Quote

Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing selves that are worth expressing.

Matthew Kelly

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Matthew Kelly
Producing
Places
Worth
Expression
Disinterested
High
Premium
Culture
Selves
Self
Relatively
Expressing

More quotes by Matthew Kelly

Image
We are not here to solve the problems the problems are here to solve us.
Matthew Kelly
Image
It has been my experience that nothing changes a person's life more than the discovery of one solitary truth: There is a meaning and purpose to life. More specifically: There is a meaning and purpose to your life.
Matthew Kelly
Image
Work-life balance was a mistake from the start. Because we don't really want balance. We want satisfaction.
Matthew Kelly
Image
We don't want to think about our weaknesses. We don't want to talk about them, and we certainly don't want anyone else to point them out. This is a classic sign of mediocrity, and this mediocrity has a firm grip on the Church and humanity at this moment in history.
Matthew Kelly
Image
Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. Hope is one of those things that you can't buy, but that will be freely given to you if you ask. Hope is the one thing people cannot live without. Hope is a thing of beauty.
Matthew Kelly
Image
Never pass up an opportunity to speak a kind word of appreciation. There are six billion people on the planet, and 5.9 billion of them go to bed every night starving for one honest word of appreciation.
Matthew Kelly
Image
Your weaknesses are the key to the unimaginable bigger future that God has envisioned for you. Your strengths are probably already bearing all the fruit they can. They will continue to bear those good fruits in your life, but at some point they will begin to plateau. Your richer, more abundant future is intimately linked to your weaknesses.
Matthew Kelly
Image
Let your life be guided by greatness
Matthew Kelly
Image
To be truly intimate with another person, is to share every aspect of yourself with that person.
Matthew Kelly
Image
When you stand still, you reject the struggle, and you refuse to change and grow. Ultimately, you reject fulfillment, happiness, the dance for joy and everything else that is eternally good.
Matthew Kelly
Image
Anything and anyone that does not help you to become the best version of yourself is too small for you.
Matthew Kelly
Image
The beauty of Catholicism is every human being's right.
Matthew Kelly
Image
Life is about love. It's about whom you love and whom you hurt. Life's about how you love yourself and how you hurt yourself. Life's about how you love and hurt the people close to you. Life is about how you love and hurt the people who just cross your path for a moment. Life is about love.
Matthew Kelly
Image
The way we see the world determines the way we live our lives
Matthew Kelly
Image
Who you become is infinitely more important than what you do, or what you have.
Matthew Kelly
Image
Catholicism is not a lifeless set of rules and regulations. Catholicism is a lifestyle. Catholicism is a way of life designed by God to help you become all you can be.
Matthew Kelly
Image
Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill.
Matthew Kelly
Image
Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.
Matthew Kelly
Image
When you voice your disagreement, begin by talking about what you have in common with the person you are arguing with. Too often we rush to judgment, race to argue, and overlook all the common ground we share.
Matthew Kelly
Image
Discipline is the path to happiness.
Matthew Kelly