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Page 1: Best Chapter of Your Life

Best Chapter of Your Life Helping you create your next career or passionate retirement

Inspirational Quotations

Volume 4

Compiled and edited by

Karl Hoppe CPC CHt NLP EFT BestChapterOfYourLifeCom

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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to

attempt

William Shakespeare 1564-1616 Poet Playwright Actor

We cannot change anything until we accept it

Condemnation does not liberate it oppresses

-Carl Jung

It is better to wear out than to rust out

Richard Cumberland

In order to succeed we must first believe that we can

Michael Korda

Attitudes are more important than facts

-George MacDonald

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities

Aristotle (BC 384-322 Greek Philosopher)

Dont waste your life in doubts and fears spend yourself on the work before you

well assured that the right performance of this hours duties will be the best

preparation for the hours or ages that follow it

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882 American poet essayist)

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events success is readiness for

instant action when the opportune moment arrives

Newell Hillis

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them

Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893 British scholar)

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness

it is generally the by-product of other activities

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963 British author)

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Relaxation is the prerequisite for that inner expansion that allows a person to

express the source of inspiration and joy within

~ Deepak Chopra

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team and the team ought to get

credit for the wins and the losses Successes have many fathers failures have

none

- Philip Caldwell

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

Agatha Christie 1890-1976 Novelist

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation

-Dr Robert Schuler Whenever youre facing any form of resistance gratitude has the power to

quickly dissolve it This is true whether the hindrance comes from inside of you or

outside of you

Peggy McColl Author of Relax Your Way to Wealth Its easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top

Henry Ward Beecher Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people So

overweight people are now averagehellip which means you have met your New Years

resolution

Jay Leno

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in A pessimist stays up to

make sure the old year leaves

Bill Vaughan

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past Let it go for it was imperfect

and thank God that it can go

Brooks Atkinson

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New Years Resolution To tolerate fools more gladly provided this does not

encourage them to take up more of my time

James Agate

New Years Day is every mans birthday

Charles Lamb

Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right

Oprah Winfrey

―It is never too late to be what you might have been

- TS Eliot

If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain

ndash Emily Dickinson 1830-1886 American Poet

Life is too short to waste Dreams are fulfilled only through action not through

endless planning to take action

David J Schwartz Trainer and Author

Its the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and

sweeps away all obstacles

Claude M Bristol

―The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means time

influence and educational advantages the question is what he will do with the

things he has The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of

opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face and resolves to change

them he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success

-Hamilton Wright Mabie

Just go out there and do what youve got to do

~ Martina Navratilova

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Now I experience the love in everyone I no longer am a person who judges others

for being overweight for being too young or too old for having their hair a certain

way or for how they dress When you judge others you dont define them you

define yourself as someone who needs to judge and compartmentalize people

-Wayne Dyer

The big secret in life is that there is no secret Whatever your goal you can get

there if you are willing to work It is called massive action Action is the gas in the

tank Without it the car will not run

Marcy Blochowiak Author of No Glass Ceiling An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory

-Friedrich Engels

Leaders arent born they are made And they are made just like anything else

through hard work And thats the price well have to pay to achieve that goal or

any goal

Vincent Lombardi

May your trails be crooked winding lonesome dangerous leading to the most

amazing view May your rivers flow without end meandering through pastoral

valleys tinkling with bells past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark

primeval forestdown into a desert of red rock blue mesas domes and pinnacles

and grottos of endless stone And down again into a deep vast ancient unknown

chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs where deer walk across the

white sand beaches where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high

crags until something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than

your deepest dreams waits for you just beyond the next turning of the canyon

walls

-Benedicto by Edward Abbey

An unwritten want is a wish a dream a never-happen The day you put your goal in

writing is the day it becomes a commitment that will change your life Are you

ready

Tom Hopkins Author and Speaker

―Where are you going Who are you looking for Your beloved is right herehellip Cease

looking for flowers there blooms a garden in your own home While you go looking

for trinkets your treasure house awaits you in your own being There is no need

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for suffering God is here

~Rumi Chance favors only the prepared mind

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895 French scientist who developed pasteurization)

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities

enough and if they do not find them they will make them

Samuel Smiles

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen but give us the

determination to make the right things happen

Peter Marshall

If the sky falls hold up your hands

Spanish Proverb

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable but to be certain is to be ridiculous

Chinese Proverb

Knowing is not enough we must apply Willing is not enough we must do

Johann von Goethe

If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is he will not jump If he does

not know how wide it is he will jump and six times out of ten he will make it

Persian Proverb

As I grow to understand life less and less I learn to love it more and more

Jules Renard

The more you praise and celebrate your life the more there is in life to celebrate

Oprah Winfrey (1954- American TV personality producer actress author)

Mind is all that counts You can be whatever you make up your mind to be

Robert Collier

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You dont get to choose how youre going to die Or when You can only decide how

youre going to live Now

Joan Baez Singer Songwriter and Activist The average person goes to their grave with their music still in them

Oliver Wendell Holmes ―Everyone can be great because everyone can serve

- Martin Luther King ―Whatever you can conceive and believe you can achieve

Napoleon Hill We turn not older with years but newer every day

-Emily Dickinson

When reciting affirmations feel the words in your heart as you say them and

know that what you feel youll create

Peggy McColl Author of Relax Your Way to Wealth Everyday life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust

our old programs accordingly

Dr Ann Faraday

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to

get there Then never never never give up

Vincent Peale

We only think when we are confronted with problems

John Dewey (1859-1952 American philosopher educator)

In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain

Pliny The Elder (c23-79 Roman neophatonist)

If your determination is fixed I do not counsel you to despair Few things are

impossible to diligence and skill Great works are performed not by strength but

perseverance

Samuel Johnson

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Dont waste your life in doubts and fears spend yourself on the work before you

well assured that the right performance of this hours duties will be the best

preparation for the hours or ages that follow it

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Poet and Essayist Its nice to know that we dont need to wait till tomorrow we can start to change

the world today

Wil Rose

The good man acts for honors sake and the more so the better he is and acts for

his friends sake and sacrifices his own interest

-Aristotle

In order to excel you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport You

must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism

Without a total 100 percent dedication you wont be able to do this

Willie Mays

Any time you sincerely want to make a change the first thing you must do is to

raise your standards When people ask me what really changed my life eight years

ago I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I

demanded of myself I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my

life all the things I would no longer tolerate and all the things that I aspired to

becoming

Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert

Im a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of

it

Thomas Jefferson

Bring awareness to each act Walking on the road walk fully alert eating eat with

awareness Whatsoever you are doing dont let the past and the future interfere

Be in the present Thats what awareness is all about

~Osho

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There are two dimensions to life and we should be able to touch both

One is like a wave and we call it the historical dimension

The other is like the water and we call it the ultimate dimension or nirvana

We usually touch just the wave but when we discover how to touch the water

we receive the highest fruit that meditation can offer

-Thich Nhat Hanh

Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends

Jacques Delille (1738-1813 French poet

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock the stream always wins -

not through strength but by perseverance

Jackson Brown

When you focus on whats wrong you get more of whats wrong Conversely when

you focus on whats right you get more of whats right

Gina Mollicone-Long Author of the newly released book Think Or Sink

All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave

behind is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into

another

Gail Sheehy (1937- American journalist author)

Anger is one letter away from danger

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Success means having the courage the determination and the will to become the

person you believe you were meant to be

George Sheehan 1918-1993 Physician and Author

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views

so fast as they shall appear to be new views

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 16th American President)

―One ship sails East

And another West

By the self-same winds that blow

lsquoTis the set of the sails

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And not the gales

That tells the way we go

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity Our attitude

toward it Every opportunity has a difficulty and every difficulty has an

opportunity

J Sidlow Baxter 1903-1999 Author and Theologian

If you want to be successful you must either have a chance or take one

Author Unknown

It is common sense to take a method and try it If it fails admit it frankly and try

another But above all try something

Franklin D Roosevelt

It was courage faith endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all

obstacles that built this bridge

~ John J Watson

Past Data should now be the basis of Present Truth Data from a prior time or

experience should always and only be the basis for new questions Always the

treasure should be in the questions not in the answer

-Neale Donald Walsch Even though you may want to move forward in your life you may have one foot on

the brakes In order to be free we must learn how to let go Release the hurt

Release the fear Refuse to entertain your old pain The energy it takes to hang

onto the past is holding you back from a new life What is it you would let go of

today

Mary Manin Morrissey Creator of The Miracle Mastery Conference

It is not what you are called but what you answer to

African Proverb

A failure establishes only this that our determination to succeed was not strong

enough

John Christian Bovee

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If youre not part of a solution youre a part of the problem There is no middle

road I dont think we can destroy the Earth but I think the Earth can destroy

us

-Oh Shinnah

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will

accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop

Robert Hughes

Charity is the spice of riches

Jewish Proverb

If you dont like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and

waiting for you The snake sheds its skin with impunity relying on the same nature

which you rely on

Author Unknown

Its a very funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best

you very often get it

William Somerset Maugham

A leader once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one must

be undaunted when the going gets tough

Ronald Reagan

If I accept you as you are I will make you worse however if I treat you as

though you are what you are capable of becoming I help you become that

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 Author and Philosopher

Every gun that is made every warship launched every rocket signifies in the final

sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed from those who are cold and

not clothed The world in arms is not spending money alone It is spending the

sweat of its laborers the genius of its scientists the hopes of its children

-Dwight D Eisenhower

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Service is nothing but love in work clothes

Author Unknown

A man can do all things if he but wills them

Leon Battista Alberti

A crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk just a

tinkling cymbal where there is not love

Francis Bacon 17th Century English Lord Chancellor philosopher and author

The only way to have a friend is to be one

Ralph Waldo Emerson 19th Century American author and poet

Its not what you do once in a while its what you do day in and day out that

makes the difference

Jenny Craig Diet Specialist

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on

the labors of other men living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to

give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving

Albert Einstein (1879-1955 German-born American physicist)

A resolute determination is the truest wisdom

Napoleon I

Without consistency there is no moral strength

Author Unknown

See first that the design is wise and just that ascertained pursue it resolutely

William Shakespeare

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

-Dale Carnegie

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself

William Penn (1644-1718 British religious leader founder of Pennsylvania)

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How we think shows through in how we act Attitudes are mirrors of the mind

They reflect thinking

David J Schwartz Trainer and Author

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but

to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment

Dorothy Nevill

Vision is freely given to those who ask to see

-Course in Miracles

Tough times never last but tough people do

Dr Robert Schuller

A sure way to lose happiness I found is to want it at the expense of everything

else

Bette Davis (1908-1989 American actress producer)

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything

Alexander Hamilton

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference He has

it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter

Norman Cousins (1915-1990 American editor humanitarian author)

The practice of medicine is an art not a trade a calling not a business a calling in

which your heart will be exercised equally with your head Often the best part of

your work will have nothing to do with powders or potions

-Sir William Osler

Strength does not come from physical capacity It comes from an indomitable

will

~ Mahatma Gandhi

―You dont love someone for their looks or their clothes or for their fancy car

but because they sing a song only you can hear

Anon

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―They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever

Oscar Wilde

―Love is like a friendship caught on fire In the beginning a flame very pretty

often hot and fierce but still only light and flickering As love grows older our

hearts mature and our love becomes as coals deep-burning and unquenchable

Bruce Lee

―Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty

John Finely

―It takes a lot of understanding time and trust to gain a close friendship with

someone As I approach a time of my life of complete uncertainty my friends are

my most precious asset

Anon

―Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process

Harold S Geneen People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest

- Hermann Hesse 1877-1962 Civilization is a method of living an attitude of equal respect for all men

- Jane Addams 1860-1935 The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next

- Matthew Arnold 1822-1888

Vacillating people seldom succeed Successful men and women are very careful in

reaching their decisions and very persistent and determined in action thereafter

~ L G Elliott

Those with goals tend to succeed because they are focused and know where they

are going while those without goals do not

Ted Karam Author from his new book Jumping On Water Awaken Your Joy - Empower Your Life

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Every time you go out on the ice there are slight flaws You can always think of

something you should have done better These are the things you must work on

Dorothy Hamill (1956- American figure skater)

Until you make the unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it

fate

~ Carl Jung When you speak of someone or about someone you should speak as though they

were in the room with you The ears that you speak to today are attached to the

mouth that could relay the message tomorrow

William Biddy Allen 1903-2001 Bus Driver - Loving father of 7 children

It is no failure to fall short of realizing all that we might dream The failure is to

fall short of dreaming all that we might realize

-Dee Hock When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they

are regarded by others let them reflect how little they have contributed to the

happiness of others

Author Unknown

I have become my own version of an optimist If I cant make it through one door

Ill go through another door - or Ill make a door Something terrific will come no

matter how dark the present

~ Rabindranath Tagore

―The present moment

contains past and future

The secret of transformation

is in the way we handle this very moment

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926 - present Vietnamese Buddhist monk)

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―Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it Do not believe in

anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many Do not believe in

anything simply because it is found written in your religious books Do not believe in

anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders Do not believe in

traditions because they have been handed down for many generations But after

observation and analysis when you find that anything agrees with reason and is

conducive to the good and benefit of one and all then accept it and live up to it

Buddha (Founder of Buddhism 568 - 488 BC) I try to avoid looking forward or backward and try to keep looking upward

Charlotte Bronte

Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action for all eternity

Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801 Theologian

There is only one duty only one safe course and that is to try to be right

Winston Churchill (1874-1965 British statesman Prime Minister)

We are born at a given moment in a given place and like vintage years of wine we

have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born Astrology

does not lay claim to anything more

-Carl Jung

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them One is more

delightful for being told one is delightful -- just as one is angrier for being told

one is angry

Katherine F Gerould

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread they can sure make something out

of you

~ Muhammed Ali Beware of the thoughts you keep because everything in reality manifests from

the mind

Justin Palmer Second Year College Student

Confess you were wrong yesterday it will show you are wise today

Author Unknown

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We must accept finite disappointment but we must never lose infinite hope

~ Martin Luther King Jr

In the beginning the Universe was created

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move

-Douglas Adams

Any individual can be in time what he earnestly desires to be if he but set his

face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing and bring all his powers to bear

upon its attainment

Herman J Randall

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world

~ Helen Keller Many of lifes failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success

when they gave up

~ Thomas Edison

When you give your undivided attention to something there is a softening and

opening in the listener that allows access to the meaning underneath the words

-Betty Burkes

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they

are about to change the world I am more awed by those who struggle to make one

small difference

Ellen Goodman Journalist

If you look into your own heart you find nothing wrong there what is there to

fear

Confucius (BC 551-479 Chinese ethical teacher philosopher) Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls

~ Mother Teresa What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self-

conceit For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he

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already knows

- Epictetus 55 AD-135 AD

There are admirable potentialities in every human being Believe in your strength

and your youth Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself It all depends on me

- Andre Gide 1869-1951

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage

- Anais Nin 1903-1977 Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in

other areas But can it really True effectiveness requires balance

~ Stephen Covey

I dont pay good wages because I have a lot of money I have a lot of money

because I pay good wages

- Robert Bosch Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do

the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not it is

the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a mans training

begins it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly

Thomas H Huxley 1825-1895 Biologist

The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have and to be able

to lose all desire for things beyond your reach

Yutang Lin (1895-1976 Chinese writer and philologist)

Men are failures not because they are stupid but because they are not

sufficiently impassioned

Struther Burt

If you look at what you have in life youll always have more If you look at what

you dont have in life youll never have enough

Oprah Winfrey Television Host Producer and Philanthropist

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Im trying not to look too far ahead All Im thinking is one shot at a time one hole

at a time and thats what I want to keep doing

Michelle McGann

I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed but the spirit in

which we face them that constitutes our comfort

-Elizabeth T King My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content

with your failure

~ Abraham Lincoln

―There is nothing but love and all else is illusion

- Dr John Demartini There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer no disease that enough

love will not heal no door that enough love will not open

- Emmet Fox

All my limitations are self-imposed and my liberation can only come from true self-

love

- Max C Robinson

We fail to see that we can control our own destiny make ourselves do whatever is

possible make ourselves become whatever we long to be

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine )

To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will

~ Sugar Ray Robinson 1920-1989 Boxer

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall

Confucius

Half the people you know are above average

-Steven Wright

Your close relationships are either a catalyst for manifesting what you really

want or theyre a hindrance to your manifestation If you truly value the power of

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love in your life you owe it to yourself to discover how to tap into the power of

your relationship as a force for manifestation

Drs Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up Even when they do it is not

perfect and they sigh for more and lose better things in struggling for them

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888 American author )

One is not idle because one is absorbed There is both visible and invisible labor To

contemplate is to toil to think is to do The crossed arms work the clasped hands

act The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation

Victor Hugo (1802-1885 French poet dramatist novelist)

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of

greed in the headlines

-Charles Kuralt

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our

focus we never concentrate our power Most people dabble their way through life

never deciding to master anything in particular

Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)

In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time

~ Anthony J DAngelo

Courage comes from wanting to do it well Security comes from knowing you can do

it well Confidence comes from having done it well

~ Author Unknown

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel

Napoleon Hill

There is a true genius in everyone But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a

tree it would never stop doubting itself

~ Einstein~

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People ask for criticism but they only want praise

- W Somerset Maugham 1874-1965 Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts for if

you let it pass the desire may never return and you may remain in ignorance

- William Wirt 1772-1834 Cynicism is not realistic and tough Its unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it

means you dont have to try

- Peggy Noonan 1950-present There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into

gear

David Mahoney Executive and Philanthropist You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences

W Somerset Maugham (1874-1965 British novelist playwright)

Dont ask yourself what the world needs Ask yourself what makes you come alive

and then go and do that Because what the world needs are people who have come

alive

~ Howard Thurman When a great moment knocks on the door of your life it is often no louder than

the beating of your heart and it is very easy to miss it -Boris Pasternak Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure

~ Thomas Alva Edison

To be successful you have to have your heart in your business and your business in

your heart

- Thomas Watson Sr Begin challenging your own assumptions Your assumptions are your windows on the

world Scrub them off every once and a while or the light wont come in

Alan Alda Actor Writer and Director

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I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most

argumentative

Giovani della Casa (1503-1556 Papal secretary of state)

Have you ever felt like you wanted to go but you felt like you wanted to stay

- Song Lyric Jimmy Durante

To live is the rarest thing in the world most people exist that is all

~ Oscar Wilde

Awareness is like a beam of light that shines endlessly into space We only

perceive that light when it is reflected off some object and consciousness is

producedAwareness is the light by which we see the worldWe mistake the clear

light of pure awareness for the shadows that it casts in consciousnessWe forget

that we are the light itself and imagine that we are the densities that reflect the

light back to us

-Stephen Levine Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal

Albert Camus (1913-1960 French existential writer) The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation

Mark Twain

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn Our rewards

will always be in exact proportion to our service

Earl Nightingale 1921-1989 Author of The Strangest Secret

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he

knows where he is going

Napoleon Hill

Wisdom tells me I am nothing

Love tells me I am everything

And between the two my life flows

-Nisargadatta Maharaj

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No employer today is independent of those about him He cannot succeed alone no

matter how great his ability or capital Business today is more than ever a question

of cooperation

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)

Shoot for the moon Even if you miss youll land among the stars

Les Brown

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world

Joseph Addison (1672-1719 British essayist poet statesman)

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a

fate that falls on man unless they act

~ G K Chesterton

Find something positive to think about and dont let the conversation in your head

end with a negative comment Always end on a positive comment

Dr Tomi Bryan and Dr Jerry White From their latest release The 5 Keys To The Great Life

Whales do not sing because they have a message They sing because they have a

song

-Ashes and Snow

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life

- Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956

Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though

checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor

suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor

defeat

- Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting

- Stanislaw Leszczynski 1677-1766

There is no joy in getting by on your job - doing as little as you can There is a

LOT of pleasure in doing more than you have to And whosoever shall compel you

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to go a mile go with him twain says the Bible wisely

-Norman Carlisle

We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once

Calvin Coolidge

The starting point of all achievement is desire Keep this constantly in mind Weak

desires bring weak results just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat

Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think and Grow Rich

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me

instead of looking within myself to see what was there

Belle Livingstone

Rather than thinking if and when start doing take action stop talking about if

and when

~ Catherine Pulsifer

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity -

Ayn Rand

Being a man or indeed being human is not something for which one should

apologize but something to which one should aspire and with all the gusto he can

muster

-- David Cunningham

The question isnt who is going to let me its who is going to stop me

- Howard Roark The Fountainhead 1943

I am the Master of my Fate Captain of my Soul

-- W E Henley

Whatever you can do or dream you can begin it

Boldness has genius power and magic in it

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me

instead of looking within myself to see what was there

Belle Livingstone

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality order

and diligence without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a

time

Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Novelist

The path to success is to take massive determined action

Anthony Robbins

All of the significant battles are waged within the self

Sheldon Kopp (1929- American psychologist)

Follow effective action with quiet reflection From the quiet reflection will come

even more effective action

~ Peter F Drucker

Dont be dismayed at good-byes

A farewell is necessary before you can meet again

And meeting again after moments or lifetimes

is certain for those who are friends

-Richard Bach

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual

sense of humor

Thomas W Higginson 1823-1911 Minister Abolitionist and Author

When performance exceeds ambition the overlap is called success

Cullen Hightower

Well done is better than well said

Benjamin Franklin

The first and the best victory is to conquer self

Plato (BC 427-347 Greek philosopher)

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Man is what he believes

-Anton Chekhov One half of life is luck the other half is discipline - and thats the important half

for without discipline you wouldnt know what to do with luck

Carl Zuckmeyer 1896-1977 Writer and Playwright

Try and fail but dont fail to try

~ Stephen Kaggwa

I believe that one of the greatest gifts we have been given is our imagination It

costs nothing to access is available 247 and is our doorway to freedom With

imagination we have inside of us the most amazing ability to change our state and

transform our life in a moment

~ Veronica Hay The world is full of abundance and opportunity but far too many people come to

the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car a teaspoon instead of a

steam shovel They expect little and as a result they get little

Ben Sweetland Author of I Will Blessed is the person who sees the need recognizes the responsibility and actively

becomes the answer

William A Ward

I am not a mechanism an assembly of various sections

And it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly that I am ill

I am ill because of wounds to the soul to the deep emotional self

And the wounds to the soul take a long long time only time can help

And patience and a certain difficult repentance

Long difficult repentance realization on lifes mistake and the freeing of oneself

From the endless repetition of the mistake

Which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify

-D H Lawrence

Victory belongs to the most persevering

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Gratitude opens doors It paves the way to abundance and prosperity like nothing

else

It can line your pockets with gold and fill your bank account quicker than a New

York minute

Yet how many of you are living from a thankful heart each day

~Veronica Hay Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe

Bruce Springsteen You gain strength and courage and confidence by each experience in which we

really stop to look fear in the face You must do that which we think we cannot

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 Social Activist and First Lady of the United States

Dont let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you Instead give to

yourself that which empowers you

Les Brown (1945- American speaker author trainer motivator)

―The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having

new eyes

~ Marcel Proust

―Then your light shall break forth like the dawn and your healing shall spring up

quickly

~ Isaiah 588

―And your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music

from it or confused sounds

mdash Kahlil Gibran

In every life the most important change is self-change -- and in every situation

the principles are the same

- J Kingston Cowart

It takes courage to lead a life Any life

Erica Jong

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Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time

-Ken Wilber

Peoples tendency towards good is as waters tendency is to flow downhill

Mencius When I let go of what I am I become what I might be

~ Lao Tsu

The higher my rank the more humbly I behave The greater my power the less I

exercise it The richer my wealth the more I give away Thus I avoid respectively

envy and spite and misery

~ Sun Shu Ao

There is no greater happiness than freedom from worry and there is no greater

wealth than contentment

~Lao Tsu

Failure lies not in falling down Failure lies in not getting up

~ Chinese proverb

A meal however simple is a moment of intersection It is at once the most basic

the most fundamental of our lifes activities maintaining the life of our bodies

Shared with others it can be an occasion of joy and communion uniting people

deeply

~ Elise Boulding The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms

-- Socrates You are never going to get it all done - you just wont Rather you will find order

and peace in your workday if you accept it and then do one more thing Implement

a system that consistently shows you whats most critical at any moment what to

do after the critical and where to find everything else when you need to That

system is not hard - its quite simple to set up

Michael Linenberger From Master Your Workday Now Check out his book and bonuses

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Time is limited so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have

just one chance to live this particular day right and to string my days together

into a life of action and purpose

Lance Armstrong 7-Time Winner of the Tour de France

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value

Albert Einstein

We have contributed each in the time allotted us our endeavors to render a

permanent blessing to our country

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826 Third American President)

If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost that is where they

should be Now put foundations under them

~ Henry David Thoreau

If you didnlsquot musterbate then you wouldnlsquot awfulize terribilize

catastrophize say ―I canlsquot stand it and put yourself down

If you only stuck with ―Ilsquod like very much to do well but I never

have to you wouldnlsquot then disturb yourself hellip musterbation is

evil and pernicious

- Albert Ellis

There are 2 theories to arguing with a womanneither works

-Will Rogers

Dont tell me that worry doesnt do any good said the over-worked executive I

know better The things I worry about never happen

-Cited in More ofThe Best of BITS amp PIECES

Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were

innocent Anger is natural Grief is appropriate Healing is mandatory Restoration

is possible

~ Jane Rubietta

Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can

~ Richard Bach

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Inspiration and genius--one and the same

~ Victor Hugo

It is important to acknowledge a mistake instantly correct it and learn from it

That literally turns a failure into a success Success is on the far side of failure

TJ Watson 1874-1956 Founder if IBM

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of

inspiration

~ George Eliot

Trust your hunches Theyre usually based on facts filed away just below the

conscious level

Dr Joyce Brothers Psychologist and Television Personality Every artist was first an amateur

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a

true master For this reason mastery demands all of a person

Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Theoretical Physicist Philosopher and Author In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain

Pliny The Elder (c23-79 Roman neophatonist)

The more difficulties one has to encounter within and without the more

significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be

Horace Bushnell

If the sky falls hold up your hands

Spanish Proverb

Begin with the end in mind

Stephen Covey

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good try to use ordinary

situations

- Jean Paul Richter 1763-1825 German Novelist

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No great man ever complains of want of opportunities

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If people knew how hard I worked to gain my mastery it wouldnt seem so

wonderful

Michelangelo 1475-1564 Painter Sculptor and Architect

We only think when we are confronted with problems

John Dewey (1859-1952 American philosopher educator)

Men do less than they ought unless they do all they can

~ Thomas Carlyle

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex It takes a touch of

genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction

~Albert Einstein

―Ecstasy is your very nature not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary

~Osho

The quieter you can become the more youre able to hear

~Chinese Proverb

The only real valuable thing is intuition

~ Albert Einstein

To be ecstatic is natural spontaneous It needs no effort to be ecstatic it needs

great effort to be miserable

~Osho

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight

Anita DeFrantz Olympic Rower Everyday life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust

our old programs accordingly

Dr Ann Faraday

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I live my life in widening circles

that reach out across the world

I may not ever complete the last one

But I give myself to it

I have been circling for thousands of years

And I still dont know

Am I a falcon a storm or a great song

-Rilke

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to

make them come true

~ Leon J Suenes

Dont be a cynic and disconsolate preacher Dont bewail and moan Omit the

negative propositions Challenge us with incessant affirmatives Dont waste

yourself in rejection or bark against the bad but chant the beauty of the good

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once whether

youre ready or not to put it into action

Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author

Fall seven times stand up eight

Japanese proverb

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars

or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven

to the human spirit

~ Helen Keller

Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends

Jacques Delille (1738-1813 French poet)

First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have

to do

Epictetus

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to

make them come true

Leon J Suenes

If you would create something you must be something

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Stay together friends

Dont scatter and sleep

Our friendship is made

Of being awake

The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away weeping

That way it stays in the garden whereas another roundness rolls

through a dry riverbed looking for what it thinks it wants

Stay here quivering with each moment like a drop of mercury

-Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives as parallel realities It is

always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend when we choose not

to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance

thats present love health family friends work the joys of nature and personal

pursuits that bring us pleasure the wasteland of illusion falls away and we

experience heaven on earth

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach Any time you sincerely want to make a change the first thing you must do is to

raise your standards When people ask me what really changed my life eight years

ago I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I

demanded of myself I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my

life all the things I would no longer tolerate and all the things that I aspired to

becoming

~ Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert) Its nice to know that we dont need to wait till tomorrow we can start to change

the world today

~ Wil Rose

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A bird doesnt sing because it has an answer it sings because it has a song

~ Maya Angelou

Great minds have purposes little minds have wishes Little minds are subdued by

misfortunes great minds rise above them

~ Washington Irving

Step by step I cant think of any other way of accomplishing anything

~ Michael Jordan

If you employed study thinking and planning time daily you could develop and use

the power that can change the course of your destiny

~ W Clement Stone

We are called to speak for the weak for the voiceless for victims of our nation

and for those it calls enemy for no document from human hands can make these

humans any less than our brothers

-Dr Martin Luther King Jr

Disposal of hazardous wastes is not the root problem Rather it is the root

symptom

-Hawken Paul There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the

things we do

Freya Stark

Try a little harder to be a little better

Gordon B Hinckley

If you love something and stick with it you will get phenomenal results

Bob Proctor

You can chain me you can torture me you can even destroy this body but you will

never imprison my mind

Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Political and Spiritual Leader

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Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and

triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friends forehead

Chinese Proverb Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs

Michael Levine

Nurture your mind with great thoughts To believe in the heroic makes heroes

Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881 British Prime Minister The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your

blueprint or plan Strategies are like recipes choose the right ingredients mix

them in the correct proportions and you will always produce the same predictable

results

~ Charles J Givens

More than anything else I believe its our decisions not the conditions of our

lives that determine our destiny

Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)

Happy the manwoman who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his

wishes and his powers

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I hope that my achievements in life shall be these that I will have fought for what

was right and fair that I will have risked for that which mattered and that I will

have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better

place for what Ive done and who Ive been

~ C Hoppe

The vision that you glorify in your mind the ideal that you enthrone in your heart

this you will build your life by and this you will become

James Allen

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Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony

Gandhi

There never was a time when in my opinion some way could not be found to

prevent the drawing of the sword

-General Grant To be a warrior

is to be genuine

in every moment of your life

-Chogyam Trungpa Im convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs

from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance

- Steve Jobs Regret for wasted time is more wasted time

Mason Cooley

Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow

Les Brown (1945- American speaker author trainer motivator)

More than anything else I believe its our decisions not the conditions of our

lives that determine our destiny

Anthony Robbins Author and Speaker

Material possessions will rust away wear away or depreciate but your inner

resources character must never depreciate In seeking success you must also seek

fulfillment Ask yourself not only what you want to be but who you want to be

~ Elizabeth Dole Anything in life that we dont accept will simply make trouble for us until we make

peace with it

~ Shakti Gawain

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious

stupidity

-Dr Martin Luther King Jr

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Real integrity is doing the right thing knowing that nobodys going to know

whether you did it or not

Oprah Winfrey Talk Show Host Producer and Philanthropist

If you must begin then go all the way because if you begin and quit the unfinished

business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time

Chogyam Trungpa

I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career I have lost almost 300 games

On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot and I

missed I have failed over and over and over again in my life And thats precisely

why I succeedcc

~ Michael Jordan

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what

they most enjoy

~ Malcolm Forbes

Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future

Paul Boese Botanist

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons

determination

Tommy Lasorda (1927- American baseball manager) I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more

~ Dr Jonas Salk The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame

Rod Steiger

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul

~ Marcus Aurelius

The best way

to make your dreams come true

is to wake up

-Kabir

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You can do what you have to do and sometimes you can do it even better than you

think you can

Jimmy Carter (1924- American President (39th)) ―If you create an act you create a habit If you create a habit you create a

character If you create a character you create a destiny

ndash Andre Maurois They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them

feel

~ Carl W Buechner When you affirm big believe big and pray big putting faith into action big things

happen

Dr Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993 Preacher and Author You never will be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are taken

out of your life

~ James G Bilkey

In every difficult situation is potential value Believe this then begin looking for it

Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993 American Christian reformed pastor speaker author)

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832 German poet dramatist novelist)

Being vulnerable doesnt have to be threatening Just have the courage to be

sincere open and honest This opens the door to deeper communication all around

It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want

in life Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us These

secrets are what make us sick or fearful Speaking truth helps you get clarity on

your real heart directives

-Sara Paddison

The best thing to spend on your children is your time

~ Louise Hart

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The best things come to those who wait

- Unknown

Ask five economists and youll get five different explanations six if one went to

Harvard

~ Edgar R Fiedler There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through

encouragement from someone else I dont care how great how famous or

successful a man or woman may be each hungers for applause

~ George M Adams Do not fear death fear the unlived life

Natalie Babbitt Leadership is no longer about your position Its now more about your passion for

excellence and making a difference You can lead without a title

Robin Sharma

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back The great champions have

all come back from defeat

Sam Snead (1912-2002 American golfer)

What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision

-Helen Keller The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement

Yet almost no one gets the encouragement they need

to grow to their full potential If everyone received the

encouragement they need to grow the genius in most

everyone would blossom and the world would produce

abundance beyond the wildest dreams We would have

more than one Einstein Edison Schweitzer Mother

Theresa Dr Salk and other great minds in a century

~Sidney Madwed

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Dont build your happiness on someone elses unhappiness

~ Richard Rose

―The mind turned inwards is the Self turned outwards it becomes the ego and all

the world

~ Ramana Maharshi

Somewhere there is someone who dreams of your smile and finds in your presence

that life is worthwhile

So when you are lonely remember its true somebody somewhere is thinking of

you

~ Anon

If youre open to altering your plans a bit you might achieve even better results

than youd anticipated

Peggy McColl A strong passion for any object will ensure success for the desire of the end will

point out the means

William Hazlitt (1778-1830 British essayist)

Successful people dont do different things they just do things differently

- Unknown You never will be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are

taken out of your life

James G Bilkey Author

Dreams do come true if we only wish hard enough You can have anything in life if

you will sacrifice everything else for it

James M Barrie (1860-1937 British playwright)

Seven blunders of the world

that lead to violence

wealth without work

pleasure without conscience

knowledge without character

commerce without morality

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science without humanity

worship without sacrifice

politics without principle

-Mahatma Gandhi

When people speak of prosperity they generally mean success and measure it in

terms of financial abundance There are books seminars and training sessions

designed to help individuals to be prosperous Clearly many are seeking the path to

prosperity Ironically when one is seeking prosperity the message they give to

themselves and the universe is that they do not have enough This is a scarcity

mentality and tends only to manifest more scarcity

~ Gwen Randall Young Money makes money and the money makes more money

~ Benjamin Franklin

BE the change you wish to see in the world

- Ghandhi The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched

They must be felt with the heart

~ Hellen Keller

Understanding does not cure evil but it is a definite help inasmuch as one can cope

with a comprehensible darkness

-Carl Jung

You are not powerless about anything

When you get a vision and then find

alignment with it you ARE powerful

And then amazing things begin to

happen around you

- Abraham-Hicks

Be kind whenever possible It is always possible

~ Dalai Lama

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A consistent soul believes in destiny a capricious one in chance

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881 British statesman Prime Minister)

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots

George Herbert (1593-1632 British metaphysical poet)

It is not the greatness of a mans means that makes him independent so much as

the smallness of his wants

William Cobbett (1762-1835 British journalist reformer)

If you desire many things many things will seem few

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790 American scientist publisher diplomat) Its the little things you do that can make a big difference What are you

attempting to accomplish What little thing can you do today that will make you

more effective You are probably only one step away from greatness

Bob Proctor Author and Speaker You may delay but time will not and lost time is never found again

~ Benjamin Franklin

Procrastination is the seed of self-destruction

~ Matthew Burton

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light

~ Helen Keller

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength

~ Sigmund Freud

Blessed are those that can give without remembering and take without

forgetting

~ Liz Bebesco Waiting is a trap There will always be reasons to wait

The truth is there are only two things in life reasons and results and reasons

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simply dont count

~ Dr Robert Anthony

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become

wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing The long

term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their

Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed

~ Srully Blotnick

If now there is something you

choose to experience in your life

do not want it -- choose it

Do you choose success in worldly

terms Do you choose more money

Good Then choose it Really

Fully Not half-heartedly

- Conversations with God Book 1

Its a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best you

very often get it

-Somerset Maugham

A world of abundance surrounds you if only you will step up and claim it Make life

happen through you rather than letting it happen to you It will make all the

difference in the world

- Ralph Marston Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving

it

~ William Arthur Ward

We must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible

otherwise we would not continue to search

-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Prosperity consciousness is the awareness that all of us have something of value

to offer and we all deserve to get paid for what we provide to others

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Peggy McColl Author of Viral Explosions Proven Techniques to Expand Explode or Ignite Your Business Or Brand Online Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying

~ Christian Furchtegott Gellert

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it

- Lou Holtz Procrastination is opportunitys natural assassin

~ Victor Kiam Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough

- Og Mandino 1923-1996 American Motivational Author and Speaker When you judge others you do not define them you define yourself

~ Earl Nightingale

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly

~ Richard Bach

If you tell the truth you dont have to remember anything

-Mark Twain

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity

belonging to them

William Hazlitt (1778-1830 British essayist)

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back The great champions

have all come back from defeat

Sam Snead 1912-2002 Golfer Faith is the assurance of things hoped for

- Unknown

The mediocre teacher tells The good teacher explains The superior teacher

demonstrates The great teacher inspires

~ William A Ward

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Never complain and never explain

~ --Benjamin Disraeli

Bless a thing and it will bless you Curse it and it will curse you If you bless a

situation it has no power to hurt you

Emmet Fox 1886-1951 Spiritual Leader Man alone has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man

alone can dream and make his dreams come true

Napoleon Hill (1883-1970 American speaker author Think And Grow Rich) Without AMBITION one starts nothing Without WORK one finishes nothing

The prize will NOT be sent to you You have to WIN it

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is to try to please

everyone

- Bill Cosby What we leave behind is not engraved in stone monuments but woven into the lives

of others

~ Pericles The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of

being unwanted

~ Mother Teresa (1910-1997 Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary)

Tough times never last Tough people do

-Robert Schuller

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions

- Eric Butterworth

A fellow at one of my workshops confessed For years I was so miserable that I

prayed to God daily to let me wake up as happy as my dog I went home and

thought about it Am I as happy as my dog Hmmmm

~ Alan Cohen

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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future You must break out of

your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the

unknown

Denis Waitley Author and Speaker

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us

William Feather (1888-19 American writer businessman )

It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow but only

empties today of its strength

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892 Preacher

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win by fearing to

attempt

William Shakespeare (1564-1616 British poet playwright actor)

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future You must break out of

your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the

unknown

Denis Waitley (1933- American author speaker trainer peak performance expert)

Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as

it should There are no mistakes anywhere at any time What appears to be wrong

is simply your own false imagination Thats all

~Robert Adams

How many ideas have there been in history that were unthinkable ten years

before they appeared

~Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Life in itself is an empty canvas it becomes whatsoever you paint on it You can

paint misery you can paint bliss This freedom is your glory

~Osho

―Cease trying to work everything out with your minds it will get you nowhere Live

instead by intuition and inspiration let your whole life become a revelation

~Eileen Caddy

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People should appreciate ugliness because if it wasnt for ugliness beautiful

things wouldnt look beautiful

~ Sam Lau

No great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig If

you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time Let it first

blossom then bear fruit then ripen

~Epictetus

You are the Self that perfect immutable Self Nothing else exists Nothing else

ever existed Nothing else will ever exist There is only one Self and you are That

Rejoice

~Robert Adams

Part of being a champ is acting like a champ You have to learn how to win and not

run away when you lose Everyone has bad stretches and real successes Either way

you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get too confident

~ Nancy Kerrigan

Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they

have deep inside them - a desire a dream a vision

~ Muhammad Ali

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents works his tail off to

develop them into skills and uses these skills to accomplish his goals

~ Larry Bird

Every time you smile at someone it is an action of love a gift to that person a

beautiful thing

-Mother Teresa

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end Its not a day when you

lounge around doing nothing its when youve had everything to do and youve done

it

-Lord Acton

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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do

- Walter Bagehot

Only the weak are cruel Gentleness can only be expected from the strong

~ Leo Buscaglia

If you are too busy to spend time with your children then you are busier than God

intended you to be

~ Rabbi Mendel Epstein

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards

~ Soren Kierkegaard

Procrastination is the fear of success People procrastinate because they are

afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now Because

success is heavy carries a responsibility with it it is much easier to procrastinate

and live on the someday Ill philosophy

~ Denis Waitley

Happiness cannot come from without It must come from within

~ Helen Keller

I make occasional visits to reality But Im not a full- time resident

-Ashleigh Brilliant

People are like sticks of dynamite The power is on the inside but nothing happens

until the fuse gets lit

Mac Anderson Author Are you disappointed discouraged and discontented with your present level of

success Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present status Do you want to

become a better and more beautiful person than you are today Would you like to

be able to really learn how to be proud of yourself and still not lose genuine

humility Then start dreaming Itlsquos possible You can become the person you have

always wanted to be

Robert H Schuller (1926- American minister author social leader)

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You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant

aspiration

- James Allen 1864-1912 Author of As A Man Thinketh

The man who has done his best has done everything

~ Charles Schwab Though no one can go back and make a brand new start anyone can start from now

and make a brand new ending

~ Carl Bard

When I get ready to talk to people I spend two thirds of the time thinking what

they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say

Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 16th President of the United States Discontent is the first necessity of progress

Thomas A Edison (1847-1931 American inventor founder of GE)

You dont get to choose how youre going to die Or when You can only decide how

youre going to live - now

- Joan Baez Singer Songwriter

Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as

it should There are no mistakes anywhere at any time What appears to be wrong

is simply your own false imagination Thats all You are the Self that perfect

immutable Self Nothing else exists Nothing else ever existed Nothing else will

ever exist There is only one Self and you are That Rejoice

~Robert Adams If your dream is a big dream and if you want your life to work on the high level

that you say you do theres no way around doing the work it takes to get you

there

~ Joyce Chapman We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an

imperfect person perfectly

~ Sam Keen

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―A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe a part limited in time

and space He experiences himself his thoughts and feeling as something

separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness This

delusion is a kind of prison for us restricting us to our personal desires and to

affection for a few persons nearest to us Our task must be to free ourselves from

this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and

the whole of nature in its beauty

-- Albert Einstein

―Each contact with a human being is so rare so precious one should preserve it

- Anais Nin

―Only connect That was the whole of her sermon Only connect the prose and the

passion and both will be exalted and human love will be seen at its height Live in

fragments no longer Only connect

-- EM Forster

―Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the

self And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our

connectedness to others

-- Harriet Goldhor Lerner

―And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to

do the same As we are liberated from our fear our presence automatically

liberates others

-- Marianne Williamson

No no we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like

waters and righteousness like a mighty stream

Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968 American Civil Rights leader Nobel Prize winner 964)

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a

very long time

~ Andre Gide (1869-1951 French author)

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Write down the thoughts of the moment Those that come unsought for are

commonly the most valuable

Francis Bacon 1561-1626 Philosopher Statesman Scientist and Author

A woman should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart and set out to

accomplish it Even if she fails again and again to accomplish her purpose (as she

necessarily must until weakness is overcome) the strength of character gained will

be the measure of her true success and this will form a new starting point for

future power and triumph

~ James Allen

To be blind is bad but worse is to have eyes and not see

~ Helen Keller

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning

to see an imperfect person perfectly

` Sam Keen

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start anyone can

start from now and make a brand new ending

` Carl Bard Always make a total effort even when the odds are against you

Arnold Palmer (1929- American golfer)

Learning is finding out what you already know Doing is demonstrating that you

know it Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you You are

all learners doers teachers

Richard Bach (1936- American author)

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day

Jenner Bruce 1949- American track athlete author speaker

Doubt whom you will but never yourself

John Christian Bovee (1820-1904 American author lawyer)

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When you give someone a book you dont give him just paper ink and glue You

give him the possibility of a whole new life

Christopher Morley 1890-1957 Novelist Journalist and Poet

Dont be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality If you can dream

it you can make it so

Belva Davis Award-Winning Journalist

The secret of mans being is not only to live but to have something to live for

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose

Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity and high purpose by itself is

utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Watch your thoughts they become words

Watch your words they become actions

Watch your actions they become habits

Watch your habits they become character

Watch your character it becomes your destiny

~ Frank Outlaw

Take good care of your future because thats where youre going to spend the

rest of your life

~ Charles F Kettering

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams

John Barrymore

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground

Stephen Covey

Its never too late to be what you might have been

George Elliot

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Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder

than anything we can say

Wilfred Peterson

True peace is not merely the absence of some negative force - tension confusion

or war it is the presence of some positive force - justice good will and

brotherhood

-Martin Luther King Jr

The important thing in this world is not where we stand but in what direction we

move

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing Action always

generates inspiration Inspiration seldom generates action

-Frank Tibolt

The only way to eliminate waris to love our children more than we hate our enemies

