42 Lessons at 42
42 Lessons at 42
Fall is my favorite time of year – and October is my favorite month. It’s my birthday month and it’s my business birthday month. I’ll be 42 later this month and my business, Vitale & Company, will be 4. It’s exciting! To celebrate the occasion, I’m going to give you my 42 favorite quotes and life lessons. Let me know which ones are your favorite.
Enjoy this time of year and be present with the people you love – someday is today.
With gratitude,
Vitale
42 Favorite Quotes + Life Lessons
“Temporary. Everything. All of it. Even the best of it, especially the best of it. We only have so many years to know human love and do human things. Love them, all of them, even the painstaking ones. They, too, will not last. They are human. They are the experience. The insecurity? The experience. The heartache? The experience. The confusion? The experience. The joy? The experience. There is nothing lost if we learn something from it. Your willingness to fail is proportionate to your potential to gain and to grow. The timer never stops running. All you will regret is not reaching harder for what you actually wanted while it was still in front of you.” – Brianna Wiest
- Don’t push the river.
- Allow yourself to evolve.
- “If you want a different life, you’ve got to do something different.” – Jen Sincero
- Boundaries are a reflection of your self-worth.
- “A ship in harbor is safe, but this is not what ships are built for.” – John Shedd
- Your presence is your power. Be where your feet are.
- You cannot miss what’s meant for you.
- When you love yourself, your taste in people changes.
- “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
- Patience is an action. And your level of patience must be equal to your level of ambition. And the bigger the dreams, the bigger the patience.
- Love people where they are.
- “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin
- Give yourself room to be human.
- Done is better than perfect.
- Don’t ask for advice from someone who hasn’t been where you want to go.
- Action changes everything.
- ‘The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
- You cannot heal the parts of yourself that you hate. Self-compassion is the key to healing.
- The obstacle is the way.
- Trust the timing of your life.
- Self-discipline is the highest form of self-love.
- “Whether you think you can or can’t – you’re right.” – Henry Ford
- You’re allowed to change your mind.
- “When you change your relationship with rejection and failure, you change your life.” – Jamie Kern Lima
- If you have a dream, you also have the power to make it happen.
- “Trusting yourself is a fiery thing. How freeing it is to let life unfold and still feel safe.” – Brianna Pastor
- The life you want is on the other side of your consistency.
- It’s not about finding balance; it’s about knowing your priorities.
- Someday is today.
- You don’t outgrow others – you outgrow the old you. And that means relationships don’t always resonate with the same energy as the current version of you.
- Be intentional with your thoughts and your mindset – they create your reality.
- Perfectionism is hustling for your self-worth.
- “The biggest risk in life is not risking.” – Sara Blakely
- Fortune favors the bold.
- “You don’t get what you want in life, you get what you are intentional about.” – Oprah
- There’s no such thing as failure. You either win or you learn.
- Spend time with the people you love. At the end of your life you’re not going to want to send one last email, you’ll want to be surrounded by the people you love.
- “Patience gives you permission to dream.” – Gary Vee
- One day or day one.
- “Your new life is going to cost you your old one.” – Brianna Wiest
- “At any minute, someone can come along and change your life. That person is you.” – Steven
- Bet on yourself.