habit of being untruthful”
“One of the lessons I have learned in my own life is that if you don’t act on life, life has a habit of acting on you.”
“I wept because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet.”
“Kindness, quite simply, is the rent we must pay for the space we occupy on this planet.”
“On his deathbed, Aldous Huxley reflected on his entire life’s learning and then summed it up in seven simple words: “Let us be kinder to one another.”
“And saying that you don’t have enough time to be silent on a regular basis is a lot like saying you are too busy driving to stop for gas — eventually it will catch up with you.”
“The smallest of actions is always better than the boldest of intentions.”