-Golda Meir

It has never been and never will be easy work But the road that is built in hope

is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they

both lead to the same destination

~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

And in the end its not the years in your life that count Its the life in your

years

~ Abraham Lincoln

Hold your head high stick your chest out You can make it It gets dark

sometimes but morning comes Keep hope alive

~ Jesse Jackson

Set your sights high the higher the better Expect the most wonderful things to

happen not in the future but right now Realize that nothing is too good Allow

absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way

Eileen Caddy Author

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To understand the heart and mind of a person look not at what he has already

achieved but at what he aspires to do

Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931 Lebanese poet novelist )

Bring everything up to the surface Accept your humanity your animality

Whatsoever is there accept it without any condemnation Acceptance is

transformation because through acceptance awareness becomes possible

~Osho

What is the best thing about being 100 years old Lack of peer pressure

-Michael Pritchard

The more credit you give away the more will come back to you The more you help

others the more they will want to help you

~ Brian Tracy

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact

~ William James

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes Chance nature

compulsions habit reason passion desire

~ Aristotle When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth think of Algebra

-Will Rogers

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say Yes Ive got

dreams of course Ive got dreams Then they put the box away and bring it out

once in a while to look in it and yep theyre still there These are great dreams

but they never even get out of the box It takes an uncommon amount of guts to

put your dreams on the line to hold them up and say How good or how bad am I

Thats where courage comes in

~ Erma Bombeck

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You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really

stop to look fear in the face You must do the thing which you think you cannot

do

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you love the money will follow

Marsha Sinetar (American author To Build The Life You Want Create The Work You Love)

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement we must choose freedom and the

responsibility this entails

Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998 American expert on love lecturer author)

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt and the dream will take care of

itself You may be surprised at how easily this happens Your doubts are not as

powerful as your desires unless you make them so

Marcia Wieder (American speaker trainer author)

I work every day -- or at least I force myself into my office or room I may get

nothing done but you dont earn bonuses without putting in time Nothing may

come for three months but you dont earn the fourth without it

Mordecai Richler (1931- Canadian writer)

If things are not going well with you begin your effort at correcting the situation

by carefully examining the service you are rendering and especially the spirit in

which you are rendering it

Roger Babson 1875-1967 Statistician and Columnist Its simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about

what the other fellow is going to do

- John R Amos

All beings are from the very beginning Buddhas

~ Hakuin

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly

or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man

~Chang Tzu

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The important thing is not to stop questioning Curiosity has its own reason for

existing One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of

eternity of life of the marvelous structure of reality It is enough if one tries

merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day Never lose a holy

curiosity

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Expect your every need to be met expect the answer to every problem expect

abundance on every level expect to grow spiritually You are not living by human

laws Expect miracles and see them take place Hold ever before you the thought

of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will

bring it into being

~Eileen Caddy

Bring everything up to the surface Accept your humanity your animality

Whatsoever is there accept it without any condemnation Acceptance is

transformation because through acceptance awareness becomes possible

~Osho

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who

keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road

Dag Hammarskjold 1905-1961 Statesman and Secretary-General of UN

Life is one massive challenge after another for everyone So you cant feel sorry

for yourself One real measure of you as a person is how much you can handle

without whining

~ Mike Brescia Author

We are each of us angels with only one wing And we can only fly by embracing each

other

-Luciano de Crescenzo

He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he

would like to have

~ Socrates

Quite often we change jobs friends and spouses instead of ourselves

~ Akbarali H Jetha

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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame

~ Benjamin Franklin

You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where

your thoughts take you

- James Allen

The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will

embrace for that day We cannot change our past

We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way We cannot change

the inevitable The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have and that

is our attitude

- Charles Swindoll author

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others

- Cicero 106 BC - 43 BC

If you want your life to be more rewarding you have to change the way you think

- Oprah Winfrey

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless

- Mother Teresa

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible

- Italian Proverb

Enthusiasm is the all-essential human jet propeller It is the driving force which

elevates people to miracle workers and creates endless energy the source of all

accomplishment

-Norman Vincent Peale

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends

you choose for you will become like them-

- W Clement Stone

Ones philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one

makes In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves The process

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never ends until we die And the choices we make are ultimately our own

responsibility

- Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 American First Lady We will stay young in life as long as we work toward something that were

supposed to do

~ Richard Rose I love the name of honor more than I fear death

~ Julius Caesar

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future making it predictable

and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible

Hannah Arendt 1906-1975 Political Theorist

Man has no greater enemy than himself

Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374 Italian poet humanist)

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety

-Aesop

You cannot tailor make your situation in life but you can tailor make your

attitudes to fit those situations

- Zig Ziglar speaker and author Set a goal to achieve something that is so big so exhilarating that it excites you

and scares you at the same time It must be a goal that is so appealing so much in

line with your spiritual core that you cant get it out of your mind If you do not

get chills when you set a goal youre not setting big enough goals

Bob Proctor Author and Speaker The only people who never fail are those who never try

Ilka Chase (1905-1978 American author actor)

In truth you are spirit The body has been projected by the mind which itself

originates from Spirit If the wrong identification ceases there will be peace and

permanent indescribable bliss

~Ramana Maharshi

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I flow with loving gratitude for all my blessings today

- Zoe Jarboe

People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be

~ Abraham Lincoln You are wealthy now with an abundance of what you are thinking about The world

is a creative engine and will create whatever you are really thinking Every thought

in your mind is a prayer about you no matter who the subject seems to be

~ Brad Jensen

A man who works with his hands is a laborer a man who works with his hands and

his brain is a craftsman but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his

heart is an artist

-Louis Nizer

When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score

John Enoch Powell (1912-1998 British statesman)

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get credit Try if

you can to belong to the first class there is far less competition

~ Dwight Morrow 1873-1931 Businessman Politician and Diplomat

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone but with heartfelt

conviction that we are doing nothing and God everything

~ St Ignatius Loyola Action is the real measure of intelligence

~ Napoleon Hill

Take the first step and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid But the

first essential is that you begin Once the battle is started all that is within and

without you will come to your assistance

~ Robert Collier

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You are what you are today because of the decisions and the choices YOU made

yesterday

~ Wayne Goonie

I have never seen a man who could do real work except under the stimulus of

encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom he is

working

Charles M Schwab (1862-1939 American industrialist businessman)

Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can

- Danny Kaye (1913-1987) Entertainer A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in

spite of overwhelming obstacles

~ Christopher Reeve A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always

with the same person

~ Mignon McLaughlin

We learn from failure much more than from success we often discover what we

will do by finding our what we will not do and probably he who never made a

mistake never made a discovery

Samuel Smiles (1812-1904 Scottish author)

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 16th American President)

Life has indeed many ills but the mind that views every object in its most

cheering aspect and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good bears

within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote

Lydia H Sigourney 1791-1865 Poet

The Next Step

The first step needs action to start it

The last requires patience to end

So we question which ones most important

When we realize our dreams our best friend

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Well the answer is neither theyre equal

But the one that will help you win through

And connect what you start to the finish

Is the next step thats waiting for you

Lifes dreamers are great Goal Achievers

Their faith and persistence just blends

Into one awesome cocktail of knowledge

That whatever they want they can get

You see they never visualize failure

Its success that they see shining through

Its essential to start and to finish

But the next step is what you must do

Alison Wilson

Set a goal to achieve something that is so big so exhilarating that it excites you

and scares you at the same time It must be a goal that is so appealing so much in

line with your spiritual core that you cant get it out of your mind If you do not

get chills when you set a goal youre not setting big enough goals

Bob Proctor Author and Speaker

There is no such thing as natural touch Touch is something you create by hitting

millions of golf balls

~ Lee Trevino

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation We do not act rightly because

we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted

rightly We are what we repeatedly do Excellence then is not an act but a habit

~ Aristotle

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement If everyone received the

encouragement they need to grow the genius in most everyone would blossom and

the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams

~ Unkwown

I do not believe in miracles at least not defined in the conventional religious

manner as divine disruptions of the natural order But if a miracle is defined as an

infinitely improbable phenomenon then our existence is a miracle which no theory

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natural or supernatural will ever explain

-John Horgan

Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that with nine women

pregnant you can get a baby in a month

--Wernher von Braun

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never

find out

~ Frank A Clark

You are what you are today because of the decisions and the

choices YOU made yesterday

~ Revt Wayne Goonie

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do

a little

~ Edmund Burke

We will stay young in life as long as we work toward something

that were supposed to do

~ Richard Rose

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions Small

people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become

great

- Mark Twain

Rich and poor are first created in the mind

A poor man asks How much will it COST me

A rich man asks How much will it MAKE me

Which one are you

~ Bryan Kumar

If you think you can do something that you cannot the belief itself prevents you

from accomplishing the task either because you never try it in the first place or

because you have block yourself by your belief

-Deena Zalkind Spear

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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear

Marcus Aurelius (121-12180 Roman emperor philosopher)

Character is doing whats right when nobodys looking

- J C Watts Jr Politician

Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions Small people

always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great

Mark Twain 1835-1910 Humorist and Writer

We are all salesmen every day of our lives We are selling our ideas our plans our

enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact

~ Charles M Schwab It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition

- Vernon Howard Maturity begins when were content to feel were right about something without

feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong

Sydney J Harris 1917-1986 Syndicated Columnist

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum

- Frances Willard Educator

Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given

~ Deepak Chopra Once power was considered a masculine attribute In fact power has no gender

~ Katherine Graham

An invasion of armies can be resisted but not an idea whose time has come

Victor Hugo

As the purse is emptied the heart is filled

Victor Hugo

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Be like the bird that passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight feels them

give way beneath her and yet sings knowing that she hath wings

Victor Hugo

Have no fear of robbers or murderers They are external dangers petty dangers

We should fear ourselves Prejudices are the real robbers vices the real murders

The great dangers are within us Why worry about what threatens our heads or

purses Let us think instead of what threatens our souls

Victor Hugo

He who opens a school door closes a prison

Victor Hugo

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man

Victor Hugo Be all you can be and live a good life -- have fun with it

Tina Yothers

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace

Yes Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive inner peace does

not

-Eckhart Tolle

A moments insight is sometimes worth a lifes experience

- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) Physician and writer

The superior persons learning goes in his ear attaches to his heart expands to

the end of his limbs and is established in his actions

Even in his smallest word or slightest action he sets an example

~ Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse) When I thought I couldnt go on I forced myself to keep going My success is

based on persistence not luck

Estee Lauder Entrepreneur

If you always do what interests you at least one person is pleased

Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003 American actress writer)

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Make Your Mark Count A childs life is like a piece of paper on which every person

leaves a mark

- Chinese Proverb

Pain shared is lessened joy shared increased

~ Spider Robinson

The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has its limits

~ Albert Einstein

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift let it be enthusiasm

Bruce Barton (1886-1967 American author advertising expert)

When you give your children knowledge you are telling them what you think That

is you are telling them what they are supposed to know what you want them to

understand is true

When you give your children wisdom you do not tell them what to know or what is

true but rather how to get to their own truth

-Neale Donald Walsch

I have found that if you love life life will love you back

- Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982) Musician

The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see

magic and beauty in them while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves

~ Kahlil Gibran

Practice is just as valuable as a sale The sale will make you a living the skill will

make you a fortune

~ Jim Rohn

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about

Charles Kingsley (1819-1875 British author clergyman)

Dont cry because its over - smile because it happened

Author unknown

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Happiness is like a kiss You must share it to enjoy it

~ Bernard Meltzer Our life is what our thoughts make it

~ Marcus Aurelius The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best Therefore it tends to

become the best It takes the form or character of the best and will receive the

best

-- Wallace Wattles

Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings

-- Marianne Williamson

―And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present and can be none in

the future And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned

to beautiful results

mdash Walt Whitman When you lose touch with inner stillness you lose touch with your Self

When you lose touch with your Self you lose yourself in the world

Your innermost sense of Self of who you are is inseparable from stillness

This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form

Eckhart Tolle Stillness Speaks

With wisdom I see that I am nothing

With love I see that I am everything

Between these two my life turns

Nisargadatta Maharaj Man often becomes what he believes himself to be If I keep on saying to myself

that I cannot do a certain thing it is possible that I may end by really becoming

incapable of doing it On the contrary if I shall have the belief that I can do it I

shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the

beginning

Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Indian Nationalist Leader

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Strategies designed to avoid something eventually produce exactly the thing they

are trying to avoid

-Michael Greenwood and Peter Nunn

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but

are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults

seem insignificant

Charles A Cerami

If all you did was just look for things to appreciate you would live a joyous

spectacular life

~Abraham-Hicks

Three things in human life are important The first is to be kind The second is to

be kind And the third is to be kind

- Henry James (1843-1916) Writer The moment of enlightenment is when a persons dreams of possibilities become

images of probabilities

~ Vic Braden Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot

fly

~ Langston Hugues Life is made up not of great sacrifices or duties but of little things in which

smiles and kindness and small obligations given habitually are what win and

preserve the heart and secure comfort

Humphry Davy 1778-1829 Chemist

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900 German philosopher)

The game of life is the game of boomerangs Our thoughts deeds and words

return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy

- Florence Shinn (1871-1940) Writer

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Some dream of doing great things while others stay awake and get on with it

~ Unknown With all your science can you tell how it is and whence it is that light comes into

the soul

-Hanry David Thoreau

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one but you wont come up

with a handful of mud either

- Leo Burnett (1891-1971) Advertising Executive

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the

only way we can leave the future open

Lillian Smith 1897-1966 Writer Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to

success when they gave up

~ Thomas A Edison Find something youre passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it

Julia Child (1912-2004 American gourmet cook author and television personality)

Now I say to you today my friends even though we face the difficulties of today

and tomorrow I still have a dream It is a dream deeply rooted in the American

dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true

meaning of its creed -- we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are

created equal

- Martin Luther King Jr ―Never let formal education get in the way of your learning

- Mark Twain

The path to success is to take massive determined action

~ Anthony Robbins For every minute you remain angry you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In the practice of tolerance ones enemy is the best teacher

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson When defeat comes accept it as a signal that

your plans are not sound rebuild those plans

and set sail once more toward your coveted goal

~ Napoleon Hill

We are all alike on the inside

Mark Twain (1835-1910 American humorist writer)

If you are going to do something carelessly it is better to give it up entirely

Russian Proverb

The world is like a mirror frown at it and it frowns at you

Smile and it smiles too

Herbert Samuels

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our

children

Charles R Swindoll

The important thing is not so much that every child should be

taught as that every child should be given the wish to learn

John Lubbock

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been

Mark Twain

It is a mistake to think that moving fast is the same as actually going somewhere

Steve Goodier A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops

Henry Adams

It is only with the heart that one can see clearly for the most

essential things are invisible to the eye

~ Antoine de Sainte Exupery

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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the

critical decisive hour Write it on your heart that every day is

the best day of the year

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier Be the living

expression of Gods kindness kindness in your face kindness in your eyes kindness

in your smile

- Mother Teresa

Its never too late to be who you might have been

- George EliotWriter

Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle

- Plato Philosopher

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition

- Vernon Howard

Ilsquove always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up

- Beverly Sills Opera Singer

Help others get ahead You will always stand taller with someone else on your

shoulders

- Bob Moawad Business Leader

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks

like work

Thomas Edison

Dream as if youll live forever

Live as if youll die tomorrow

~ James Dean

The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an

expectation that they can make it work or make it better

Barbara Pletcher Author

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As we grow up we get sophisticated out of enchantment and become too smart

about the things that cause children to wonder

-Thomas Moore

People come out to see you perform and youve got to give them the best you have

within you The lives of most men are patchwork quilts Or at best one matching

outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations A lifetime of

training for just ten seconds

Jesse Owens (1913-1980 American Olympian)

Nothing is easy to the unwilling

- Nikki Giovanni Whatever course you have chosen for yourself it will not be a chore but an

adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving if your sights are set

far above the merely secure and mediocre

~David Sarnoff 1891-1971 Entrepreneur I dont know any other way to lead but by example

Don Shula (1930- American football coach) Flexible people never get bent out of shape

- Author Unknown The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record

of successful experiences behind you

~ William Jennings Bryan The important thing is this To be able at any moment to sacrifice

what we are for what we could become

~ Charles du Bois Success isnt permanent and failure isnt fatal

- Mike Ditka

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The different between us is that I count and you dont

-Huston Smith

I love strange choices Im always interested in people who depart from what is

expected of them and go into new territory

Cate Blanchett Actress Always do your best What you plant now you will harvest later

Og Mandino (1923-1996 American motivational author speaker wwogmandinocom ) Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the Universe is endlessly

bountiful Just put forth a clear enough request and everything that your heart

desires must come to you

~Shakti Gawain The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would

suffice to solve most of the worlds problems

~ Unknown The only real valuable thing is intuition

- Albert Einstein

Waste your money and youre only out of money but waste your time and youve

lost a part of your life

~ Michael Leboeuf Fear is an insidious virus Given a breeding place in our minds it will eat away our

spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors

~ James F Bell

You cant base your life on other peoples expectations

Stevie Wonder Grammy Award Winning SingerSongwriter

An excuse is worse than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded

Alexander Pope (1688-1744 British poet critic translator)

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The thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and

beginning the work of becoming yourself

- Anna Quindlen ―Exert your talents and distinguish yourself and donlsquot think of retiring from the

world until the world will be sorry that you retire

- Samuel Johnson Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of

the odds against them They make the impossible happen

~ Dr Robert Jarvik

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances

if there is any reaction both are transformed

-Carl Jung There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right between

fairly good and the best between mediocrity and superiority

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)

I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright

I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more

I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive

I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger

I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting

I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess

I wish you enough Hellos to get you through the final Goodbye

Bob Perks

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie

~ William Shakespeare

It doesnt matter where you are coming from All that matters is where you are

going

~ Brian Tracy You need to be a somebody before you can be a nobody

-Brant Cortright

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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old

Franz Kafka Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it

bravely and gallantly as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an

unknown country to meet many a joy to find many a comrade to win and lose many

a battle

~ Annie Besant

I believe in taking a positive attitude toward the world My hope still is to leave

the world a little bit better than when I got here

Jim Henson 1936-1990 Muppets Creator Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life

Gita Bellin

Education is when you read the fine print Experience is what you get if you

dont

- Pete Seeger

Keep your thoughts positive because they become your words

Keep your words positive because they become your behaviors

Keep your behaviors positive because they become your habits

Keep your habits positive because they become your values

Keep your values positive because they become your destiny

-Gandhi

The challenge is not to manage time but to manage ourselves

Stephen Covey

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death It not only gives us

fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which

we hold our present being

~ William Hazlitt

Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith Having

faith in yourself in the process of change and in the new direction that change

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sets will reveal your own inner core of steel

Georgette Mosbacher Business Executive

Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life

Gita Bellin

Careful what you wish for Millions long for immortality who do not know what to

do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon

- Susan Ertz

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us What we have done for

others and the world remains and is immortal

Albert Pine

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate Our deepest fear is that we are

powerful beyond measure It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us

We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant gorgeous talented fabulous Actually

who are you NOT to be You are a child of God Your playing small does not serve

the world There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people wont

feel insecure around you We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is

within us It is not just in some of us it is in everyone And as we let our own light

shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same As we are

liberated from our own fear our presence automatically liberates others

~ Marianne Williamson

Focus on where we want to end up not on what we want to avoid

-Paula Underwood Spencer

A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact

that everything has happened for the best

Author Unknown

Change your thoughts and you change the world

- Harold R Mcalindon Today is yesterdays effect and tomorrows cause

~ Phillip Gribble

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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes one of his great surprises is to find

he can do what he was afraid he couldnt do

~ Henry Ford

I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist

- Paul Harvey

Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes

up his mind to do We are all capable of greater things than we realize

Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993 American Christian reformed pastor speaker author)

When everybody is looking for gold its a good time to be in the picks and shovels

business

~ Mark Twain

Waste your money and youre only out of money but waste your time and youve

lost a part of your life

~ Michael Leboeuf

It is a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best you

very often get it

~ W Somerset Maugham

Flatter me and I may not believe you Criticize me and I may not like you Ignore

me and I may not forgive you Encourage me and I will not forget you Love me and

I may be forced to love you

William Arthur Ward

―Trust yourself You know more than you think you do

Benjamin Spock

―A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise

after success

Anon

―Nine tenths of education is encouragement

Anatole Franc

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Maybe you cant change the whole world but if you have love in your heart you can

make small differences every day which really does change the world one life at a

time

Kristina Koncz Customer Experience Specialist

Let us be about setting high standards for life love creativity and wisdom If our

expectations in these areas are low we are not likely to experience wellness

Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward

to

Greg Anderson (American author The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness)

Truce is better than friction

- Charles Herguth

Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they

have deep inside them -- a desire a dream a vision

~ Muhammad Ali

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each mans

life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that

take our breath away

~ George Carlin

You can conquer almost any fear if you will make up your mind to do so For

remember fear doesnt exist anywhere except in the mind

Dale Carnegie 1888-1955 Author and Speaker

Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others

They learn when they do which isnt often on their own the hard way

Robert Heinlein (1907-1988 American science fiction writer)

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the

expense of everybody else

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-Frederic Bastiat

Some think its holding on that makes one strong sometimes its letting go

- Sylvia Robinson We are responsible for what we are and whatever we wish ourselves to be we

have the power to make ourselves If what we are now has been the result of our

own past actions it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be

produced by our present actions so we have to know how to act

~ Swami Vivekananda

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning but anyone can start today and

make a new ending

~ Maria Robinson

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves

Brian Tracy (1944- Canadian-born American trainer speaker author businessman)

Anger is the only thing to put off till tomorrow

- Slovakian Proverb

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know

peace

~Jimi Hendrix Do not wait the time will never be just right

Start where you stand and work with whatever tools you may have at your

command and better tools will be found as you go along

~ Napoleon Hill

When we lose the right to be different we lose the privilege to be free

Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948 American jurist politician)

You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone which can become a

watered-down occasional hope that youll get to tomorrow Intention without

action is useless

Caroline Myss Author of Entering The Castle

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Plan ahead -- It wasnt raining when Noah built the ark

-Anononymous

Only you can be yourself

No one else is qualified for the job

- Shelby Collinge

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall

~ Confucius

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom But in the last analysis our

only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves

~ Bernard M Baruch

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941 Indian poet philosopher)

Worry is the misuse of the imagination

- Dan Zadra

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else you will have succeeded

Maya Angelou

Trust yourself Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your

life Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny inner sparks of possibility into

flames of achievement

~ Foster C McClellan There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal

experience has brought it home

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873 British philosopher economist)

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall

never sit in

-Greek proverb

We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails

- Bertha Calloway

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Democracy arose from mens thinking that if they are equal in any respect they

are equal absolutely

~ Aristotle

Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can

~ Richard Bach

If the world seems cold to you kindle fires to warm it

~ Lucy Larcom All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their

gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible

Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924 Writer Physician Hotel Owner and founder of Success Magazine

A Friend is a treasure more precious than Gold For love shared is priceless and

never grows old

Author Unknown

Only that which cannot be taken away by death is real Everything else is unreal it

is made of the same stuff dreams are made of

~Osho

Personality can open doors but only character can keep them open

- Elmer G Leterman

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they

dont know when to quit Most men succeed because they are determined to

~ George Allen Coach

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what

lies within us

~ Walt Emerson Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by

employing it well Then youth will be happy old age without regret and life a

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beautiful success

Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888 Novelist Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution

experience lifes deepest joy true fulfillment

Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet enough trials to make you

strong enough sorrow to keep you human enough hope to make you happy

-Anonymous

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the

things we do

- Freya Madeline Stark

We must become the change we want to see

~ Mahatma Gandhi

You know its not more knowledge its not more education its not more facts

that we need Its a better use of what we already have that we need to have You

have each and every one of you within your potential power right now to do a

wonderful job in your chosen field - if you would only embrace it and use it

Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think And Grow Rich

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be

respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure

Buddha (568-488 BC Indian born founder of Buddhism)

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change and all patterns alter

- Sharon Salzberg When we let freedom ring when we let it ring from every village and every

hamlet from every state and every city we will be able to speed up that day when

all of Gods children black men and white men Jews and Gentiles Protestants and

Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro

spiritual

Free at last Free at last

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Thank God Almighty we are free at last

~ Reverand Martin Luther King Jr All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them

~ Walt Disney Your own common sense should tell you that common sense alone is not enough

-Ashleigh Brilliant

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and

deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your

place

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)

Know what counts

No matter what youve done for yourself or for humanity if you cant look back on

having given love and attention to your own family what have you really

accomplished

- Lee Iacocca

There is a giant asleep within every man When that giant awakes miracles happen

~ Frederick Faust There are those that look at things the way they are and ask why I dream of

things that never were and ask why not

~ Robert F Kennedy

There is nothing impossible to him who will try

~ Alexander the Great

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance Remember the greatest

failure is to not try Once you find something you love to do be the best at doing

it

Debbi Fields Founder of Mrs Fields Cookies

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul

Marcus Aurelius (121-12180 Roman emperor philosopher)

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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left

undone

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Shoot for the moon Even if you miss youll land among the stars

~ Les Brown

Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been

told is what they cant do They dont know what they want because they dont

know whats available for them

~ Zig Ziglar

Accept that some days youre the pigeon and some days youre the statue

-Anonymous

Be life long or short its completeness depends on what it was lived for

- David Starr Jordan

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life

by altering his attitude

~ William James

It has never been and never will be easy work

But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road

built in despair even though they both lead to the same destination

~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

―No matter what anybody tells you words and ideas can change the world

~ John Keating (from the movie Dead Poets Society) hellip Every tomorrow has two handles We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety

or the handle of faith

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887 American preacher orator writer) The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it

~ Chinese proverb

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Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to

success when they gave up

~ Thomas Edison

I am always doing things I cant do thats how I get to do them

~ Picasso When you maximize your talents youre on path on purpose on target When you

dont youre off path off purpose off target

Kevin Hall Author of Aspire

Comparisons of ones lot with others teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will

Thornton Wilder (1897-1975 American novelist playwright)

Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

While we have the gift of life it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of

us to die - whether it is our spirit our creativity or our glorious uniqueness

- Gilda Radner

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state

of being alive If life is to be sustained hope must remain even where confidence is

wounded trust impaired

~ Erik H Erikson

Dont go on discussing what a good person should be Just be one

Marcus Aurelius

Our wisdom comes from our experience and our experience comes from our

foolishness

Sacha Guitry

I would rather live in a world where life is surrounded by mystery than live in a

world so small that my mind could comprehend it

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Our first teacher is our own heart

Cheyenne proverb

Power coerces

Knowledge persuades

Love converts

Proverb

Do not kiss your children so they will kiss you back but so they will kiss their

children and their childrens children

Noah Benshea

We read to know we are not alone

CS Lewis

Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better

Albert Einstein

Keeping score of old scores and scars getting even and one-upping always makes

you less than you are

- Malcolm Forbes

When you know that youre capable of dealing with whatever comes you have the

only security the world has to offer

Harry Browne 1933-2006 Writer and Politician

You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never

be ableto repay you

- John Wooden

Freedom know this that every manwoman is free to choose his life and what hell

be For this eternal truth is given God will force no man to heaven Hell call

persuade direct aright Bless with wisdom love and light in nameless ways be

good and kind but never force the human mind

~ William C Clegg

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There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than

the one you are capable of living

~ Nelson Mandela to Marianne Williamson If it werent for the rocks in its bed the stream would have no song

-Carl Perkins

Whenever encountering a troublesome person do not identify him as being cruel

or stupid or rude or anything else like that Instead see him as a frightened

person

Vernon Howard 1918-1992 Author and Philosopher When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves it is useless to seek it

elsewhere

~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680 French classical writer) Live for the moment

If I have learnt anything it is that life forms no logical patterns It is haphazard

and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by for who knows whether any

of them will ever return

- Margo Fonteyn

Isnt it strange that princesses and kings and clowns that caper in sawdust rings

and common people like you and me are builders for eternity Each is given a bag of

tools a shapeless mass a book of rules and each must make ere life is flown a

stumbling block or stepping stone

~ Edgar Guest We are what we repeatedly do Excellence then is not an act but a habit

~ Aristotle

Whatever you can do or dream you can do begin it Boldness has genius power

and magic in it

~ Wolfgang von Goethe Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state Being in love shows a person who he should be ~ Anton Chekhov

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Follow the grain in your own wood

- Howard Thurman

It is said that if you are not living your dreams you are living your fears

~ Ghalil Professional Dreamer

―Dont ask what the world needs Ask what makes you come alive because what the

world needs is people who have come alive

- Harold Thurman

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success When you do a thing

do it with all your mind Put your whole soul to it Stamp it with your own

personality Be active be energetic be enthusiastic and faithful and you will

accomplish your object Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Essayist Philosopher and Poet

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do

John Wooden (1910- American basketball coach)

For the most part fear is nothing but an illusion When you share it with someone

else it tends to disappear

- Marilyn C Barrick

The purpose of life is not to arrive safely at your death

- Robert Holden

When everything seems to be going against you remember that theairplane takes

off against the wind not with it

Henry Ford

There are two freedoms the false where a man is free to do what he likes the

true where he is free to do what he ought

~ Charles Kingsley Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one

could find fault with it

John Henry Newman (1801-1890 British religious leader prelate writer)

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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

New ideas pass through three periods

It cant be done

It probably can be done but its not worth doing

I knew it was a good idea all along

-Arthur C Clarke A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you think creates your life all you have to do is ask yourself what you are

willing to accept into your life

~ Ghalil Author - Professional Dreamer

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and

deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your

place

~ Orison Swett Marden Well done is better than well said

~ Benjamin Franklin Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one

could find fault with it

John Henry Newman (1801-1890 British religious leader prelate writer) If youre looking for perfection look in the mirror If you find it there expect it

elsewhere

Malcolm S Forbes (1919-1990 American publisher businessman) Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have

- H Jackson Brown Jr A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish great things

~ Chinese Proverb

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If we listened to our intellect wed never have a love affair Wed never have a

friendship Wed never go into business because wed be cynical Well thats

nonsense Youve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down

~ Ray Bradbury

Successful people decide how they are going to live they are not victims of

circumstance In good times or bad times they know where they are going and they

know that they are going to get there

Bob Proctor Author and Speaker

First they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you then you win

~ Mahatma Gandhi The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing

- Walt Disney 1901-1966 American Film ProducerDirectorAnimator

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas first make him your friend

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))

Doubting everything or believing everything are two equally convenient solutions

both of which save us from thinking

-Jules Henri Poincareacute

Dont be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning Thats only the initial

impression The important thing is not to retreat you have to master yourself

Olga Korbut Olympic Gold Medallist Gymnast

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental

difference in someones life

- Sister Mary Rose McGeady All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future

task of the philosopher which is to solve the problem of value to determine the

true hierarchy of values

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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Let no man pull you low enough to hate him

~ Martin Luther King Dont concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal -

leave that completely to a power greater than yourself All you have to do is know

where youre going The answers will come to you of their own accord and at the

right time

Earl Nightingale 1921-1989 Syndicated Radio Announcer and Author

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs

~ Gloria Steinem

Now I say to you today my friends even though we face the difficulties of today

and tomorrow I still have a dream It is a dream deeply rooted in the American

dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true

meaning of its creed -- we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are

created equal

~ Martin Luther King Jr

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams Live the life you have imagined

David Thoreau Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions Small people always do

that but the really great make you believe that you too can become great

~ Mark Twain Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure (values) and Ill tell

you their philosophy of life

~ Dale Carnegie To forgive is merely to remember ONLY the LOVING thoughts you gave in the

past and those that were given you ALL the rest must be forgotten

~ A Course In Miracles If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a

prophet

Isaac Bashevis Singer 1904-1991 Journalist and Writer

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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us

~ Voltaire

We are all of us stars and we deserve to twinkle

~ Marilyn Monroe

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do

right

~ Nelson Mandela

It has never been and never will be easy work But the road that is built in hope

is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they

both lead to the same destination

~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society

~J Krishnamurti

Every situation properly perceived becomes an opportunity to heal

~ A Course in Miracles

The love that you withhold in life is the pain that you carry

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as

the quality of perseverance It overcomes almost everything even nature

John D Rockefeller (1839-1937 American industrialist philanthropist founder Exxon)

All I ask is for an unfair advantage

~ WC Fields Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words Keep your

words positive because your words become your behaviors Keep your behaviors

positive because your behaviors become your habits Keep your habits positive

because your habits become your values Keep your values positive because your

values become your destiny

~Gandhi

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Your ego is creating obstacles Maya creating maya

~Babaji Step back Observe without judgment unconditional Watch now as obstacles

melt become no-thing Do this each time a block appears Step back and observe

without judgment

~Babaji

Everybody cannot be a painter a poet or a geniusthose are given qualities from

birth But everybody can be enlightened Enlightenment is the only thing the only

experience where everybody is equally capable And it does not depend on whether

you believe in God or not it depends only on one thingand that is a little taste (of

meditation) and suddenly you become confident that youre capable of it

~Osho There are no accidents or coincidences in this world Nothing is by chance

Everything you experience is a direct manifestation of where you focus your

attention and hold your vibration

~Jafree When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off

into the darkness of the unknown faith is knowing one of two things will happen

There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly

~ Barbara J Winter High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly make big decisions quickly and

move into action immediately Follow these principles and you can make your dreams

come true

Robert H Schuller Televangelist Pastor and Author

Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you but seek out another to console and

you will find consolation

J C Macaulay

High Expectations are the key to everything

~ Sam Walton Founder Wal-Mart

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Until you make peace with who you are youll never be content with what you

have

~ Doris Mortman You must constantly ask yourself these questions Who am I around What are

they doing to me What have they got me reading What have they got me saying

Where do they have me going What do they have me thinking And most

important what do they have me becoming Then ask yourself the big question Is

that okay Your life does not get better by chance it gets better by change

Jim Rohn 1930-2009 Author and Speaker

Believe it You CAN succeed at whatever you do as long as you simply take the

right ACTIONS

~ ER Haas CEO

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do The hard

part is doing it

~ General H Norman Schwarzkopf So let your deepest desires direct your aim Set your sights far above the

reasonable target The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire

that stirs the heart

Price Pritchett Author of You2

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do

Walter Bagehot (1826-1977 British economist critic)

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or

better than themselves

~ Tryon Edwards

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high

and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach it

~ Michelangelo Compared to what we ought to be we are only half awake We are making use of

only a small part of our physical and mental resources Stating the thing broadly

the human individual thus lives far within his limits He possesses power of various

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sorts which he habitually fails to use

William James (1842-1910 American psychologist professor author) People wait for opportunity to come along yet it is there every morning

~ Dennis the Menace A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow

~ George S Patton (1885-1945 American army general during World War II)

The last best fruit which comes to late perfection even in the kindliest soul is

tenderness toward the hard forbearance toward the unforbearing warmth toward

the cold philanthropy toward the misanthropic

~ Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825 German novelist)

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a

prophet

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991 Polish-born American journalist writer)

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than

by those given to us by others

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662 French scientist religious philosopher) Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty

~ John Ruskin (1819-1900 British critic social theorist)

Expect your every need to be met expect the answer to every problem expect

abundance on every level expect to grow spiritually You are not living by human

laws Expect miracles and see them take place Hold ever before you the thought

of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will

bring it into being

~Eileen Caddy

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we

believe And the only real wealth for any of us lies in our faith

~ Gordon B Hinckley

Desire is the Starting Point of All Achievement

~ - Napoleon Hill

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And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to

do the same

Nelson Mandela

The more we have the less we own

Meister Eckhart (1260-1326 German mystic)

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs jolted by every

pebble in the road

Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887 Preacher and Abolitionist

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength Richard L Evans

The secret of Happiness is Freedom and the secret of Freedom Courage

~ Thucydides (Greek historian 460-404 BC)

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in

the mature than in the young

Paul McCartney SingerSongwriter I cant believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary

Lou Holtz (937- American football coach)

Dont let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he

was

~ Richard L Evans

To dream anything that you want to dream that is the beauty of the human mind

To do anything that you want to do that is the strength of the human will To trust

yourself to test your limits that is the courage to succeed

~ Bernard Edmonds

I find my greatest pleasure and so my reward in the work that precedes what the

world calls success

Thomas A Edison (1847-1931 American inventor founder of GE)

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It is good to act as if It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer

an act

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832 British sportsman writer)

Tell me what you want and Ill show you how to get it

~ Bob Proctor

One is very crazy when in love

~ Sigmund Freud

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed Always aim at

purifying your thoughts and everything will be well

Mahatma Gandhi

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything keep it

Mahatma Gandhi Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony

Mahatma Gandhi

Hate the sin love the sinner

Mahatma Gandhi

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress

Mahatma Gandhi

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress

Mahatma Gandhi

True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the

future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied

with what we have which is sufficient for he that is so wants nothing The great

blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach

~ Seneca 4 BC to 65 AD - Spanish Philosopher

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When you paint success pictures in your mind you initiate an inner process

whereby your attitudes hopes aspirations and enthusiasm are elevated in

response to an image of a more promising future Every person who aspires must

first sell themselves hope the promise of a better life

US Andersen 1917-1986 Author of The Magic In Your Mind

How far is far how high is high Well never know until we try

Song from the California Special Olympics If you take each challenge one step at a time with faith in every footstep your

strength and understanding will increase

~ James E Faust

What is your individual purpose What would you like to be able to say is your

legacy I believe that each of us wants to find our purpose in life our raison

detre or reason for being We need to have a motive to get out of bed in the

morning We want to feel alive and passionate about something Something that

makes a difference in the world We are not alone in this and yet many of us are

still searching for that purpose

~ Veronica Hay We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds

Warren Buffett (1930- American investment entrepreneur)

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy but its good too to

check up once in a while and make sure you havent lost the things money cant

buy

George Lorimer 1867-1937 Editor of Saturday Evening Post

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence Talent will not nothing is

more common than unsuccessful men with talent Genius will not unrewarded genius

is almost a proverb Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent

~ Calvin Coolidge

Desperation can be as powerful inspirer as genius

Benjamin Disraeli

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We read to know we are not alone

CS Lewis

Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better

Albert Einstein The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the

road after you have shown him the way

Confucius

A baby has a way of making a man out of his father and a boy out of his

grandfather

Angie Papadakis

My father didnt tell me how to live he lived and let me watch him do it

Clarence B Kelland No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing

William Barclay

If you think youre lucky you are

Bobby Dodd

When youre safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when youre

having an adventure you wish you were safe at home

Thornton Wilder Obstacles dont have to stop you If you run into a wall dont turn around and give

up Figure out how to climb it go through it or work around it

~ Michael Jordan In order to attain the impossible one must attempt the impossible

~ Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616 Spanish novelist dramatist poet)

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as

the quality of perseverance It overcomes almost everything even nature

~ John D Rockefeller

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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is

when men are afraid of the light

~ Plato

Doubt of whatever kind can be ended by action alone

Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 Philosopher and Author

Poverty is not a shame but the being ashamed of it is

English Proverb

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well

~ Unknown

We need to exert ourselves that much more and break out of the vicious cycle of

dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful those in command of

immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own

image

~ Nelson Mandela

High Expectations are the key to everything

~ Sam Walton Founder Wal-Mart

Failures are expected by losers ignored by winners

~ Joe Gibbs Football Coach Most people live and die with their music still unplayed They never dare to try

Mary Kay Ash

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own

existence

Aristotle

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to

the eye

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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If A equals success then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z

with X being work Y play and Z keeping your mouth shut

~ Albert Einstein

Tomorrows battle is won during todays practice

Japanese Proverb

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days

What you can do or think you can do begin it For boldness has magic power and

genius in it

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 Poet Novelist and Scientist

Forget about all the reasons why something may not work You only need to find

one good reason why it will

Dr Robert Anthony

No matter how busy you are you must take time to make the other person feel

important

Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001 American businesswoman founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics)

I used to be a very serious not funny negative person Funny-cism Skepticism

Criticism and all Then I got introduced to the world of Positive Thinking Now Im

bipolar

~ Andy Dooley Spiritual Comedian and Professional Speaker

Your past is not your potential In any hour you can choose to liberate the future

Marilyn Ferguson (American writer) Everyone wants to be appreciated so if you appreciate someone dont keep it a

secret

~ Mary Kay Ash 1915-2001 Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds

and these magnets attract to us the forces the people the circumstances of life

which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts

~ Napoleon Hill

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You more often recognize your inadequacies rather than your strengths

~ James E Faust

I live by this credo Have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness

instead of sadness Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations Even

in your darkest moment you usually can find something to laugh about if you try

hard enough

Red Skelton 1913-1997 Comedian

Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth

George W Crane Some self-confronting questions

Where do I want to be at any given time

How am I going to get there

What do I have to do to get myself from where

I am to where I want to be

Whats the first small step I can take to get moving

~ George A Ford The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can

bribe the public with the publics money

- Alexis de Tocqueville The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race

~ Don Marquis At the height of laughter the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new

possibilities

-- Jean Houston Begin to weave and God will give you the thread

~ German Proverb If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who

are rich

John F Kennedy (1917-1963 35th American President)

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If you keep THINKING what you are thinking you will keep DOING what you are

doing and you will keep GETTING what you are getting

~ Dr Robert Anthony The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world

~ Lao-tzu Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them and to

let them know that you trust them

Booker T Washington 1856-1915 Educator and Writer ―Stress is the tax you pay for not taking 100 responsibility for your life

mdashDr Barnet Meltzer Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it

~ Irving Berlin It is by surmounting difficulties not by sinking under them that we discover our

fortitude

~ Hannah Webster Foster

Believing requires action

~ James E Faust

Dont do anything in practice that you wouldnt do in the game

George Halas (1895-1983 American football coach)

Its better to reach for the stars and land on the roof than to reach for the

roof and land in the garbage

~ Savanna Skinner

Whatever you focus your intention on is what will show up in your life

Your consistent thoughts create your consistent results

~ Dr Robert Anthony

He who gains a victory over other men is strong but he who gains a victory over

himself is all powerful

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Lao-Tzu (BC 600- Chinese philosopher founder of Taoism) His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the

memory of a wrong

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great masters merit emulation not worship

-- Alan Cohen

Mirth is Gods medicine Everybody ought to bathe in it

-- Henry Ward Beecher

Snowflakes are one of natures most fragile things but just look what they can do

when they stick together

~ anon

Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you

are and what you want

-- Alan Cohen

Life isnt about waiting for the storm to pass its about learning to dance in the

rain

~Anonymous

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose for this thing that we call

failure is not the falling down but the staying down

Mary Pickford 1893-1979 Actress and Producer

Courage does not always roar Sometimes courage is that quiet voice at the end of

the day that saysI will try again tomorrow

-Mary Anne Radmacher

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act or thought or word that raises

us above ourselves

~ Arthur P Stanley

―You see things and say Whylsquo but I dream things and say Why notlsquo

- George Bernard Shaw

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―The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and

convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges

- Martin Luther King Jr

―Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions Small people always do

that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great

- Mark Twain

―That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as

well

- Abraham Lincoln

―Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though

checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor

suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor

defeat

- Theodore Roosevelt

―Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm

- Winston Churchill

―I have not failed Ilsquove just found 10000 ways that wonlsquot work

- Thomas Edison If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun

--Katharine Hepburn

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist sees

problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems

~ Winston Churchill

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but

are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults

seem insignificant

Charles A Cerami Author

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If everyone on earth loved each other the earth would shine brighter than the

sun

-- Source unknown

As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again you are

merely a vague guest on a dark Earth

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

So many worlds so much to do so little done such things to be

~ Lord Alfred Tennyson

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy nothing can make a fool content

that is why most men are miserable

Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680 French classical writer)

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live

~ Flora Whittemore I am only one but still I am one I cannot do everything but still I can do

something I will not refuse to do the something I can do

Helen Keller 1880-1968 Author and Lecturer Where theres a will theres a way

English Proverb A manwoman without ambition is dead

A man with ambition but no love is dead

A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive

~Pearl Bailey We cant help everyone but everyone can help someone

~ Ronald Reagan

We must not promise what we ought not lest we be called on to perform what we

cannot

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))

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Once you realize you dont need anything youre free to have whatever you want

- Ian Watson

Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable

confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy ~ Norman Vincent Peale Every goal every action every thought every feeling one experiences whether it

be consciously or unconsciously known is an attempt to increase ones level of

peace of mind

~ Sidney Madwed

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so For

remember fear doesnt exist anywhere except in the mind

Dale Carnegie 1888-1955 Speaker and Author Great souls have wills feeble ones have only wishes

