Bruce C. Hafen Quotes

I can't make anybody happy, so I try my best to be good at what I do

I spent my life figuring out ways to make the room OK with me.

Rose, I'm an addict with no work ethic who is likely going to go insane. I'm not like you. I'm not a super-hero." "Not yet," I said.

I'm OK. Much better than on other occasions. It's true that I've made lots of mistakes but I've never tried to bother anyone. I want to stay alive, preferably in peace, without seeing every one of my mistakes in the papers, and on many occasions, even stories that are lies.

Reality check: you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight. At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems. You will still have the same husband, the same job, the same kids, and the same life. Losing weight is not a cure for life.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

Man needs difficulties. They are necessary for health.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

There are things I still criticize myself heavy for. There are days I have to pick myself back up, but that, to me, is success; it's getting to both sides: physical and the spiritual, mental. Just peace. Peace of mind.

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

Learn to accept your limits and you'll become a happier person.

Being constructively critical is good, as long as your purpose is to improve your methods for future endeavors. Lying in bed and replaying failures and telling yourself you're stupid is a tremendous disservice to your efforts and what you can offer the world.

Your current situations or problems have been sent to you to teach you valuable lessons for success and happiness. What are they?

I don't live under the burden of worries. Problems and challenges are there, you can't deny that. But you must challenge the challenges and not let the challenges turn into worries.

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part.

Keep doing what you love to the best of your ability. Stop judging and get out of your own way.

I think it's important for people to know that it's okay to feel like you're not better as long as you keep trying.

But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.

I just don't see the point in beating myself up. I think it's more productive to concentrate on being a better person right now than punishing myself for who I was in the past.

Troubled heart you'll know, problems have solutions, trust and I will show.

Life is hard and astonishingly complicated.... No one great reform will make it easy. Most of us who work -- or want to work -- will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.

Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".

When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.