33 Quotes by Peter Scazzero

We lead more out of who we are than out of what we do, strategic or otherwise. If we fail to recognize that who we are on the inside informs every aspect of our leadership, we will do damage to ourselves and to those we lead.

Rabbi Zusya, when he was an old man, said, “In the coming world, they will not ask me: ‘Why were you not Moses?’ They will ask me, ‘Why were you not Zusya?’ “4 The true vocation for every human being is, as Kierkegaard said, “the will to be oneself.

Loving well is the goal of the Christian life.

By failing to let others be themselves before God and move at their own pace, we inevitably project onto them our own discomfort with their choice to live life differently than we do.

Changing the way we have lived for twenty or forty or sixty years is nothing short of a revolution. 4.

As Parker Palmer said, “Self-care is never a selfish act – it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others. Anytime we can listen to true self and give it the care it requires, we do it not only for ourselves, but for the many others whose lives we touch.

When, out of fear, we avoid conflict and appease people, we are false peacemakers. For.

We imitate God by stopping our work and resting.

Can we really love our neighbors well without loving ourselves?