Chinese Proverb

―Focus your attention on your desire

not the situation that gave birth to your desire

mdashRich German Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone

and let your hand give in proportion to your purse

~ George Washington

Time I have only just a minute

Only sixty seconds in it

Forced upon me cant refuse it

Didnt seek it didnt choose it

But its up to me to use it

I must suffer if I lose it

Give account if I abuse it

Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it

~ Christine Warren

Do what you can with what you have where you are

~ Theodore Roosevelt

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With every adversity comes a seed of equal or greater opportunity

~ Napoleon Hill

Heart is merely another name for the Supreme Spirit because He is in all hearts

The entire Universe is condensed in the body and the entire body in the Heart

Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe

~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

―If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back then

you suffer Every moment is the most important moment of your life No future

time is better than now to let down your guard and love

~ David Deida

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for youll be criticized anyway Youll

be damned if you do and damned if you dont

~ Eleanor Roosevelt Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do

~ John Wooden

One difference between successful people and all the rest is that successful

people take action

~ Bob Proctor Speaker and Author

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left Every

mans greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life

~ P W Litchfield ―There is a giant asleep within every man When the giant awakes miracles happen

~ Frederick Faust Focus more on your desire than on your doubt and the dream will take care of

itself You may be surprised at how easily this happens Your doubts are not as

powerful as your desires unless you make them so

Marcia Wieder Author and Speaker

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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning by dreams that need

completion by pure love that needs expressing then we truly live life

~ Greg Anderson Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you

Never excuse yourself

~ Henry Ward Beecher There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge

- both poverty and riches are offspring of thought

~ Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think and Grow Rich The person with a fixed goal a clear picture of his desire or an ideal always

before him causes it through repetition to be buried deeply in his subconscious

mind and is thus enabled thanks to its generative and sustaining power to realize

his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort Just pursue

the thought unceasingly Step by step you will achieve realization for all your

faculties and powers become directed to that end

~ Claude M Bristol Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake

~ Henry David Thoreau If opportunity doesnt knock build a door

~ Milton Berle Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well I am

not aware of any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking not exercise

not drugs not surgery--that has a greater impact on our quality of life incidence

of illness and premature death

- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak It is born of strength and

understanding

-- Meher Baba Unworthiness is simply a case of mistaken identity

-- Alan Cohen

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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet

-- Mahatma Gandhi If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march

on

-- Stopford Brooke It is usually the imagination that is wounded first rather than the heart it being

much more sensitive

~ Henry David Thoreau You need not struggle for your good Your good flows to you naturally when you are

relaxed open and trusting

-- Alan Cohen If you dont love it you cant afford it

Alan Cohen

Ask for peace first and you will clearly see your next step

-- Alan Cohen I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited

and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts Namely the physical universe

-- Ken Jenkins Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be exceptional

~ Mark Sanborn Life isnt what you want it to be its what you make it become

~ Anthony Ryan

If you are very quiet you can hear the world applauding

--Source unknown

Do you remember how electrical currents and unseen waves were laughed at

The knowledge about man is still in its infancy

~ Albert Einstein

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Wherever you go go with all your heart

~ Confucius I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up Most people in this

business gave up and went on to other things If you simply didnt give up you

would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you

Harrison Ford Actor

The quality of your life is determined by the number of uncomfortable

conversations you are willing to have

~ Rich German

To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define

themselves As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate

influences of the culture and environment we grow up in we come to have beliefs

about the nature of being human These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of

our psychosomatic systems our minds and brains our nervous systems our

endocrine systems and even our blood and sinews We act speak and think

according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems

~ Jeremy W Hayward

A mans true wealth is the good he does in the world Mohammed (c570-c632

Mecca spiritual leader

Every man is the architect of his own fortune

~ Sallust

What is opportunity and when does it knock

It never knocks

You can wait a whole lifetime listening hoping and you will hear no knocking

None at all

You are opportunity and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny

You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity to pursue and seize opportunity as

you develop the strength of your personality and build a self-image with which you

are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing

~ Maxwell Maltz

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Today I would like to become the man my dog thinks I am

Jack Thomson Entrepreneur BE the change you want to see in the world

- Mahatma Gandhi

Leaders are made they are not born They are made by hard effort

which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile

~ Vince Lombardi To honor the spirit is to accept the opportunity for your healing and personal

evolution When you choose to assume radical personal responsibility knowing that

you are responsible for the effect external circumstances have on you you are

taking a stand for the power of your spiritual nature to run the show

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think Its really important that you feel good Because this feeling good is what goes

out as a signal into the universe and starts to attract more of itself to you So the

more you can feel good the more you will attract the things that help you feel

good and that will keep bringing you up higher and higher

Joe Vitale Author and Speaker Just listen to the still voice within This is the mind to trust This is god

consciousness speaking not the ego that is seeking recognition

~Angela Walker

There is a prayer that lives in the center of your heart If you pray it it will

change your life How does it begin

-- Matthew Anderson

For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin but there was

always some obstacle in the way Something had to be got through first some

unfinished business time still to be served a debt to be paid Then life would

begin At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life

~ Bette Howland

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power then the world will know

peace

Jimmy Hendrix There are two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the

credit Try to be in the first group there is less competition there

Indira Gandhi Its good to have money and all the things that money can buy but its good too to

make sure you havent lost the things that money cant buy George

Horace Lorimer When you take things for granted the things you are granted get taken

Phil Hennessy Self-confidence is a state of mind where you believe that you deserve the best

you are capable of achieving the best and furthermore you expect the best to

happen

--- Dr Barnet Meltzer Writing is good thinking is better Cleverness is good patience is better

~ Hermann Hesse

You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the

greatness you perceive in them is your own

-- Alan Cohen

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their

gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible

Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924 Writer I will not condemn you for what you did yesterday If you do it right today

--Sheldon S Maye

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength

not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will

~ Vince Lombardi

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The moment one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too

-- William Hutchinson Murray

Youve got to get up every morning with determination if youre going to

go to bed with satisfaction

-- George Horace Lorimer Faith is born of Definiteness of Purpose

Keep your mind on the things that you do want and off the things that you do not

want

~ Unknown You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals

George S Patton 1885-1945 American Army General

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have

thrown at him

~ David Brinkley

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough

~ Helen Keller

If what you did yesterday seems big you havent done anything

today

Lou Holtz

Dont wait for extraordinary opportunities Seize common occasions and make

them great Weak menwomen wait for opportunities strong menwomen make

them

~ Orison Swett Marden

The recognition you seek from others is really the recognition you seek from

yourself Give it to yourself and you wont need it from others

-- Alan Cohen Ninety percent of the population wish positive but think negative

~ Leslie Householder

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You are more likely to create success when you are relaxed about a result than

when you are uptight about it

-- Alan Cohen Embrace Change True success can be defined by your ability to adapt to

changing circumstances

-- Connie Sky Aim High The important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for

what we could become

-- Charles Du Bos Dont ask for an easier life ask to be a stronger person

Shared by Kristen Goeser

Your consciousness is a powerful force for creating It determines the people you

are attracted to and the people who are attracted to you If you want to improve

your lot in life or the quality of your relationships choosing to accept personal

responsibility is the first and most important step

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise it is all

over Bolt up at once

-- Sir Walter Scott

You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you cant have it

- Dr Robert Anthony Live so that you wouldnt be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip

Will Rogers 1879-1935 Comedian and Actor

Everyone rides on the merry go round of life but very few ever take the chance

at the brass ring

-- Kevin Veitch

We gain internal freedom through external actions

- Ram Dass

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Everyone was born original but most people die copies

~ Unknown Without passion you dont have energy without energy you have nothing Nothing

great in the world has been accomplished without passion

~ Donald Trump When one door of happiness closes another opens But often we look so long at

the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened before us

~ Helen Keller

I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please

everybody

Bill Cosby Comedian Actor and Author Give up your identity as a seeker and become a finder Then everything you ever

sought will find you

-- Alan Cohen

The reason we put a lot of emphasis on action is because we do not understand the

power of our thought If you analyze it 90 percent of most peoples actions

are spent trying to compensate for inappropriate thought

~ Dr Robert Anthony Prosperity lets go the bridle

-- George Herbert

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered

heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed They won because they refused to

become discouraged by their defeats

Bertie Charles Forbes 1880-1954 Financial Journalist Author and Founder of Forbes Magazine He who jumps to conclusions falls to their death

-- Mark J Ottaviani Im not a believer in nor the advocate of miracles for the reason that I

have enough knowledge of nature to understand that nature never deviates from

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her established laws Her laws are simply so incomprehensible that they produce

what appears to be miracles

~ Napoleon Hill Learn to listen Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly

Frank Tyger

Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways you can as long as

ever you can

John Wesley Work like you dont need the money Love like youve never been hurt Dance like

nobody is watching

-- Mark Twain

You believe that a lover will bring you love but it is your love that will bring you a

lover

-- Alan Cohen

The Universe is not punishing you or blessing you

The Universe is responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting The

more joyful you are the more Well-being flows to you

~Abraham-Hicks What nourishes you is not vitamins in food It is the joy you feel in eating it

-- Ramtha

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this

decide what you want

Ben Stein Attorney Author Actor and Commentator

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure to embrace

the new But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful There is

more security in the adventurous and exciting for in movement there is life and in

change there is power

mdashAlan Cohen

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Vision without action is a daydream Action without vision is a nightmare

-- Japanese Proverb

Success is the result of applying sound principles which align with universal laws

The Science of Success is a powerful road map to guarantee your personal

success

~ Brian Tracy

Part of you thinks that you are not going to die because part of you is not going to

die

-- Alan Cohen

There are 3 things that are certain in life death taxes and change You cant

avoid change its mandatory progress however is optional

-- Bill R Good Jr

Surrender the illusion that anyone other than you has power or authority over

your life

Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either

openly before us or close to us

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You must be the change you want to see in the world

~ Gandhi

Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a

friendly level

~ Max L Forman

If you want your life to be a magnificent story then begin by realizing that you

are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page

-- Mark Houlahan

If you want to develop in profound and significant ways it is essential that you

build up a reservoir of spiritual and emotional conviction a source of boundless

freedom that will give you the energy to transcend the apparent limitations of

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your own emotional psychological and cultural experience By practicing

meditation with deadly seriousness you cultivate that freedom and conviction in

no-limitation as a reference point Thats the only reason to meditate in the

context of Evolutionary Enlightenment

mdash Andrew Cohen

If our actions stem from honesty kindness caring and vision then no matter

what the result of our efforts we have added something of value to our souls and

to the world

~ Joan Boysenko

Too often the opportunity knocks but by the time you push back the chain push

back the bolt unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm its too late

~ Rita Coolidge We are formed and molded by our thoughts

Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts

give joy when they speak or act

Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them

~ Buddha

We feel most alive in the presence of the Beautiful for it meets the needs of the

soul

~ John OlsquoDonohue

No onelsquos past has to be a prison sentence Forgiveness provides the key to

acknowledge the past and move on When we can forgive we have less to be afraid

of

~ Dr Fred Luskin

Isnlsquot it strange that princesses and kings and clowns that caper in sawdust rings

and common people like you and me are builders for eternity Each is given a bag of

tools a shapeless mass a book of rules and each must make ere life is flown a

stumbling block or stepping stone

~ Edgar Guest

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly

~ Richard Bach

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I donlsquot wait for moods

You accomplish nothing if you do that Our mind must know it has got to get down

to work

~ Pearl S Buck

There is a giant asleep within every man When that giant awakes miracles happen

~ Fred Faust

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the

risk it took to bloom

~ Anais Nin

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid but he who conquers that fear

~ Nelson Mandela

Itlsquos not about breaking the rules

It is about abandoning the concept of rules altogether

~ Paul Lemberg

Each moment of our life we either invoke or destroy our dreams

~ Stuart Wilde

Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts This is the

secret of success

Swami Sivananda

Whatever you do do it as totally as possible

Osho

I am not afraidhellipI was born to do this

~Joan of Arc

―There is nothing that you cannot be do or have

~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given

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―Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success When you do a thing

do it with all your might Put your whole soul into it Stamp it with your own

personality Be active be energetic be enthusiastic and faithful and you will

accomplish your object Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Success is never final Failure is never fatal It is courage that counts

~ Winston Churchill

What are you tolerating that would not be a part of your ideal day

-- Alan Cohen Trust yourself You know more than you think you do

-- Dr Benjamin Spock True friends and healers do not limit your options They expand them

-- Alan Cohen When it comes to staying young a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day

-- Marty Bucella Achievement seems to be connected with action Successful men and women keep

moving They make mistakes but they dont quit

Conrad Hilton 1887-1979 Founder of Hilton Hotels Successful people form the habit of doing what failures dont like to do They like

the results they get by doing what they dont necessarily enjoy

Earl Nightingale1921-1989 Author and Syndicated Radio Personality When you are clear what you want will show up in your life and only to the extent

you are clear

Janet AttwoodAuthor of The Passion Test The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it

Chinese proverb

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery the human beings by

changing the inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their

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lives

~ William James

Never look up to the people who have the painted-perfect lives because try as

they might they can never see beyond the canvas

~ Moira Hallsom

Even from a dark night songs of beauty can be born

~ Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body

~ Pythagoras

If life gives you lemons make lemonade

~ Joan Collins

The only place where dreams are impossible is in your own mind

~ Emalie

Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions But no man has

a right to be wrong in his facts

~ Bernard M Baruch

Begin to weave and God will give you the thread

~ German Proverb

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss

~ David Eddings

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we

are and what we can be igniting the circuits of our highest potential

-- Rusty Berkus

The optimist says we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears

this is true

-- Source Unknown

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If I had listened to the critics Id have died drunk in the gutter

-- Chekov

Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice It is not a thing to be

waited for it is a thing to be achieved

-- Jeremy Kitson

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental

difference in someones life

- Sister Mary Rose McGeady

One never knows what each day is going to bring The important thing is to be

open and ready for it

- Henry Moore

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in

the same individual

- Arthur Koestler

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it

- Lou Holtz Motivation is like food for the brain You cannot get enough in one sitting It needs continual and

regular top ups

~ Peter Davies

Dont tell me how hard you work

Tell me how much you get done

~ James Ling

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures

dont like to do

~ Albert Gray

―There is a science of getting rich and it is an exact science like algebra or arithmetic There

are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches and once these laws are learned

and obeyed by anyone that person will get rich with mathematical certainty ~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich

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―Everything you want should be yours the type of work you want the relationships you need

the social mental and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled the money

you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you and any requirement that you may (or

may not) have for achievement or service to others If you donlsquot aim for it all youlsquoll never get it

all To aim for it requires that you know what you want ~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle ―Eliminate the word impossible from your thinking and speaking vocabularies Impossible is a

failure word The thought ―Itlsquos impossible sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove

youlsquore right ~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big ―Think Big and youlsquoll live big Youlsquoll live big in happiness Youlsquoll live big in accomplishment Big in

income Big in friends Big in respecthellip Start now right now to discover how to make your

thinking make magic for you Start out with this thought of the great philosopher Disraeli ―Life

is too short to be little ~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big ―If you have a big problem in your life all that means is that you are being a small person ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind ―It all comes down to this if your subconscious financial blueprintlsquo is not setlsquo for success

nothing you learn nothing you know and nothing you do will make much of a difference ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you If God gives you a bucket of fish you

have to distribute those fish If you donlsquot theylsquore going to rot attract a bunch of flies and

start stinking up your soul ~ Russell Simmons from Do You ―In my experience therelsquos only one thing that will always steer you toward success Thatlsquos to

have a vision and to stick with ithellip Once I have a vision for a new venture Ilsquom going to ride that

vision until the wheels come off ~ Russell Simmons quotes from Do You

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery the human beings by changing the

inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their lives

~ William James

There is no courage without fear

~ Eddie Rickenbacher

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make who would you call and what

would you say And why are you waiting

-- Stephen Levine

Remember we all stumble every one of us Thats why its a comfort to go hand in hand

~ Emily Kimbrough The inspiration of the almighty gives man understanding

~ the Bible

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives

~ Louise Hay

The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation

~ Comer Cotrell

Give it all youve got because you never know if theres going to be a next time

~ Danielle Ingrum

Dont try to force anything Let life be a deep let-go God opens millions of flowers everyday

without forcing their buds

~Osho

The definition of Insanity is Doing the Same Things Over and Over Again and Expecting Different

Results

~ Albert Einstein

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us This little treasure

has great great powers and I would say we only have learnt a very very small part of what it can

do

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work

~ John G Pollard

Vacation is a state of mind not an action

-- Alan Cohen

Whatever games are played with us we must play no games with ourselves

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Desperation does not recognize your power to choose

-- Alan Cohen

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When people talk listen completely Most people never listen

-- Ernest Hemingway

Heaven is gained or lost not by dramatic deeds but by the simple of acts of daily living

-- Alan Cohen

There is only one voice worth listening to

--Alan Cohen Reverie is not a mind vacuum It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul

--Gaston Bachelard

Why get rich quick when you can be rich now

-- Alan Cohen

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure

-- Joseph Campbell

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always view problems as opportunities in work clothes

-- Henry Kaiser

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character of

another

Winston Churchill 1874-1965 Former British Prime Minister

When you are clear what you want will show up in your life and only to the extent you are clear

Janet Attwood Author of The Passion Test

New peace harmony and power fill your relationships when you practice radical personal

responsibility Through it you enter a more refined sphere of relating that enhances your life and

accelerates the realization of your ultimate spiritual self Practicing radical personal responsibility

forever changes the way you approach and resolve conflict

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The Cure for the Common Upset (p 10)

Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and

discomfort We spend enormous energy denying our insecurity fighting pain death and loss and

hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature

- Jack Kornfield A Path with Heart

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Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well I am not aware of

any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking not exercise not drugs not surgery--that has

a greater impact on our quality of life incidence of illness and premature death

- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant they is a fuel in us which needs

to be ignited with sparks

Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Energy is the essence of life Every day you decide how youre going to use it by

knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal and by maintaining

focus

-Oprah Winfrey

The acquisition of wealth is no longer a driving force in the 24th century We

strive to better ourselves and the rest of humanity

-- From the movie Star Trek Insurrection

―You cannot exercise much power without gratitude for it is gratitude that keeps

you connected with Power

~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich

―To do things in a way you want to do them you will have to acquire the ability to

think the way you want to think this is the first step toward getting rich

~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich

―There are three crucial dimensions to your explanatory style permanence

pervasiveness and personalization

~ Martin Seligman from Learned Optimism

―Habits of thinking need not be forever One of the most significant findings in

psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they

think

~ Martin Seligman from Learned Optimism

―Action always beats inaction ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

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―Itlsquos not enough to be in the right place at the right time You have to be the right person in the

right place at the right time ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―Every thought vibrates every thought radiates a signal and every thought

attracts a matching signal back We call that process the Law of Attraction The

Law of Attraction says That which is like unto itself is drawn And so you might

see the powerful Law of Attraction as a sort of Universal Manager that sees to it

that all thoughts that match one another line up

~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given

―It is our desire that you become one who is happy with that which you are and

with that which you havemdashwhile at the same time being eager for more That is the

optimal creative vantage point To stand on the brink of what is coming feeling

eager optimistic anticipationmdashwith no feelings of impatience doubt or

unworthiness hindering the receiving of itmdashthat is the Science of Deliberate

Creation at its best

~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given

―As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around you come to see that every

perceived problem appearing ―out there is really nothing more than a

misperception within your own thinking

~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is

―The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is

When the mind is perfectly clear what is is what we want

~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself You must be

able to sustain yourself against staggering blows There is no code of conduct to

help beginners That is why some people with mediocre talent but with great inner

drive go much further than people with vastly superior talent

Sophia Loren Actress

And in the end its not the years in your life that count Its the life in your

years

-- Abraham Lincoln

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Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by

holding grudges harboring resentments and nursing unhealed wounds It is

rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to

understand and accept other people and ourselves

~ Sidney and Suzanne Simon

Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action for all eternity

Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801 Poet and Physiognomist People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do

things When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success

Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993 Speaker and Author Every achiever that I have ever met says My life turned around when I began to

believe in me

Dr Robert H Schuller Minister and Author

With love in you your only need is to extend it

-- A Course in Miracles

Just because it ended doesnt mean it failed

-- Alan Cohen

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find

it

-- George Moore

Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality

-- Alan Cohen

Our biggest problems cannot be resolved They must be outgrown

-- Carl Jung

True prayer penetrates beyond hope and establishes itself in knowing

-- Alan Cohen

So we see to play successfully the game of life we must train the imaging faculty

A person with an imaging faculty trained to image only good brings into his life

every righteous desire of his heart - health wealth love friends perfect self-

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expression his highest ideals

mdash Florence Scovel Shinn

Dont ask what the world needs ask what makes you come alive and go do it

Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

mdashHoward Thurman

To the degree were not living our dreams our comfort zone has more control of

us than we have over ourselves

-- Peter McWilliams

Never let your memories be greater than your dreams

-- Doug Ivester (President of Coca Cola)

It is not length of life but depth of life

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches with them but

to reveal their own

-- Author Unknown

A free lunch is only found in mousetraps

-- John Capuzzi

If you have the will to win you have achieved half your success if you dont you

have achieved half your failure

-- David Ambrose

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesnt lie in not reaching your

goal The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach It isnt a calamity to die with

dreams unfulfilled but it is a calamity not to dream It is not a disaster to be

unable to capture your ideal but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture It is

not a disgrace not to reach the stars but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach

for Not failure but low aim is a sin

~ Benjamin E Mayes

True success is a state of mindThis mindset is the heart and soul of successful

entrepreneurial enterprise You cant get started without it and you cant make a

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business wildly profitable if you dont get it

~ Unknown

Traditional education will make you a living self-education will make you a

fortune

~ Jim Rohn One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests

~ John Stuart Mill

Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different Rather than wasting

time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we dont have what we

want we can start to pursue other ways to get it

~ Greg Anderson

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it

~ Rudy Guilliani ―Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential And to

do that I insist you throw caution at the wind ignore the pleas of parents

coaches spouses and bosses to be realisticlsquo Realistic people do not accomplish

extraordinary things because the odds of success stymie them The best

performers ignore the odds I will show that instead of limiting themselves to

whatlsquos probable the best will pursue the heart-pounding exciting really big

difference-making dreamsmdashso long as catching them might be possible

~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement ―To be sure great performers are well trained experienced smart and in some

cases divinely talented But the way their brains work during a performance is a

lot more like a squirrellsquos than like Einsteinlsquos Like squirrels the best in every

business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilitiesmdashthey

flat out trust their skills which is why we call this high-performance state of mind

the ―Trusting Mindset Routine access to the Trusting Mindset is what separates

great performers from the rest of the pack

~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement ―In every forest on every farm in every orchard on earth itlsquos whatlsquos under the

ground that creates whatlsquos above the ground Thatlsquos why placing your attention on

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the fruits that you have already grown is futile You cannot change the fruits that

are already hanging on the tree You can however change tomorrowlsquos fruits But to

do so you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―Believe that you are the one who creates your success that you are the one who

creates your mediocrity and that you are the one creating your struggle around

money and success

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―8020 thinking requires and with practice enables us to spot the few really important things

that are happening and ignore the mass of unimportant things It teaches us to see the wood

for the trees ~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle

―The few things that work fantastically well should be identified cultivated nurtured and

multiplied

~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle

―We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection Itlsquos about a process a journey The

master is the one who stays on the path day after day year after year The master is the one

who is willing to try and fail and try again for as long as he or she lives ~ George Leonard from Mastery

―Whenever you feel shortlsquo or in needlsquo of something give what you want first and it will come

back in buckets That is true for money a smile love friendship I know it is often the last

thing a person may want to do but it has always worked for me I just trust that the principle

of reciprocity is true and I give what I want ~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad

―One dad would sayThe love of money is the root of all evillsquo The other The lack of money is

the root of all evillsquo ~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall every step we

take just gets us to the wrong place faster

Stephen Covey

Becoming a star may not be in your destiny but being the best

that you can be is a goal you can set for yourselves

Bryan Lindsay

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Be yourself Who else is better qualified

Frank J Giblin II

Do not learn from your mistakes learn from the mistakes of others

to that you do not make any

Sean Karsten

Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower

Shigenori Kameoka

Every achiever that I have ever met says My life turned around when I began to believe in me

Dr Robert H Schuller Minister and Author

Upsets always contain the gift of learning except most people have never learned how to unwrap

the package

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is

causing anxiety

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970 British philosopher mathematician essayist) Great souls have wills feeble ones have only wishes

Chinese Proverb

We must not promise what we ought not lest we be called on to perform what we cannot

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))

Dont measure yourself by what you have accomplished but by what you should have accomplished

with your ability

John Wooden (1910- American basketball coach)

Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty

John Ruskin (1819-1900 British critic social theorist)

Something good is already happening Can you discover it

-- Alan Cohen

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if theyve got a second Give your

dreams all youve got and youll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you

William James 1842-1910 Philosopher and Author

Out of suffering comes creativity You cannot spell painting without pain

-- John Lithgow in Third Rock From the Sun

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The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings the past and the

future are not as real but rather more real than the present

- Alan Watts

Boldness has genius power and magic in it Begin it now

~ Goethe

―In the heart of Emptiness there is a mysterious impulse mysterious because

there is actually nothing in the heart of Emptiness (for there is nothing in

Emptiness period) Yet there it is this mysterious impulse the impulse to hellip

create To sing to shine to radiate to send forth reach out and celebrate to

sing and shout and walk about to effervesce and bubble over this mysterious

exuberance in the heart of Emptiness

~ Ken Wilber from One Taste July 31

―Evolution goes beyond what went before but because it must embrace what went

before then its very nature is to transcend and include and thus it has an inherent

directionality a secret impulse toward increasing depth increasing intrinsic value

increasing consciousness In order for evolution to move at all it must move in

those directionsmdashtherelsquos no place else for it to go

~ Ken Wilber from A Brief History of Everything

The secret of being boring is to say everything

- Voltaire 1694-1778 French Writer and Philosopher

―Donlsquot let what you canlsquot do stop you from what you can do

- John Wooden

―You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the

shore

- Christopher Columbus

―Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall

- Confucius

―A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed

- Henrik Ibsen

―It is our choices that show what we truly are far more than our abilities

- JK Rowling

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―If you are going through hell keep going

- Winston Churchill

―Yesterday is history Tomorrow is a mystery Today Today is a gift Thatlsquos why

we call it the present

- B Olatunji

―To live is the rarest thing in the world Most people exist thatlsquos all

- Oscar Wilde

―You donlsquot get to choose how you are going to die Or when You can only decide how

you are going to live Now

- Joan Baez

―When one door of happiness closes another opens But often we look so long at

the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us

- Helen Keller

―Imagination is more important than knowledge Knowledge is limited Imagination

encircles the world

- Albert Einstein

―If you want to be happy be

- Leo Tolstoy

―Always do right This will gratify some people and astonish the rest

- Mark Twain

―We must be the change we want to see

- Gandhi

―The friend in my adversity I shall always treasure most I can better trust those

who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to

enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity

- Ulysses S Grant

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―Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting

- Elizabeth Bibesco

―The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort but

where he stands at times of conflict and controversy

- Martin Luther King Jr

―Begin doing what you want to do now We are not living in eternity We have only

this moment sparkling like a star in our hand ndash and melting like a snow flake

- MB Ray

―I shall pass through this life but once Any good therefore that I can do let me

do it now Let me not defer or neglect it For I shall never pass this way again

- Etienne de Grellet

―This above all To your own self be true

- William Shakespeare

―To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make

you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight

and never stop fighting

- EE Cummings

―In three words I can sum up what Ilsquove learned about life It goes on

- Robert Frost

―Imagine

- John Lennon

You can if you think you can

George Reeves

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile

achievement

Henry Ford 1863-1947 Industrialist

No man is capable of self-improvement if he sees no other model but himself

-- Conrado I Generoso

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When I am delivering my very best then that is when I feel successful

~ Art Fettig

The only limitations you will ever have are the ones you put on yourself

~ Kristinna Habashy

The secret of manwomans being is not only

to live but to have something to live for

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

To hell with circumstances I create opportunities

~ Bruce Lee

Simplicity is making the journey of this life

with just baggage enough

~ Charles Dudley Warner

I dont think theres any such thing as setting your goals too high The higher you

set your goals the more you are going to work If you dont reach them then its

okay just as long as you set it and then give 100 of yourself

~ Dan Jansen Speed Skater

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts the circle of Creation

is completed inside us the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal

everything in sight

~ Michael Bridge

Youlsquore darn tootinlsquo Ilsquom going to bring out the best in you You are the best

― Maureen Coleman middle school teacher

Truth is rarely writ in ink It lives in nature

-- Martin H Fischer

Before planning where you want to go decide who you want to be

-- Alan Cohen

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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day wisdom consists in not

exceeding the limit

-- Elbert Hubbard

Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere

-- Alan Cohen

When the Japanese mend broken objects they fill the cracks with gold They

believe that when somethings suffered damage and has a history it becomes more

beautiful

-- Barbara Bloom

Efficiency without love is not really efficient

-- Alan Cohen

The purpose of time is to enable you to learn how to use time constructively

-- A Course in Miracles

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than

any other one thing

Laura Ingalls Wilder 1867-1957 Author

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as

few as there are any other great artists It might even be the greatest of the arts

since the medium is the human mind and spirit

John Steinbeck 1902-1968 Writer and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

Be careful what you spend your day touching because it will shape your mind your

body and your heart

Sam Keen Speaker and Author

I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in

the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life he has imagined he will

meet with success unexpected in common hours

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 Writer and Poet

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out

― Michael Burke

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Turn frustration into fascination

-- Dr Richard Bartlett

Money is not the source of life It is an expression or by-product of doing what

brings you life

-- Alan Cohen

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but

sand the angels come to visit us and we only know them when they are gone

- George Elliot

Proceed when clear

-- Alan Cohen

Slow down and enjoy life Its not only the scenery you miss by going too fast --

you also miss the sense of where you are going and why

Eddie Cantor

Life is here to enjoy The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness When it

appears otherwise you are off the path of destiny Look at your life and ask

What do I need to change to choose in favor of my passions

Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life Be happy now Dont wait for something

outside of yourself to make you happy in the future Think how really precious is

the time you have to spend whether its at work or with your family Every minute

should be enjoyed and savored

Earl Nightingale

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life It turns what we have into enough and

more It turns denial into acceptance chaos into order confusion into clarity It

turns problems into gifts failures into success the unexpected into perfect

timing and mistakes into important events Gratitude makes sense of our past

brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow

Melodie Beattie Writer

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Devotion is commitment at a deep cellular level When you are devoted the

universe will align itself to give you what you desire

Rich German Author of Monetize Your Passion

Action breeds confidence and courage If you want to conquer fear do not sit

home and think about it Go out and get busy

~ Dale Carnegie

The mind turned inwards is the Self turned outwards it becomes the ego and all

the world

~Ramana Maharshi

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be

~Daniel J Boorstin

The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively

from his own resources

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire

not things we fear

~ Brian Tracy

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game and no matter how

great your talent there is only one way to obtain it-work

~ Jack Nicklaus Golfer

A goal without a plan is merely a WISH without a HOPE

~ Unknown

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan in which we must

fervently believe and upon which we must vigorously act There is no other route

to success

~ Stephen A Brennan

Knowledge breeds doubt Wisdom births wonder

Alan Cohen

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When you decide what you want it has to manifestbut only at the level of your

belief

Rich German Author of Monetize Your Passion

Friendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity

- John Dryden

It may make people feel more secure when everyone agrees with them but it

wont create a world made rich by the unique and diverse expressions of the human

soul

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart

Choice is destinys soul mate

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Truth is a gem of many facets Each facet reflects the brilliance within and

without But the whole reveals a deeper more profound message than all the parts

by themselves

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart

He who knows others is wise he who knows himself is enlightened

- Tao Te Ching

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers but for powers equal to

our tasks

-- Helen Keller

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret

-- Ambrose Bierce

We must all suffer one of two things the pain of discipline or the pain of regret

or disappointment

-- Jim Rohn

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Many risks fail because they were not taken in time Too many risks are postponed

until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made This does not mean that one

should say Damn the torpedoes full speed ahead That is foolish and self-

destructive But dont sit back waiting for the perfect moment It almost never

comes

-- David Viscott Risking

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter

-- E E Cummings

Reflect upon your blessings of which every man has plenty not on your past

misfortunes of which all men have some

-- Charles Dickens

What the caterpillar calls the end the rest of the world calls a butterfly

-- Lao Tsu

Out of difficulties grow miracles

-- Jean De La Bruyere

Our patience will achieve more than our force

-- Edmund Burke

You must pay in the past to receive in the future

-- Taylor Simpson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what

lies within us

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why Why Not Why Not You Why Not Now

-- Aslan

To become a leader then you must become yourself become the maker of your

own life

--Warren G Bennis

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You have got to discover you what you do and trust it

Barbra Streisand

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts the

circle of Creation is completed inside us the doors of our souls

fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight

Michael Bridge

Each of us feels that we are just a drop in the ocean but the

ocean would be less without that missing drop

Mother Teresa

You dont just stumble into the future You create your own future

Roger Smith

Just dont give up on trying to do what you really want to do

Where there is love and inspiration I dont think you can go

wrong

Ella Fitzgerald

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot

do

Walter Bagehot

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser

John W Gardner

Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life

forever

Keri Russell

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while

so that we can see Life with a clearer view again

Alex Tan

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There never was a great soul that did not have some divine

inspiration

Marcus T Cicero

Youve got to follow your passion Youve got to figure out what

it is you love--who you really are And have the courage to do

that

Oprah Winfrey

Everything that occurs is an opportunity to experience Love

mdashRich German

Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small

things brought together

- Vincent Van Gogh

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark The real tragedy is when

men are afraid of the light

-- Plato

If I had to select one quality one personal characteristic that I regard as being

most highly correlated with success whatever the field I would pick the trait of

persistence

Richard DeVos Co-Founder of Amway

Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination allows vision and gives us the right

stuff to turn our dreams into reality

~James Womack

No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn

-- Hal Borland

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives We must take charge

of our own destinies design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams

- Les Brown

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on

We act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because

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of imagination

- Maxwell Maltz

There is a sleeping giant in you Release it Believe in yourself

~ Bob Proctor

Wealth depends chiefly on two words industry and frugality that is waste

neither time nor money but make the best use of both

-- Benjamin Franklin

When you talk to God thats prayer When God talks back its schizophrenia

-- Lily Tomlin

Work is not a substitute for love It is an avenue of loves expression

-- Alan Cohen

Look beyond peoplelsquos appearances

Look beyond the roles one plays and the mask they wear

Look deep into their eyes and peer into their soul

There you will find their true essence

There you will find your true essence

And that essence is love

mdashRich German

Everything that occurs is an opportunity to experience Love

mdashRich German

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a

life spent doing nothing

George Bernard Shaw

Formula for success under promise and over deliver

Tom Peters

Efficiency is doing things right effectiveness is doing the right things

Peter F Drucker

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Be the change that you want to see in the world

Mahatma Gandhi

Creating space is as important as filling it

-- Alan Cohen

Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Words may guide you to the door of heaven but only silence opens it

-- Alan Cohen

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more

useful than a life spent doing nothing

Bernard Shaw

Formula for success under promise and over deliver

Tom Peters

Efficiency is doing things right effectiveness is doing the right

things

Peter F Drucker

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives We must take charge

of our own destinies design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams

- Les Brown

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works onWe

act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because of

imagination

- Maxwell Maltz

No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn

-- Hal Borland

There is a sleeping giant in you

Release it Believe in yourself

~ Bob Proctor

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Wealth depends chiefly on two words industry and frugality that is waste

neither time nor money but make the best use of both

-- Benjamin Franklin

Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination allows vision and gives us the right

stuff to turn our dreams into reality

~James Womack

If I had to select one quality one personal characteristic that I regard as being

most highly correlated with success whatever the field I would pick the trait of

persistence

Richard DeVos Co-Founder of Amway

The best way to teach people is by telling a story

Jonathan Swift

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking

what nobody else has thought

Kenneth Blanchard

All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it

-Samuel Butler

Happiness is like a cat If you try to coax it or call it it will avoid you It will never

come

But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business youll find it rubbing

up against your legs and jumping into your lap

- William Bennett

The word impossible is only in the mind and not in the heart

- Sri Chinmoy

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another it is the only

means

Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Physicist

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Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone

And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone

Paul Tillich

Sometimes the cards we are dealt are not always fair However you must keep

smiling amp moving on

~ Tom Jackson

Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you

- Elbert Hubard

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends

with anyone else in the world

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Thus nature has no love for solitude and always leans as it were on some support

and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship

- Cicero

So it is life is actually made up of our choices We are the sum total of them and

if we hold to an attitude of love and thanksgiving for all the good things within our

grasp we may have what all ambitious people long for - success

Delma Neeley

Believe and your belief will create the fact

~ William James

The principle is competing against yourself

Its about self improvement about being better than you were the day before

~ Steve Young

All of us you your children your neighbors and their children are

everyday geniuses even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by

everyone Thats probably because school hasnt encouraged us to notice whats

hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself

~ Peter Kline

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If youll not settle for anything less than your best you will be amazed at what

you can accomplish in your lives

Vince Lombardi

Ya gotta put your behind in your past

Then youre ready for whatever comes next

~ Pumba The Lion King

Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become

~ James Allen

Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well what

causes sadness and what brings happiness what makes us suffer and what leads to

healing

~ Dean Ornish MD

Three components make an entrepreneur the person the ideaand the resources

to make it happen

~ Anita Roddick

What we can or cannot do what we consider possible or impossible is rarely a

function of our true capability It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who

we are

~ Anthony Robbins

Either Do or Do Not There is No Try

~ George Lucas

Theres a name for the magic that transforms lives connects dots moves

mountains and orchestrates coincidences that shock and astound Imagination

And theres a name for all that stops you in your tracks stirs fear spins wheels

and leaves one wondering Hey whats up with that Imagination

Careful where you point that thing

~ The Universe

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with

them

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faith is a passionate intuition

-William Wordsworth

Friendship is a sheltering tree

--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision Vision is the perfume

of the mind

--Harriet Rubin

Striving for excellence motivates you striving for perfection is demoralizing

--Harriet Braiker

I can feel guilty about the past apprehensive about the future but only in the

present can I act The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of

mental wellness

-Abraham Maslow 1908-1970 Psychologist

In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge

-Aristotle

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our

potential

Sir Winston Churchill 1874-1965 Former British Prime Minister

The minute you settle for less than you deserve you get even less than you

settled for

Maureen Dowd Newspaper Columnist

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything

outside ourselves will affect us

Stephen R Covey Author and Speaker

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Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually

attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life

Christiane Northrup Medical Doctor and Author

We must learn to keep ourselves awake by an infinite expectation of the

dawn

-- Henry David Thoreau

You dont need to struggle to get your body to do or be what your spirit already is

-- Alan Cohen

One must steer not talk

-- Seneca

The more you quantify the less you qualify

-- Alan Cohen

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know Most are

born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly

-- Buckminster Fuller

Any act motivated by guilt does not assuage guilt but perpetuates it

-- Alan Cohen

Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for

themselves

-- Peter McArthur

Be so good they cant ignore you

Steve Martin

Its kind of fun to do the impossible

Walt Disney

Its easy to make a buck Its a lot tougher to make a difference

Tom Brokaw

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When I hear somebody sigh Life is hard I am always tempted to

ask Compared to what

Sydney J Harris

In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing The worst

thing you can do is nothing

Sam Walton

I had to pick myself up and get on with it do it all over again only even better

this time

Theodore Roosevelt

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process

~ Jim Rohn

If you can imagine it you can achieve it If you can dream it you can become it

~ William Arthur Ward

There is much in the world to make us afraid There is much more in our faith to

make us unafraid

-- Cropp

Pray for essence rather than form and the form will be a perfect expression of

the essence

-- Alan Cohen

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change

Charles R Swindoll Author and Pastor

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with

- Jim Rohn

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your

dreams

- Les Brown

Life is 10 of what happens to me and 90 of how I react to it

John Maxwell

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What you see depends on what youre looking for

Anon

Mind over matter If you dont mind it doesnt matter

-- Alan Cohen

When you are clear on want to how to shows up

-- Michael Neill

Quit struggling to make your body do or be what your spirit already is

-- Alan Cohen

Truth is the offspring of silence and unbroken meditation

-- Isaac Newton

Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal Whatever you invest it

in will yield more of the same

-- Alan Cohen

When you find yourself stressed ask yourself one question Will this matter five

years from now If yes then do something about the situation If no then let it

go

Catherine Pulsifer Writer

Theres plenty of intelligence in the world but the courage to do things

differently is in short supply

Marilyn vos Savant Columnist Author and Lecturer

Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced

by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas

a strong faith is strengthened by them

Viktor E Frankl 1905-1997 Holocaust Survivor and Author of Mans Search for

Meaning

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength

Richard L Evans

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You were not born a winner and you were not born a loser You are

what you make yourself be

Lou Holtz

Remember if you ever need a helping hand youll find one at the

end of your arm As you grow older you will discover that you

have two hands One for helping yourself the other for helping

others

Audrey Hepburn

Dont take life too seriously because youll never get out alive

Josh Shippe

Without hard work nothing grows but weeds

Gordon B Hinckley

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies

--Mother Teresa

Do what you can to show you care about other people and you will make our world

a better place

--Rosalynn Carter

Again and again the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is

only a tough decision waiting to be made

--Robert H Schuller

If in our daily life we can smile if we can be peaceful and happy not only we but

everyone will profit from it This is the most basic kind of peace work

--Thich Nhat Hanh

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties

disappear and obstacles vanish into air

- John Quincy Adams

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win

~ GK Chesterton

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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown for going

out I found was really going in

mdashJohn Muir 1913

To me itlsquos really so simple that life should be lived on the edge You

have to exercise rebellion To refuse to tape yourself to the rules

to refuse your own success to refuse to repeat yourself to see

every day every year every idea as a true challenge Then you will

live your life on the tightrope

mdashPhilippe Petit (star of the movie Man on Wire)

The first step to creating the lifestyle of your dreams is to simplify

your life

mdashRich German

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist sees

problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems

Winston Churchill

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you

have and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more

~ Robert Collier

Instead of waiting for someone to take you under their wing go out there and

find a good wing to climb under

~ Dave Thomas

If you would convince others seem open to conviction yourself

~ Lord Chesterfield

The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable

competitive advantage

~ Arie de Geus

Human life is purely a matter of deciding whats important to you

-- Source unknown

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Determination and perseverance move the world thinking that others will do it

for you is a sure way to fail

Marva Collins Educator

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them

~ Walt Disney

Everything that happens to you is self-created Whenever youre responding to

any situation whether its a sip of coffee or a traffic jam or a love note or

criticism from a boss or rainy weather youre in fact responding to a signal that

you generated within yourself

- Deepak Chopra

Relationships are not about intellect they are about feeling They require an

intelligence of the heart

- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is

when adults are afraid of the light

- Plato

A good listener is someone who is curious open-minded and nonjudgmental A

good listener is not a know-it-all A good listener knows that truth often reveals

itself bit by bit much like putting together a jigsaw puzzle

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart

Its the night that makes the dawning

Its the depths that make the heights

Its the roots that make the branches

Its the darkness that gives birth to Light

- Joel Heathcote

How you hear what someone says is determined by your interpretations and your

interpretations flow from your past This is very important to know especially if

you find that you overreact to what others say or habitually get your feelings hurt

Remember what someone said is not necessarily what you heard and what you

heard is not necessarily what they meant

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart

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―Everything ndash a horse a vine ndash is created for some dutyhellipFor what task then

were you yourself created A manlsquos true delight is to do the things he was made

for

~ Marcus Aurelius from Meditations

―Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts for the soul becomes dyed with the

color of its thoughts Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as for example

Where life is possible at all a right life is possible

~ Marcus Aurelius from Meditations

―hellipEverything can be taken from a man but one thing the last of the human

freedomsmdashto choose onelsquos attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose

onelsquos own way

~ Viktor Frankl from Manlsquos Search for Meaning

―It did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life

expected from us We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life and

instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by lifemdashdaily

and hourly Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation but in right

action and in right conduct Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to

find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly

sets for each individual

~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Manlsquos Search for Meaning

―Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in lifehellip Therein he cannot be

replaced nor can his life be repeated Thus everyonelsquos task is as unique as is

his specific opportunity to implement it

~ Viktor Frankl from Manlsquos Search for Meaning

―Ultimately man should not ask what the meaning of his life is but rather must

recognize that it is he who is asked In a word each man is questioned by life

and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life to life he can only

respond by being responsible

~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Manlsquos Search for Meaning

―History though shows us that the people who end up changing the world- the

great political social scientific technological artistic even sports

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revolutionaries- are always nuts until theylsquore right and then theylsquore geniuses

