Rasheed Ogunlaru Quotes - Page 3

Life should not be reduced to a to do list.

It is one thing doing what you love for a living. It is another thing doing what you love with love

Your words, thoughts, intentions and actions today are your best hope, comfort, building blocks and insurance for tomorrow. But it is now alone that is guaranteed – tomorrow is a dream, a maybe a potential gift. It’s now - not tomorrow - where happiness and fulfilment live...awaiting your discovery. It’s all this that will make each extra day that may arrive extra special and rich.

Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.

It's not the world that needs to change - it's our consciousness we must raise

Perhaps above everything compassion is the most important thing to embrace and emanate in life. It will enhance your life - and it's the one thing that will elevate and heal mankind

There's no beauty without difference and diversity. Love unconditionally.

No daydreaming. No music, film, art, creative thinking or business.

It is not blindly pushing your own agenda that will enrich the world. It’s is your ability and willingness to understand, appreciate, anticipate, address, serve and support the lives of others that will.

When you feel that others are lacking and failing ....first assess the skill, style, quality, results, mindset, support, professionalism and spirit with which you yourself play the game.

There is no well being without inner peace.

Is your life story the truth? Yes, the chronological events are true. Is it the whole truth? No, you see and judge it through your conditioned eyes and mind - not of all involved - nor do you see the entire overview. Is it nothing but the truth? No, you select, share, delete, distort, subtract, assume and add what you want, need and choose to.

It is wiser to love who you are than what you want.

If you're jealous of someone else it simply means you have not come to a true acceptance and appreciation of yourself.

Until you understand your customers - deeply and genuinely - you cannot hope to serve them

By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched.

The best way to look back at life fondly is to meet it - and those along your journey - warmly, kindly and mindfully

The reason that so many fail to find happiness is that they fail to find gratitude.

You may not need to do it all, design it all or direct it all. But when it comes to making things you want to happen to happen you may well have to inspire and drive it all.

Before you chase success, status, power, wealth fame or love; first fall in love with yourself - for the person you'll be if and when you get there is still the same. Success will be a painful path and an empty trophy without self acceptance, self worth or if littered with self hate.

Champions realise that defeat - and learning from it even more than from winning - is part of the path to mastery.

Music is energy, emotion, expression, escapism, enlightenment. Music is so much more than just entertainment.

On any day - in any given event - you have to believe in yourself and back yourself 100%

Success is a trophy, a title, something gained, attained or retained. Fulfilment, true happiness, contentment.... bliss is the gift of the self-realised. That is the real prize.

People will ask you the question 'how is life treating you?' But my question is 'how are you treating life?' On that your happiness rests

It may take many voices for people to hear the same message.

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy...

Gratitude for being alive is the best way to rise and shine.

All selling should spring from service

Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.

Life will teach or beat you all you need to know. My advice take the compassionate class and peaceful path

Every great athlete, artist and aspiring being has a great team to help them flourish and succeed - personally and professionally. Even the so-called 'solo star' has a strong supporting cast helping them shine, thrive and take flight.

Money and material things may well sustain you physically. But it is only living life from/with love & compassion - and the hearts and lives that you touch - that will truly nourish you emotionally and in spirit.

All hate is hurt, all compassion is understanding

The internet and online communication is the window into your world - but real life, in person communication / connection is the door.

Advances in technology can be empowering, progressive and enriching. History has shown this across civilisations and societies. But it has also shown, and the present and future will continue to show, that it is foolish, risky, flawed and folly without us raising our individual and collective consciousness and mindfulness to accompany it - to ensure we use it shrewdly, kindly and wisely.

There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose - if you embrace it you become one with it and you'll be lived.

Your consistency says a lot about your commitment.

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.

Triumphs are usually the outcomes of countless learned-from 'failures

It's is not enough just to follow your heart. Use it in every breath and in each step. Meet and greet everyone with it. Put it into all you do, every dish you eat and all you create. Then your life and those of those you come into contact with will be truly rich - beyond material and transient things.

You won't ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have.

Authenticity is hard to fake

When setbacks arise - and they will from time to time - regroup, recharge, refocus and refine.

The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it.

Only love and compassion can bring true and lasting transformation

There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.

To me everything in business boils down to this: do you genuinely care about your customers - or just their cash?

Just because a door appears closed it does not mean that it is locked - nor that it will not open with the right heart, call or touch

Sometimes a step back or away from an idea, task or project brings even more perspective, insight and clarity.

It’s is not just a question of doing what you love for a living. It is a matter of doing what you love with love. Then your life and all lives will be transformed.

Inspiration may come from many places but motivation - the love of life, daily drive and the will to thrive - that must come from you from within

Nothing has value without self worth

Step outside for a while - calm your mind. It is better to hug a tree than to bang your head against a wall continually

You are not who you think you are. You are not who they want you to be. You are not merely your colour, class, gender - and so on - these are quite narrow things. You are not the ideas you are given and gather. You are not what you own or lay claim to. You are not even your life story - for that changes through time, perspective, emphasis and many things. You are what resides before, between and beyond all these things." - R. Ogunlaru

Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations.

Success is meaningless without fulfilment - both begin within

Success is a path of setbacks, passion, purpose and inner strength

You may possibly become rich by just caring about yourself and what you want to gain from your profession and your life but you cannot possibly enrich the lives of everyone you meet that way.

Gratitude is the best food and fuel to start the day for you. Have some at lunchtime and again at dinner too. It will energise and sustain you - the whole day through. But it will also leave you room, power and the thirst to do what you need to do and contribute.