• True independence means being free from the domination of your own internal automatic behaviors, not doing what you feel like when the urge strikes.

    — Nicholas Lore

  • Since you may never discover the truth, invent it.

    — Nicholas Lore

  • Real friends are those people who will stand for you expressing yourself fully, who will go out of their way to support you to keep your word, to go the extra mile, to get out of the box, and to make your dreams come true.

    — Nicholas Lore

  • Don’t let the fact that you can’t do everything you want keep you from doing everything you love.

    — Nicholas Lore

  • If you want great relationships, live your life fully. Your enthusiasm will spark those around you, who then become better company themselves.

    — Nicholas Lore

  • How can someone say they’re successful if they’re not happy doing their work?

    — Nicholas Lore

  • The secret to perseverance is a simple one: have a bigger commitment to getting the job done than to attempting to control your inner feelings and sensations.

    — Nicholas Lore

  • Go for vitality, not comfort.

    — Nicholas Lore

  • It takes courage to be the author of your life.

    — Nicholas Lore

  • The ability to feel fear and keep moving forward distinguishes the living from the merely breathing.

    — Nicholas Lore

  • Steps are what you take when you think you have forever.

    — Nicholas Lore

  • It takes committed, high-energy, full-tilt boogie participation to have the kind of life you want.

    — Nicholas Lore

  • The secret of creating anything new in your life consists of creating new commitments and then holding the tiller to your new course until it becomes established as a behavior.

    — Nicholas Lore

  • Everyone else on the planet, from the lowest amoeba to the great blue whale, expresses all their component elements in a perfect dance with the world around them. Only human beings have unfulfilled lives.

    — Nicholas Lore

  • If you make the wrong decision, you make the wrong decision. That’s all there is to it. There are few guarantees in life. One of them is that you will make lots of mistakes. The worst thing you can do is wimp out and spend your life in suspended animation, refusing to make a choice because it may not be a perfect one.

    — Nicholas Lore

  • A passionately lived life is not always comfortable. Going for it involves being open to all of life - the joys, the sorrows, the mundane as well as the magic, the splendid victories, and the most abject defeats. You might even stop closing your eyes during the scary parts of the movie.

    — Nicholas Lore

  • The way to “find” the perfect career is to give up the notion that you will ever find it, stumble across it, or that it will somehow magically find you - and to get to work designing it.

    — Nicholas Lore

  • Just because you have long legs doesn’t mean you’ll be happy as a Rockette.

    — Nicholas Lore

  • It takes courage to be the author of your life. When you are struggling through one of the difficult parts of turning your dreams into reality, you may wonder why you always get stuck with having to put up with so much fear and uncertainty. Why, you wonder, couldn’t I feel more courageous, like those other people do? You don’t feel courageous because courage is not an emotion. There is no such thing as feeling courageous. It is an imaginary emotion. Courage consists of doing what you said you would do even when you don’t want to. In the face of danger, you have a choice to be the delegate of either your imagination or reality. It is as simple and as difficult as that.

    — Nicholas Lore