~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement

―Great performers are by definition abnormal

~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement

―We all aspire to mastery but the path is always long and sometimes rocky and

it promises no quick pay off So we look for other paths each of which attracts

a different person

~ George Leonard from Mastery

―We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection Itlsquos about a process a

journey The master is the one who stays on the path day after day year after

year The master is the one who is willing to try and fail and try again for as

long as he or she lives

~ George Leonard from Mastery

At the heart of it mastery is practice Mastery is staying on the path

~ George Leonard from Mastery

―Comfort kills If your goal in life is to be comfortable I guarantee two things

First you will never be rich Second you will never be happy Happiness doesnlsquot

come from living a lukewarm life always wondering what could have been

Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up

to our fullest potential

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

―You can be a victim or you can be rich but you canlsquot be both Listen up Every

time and I mean every time you blame justify or complain you are slitting

your financial throat

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―Herelsquos an equation I want you to remember for the rest of your life CZ = WZ

It means your ―comfort zone equals your ―wealth zone By expanding your

comfort zone you will expand the size of your income and wealth zone

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

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―We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we

wait forever before taking action

~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big

―Donlsquot put off until tomorrow what you can do today

~ Benjamin Franklin

―Think Big and youlsquoll live big Youlsquoll live big in happiness Youlsquoll live big in

accomplishment Big in income Big in friends Big in respecthellip Start now right

now to discover how to make your thinking make magic for you Start out with

this thought of the great philosopher Disraeli Life is too short to be littlelsquo

~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big

―In the yogic tradition this principle of using intense effort to burn through

lifelsquos distractions is called Tapas Itlsquos another Sanskrit word roughly defined

as ―heat or ―essential energy The concept is that through a disciplined

approach to work and self-sacrifice Tapas will burn away the negativity that

separates us from God By working our hardest and happily enduring the

hardships of life we are able to create a sense of peace and clarity in

ourselves

~ Russell Simmons from Do You

―The person who understands Dharma will have the opposite reaction to a ―hard

job That person will be eager to get started no matter what kind of work is in

front of her because she understands that shelsquos doing Godlsquos work And when

youlsquore working for God nothing is too hard

~ Russell Simmons from Do You

―It all comes down to this if your subconscious financial blueprintlsquo is not setlsquo

for success nothing you learn nothing you know and nothing you do will make

much of a difference

~ Russell Simmons from Do You

―The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work

~ Vince Lombardi

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The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than

your best

~ Russell Simmons from Do You

―The poor and the middle class work for money The rich have money work for

them

~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad

―We all have tremendous potential and we all are blessed with gifts Yet the

one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt It is not so

much the lack of technical information that holds us back but more the lack of

self-confidence

~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad

―Who will you have to become to achieve all you want

~ Tony Robbins

―You could say that I worked every minute of my life or you could say with

equal justice that I never worked a day I have always subscribed to the

expression ―Thank God itlsquos Friday because to me Friday means I can work for

the next two days without interruption

~ John Hope Franklin

―I do not believe that you should devote overly much effort to correcting your

weaknesses Rather I believe that the highest success in living and the deepest

emotional satisfaction comes from building and using your signature strengths

~ Martin Seligman from Authentic Happiness

When you begin to recognize that your own presence here in this world is part of

something infinitely bigger than yourself you feel a sense of obligation awakening

within youmdasha spiritually inspired soul-level moral imperative to evolve for the sake

of the future of the evolutionary process itself The way you respond to that

obligation and to that sense of cosmic responsibility is by demonstrating that the

process is profoundly positivemdashindeed the process is sacredmdashthrough your own

example through your own victory through your own tangible and unmistakable

higher development

~ Andrew Cohen

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Its the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief And once that belief

becomes a deep conviction things begin to happen

Claude M Bristol 1891-1951 Author of The Magic of Believing

We cant fear the past Fear is a future thing And since the futures all in our

heads fear must be a head thing

Tom Payne Career Development Expert

I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please

everybody

Bill Cosby Actor and Comedian

If we are ever to enjoy life now is the time not tomorrow or next year Today

should always be our most wonderful day

- Thomas Dreier Author

Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their

personnel If people believe in themselves its amazing

what they can accomplish

--Sam Walton

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the

aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker

--Helen Keller

Close scrutiny will show that most crisis situations are opportunities to either

advance or stay where you are

- Maxwell Maltz

Be curious not judgmental

-Walt Whitman

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it

-William James

All life is an experiment

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone

acknowledges who we are and what we can be igniting the circuits

of our highest potential

Rusty Berkus

Being considerate of others will take your children further in

life than any college degree

Marian Wright Edelman

It is common sense to take a method and try it If it fails admit

it frankly and try another But above all try something

Franklin D Roosevelt

see without looking hear without listening breathe

without asking

W H Auden

Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways

you can as long as ever you can

John Wesley

Its better to reach for the stars and land on the roof than to

reach for the roof and land in the garbage

Savanna Skinner

Love looks through a telescope envy through a microscope

~ Josh Billings

Whats going on in the inside shows on the outside

~ Earl Nightingale

Consideration for others is the basis of a good life a good society

~ Confucius

Time is limited so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have

just one chance to live this particular day right and to string my days together

into a life of action and purpose

~ Lance Armstrong

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An ounce of action is worth a ton of good intentions

~ Michael Josephson

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others

-- Cicero

Simplicity Purity Clarity

-- Alan Cohen

Faith mighty faith the promise sees And looks to God alone Laughs at

impossibilities And cries it shall be done

-- Charles Wesley

What is genius but the mind heart and art of God shining to the world through an

open window

-- Alan Cohen

Intuition tells you what not why

-- Source unknown

Changing the world is a natural result of inner peace not a substitute for it

-- Alan Cohen

Fortune sides with him who dares

~ Virgil

We cant fear the past Fear is a future thing And since the futures all in

our heads fear must be a head thing

Tom Payne Career Development Expert

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you

mdashLewis Smedes Each of us has the power to make others more beautiful by our love

- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst a transformer

in any situation any organization Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an

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entire loaf It requires vision initiative patience respect persistence courage

and faith to be a transforming leader

Stephen Covey

Courage is grace under pressure

~ Ernest Hemingway

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions All life is an experiment

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

As long as Youre going o be thinking anyway Think BIG

~ Donald Trump

To win youve got to stay in the game

~ Claude M Bristol

The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head

-- Source unknown

Affirm your value by going where you are valued

-- Alan Cohen

Life is too short to hold a grudge also too long

-- Robert Brault

You cannot borrow greatness from another You can only claim it from within

yourself

-- Alan Cohen

One today is worth two tomorrows never leave that till tomorrow which you can

do today

Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 US Statesman Diplomat and Inventor

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs

the problem The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized

a problem and turned it into an opportunity

Joseph Sugarman Marketing Expert

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You wouldnt worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how

seldom they do

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 American First Lady Author Speaker and Politician

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions

- John Randolph

Opportunities They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere

waiting for the observant eye to discover it

- Orison Swett Marden

Yesterday ended last night Every day is a new beginning Learn the skill of

forgetting And move on

--Norman Vincent Peale

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual it is

best for the race because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every

department

ndash Andrew Carnegie entrepreneur

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society The optimist invents the

airplane and the pessimist the parachute

Gil Stern

Strive for integrity - that means knowing your values in life and behaving in a way

that is consistent with these values

Unknown

The country clubs the cars the boats your assets may be ample But the best

inheritance you can leave your kids Is to be a good example

Barry Spilchuk

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the

goal

Henry Ford

It is never too late to be what you might have been

George Eliott

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The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence the second listening the

third memory the fourth practice the fifth teaching others

Solomon Ibn Gabriol

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers You can tell whether a man is

wise by his questions

Naguib Mahfouz

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others

~ Erich Fromm

Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble

and grateful mind

~ Epictetus

Happiness is activity

~ Aristotle

Every action we take everything we do is either a victory or defeat in the

struggle to become what we want to be

~ Anne Byrhhe

In the absence of clearly defined goals we become strangely loyal to performing

daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it

Robert Heinlein Novelist

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the

consequences of any misfortune

William James 1842-1910 Psychologist and Author

To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle

-- Walt Whitman

God doesnt owe and neither do you

-- Alan Cohen

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Do what makes you smile

-- Dr Richard Bartlett

People who warn that everyone but members of their religion will go to hell dont

realize they are already there

-- Alan Cohen

The emotional frontier is truly the next frontier to conquer in human

understanding The opportunity we face now even before that frontier is fully

explored and settled is to develop our emotional potential and accelerate rather

dramatically into a new state of being

- Doc Childre and Howard Martin The HeartMath Solution

Real transformation requires that you have a beginners mind that you are willing

to say Whatever I think I know may be wrong

Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships

Heroes take journeys confront dragons and discover the treasure of their true

selves

- Carrol Pearson The Hero Within

If a man would move the world he

must first move himself

--Socrates

All sucessful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists They

believed that things went not by luck but by law

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

I skate to where the puck is going to be not where it is

-Wayne Gretzky

When given the choice between being right or being kind always choose kind

--Dr Wayne Dyer Never forget the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for

others

Sir John Templeton 1912-2008 Mutual Fund Pioneer and Philanthropist

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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome

Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Essayist Biographer and Poet

Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on

-- Alan Cohen

Shallow men believe in luck Strong men believe in cause and effect

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Contraction is a sign that birth is imminent

-- Alan Cohen

Work is an extension of personality It is achievement It is one of the ways in

which a person defines himself measures his worth ndash and his humanity

ndash Peter Drucker author

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends

-- John Ruskin

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities

--Janos Arnay

The first time you accept good is the last time you will see excellence

John Ulmo Life is like an onion

You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep

~ Carl Sandburg

Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light

~ L P Jacks Just as iron rusts from disuse even so does inaction spoil the intellect

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

As I grow older I pay less attention to what men sayI JUST watch what they

do

~ Andrew Carnegie

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All Things are Difficult before they are Easy

~ John Norley

Everything has been figured out except how to live

~ Jean Paul Sartre

Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving

Dennis Waitley

Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out

Robert Collier

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal

nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude

Thomas Jefferson

They can because they think they can

Virgil

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself

Menander

Years teach us more than books

Berthold Auerbach

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

When you delightfully fantasize about something you want you set into motion a

wave of energy that calls that situation into reality

-- Alan Cohen

Hurt people hurt people

-- Source unknown

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Doing the right thing may be different than what you have been taught the right

thing is

-- Alan Cohen

The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes

it happen

-- Frank Lloyd Wright All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say no and said yes

Moss Hart 1904-1961 Playwright and Theatre Director

We are built to conquer environment solve problems achieve goals and we find no

real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to

achieve

Maxwell Maltz 1899-1975 Author of Psycho-Cybernetics

You can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because thorns

have roses

-- Ziggy

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug

~ Patricia Neal

My night has become a sunny dawn because of you

--Ibn Abbad

All mankind is divided into three classes those that are immovable those that are

movable and those that move

--Benjamin Franklin

Dont compete Create Find out what everyone else is doing and then dont do it

mdashJoel Weldon

Show a little faith therelsquos magic in the night

mdashfrom ―Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen

Music is to me proof of the existence of God

It is so extraordinarily full of magic and in tough times

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of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference

mdashKurt Vonnegut

Discontent is the source of all trouble but also of all progress

in individuals and nations

Berthold Auerbach

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself

Thomas Sprat

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves

to copy

Oliver Goldsmith

If at first you dont succeed try try again Then quit Theres

no use being a damn fool about it

WC Fields

Impatience never commanded success

Edwin H Chapin

In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are the safest

~ Livy

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights

~ Henry David Thoreau

The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense

insoluble They can never be solved but only outgrown

~ Carl Jung

Life Begins When you Do

Hugh Downs Vision Without Action is a Daydream

Action Without Vision is a Nightmare

~ Japanese Proverb

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Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one

can possibly want and hold

-- Judith Olney

The love affair you seek is with yourself

-- Alan Cohen

The greatest power requires the lightest touch

-- BasharDarryl Anka

You only live once -- but its forever

-- Alan Cohen

Get off the cross Somebody needs the wood

-- From the film Straight Talk

There are two ways to live your life One is as though nothing is a miracle The

other is as though everything is a miracle

~ Albert Einstein

In the long run men hit only what they aim at

~ Henry David Thoreau philosopher

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state

of being alive If life is to be sustained hope must remain even where confidence is

wounded trust impaired

~Erik H Erikson

Freedom know this that every manwoman is free To choose his life and what

hell be For this eternal truth is given God will force no man to heaven Hell call

persuade direct aright Bless with wisdom love and light In nameless ways be

good and kind But never force the human mind

~ William C Clegg

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the

circumstances they want and if they canlsquot find them make them

~ George Bernard Shaw

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Relationships are not things We dont have relationships we are in relationship

with one another

- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships

Relationships are our primary teacher They are the context in which we either

grow into the consciousness of God or deny ourselves and others the opportunity

to do so

- Marianne Williamson

Listen deeply The greatest failure in any relationship is the failure to

participate

- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships

Your future is created by what you do today not tomorrow

Robert Kiyosaki

No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a

reality

Napoleon Hill

If you are not planning today you are planning to fail tomorrow

Gopal

How you do anything is how you do everything

T Harv Eker

There is little difference in people but that little difference

makes a big difference The little difference is attitude The

big difference is whether it is positive or negative

W Clement Stone

The vision must be followed by the venture It is not enough to

stare up the steps - We must step up the stairs

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Vance Havner

Go for it nowThe future is promised to no one

Wayne Dyer

If you realize how powerful your thoughts are you would never

think a negative thought

Peace Pilgrim

Either you run the day or the day runs you

Jim Rohn

You must go after your wish As soon as you start to pursue a

dream your life wakes up and everything has meaning

Barbara Sher

To succeed you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe

and act on it with all of your heart

Christy Borgeld

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers

Anonymous

Let him that would move the world first move himself

Socrates

By the time a man realizes that maybe

his father was right he usually has a son

who thinks hes wrong

~ Charles Wadworth

Without Mistakes Perfection is an Illusion

~ Daniel Frankel

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Its not the hours you put in

but what you put into the hours

that counts

~ Jim Rohn

Be swift to hear slow to speak slow to wrath

~ James 119

Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory

~ Ingrid Bergman

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word

~ William Makepease Thackeray

Professionalism is knowing how

to do it when to do it and doing it

~ Frank Tyger

Intention is not something you do

but rather a force that exists in the universe

as an invisible field of energy

-a power that can carry us

~ Dr Wayne Dyer

I personally measure success in terms

of the contributions an individual makes

to her or his fellow human beings

~ Margaret Mead

Some of the worlds greatest feats

were accomplished by people not

smart enough to know they were

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impossible

~ Doug Larson

Life is a flower of which love is the honey

~ Victor Hugo

Personal integrity is important

not because it gets us what we want

but because it helps us be what we want

~ Michael Josephson

Goals need to be configured to stretch us

but not to break us

~ Kent Krive

Children are apt to live up

to what you believe of them

~ Lady Bird Johnson

Do your work with your whole heart

and you will succeed

- theres so little competition

~ Elbert Hubbard

Hi Karl

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible

objections must first be overcome

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--Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Author

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter

even the most victorious life The human

spirit is never finished when it is defeated

- it is finished when it surrenders

-- Ben Stein Professor and Writer

Love is the first ingredient in the relief

of suffering

-- Padre Pio

Happiness is a function of accepting what is

--Werner Erhard

There are no shortcuts to any place

worth going

- Beverly Sills

It has never been and never will be

easy work But the road that is built in

hope is more pleasant to the traveler

than the road built in despair even though

they both lead to the same destination

~Marion Zimmer Bradley

The reality of life is that your perceptions --

right or wrong -- influence everything else

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you do When you get a proper perspective

of your perceptions you may be surprised

how many other things fall into place

~ Roger Birkman

Everybody is unique Do not compare yourself

with anybody else lest you spoil Gods curriculum

-- Baal Shem Tov

Everybody is unique Do not compare yourself

with anybody else lest you spoil Gods curriculum

-- Baal Shem Tov

Trust yourself You know more than

you think you do

ndash Benjamin Spock doctor

When you play it too safe youre taking

the biggest risk of your life

Time is the only wealth were given

--Barbara Sher

Creativity is inventing experimenting

growing taking risks breaking rules

making mistakes and having fun

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--Mary Lou Cook

Life is playing a violin solo in public and

learning the instrument as one goes on

--Samuel Butler

Opportunities are usually disguised as

hard work so most people dont recognize

them

~ Ann Landers

It is literally true that you can succeed best

and quickest by helping others to succeed

- Napoleon Hill

God loves you and theres nothing you can do about it

-- Sign on church marquis

Give yourself what you would like to receive from others

-- Alan Cohen

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature

-- Emerson

The fewer your words the more compelling your statement

-- Alan Cohen

Pray devoutly hammer stoutly

-- English proverb

There are no blocks to creativity Only distractions

-- Alan Cohen

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If your rules are not working so well borrow someone elses

-- Dr Richard Bartlett

Inner peace is never more than one thought away

-- Alan Cohen

Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret

hiding God

-- Frederick William Robertson

Completion is an attitude not an event

-- Alan Cohen

Enjoy where you are and youll be where youre going

-- Bashar

Your spirit is wireless

-- Alan Cohen

All questions lead to divine knowing

-- Isaac Newton

You cannot import self-worth You can only recognize it

-- Alan Cohen

Enlightened conflict resolution can exist only in an atmosphere of equality

We may not be equal in intelligence or experience or status but we are equal

in our right to be treated with dignity and caring It is not assumed that one

person has more privilege than another that one person is entitled to more

respect or understanding than another nor that one persons feelings are

more important than anothers

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

To seek happiness outside of ourselves Is like trying to lasso a cloud

Happiness is not a thingIt is a state of mind

- Omar Khayyam

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The higher self gets curious The conditioned self gets defensive

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The higher self gets curious The conditioned self gets defensive

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us

well I am not aware of any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking

not exercise not drugs not surgery--that has a greater impact on our

quality of life incidence of illness and premature death

- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy No man was ever wise by chance

~ Seneca

By thought the thing you want is brought to youby action you receive it

~ Wallace D Wattles

Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony

~ Mohandas K Gandhi

Life isnt about finding yourselfLife is about creating yourself

George Bernard Shaw

Im trying to free your mind but I can only show you the doorYou are the one

that has to walk through it

~ Morpheus [ The Matrix ]

A friend is a second self

~ Aristotle

Be great in act as you have been in thought

~ William Shakespeare

Character is higher than intellectA great soul will be strong to liveas well as to

think

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I never think of the futureIt comes soon enough

~ Albert Einstein

Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fearnot absence of fear

~ Mark Twain

Age wrinkles the bodyQuitting wrinkles the soul

~ Douglas MacArthur

If real is what you can feel smell taste and see then real is simply electrical

signals interpreted by your brain

~ Morpheus [ The Matrix ]

Money was never a big motivator for me except for keeping the scoreThe real

excitement is playing the game

~ Donald Trump

Dreams are extremely important You cant do it unless you dream it first

~ George Lucas

If you believe you can you probably can If you believe you wont you most

assuredly wont Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad

~ Denis Waitley

Imagination is more important than knowledge Knowledge is limitedImagination

encircles the world

~ Albert Einstein

Everything is always impossible before it works Thats what entrepreneurs are all

aboutDoing things that people have told them is impossible

~ R Hunt Greene

The truth is lived not taught

~ Hermann Hesse

Be of good cheer Do not think of todays failures but of the success that may

come tomorrow You have set yourself a difficult task but you will succeed if you

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persevere and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles

Helen Keller 1880-1968 Blind and Deaf Educator

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something Its as simple

as that A lot of people have ideas but there are few who decide to do something

about them now Not tomorrow Not next week But today The true entrepreneur

is a doer

-Nolan Bushnell Founder of Atari

Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they

have deep inside them - a desire a dream a vision

Muhammad Ali Three-Time World Heavyweight Champion Boxer

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them

Walt Disney 1901-1966 Cartoon Artist and Filmmaker

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings turn routine jobs into

joy and change ordinary opportunities into blessings

William Arthur Ward

1921-1994 Writer

If you want to achieve excellence you can get there today As of this second quit

doing less than excellent work

Thomas Watson 1874-1956 Founder of IBM

Ive always believed that a lot of the troubles in the world would disappear if we

were talking to each other instead of about each other

Ronald Reagan

1911-2004 40th President of the United States

The most wonderful gift one human being can give to another is in some way to

make that persons life a little bit better to live

John Assaraf Author and Speaker

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm

Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any

occupation no matter how frightening or difficult a new meaning Without

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enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish

miracles

Og Mandino

Constant kindness can accomplish much As the sun makes ice melt kindness

causes misunderstanding mistrust and hostility to evaporate

Dr Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965 Medical Missionary and Nobel Prize Winner

Dwell not on the past Use it to illustrate a point then leave it behind Nothing

really matters except what you do now in this instant of time From this moment

onwards you can be an entirely different person filled with love and understanding

ready with an outstretched hand uplifted and positive in every thought and deed

Eileen Caddy 1917-2006 Spiritual Teacher and Author

Heres the problem Most people are thinking about what they dont want and

theyre wondering why it shows up over and over again

John Assaraf Speaker and Author

Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to

success when they gave up

Thomas Edison 1847-1931 Inventor and Scientist

Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on

building the life you desire

Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly

lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love

Henry Drummond 1851-1897 Scientist and Author

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 Former First Lady Author and Speaker

If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors we are at least

responsible for those we admit and entertain

Charles Newcomb ScreenwriterDirector

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To grow you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your

past Your history is not your destiny

Alan Cohen

If you want a kinder world then behave with kindness if you want a peaceful

world make peace within

Dan Millman Writer and Speaker

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality order

and diligence without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a

time

Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Writer

Believe it can be done When you believe something can be done really believe

your mind will find the ways to do it Believing a solution paves the way to solution

Dr David Schwartz Author of The Magic of Thinking Big

Close your eyes and form a realistic picture of what a post PC world might actually

look like Those who can envision a plausible future thats brighter than today will

earn the opportunity to lead

Ray Ozzie Former Chief Software Architect at Microsoft

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past worry

about the future or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely

and earnestly

- Buddha

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job tellem certainly I can - and get

busy and find out how to do it

-- Theodore Roosevelt

Dont tell me how hard you work Tell mehow much you get done

~ James Ling

Democracy arose from menlsquos thinking that if they are equal in any respect they

are equal absolutely

~ Aristotle

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The beginning is the most important part of the work

~ Plato

Bless those who choose to love and those who choose to hate that those who

choose to hate may choose to love before it is too late

--Esoligh (Underground Hip Hop Artist)

Security is mostly a superstition It does not exist in nature nor do the children

of man as a whole experience it Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than

outright exposure Life is either a daring adventure or nothing

--Helen Keller

Each new hour holds new chances for new beginings The horizon move forward

offering you space to place new steps of change

--Maya Angelou

When a man cares he is unafraid When he is fair he leaves enough for others

When he is humble he can grow

--Lao-Tzu TaoTeChung

Behold the turtle He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out

--James Bryant Conant - Educator and Diplomat

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness not because they never found it

but because they didnt stop to enjoy it

--William Feather

The light of awareness the light of consciousness arises out of a broken heart

the heart by breaking becomes an ocean accommodating all beings

-- Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom

The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need according to the

nature of your thought Your environment and financial condition are the

perfect reflection of your habitual thinking

Thought rules the world

-- Dr Joseph Edward Murphy Surgeon

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The ideals that have lighted my way and time after time have given me new

courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness beauty and truth

ndash Albert Einstein physicist

Hope is the companion of power and mother of success for who so hopes strongly

has within him the gift of miracles

~ Samuel Smiles

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those

things that failures dont like to do

~ Albert Gray

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the

link between belief and biology

- Deepak Chopra

Ive always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best

~ Akeem Olajuwon

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear

ndash Socrates philosopher

The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the

most brilliant single mind but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains

and talents of his associates

~ W Alton Jones

The reason a dog has got so many friends is because its tail waggles and not its

tongue

-Anonymous

Dont fight a problem solve it

--Millard Fuller

If things are not going well with you begin your effort at correcting the situation

by carefully examining the service you are rendering and especially the spirit in

which you are rendering it

--Roger Babson

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The starting point of all riches is the development of a prosperity consciousness

You must become a financial success in your thinking long before you achieve it in

your reality Both poverty and riches are the result of a state of mind and the

most important single step you ever take on the road to wealth and financial

independence is the decision to change your thinking to impress into your mind an

unshakable belief that you can and will achieve your financial goals This must

happen before anything else happens

-- Brian Tracy

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it

We must learn to see the world anew

- Albert Einstein

To forgive is the highest most beautiful form of love In return you will receive

untold peace and happiness

--Dr Robert Muller

Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind the stronger the

trees

--J Willard Marriott Founder of Marriott Hotels

Someday may never come So live each day better than the last That way youll

wake up with so much excitement and anticipation youlsquoll jump out of bed and shout

I cant wait

--Bob Perks

The greatest thief this world ever produced is procrastination and he is still at

large

-- Henry Wheeler Shaw 1818-1885 Humorist

If you dont know where you are going any road will get you there

-- Anonymous

Ive noticed over many years of working with corporate teams that the more

dysfunctional the team the more resistant they are to the concept of love in

the workplace What baggage is it that we drag around behind us like Linus

and his blanket which causes us to be so wounded and pathological Why are

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we blind to the observable truth that those we lead are yearning for us to

open our hearts Why are we in denial about the truth that people--all

people at work and at home--are searching for signs of our approval and

love

- Lance Secretan Industry Week 11202000 We live on our own solitary islands of reality absorbed in and fascinated by

our own points of view Frequently we reach out to one another seeking to

understand or be understood The bridge between our separate realities is

communication To communicate is to relate

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air You

name them--work family health friends and spirit--and youre keeping all

of these in the air You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball If you

drop it it will bounce back But the other four balls-- family health

friends and spirit--are made of glass If you drop one of these they will be

irrevocably scuffed marked nicked damaged or even shattered They will

never be the same You must understand that and strive for balance in your

life

- Brian Dyson CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises from 1959-1994 If you cant be a loving witness to your own anger or rage or sadness or

fear you cant be in the presence of other peoples intense emotions without

your own emotional waters being churned up a bit But if you can learn to

feel safe and fully present to the broad spectrum of emotions within your own

nature you radiate an invisible web of safety that helps others to talk about

their feelings with you

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The world we are experiencing today is the result of our collective

consciousness and if we want a new world each of us must start taking

responsibility for helping create it

- Rosemary Fillmore Rhea A New Heaven and New Earth Your relationships are actually mirrors of your consciousness When you learn

to see your own reflection in the quality of your relationships with others you

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catapult yourself on your path of personal growth and spiritual evolution

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think To put the world right in order we must first put the nation in order to put

the nation in order we must first put the family in order to put the family in

order we must first cultivate our personal life we must first set our hearts

right

- Confucious The sooner we can unburden ourselves of blame the more effective we can

be Blaming others only entrenches us in the role of the victim removing us

from our highest expression of personal power

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

Being vulnerable doesnt have to be threatening Just have the courage to be

sincere open and honest This opens the door to deeper communication all

around It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others

we all want in life Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that

burden us These secrets are what make us sick or fearful Speaking truth

helps you get clarity on your real heart directives

- Sara Paddison The Hidden Power of the Heart Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time

ago

~ Warren Buffet

The only way to do great work is to love what you do If you havent found it yet

keep looking Dont settle As with all matters of the heart youll know when you

find it

~ Steve Jobs

If you love life do not waste time for time is what life is made up of

~ Bruce Lee

I cannot teach anybody anything I can only make them think

~ Socrates

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Change before you have to

~ Jack Welch

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm

~ Winston Churchill

A leader leads by example not by force

~ Sun Tzu

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour Sit with a

pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute You have just experienced

relativity

~ Albert Einstein

Live as if you were to die tomorrow Learn as if you were to live forever

~ Mohandas Gandhi

A clever person solves a problem A wise person avoids it

~ Albert Einstein

If I have seen a little further is by standing on the shoulders of Giants

~ Sir Isaac Newton

Despair says I cannot lift that weight Happiness says I do not have to

-- James Richardson

People who know they are powerful do not need to engage in power struggles

-- Alan Cohen

No man ever stated his troubles as lightly as he might

-- Emerson

What does your spirit most want you to know and do today

-- Alan Cohen

Its not how good you are Its how bad you want it

-- Author unknown

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The better I feel about myself the less I need you to be different

-- Alan Cohen

The best form of flattery is to master the art of listening

-- Chinese proverb

The only thing more valuable than a good source of news is source of good news

-- Alan Cohen

Disappointments are the hooks upon which God hangs his victories

-- Source unknown

It matters not what youve done with your life for better or worse What

matters is what you do with your life today

-- Alan Cohen

Everyone here is not all there

-- Source unknown

If you cant unify then at least harmonize

-- Alan Cohen

Everybody is a genius But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will

spend its whole life believing that it is stupid

-- Albert Einstein

Fear is excitement without breath

-- Fritz Perls

Dont leave yourself out of the equation

-- Alan Cohen

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles

-- Bernard Baruch

They can because they think they can

~ Virgil

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Exert your talents and distinguish yourself

and dont think of retiring from the world

until the world will be sorry that you retire

~ Samuel Johnson

Energy and persistence conquer all things

~ Benjamin Franklin

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom

~ Aristotle

Heaven never helps the man who will not act

~ Sophocles

The only real journey is the journey within

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Anyone who has never made a mistake

has never tried anything new

~ Albert Einstein

Action is the food and drink

that will nourish your success

Action will destroy your procrastination

Act now for is all you have

~ Og Mandino

Computers are incredibly fast accurate and stupid

Humans are incredible slow inaccurate and brilliant

Together they are powerful beyond imagination

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~ Albert Einstein

Practice giving and you will discover how much life can give you

-- Alan Cohen

Oh for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they

ran out of money

-- Source unknown

The best way to heal a bad memory is to create a new and better one

-- Alan Cohen

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love

-- Hamilton Wright Mabie

Fear and resistance are the dragons that stand at the gate of the kingdom that

contains the jewel you seek

-- Alan Cohen

Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy forgiveness To an opponent

tolerance To a friend your heart To a customer service To all charity To

every child a good example To yourself respect

-- Oren Arnold

Affirm I always have enough time to do the things that Spirit would have me do

-- Alan Cohen

There are two obstacles to enlightenment 1 Thinking you know 2 Thinking you

dont know

-- Buddha

Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal Take care how you pay

it

-- Alan Cohen

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles

-- Bernard Baruch

Upgrade your past by seeing it with appreciation

-- Alan Cohen

Families are like fudge -- mostly sweet with a few nuts

-- Source unknown

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of

our treasures

-- Thornton Wilder

The universe does not require you to stress for good things

-- Alan Cohen

When you bless the good that befalls others it becomes yours as well

-- Alan Cohen

How many more idols must you find before your realize that you are the one you

have been searching for

-- Dan Fogelberg

All limits exist only in thought and that is where they are overcome

-- Alan Cohen

To understand unconditional love lock your wife or husband and your dog in the

trunk of your car for an hour When you open it notice to is happier to see you

-- Source unknown

Outrageous ideas are ultimately the most practical

-- Alan Cohen

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are

-- Kurt Cobain

How good can you let it get

-- Alan Cohen

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If we could look into the secret history of our enemies we should find in each

persons life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostilities

-- Longfellow

If you sense there must be more there is more

-- Alan Cohen

Do not wait the time will never be just right Start where you stand and work

with whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found

as you go along

Napoleon Hill

1883-1970 Author of Think And Grow Rich

It doesnt matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes What

matters most is getting off You cannot make progress without making decisions

Jim Rohn

1930-2009 Speaker and Author

Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do Its

a decision about Who You Are When you see this when you understand it

everything changes You begin to see life in a new way All events occurrences and

situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do

Neale Donald Walsch

Author of Conversations With God

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached dont adjust the goals

adjust the action steps

Confucius

551-479 BC Philosopher

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of

you

Henry Ward Beecher

1813-1887 Clergyman Social Reformer and Abolitionist

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Lets choose today to quench our thirst for the good life we think others lead

by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives We can then offer the

universe the gift of our grateful hearts

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Author of Peace and Plenty

Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite

impossible to foresee are ahead You can only see one thing clearly and that is your

goal Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin

Kathleen Norris

1880-1966 Novelist

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends

you choose for you will become like them

W Clement Stone

1902-2002 Businessman Philanthropist and Author

Laugh at yourself and at life Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity but

as a remedy a miracle drug that will ease your pain cure your depression and help

you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at

your predicaments thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that

is certain to come Never take yourself too seriously

Og Mandino

1923-1996 Author of The Choice

Asking is the beginning of receiving Make sure you dont go to the ocean with a

teaspoon At least take a bucket so the kids wont laugh at you

Jim Rohn

1930-2009 Author and Speaker

Happiness comes only when we push our

brains and hearts to the farthest reaches

of which we are capable

--Leo C Rosten

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Do not wait the time will never be just right

Start where you stand and work with whatever

tools you may have at your command and better

tools will be found as you go along

~ Napoleon Hill

I shall do less whenever I shall believe what

I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more

whenever I shall believe doing more will help the

cause I shall try to correct errors when shown to

be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as

they shall appear to be true views

ndash Abraham Lincoln 16th US president

If we become increasingly humble about how l

little we know we may be more eager to search

- Sir John Templeton

I dont think anyone can grow unless hes

loved exactly as he is now appreciated for

what he is rather than what he will be

Love and success always in that order Its

that simple and that difficult

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a

lifetimes work but its worth the effort

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Quoted From Lifes Journeys According

to Mister Rogers

When we do the best we can we never know

what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life

of another

ndash Helen Keller lecturer author

We are responsible for what we are and whatever

we wish ourselves to be we have the power to make

ourselves If what we are now has been the result of

our own past actions it certainly follows that whatever

we wish to be in future can be produced by our present

actions so we have to know how to act

~ Swami Vivekananda

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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to

attempt

William Shakespeare 1564-1616 Poet Playwright Actor

We cannot change anything until we accept it

Condemnation does not liberate it oppresses

-Carl Jung

It is better to wear out than to rust out

Richard Cumberland

In order to succeed we must first believe that we can

Michael Korda

Attitudes are more important than facts

-George MacDonald

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities

Aristotle (BC 384-322 Greek Philosopher)

Dont waste your life in doubts and fears spend yourself on the work before you

well assured that the right performance of this hours duties will be the best

preparation for the hours or ages that follow it

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882 American poet essayist)

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events success is readiness for

instant action when the opportune moment arrives

Newell Hillis

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them

Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893 British scholar)

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness

it is generally the by-product of other activities

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963 British author)

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Relaxation is the prerequisite for that inner expansion that allows a person to

express the source of inspiration and joy within

~ Deepak Chopra

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team and the team ought to get

credit for the wins and the losses Successes have many fathers failures have

none

- Philip Caldwell

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

Agatha Christie 1890-1976 Novelist

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation

-Dr Robert Schuler Whenever youre facing any form of resistance gratitude has the power to

quickly dissolve it This is true whether the hindrance comes from inside of you or

outside of you

Peggy McColl Author of Relax Your Way to Wealth Its easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top

Henry Ward Beecher Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people So

overweight people are now averagehellip which means you have met your New Years

resolution

Jay Leno

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in A pessimist stays up to

make sure the old year leaves

Bill Vaughan

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past Let it go for it was imperfect

and thank God that it can go

Brooks Atkinson

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New Years Resolution To tolerate fools more gladly provided this does not

encourage them to take up more of my time

James Agate

New Years Day is every mans birthday

Charles Lamb

Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right

Oprah Winfrey

―It is never too late to be what you might have been

- TS Eliot

If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain

ndash Emily Dickinson 1830-1886 American Poet

Life is too short to waste Dreams are fulfilled only through action not through

endless planning to take action

David J Schwartz Trainer and Author

Its the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and

sweeps away all obstacles

Claude M Bristol

―The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means time

influence and educational advantages the question is what he will do with the

things he has The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of

opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face and resolves to change

them he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success

-Hamilton Wright Mabie

Just go out there and do what youve got to do

~ Martina Navratilova

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Now I experience the love in everyone I no longer am a person who judges others

for being overweight for being too young or too old for having their hair a certain

way or for how they dress When you judge others you dont define them you

define yourself as someone who needs to judge and compartmentalize people

-Wayne Dyer

The big secret in life is that there is no secret Whatever your goal you can get

there if you are willing to work It is called massive action Action is the gas in the

tank Without it the car will not run

Marcy Blochowiak Author of No Glass Ceiling An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory

-Friedrich Engels

Leaders arent born they are made And they are made just like anything else

through hard work And thats the price well have to pay to achieve that goal or

any goal

Vincent Lombardi

May your trails be crooked winding lonesome dangerous leading to the most

amazing view May your rivers flow without end meandering through pastoral

valleys tinkling with bells past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark

primeval forestdown into a desert of red rock blue mesas domes and pinnacles

and grottos of endless stone And down again into a deep vast ancient unknown

chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs where deer walk across the

white sand beaches where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high

crags until something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than

your deepest dreams waits for you just beyond the next turning of the canyon

walls

-Benedicto by Edward Abbey

An unwritten want is a wish a dream a never-happen The day you put your goal in

writing is the day it becomes a commitment that will change your life Are you

ready

Tom Hopkins Author and Speaker

―Where are you going Who are you looking for Your beloved is right herehellip Cease

looking for flowers there blooms a garden in your own home While you go looking

for trinkets your treasure house awaits you in your own being There is no need

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for suffering God is here

~Rumi Chance favors only the prepared mind

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895 French scientist who developed pasteurization)

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities

enough and if they do not find them they will make them

Samuel Smiles

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen but give us the

determination to make the right things happen

Peter Marshall

If the sky falls hold up your hands

Spanish Proverb

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable but to be certain is to be ridiculous

Chinese Proverb

Knowing is not enough we must apply Willing is not enough we must do

Johann von Goethe

If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is he will not jump If he does

not know how wide it is he will jump and six times out of ten he will make it

Persian Proverb

As I grow to understand life less and less I learn to love it more and more

Jules Renard

The more you praise and celebrate your life the more there is in life to celebrate

Oprah Winfrey (1954- American TV personality producer actress author)

Mind is all that counts You can be whatever you make up your mind to be

Robert Collier

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You dont get to choose how youre going to die Or when You can only decide how

youre going to live Now

Joan Baez Singer Songwriter and Activist The average person goes to their grave with their music still in them

Oliver Wendell Holmes ―Everyone can be great because everyone can serve

- Martin Luther King ―Whatever you can conceive and believe you can achieve

Napoleon Hill We turn not older with years but newer every day

-Emily Dickinson

When reciting affirmations feel the words in your heart as you say them and

know that what you feel youll create

Peggy McColl Author of Relax Your Way to Wealth Everyday life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust

our old programs accordingly

Dr Ann Faraday

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to

get there Then never never never give up

Vincent Peale

We only think when we are confronted with problems

John Dewey (1859-1952 American philosopher educator)

In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain

Pliny The Elder (c23-79 Roman neophatonist)

If your determination is fixed I do not counsel you to despair Few things are

impossible to diligence and skill Great works are performed not by strength but

perseverance

Samuel Johnson

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Dont waste your life in doubts and fears spend yourself on the work before you

well assured that the right performance of this hours duties will be the best

preparation for the hours or ages that follow it

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Poet and Essayist Its nice to know that we dont need to wait till tomorrow we can start to change

the world today

Wil Rose

The good man acts for honors sake and the more so the better he is and acts for

his friends sake and sacrifices his own interest

-Aristotle

In order to excel you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport You

must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism

Without a total 100 percent dedication you wont be able to do this

Willie Mays

Any time you sincerely want to make a change the first thing you must do is to

raise your standards When people ask me what really changed my life eight years

ago I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I

demanded of myself I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my

life all the things I would no longer tolerate and all the things that I aspired to

becoming

Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert

Im a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of

it

Thomas Jefferson

Bring awareness to each act Walking on the road walk fully alert eating eat with

awareness Whatsoever you are doing dont let the past and the future interfere

Be in the present Thats what awareness is all about

~Osho

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There are two dimensions to life and we should be able to touch both

One is like a wave and we call it the historical dimension

The other is like the water and we call it the ultimate dimension or nirvana

We usually touch just the wave but when we discover how to touch the water

we receive the highest fruit that meditation can offer

-Thich Nhat Hanh

Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends

Jacques Delille (1738-1813 French poet

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock the stream always wins -

not through strength but by perseverance

Jackson Brown

When you focus on whats wrong you get more of whats wrong Conversely when

you focus on whats right you get more of whats right

Gina Mollicone-Long Author of the newly released book Think Or Sink

All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave

behind is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into

another

Gail Sheehy (1937- American journalist author)

Anger is one letter away from danger

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Success means having the courage the determination and the will to become the

person you believe you were meant to be

George Sheehan 1918-1993 Physician and Author

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views

so fast as they shall appear to be new views

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 16th American President)

―One ship sails East

And another West

By the self-same winds that blow

lsquoTis the set of the sails

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And not the gales

That tells the way we go

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity Our attitude

toward it Every opportunity has a difficulty and every difficulty has an

opportunity

J Sidlow Baxter 1903-1999 Author and Theologian

If you want to be successful you must either have a chance or take one

Author Unknown

It is common sense to take a method and try it If it fails admit it frankly and try

another But above all try something

Franklin D Roosevelt

It was courage faith endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all

obstacles that built this bridge

~ John J Watson

Past Data should now be the basis of Present Truth Data from a prior time or

experience should always and only be the basis for new questions Always the

treasure should be in the questions not in the answer

-Neale Donald Walsch Even though you may want to move forward in your life you may have one foot on

the brakes In order to be free we must learn how to let go Release the hurt

Release the fear Refuse to entertain your old pain The energy it takes to hang

onto the past is holding you back from a new life What is it you would let go of

today

Mary Manin Morrissey Creator of The Miracle Mastery Conference

It is not what you are called but what you answer to

African Proverb

A failure establishes only this that our determination to succeed was not strong

enough

John Christian Bovee

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If youre not part of a solution youre a part of the problem There is no middle

road I dont think we can destroy the Earth but I think the Earth can destroy

us

-Oh Shinnah

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will

accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop

Robert Hughes

Charity is the spice of riches

Jewish Proverb

If you dont like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and

waiting for you The snake sheds its skin with impunity relying on the same nature

which you rely on

Author Unknown

Its a very funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best

you very often get it

William Somerset Maugham

A leader once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one must

be undaunted when the going gets tough

Ronald Reagan

If I accept you as you are I will make you worse however if I treat you as

though you are what you are capable of becoming I help you become that

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 Author and Philosopher

Every gun that is made every warship launched every rocket signifies in the final

sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed from those who are cold and

not clothed The world in arms is not spending money alone It is spending the

sweat of its laborers the genius of its scientists the hopes of its children

-Dwight D Eisenhower

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Service is nothing but love in work clothes

Author Unknown

A man can do all things if he but wills them

Leon Battista Alberti

A crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk just a

tinkling cymbal where there is not love

Francis Bacon 17th Century English Lord Chancellor philosopher and author

The only way to have a friend is to be one

Ralph Waldo Emerson 19th Century American author and poet

Its not what you do once in a while its what you do day in and day out that

makes the difference

Jenny Craig Diet Specialist

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on

the labors of other men living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to

give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving

Albert Einstein (1879-1955 German-born American physicist)

A resolute determination is the truest wisdom

Napoleon I

Without consistency there is no moral strength

Author Unknown

See first that the design is wise and just that ascertained pursue it resolutely

William Shakespeare

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

-Dale Carnegie

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself

William Penn (1644-1718 British religious leader founder of Pennsylvania)

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How we think shows through in how we act Attitudes are mirrors of the mind

They reflect thinking

David J Schwartz Trainer and Author

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but

to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment

Dorothy Nevill

Vision is freely given to those who ask to see

-Course in Miracles

Tough times never last but tough people do

Dr Robert Schuller

A sure way to lose happiness I found is to want it at the expense of everything

else

Bette Davis (1908-1989 American actress producer)

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything

Alexander Hamilton

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference He has

it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter

Norman Cousins (1915-1990 American editor humanitarian author)

The practice of medicine is an art not a trade a calling not a business a calling in

which your heart will be exercised equally with your head Often the best part of

your work will have nothing to do with powders or potions

-Sir William Osler

Strength does not come from physical capacity It comes from an indomitable

will

~ Mahatma Gandhi

―You dont love someone for their looks or their clothes or for their fancy car

but because they sing a song only you can hear

Anon

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―They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever

Oscar Wilde

―Love is like a friendship caught on fire In the beginning a flame very pretty

often hot and fierce but still only light and flickering As love grows older our

hearts mature and our love becomes as coals deep-burning and unquenchable

Bruce Lee

―Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty

John Finely

―It takes a lot of understanding time and trust to gain a close friendship with

someone As I approach a time of my life of complete uncertainty my friends are

my most precious asset

Anon

―Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process

Harold S Geneen People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest

- Hermann Hesse 1877-1962 Civilization is a method of living an attitude of equal respect for all men

- Jane Addams 1860-1935 The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next

- Matthew Arnold 1822-1888

Vacillating people seldom succeed Successful men and women are very careful in

reaching their decisions and very persistent and determined in action thereafter

~ L G Elliott

Those with goals tend to succeed because they are focused and know where they

are going while those without goals do not

Ted Karam Author from his new book Jumping On Water Awaken Your Joy - Empower Your Life

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Every time you go out on the ice there are slight flaws You can always think of

something you should have done better These are the things you must work on

Dorothy Hamill (1956- American figure skater)

Until you make the unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it

fate

~ Carl Jung When you speak of someone or about someone you should speak as though they

were in the room with you The ears that you speak to today are attached to the

mouth that could relay the message tomorrow

William Biddy Allen 1903-2001 Bus Driver - Loving father of 7 children

It is no failure to fall short of realizing all that we might dream The failure is to

fall short of dreaming all that we might realize

-Dee Hock When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they

are regarded by others let them reflect how little they have contributed to the

happiness of others

Author Unknown

I have become my own version of an optimist If I cant make it through one door

Ill go through another door - or Ill make a door Something terrific will come no

matter how dark the present

~ Rabindranath Tagore

―The present moment

contains past and future

The secret of transformation

is in the way we handle this very moment

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926 - present Vietnamese Buddhist monk)

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―Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it Do not believe in

anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many Do not believe in

anything simply because it is found written in your religious books Do not believe in

anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders Do not believe in

traditions because they have been handed down for many generations But after

observation and analysis when you find that anything agrees with reason and is

conducive to the good and benefit of one and all then accept it and live up to it

Buddha (Founder of Buddhism 568 - 488 BC) I try to avoid looking forward or backward and try to keep looking upward

Charlotte Bronte

Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action for all eternity

Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801 Theologian

There is only one duty only one safe course and that is to try to be right

Winston Churchill (1874-1965 British statesman Prime Minister)

We are born at a given moment in a given place and like vintage years of wine we

have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born Astrology

does not lay claim to anything more

-Carl Jung

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them One is more

delightful for being told one is delightful -- just as one is angrier for being told

one is angry

Katherine F Gerould

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread they can sure make something out

of you

~ Muhammed Ali Beware of the thoughts you keep because everything in reality manifests from

the mind

Justin Palmer Second Year College Student

Confess you were wrong yesterday it will show you are wise today

Author Unknown

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We must accept finite disappointment but we must never lose infinite hope

~ Martin Luther King Jr

In the beginning the Universe was created

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move

-Douglas Adams

Any individual can be in time what he earnestly desires to be if he but set his

face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing and bring all his powers to bear

upon its attainment

Herman J Randall

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world

~ Helen Keller Many of lifes failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success

when they gave up

~ Thomas Edison

When you give your undivided attention to something there is a softening and

opening in the listener that allows access to the meaning underneath the words

-Betty Burkes

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they

are about to change the world I am more awed by those who struggle to make one

small difference

Ellen Goodman Journalist

If you look into your own heart you find nothing wrong there what is there to

fear

Confucius (BC 551-479 Chinese ethical teacher philosopher) Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls

~ Mother Teresa What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self-

conceit For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he

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already knows

- Epictetus 55 AD-135 AD

There are admirable potentialities in every human being Believe in your strength

and your youth Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself It all depends on me

- Andre Gide 1869-1951

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage

- Anais Nin 1903-1977 Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in

other areas But can it really True effectiveness requires balance

~ Stephen Covey

I dont pay good wages because I have a lot of money I have a lot of money

because I pay good wages

- Robert Bosch Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do

the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not it is

the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a mans training

begins it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly

Thomas H Huxley 1825-1895 Biologist

The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have and to be able

to lose all desire for things beyond your reach

Yutang Lin (1895-1976 Chinese writer and philologist)

Men are failures not because they are stupid but because they are not

sufficiently impassioned

Struther Burt

If you look at what you have in life youll always have more If you look at what

you dont have in life youll never have enough

Oprah Winfrey Television Host Producer and Philanthropist

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Im trying not to look too far ahead All Im thinking is one shot at a time one hole

at a time and thats what I want to keep doing

Michelle McGann

I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed but the spirit in

which we face them that constitutes our comfort

-Elizabeth T King My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content

with your failure

~ Abraham Lincoln

―There is nothing but love and all else is illusion

- Dr John Demartini There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer no disease that enough

love will not heal no door that enough love will not open

- Emmet Fox

All my limitations are self-imposed and my liberation can only come from true self-

love

- Max C Robinson

We fail to see that we can control our own destiny make ourselves do whatever is

possible make ourselves become whatever we long to be

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine )

To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will

~ Sugar Ray Robinson 1920-1989 Boxer

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall

Confucius

Half the people you know are above average

-Steven Wright

Your close relationships are either a catalyst for manifesting what you really

want or theyre a hindrance to your manifestation If you truly value the power of

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love in your life you owe it to yourself to discover how to tap into the power of

your relationship as a force for manifestation

Drs Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up Even when they do it is not

perfect and they sigh for more and lose better things in struggling for them

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888 American author )

One is not idle because one is absorbed There is both visible and invisible labor To

contemplate is to toil to think is to do The crossed arms work the clasped hands

act The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation

Victor Hugo (1802-1885 French poet dramatist novelist)

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of

greed in the headlines

-Charles Kuralt

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our

focus we never concentrate our power Most people dabble their way through life

never deciding to master anything in particular

Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)

In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time

~ Anthony J DAngelo

Courage comes from wanting to do it well Security comes from knowing you can do

it well Confidence comes from having done it well

~ Author Unknown

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel

Napoleon Hill

There is a true genius in everyone But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a

tree it would never stop doubting itself

~ Einstein~

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People ask for criticism but they only want praise

- W Somerset Maugham 1874-1965 Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts for if

you let it pass the desire may never return and you may remain in ignorance

- William Wirt 1772-1834 Cynicism is not realistic and tough Its unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it

means you dont have to try

- Peggy Noonan 1950-present There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into

gear

David Mahoney Executive and Philanthropist You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences

W Somerset Maugham (1874-1965 British novelist playwright)

Dont ask yourself what the world needs Ask yourself what makes you come alive

and then go and do that Because what the world needs are people who have come

alive

~ Howard Thurman When a great moment knocks on the door of your life it is often no louder than

the beating of your heart and it is very easy to miss it -Boris Pasternak Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure

~ Thomas Alva Edison

To be successful you have to have your heart in your business and your business in

your heart

- Thomas Watson Sr Begin challenging your own assumptions Your assumptions are your windows on the

world Scrub them off every once and a while or the light wont come in

Alan Alda Actor Writer and Director

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I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most

argumentative

Giovani della Casa (1503-1556 Papal secretary of state)

Have you ever felt like you wanted to go but you felt like you wanted to stay

- Song Lyric Jimmy Durante

To live is the rarest thing in the world most people exist that is all

~ Oscar Wilde

Awareness is like a beam of light that shines endlessly into space We only

perceive that light when it is reflected off some object and consciousness is

producedAwareness is the light by which we see the worldWe mistake the clear

light of pure awareness for the shadows that it casts in consciousnessWe forget

that we are the light itself and imagine that we are the densities that reflect the

light back to us

-Stephen Levine Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal

Albert Camus (1913-1960 French existential writer) The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation

Mark Twain

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn Our rewards

will always be in exact proportion to our service

Earl Nightingale 1921-1989 Author of The Strangest Secret

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he

knows where he is going

Napoleon Hill

Wisdom tells me I am nothing

Love tells me I am everything

And between the two my life flows

-Nisargadatta Maharaj

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No employer today is independent of those about him He cannot succeed alone no

matter how great his ability or capital Business today is more than ever a question

of cooperation

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)

Shoot for the moon Even if you miss youll land among the stars

Les Brown

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world

Joseph Addison (1672-1719 British essayist poet statesman)

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a

fate that falls on man unless they act

~ G K Chesterton

Find something positive to think about and dont let the conversation in your head

end with a negative comment Always end on a positive comment

Dr Tomi Bryan and Dr Jerry White From their latest release The 5 Keys To The Great Life

Whales do not sing because they have a message They sing because they have a

song

-Ashes and Snow

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life

- Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956

Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though

checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor

suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor

defeat

- Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting

- Stanislaw Leszczynski 1677-1766

There is no joy in getting by on your job - doing as little as you can There is a

LOT of pleasure in doing more than you have to And whosoever shall compel you

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to go a mile go with him twain says the Bible wisely

-Norman Carlisle

We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once

Calvin Coolidge

The starting point of all achievement is desire Keep this constantly in mind Weak

desires bring weak results just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat

Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think and Grow Rich

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me

instead of looking within myself to see what was there

Belle Livingstone

Rather than thinking if and when start doing take action stop talking about if

and when

~ Catherine Pulsifer

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity -

Ayn Rand

Being a man or indeed being human is not something for which one should

apologize but something to which one should aspire and with all the gusto he can

muster

-- David Cunningham

The question isnt who is going to let me its who is going to stop me

- Howard Roark The Fountainhead 1943

I am the Master of my Fate Captain of my Soul

-- W E Henley

Whatever you can do or dream you can begin it

Boldness has genius power and magic in it

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me

instead of looking within myself to see what was there

Belle Livingstone

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality order

and diligence without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a

time

Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Novelist

The path to success is to take massive determined action

Anthony Robbins

All of the significant battles are waged within the self

Sheldon Kopp (1929- American psychologist)

Follow effective action with quiet reflection From the quiet reflection will come

even more effective action

~ Peter F Drucker

Dont be dismayed at good-byes

A farewell is necessary before you can meet again

And meeting again after moments or lifetimes

is certain for those who are friends

-Richard Bach

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual

sense of humor

Thomas W Higginson 1823-1911 Minister Abolitionist and Author

When performance exceeds ambition the overlap is called success

Cullen Hightower

Well done is better than well said

Benjamin Franklin

The first and the best victory is to conquer self

Plato (BC 427-347 Greek philosopher)

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Man is what he believes

-Anton Chekhov One half of life is luck the other half is discipline - and thats the important half

for without discipline you wouldnt know what to do with luck

Carl Zuckmeyer 1896-1977 Writer and Playwright

Try and fail but dont fail to try

~ Stephen Kaggwa

I believe that one of the greatest gifts we have been given is our imagination It

costs nothing to access is available 247 and is our doorway to freedom With

imagination we have inside of us the most amazing ability to change our state and

transform our life in a moment

~ Veronica Hay The world is full of abundance and opportunity but far too many people come to

the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car a teaspoon instead of a

steam shovel They expect little and as a result they get little

Ben Sweetland Author of I Will Blessed is the person who sees the need recognizes the responsibility and actively

becomes the answer

William A Ward

I am not a mechanism an assembly of various sections

And it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly that I am ill

I am ill because of wounds to the soul to the deep emotional self

And the wounds to the soul take a long long time only time can help

And patience and a certain difficult repentance

Long difficult repentance realization on lifes mistake and the freeing of oneself

From the endless repetition of the mistake

Which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify

-D H Lawrence

Victory belongs to the most persevering

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Gratitude opens doors It paves the way to abundance and prosperity like nothing

else

It can line your pockets with gold and fill your bank account quicker than a New

York minute

Yet how many of you are living from a thankful heart each day

~Veronica Hay Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe

Bruce Springsteen You gain strength and courage and confidence by each experience in which we

really stop to look fear in the face You must do that which we think we cannot

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 Social Activist and First Lady of the United States

Dont let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you Instead give to

yourself that which empowers you

Les Brown (1945- American speaker author trainer motivator)

―The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having

new eyes

~ Marcel Proust

―Then your light shall break forth like the dawn and your healing shall spring up

quickly

~ Isaiah 588

―And your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music

from it or confused sounds

mdash Kahlil Gibran

In every life the most important change is self-change -- and in every situation

the principles are the same

- J Kingston Cowart

It takes courage to lead a life Any life

Erica Jong

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Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time

-Ken Wilber

Peoples tendency towards good is as waters tendency is to flow downhill

Mencius When I let go of what I am I become what I might be

~ Lao Tsu

The higher my rank the more humbly I behave The greater my power the less I

exercise it The richer my wealth the more I give away Thus I avoid respectively

envy and spite and misery

~ Sun Shu Ao

There is no greater happiness than freedom from worry and there is no greater

wealth than contentment

~Lao Tsu

Failure lies not in falling down Failure lies in not getting up

~ Chinese proverb

A meal however simple is a moment of intersection It is at once the most basic

the most fundamental of our lifes activities maintaining the life of our bodies

Shared with others it can be an occasion of joy and communion uniting people

deeply

~ Elise Boulding The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms

-- Socrates You are never going to get it all done - you just wont Rather you will find order

and peace in your workday if you accept it and then do one more thing Implement

a system that consistently shows you whats most critical at any moment what to

do after the critical and where to find everything else when you need to That

system is not hard - its quite simple to set up

Michael Linenberger From Master Your Workday Now Check out his book and bonuses

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Time is limited so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have

just one chance to live this particular day right and to string my days together

into a life of action and purpose

Lance Armstrong 7-Time Winner of the Tour de France

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value

Albert Einstein

We have contributed each in the time allotted us our endeavors to render a

permanent blessing to our country

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826 Third American President)

If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost that is where they

should be Now put foundations under them

~ Henry David Thoreau

If you didnlsquot musterbate then you wouldnlsquot awfulize terribilize

catastrophize say ―I canlsquot stand it and put yourself down

If you only stuck with ―Ilsquod like very much to do well but I never

have to you wouldnlsquot then disturb yourself hellip musterbation is

evil and pernicious

- Albert Ellis

There are 2 theories to arguing with a womanneither works

-Will Rogers

Dont tell me that worry doesnt do any good said the over-worked executive I

know better The things I worry about never happen

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Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were

innocent Anger is natural Grief is appropriate Healing is mandatory Restoration

is possible

~ Jane Rubietta

Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can

~ Richard Bach

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Inspiration and genius--one and the same

~ Victor Hugo

It is important to acknowledge a mistake instantly correct it and learn from it

That literally turns a failure into a success Success is on the far side of failure

TJ Watson 1874-1956 Founder if IBM

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of

inspiration

~ George Eliot

Trust your hunches Theyre usually based on facts filed away just below the

conscious level

Dr Joyce Brothers Psychologist and Television Personality Every artist was first an amateur

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a

true master For this reason mastery demands all of a person

Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Theoretical Physicist Philosopher and Author In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain

Pliny The Elder (c23-79 Roman neophatonist)

The more difficulties one has to encounter within and without the more

significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be

Horace Bushnell

If the sky falls hold up your hands

Spanish Proverb

Begin with the end in mind

Stephen Covey

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good try to use ordinary

situations

- Jean Paul Richter 1763-1825 German Novelist

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No great man ever complains of want of opportunities

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If people knew how hard I worked to gain my mastery it wouldnt seem so

wonderful

Michelangelo 1475-1564 Painter Sculptor and Architect

We only think when we are confronted with problems

John Dewey (1859-1952 American philosopher educator)

Men do less than they ought unless they do all they can

~ Thomas Carlyle

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex It takes a touch of

genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction

~Albert Einstein

―Ecstasy is your very nature not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary

~Osho

The quieter you can become the more youre able to hear

~Chinese Proverb

The only real valuable thing is intuition

~ Albert Einstein

To be ecstatic is natural spontaneous It needs no effort to be ecstatic it needs

great effort to be miserable

~Osho

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight

Anita DeFrantz Olympic Rower Everyday life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust

our old programs accordingly

Dr Ann Faraday

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I live my life in widening circles

that reach out across the world

I may not ever complete the last one

But I give myself to it

I have been circling for thousands of years

And I still dont know

Am I a falcon a storm or a great song

-Rilke

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to

make them come true

~ Leon J Suenes

Dont be a cynic and disconsolate preacher Dont bewail and moan Omit the

negative propositions Challenge us with incessant affirmatives Dont waste

yourself in rejection or bark against the bad but chant the beauty of the good

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once whether

youre ready or not to put it into action

Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author

Fall seven times stand up eight

Japanese proverb

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars

or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven

to the human spirit

~ Helen Keller

Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends

Jacques Delille (1738-1813 French poet)

First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have

to do

Epictetus

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to

make them come true

Leon J Suenes

If you would create something you must be something

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Stay together friends

Dont scatter and sleep

Our friendship is made

Of being awake

The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away weeping

That way it stays in the garden whereas another roundness rolls

through a dry riverbed looking for what it thinks it wants

Stay here quivering with each moment like a drop of mercury

-Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives as parallel realities It is

always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend when we choose not

to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance

thats present love health family friends work the joys of nature and personal

pursuits that bring us pleasure the wasteland of illusion falls away and we

experience heaven on earth

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach Any time you sincerely want to make a change the first thing you must do is to

raise your standards When people ask me what really changed my life eight years

ago I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I

demanded of myself I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my

life all the things I would no longer tolerate and all the things that I aspired to

becoming

~ Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert) Its nice to know that we dont need to wait till tomorrow we can start to change

the world today

~ Wil Rose

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A bird doesnt sing because it has an answer it sings because it has a song

~ Maya Angelou

Great minds have purposes little minds have wishes Little minds are subdued by

misfortunes great minds rise above them

~ Washington Irving

Step by step I cant think of any other way of accomplishing anything

~ Michael Jordan

If you employed study thinking and planning time daily you could develop and use

the power that can change the course of your destiny

~ W Clement Stone

We are called to speak for the weak for the voiceless for victims of our nation

and for those it calls enemy for no document from human hands can make these

humans any less than our brothers

-Dr Martin Luther King Jr

Disposal of hazardous wastes is not the root problem Rather it is the root

symptom

-Hawken Paul There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the

things we do

Freya Stark

Try a little harder to be a little better

Gordon B Hinckley

If you love something and stick with it you will get phenomenal results

Bob Proctor

You can chain me you can torture me you can even destroy this body but you will

never imprison my mind

Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Political and Spiritual Leader

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Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and

triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friends forehead

Chinese Proverb Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs

Michael Levine

Nurture your mind with great thoughts To believe in the heroic makes heroes

Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881 British Prime Minister The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your

blueprint or plan Strategies are like recipes choose the right ingredients mix

them in the correct proportions and you will always produce the same predictable

results

~ Charles J Givens

More than anything else I believe its our decisions not the conditions of our

lives that determine our destiny

Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)

Happy the manwoman who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his

wishes and his powers

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I hope that my achievements in life shall be these that I will have fought for what

was right and fair that I will have risked for that which mattered and that I will

have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better

place for what Ive done and who Ive been

~ C Hoppe

The vision that you glorify in your mind the ideal that you enthrone in your heart

this you will build your life by and this you will become

James Allen

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Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony

Gandhi

There never was a time when in my opinion some way could not be found to

prevent the drawing of the sword

-General Grant To be a warrior

is to be genuine

in every moment of your life

-Chogyam Trungpa Im convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs

from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance

- Steve Jobs Regret for wasted time is more wasted time

Mason Cooley

Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow

Les Brown (1945- American speaker author trainer motivator)

More than anything else I believe its our decisions not the conditions of our

lives that determine our destiny

Anthony Robbins Author and Speaker

Material possessions will rust away wear away or depreciate but your inner

resources character must never depreciate In seeking success you must also seek

fulfillment Ask yourself not only what you want to be but who you want to be

~ Elizabeth Dole Anything in life that we dont accept will simply make trouble for us until we make

peace with it

~ Shakti Gawain

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious

stupidity

-Dr Martin Luther King Jr

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Real integrity is doing the right thing knowing that nobodys going to know

whether you did it or not

Oprah Winfrey Talk Show Host Producer and Philanthropist

If you must begin then go all the way because if you begin and quit the unfinished

business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time

Chogyam Trungpa

I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career I have lost almost 300 games

On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot and I

missed I have failed over and over and over again in my life And thats precisely

why I succeedcc

~ Michael Jordan

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what

they most enjoy

~ Malcolm Forbes

Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future

Paul Boese Botanist

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons

determination

Tommy Lasorda (1927- American baseball manager) I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more

~ Dr Jonas Salk The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame

Rod Steiger

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul

~ Marcus Aurelius

The best way

to make your dreams come true

is to wake up

-Kabir

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You can do what you have to do and sometimes you can do it even better than you

think you can

Jimmy Carter (1924- American President (39th)) ―If you create an act you create a habit If you create a habit you create a

character If you create a character you create a destiny

ndash Andre Maurois They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them

feel

~ Carl W Buechner When you affirm big believe big and pray big putting faith into action big things

happen

Dr Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993 Preacher and Author You never will be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are taken

out of your life

~ James G Bilkey

In every difficult situation is potential value Believe this then begin looking for it

Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993 American Christian reformed pastor speaker author)

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832 German poet dramatist novelist)

Being vulnerable doesnt have to be threatening Just have the courage to be

sincere open and honest This opens the door to deeper communication all around

It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want

in life Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us These

secrets are what make us sick or fearful Speaking truth helps you get clarity on

your real heart directives

-Sara Paddison

The best thing to spend on your children is your time

~ Louise Hart

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The best things come to those who wait

- Unknown

Ask five economists and youll get five different explanations six if one went to

Harvard

~ Edgar R Fiedler There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through

encouragement from someone else I dont care how great how famous or

successful a man or woman may be each hungers for applause

~ George M Adams Do not fear death fear the unlived life

Natalie Babbitt Leadership is no longer about your position Its now more about your passion for

excellence and making a difference You can lead without a title

Robin Sharma

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back The great champions have

all come back from defeat

Sam Snead (1912-2002 American golfer)

What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision

-Helen Keller The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement

Yet almost no one gets the encouragement they need

to grow to their full potential If everyone received the

encouragement they need to grow the genius in most

everyone would blossom and the world would produce

abundance beyond the wildest dreams We would have

more than one Einstein Edison Schweitzer Mother

Theresa Dr Salk and other great minds in a century

~Sidney Madwed

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Dont build your happiness on someone elses unhappiness

~ Richard Rose

―The mind turned inwards is the Self turned outwards it becomes the ego and all

the world

~ Ramana Maharshi

Somewhere there is someone who dreams of your smile and finds in your presence

that life is worthwhile

So when you are lonely remember its true somebody somewhere is thinking of

you

~ Anon

If youre open to altering your plans a bit you might achieve even better results

than youd anticipated

Peggy McColl A strong passion for any object will ensure success for the desire of the end will

point out the means

William Hazlitt (1778-1830 British essayist)

Successful people dont do different things they just do things differently

- Unknown You never will be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are

taken out of your life

James G Bilkey Author

Dreams do come true if we only wish hard enough You can have anything in life if

you will sacrifice everything else for it

James M Barrie (1860-1937 British playwright)

Seven blunders of the world

that lead to violence

wealth without work

pleasure without conscience

knowledge without character

commerce without morality

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science without humanity

worship without sacrifice

politics without principle

-Mahatma Gandhi

When people speak of prosperity they generally mean success and measure it in

terms of financial abundance There are books seminars and training sessions

designed to help individuals to be prosperous Clearly many are seeking the path to

prosperity Ironically when one is seeking prosperity the message they give to

themselves and the universe is that they do not have enough This is a scarcity

mentality and tends only to manifest more scarcity

~ Gwen Randall Young Money makes money and the money makes more money

~ Benjamin Franklin

BE the change you wish to see in the world

- Ghandhi The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched

They must be felt with the heart

~ Hellen Keller

Understanding does not cure evil but it is a definite help inasmuch as one can cope

with a comprehensible darkness

-Carl Jung

You are not powerless about anything

When you get a vision and then find

alignment with it you ARE powerful

And then amazing things begin to

happen around you

- Abraham-Hicks

Be kind whenever possible It is always possible

~ Dalai Lama

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A consistent soul believes in destiny a capricious one in chance

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881 British statesman Prime Minister)

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots

George Herbert (1593-1632 British metaphysical poet)

It is not the greatness of a mans means that makes him independent so much as

the smallness of his wants

William Cobbett (1762-1835 British journalist reformer)

If you desire many things many things will seem few

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790 American scientist publisher diplomat) Its the little things you do that can make a big difference What are you

attempting to accomplish What little thing can you do today that will make you

more effective You are probably only one step away from greatness

Bob Proctor Author and Speaker You may delay but time will not and lost time is never found again

~ Benjamin Franklin

Procrastination is the seed of self-destruction

~ Matthew Burton

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light

~ Helen Keller

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength

~ Sigmund Freud

Blessed are those that can give without remembering and take without

forgetting

~ Liz Bebesco Waiting is a trap There will always be reasons to wait

The truth is there are only two things in life reasons and results and reasons

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simply dont count

~ Dr Robert Anthony

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become

wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing The long

term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their

Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed

~ Srully Blotnick

If now there is something you

choose to experience in your life

do not want it -- choose it

Do you choose success in worldly

terms Do you choose more money

Good Then choose it Really

Fully Not half-heartedly

- Conversations with God Book 1

Its a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best you

very often get it

-Somerset Maugham

A world of abundance surrounds you if only you will step up and claim it Make life

happen through you rather than letting it happen to you It will make all the

difference in the world

- Ralph Marston Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving

it

~ William Arthur Ward

We must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible

otherwise we would not continue to search

-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Prosperity consciousness is the awareness that all of us have something of value

to offer and we all deserve to get paid for what we provide to others

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Peggy McColl Author of Viral Explosions Proven Techniques to Expand Explode or Ignite Your Business Or Brand Online Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying

~ Christian Furchtegott Gellert

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it

- Lou Holtz Procrastination is opportunitys natural assassin

~ Victor Kiam Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough

- Og Mandino 1923-1996 American Motivational Author and Speaker When you judge others you do not define them you define yourself

~ Earl Nightingale

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly

~ Richard Bach

If you tell the truth you dont have to remember anything

-Mark Twain

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity

belonging to them

William Hazlitt (1778-1830 British essayist)

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back The great champions

have all come back from defeat

Sam Snead 1912-2002 Golfer Faith is the assurance of things hoped for

- Unknown

The mediocre teacher tells The good teacher explains The superior teacher

demonstrates The great teacher inspires

~ William A Ward

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Never complain and never explain

~ --Benjamin Disraeli

Bless a thing and it will bless you Curse it and it will curse you If you bless a

situation it has no power to hurt you

Emmet Fox 1886-1951 Spiritual Leader Man alone has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man

alone can dream and make his dreams come true

Napoleon Hill (1883-1970 American speaker author Think And Grow Rich) Without AMBITION one starts nothing Without WORK one finishes nothing

The prize will NOT be sent to you You have to WIN it

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is to try to please

everyone

- Bill Cosby What we leave behind is not engraved in stone monuments but woven into the lives

of others

~ Pericles The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of

being unwanted

~ Mother Teresa (1910-1997 Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary)

Tough times never last Tough people do

-Robert Schuller

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions

- Eric Butterworth

A fellow at one of my workshops confessed For years I was so miserable that I

prayed to God daily to let me wake up as happy as my dog I went home and

thought about it Am I as happy as my dog Hmmmm

~ Alan Cohen

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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future You must break out of

your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the

unknown

Denis Waitley Author and Speaker

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us

William Feather (1888-19 American writer businessman )

It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow but only

empties today of its strength

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892 Preacher

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win by fearing to

attempt

William Shakespeare (1564-1616 British poet playwright actor)

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future You must break out of

your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the

unknown

Denis Waitley (1933- American author speaker trainer peak performance expert)

Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as

it should There are no mistakes anywhere at any time What appears to be wrong

is simply your own false imagination Thats all

~Robert Adams

How many ideas have there been in history that were unthinkable ten years

before they appeared

~Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Life in itself is an empty canvas it becomes whatsoever you paint on it You can

paint misery you can paint bliss This freedom is your glory

~Osho

―Cease trying to work everything out with your minds it will get you nowhere Live

instead by intuition and inspiration let your whole life become a revelation

~Eileen Caddy

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People should appreciate ugliness because if it wasnt for ugliness beautiful

things wouldnt look beautiful

~ Sam Lau

No great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig If

you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time Let it first

blossom then bear fruit then ripen

~Epictetus

You are the Self that perfect immutable Self Nothing else exists Nothing else

ever existed Nothing else will ever exist There is only one Self and you are That

Rejoice

~Robert Adams

Part of being a champ is acting like a champ You have to learn how to win and not

run away when you lose Everyone has bad stretches and real successes Either way

you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get too confident

~ Nancy Kerrigan

Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they

have deep inside them - a desire a dream a vision

~ Muhammad Ali

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents works his tail off to

develop them into skills and uses these skills to accomplish his goals

~ Larry Bird

Every time you smile at someone it is an action of love a gift to that person a

beautiful thing

-Mother Teresa

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end Its not a day when you

lounge around doing nothing its when youve had everything to do and youve done

it

-Lord Acton

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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do

- Walter Bagehot

Only the weak are cruel Gentleness can only be expected from the strong

~ Leo Buscaglia

If you are too busy to spend time with your children then you are busier than God

intended you to be

~ Rabbi Mendel Epstein

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards

~ Soren Kierkegaard

Procrastination is the fear of success People procrastinate because they are

afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now Because

success is heavy carries a responsibility with it it is much easier to procrastinate

and live on the someday Ill philosophy

~ Denis Waitley

Happiness cannot come from without It must come from within

~ Helen Keller

I make occasional visits to reality But Im not a full- time resident

-Ashleigh Brilliant

People are like sticks of dynamite The power is on the inside but nothing happens

until the fuse gets lit

Mac Anderson Author Are you disappointed discouraged and discontented with your present level of

success Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present status Do you want to

become a better and more beautiful person than you are today Would you like to

be able to really learn how to be proud of yourself and still not lose genuine

humility Then start dreaming Itlsquos possible You can become the person you have

always wanted to be

Robert H Schuller (1926- American minister author social leader)

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You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant

aspiration

- James Allen 1864-1912 Author of As A Man Thinketh

The man who has done his best has done everything

~ Charles Schwab Though no one can go back and make a brand new start anyone can start from now

and make a brand new ending

~ Carl Bard

When I get ready to talk to people I spend two thirds of the time thinking what

they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say

Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 16th President of the United States Discontent is the first necessity of progress

Thomas A Edison (1847-1931 American inventor founder of GE)

You dont get to choose how youre going to die Or when You can only decide how

youre going to live - now

- Joan Baez Singer Songwriter

Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as

it should There are no mistakes anywhere at any time What appears to be wrong

is simply your own false imagination Thats all You are the Self that perfect

immutable Self Nothing else exists Nothing else ever existed Nothing else will

ever exist There is only one Self and you are That Rejoice

~Robert Adams If your dream is a big dream and if you want your life to work on the high level

that you say you do theres no way around doing the work it takes to get you

there

~ Joyce Chapman We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an

imperfect person perfectly

~ Sam Keen

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―A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe a part limited in time

and space He experiences himself his thoughts and feeling as something

separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness This

delusion is a kind of prison for us restricting us to our personal desires and to

affection for a few persons nearest to us Our task must be to free ourselves from

this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and

the whole of nature in its beauty

-- Albert Einstein

―Each contact with a human being is so rare so precious one should preserve it

- Anais Nin

―Only connect That was the whole of her sermon Only connect the prose and the

passion and both will be exalted and human love will be seen at its height Live in

fragments no longer Only connect

-- EM Forster

―Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the

self And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our

connectedness to others

-- Harriet Goldhor Lerner

―And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to

do the same As we are liberated from our fear our presence automatically

liberates others

-- Marianne Williamson

No no we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like

waters and righteousness like a mighty stream

Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968 American Civil Rights leader Nobel Prize winner 964)

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a

very long time

~ Andre Gide (1869-1951 French author)

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Write down the thoughts of the moment Those that come unsought for are

commonly the most valuable

Francis Bacon 1561-1626 Philosopher Statesman Scientist and Author

A woman should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart and set out to

accomplish it Even if she fails again and again to accomplish her purpose (as she

necessarily must until weakness is overcome) the strength of character gained will

be the measure of her true success and this will form a new starting point for

future power and triumph

~ James Allen

To be blind is bad but worse is to have eyes and not see

~ Helen Keller

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning

to see an imperfect person perfectly

` Sam Keen

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start anyone can

start from now and make a brand new ending

` Carl Bard Always make a total effort even when the odds are against you

Arnold Palmer (1929- American golfer)

Learning is finding out what you already know Doing is demonstrating that you

know it Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you You are

all learners doers teachers

Richard Bach (1936- American author)

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day

Jenner Bruce 1949- American track athlete author speaker

Doubt whom you will but never yourself

John Christian Bovee (1820-1904 American author lawyer)

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When you give someone a book you dont give him just paper ink and glue You

give him the possibility of a whole new life

Christopher Morley 1890-1957 Novelist Journalist and Poet

Dont be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality If you can dream

it you can make it so

Belva Davis Award-Winning Journalist

The secret of mans being is not only to live but to have something to live for

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose

Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity and high purpose by itself is

utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Watch your thoughts they become words

Watch your words they become actions

Watch your actions they become habits

Watch your habits they become character

Watch your character it becomes your destiny

~ Frank Outlaw

Take good care of your future because thats where youre going to spend the

rest of your life

~ Charles F Kettering

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams

John Barrymore

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground

Stephen Covey

Its never too late to be what you might have been

George Elliot

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Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder

than anything we can say

Wilfred Peterson

True peace is not merely the absence of some negative force - tension confusion

or war it is the presence of some positive force - justice good will and

brotherhood

-Martin Luther King Jr

The important thing in this world is not where we stand but in what direction we

move

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing Action always

generates inspiration Inspiration seldom generates action

-Frank Tibolt

The only way to eliminate waris to love our children more than we hate our enemies

-Golda Meir

It has never been and never will be easy work But the road that is built in hope

is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they

both lead to the same destination

~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

And in the end its not the years in your life that count Its the life in your

years

~ Abraham Lincoln

Hold your head high stick your chest out You can make it It gets dark

sometimes but morning comes Keep hope alive

~ Jesse Jackson

Set your sights high the higher the better Expect the most wonderful things to

happen not in the future but right now Realize that nothing is too good Allow

absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way

Eileen Caddy Author

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To understand the heart and mind of a person look not at what he has already

achieved but at what he aspires to do

Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931 Lebanese poet novelist )

Bring everything up to the surface Accept your humanity your animality

Whatsoever is there accept it without any condemnation Acceptance is

transformation because through acceptance awareness becomes possible

~Osho

What is the best thing about being 100 years old Lack of peer pressure

-Michael Pritchard

The more credit you give away the more will come back to you The more you help

others the more they will want to help you

~ Brian Tracy

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact

~ William James

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes Chance nature

compulsions habit reason passion desire

~ Aristotle When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth think of Algebra

-Will Rogers

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say Yes Ive got

dreams of course Ive got dreams Then they put the box away and bring it out

once in a while to look in it and yep theyre still there These are great dreams

but they never even get out of the box It takes an uncommon amount of guts to

put your dreams on the line to hold them up and say How good or how bad am I

Thats where courage comes in

~ Erma Bombeck

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You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really

stop to look fear in the face You must do the thing which you think you cannot

do

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you love the money will follow

Marsha Sinetar (American author To Build The Life You Want Create The Work You Love)

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement we must choose freedom and the

responsibility this entails

Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998 American expert on love lecturer author)

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt and the dream will take care of

itself You may be surprised at how easily this happens Your doubts are not as

powerful as your desires unless you make them so

Marcia Wieder (American speaker trainer author)

I work every day -- or at least I force myself into my office or room I may get

nothing done but you dont earn bonuses without putting in time Nothing may

come for three months but you dont earn the fourth without it

Mordecai Richler (1931- Canadian writer)

If things are not going well with you begin your effort at correcting the situation

by carefully examining the service you are rendering and especially the spirit in

which you are rendering it

Roger Babson 1875-1967 Statistician and Columnist Its simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about

what the other fellow is going to do

- John R Amos

All beings are from the very beginning Buddhas

~ Hakuin

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly

or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man

~Chang Tzu

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The important thing is not to stop questioning Curiosity has its own reason for

existing One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of

eternity of life of the marvelous structure of reality It is enough if one tries

merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day Never lose a holy

curiosity

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Expect your every need to be met expect the answer to every problem expect

abundance on every level expect to grow spiritually You are not living by human

laws Expect miracles and see them take place Hold ever before you the thought

of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will

bring it into being

~Eileen Caddy

Bring everything up to the surface Accept your humanity your animality

Whatsoever is there accept it without any condemnation Acceptance is

transformation because through acceptance awareness becomes possible

~Osho

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who

keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road

Dag Hammarskjold 1905-1961 Statesman and Secretary-General of UN

Life is one massive challenge after another for everyone So you cant feel sorry

for yourself One real measure of you as a person is how much you can handle

without whining

~ Mike Brescia Author

We are each of us angels with only one wing And we can only fly by embracing each

other

-Luciano de Crescenzo

He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he

would like to have

~ Socrates

Quite often we change jobs friends and spouses instead of ourselves

~ Akbarali H Jetha

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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame

~ Benjamin Franklin

You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where

your thoughts take you

- James Allen

The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will

embrace for that day We cannot change our past

We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way We cannot change

the inevitable The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have and that

is our attitude

- Charles Swindoll author

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others

- Cicero 106 BC - 43 BC

If you want your life to be more rewarding you have to change the way you think

- Oprah Winfrey

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless

- Mother Teresa

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible

- Italian Proverb

Enthusiasm is the all-essential human jet propeller It is the driving force which

elevates people to miracle workers and creates endless energy the source of all

accomplishment

-Norman Vincent Peale

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends

you choose for you will become like them-

- W Clement Stone

Ones philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one

makes In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves The process

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never ends until we die And the choices we make are ultimately our own

responsibility

- Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 American First Lady We will stay young in life as long as we work toward something that were

supposed to do

~ Richard Rose I love the name of honor more than I fear death

~ Julius Caesar

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future making it predictable

and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible

Hannah Arendt 1906-1975 Political Theorist

Man has no greater enemy than himself

Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374 Italian poet humanist)

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety

-Aesop

You cannot tailor make your situation in life but you can tailor make your

attitudes to fit those situations

- Zig Ziglar speaker and author Set a goal to achieve something that is so big so exhilarating that it excites you

and scares you at the same time It must be a goal that is so appealing so much in

line with your spiritual core that you cant get it out of your mind If you do not

get chills when you set a goal youre not setting big enough goals

Bob Proctor Author and Speaker The only people who never fail are those who never try

Ilka Chase (1905-1978 American author actor)

In truth you are spirit The body has been projected by the mind which itself

originates from Spirit If the wrong identification ceases there will be peace and

permanent indescribable bliss

~Ramana Maharshi

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I flow with loving gratitude for all my blessings today

- Zoe Jarboe

People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be

~ Abraham Lincoln You are wealthy now with an abundance of what you are thinking about The world

is a creative engine and will create whatever you are really thinking Every thought

in your mind is a prayer about you no matter who the subject seems to be

~ Brad Jensen

A man who works with his hands is a laborer a man who works with his hands and

his brain is a craftsman but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his

heart is an artist

-Louis Nizer

When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score

John Enoch Powell (1912-1998 British statesman)

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get credit Try if

you can to belong to the first class there is far less competition

~ Dwight Morrow 1873-1931 Businessman Politician and Diplomat

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone but with heartfelt

conviction that we are doing nothing and God everything

~ St Ignatius Loyola Action is the real measure of intelligence

~ Napoleon Hill

Take the first step and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid But the

first essential is that you begin Once the battle is started all that is within and

without you will come to your assistance

~ Robert Collier

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You are what you are today because of the decisions and the choices YOU made

yesterday

~ Wayne Goonie

I have never seen a man who could do real work except under the stimulus of

encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom he is

working

Charles M Schwab (1862-1939 American industrialist businessman)

Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can

- Danny Kaye (1913-1987) Entertainer A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in

spite of overwhelming obstacles

~ Christopher Reeve A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always

with the same person

~ Mignon McLaughlin

We learn from failure much more than from success we often discover what we

will do by finding our what we will not do and probably he who never made a

mistake never made a discovery

Samuel Smiles (1812-1904 Scottish author)

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 16th American President)

Life has indeed many ills but the mind that views every object in its most

cheering aspect and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good bears

within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote

Lydia H Sigourney 1791-1865 Poet

The Next Step

The first step needs action to start it

The last requires patience to end

So we question which ones most important

When we realize our dreams our best friend

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Well the answer is neither theyre equal

But the one that will help you win through

And connect what you start to the finish

Is the next step thats waiting for you

Lifes dreamers are great Goal Achievers

Their faith and persistence just blends

Into one awesome cocktail of knowledge

That whatever they want they can get

You see they never visualize failure

Its success that they see shining through

Its essential to start and to finish

But the next step is what you must do

Alison Wilson

Set a goal to achieve something that is so big so exhilarating that it excites you

and scares you at the same time It must be a goal that is so appealing so much in

line with your spiritual core that you cant get it out of your mind If you do not

get chills when you set a goal youre not setting big enough goals

Bob Proctor Author and Speaker

There is no such thing as natural touch Touch is something you create by hitting

millions of golf balls

~ Lee Trevino

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation We do not act rightly because

we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted

rightly We are what we repeatedly do Excellence then is not an act but a habit

~ Aristotle

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement If everyone received the

encouragement they need to grow the genius in most everyone would blossom and

the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams

~ Unkwown

I do not believe in miracles at least not defined in the conventional religious

manner as divine disruptions of the natural order But if a miracle is defined as an

infinitely improbable phenomenon then our existence is a miracle which no theory

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natural or supernatural will ever explain

-John Horgan

Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that with nine women

pregnant you can get a baby in a month

--Wernher von Braun

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never

find out

~ Frank A Clark

You are what you are today because of the decisions and the

choices YOU made yesterday

~ Revt Wayne Goonie

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do

a little

~ Edmund Burke

We will stay young in life as long as we work toward something

that were supposed to do

~ Richard Rose

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions Small

people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become

great

- Mark Twain

Rich and poor are first created in the mind

A poor man asks How much will it COST me

A rich man asks How much will it MAKE me

Which one are you

~ Bryan Kumar

If you think you can do something that you cannot the belief itself prevents you

from accomplishing the task either because you never try it in the first place or

because you have block yourself by your belief

-Deena Zalkind Spear

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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear

Marcus Aurelius (121-12180 Roman emperor philosopher)

Character is doing whats right when nobodys looking

- J C Watts Jr Politician

Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions Small people

always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great

Mark Twain 1835-1910 Humorist and Writer

We are all salesmen every day of our lives We are selling our ideas our plans our

enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact

~ Charles M Schwab It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition

- Vernon Howard Maturity begins when were content to feel were right about something without

feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong

Sydney J Harris 1917-1986 Syndicated Columnist

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum

- Frances Willard Educator

Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given

~ Deepak Chopra Once power was considered a masculine attribute In fact power has no gender

~ Katherine Graham

An invasion of armies can be resisted but not an idea whose time has come

Victor Hugo

As the purse is emptied the heart is filled

Victor Hugo

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Be like the bird that passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight feels them

give way beneath her and yet sings knowing that she hath wings

Victor Hugo

Have no fear of robbers or murderers They are external dangers petty dangers

We should fear ourselves Prejudices are the real robbers vices the real murders

The great dangers are within us Why worry about what threatens our heads or

purses Let us think instead of what threatens our souls

Victor Hugo

He who opens a school door closes a prison

Victor Hugo

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man

Victor Hugo Be all you can be and live a good life -- have fun with it

Tina Yothers

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace

Yes Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive inner peace does

not

-Eckhart Tolle

A moments insight is sometimes worth a lifes experience

- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) Physician and writer

The superior persons learning goes in his ear attaches to his heart expands to

the end of his limbs and is established in his actions

Even in his smallest word or slightest action he sets an example

~ Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse) When I thought I couldnt go on I forced myself to keep going My success is

based on persistence not luck

Estee Lauder Entrepreneur

If you always do what interests you at least one person is pleased

Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003 American actress writer)

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Make Your Mark Count A childs life is like a piece of paper on which every person

leaves a mark

- Chinese Proverb

Pain shared is lessened joy shared increased

~ Spider Robinson

The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has its limits

~ Albert Einstein

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift let it be enthusiasm

Bruce Barton (1886-1967 American author advertising expert)

When you give your children knowledge you are telling them what you think That

is you are telling them what they are supposed to know what you want them to

understand is true

When you give your children wisdom you do not tell them what to know or what is

true but rather how to get to their own truth

-Neale Donald Walsch

I have found that if you love life life will love you back

- Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982) Musician

The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see

magic and beauty in them while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves

~ Kahlil Gibran

Practice is just as valuable as a sale The sale will make you a living the skill will

make you a fortune

~ Jim Rohn

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about

Charles Kingsley (1819-1875 British author clergyman)

Dont cry because its over - smile because it happened

Author unknown

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Happiness is like a kiss You must share it to enjoy it

~ Bernard Meltzer Our life is what our thoughts make it

~ Marcus Aurelius The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best Therefore it tends to

become the best It takes the form or character of the best and will receive the

best

-- Wallace Wattles

Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings

-- Marianne Williamson

―And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present and can be none in

the future And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned

to beautiful results

mdash Walt Whitman When you lose touch with inner stillness you lose touch with your Self

When you lose touch with your Self you lose yourself in the world

Your innermost sense of Self of who you are is inseparable from stillness

This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form

Eckhart Tolle Stillness Speaks

With wisdom I see that I am nothing

With love I see that I am everything

Between these two my life turns

Nisargadatta Maharaj Man often becomes what he believes himself to be If I keep on saying to myself

that I cannot do a certain thing it is possible that I may end by really becoming

incapable of doing it On the contrary if I shall have the belief that I can do it I

shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the

beginning

Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Indian Nationalist Leader

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Strategies designed to avoid something eventually produce exactly the thing they

are trying to avoid

-Michael Greenwood and Peter Nunn

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but

are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults

seem insignificant

Charles A Cerami

If all you did was just look for things to appreciate you would live a joyous

spectacular life

~Abraham-Hicks

Three things in human life are important The first is to be kind The second is to

be kind And the third is to be kind

- Henry James (1843-1916) Writer The moment of enlightenment is when a persons dreams of possibilities become

images of probabilities

~ Vic Braden Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot

fly

~ Langston Hugues Life is made up not of great sacrifices or duties but of little things in which

smiles and kindness and small obligations given habitually are what win and

preserve the heart and secure comfort

Humphry Davy 1778-1829 Chemist

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900 German philosopher)

The game of life is the game of boomerangs Our thoughts deeds and words

return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy

- Florence Shinn (1871-1940) Writer

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Some dream of doing great things while others stay awake and get on with it

~ Unknown With all your science can you tell how it is and whence it is that light comes into

the soul

-Hanry David Thoreau

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one but you wont come up

with a handful of mud either

- Leo Burnett (1891-1971) Advertising Executive

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the

only way we can leave the future open

Lillian Smith 1897-1966 Writer Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to

success when they gave up

~ Thomas A Edison Find something youre passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it

Julia Child (1912-2004 American gourmet cook author and television personality)

Now I say to you today my friends even though we face the difficulties of today

and tomorrow I still have a dream It is a dream deeply rooted in the American

dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true

meaning of its creed -- we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are

created equal

- Martin Luther King Jr ―Never let formal education get in the way of your learning

- Mark Twain

The path to success is to take massive determined action

~ Anthony Robbins For every minute you remain angry you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In the practice of tolerance ones enemy is the best teacher

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson When defeat comes accept it as a signal that

your plans are not sound rebuild those plans

and set sail once more toward your coveted goal

~ Napoleon Hill

We are all alike on the inside

Mark Twain (1835-1910 American humorist writer)

If you are going to do something carelessly it is better to give it up entirely

Russian Proverb

The world is like a mirror frown at it and it frowns at you

Smile and it smiles too

Herbert Samuels

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our

children

Charles R Swindoll

The important thing is not so much that every child should be

taught as that every child should be given the wish to learn

John Lubbock

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been

Mark Twain

It is a mistake to think that moving fast is the same as actually going somewhere

Steve Goodier A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops

Henry Adams

It is only with the heart that one can see clearly for the most

essential things are invisible to the eye

~ Antoine de Sainte Exupery

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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the

critical decisive hour Write it on your heart that every day is

the best day of the year

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier Be the living

expression of Gods kindness kindness in your face kindness in your eyes kindness

in your smile

- Mother Teresa

Its never too late to be who you might have been

- George EliotWriter

Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle

- Plato Philosopher

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition

- Vernon Howard

Ilsquove always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up

- Beverly Sills Opera Singer

Help others get ahead You will always stand taller with someone else on your

shoulders

- Bob Moawad Business Leader

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks

like work

Thomas Edison

Dream as if youll live forever

Live as if youll die tomorrow

~ James Dean

The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an

expectation that they can make it work or make it better

Barbara Pletcher Author

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As we grow up we get sophisticated out of enchantment and become too smart

about the things that cause children to wonder

-Thomas Moore

People come out to see you perform and youve got to give them the best you have

within you The lives of most men are patchwork quilts Or at best one matching

outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations A lifetime of

training for just ten seconds

Jesse Owens (1913-1980 American Olympian)

Nothing is easy to the unwilling

- Nikki Giovanni Whatever course you have chosen for yourself it will not be a chore but an

adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving if your sights are set

far above the merely secure and mediocre

~David Sarnoff 1891-1971 Entrepreneur I dont know any other way to lead but by example

Don Shula (1930- American football coach) Flexible people never get bent out of shape

- Author Unknown The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record

of successful experiences behind you

~ William Jennings Bryan The important thing is this To be able at any moment to sacrifice

what we are for what we could become

~ Charles du Bois Success isnt permanent and failure isnt fatal

- Mike Ditka

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The different between us is that I count and you dont

-Huston Smith

I love strange choices Im always interested in people who depart from what is

expected of them and go into new territory

Cate Blanchett Actress Always do your best What you plant now you will harvest later

Og Mandino (1923-1996 American motivational author speaker wwogmandinocom ) Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the Universe is endlessly

bountiful Just put forth a clear enough request and everything that your heart

desires must come to you

~Shakti Gawain The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would

suffice to solve most of the worlds problems

~ Unknown The only real valuable thing is intuition

- Albert Einstein

Waste your money and youre only out of money but waste your time and youve

lost a part of your life

~ Michael Leboeuf Fear is an insidious virus Given a breeding place in our minds it will eat away our

spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors

~ James F Bell

You cant base your life on other peoples expectations

Stevie Wonder Grammy Award Winning SingerSongwriter

An excuse is worse than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded

Alexander Pope (1688-1744 British poet critic translator)

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The thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and

beginning the work of becoming yourself

- Anna Quindlen ―Exert your talents and distinguish yourself and donlsquot think of retiring from the

world until the world will be sorry that you retire

- Samuel Johnson Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of

the odds against them They make the impossible happen

~ Dr Robert Jarvik

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances

if there is any reaction both are transformed

-Carl Jung There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right between

fairly good and the best between mediocrity and superiority

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)

I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright

I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more

I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive

I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger

I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting

I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess

I wish you enough Hellos to get you through the final Goodbye

Bob Perks

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie

~ William Shakespeare

It doesnt matter where you are coming from All that matters is where you are

going

~ Brian Tracy You need to be a somebody before you can be a nobody

-Brant Cortright

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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old

Franz Kafka Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it

bravely and gallantly as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an

unknown country to meet many a joy to find many a comrade to win and lose many

a battle

~ Annie Besant

I believe in taking a positive attitude toward the world My hope still is to leave

the world a little bit better than when I got here

Jim Henson 1936-1990 Muppets Creator Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life

Gita Bellin

Education is when you read the fine print Experience is what you get if you

dont

- Pete Seeger

Keep your thoughts positive because they become your words

Keep your words positive because they become your behaviors

Keep your behaviors positive because they become your habits

Keep your habits positive because they become your values

Keep your values positive because they become your destiny

-Gandhi

The challenge is not to manage time but to manage ourselves

Stephen Covey

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death It not only gives us

fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which

we hold our present being

~ William Hazlitt

Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith Having

faith in yourself in the process of change and in the new direction that change

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sets will reveal your own inner core of steel

Georgette Mosbacher Business Executive

Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life

Gita Bellin

Careful what you wish for Millions long for immortality who do not know what to

do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon

- Susan Ertz

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us What we have done for

others and the world remains and is immortal

Albert Pine

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate Our deepest fear is that we are

powerful beyond measure It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us

We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant gorgeous talented fabulous Actually

who are you NOT to be You are a child of God Your playing small does not serve

the world There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people wont

feel insecure around you We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is

within us It is not just in some of us it is in everyone And as we let our own light

shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same As we are

liberated from our own fear our presence automatically liberates others

~ Marianne Williamson

Focus on where we want to end up not on what we want to avoid

-Paula Underwood Spencer

A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact

that everything has happened for the best

Author Unknown

Change your thoughts and you change the world

- Harold R Mcalindon Today is yesterdays effect and tomorrows cause

~ Phillip Gribble

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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes one of his great surprises is to find

he can do what he was afraid he couldnt do

~ Henry Ford

I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist

- Paul Harvey

Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes

up his mind to do We are all capable of greater things than we realize

Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993 American Christian reformed pastor speaker author)

When everybody is looking for gold its a good time to be in the picks and shovels

business

~ Mark Twain

Waste your money and youre only out of money but waste your time and youve

lost a part of your life

~ Michael Leboeuf

It is a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best you

very often get it

~ W Somerset Maugham

Flatter me and I may not believe you Criticize me and I may not like you Ignore

me and I may not forgive you Encourage me and I will not forget you Love me and

I may be forced to love you

William Arthur Ward

―Trust yourself You know more than you think you do

Benjamin Spock

―A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise

after success

Anon

―Nine tenths of education is encouragement

Anatole Franc

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Maybe you cant change the whole world but if you have love in your heart you can

make small differences every day which really does change the world one life at a

time

Kristina Koncz Customer Experience Specialist

Let us be about setting high standards for life love creativity and wisdom If our

expectations in these areas are low we are not likely to experience wellness

Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward

to

Greg Anderson (American author The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness)

Truce is better than friction

- Charles Herguth

Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they

have deep inside them -- a desire a dream a vision

~ Muhammad Ali

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each mans

life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that

take our breath away

~ George Carlin

You can conquer almost any fear if you will make up your mind to do so For

remember fear doesnt exist anywhere except in the mind

Dale Carnegie 1888-1955 Author and Speaker

Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others

They learn when they do which isnt often on their own the hard way

Robert Heinlein (1907-1988 American science fiction writer)

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the

expense of everybody else

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-Frederic Bastiat

Some think its holding on that makes one strong sometimes its letting go

- Sylvia Robinson We are responsible for what we are and whatever we wish ourselves to be we

have the power to make ourselves If what we are now has been the result of our

own past actions it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be

produced by our present actions so we have to know how to act

~ Swami Vivekananda

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning but anyone can start today and

make a new ending

~ Maria Robinson

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves

Brian Tracy (1944- Canadian-born American trainer speaker author businessman)

Anger is the only thing to put off till tomorrow

- Slovakian Proverb

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know

peace

~Jimi Hendrix Do not wait the time will never be just right

Start where you stand and work with whatever tools you may have at your

command and better tools will be found as you go along

~ Napoleon Hill

When we lose the right to be different we lose the privilege to be free

Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948 American jurist politician)

You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone which can become a

watered-down occasional hope that youll get to tomorrow Intention without

action is useless

Caroline Myss Author of Entering The Castle

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Plan ahead -- It wasnt raining when Noah built the ark

-Anononymous

Only you can be yourself

No one else is qualified for the job

- Shelby Collinge

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall

~ Confucius

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom But in the last analysis our

only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves

~ Bernard M Baruch

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941 Indian poet philosopher)

Worry is the misuse of the imagination

- Dan Zadra

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else you will have succeeded

Maya Angelou

Trust yourself Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your

life Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny inner sparks of possibility into

flames of achievement

~ Foster C McClellan There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal

experience has brought it home

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873 British philosopher economist)

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall

never sit in

-Greek proverb

We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails

- Bertha Calloway

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Democracy arose from mens thinking that if they are equal in any respect they

are equal absolutely

~ Aristotle

Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can

~ Richard Bach

If the world seems cold to you kindle fires to warm it

~ Lucy Larcom All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their

gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible

Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924 Writer Physician Hotel Owner and founder of Success Magazine

A Friend is a treasure more precious than Gold For love shared is priceless and

never grows old

Author Unknown

Only that which cannot be taken away by death is real Everything else is unreal it

is made of the same stuff dreams are made of

~Osho

Personality can open doors but only character can keep them open

- Elmer G Leterman

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they

dont know when to quit Most men succeed because they are determined to

~ George Allen Coach

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what

lies within us

~ Walt Emerson Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by

employing it well Then youth will be happy old age without regret and life a

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beautiful success

Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888 Novelist Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution

experience lifes deepest joy true fulfillment

Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet enough trials to make you

strong enough sorrow to keep you human enough hope to make you happy

-Anonymous

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the

things we do

- Freya Madeline Stark

We must become the change we want to see

~ Mahatma Gandhi

You know its not more knowledge its not more education its not more facts

that we need Its a better use of what we already have that we need to have You

have each and every one of you within your potential power right now to do a

wonderful job in your chosen field - if you would only embrace it and use it

Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think And Grow Rich

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be

respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure

Buddha (568-488 BC Indian born founder of Buddhism)

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change and all patterns alter

- Sharon Salzberg When we let freedom ring when we let it ring from every village and every

hamlet from every state and every city we will be able to speed up that day when

all of Gods children black men and white men Jews and Gentiles Protestants and

Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro

spiritual

Free at last Free at last

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Thank God Almighty we are free at last

~ Reverand Martin Luther King Jr All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them

~ Walt Disney Your own common sense should tell you that common sense alone is not enough

-Ashleigh Brilliant

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and

deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your

place

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)

Know what counts

No matter what youve done for yourself or for humanity if you cant look back on

having given love and attention to your own family what have you really

accomplished

- Lee Iacocca

There is a giant asleep within every man When that giant awakes miracles happen

~ Frederick Faust There are those that look at things the way they are and ask why I dream of

things that never were and ask why not

~ Robert F Kennedy

There is nothing impossible to him who will try

~ Alexander the Great

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance Remember the greatest

failure is to not try Once you find something you love to do be the best at doing

it

Debbi Fields Founder of Mrs Fields Cookies

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul

Marcus Aurelius (121-12180 Roman emperor philosopher)

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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left

undone

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Shoot for the moon Even if you miss youll land among the stars

~ Les Brown

Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been

told is what they cant do They dont know what they want because they dont

know whats available for them

~ Zig Ziglar

Accept that some days youre the pigeon and some days youre the statue

-Anonymous

Be life long or short its completeness depends on what it was lived for

- David Starr Jordan

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life

by altering his attitude

~ William James

It has never been and never will be easy work

But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road

built in despair even though they both lead to the same destination

~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

―No matter what anybody tells you words and ideas can change the world

~ John Keating (from the movie Dead Poets Society) hellip Every tomorrow has two handles We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety

or the handle of faith

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887 American preacher orator writer) The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it

~ Chinese proverb

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Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to

success when they gave up

~ Thomas Edison

I am always doing things I cant do thats how I get to do them

~ Picasso When you maximize your talents youre on path on purpose on target When you

dont youre off path off purpose off target

Kevin Hall Author of Aspire

Comparisons of ones lot with others teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will

Thornton Wilder (1897-1975 American novelist playwright)

Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

While we have the gift of life it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of

us to die - whether it is our spirit our creativity or our glorious uniqueness

- Gilda Radner

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state

of being alive If life is to be sustained hope must remain even where confidence is

wounded trust impaired

~ Erik H Erikson

Dont go on discussing what a good person should be Just be one

Marcus Aurelius

Our wisdom comes from our experience and our experience comes from our

foolishness

Sacha Guitry

I would rather live in a world where life is surrounded by mystery than live in a

world so small that my mind could comprehend it

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Our first teacher is our own heart

Cheyenne proverb

Power coerces

Knowledge persuades

Love converts

Proverb

Do not kiss your children so they will kiss you back but so they will kiss their

children and their childrens children

Noah Benshea

We read to know we are not alone

CS Lewis

Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better

Albert Einstein

Keeping score of old scores and scars getting even and one-upping always makes

you less than you are

- Malcolm Forbes

When you know that youre capable of dealing with whatever comes you have the

only security the world has to offer

Harry Browne 1933-2006 Writer and Politician

You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never

be ableto repay you

- John Wooden

Freedom know this that every manwoman is free to choose his life and what hell

be For this eternal truth is given God will force no man to heaven Hell call

persuade direct aright Bless with wisdom love and light in nameless ways be

good and kind but never force the human mind

~ William C Clegg

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There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than

the one you are capable of living

~ Nelson Mandela to Marianne Williamson If it werent for the rocks in its bed the stream would have no song

-Carl Perkins

Whenever encountering a troublesome person do not identify him as being cruel

or stupid or rude or anything else like that Instead see him as a frightened

person

Vernon Howard 1918-1992 Author and Philosopher When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves it is useless to seek it

elsewhere

~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680 French classical writer) Live for the moment

If I have learnt anything it is that life forms no logical patterns It is haphazard

and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by for who knows whether any

of them will ever return

- Margo Fonteyn

Isnt it strange that princesses and kings and clowns that caper in sawdust rings

and common people like you and me are builders for eternity Each is given a bag of

tools a shapeless mass a book of rules and each must make ere life is flown a

stumbling block or stepping stone

~ Edgar Guest We are what we repeatedly do Excellence then is not an act but a habit

~ Aristotle

Whatever you can do or dream you can do begin it Boldness has genius power

and magic in it

~ Wolfgang von Goethe Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state Being in love shows a person who he should be ~ Anton Chekhov

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Follow the grain in your own wood

- Howard Thurman

It is said that if you are not living your dreams you are living your fears

~ Ghalil Professional Dreamer

―Dont ask what the world needs Ask what makes you come alive because what the

world needs is people who have come alive

- Harold Thurman

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success When you do a thing

do it with all your mind Put your whole soul to it Stamp it with your own

personality Be active be energetic be enthusiastic and faithful and you will

accomplish your object Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Essayist Philosopher and Poet

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do

John Wooden (1910- American basketball coach)

For the most part fear is nothing but an illusion When you share it with someone

else it tends to disappear

- Marilyn C Barrick

The purpose of life is not to arrive safely at your death

- Robert Holden

When everything seems to be going against you remember that theairplane takes

off against the wind not with it

Henry Ford

There are two freedoms the false where a man is free to do what he likes the

true where he is free to do what he ought

~ Charles Kingsley Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one

could find fault with it

John Henry Newman (1801-1890 British religious leader prelate writer)

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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

New ideas pass through three periods

It cant be done

It probably can be done but its not worth doing

I knew it was a good idea all along

-Arthur C Clarke A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you think creates your life all you have to do is ask yourself what you are

willing to accept into your life

~ Ghalil Author - Professional Dreamer

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and

deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your

place

~ Orison Swett Marden Well done is better than well said

~ Benjamin Franklin Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one

could find fault with it

John Henry Newman (1801-1890 British religious leader prelate writer) If youre looking for perfection look in the mirror If you find it there expect it

elsewhere

Malcolm S Forbes (1919-1990 American publisher businessman) Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have

- H Jackson Brown Jr A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish great things

~ Chinese Proverb

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If we listened to our intellect wed never have a love affair Wed never have a

friendship Wed never go into business because wed be cynical Well thats

nonsense Youve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down

~ Ray Bradbury

Successful people decide how they are going to live they are not victims of

circumstance In good times or bad times they know where they are going and they

know that they are going to get there

Bob Proctor Author and Speaker

First they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you then you win

~ Mahatma Gandhi The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing

- Walt Disney 1901-1966 American Film ProducerDirectorAnimator

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas first make him your friend

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))

Doubting everything or believing everything are two equally convenient solutions

both of which save us from thinking

-Jules Henri Poincareacute

Dont be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning Thats only the initial

impression The important thing is not to retreat you have to master yourself

Olga Korbut Olympic Gold Medallist Gymnast

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental

difference in someones life

- Sister Mary Rose McGeady All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future

task of the philosopher which is to solve the problem of value to determine the

true hierarchy of values

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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Let no man pull you low enough to hate him

~ Martin Luther King Dont concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal -

leave that completely to a power greater than yourself All you have to do is know

where youre going The answers will come to you of their own accord and at the

right time

Earl Nightingale 1921-1989 Syndicated Radio Announcer and Author

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs

~ Gloria Steinem

Now I say to you today my friends even though we face the difficulties of today

and tomorrow I still have a dream It is a dream deeply rooted in the American

dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true

meaning of its creed -- we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are

created equal

~ Martin Luther King Jr

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams Live the life you have imagined

David Thoreau Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions Small people always do

that but the really great make you believe that you too can become great

~ Mark Twain Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure (values) and Ill tell

you their philosophy of life

~ Dale Carnegie To forgive is merely to remember ONLY the LOVING thoughts you gave in the

past and those that were given you ALL the rest must be forgotten

~ A Course In Miracles If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a

prophet

Isaac Bashevis Singer 1904-1991 Journalist and Writer

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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us

~ Voltaire

We are all of us stars and we deserve to twinkle

~ Marilyn Monroe

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do

right

~ Nelson Mandela

It has never been and never will be easy work But the road that is built in hope

is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they

both lead to the same destination

~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society

~J Krishnamurti

Every situation properly perceived becomes an opportunity to heal

~ A Course in Miracles

The love that you withhold in life is the pain that you carry

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as

the quality of perseverance It overcomes almost everything even nature

John D Rockefeller (1839-1937 American industrialist philanthropist founder Exxon)

All I ask is for an unfair advantage

~ WC Fields Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words Keep your

words positive because your words become your behaviors Keep your behaviors

positive because your behaviors become your habits Keep your habits positive

because your habits become your values Keep your values positive because your

values become your destiny

~Gandhi

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Your ego is creating obstacles Maya creating maya

~Babaji Step back Observe without judgment unconditional Watch now as obstacles

melt become no-thing Do this each time a block appears Step back and observe

without judgment

~Babaji

Everybody cannot be a painter a poet or a geniusthose are given qualities from

birth But everybody can be enlightened Enlightenment is the only thing the only

experience where everybody is equally capable And it does not depend on whether

you believe in God or not it depends only on one thingand that is a little taste (of

meditation) and suddenly you become confident that youre capable of it

~Osho There are no accidents or coincidences in this world Nothing is by chance

Everything you experience is a direct manifestation of where you focus your

attention and hold your vibration

~Jafree When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off

into the darkness of the unknown faith is knowing one of two things will happen

There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly

~ Barbara J Winter High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly make big decisions quickly and

move into action immediately Follow these principles and you can make your dreams

come true

Robert H Schuller Televangelist Pastor and Author

Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you but seek out another to console and

you will find consolation

J C Macaulay

High Expectations are the key to everything

~ Sam Walton Founder Wal-Mart

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Until you make peace with who you are youll never be content with what you

have

~ Doris Mortman You must constantly ask yourself these questions Who am I around What are

they doing to me What have they got me reading What have they got me saying

Where do they have me going What do they have me thinking And most

important what do they have me becoming Then ask yourself the big question Is

that okay Your life does not get better by chance it gets better by change

Jim Rohn 1930-2009 Author and Speaker

Believe it You CAN succeed at whatever you do as long as you simply take the

right ACTIONS

~ ER Haas CEO

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do The hard

part is doing it

~ General H Norman Schwarzkopf So let your deepest desires direct your aim Set your sights far above the

reasonable target The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire

that stirs the heart

Price Pritchett Author of You2

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do

Walter Bagehot (1826-1977 British economist critic)

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or

better than themselves

~ Tryon Edwards

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high

and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach it

~ Michelangelo Compared to what we ought to be we are only half awake We are making use of

only a small part of our physical and mental resources Stating the thing broadly

the human individual thus lives far within his limits He possesses power of various

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sorts which he habitually fails to use

William James (1842-1910 American psychologist professor author) People wait for opportunity to come along yet it is there every morning

~ Dennis the Menace A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow

~ George S Patton (1885-1945 American army general during World War II)

The last best fruit which comes to late perfection even in the kindliest soul is

tenderness toward the hard forbearance toward the unforbearing warmth toward

the cold philanthropy toward the misanthropic

~ Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825 German novelist)

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a

prophet

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991 Polish-born American journalist writer)

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than

by those given to us by others

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662 French scientist religious philosopher) Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty

~ John Ruskin (1819-1900 British critic social theorist)

Expect your every need to be met expect the answer to every problem expect

abundance on every level expect to grow spiritually You are not living by human

laws Expect miracles and see them take place Hold ever before you the thought

of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will

bring it into being

~Eileen Caddy

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we

believe And the only real wealth for any of us lies in our faith

~ Gordon B Hinckley

Desire is the Starting Point of All Achievement

~ - Napoleon Hill

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And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to

do the same

Nelson Mandela

The more we have the less we own

Meister Eckhart (1260-1326 German mystic)

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs jolted by every

pebble in the road

Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887 Preacher and Abolitionist

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength Richard L Evans

The secret of Happiness is Freedom and the secret of Freedom Courage

~ Thucydides (Greek historian 460-404 BC)

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in

the mature than in the young

Paul McCartney SingerSongwriter I cant believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary

Lou Holtz (937- American football coach)

Dont let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he

was

~ Richard L Evans

To dream anything that you want to dream that is the beauty of the human mind

To do anything that you want to do that is the strength of the human will To trust

yourself to test your limits that is the courage to succeed

~ Bernard Edmonds

I find my greatest pleasure and so my reward in the work that precedes what the

world calls success

Thomas A Edison (1847-1931 American inventor founder of GE)

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It is good to act as if It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer

an act

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832 British sportsman writer)

Tell me what you want and Ill show you how to get it

~ Bob Proctor

One is very crazy when in love

~ Sigmund Freud

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed Always aim at

purifying your thoughts and everything will be well

Mahatma Gandhi

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything keep it

Mahatma Gandhi Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony

Mahatma Gandhi

Hate the sin love the sinner

Mahatma Gandhi

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress

Mahatma Gandhi

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress

Mahatma Gandhi

True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the

future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied

with what we have which is sufficient for he that is so wants nothing The great

blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach

~ Seneca 4 BC to 65 AD - Spanish Philosopher

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When you paint success pictures in your mind you initiate an inner process

whereby your attitudes hopes aspirations and enthusiasm are elevated in

response to an image of a more promising future Every person who aspires must

first sell themselves hope the promise of a better life

US Andersen 1917-1986 Author of The Magic In Your Mind

How far is far how high is high Well never know until we try

Song from the California Special Olympics If you take each challenge one step at a time with faith in every footstep your

strength and understanding will increase

~ James E Faust

What is your individual purpose What would you like to be able to say is your

legacy I believe that each of us wants to find our purpose in life our raison

detre or reason for being We need to have a motive to get out of bed in the

morning We want to feel alive and passionate about something Something that

makes a difference in the world We are not alone in this and yet many of us are

still searching for that purpose

~ Veronica Hay We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds

Warren Buffett (1930- American investment entrepreneur)

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy but its good too to

check up once in a while and make sure you havent lost the things money cant

buy

George Lorimer 1867-1937 Editor of Saturday Evening Post

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence Talent will not nothing is

more common than unsuccessful men with talent Genius will not unrewarded genius

is almost a proverb Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent

~ Calvin Coolidge

Desperation can be as powerful inspirer as genius

Benjamin Disraeli

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We read to know we are not alone

CS Lewis

Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better

Albert Einstein The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the

road after you have shown him the way

Confucius

A baby has a way of making a man out of his father and a boy out of his

grandfather

Angie Papadakis

My father didnt tell me how to live he lived and let me watch him do it

Clarence B Kelland No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing

William Barclay

If you think youre lucky you are

Bobby Dodd

When youre safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when youre

having an adventure you wish you were safe at home

Thornton Wilder Obstacles dont have to stop you If you run into a wall dont turn around and give

up Figure out how to climb it go through it or work around it

~ Michael Jordan In order to attain the impossible one must attempt the impossible

~ Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616 Spanish novelist dramatist poet)

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as

the quality of perseverance It overcomes almost everything even nature

~ John D Rockefeller

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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is

when men are afraid of the light

~ Plato

Doubt of whatever kind can be ended by action alone

Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 Philosopher and Author

Poverty is not a shame but the being ashamed of it is

English Proverb

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well

~ Unknown

We need to exert ourselves that much more and break out of the vicious cycle of

dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful those in command of

immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own

image

~ Nelson Mandela

High Expectations are the key to everything

~ Sam Walton Founder Wal-Mart

Failures are expected by losers ignored by winners

~ Joe Gibbs Football Coach Most people live and die with their music still unplayed They never dare to try

Mary Kay Ash

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own

existence

Aristotle

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to

the eye

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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If A equals success then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z

with X being work Y play and Z keeping your mouth shut

~ Albert Einstein

Tomorrows battle is won during todays practice

Japanese Proverb

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days

What you can do or think you can do begin it For boldness has magic power and

genius in it

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 Poet Novelist and Scientist

Forget about all the reasons why something may not work You only need to find

one good reason why it will

Dr Robert Anthony

No matter how busy you are you must take time to make the other person feel

important

Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001 American businesswoman founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics)

I used to be a very serious not funny negative person Funny-cism Skepticism

Criticism and all Then I got introduced to the world of Positive Thinking Now Im

bipolar

~ Andy Dooley Spiritual Comedian and Professional Speaker

Your past is not your potential In any hour you can choose to liberate the future

Marilyn Ferguson (American writer) Everyone wants to be appreciated so if you appreciate someone dont keep it a

secret

~ Mary Kay Ash 1915-2001 Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds

and these magnets attract to us the forces the people the circumstances of life

which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts

~ Napoleon Hill

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You more often recognize your inadequacies rather than your strengths

~ James E Faust

I live by this credo Have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness

instead of sadness Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations Even

in your darkest moment you usually can find something to laugh about if you try

hard enough

Red Skelton 1913-1997 Comedian

Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth

George W Crane Some self-confronting questions

Where do I want to be at any given time

How am I going to get there

What do I have to do to get myself from where

I am to where I want to be

Whats the first small step I can take to get moving

~ George A Ford The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can

bribe the public with the publics money

- Alexis de Tocqueville The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race

~ Don Marquis At the height of laughter the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new

possibilities

-- Jean Houston Begin to weave and God will give you the thread

~ German Proverb If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who

are rich

John F Kennedy (1917-1963 35th American President)

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If you keep THINKING what you are thinking you will keep DOING what you are

doing and you will keep GETTING what you are getting

~ Dr Robert Anthony The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world

~ Lao-tzu Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them and to

let them know that you trust them

Booker T Washington 1856-1915 Educator and Writer ―Stress is the tax you pay for not taking 100 responsibility for your life

mdashDr Barnet Meltzer Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it

~ Irving Berlin It is by surmounting difficulties not by sinking under them that we discover our

fortitude

~ Hannah Webster Foster

Believing requires action

~ James E Faust

Dont do anything in practice that you wouldnt do in the game

George Halas (1895-1983 American football coach)

Its better to reach for the stars and land on the roof than to reach for the

roof and land in the garbage

~ Savanna Skinner

Whatever you focus your intention on is what will show up in your life

Your consistent thoughts create your consistent results

~ Dr Robert Anthony

He who gains a victory over other men is strong but he who gains a victory over

himself is all powerful

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Lao-Tzu (BC 600- Chinese philosopher founder of Taoism) His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the

memory of a wrong

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great masters merit emulation not worship

-- Alan Cohen

Mirth is Gods medicine Everybody ought to bathe in it

-- Henry Ward Beecher

Snowflakes are one of natures most fragile things but just look what they can do

when they stick together

~ anon

Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you

are and what you want

-- Alan Cohen

Life isnt about waiting for the storm to pass its about learning to dance in the

rain

~Anonymous

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose for this thing that we call

failure is not the falling down but the staying down

Mary Pickford 1893-1979 Actress and Producer

Courage does not always roar Sometimes courage is that quiet voice at the end of

the day that saysI will try again tomorrow

-Mary Anne Radmacher

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act or thought or word that raises

us above ourselves

~ Arthur P Stanley

―You see things and say Whylsquo but I dream things and say Why notlsquo

- George Bernard Shaw

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―The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and

convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges

- Martin Luther King Jr

―Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions Small people always do

that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great

- Mark Twain

―That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as

well

- Abraham Lincoln

―Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though

checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor

suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor

defeat

- Theodore Roosevelt

―Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm

- Winston Churchill

―I have not failed Ilsquove just found 10000 ways that wonlsquot work

- Thomas Edison If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun

--Katharine Hepburn

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist sees

problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems

~ Winston Churchill

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but

are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults

seem insignificant

Charles A Cerami Author

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If everyone on earth loved each other the earth would shine brighter than the

sun

-- Source unknown

As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again you are

merely a vague guest on a dark Earth

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

So many worlds so much to do so little done such things to be

~ Lord Alfred Tennyson

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy nothing can make a fool content

that is why most men are miserable

Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680 French classical writer)

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live

~ Flora Whittemore I am only one but still I am one I cannot do everything but still I can do

something I will not refuse to do the something I can do

Helen Keller 1880-1968 Author and Lecturer Where theres a will theres a way

English Proverb A manwoman without ambition is dead

A man with ambition but no love is dead

A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive

~Pearl Bailey We cant help everyone but everyone can help someone

~ Ronald Reagan

We must not promise what we ought not lest we be called on to perform what we

cannot

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))

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Once you realize you dont need anything youre free to have whatever you want

- Ian Watson

Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable

confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy ~ Norman Vincent Peale Every goal every action every thought every feeling one experiences whether it

be consciously or unconsciously known is an attempt to increase ones level of

peace of mind

~ Sidney Madwed

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so For

remember fear doesnt exist anywhere except in the mind

Dale Carnegie 1888-1955 Speaker and Author Great souls have wills feeble ones have only wishes

Chinese Proverb

―Focus your attention on your desire

not the situation that gave birth to your desire

mdashRich German Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone

and let your hand give in proportion to your purse

~ George Washington

Time I have only just a minute

Only sixty seconds in it

Forced upon me cant refuse it

Didnt seek it didnt choose it

But its up to me to use it

I must suffer if I lose it

Give account if I abuse it

Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it

~ Christine Warren

Do what you can with what you have where you are

~ Theodore Roosevelt

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With every adversity comes a seed of equal or greater opportunity

~ Napoleon Hill

Heart is merely another name for the Supreme Spirit because He is in all hearts

The entire Universe is condensed in the body and the entire body in the Heart

Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe

~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

―If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back then

you suffer Every moment is the most important moment of your life No future

time is better than now to let down your guard and love

~ David Deida

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for youll be criticized anyway Youll

be damned if you do and damned if you dont

~ Eleanor Roosevelt Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do

~ John Wooden

One difference between successful people and all the rest is that successful

people take action

~ Bob Proctor Speaker and Author

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left Every

mans greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life

~ P W Litchfield ―There is a giant asleep within every man When the giant awakes miracles happen

~ Frederick Faust Focus more on your desire than on your doubt and the dream will take care of

itself You may be surprised at how easily this happens Your doubts are not as

powerful as your desires unless you make them so

Marcia Wieder Author and Speaker

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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning by dreams that need

completion by pure love that needs expressing then we truly live life

~ Greg Anderson Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you

Never excuse yourself

~ Henry Ward Beecher There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge

- both poverty and riches are offspring of thought

~ Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think and Grow Rich The person with a fixed goal a clear picture of his desire or an ideal always

before him causes it through repetition to be buried deeply in his subconscious

mind and is thus enabled thanks to its generative and sustaining power to realize

his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort Just pursue

the thought unceasingly Step by step you will achieve realization for all your

faculties and powers become directed to that end

~ Claude M Bristol Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake

~ Henry David Thoreau If opportunity doesnt knock build a door

~ Milton Berle Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well I am

not aware of any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking not exercise

not drugs not surgery--that has a greater impact on our quality of life incidence

of illness and premature death

- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak It is born of strength and

understanding

-- Meher Baba Unworthiness is simply a case of mistaken identity

-- Alan Cohen

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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet

-- Mahatma Gandhi If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march

on

-- Stopford Brooke It is usually the imagination that is wounded first rather than the heart it being

much more sensitive

~ Henry David Thoreau You need not struggle for your good Your good flows to you naturally when you are

relaxed open and trusting

-- Alan Cohen If you dont love it you cant afford it

Alan Cohen

Ask for peace first and you will clearly see your next step

-- Alan Cohen I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited

and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts Namely the physical universe

-- Ken Jenkins Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be exceptional

~ Mark Sanborn Life isnt what you want it to be its what you make it become

~ Anthony Ryan

If you are very quiet you can hear the world applauding

--Source unknown

Do you remember how electrical currents and unseen waves were laughed at

The knowledge about man is still in its infancy

~ Albert Einstein

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Wherever you go go with all your heart

~ Confucius I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up Most people in this

business gave up and went on to other things If you simply didnt give up you

would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you

Harrison Ford Actor

The quality of your life is determined by the number of uncomfortable

conversations you are willing to have

~ Rich German

To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define

themselves As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate

influences of the culture and environment we grow up in we come to have beliefs

about the nature of being human These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of

our psychosomatic systems our minds and brains our nervous systems our

endocrine systems and even our blood and sinews We act speak and think

according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems

~ Jeremy W Hayward

A mans true wealth is the good he does in the world Mohammed (c570-c632

Mecca spiritual leader

Every man is the architect of his own fortune

~ Sallust

What is opportunity and when does it knock

It never knocks

You can wait a whole lifetime listening hoping and you will hear no knocking

None at all

You are opportunity and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny

You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity to pursue and seize opportunity as

you develop the strength of your personality and build a self-image with which you

are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing

~ Maxwell Maltz

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Today I would like to become the man my dog thinks I am

Jack Thomson Entrepreneur BE the change you want to see in the world

- Mahatma Gandhi

Leaders are made they are not born They are made by hard effort

which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile

~ Vince Lombardi To honor the spirit is to accept the opportunity for your healing and personal

evolution When you choose to assume radical personal responsibility knowing that

you are responsible for the effect external circumstances have on you you are

taking a stand for the power of your spiritual nature to run the show

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think Its really important that you feel good Because this feeling good is what goes

out as a signal into the universe and starts to attract more of itself to you So the

more you can feel good the more you will attract the things that help you feel

good and that will keep bringing you up higher and higher

Joe Vitale Author and Speaker Just listen to the still voice within This is the mind to trust This is god

consciousness speaking not the ego that is seeking recognition

~Angela Walker

There is a prayer that lives in the center of your heart If you pray it it will

change your life How does it begin

-- Matthew Anderson

For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin but there was

always some obstacle in the way Something had to be got through first some

unfinished business time still to be served a debt to be paid Then life would

begin At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life

~ Bette Howland

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power then the world will know

peace

Jimmy Hendrix There are two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the

credit Try to be in the first group there is less competition there

Indira Gandhi Its good to have money and all the things that money can buy but its good too to

make sure you havent lost the things that money cant buy George

Horace Lorimer When you take things for granted the things you are granted get taken

Phil Hennessy Self-confidence is a state of mind where you believe that you deserve the best

you are capable of achieving the best and furthermore you expect the best to

happen

--- Dr Barnet Meltzer Writing is good thinking is better Cleverness is good patience is better

~ Hermann Hesse

You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the

greatness you perceive in them is your own

-- Alan Cohen

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their

gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible

Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924 Writer I will not condemn you for what you did yesterday If you do it right today

--Sheldon S Maye

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength

not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will

~ Vince Lombardi

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The moment one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too

-- William Hutchinson Murray

Youve got to get up every morning with determination if youre going to

go to bed with satisfaction

-- George Horace Lorimer Faith is born of Definiteness of Purpose

Keep your mind on the things that you do want and off the things that you do not

want

~ Unknown You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals

George S Patton 1885-1945 American Army General

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have

thrown at him

~ David Brinkley

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough

~ Helen Keller

If what you did yesterday seems big you havent done anything

today

Lou Holtz

Dont wait for extraordinary opportunities Seize common occasions and make

them great Weak menwomen wait for opportunities strong menwomen make

them

~ Orison Swett Marden

The recognition you seek from others is really the recognition you seek from

yourself Give it to yourself and you wont need it from others

-- Alan Cohen Ninety percent of the population wish positive but think negative

~ Leslie Householder

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You are more likely to create success when you are relaxed about a result than

when you are uptight about it

-- Alan Cohen Embrace Change True success can be defined by your ability to adapt to

changing circumstances

-- Connie Sky Aim High The important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for

what we could become

-- Charles Du Bos Dont ask for an easier life ask to be a stronger person

Shared by Kristen Goeser

Your consciousness is a powerful force for creating It determines the people you

are attracted to and the people who are attracted to you If you want to improve

your lot in life or the quality of your relationships choosing to accept personal

responsibility is the first and most important step

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise it is all

over Bolt up at once

-- Sir Walter Scott

You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you cant have it

- Dr Robert Anthony Live so that you wouldnt be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip

Will Rogers 1879-1935 Comedian and Actor

Everyone rides on the merry go round of life but very few ever take the chance

at the brass ring

-- Kevin Veitch

We gain internal freedom through external actions

- Ram Dass

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Everyone was born original but most people die copies

~ Unknown Without passion you dont have energy without energy you have nothing Nothing

great in the world has been accomplished without passion

~ Donald Trump When one door of happiness closes another opens But often we look so long at

the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened before us

~ Helen Keller

I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please

everybody

Bill Cosby Comedian Actor and Author Give up your identity as a seeker and become a finder Then everything you ever

sought will find you

-- Alan Cohen

The reason we put a lot of emphasis on action is because we do not understand the

power of our thought If you analyze it 90 percent of most peoples actions

are spent trying to compensate for inappropriate thought

~ Dr Robert Anthony Prosperity lets go the bridle

-- George Herbert

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered

heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed They won because they refused to

become discouraged by their defeats

Bertie Charles Forbes 1880-1954 Financial Journalist Author and Founder of Forbes Magazine He who jumps to conclusions falls to their death

-- Mark J Ottaviani Im not a believer in nor the advocate of miracles for the reason that I

have enough knowledge of nature to understand that nature never deviates from

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her established laws Her laws are simply so incomprehensible that they produce

what appears to be miracles

~ Napoleon Hill Learn to listen Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly

Frank Tyger

Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways you can as long as

ever you can

John Wesley Work like you dont need the money Love like youve never been hurt Dance like

nobody is watching

-- Mark Twain

You believe that a lover will bring you love but it is your love that will bring you a

lover

-- Alan Cohen

The Universe is not punishing you or blessing you

The Universe is responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting The

more joyful you are the more Well-being flows to you

~Abraham-Hicks What nourishes you is not vitamins in food It is the joy you feel in eating it

-- Ramtha

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this

decide what you want

Ben Stein Attorney Author Actor and Commentator

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure to embrace

the new But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful There is

more security in the adventurous and exciting for in movement there is life and in

change there is power

mdashAlan Cohen

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Vision without action is a daydream Action without vision is a nightmare

-- Japanese Proverb

Success is the result of applying sound principles which align with universal laws

The Science of Success is a powerful road map to guarantee your personal

success

~ Brian Tracy

Part of you thinks that you are not going to die because part of you is not going to

die

-- Alan Cohen

There are 3 things that are certain in life death taxes and change You cant

avoid change its mandatory progress however is optional

-- Bill R Good Jr

Surrender the illusion that anyone other than you has power or authority over

your life

Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either

openly before us or close to us

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You must be the change you want to see in the world

~ Gandhi

Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a

friendly level

~ Max L Forman

If you want your life to be a magnificent story then begin by realizing that you

are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page

-- Mark Houlahan

If you want to develop in profound and significant ways it is essential that you

build up a reservoir of spiritual and emotional conviction a source of boundless

freedom that will give you the energy to transcend the apparent limitations of

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your own emotional psychological and cultural experience By practicing

meditation with deadly seriousness you cultivate that freedom and conviction in

no-limitation as a reference point Thats the only reason to meditate in the

context of Evolutionary Enlightenment

mdash Andrew Cohen

If our actions stem from honesty kindness caring and vision then no matter

what the result of our efforts we have added something of value to our souls and

to the world

~ Joan Boysenko

Too often the opportunity knocks but by the time you push back the chain push

back the bolt unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm its too late

~ Rita Coolidge We are formed and molded by our thoughts

Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts

give joy when they speak or act

Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them

~ Buddha

We feel most alive in the presence of the Beautiful for it meets the needs of the

soul

~ John OlsquoDonohue

No onelsquos past has to be a prison sentence Forgiveness provides the key to

acknowledge the past and move on When we can forgive we have less to be afraid

of

~ Dr Fred Luskin

Isnlsquot it strange that princesses and kings and clowns that caper in sawdust rings

and common people like you and me are builders for eternity Each is given a bag of

tools a shapeless mass a book of rules and each must make ere life is flown a

stumbling block or stepping stone

~ Edgar Guest

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly

~ Richard Bach

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I donlsquot wait for moods

You accomplish nothing if you do that Our mind must know it has got to get down

to work

~ Pearl S Buck

There is a giant asleep within every man When that giant awakes miracles happen

~ Fred Faust

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the

risk it took to bloom

~ Anais Nin

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid but he who conquers that fear

~ Nelson Mandela

Itlsquos not about breaking the rules

It is about abandoning the concept of rules altogether

~ Paul Lemberg

Each moment of our life we either invoke or destroy our dreams

~ Stuart Wilde

Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts This is the

secret of success

Swami Sivananda

Whatever you do do it as totally as possible

Osho

I am not afraidhellipI was born to do this

~Joan of Arc

―There is nothing that you cannot be do or have

~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given

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―Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success When you do a thing

do it with all your might Put your whole soul into it Stamp it with your own

personality Be active be energetic be enthusiastic and faithful and you will

accomplish your object Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Success is never final Failure is never fatal It is courage that counts

~ Winston Churchill

What are you tolerating that would not be a part of your ideal day

-- Alan Cohen Trust yourself You know more than you think you do

-- Dr Benjamin Spock True friends and healers do not limit your options They expand them

-- Alan Cohen When it comes to staying young a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day

-- Marty Bucella Achievement seems to be connected with action Successful men and women keep

moving They make mistakes but they dont quit

Conrad Hilton 1887-1979 Founder of Hilton Hotels Successful people form the habit of doing what failures dont like to do They like

the results they get by doing what they dont necessarily enjoy

Earl Nightingale1921-1989 Author and Syndicated Radio Personality When you are clear what you want will show up in your life and only to the extent

you are clear

Janet AttwoodAuthor of The Passion Test The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it

Chinese proverb

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery the human beings by

changing the inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their

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lives

~ William James

Never look up to the people who have the painted-perfect lives because try as

they might they can never see beyond the canvas

~ Moira Hallsom

Even from a dark night songs of beauty can be born

~ Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body

~ Pythagoras

If life gives you lemons make lemonade

~ Joan Collins

The only place where dreams are impossible is in your own mind

~ Emalie

Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions But no man has

a right to be wrong in his facts

~ Bernard M Baruch

Begin to weave and God will give you the thread

~ German Proverb

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss

~ David Eddings

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we

are and what we can be igniting the circuits of our highest potential

-- Rusty Berkus

The optimist says we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears

this is true

-- Source Unknown

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If I had listened to the critics Id have died drunk in the gutter

-- Chekov

Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice It is not a thing to be

waited for it is a thing to be achieved

-- Jeremy Kitson

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental

difference in someones life

- Sister Mary Rose McGeady

One never knows what each day is going to bring The important thing is to be

open and ready for it

- Henry Moore

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in

the same individual

- Arthur Koestler

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it

- Lou Holtz Motivation is like food for the brain You cannot get enough in one sitting It needs continual and

regular top ups

~ Peter Davies

Dont tell me how hard you work

Tell me how much you get done

~ James Ling

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures

dont like to do

~ Albert Gray

―There is a science of getting rich and it is an exact science like algebra or arithmetic There

are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches and once these laws are learned

and obeyed by anyone that person will get rich with mathematical certainty ~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich

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―Everything you want should be yours the type of work you want the relationships you need

the social mental and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled the money

you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you and any requirement that you may (or

may not) have for achievement or service to others If you donlsquot aim for it all youlsquoll never get it

all To aim for it requires that you know what you want ~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle ―Eliminate the word impossible from your thinking and speaking vocabularies Impossible is a

failure word The thought ―Itlsquos impossible sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove

youlsquore right ~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big ―Think Big and youlsquoll live big Youlsquoll live big in happiness Youlsquoll live big in accomplishment Big in

income Big in friends Big in respecthellip Start now right now to discover how to make your

thinking make magic for you Start out with this thought of the great philosopher Disraeli ―Life

is too short to be little ~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big ―If you have a big problem in your life all that means is that you are being a small person ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind ―It all comes down to this if your subconscious financial blueprintlsquo is not setlsquo for success

nothing you learn nothing you know and nothing you do will make much of a difference ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you If God gives you a bucket of fish you

have to distribute those fish If you donlsquot theylsquore going to rot attract a bunch of flies and

start stinking up your soul ~ Russell Simmons from Do You ―In my experience therelsquos only one thing that will always steer you toward success Thatlsquos to

have a vision and to stick with ithellip Once I have a vision for a new venture Ilsquom going to ride that

vision until the wheels come off ~ Russell Simmons quotes from Do You

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery the human beings by changing the

inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their lives

~ William James

There is no courage without fear

~ Eddie Rickenbacher

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make who would you call and what

would you say And why are you waiting

-- Stephen Levine

Remember we all stumble every one of us Thats why its a comfort to go hand in hand

~ Emily Kimbrough The inspiration of the almighty gives man understanding

~ the Bible

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives

~ Louise Hay

The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation

~ Comer Cotrell

Give it all youve got because you never know if theres going to be a next time

~ Danielle Ingrum

Dont try to force anything Let life be a deep let-go God opens millions of flowers everyday

without forcing their buds

~Osho

The definition of Insanity is Doing the Same Things Over and Over Again and Expecting Different

Results

~ Albert Einstein

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us This little treasure

has great great powers and I would say we only have learnt a very very small part of what it can

do

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work

~ John G Pollard

Vacation is a state of mind not an action

-- Alan Cohen

Whatever games are played with us we must play no games with ourselves

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Desperation does not recognize your power to choose

-- Alan Cohen

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When people talk listen completely Most people never listen

-- Ernest Hemingway

Heaven is gained or lost not by dramatic deeds but by the simple of acts of daily living

-- Alan Cohen

There is only one voice worth listening to

--Alan Cohen Reverie is not a mind vacuum It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul

--Gaston Bachelard

Why get rich quick when you can be rich now

-- Alan Cohen

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure

-- Joseph Campbell

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always view problems as opportunities in work clothes

-- Henry Kaiser

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character of

another

Winston Churchill 1874-1965 Former British Prime Minister

When you are clear what you want will show up in your life and only to the extent you are clear

Janet Attwood Author of The Passion Test

New peace harmony and power fill your relationships when you practice radical personal

responsibility Through it you enter a more refined sphere of relating that enhances your life and

accelerates the realization of your ultimate spiritual self Practicing radical personal responsibility

forever changes the way you approach and resolve conflict

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The Cure for the Common Upset (p 10)

Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and

discomfort We spend enormous energy denying our insecurity fighting pain death and loss and

hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature

- Jack Kornfield A Path with Heart

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Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well I am not aware of

any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking not exercise not drugs not surgery--that has

a greater impact on our quality of life incidence of illness and premature death

- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant they is a fuel in us which needs

to be ignited with sparks

Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Energy is the essence of life Every day you decide how youre going to use it by

knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal and by maintaining

focus

-Oprah Winfrey

The acquisition of wealth is no longer a driving force in the 24th century We

strive to better ourselves and the rest of humanity

-- From the movie Star Trek Insurrection

―You cannot exercise much power without gratitude for it is gratitude that keeps

you connected with Power

~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich

―To do things in a way you want to do them you will have to acquire the ability to

think the way you want to think this is the first step toward getting rich

~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich

―There are three crucial dimensions to your explanatory style permanence

pervasiveness and personalization

~ Martin Seligman from Learned Optimism

―Habits of thinking need not be forever One of the most significant findings in

psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they

think

~ Martin Seligman from Learned Optimism

―Action always beats inaction ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

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―Itlsquos not enough to be in the right place at the right time You have to be the right person in the

right place at the right time ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―Every thought vibrates every thought radiates a signal and every thought

attracts a matching signal back We call that process the Law of Attraction The

Law of Attraction says That which is like unto itself is drawn And so you might

see the powerful Law of Attraction as a sort of Universal Manager that sees to it

that all thoughts that match one another line up

~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given

―It is our desire that you become one who is happy with that which you are and

with that which you havemdashwhile at the same time being eager for more That is the

optimal creative vantage point To stand on the brink of what is coming feeling

eager optimistic anticipationmdashwith no feelings of impatience doubt or

unworthiness hindering the receiving of itmdashthat is the Science of Deliberate

Creation at its best

~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given

―As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around you come to see that every

perceived problem appearing ―out there is really nothing more than a

misperception within your own thinking

~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is

―The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is

When the mind is perfectly clear what is is what we want

~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself You must be

able to sustain yourself against staggering blows There is no code of conduct to

help beginners That is why some people with mediocre talent but with great inner

drive go much further than people with vastly superior talent

Sophia Loren Actress

And in the end its not the years in your life that count Its the life in your

years

-- Abraham Lincoln

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Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by

holding grudges harboring resentments and nursing unhealed wounds It is

rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to

understand and accept other people and ourselves

~ Sidney and Suzanne Simon

Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action for all eternity

Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801 Poet and Physiognomist People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do

things When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success

Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993 Speaker and Author Every achiever that I have ever met says My life turned around when I began to

believe in me

Dr Robert H Schuller Minister and Author

With love in you your only need is to extend it

-- A Course in Miracles

Just because it ended doesnt mean it failed

-- Alan Cohen

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find

it

-- George Moore

Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality

-- Alan Cohen

Our biggest problems cannot be resolved They must be outgrown

-- Carl Jung

True prayer penetrates beyond hope and establishes itself in knowing

-- Alan Cohen

So we see to play successfully the game of life we must train the imaging faculty

A person with an imaging faculty trained to image only good brings into his life

every righteous desire of his heart - health wealth love friends perfect self-

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expression his highest ideals

mdash Florence Scovel Shinn

Dont ask what the world needs ask what makes you come alive and go do it

Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

mdashHoward Thurman

To the degree were not living our dreams our comfort zone has more control of

us than we have over ourselves

-- Peter McWilliams

Never let your memories be greater than your dreams

-- Doug Ivester (President of Coca Cola)

It is not length of life but depth of life

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches with them but

to reveal their own

-- Author Unknown

A free lunch is only found in mousetraps

-- John Capuzzi

If you have the will to win you have achieved half your success if you dont you

have achieved half your failure

-- David Ambrose

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesnt lie in not reaching your

goal The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach It isnt a calamity to die with

dreams unfulfilled but it is a calamity not to dream It is not a disaster to be

unable to capture your ideal but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture It is

not a disgrace not to reach the stars but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach

for Not failure but low aim is a sin

~ Benjamin E Mayes

True success is a state of mindThis mindset is the heart and soul of successful

entrepreneurial enterprise You cant get started without it and you cant make a

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business wildly profitable if you dont get it

~ Unknown

Traditional education will make you a living self-education will make you a

fortune

~ Jim Rohn One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests

~ John Stuart Mill

Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different Rather than wasting

time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we dont have what we

want we can start to pursue other ways to get it

~ Greg Anderson

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it

~ Rudy Guilliani ―Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential And to

do that I insist you throw caution at the wind ignore the pleas of parents

coaches spouses and bosses to be realisticlsquo Realistic people do not accomplish

extraordinary things because the odds of success stymie them The best

performers ignore the odds I will show that instead of limiting themselves to

whatlsquos probable the best will pursue the heart-pounding exciting really big

difference-making dreamsmdashso long as catching them might be possible

~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement ―To be sure great performers are well trained experienced smart and in some

cases divinely talented But the way their brains work during a performance is a

lot more like a squirrellsquos than like Einsteinlsquos Like squirrels the best in every

business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilitiesmdashthey

flat out trust their skills which is why we call this high-performance state of mind

the ―Trusting Mindset Routine access to the Trusting Mindset is what separates

great performers from the rest of the pack

~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement ―In every forest on every farm in every orchard on earth itlsquos whatlsquos under the

ground that creates whatlsquos above the ground Thatlsquos why placing your attention on

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the fruits that you have already grown is futile You cannot change the fruits that

are already hanging on the tree You can however change tomorrowlsquos fruits But to

do so you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―Believe that you are the one who creates your success that you are the one who

creates your mediocrity and that you are the one creating your struggle around

money and success

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―8020 thinking requires and with practice enables us to spot the few really important things

that are happening and ignore the mass of unimportant things It teaches us to see the wood

for the trees ~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle

―The few things that work fantastically well should be identified cultivated nurtured and

multiplied

~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle

―We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection Itlsquos about a process a journey The

master is the one who stays on the path day after day year after year The master is the one

who is willing to try and fail and try again for as long as he or she lives ~ George Leonard from Mastery

―Whenever you feel shortlsquo or in needlsquo of something give what you want first and it will come

back in buckets That is true for money a smile love friendship I know it is often the last

thing a person may want to do but it has always worked for me I just trust that the principle

of reciprocity is true and I give what I want ~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad

―One dad would sayThe love of money is the root of all evillsquo The other The lack of money is

the root of all evillsquo ~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall every step we

take just gets us to the wrong place faster

Stephen Covey

Becoming a star may not be in your destiny but being the best

that you can be is a goal you can set for yourselves

Bryan Lindsay

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Be yourself Who else is better qualified

Frank J Giblin II

Do not learn from your mistakes learn from the mistakes of others

to that you do not make any

Sean Karsten

Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower

Shigenori Kameoka

Every achiever that I have ever met says My life turned around when I began to believe in me

Dr Robert H Schuller Minister and Author

Upsets always contain the gift of learning except most people have never learned how to unwrap

the package

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is

causing anxiety

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970 British philosopher mathematician essayist) Great souls have wills feeble ones have only wishes

Chinese Proverb

We must not promise what we ought not lest we be called on to perform what we cannot

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))

Dont measure yourself by what you have accomplished but by what you should have accomplished

with your ability

John Wooden (1910- American basketball coach)

Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty

John Ruskin (1819-1900 British critic social theorist)

Something good is already happening Can you discover it

-- Alan Cohen

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if theyve got a second Give your

dreams all youve got and youll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you

William James 1842-1910 Philosopher and Author

Out of suffering comes creativity You cannot spell painting without pain

-- John Lithgow in Third Rock From the Sun

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The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings the past and the

future are not as real but rather more real than the present

- Alan Watts

Boldness has genius power and magic in it Begin it now

~ Goethe

―In the heart of Emptiness there is a mysterious impulse mysterious because

there is actually nothing in the heart of Emptiness (for there is nothing in

Emptiness period) Yet there it is this mysterious impulse the impulse to hellip

create To sing to shine to radiate to send forth reach out and celebrate to

sing and shout and walk about to effervesce and bubble over this mysterious

exuberance in the heart of Emptiness

~ Ken Wilber from One Taste July 31

―Evolution goes beyond what went before but because it must embrace what went

before then its very nature is to transcend and include and thus it has an inherent

directionality a secret impulse toward increasing depth increasing intrinsic value

increasing consciousness In order for evolution to move at all it must move in

those directionsmdashtherelsquos no place else for it to go

~ Ken Wilber from A Brief History of Everything

The secret of being boring is to say everything

- Voltaire 1694-1778 French Writer and Philosopher

―Donlsquot let what you canlsquot do stop you from what you can do

- John Wooden

―You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the

shore

- Christopher Columbus

―Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall

- Confucius

―A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed

- Henrik Ibsen

―It is our choices that show what we truly are far more than our abilities

- JK Rowling

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―If you are going through hell keep going

- Winston Churchill

―Yesterday is history Tomorrow is a mystery Today Today is a gift Thatlsquos why

we call it the present

- B Olatunji

―To live is the rarest thing in the world Most people exist thatlsquos all

- Oscar Wilde

―You donlsquot get to choose how you are going to die Or when You can only decide how

you are going to live Now

- Joan Baez

―When one door of happiness closes another opens But often we look so long at

the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us

- Helen Keller

―Imagination is more important than knowledge Knowledge is limited Imagination

encircles the world

- Albert Einstein

―If you want to be happy be

- Leo Tolstoy

―Always do right This will gratify some people and astonish the rest

- Mark Twain

―We must be the change we want to see

- Gandhi

―The friend in my adversity I shall always treasure most I can better trust those

who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to

enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity

- Ulysses S Grant

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―Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting

- Elizabeth Bibesco

―The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort but

where he stands at times of conflict and controversy

- Martin Luther King Jr

―Begin doing what you want to do now We are not living in eternity We have only

this moment sparkling like a star in our hand ndash and melting like a snow flake

- MB Ray

―I shall pass through this life but once Any good therefore that I can do let me

do it now Let me not defer or neglect it For I shall never pass this way again

- Etienne de Grellet

―This above all To your own self be true

- William Shakespeare

―To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make

you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight

and never stop fighting

- EE Cummings

―In three words I can sum up what Ilsquove learned about life It goes on

- Robert Frost

―Imagine

- John Lennon

You can if you think you can

George Reeves

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile

achievement

Henry Ford 1863-1947 Industrialist

No man is capable of self-improvement if he sees no other model but himself

-- Conrado I Generoso

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When I am delivering my very best then that is when I feel successful

~ Art Fettig

The only limitations you will ever have are the ones you put on yourself

~ Kristinna Habashy

The secret of manwomans being is not only

to live but to have something to live for

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

To hell with circumstances I create opportunities

~ Bruce Lee

Simplicity is making the journey of this life

with just baggage enough

~ Charles Dudley Warner

I dont think theres any such thing as setting your goals too high The higher you

set your goals the more you are going to work If you dont reach them then its

okay just as long as you set it and then give 100 of yourself

~ Dan Jansen Speed Skater

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts the circle of Creation

is completed inside us the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal

everything in sight

~ Michael Bridge

Youlsquore darn tootinlsquo Ilsquom going to bring out the best in you You are the best

― Maureen Coleman middle school teacher

Truth is rarely writ in ink It lives in nature

-- Martin H Fischer

Before planning where you want to go decide who you want to be

-- Alan Cohen

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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day wisdom consists in not

exceeding the limit

-- Elbert Hubbard

Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere

-- Alan Cohen

When the Japanese mend broken objects they fill the cracks with gold They

believe that when somethings suffered damage and has a history it becomes more

beautiful

-- Barbara Bloom

Efficiency without love is not really efficient

-- Alan Cohen

The purpose of time is to enable you to learn how to use time constructively

-- A Course in Miracles

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than

any other one thing

Laura Ingalls Wilder 1867-1957 Author

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as

few as there are any other great artists It might even be the greatest of the arts

since the medium is the human mind and spirit

John Steinbeck 1902-1968 Writer and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

Be careful what you spend your day touching because it will shape your mind your

body and your heart

Sam Keen Speaker and Author

I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in

the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life he has imagined he will

meet with success unexpected in common hours

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 Writer and Poet

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out

― Michael Burke

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Turn frustration into fascination

-- Dr Richard Bartlett

Money is not the source of life It is an expression or by-product of doing what

brings you life

-- Alan Cohen

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but

sand the angels come to visit us and we only know them when they are gone

- George Elliot

Proceed when clear

-- Alan Cohen

Slow down and enjoy life Its not only the scenery you miss by going too fast --

you also miss the sense of where you are going and why

Eddie Cantor

Life is here to enjoy The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness When it

appears otherwise you are off the path of destiny Look at your life and ask

What do I need to change to choose in favor of my passions

Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life Be happy now Dont wait for something

outside of yourself to make you happy in the future Think how really precious is

the time you have to spend whether its at work or with your family Every minute

should be enjoyed and savored

Earl Nightingale

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life It turns what we have into enough and

more It turns denial into acceptance chaos into order confusion into clarity It

turns problems into gifts failures into success the unexpected into perfect

timing and mistakes into important events Gratitude makes sense of our past

brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow

Melodie Beattie Writer

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Devotion is commitment at a deep cellular level When you are devoted the

universe will align itself to give you what you desire

Rich German Author of Monetize Your Passion

Action breeds confidence and courage If you want to conquer fear do not sit

home and think about it Go out and get busy

~ Dale Carnegie

The mind turned inwards is the Self turned outwards it becomes the ego and all

the world

~Ramana Maharshi

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be

~Daniel J Boorstin

The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively

from his own resources

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire

not things we fear

~ Brian Tracy

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game and no matter how

great your talent there is only one way to obtain it-work

~ Jack Nicklaus Golfer

A goal without a plan is merely a WISH without a HOPE

~ Unknown

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan in which we must

fervently believe and upon which we must vigorously act There is no other route

to success

~ Stephen A Brennan

Knowledge breeds doubt Wisdom births wonder

Alan Cohen

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When you decide what you want it has to manifestbut only at the level of your

belief

Rich German Author of Monetize Your Passion

Friendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity

- John Dryden

It may make people feel more secure when everyone agrees with them but it

wont create a world made rich by the unique and diverse expressions of the human

soul

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart

Choice is destinys soul mate

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Truth is a gem of many facets Each facet reflects the brilliance within and

without But the whole reveals a deeper more profound message than all the parts

by themselves

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart

He who knows others is wise he who knows himself is enlightened

- Tao Te Ching

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers but for powers equal to

our tasks

-- Helen Keller

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret

-- Ambrose Bierce

We must all suffer one of two things the pain of discipline or the pain of regret

or disappointment

-- Jim Rohn

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Many risks fail because they were not taken in time Too many risks are postponed

until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made This does not mean that one

should say Damn the torpedoes full speed ahead That is foolish and self-

destructive But dont sit back waiting for the perfect moment It almost never

comes

-- David Viscott Risking

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter

-- E E Cummings

Reflect upon your blessings of which every man has plenty not on your past

misfortunes of which all men have some

-- Charles Dickens

What the caterpillar calls the end the rest of the world calls a butterfly

-- Lao Tsu

Out of difficulties grow miracles

-- Jean De La Bruyere

Our patience will achieve more than our force

-- Edmund Burke

You must pay in the past to receive in the future

-- Taylor Simpson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what

lies within us

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why Why Not Why Not You Why Not Now

-- Aslan

To become a leader then you must become yourself become the maker of your

own life

--Warren G Bennis

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You have got to discover you what you do and trust it

Barbra Streisand

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts the

circle of Creation is completed inside us the doors of our souls

fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight

Michael Bridge

Each of us feels that we are just a drop in the ocean but the

ocean would be less without that missing drop

Mother Teresa

You dont just stumble into the future You create your own future

Roger Smith

Just dont give up on trying to do what you really want to do

Where there is love and inspiration I dont think you can go

wrong

Ella Fitzgerald

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot

do

Walter Bagehot

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser

John W Gardner

Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life

forever

Keri Russell

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while

so that we can see Life with a clearer view again

Alex Tan

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There never was a great soul that did not have some divine

inspiration

Marcus T Cicero

Youve got to follow your passion Youve got to figure out what

it is you love--who you really are And have the courage to do

that

Oprah Winfrey

Everything that occurs is an opportunity to experience Love

mdashRich German

Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small

things brought together

- Vincent Van Gogh

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark The real tragedy is when

men are afraid of the light

-- Plato

If I had to select one quality one personal characteristic that I regard as being

most highly correlated with success whatever the field I would pick the trait of

persistence

Richard DeVos Co-Founder of Amway

Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination allows vision and gives us the right

stuff to turn our dreams into reality

~James Womack

No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn

-- Hal Borland

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives We must take charge

of our own destinies design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams

- Les Brown

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on

We act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because

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of imagination

- Maxwell Maltz

There is a sleeping giant in you Release it Believe in yourself

~ Bob Proctor

Wealth depends chiefly on two words industry and frugality that is waste

neither time nor money but make the best use of both

-- Benjamin Franklin

When you talk to God thats prayer When God talks back its schizophrenia

-- Lily Tomlin

Work is not a substitute for love It is an avenue of loves expression

-- Alan Cohen

Look beyond peoplelsquos appearances

Look beyond the roles one plays and the mask they wear

Look deep into their eyes and peer into their soul

There you will find their true essence

There you will find your true essence

And that essence is love

mdashRich German

Everything that occurs is an opportunity to experience Love

mdashRich German

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a

life spent doing nothing

George Bernard Shaw

Formula for success under promise and over deliver

Tom Peters

Efficiency is doing things right effectiveness is doing the right things

Peter F Drucker

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Be the change that you want to see in the world

Mahatma Gandhi

Creating space is as important as filling it

-- Alan Cohen

Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Words may guide you to the door of heaven but only silence opens it

-- Alan Cohen

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more

useful than a life spent doing nothing

Bernard Shaw

Formula for success under promise and over deliver

Tom Peters

Efficiency is doing things right effectiveness is doing the right

things

Peter F Drucker

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives We must take charge

of our own destinies design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams

- Les Brown

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works onWe

act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because of

imagination

- Maxwell Maltz

No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn

-- Hal Borland

There is a sleeping giant in you

Release it Believe in yourself

~ Bob Proctor

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Wealth depends chiefly on two words industry and frugality that is waste

neither time nor money but make the best use of both

-- Benjamin Franklin

Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination allows vision and gives us the right

stuff to turn our dreams into reality

~James Womack

If I had to select one quality one personal characteristic that I regard as being

most highly correlated with success whatever the field I would pick the trait of

persistence

Richard DeVos Co-Founder of Amway

The best way to teach people is by telling a story

Jonathan Swift

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking

what nobody else has thought

Kenneth Blanchard

All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it

-Samuel Butler

Happiness is like a cat If you try to coax it or call it it will avoid you It will never

come

But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business youll find it rubbing

up against your legs and jumping into your lap

- William Bennett

The word impossible is only in the mind and not in the heart

- Sri Chinmoy

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another it is the only

means

Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Physicist

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Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone

And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone

Paul Tillich

Sometimes the cards we are dealt are not always fair However you must keep

smiling amp moving on

~ Tom Jackson

Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you

- Elbert Hubard

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends

with anyone else in the world

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Thus nature has no love for solitude and always leans as it were on some support

and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship

- Cicero

So it is life is actually made up of our choices We are the sum total of them and

if we hold to an attitude of love and thanksgiving for all the good things within our

grasp we may have what all ambitious people long for - success

Delma Neeley

Believe and your belief will create the fact

~ William James

The principle is competing against yourself

Its about self improvement about being better than you were the day before

~ Steve Young

All of us you your children your neighbors and their children are

everyday geniuses even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by

everyone Thats probably because school hasnt encouraged us to notice whats

hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself

~ Peter Kline

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If youll not settle for anything less than your best you will be amazed at what

you can accomplish in your lives

Vince Lombardi

Ya gotta put your behind in your past

Then youre ready for whatever comes next

~ Pumba The Lion King

Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become

~ James Allen

Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well what

causes sadness and what brings happiness what makes us suffer and what leads to

healing

~ Dean Ornish MD

Three components make an entrepreneur the person the ideaand the resources

to make it happen

~ Anita Roddick

What we can or cannot do what we consider possible or impossible is rarely a

function of our true capability It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who

we are

~ Anthony Robbins

Either Do or Do Not There is No Try

~ George Lucas

Theres a name for the magic that transforms lives connects dots moves

mountains and orchestrates coincidences that shock and astound Imagination

And theres a name for all that stops you in your tracks stirs fear spins wheels

and leaves one wondering Hey whats up with that Imagination

Careful where you point that thing

~ The Universe

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with

them

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faith is a passionate intuition

-William Wordsworth

Friendship is a sheltering tree

--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision Vision is the perfume

of the mind

--Harriet Rubin

Striving for excellence motivates you striving for perfection is demoralizing

--Harriet Braiker

I can feel guilty about the past apprehensive about the future but only in the

present can I act The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of

mental wellness

-Abraham Maslow 1908-1970 Psychologist

In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge

-Aristotle

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our

potential

Sir Winston Churchill 1874-1965 Former British Prime Minister

The minute you settle for less than you deserve you get even less than you

settled for

Maureen Dowd Newspaper Columnist

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything

outside ourselves will affect us

Stephen R Covey Author and Speaker

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Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually

attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life

Christiane Northrup Medical Doctor and Author

We must learn to keep ourselves awake by an infinite expectation of the

dawn

-- Henry David Thoreau

You dont need to struggle to get your body to do or be what your spirit already is

-- Alan Cohen

One must steer not talk

-- Seneca

The more you quantify the less you qualify

-- Alan Cohen

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know Most are

born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly

-- Buckminster Fuller

Any act motivated by guilt does not assuage guilt but perpetuates it

-- Alan Cohen

Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for

themselves

-- Peter McArthur

Be so good they cant ignore you

Steve Martin

Its kind of fun to do the impossible

Walt Disney

Its easy to make a buck Its a lot tougher to make a difference

Tom Brokaw

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When I hear somebody sigh Life is hard I am always tempted to

ask Compared to what

Sydney J Harris

In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing The worst

thing you can do is nothing

Sam Walton

I had to pick myself up and get on with it do it all over again only even better

this time

Theodore Roosevelt

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process

~ Jim Rohn

If you can imagine it you can achieve it If you can dream it you can become it

~ William Arthur Ward

There is much in the world to make us afraid There is much more in our faith to

make us unafraid

-- Cropp

Pray for essence rather than form and the form will be a perfect expression of

the essence

-- Alan Cohen

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change

Charles R Swindoll Author and Pastor

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with

- Jim Rohn

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your

dreams

- Les Brown

Life is 10 of what happens to me and 90 of how I react to it

John Maxwell

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What you see depends on what youre looking for

Anon

Mind over matter If you dont mind it doesnt matter

-- Alan Cohen

When you are clear on want to how to shows up

-- Michael Neill

Quit struggling to make your body do or be what your spirit already is

-- Alan Cohen

Truth is the offspring of silence and unbroken meditation

-- Isaac Newton

Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal Whatever you invest it

in will yield more of the same

-- Alan Cohen

When you find yourself stressed ask yourself one question Will this matter five

years from now If yes then do something about the situation If no then let it

go

Catherine Pulsifer Writer

Theres plenty of intelligence in the world but the courage to do things

differently is in short supply

Marilyn vos Savant Columnist Author and Lecturer

Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced

by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas

a strong faith is strengthened by them

Viktor E Frankl 1905-1997 Holocaust Survivor and Author of Mans Search for

Meaning

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength

Richard L Evans

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You were not born a winner and you were not born a loser You are

what you make yourself be

Lou Holtz

Remember if you ever need a helping hand youll find one at the

end of your arm As you grow older you will discover that you

have two hands One for helping yourself the other for helping

others

Audrey Hepburn

Dont take life too seriously because youll never get out alive

Josh Shippe

Without hard work nothing grows but weeds

Gordon B Hinckley

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies

--Mother Teresa

Do what you can to show you care about other people and you will make our world

a better place

--Rosalynn Carter

Again and again the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is

only a tough decision waiting to be made

--Robert H Schuller

If in our daily life we can smile if we can be peaceful and happy not only we but

everyone will profit from it This is the most basic kind of peace work

--Thich Nhat Hanh

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties

disappear and obstacles vanish into air

- John Quincy Adams

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win

~ GK Chesterton

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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown for going

out I found was really going in

mdashJohn Muir 1913

To me itlsquos really so simple that life should be lived on the edge You

have to exercise rebellion To refuse to tape yourself to the rules

to refuse your own success to refuse to repeat yourself to see

every day every year every idea as a true challenge Then you will

live your life on the tightrope

mdashPhilippe Petit (star of the movie Man on Wire)

The first step to creating the lifestyle of your dreams is to simplify

your life

mdashRich German

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist sees

problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems

Winston Churchill

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you

have and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more

~ Robert Collier

Instead of waiting for someone to take you under their wing go out there and

find a good wing to climb under

~ Dave Thomas

If you would convince others seem open to conviction yourself

~ Lord Chesterfield

The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable

competitive advantage

~ Arie de Geus

Human life is purely a matter of deciding whats important to you

-- Source unknown

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Determination and perseverance move the world thinking that others will do it

for you is a sure way to fail

Marva Collins Educator

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them

~ Walt Disney

Everything that happens to you is self-created Whenever youre responding to

any situation whether its a sip of coffee or a traffic jam or a love note or

criticism from a boss or rainy weather youre in fact responding to a signal that

you generated within yourself

- Deepak Chopra

Relationships are not about intellect they are about feeling They require an

intelligence of the heart

- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is

when adults are afraid of the light

- Plato

A good listener is someone who is curious open-minded and nonjudgmental A

good listener is not a know-it-all A good listener knows that truth often reveals

itself bit by bit much like putting together a jigsaw puzzle

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart

Its the night that makes the dawning

Its the depths that make the heights

Its the roots that make the branches

Its the darkness that gives birth to Light

- Joel Heathcote

How you hear what someone says is determined by your interpretations and your

interpretations flow from your past This is very important to know especially if

you find that you overreact to what others say or habitually get your feelings hurt

Remember what someone said is not necessarily what you heard and what you

heard is not necessarily what they meant

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart

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―Everything ndash a horse a vine ndash is created for some dutyhellipFor what task then

were you yourself created A manlsquos true delight is to do the things he was made

for

~ Marcus Aurelius from Meditations

―Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts for the soul becomes dyed with the

color of its thoughts Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as for example

Where life is possible at all a right life is possible

~ Marcus Aurelius from Meditations

―hellipEverything can be taken from a man but one thing the last of the human

freedomsmdashto choose onelsquos attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose

onelsquos own way

~ Viktor Frankl from Manlsquos Search for Meaning

―It did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life

expected from us We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life and

instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by lifemdashdaily

and hourly Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation but in right

action and in right conduct Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to

find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly

sets for each individual

~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Manlsquos Search for Meaning

―Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in lifehellip Therein he cannot be

replaced nor can his life be repeated Thus everyonelsquos task is as unique as is

his specific opportunity to implement it

~ Viktor Frankl from Manlsquos Search for Meaning

―Ultimately man should not ask what the meaning of his life is but rather must

recognize that it is he who is asked In a word each man is questioned by life

and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life to life he can only

respond by being responsible

~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Manlsquos Search for Meaning

―History though shows us that the people who end up changing the world- the

great political social scientific technological artistic even sports

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revolutionaries- are always nuts until theylsquore right and then theylsquore geniuses

~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement

―Great performers are by definition abnormal

~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement

―We all aspire to mastery but the path is always long and sometimes rocky and

it promises no quick pay off So we look for other paths each of which attracts

a different person

~ George Leonard from Mastery

―We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection Itlsquos about a process a

journey The master is the one who stays on the path day after day year after

year The master is the one who is willing to try and fail and try again for as

long as he or she lives

~ George Leonard from Mastery

At the heart of it mastery is practice Mastery is staying on the path

~ George Leonard from Mastery

―Comfort kills If your goal in life is to be comfortable I guarantee two things

First you will never be rich Second you will never be happy Happiness doesnlsquot

come from living a lukewarm life always wondering what could have been

Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up

to our fullest potential

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

―You can be a victim or you can be rich but you canlsquot be both Listen up Every

time and I mean every time you blame justify or complain you are slitting

your financial throat

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―Herelsquos an equation I want you to remember for the rest of your life CZ = WZ

It means your ―comfort zone equals your ―wealth zone By expanding your

comfort zone you will expand the size of your income and wealth zone

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

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―We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we

wait forever before taking action

~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big

―Donlsquot put off until tomorrow what you can do today

~ Benjamin Franklin

―Think Big and youlsquoll live big Youlsquoll live big in happiness Youlsquoll live big in

accomplishment Big in income Big in friends Big in respecthellip Start now right

now to discover how to make your thinking make magic for you Start out with

this thought of the great philosopher Disraeli Life is too short to be littlelsquo

~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big

―In the yogic tradition this principle of using intense effort to burn through

lifelsquos distractions is called Tapas Itlsquos another Sanskrit word roughly defined

as ―heat or ―essential energy The concept is that through a disciplined

approach to work and self-sacrifice Tapas will burn away the negativity that

separates us from God By working our hardest and happily enduring the

hardships of life we are able to create a sense of peace and clarity in

ourselves

~ Russell Simmons from Do You

―The person who understands Dharma will have the opposite reaction to a ―hard

job That person will be eager to get started no matter what kind of work is in

front of her because she understands that shelsquos doing Godlsquos work And when

youlsquore working for God nothing is too hard

~ Russell Simmons from Do You

―It all comes down to this if your subconscious financial blueprintlsquo is not setlsquo

for success nothing you learn nothing you know and nothing you do will make

much of a difference

~ Russell Simmons from Do You

―The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work

~ Vince Lombardi

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The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than

your best

~ Russell Simmons from Do You

―The poor and the middle class work for money The rich have money work for

them

~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad

―We all have tremendous potential and we all are blessed with gifts Yet the

one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt It is not so

much the lack of technical information that holds us back but more the lack of

self-confidence

~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad

―Who will you have to become to achieve all you want

~ Tony Robbins

―You could say that I worked every minute of my life or you could say with

equal justice that I never worked a day I have always subscribed to the

expression ―Thank God itlsquos Friday because to me Friday means I can work for

the next two days without interruption

~ John Hope Franklin

―I do not believe that you should devote overly much effort to correcting your

weaknesses Rather I believe that the highest success in living and the deepest

emotional satisfaction comes from building and using your signature strengths

~ Martin Seligman from Authentic Happiness

When you begin to recognize that your own presence here in this world is part of

something infinitely bigger than yourself you feel a sense of obligation awakening

within youmdasha spiritually inspired soul-level moral imperative to evolve for the sake

of the future of the evolutionary process itself The way you respond to that

obligation and to that sense of cosmic responsibility is by demonstrating that the

process is profoundly positivemdashindeed the process is sacredmdashthrough your own

example through your own victory through your own tangible and unmistakable

higher development

~ Andrew Cohen

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Its the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief And once that belief

becomes a deep conviction things begin to happen

Claude M Bristol 1891-1951 Author of The Magic of Believing

We cant fear the past Fear is a future thing And since the futures all in our

heads fear must be a head thing

Tom Payne Career Development Expert

I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please

everybody

Bill Cosby Actor and Comedian

If we are ever to enjoy life now is the time not tomorrow or next year Today

should always be our most wonderful day

- Thomas Dreier Author

Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their

personnel If people believe in themselves its amazing

what they can accomplish

--Sam Walton

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the

aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker

--Helen Keller

Close scrutiny will show that most crisis situations are opportunities to either

advance or stay where you are

- Maxwell Maltz

Be curious not judgmental

-Walt Whitman

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it

-William James

All life is an experiment

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone

acknowledges who we are and what we can be igniting the circuits

of our highest potential

Rusty Berkus

Being considerate of others will take your children further in

life than any college degree

Marian Wright Edelman

It is common sense to take a method and try it If it fails admit

it frankly and try another But above all try something

Franklin D Roosevelt

see without looking hear without listening breathe

without asking

W H Auden

Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways

you can as long as ever you can

John Wesley

Its better to reach for the stars and land on the roof than to

reach for the roof and land in the garbage

Savanna Skinner

Love looks through a telescope envy through a microscope

~ Josh Billings

Whats going on in the inside shows on the outside

~ Earl Nightingale

Consideration for others is the basis of a good life a good society

~ Confucius

Time is limited so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have

just one chance to live this particular day right and to string my days together

into a life of action and purpose

~ Lance Armstrong

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An ounce of action is worth a ton of good intentions

~ Michael Josephson

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others

-- Cicero

Simplicity Purity Clarity

-- Alan Cohen

Faith mighty faith the promise sees And looks to God alone Laughs at

impossibilities And cries it shall be done

-- Charles Wesley

What is genius but the mind heart and art of God shining to the world through an

open window

-- Alan Cohen

Intuition tells you what not why

-- Source unknown

Changing the world is a natural result of inner peace not a substitute for it

-- Alan Cohen

Fortune sides with him who dares

~ Virgil

We cant fear the past Fear is a future thing And since the futures all in

our heads fear must be a head thing

Tom Payne Career Development Expert

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you

mdashLewis Smedes Each of us has the power to make others more beautiful by our love

- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst a transformer

in any situation any organization Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an

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entire loaf It requires vision initiative patience respect persistence courage

and faith to be a transforming leader

Stephen Covey

Courage is grace under pressure

~ Ernest Hemingway

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions All life is an experiment

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

As long as Youre going o be thinking anyway Think BIG

~ Donald Trump

To win youve got to stay in the game

~ Claude M Bristol

The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head

-- Source unknown

Affirm your value by going where you are valued

-- Alan Cohen

Life is too short to hold a grudge also too long

-- Robert Brault

You cannot borrow greatness from another You can only claim it from within

yourself

-- Alan Cohen

One today is worth two tomorrows never leave that till tomorrow which you can

do today

Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 US Statesman Diplomat and Inventor

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs

the problem The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized

a problem and turned it into an opportunity

Joseph Sugarman Marketing Expert

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You wouldnt worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how

seldom they do

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 American First Lady Author Speaker and Politician

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions

- John Randolph

Opportunities They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere

waiting for the observant eye to discover it

- Orison Swett Marden

Yesterday ended last night Every day is a new beginning Learn the skill of

forgetting And move on

--Norman Vincent Peale

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual it is

best for the race because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every

department

ndash Andrew Carnegie entrepreneur

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society The optimist invents the

airplane and the pessimist the parachute

Gil Stern

Strive for integrity - that means knowing your values in life and behaving in a way

that is consistent with these values

Unknown

The country clubs the cars the boats your assets may be ample But the best

inheritance you can leave your kids Is to be a good example

Barry Spilchuk

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the

goal

Henry Ford

It is never too late to be what you might have been

George Eliott

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The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence the second listening the

third memory the fourth practice the fifth teaching others

Solomon Ibn Gabriol

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers You can tell whether a man is

wise by his questions

Naguib Mahfouz

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others

~ Erich Fromm

Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble

and grateful mind

~ Epictetus

Happiness is activity

~ Aristotle

Every action we take everything we do is either a victory or defeat in the

struggle to become what we want to be

~ Anne Byrhhe

In the absence of clearly defined goals we become strangely loyal to performing

daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it

Robert Heinlein Novelist

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the

consequences of any misfortune

William James 1842-1910 Psychologist and Author

To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle

-- Walt Whitman

God doesnt owe and neither do you

-- Alan Cohen

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Do what makes you smile

-- Dr Richard Bartlett

People who warn that everyone but members of their religion will go to hell dont

realize they are already there

-- Alan Cohen

The emotional frontier is truly the next frontier to conquer in human

understanding The opportunity we face now even before that frontier is fully

explored and settled is to develop our emotional potential and accelerate rather

dramatically into a new state of being

- Doc Childre and Howard Martin The HeartMath Solution

Real transformation requires that you have a beginners mind that you are willing

to say Whatever I think I know may be wrong

Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships

Heroes take journeys confront dragons and discover the treasure of their true

selves

- Carrol Pearson The Hero Within

If a man would move the world he

must first move himself

--Socrates

All sucessful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists They

believed that things went not by luck but by law

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

I skate to where the puck is going to be not where it is

-Wayne Gretzky

When given the choice between being right or being kind always choose kind

--Dr Wayne Dyer Never forget the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for

others

Sir John Templeton 1912-2008 Mutual Fund Pioneer and Philanthropist

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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome

Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Essayist Biographer and Poet

Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on

-- Alan Cohen

Shallow men believe in luck Strong men believe in cause and effect

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Contraction is a sign that birth is imminent

-- Alan Cohen

Work is an extension of personality It is achievement It is one of the ways in

which a person defines himself measures his worth ndash and his humanity

ndash Peter Drucker author

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends

-- John Ruskin

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities

--Janos Arnay

The first time you accept good is the last time you will see excellence

John Ulmo Life is like an onion

You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep

~ Carl Sandburg

Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light

~ L P Jacks Just as iron rusts from disuse even so does inaction spoil the intellect

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

As I grow older I pay less attention to what men sayI JUST watch what they

do

~ Andrew Carnegie

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All Things are Difficult before they are Easy

~ John Norley

Everything has been figured out except how to live

~ Jean Paul Sartre

Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving

Dennis Waitley

Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out

Robert Collier

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal

nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude

Thomas Jefferson

They can because they think they can

Virgil

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself

Menander

Years teach us more than books

Berthold Auerbach

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

When you delightfully fantasize about something you want you set into motion a

wave of energy that calls that situation into reality

-- Alan Cohen

Hurt people hurt people

-- Source unknown

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Doing the right thing may be different than what you have been taught the right

thing is

-- Alan Cohen

The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes

it happen

-- Frank Lloyd Wright All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say no and said yes

Moss Hart 1904-1961 Playwright and Theatre Director

We are built to conquer environment solve problems achieve goals and we find no

real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to

achieve

Maxwell Maltz 1899-1975 Author of Psycho-Cybernetics

You can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because thorns

have roses

-- Ziggy

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug

~ Patricia Neal

My night has become a sunny dawn because of you

--Ibn Abbad

All mankind is divided into three classes those that are immovable those that are

movable and those that move

--Benjamin Franklin

Dont compete Create Find out what everyone else is doing and then dont do it

mdashJoel Weldon

Show a little faith therelsquos magic in the night

mdashfrom ―Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen

Music is to me proof of the existence of God

It is so extraordinarily full of magic and in tough times

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of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference

mdashKurt Vonnegut

Discontent is the source of all trouble but also of all progress

in individuals and nations

Berthold Auerbach

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself

Thomas Sprat

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves

to copy

Oliver Goldsmith

If at first you dont succeed try try again Then quit Theres

no use being a damn fool about it

WC Fields

Impatience never commanded success

Edwin H Chapin

In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are the safest

~ Livy

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights

~ Henry David Thoreau

The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense

insoluble They can never be solved but only outgrown

~ Carl Jung

Life Begins When you Do

Hugh Downs Vision Without Action is a Daydream

Action Without Vision is a Nightmare

~ Japanese Proverb

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Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one

can possibly want and hold

-- Judith Olney

The love affair you seek is with yourself

-- Alan Cohen

The greatest power requires the lightest touch

-- BasharDarryl Anka

You only live once -- but its forever

-- Alan Cohen

Get off the cross Somebody needs the wood

-- From the film Straight Talk

There are two ways to live your life One is as though nothing is a miracle The

other is as though everything is a miracle

~ Albert Einstein

In the long run men hit only what they aim at

~ Henry David Thoreau philosopher

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state

of being alive If life is to be sustained hope must remain even where confidence is

wounded trust impaired

~Erik H Erikson

Freedom know this that every manwoman is free To choose his life and what

hell be For this eternal truth is given God will force no man to heaven Hell call

persuade direct aright Bless with wisdom love and light In nameless ways be

good and kind But never force the human mind

~ William C Clegg

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the

circumstances they want and if they canlsquot find them make them

~ George Bernard Shaw

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Relationships are not things We dont have relationships we are in relationship

with one another

- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships

Relationships are our primary teacher They are the context in which we either

grow into the consciousness of God or deny ourselves and others the opportunity

to do so

- Marianne Williamson

Listen deeply The greatest failure in any relationship is the failure to

participate

- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships

Your future is created by what you do today not tomorrow

Robert Kiyosaki

No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a

reality

Napoleon Hill

If you are not planning today you are planning to fail tomorrow

Gopal

How you do anything is how you do everything

T Harv Eker

There is little difference in people but that little difference

makes a big difference The little difference is attitude The

big difference is whether it is positive or negative

W Clement Stone

The vision must be followed by the venture It is not enough to

stare up the steps - We must step up the stairs

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Vance Havner

Go for it nowThe future is promised to no one

Wayne Dyer

If you realize how powerful your thoughts are you would never

think a negative thought

Peace Pilgrim

Either you run the day or the day runs you

Jim Rohn

You must go after your wish As soon as you start to pursue a

dream your life wakes up and everything has meaning

Barbara Sher

To succeed you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe

and act on it with all of your heart

Christy Borgeld

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers

Anonymous

Let him that would move the world first move himself

Socrates

By the time a man realizes that maybe

his father was right he usually has a son

who thinks hes wrong

~ Charles Wadworth

Without Mistakes Perfection is an Illusion

~ Daniel Frankel

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Its not the hours you put in

but what you put into the hours

that counts

~ Jim Rohn

Be swift to hear slow to speak slow to wrath

~ James 119

Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory

~ Ingrid Bergman

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word

~ William Makepease Thackeray

Professionalism is knowing how

to do it when to do it and doing it

~ Frank Tyger

Intention is not something you do

but rather a force that exists in the universe

as an invisible field of energy

-a power that can carry us

~ Dr Wayne Dyer

I personally measure success in terms

of the contributions an individual makes

to her or his fellow human beings

~ Margaret Mead

Some of the worlds greatest feats

were accomplished by people not

smart enough to know they were

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impossible

~ Doug Larson

Life is a flower of which love is the honey

~ Victor Hugo

Personal integrity is important

not because it gets us what we want

but because it helps us be what we want

~ Michael Josephson

Goals need to be configured to stretch us

but not to break us

~ Kent Krive

Children are apt to live up

to what you believe of them

~ Lady Bird Johnson

Do your work with your whole heart

and you will succeed

- theres so little competition

~ Elbert Hubbard

Hi Karl

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible

objections must first be overcome

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--Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Author

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter

even the most victorious life The human

spirit is never finished when it is defeated

- it is finished when it surrenders

-- Ben Stein Professor and Writer

Love is the first ingredient in the relief

of suffering

-- Padre Pio

Happiness is a function of accepting what is

--Werner Erhard

There are no shortcuts to any place

worth going

- Beverly Sills

It has never been and never will be

easy work But the road that is built in

hope is more pleasant to the traveler

than the road built in despair even though

they both lead to the same destination

~Marion Zimmer Bradley

The reality of life is that your perceptions --

right or wrong -- influence everything else

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you do When you get a proper perspective

of your perceptions you may be surprised

how many other things fall into place

~ Roger Birkman

Everybody is unique Do not compare yourself

with anybody else lest you spoil Gods curriculum

-- Baal Shem Tov

Everybody is unique Do not compare yourself

with anybody else lest you spoil Gods curriculum

-- Baal Shem Tov

Trust yourself You know more than

you think you do

ndash Benjamin Spock doctor

When you play it too safe youre taking

the biggest risk of your life

Time is the only wealth were given

--Barbara Sher

Creativity is inventing experimenting

growing taking risks breaking rules

making mistakes and having fun

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--Mary Lou Cook

Life is playing a violin solo in public and

learning the instrument as one goes on

--Samuel Butler

Opportunities are usually disguised as

hard work so most people dont recognize

them

~ Ann Landers

It is literally true that you can succeed best

and quickest by helping others to succeed

- Napoleon Hill

God loves you and theres nothing you can do about it

-- Sign on church marquis

Give yourself what you would like to receive from others

-- Alan Cohen

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature

-- Emerson

The fewer your words the more compelling your statement

-- Alan Cohen

Pray devoutly hammer stoutly

-- English proverb

There are no blocks to creativity Only distractions

-- Alan Cohen

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If your rules are not working so well borrow someone elses

-- Dr Richard Bartlett

Inner peace is never more than one thought away

-- Alan Cohen

Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret

hiding God

-- Frederick William Robertson

Completion is an attitude not an event

-- Alan Cohen

Enjoy where you are and youll be where youre going

-- Bashar

Your spirit is wireless

-- Alan Cohen

All questions lead to divine knowing

-- Isaac Newton

You cannot import self-worth You can only recognize it

-- Alan Cohen

Enlightened conflict resolution can exist only in an atmosphere of equality

We may not be equal in intelligence or experience or status but we are equal

in our right to be treated with dignity and caring It is not assumed that one

person has more privilege than another that one person is entitled to more

respect or understanding than another nor that one persons feelings are

more important than anothers

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

To seek happiness outside of ourselves Is like trying to lasso a cloud

Happiness is not a thingIt is a state of mind

- Omar Khayyam

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The higher self gets curious The conditioned self gets defensive

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The higher self gets curious The conditioned self gets defensive

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us

well I am not aware of any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking

not exercise not drugs not surgery--that has a greater impact on our

quality of life incidence of illness and premature death

- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy No man was ever wise by chance

~ Seneca

By thought the thing you want is brought to youby action you receive it

~ Wallace D Wattles

Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony

~ Mohandas K Gandhi

Life isnt about finding yourselfLife is about creating yourself

George Bernard Shaw

Im trying to free your mind but I can only show you the doorYou are the one

that has to walk through it

~ Morpheus [ The Matrix ]

A friend is a second self

~ Aristotle

Be great in act as you have been in thought

~ William Shakespeare

Character is higher than intellectA great soul will be strong to liveas well as to

think

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I never think of the futureIt comes soon enough

~ Albert Einstein

Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fearnot absence of fear

~ Mark Twain

Age wrinkles the bodyQuitting wrinkles the soul

~ Douglas MacArthur

If real is what you can feel smell taste and see then real is simply electrical

signals interpreted by your brain

~ Morpheus [ The Matrix ]

Money was never a big motivator for me except for keeping the scoreThe real

excitement is playing the game

~ Donald Trump

Dreams are extremely important You cant do it unless you dream it first

~ George Lucas

If you believe you can you probably can If you believe you wont you most

assuredly wont Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad

~ Denis Waitley

Imagination is more important than knowledge Knowledge is limitedImagination

encircles the world

~ Albert Einstein

Everything is always impossible before it works Thats what entrepreneurs are all

aboutDoing things that people have told them is impossible

~ R Hunt Greene

The truth is lived not taught

~ Hermann Hesse

Be of good cheer Do not think of todays failures but of the success that may

come tomorrow You have set yourself a difficult task but you will succeed if you

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persevere and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles

Helen Keller 1880-1968 Blind and Deaf Educator

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something Its as simple

as that A lot of people have ideas but there are few who decide to do something

about them now Not tomorrow Not next week But today The true entrepreneur

is a doer

-Nolan Bushnell Founder of Atari

Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they

have deep inside them - a desire a dream a vision

Muhammad Ali Three-Time World Heavyweight Champion Boxer

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them

Walt Disney 1901-1966 Cartoon Artist and Filmmaker

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings turn routine jobs into

joy and change ordinary opportunities into blessings

William Arthur Ward

1921-1994 Writer

If you want to achieve excellence you can get there today As of this second quit

doing less than excellent work

Thomas Watson 1874-1956 Founder of IBM

Ive always believed that a lot of the troubles in the world would disappear if we

were talking to each other instead of about each other

Ronald Reagan

1911-2004 40th President of the United States

The most wonderful gift one human being can give to another is in some way to

make that persons life a little bit better to live

John Assaraf Author and Speaker

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm

Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any

occupation no matter how frightening or difficult a new meaning Without

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enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish

miracles

Og Mandino

Constant kindness can accomplish much As the sun makes ice melt kindness

causes misunderstanding mistrust and hostility to evaporate

Dr Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965 Medical Missionary and Nobel Prize Winner

Dwell not on the past Use it to illustrate a point then leave it behind Nothing

really matters except what you do now in this instant of time From this moment

onwards you can be an entirely different person filled with love and understanding

ready with an outstretched hand uplifted and positive in every thought and deed

Eileen Caddy 1917-2006 Spiritual Teacher and Author

Heres the problem Most people are thinking about what they dont want and

theyre wondering why it shows up over and over again

John Assaraf Speaker and Author

Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to

success when they gave up

Thomas Edison 1847-1931 Inventor and Scientist

Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on

building the life you desire

Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly

lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love

Henry Drummond 1851-1897 Scientist and Author

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 Former First Lady Author and Speaker

If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors we are at least

responsible for those we admit and entertain

Charles Newcomb ScreenwriterDirector

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To grow you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your

past Your history is not your destiny

Alan Cohen

If you want a kinder world then behave with kindness if you want a peaceful

world make peace within

Dan Millman Writer and Speaker

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality order

and diligence without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a

time

Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Writer

Believe it can be done When you believe something can be done really believe

your mind will find the ways to do it Believing a solution paves the way to solution

Dr David Schwartz Author of The Magic of Thinking Big

Close your eyes and form a realistic picture of what a post PC world might actually

look like Those who can envision a plausible future thats brighter than today will

earn the opportunity to lead

Ray Ozzie Former Chief Software Architect at Microsoft

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past worry

about the future or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely

and earnestly

- Buddha

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job tellem certainly I can - and get

busy and find out how to do it

-- Theodore Roosevelt

Dont tell me how hard you work Tell mehow much you get done

~ James Ling

Democracy arose from menlsquos thinking that if they are equal in any respect they

are equal absolutely

~ Aristotle

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The beginning is the most important part of the work

~ Plato

Bless those who choose to love and those who choose to hate that those who

choose to hate may choose to love before it is too late

--Esoligh (Underground Hip Hop Artist)

Security is mostly a superstition It does not exist in nature nor do the children

of man as a whole experience it Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than

outright exposure Life is either a daring adventure or nothing

--Helen Keller

Each new hour holds new chances for new beginings The horizon move forward

offering you space to place new steps of change

--Maya Angelou

When a man cares he is unafraid When he is fair he leaves enough for others

When he is humble he can grow

--Lao-Tzu TaoTeChung

Behold the turtle He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out

--James Bryant Conant - Educator and Diplomat

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness not because they never found it

but because they didnt stop to enjoy it

--William Feather

The light of awareness the light of consciousness arises out of a broken heart

the heart by breaking becomes an ocean accommodating all beings

-- Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom

The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need according to the

nature of your thought Your environment and financial condition are the

perfect reflection of your habitual thinking

Thought rules the world

-- Dr Joseph Edward Murphy Surgeon

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The ideals that have lighted my way and time after time have given me new

courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness beauty and truth

ndash Albert Einstein physicist

Hope is the companion of power and mother of success for who so hopes strongly

has within him the gift of miracles

~ Samuel Smiles

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those

things that failures dont like to do

~ Albert Gray

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the

link between belief and biology

- Deepak Chopra

Ive always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best

~ Akeem Olajuwon

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear

ndash Socrates philosopher

The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the

most brilliant single mind but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains

and talents of his associates

~ W Alton Jones

The reason a dog has got so many friends is because its tail waggles and not its

tongue

-Anonymous

Dont fight a problem solve it

--Millard Fuller

If things are not going well with you begin your effort at correcting the situation

by carefully examining the service you are rendering and especially the spirit in

which you are rendering it

--Roger Babson

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The starting point of all riches is the development of a prosperity consciousness

You must become a financial success in your thinking long before you achieve it in

your reality Both poverty and riches are the result of a state of mind and the

most important single step you ever take on the road to wealth and financial

independence is the decision to change your thinking to impress into your mind an

unshakable belief that you can and will achieve your financial goals This must

happen before anything else happens

-- Brian Tracy

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it

We must learn to see the world anew

- Albert Einstein

To forgive is the highest most beautiful form of love In return you will receive

untold peace and happiness

--Dr Robert Muller

Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind the stronger the

trees

--J Willard Marriott Founder of Marriott Hotels

Someday may never come So live each day better than the last That way youll

wake up with so much excitement and anticipation youlsquoll jump out of bed and shout

I cant wait

--Bob Perks

The greatest thief this world ever produced is procrastination and he is still at

large

-- Henry Wheeler Shaw 1818-1885 Humorist

If you dont know where you are going any road will get you there

-- Anonymous

Ive noticed over many years of working with corporate teams that the more

dysfunctional the team the more resistant they are to the concept of love in

the workplace What baggage is it that we drag around behind us like Linus

and his blanket which causes us to be so wounded and pathological Why are

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we blind to the observable truth that those we lead are yearning for us to

open our hearts Why are we in denial about the truth that people--all

people at work and at home--are searching for signs of our approval and

love

- Lance Secretan Industry Week 11202000 We live on our own solitary islands of reality absorbed in and fascinated by

our own points of view Frequently we reach out to one another seeking to

understand or be understood The bridge between our separate realities is

communication To communicate is to relate

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air You

name them--work family health friends and spirit--and youre keeping all

of these in the air You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball If you

drop it it will bounce back But the other four balls-- family health

friends and spirit--are made of glass If you drop one of these they will be

irrevocably scuffed marked nicked damaged or even shattered They will

never be the same You must understand that and strive for balance in your

life

- Brian Dyson CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises from 1959-1994 If you cant be a loving witness to your own anger or rage or sadness or

fear you cant be in the presence of other peoples intense emotions without

your own emotional waters being churned up a bit But if you can learn to

feel safe and fully present to the broad spectrum of emotions within your own

nature you radiate an invisible web of safety that helps others to talk about

their feelings with you

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The world we are experiencing today is the result of our collective

consciousness and if we want a new world each of us must start taking

responsibility for helping create it

- Rosemary Fillmore Rhea A New Heaven and New Earth Your relationships are actually mirrors of your consciousness When you learn

to see your own reflection in the quality of your relationships with others you

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catapult yourself on your path of personal growth and spiritual evolution

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think To put the world right in order we must first put the nation in order to put

the nation in order we must first put the family in order to put the family in

order we must first cultivate our personal life we must first set our hearts

right

- Confucious The sooner we can unburden ourselves of blame the more effective we can

be Blaming others only entrenches us in the role of the victim removing us

from our highest expression of personal power

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

Being vulnerable doesnt have to be threatening Just have the courage to be

sincere open and honest This opens the door to deeper communication all

around It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others

we all want in life Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that

burden us These secrets are what make us sick or fearful Speaking truth

helps you get clarity on your real heart directives

- Sara Paddison The Hidden Power of the Heart Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time

ago

~ Warren Buffet

The only way to do great work is to love what you do If you havent found it yet

keep looking Dont settle As with all matters of the heart youll know when you

find it

~ Steve Jobs

If you love life do not waste time for time is what life is made up of

~ Bruce Lee

I cannot teach anybody anything I can only make them think

~ Socrates

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Change before you have to

~ Jack Welch

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm

~ Winston Churchill

A leader leads by example not by force

~ Sun Tzu

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour Sit with a

pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute You have just experienced

relativity

~ Albert Einstein

Live as if you were to die tomorrow Learn as if you were to live forever

~ Mohandas Gandhi

A clever person solves a problem A wise person avoids it

~ Albert Einstein

If I have seen a little further is by standing on the shoulders of Giants

~ Sir Isaac Newton

Despair says I cannot lift that weight Happiness says I do not have to

-- James Richardson

People who know they are powerful do not need to engage in power struggles

-- Alan Cohen

No man ever stated his troubles as lightly as he might

-- Emerson

What does your spirit most want you to know and do today

-- Alan Cohen

Its not how good you are Its how bad you want it

-- Author unknown

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The better I feel about myself the less I need you to be different

-- Alan Cohen

The best form of flattery is to master the art of listening

-- Chinese proverb

The only thing more valuable than a good source of news is source of good news

-- Alan Cohen

Disappointments are the hooks upon which God hangs his victories

-- Source unknown

It matters not what youve done with your life for better or worse What

matters is what you do with your life today

-- Alan Cohen

Everyone here is not all there

-- Source unknown

If you cant unify then at least harmonize

-- Alan Cohen

Everybody is a genius But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will

spend its whole life believing that it is stupid

-- Albert Einstein

Fear is excitement without breath

-- Fritz Perls

Dont leave yourself out of the equation

-- Alan Cohen

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles

-- Bernard Baruch

They can because they think they can

~ Virgil

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Exert your talents and distinguish yourself

and dont think of retiring from the world

until the world will be sorry that you retire

~ Samuel Johnson

Energy and persistence conquer all things

~ Benjamin Franklin

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom

~ Aristotle

Heaven never helps the man who will not act

~ Sophocles

The only real journey is the journey within

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Anyone who has never made a mistake

has never tried anything new

~ Albert Einstein

Action is the food and drink

that will nourish your success

Action will destroy your procrastination

Act now for is all you have

~ Og Mandino

Computers are incredibly fast accurate and stupid

Humans are incredible slow inaccurate and brilliant

Together they are powerful beyond imagination

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~ Albert Einstein

Practice giving and you will discover how much life can give you

-- Alan Cohen

Oh for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they

ran out of money

-- Source unknown

The best way to heal a bad memory is to create a new and better one

-- Alan Cohen

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love

-- Hamilton Wright Mabie

Fear and resistance are the dragons that stand at the gate of the kingdom that

contains the jewel you seek

-- Alan Cohen

Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy forgiveness To an opponent

tolerance To a friend your heart To a customer service To all charity To

every child a good example To yourself respect

-- Oren Arnold

Affirm I always have enough time to do the things that Spirit would have me do

-- Alan Cohen

There are two obstacles to enlightenment 1 Thinking you know 2 Thinking you

dont know

-- Buddha

Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal Take care how you pay

it

-- Alan Cohen

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles

-- Bernard Baruch

Upgrade your past by seeing it with appreciation

-- Alan Cohen

Families are like fudge -- mostly sweet with a few nuts

-- Source unknown

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of

our treasures

-- Thornton Wilder

The universe does not require you to stress for good things

-- Alan Cohen

When you bless the good that befalls others it becomes yours as well

-- Alan Cohen

How many more idols must you find before your realize that you are the one you

have been searching for

-- Dan Fogelberg

All limits exist only in thought and that is where they are overcome

-- Alan Cohen

To understand unconditional love lock your wife or husband and your dog in the

trunk of your car for an hour When you open it notice to is happier to see you

-- Source unknown

Outrageous ideas are ultimately the most practical

-- Alan Cohen

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are

-- Kurt Cobain

How good can you let it get

-- Alan Cohen

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If we could look into the secret history of our enemies we should find in each

persons life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostilities

-- Longfellow

If you sense there must be more there is more

-- Alan Cohen

Do not wait the time will never be just right Start where you stand and work

with whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found

as you go along

Napoleon Hill

1883-1970 Author of Think And Grow Rich

It doesnt matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes What

matters most is getting off You cannot make progress without making decisions

Jim Rohn

1930-2009 Speaker and Author

Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do Its

a decision about Who You Are When you see this when you understand it

everything changes You begin to see life in a new way All events occurrences and

situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do

Neale Donald Walsch

Author of Conversations With God

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached dont adjust the goals

adjust the action steps

Confucius

551-479 BC Philosopher

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of

you

Henry Ward Beecher

1813-1887 Clergyman Social Reformer and Abolitionist

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Lets choose today to quench our thirst for the good life we think others lead

by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives We can then offer the

universe the gift of our grateful hearts

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Author of Peace and Plenty

Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite

impossible to foresee are ahead You can only see one thing clearly and that is your

goal Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin

Kathleen Norris

1880-1966 Novelist

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends

you choose for you will become like them

W Clement Stone

1902-2002 Businessman Philanthropist and Author

Laugh at yourself and at life Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity but

as a remedy a miracle drug that will ease your pain cure your depression and help

you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at

your predicaments thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that

is certain to come Never take yourself too seriously

Og Mandino

1923-1996 Author of The Choice

Asking is the beginning of receiving Make sure you dont go to the ocean with a

teaspoon At least take a bucket so the kids wont laugh at you

Jim Rohn

1930-2009 Author and Speaker

Happiness comes only when we push our

brains and hearts to the farthest reaches

of which we are capable

--Leo C Rosten

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Do not wait the time will never be just right

Start where you stand and work with whatever

tools you may have at your command and better

tools will be found as you go along

~ Napoleon Hill

I shall do less whenever I shall believe what

I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more

whenever I shall believe doing more will help the

cause I shall try to correct errors when shown to

be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as

they shall appear to be true views

ndash Abraham Lincoln 16th US president

If we become increasingly humble about how l

little we know we may be more eager to search

- Sir John Templeton

I dont think anyone can grow unless hes

loved exactly as he is now appreciated for

what he is rather than what he will be

Love and success always in that order Its

that simple and that difficult

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a

lifetimes work but its worth the effort

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Quoted From Lifes Journeys According

to Mister Rogers

When we do the best we can we never know

what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life

of another

ndash Helen Keller lecturer author

We are responsible for what we are and whatever

we wish ourselves to be we have the power to make

ourselves If what we are now has been the result of

our own past actions it certainly follows that whatever

we wish to be in future can be produced by our present

actions so we have to know how to act

~ Swami Vivekananda

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Relaxation is the prerequisite for that inner expansion that allows a person to

express the source of inspiration and joy within

~ Deepak Chopra

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team and the team ought to get

credit for the wins and the losses Successes have many fathers failures have

none

- Philip Caldwell

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

Agatha Christie 1890-1976 Novelist

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation

-Dr Robert Schuler Whenever youre facing any form of resistance gratitude has the power to

quickly dissolve it This is true whether the hindrance comes from inside of you or

outside of you

Peggy McColl Author of Relax Your Way to Wealth Its easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top

Henry Ward Beecher Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people So

overweight people are now averagehellip which means you have met your New Years

resolution

Jay Leno

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in A pessimist stays up to

make sure the old year leaves

Bill Vaughan

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past Let it go for it was imperfect

and thank God that it can go

Brooks Atkinson

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New Years Resolution To tolerate fools more gladly provided this does not

encourage them to take up more of my time

James Agate

New Years Day is every mans birthday

Charles Lamb

Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right

Oprah Winfrey

―It is never too late to be what you might have been

- TS Eliot

If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain

ndash Emily Dickinson 1830-1886 American Poet

Life is too short to waste Dreams are fulfilled only through action not through

endless planning to take action

David J Schwartz Trainer and Author

Its the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and

sweeps away all obstacles

Claude M Bristol

―The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means time

influence and educational advantages the question is what he will do with the

things he has The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of

opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face and resolves to change

them he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success

-Hamilton Wright Mabie

Just go out there and do what youve got to do

~ Martina Navratilova

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Now I experience the love in everyone I no longer am a person who judges others

for being overweight for being too young or too old for having their hair a certain

way or for how they dress When you judge others you dont define them you

define yourself as someone who needs to judge and compartmentalize people

-Wayne Dyer

The big secret in life is that there is no secret Whatever your goal you can get

there if you are willing to work It is called massive action Action is the gas in the

tank Without it the car will not run

Marcy Blochowiak Author of No Glass Ceiling An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory

-Friedrich Engels

Leaders arent born they are made And they are made just like anything else

through hard work And thats the price well have to pay to achieve that goal or

any goal

Vincent Lombardi

May your trails be crooked winding lonesome dangerous leading to the most

amazing view May your rivers flow without end meandering through pastoral

valleys tinkling with bells past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark

primeval forestdown into a desert of red rock blue mesas domes and pinnacles

and grottos of endless stone And down again into a deep vast ancient unknown

chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs where deer walk across the

white sand beaches where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high

crags until something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than

your deepest dreams waits for you just beyond the next turning of the canyon

walls

-Benedicto by Edward Abbey

An unwritten want is a wish a dream a never-happen The day you put your goal in

writing is the day it becomes a commitment that will change your life Are you

ready

Tom Hopkins Author and Speaker

―Where are you going Who are you looking for Your beloved is right herehellip Cease

looking for flowers there blooms a garden in your own home While you go looking

for trinkets your treasure house awaits you in your own being There is no need

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for suffering God is here

~Rumi Chance favors only the prepared mind

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895 French scientist who developed pasteurization)

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities

enough and if they do not find them they will make them

Samuel Smiles

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen but give us the

determination to make the right things happen

Peter Marshall

If the sky falls hold up your hands

Spanish Proverb

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable but to be certain is to be ridiculous

Chinese Proverb

Knowing is not enough we must apply Willing is not enough we must do

Johann von Goethe

If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is he will not jump If he does

not know how wide it is he will jump and six times out of ten he will make it

Persian Proverb

As I grow to understand life less and less I learn to love it more and more

Jules Renard

The more you praise and celebrate your life the more there is in life to celebrate

Oprah Winfrey (1954- American TV personality producer actress author)

Mind is all that counts You can be whatever you make up your mind to be

Robert Collier

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You dont get to choose how youre going to die Or when You can only decide how

youre going to live Now

Joan Baez Singer Songwriter and Activist The average person goes to their grave with their music still in them

Oliver Wendell Holmes ―Everyone can be great because everyone can serve

- Martin Luther King ―Whatever you can conceive and believe you can achieve

Napoleon Hill We turn not older with years but newer every day

-Emily Dickinson

When reciting affirmations feel the words in your heart as you say them and

know that what you feel youll create

Peggy McColl Author of Relax Your Way to Wealth Everyday life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust

our old programs accordingly

Dr Ann Faraday

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to

get there Then never never never give up

Vincent Peale

We only think when we are confronted with problems

John Dewey (1859-1952 American philosopher educator)

In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain

Pliny The Elder (c23-79 Roman neophatonist)

If your determination is fixed I do not counsel you to despair Few things are

impossible to diligence and skill Great works are performed not by strength but

perseverance

Samuel Johnson

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Dont waste your life in doubts and fears spend yourself on the work before you

well assured that the right performance of this hours duties will be the best

preparation for the hours or ages that follow it

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Poet and Essayist Its nice to know that we dont need to wait till tomorrow we can start to change

the world today

Wil Rose

The good man acts for honors sake and the more so the better he is and acts for

his friends sake and sacrifices his own interest

-Aristotle

In order to excel you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport You

must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism

Without a total 100 percent dedication you wont be able to do this

Willie Mays

Any time you sincerely want to make a change the first thing you must do is to

raise your standards When people ask me what really changed my life eight years

ago I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I

demanded of myself I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my

life all the things I would no longer tolerate and all the things that I aspired to

becoming

Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert

Im a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of

it

Thomas Jefferson

Bring awareness to each act Walking on the road walk fully alert eating eat with

awareness Whatsoever you are doing dont let the past and the future interfere

Be in the present Thats what awareness is all about

~Osho

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There are two dimensions to life and we should be able to touch both

One is like a wave and we call it the historical dimension

The other is like the water and we call it the ultimate dimension or nirvana

We usually touch just the wave but when we discover how to touch the water

we receive the highest fruit that meditation can offer

-Thich Nhat Hanh

Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends

Jacques Delille (1738-1813 French poet

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock the stream always wins -

not through strength but by perseverance

Jackson Brown

When you focus on whats wrong you get more of whats wrong Conversely when

you focus on whats right you get more of whats right

Gina Mollicone-Long Author of the newly released book Think Or Sink

All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave

behind is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into

another

Gail Sheehy (1937- American journalist author)

Anger is one letter away from danger

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Success means having the courage the determination and the will to become the

person you believe you were meant to be

George Sheehan 1918-1993 Physician and Author

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views

so fast as they shall appear to be new views

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 16th American President)

―One ship sails East

And another West

By the self-same winds that blow

lsquoTis the set of the sails

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And not the gales

That tells the way we go

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity Our attitude

toward it Every opportunity has a difficulty and every difficulty has an

opportunity

J Sidlow Baxter 1903-1999 Author and Theologian

If you want to be successful you must either have a chance or take one

Author Unknown

It is common sense to take a method and try it If it fails admit it frankly and try

another But above all try something

Franklin D Roosevelt

It was courage faith endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all

obstacles that built this bridge

~ John J Watson

Past Data should now be the basis of Present Truth Data from a prior time or

experience should always and only be the basis for new questions Always the

treasure should be in the questions not in the answer

-Neale Donald Walsch Even though you may want to move forward in your life you may have one foot on

the brakes In order to be free we must learn how to let go Release the hurt

Release the fear Refuse to entertain your old pain The energy it takes to hang

onto the past is holding you back from a new life What is it you would let go of

today

Mary Manin Morrissey Creator of The Miracle Mastery Conference

It is not what you are called but what you answer to

African Proverb

A failure establishes only this that our determination to succeed was not strong

enough

John Christian Bovee

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If youre not part of a solution youre a part of the problem There is no middle

road I dont think we can destroy the Earth but I think the Earth can destroy

us

-Oh Shinnah

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will

accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop

Robert Hughes

Charity is the spice of riches

Jewish Proverb

If you dont like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and

waiting for you The snake sheds its skin with impunity relying on the same nature

which you rely on

Author Unknown

Its a very funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best

you very often get it

William Somerset Maugham

A leader once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one must

be undaunted when the going gets tough

Ronald Reagan

If I accept you as you are I will make you worse however if I treat you as

though you are what you are capable of becoming I help you become that

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 Author and Philosopher

Every gun that is made every warship launched every rocket signifies in the final

sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed from those who are cold and

not clothed The world in arms is not spending money alone It is spending the

sweat of its laborers the genius of its scientists the hopes of its children

-Dwight D Eisenhower

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Service is nothing but love in work clothes

Author Unknown

A man can do all things if he but wills them

Leon Battista Alberti

A crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk just a

tinkling cymbal where there is not love

Francis Bacon 17th Century English Lord Chancellor philosopher and author

The only way to have a friend is to be one

Ralph Waldo Emerson 19th Century American author and poet

Its not what you do once in a while its what you do day in and day out that

makes the difference

Jenny Craig Diet Specialist

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on

the labors of other men living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to

give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving

Albert Einstein (1879-1955 German-born American physicist)

A resolute determination is the truest wisdom

Napoleon I

Without consistency there is no moral strength

Author Unknown

See first that the design is wise and just that ascertained pursue it resolutely

William Shakespeare

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

-Dale Carnegie

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself

William Penn (1644-1718 British religious leader founder of Pennsylvania)

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How we think shows through in how we act Attitudes are mirrors of the mind

They reflect thinking

David J Schwartz Trainer and Author

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but

to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment

Dorothy Nevill

Vision is freely given to those who ask to see

-Course in Miracles

Tough times never last but tough people do

Dr Robert Schuller

A sure way to lose happiness I found is to want it at the expense of everything

else

Bette Davis (1908-1989 American actress producer)

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything

Alexander Hamilton

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference He has

it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter

Norman Cousins (1915-1990 American editor humanitarian author)

The practice of medicine is an art not a trade a calling not a business a calling in

which your heart will be exercised equally with your head Often the best part of

your work will have nothing to do with powders or potions

-Sir William Osler

Strength does not come from physical capacity It comes from an indomitable

will

~ Mahatma Gandhi

―You dont love someone for their looks or their clothes or for their fancy car

but because they sing a song only you can hear

Anon

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―They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever

Oscar Wilde

―Love is like a friendship caught on fire In the beginning a flame very pretty

often hot and fierce but still only light and flickering As love grows older our

hearts mature and our love becomes as coals deep-burning and unquenchable

Bruce Lee

―Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty

John Finely

―It takes a lot of understanding time and trust to gain a close friendship with

someone As I approach a time of my life of complete uncertainty my friends are

my most precious asset

Anon

―Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process

Harold S Geneen People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest

- Hermann Hesse 1877-1962 Civilization is a method of living an attitude of equal respect for all men

- Jane Addams 1860-1935 The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next

- Matthew Arnold 1822-1888

Vacillating people seldom succeed Successful men and women are very careful in

reaching their decisions and very persistent and determined in action thereafter

~ L G Elliott

Those with goals tend to succeed because they are focused and know where they

are going while those without goals do not

Ted Karam Author from his new book Jumping On Water Awaken Your Joy - Empower Your Life

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Every time you go out on the ice there are slight flaws You can always think of

something you should have done better These are the things you must work on

Dorothy Hamill (1956- American figure skater)

Until you make the unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it

fate

~ Carl Jung When you speak of someone or about someone you should speak as though they

were in the room with you The ears that you speak to today are attached to the

mouth that could relay the message tomorrow

William Biddy Allen 1903-2001 Bus Driver - Loving father of 7 children

It is no failure to fall short of realizing all that we might dream The failure is to

fall short of dreaming all that we might realize

-Dee Hock When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they

are regarded by others let them reflect how little they have contributed to the

happiness of others

Author Unknown

I have become my own version of an optimist If I cant make it through one door

Ill go through another door - or Ill make a door Something terrific will come no

matter how dark the present

~ Rabindranath Tagore

―The present moment

contains past and future

The secret of transformation

is in the way we handle this very moment

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926 - present Vietnamese Buddhist monk)

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―Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it Do not believe in

anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many Do not believe in

anything simply because it is found written in your religious books Do not believe in

anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders Do not believe in

traditions because they have been handed down for many generations But after

observation and analysis when you find that anything agrees with reason and is

conducive to the good and benefit of one and all then accept it and live up to it

Buddha (Founder of Buddhism 568 - 488 BC) I try to avoid looking forward or backward and try to keep looking upward

Charlotte Bronte

Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action for all eternity

Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801 Theologian

There is only one duty only one safe course and that is to try to be right

Winston Churchill (1874-1965 British statesman Prime Minister)

We are born at a given moment in a given place and like vintage years of wine we

have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born Astrology

does not lay claim to anything more

-Carl Jung

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them One is more

delightful for being told one is delightful -- just as one is angrier for being told

one is angry

Katherine F Gerould

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread they can sure make something out

of you

~ Muhammed Ali Beware of the thoughts you keep because everything in reality manifests from

the mind

Justin Palmer Second Year College Student

Confess you were wrong yesterday it will show you are wise today

Author Unknown

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We must accept finite disappointment but we must never lose infinite hope

~ Martin Luther King Jr

In the beginning the Universe was created

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move

-Douglas Adams

Any individual can be in time what he earnestly desires to be if he but set his

face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing and bring all his powers to bear

upon its attainment

Herman J Randall

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world

~ Helen Keller Many of lifes failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success

when they gave up

~ Thomas Edison

When you give your undivided attention to something there is a softening and

opening in the listener that allows access to the meaning underneath the words

-Betty Burkes

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they

are about to change the world I am more awed by those who struggle to make one

small difference

Ellen Goodman Journalist

If you look into your own heart you find nothing wrong there what is there to

fear

Confucius (BC 551-479 Chinese ethical teacher philosopher) Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls

~ Mother Teresa What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self-

conceit For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he

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already knows

- Epictetus 55 AD-135 AD

There are admirable potentialities in every human being Believe in your strength

and your youth Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself It all depends on me

- Andre Gide 1869-1951

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage

- Anais Nin 1903-1977 Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in

other areas But can it really True effectiveness requires balance

~ Stephen Covey

I dont pay good wages because I have a lot of money I have a lot of money

because I pay good wages

- Robert Bosch Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do

the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not it is

the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a mans training

begins it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly

Thomas H Huxley 1825-1895 Biologist

The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have and to be able

to lose all desire for things beyond your reach

Yutang Lin (1895-1976 Chinese writer and philologist)

Men are failures not because they are stupid but because they are not

sufficiently impassioned

Struther Burt

If you look at what you have in life youll always have more If you look at what

you dont have in life youll never have enough

Oprah Winfrey Television Host Producer and Philanthropist

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Im trying not to look too far ahead All Im thinking is one shot at a time one hole

at a time and thats what I want to keep doing

Michelle McGann

I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed but the spirit in

which we face them that constitutes our comfort

-Elizabeth T King My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content

with your failure

~ Abraham Lincoln

―There is nothing but love and all else is illusion

- Dr John Demartini There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer no disease that enough

love will not heal no door that enough love will not open

- Emmet Fox

All my limitations are self-imposed and my liberation can only come from true self-

love

- Max C Robinson

We fail to see that we can control our own destiny make ourselves do whatever is

possible make ourselves become whatever we long to be

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine )

To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will

~ Sugar Ray Robinson 1920-1989 Boxer

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall

Confucius

Half the people you know are above average

-Steven Wright

Your close relationships are either a catalyst for manifesting what you really

want or theyre a hindrance to your manifestation If you truly value the power of

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love in your life you owe it to yourself to discover how to tap into the power of

your relationship as a force for manifestation

Drs Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up Even when they do it is not

perfect and they sigh for more and lose better things in struggling for them

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888 American author )

One is not idle because one is absorbed There is both visible and invisible labor To

contemplate is to toil to think is to do The crossed arms work the clasped hands

act The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation

Victor Hugo (1802-1885 French poet dramatist novelist)

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of

greed in the headlines

-Charles Kuralt

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our

focus we never concentrate our power Most people dabble their way through life

never deciding to master anything in particular

Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)

In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time

~ Anthony J DAngelo

Courage comes from wanting to do it well Security comes from knowing you can do

it well Confidence comes from having done it well

~ Author Unknown

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel

Napoleon Hill

There is a true genius in everyone But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a

tree it would never stop doubting itself

~ Einstein~

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People ask for criticism but they only want praise

- W Somerset Maugham 1874-1965 Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts for if

you let it pass the desire may never return and you may remain in ignorance

- William Wirt 1772-1834 Cynicism is not realistic and tough Its unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it

means you dont have to try

- Peggy Noonan 1950-present There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into

gear

David Mahoney Executive and Philanthropist You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences

W Somerset Maugham (1874-1965 British novelist playwright)

Dont ask yourself what the world needs Ask yourself what makes you come alive

and then go and do that Because what the world needs are people who have come

alive

~ Howard Thurman When a great moment knocks on the door of your life it is often no louder than

the beating of your heart and it is very easy to miss it -Boris Pasternak Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure

~ Thomas Alva Edison

To be successful you have to have your heart in your business and your business in

your heart

- Thomas Watson Sr Begin challenging your own assumptions Your assumptions are your windows on the

world Scrub them off every once and a while or the light wont come in

Alan Alda Actor Writer and Director

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I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most

argumentative

Giovani della Casa (1503-1556 Papal secretary of state)

Have you ever felt like you wanted to go but you felt like you wanted to stay

- Song Lyric Jimmy Durante

To live is the rarest thing in the world most people exist that is all

~ Oscar Wilde

Awareness is like a beam of light that shines endlessly into space We only

perceive that light when it is reflected off some object and consciousness is

producedAwareness is the light by which we see the worldWe mistake the clear

light of pure awareness for the shadows that it casts in consciousnessWe forget

that we are the light itself and imagine that we are the densities that reflect the

light back to us

-Stephen Levine Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal

Albert Camus (1913-1960 French existential writer) The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation

Mark Twain

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn Our rewards

will always be in exact proportion to our service

Earl Nightingale 1921-1989 Author of The Strangest Secret

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he

knows where he is going

Napoleon Hill

Wisdom tells me I am nothing

Love tells me I am everything

And between the two my life flows

-Nisargadatta Maharaj

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No employer today is independent of those about him He cannot succeed alone no

matter how great his ability or capital Business today is more than ever a question

of cooperation

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)

Shoot for the moon Even if you miss youll land among the stars

Les Brown

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world

Joseph Addison (1672-1719 British essayist poet statesman)

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a

fate that falls on man unless they act

~ G K Chesterton

Find something positive to think about and dont let the conversation in your head

end with a negative comment Always end on a positive comment

Dr Tomi Bryan and Dr Jerry White From their latest release The 5 Keys To The Great Life

Whales do not sing because they have a message They sing because they have a

song

-Ashes and Snow

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life

- Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956

Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though

checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor

suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor

defeat

- Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting

- Stanislaw Leszczynski 1677-1766

There is no joy in getting by on your job - doing as little as you can There is a

LOT of pleasure in doing more than you have to And whosoever shall compel you

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to go a mile go with him twain says the Bible wisely

-Norman Carlisle

We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once

Calvin Coolidge

The starting point of all achievement is desire Keep this constantly in mind Weak

desires bring weak results just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat

Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think and Grow Rich

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me

instead of looking within myself to see what was there

Belle Livingstone

Rather than thinking if and when start doing take action stop talking about if

and when

~ Catherine Pulsifer

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity -

Ayn Rand

Being a man or indeed being human is not something for which one should

apologize but something to which one should aspire and with all the gusto he can

muster

-- David Cunningham

The question isnt who is going to let me its who is going to stop me

- Howard Roark The Fountainhead 1943

I am the Master of my Fate Captain of my Soul

-- W E Henley

Whatever you can do or dream you can begin it

Boldness has genius power and magic in it

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me

instead of looking within myself to see what was there

Belle Livingstone

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality order

and diligence without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a

time

Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Novelist

The path to success is to take massive determined action

Anthony Robbins

All of the significant battles are waged within the self

Sheldon Kopp (1929- American psychologist)

Follow effective action with quiet reflection From the quiet reflection will come

even more effective action

~ Peter F Drucker

Dont be dismayed at good-byes

A farewell is necessary before you can meet again

And meeting again after moments or lifetimes

is certain for those who are friends

-Richard Bach

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual

sense of humor

Thomas W Higginson 1823-1911 Minister Abolitionist and Author

When performance exceeds ambition the overlap is called success

Cullen Hightower

Well done is better than well said

Benjamin Franklin

The first and the best victory is to conquer self

Plato (BC 427-347 Greek philosopher)

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Man is what he believes

-Anton Chekhov One half of life is luck the other half is discipline - and thats the important half

for without discipline you wouldnt know what to do with luck

Carl Zuckmeyer 1896-1977 Writer and Playwright

Try and fail but dont fail to try

~ Stephen Kaggwa

I believe that one of the greatest gifts we have been given is our imagination It

costs nothing to access is available 247 and is our doorway to freedom With

imagination we have inside of us the most amazing ability to change our state and

transform our life in a moment

~ Veronica Hay The world is full of abundance and opportunity but far too many people come to

the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car a teaspoon instead of a

steam shovel They expect little and as a result they get little

Ben Sweetland Author of I Will Blessed is the person who sees the need recognizes the responsibility and actively

becomes the answer

William A Ward

I am not a mechanism an assembly of various sections

And it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly that I am ill

I am ill because of wounds to the soul to the deep emotional self

And the wounds to the soul take a long long time only time can help

And patience and a certain difficult repentance

Long difficult repentance realization on lifes mistake and the freeing of oneself

From the endless repetition of the mistake

Which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify

-D H Lawrence

Victory belongs to the most persevering

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Gratitude opens doors It paves the way to abundance and prosperity like nothing

else

It can line your pockets with gold and fill your bank account quicker than a New

York minute

Yet how many of you are living from a thankful heart each day

~Veronica Hay Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe

Bruce Springsteen You gain strength and courage and confidence by each experience in which we

really stop to look fear in the face You must do that which we think we cannot

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 Social Activist and First Lady of the United States

Dont let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you Instead give to

yourself that which empowers you

Les Brown (1945- American speaker author trainer motivator)

―The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having

new eyes

~ Marcel Proust

―Then your light shall break forth like the dawn and your healing shall spring up

quickly

~ Isaiah 588

―And your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music

from it or confused sounds

mdash Kahlil Gibran

In every life the most important change is self-change -- and in every situation

the principles are the same

- J Kingston Cowart

It takes courage to lead a life Any life

Erica Jong

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Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time

-Ken Wilber

Peoples tendency towards good is as waters tendency is to flow downhill

Mencius When I let go of what I am I become what I might be

~ Lao Tsu

The higher my rank the more humbly I behave The greater my power the less I

exercise it The richer my wealth the more I give away Thus I avoid respectively

envy and spite and misery

~ Sun Shu Ao

There is no greater happiness than freedom from worry and there is no greater

wealth than contentment

~Lao Tsu

Failure lies not in falling down Failure lies in not getting up

~ Chinese proverb

A meal however simple is a moment of intersection It is at once the most basic

the most fundamental of our lifes activities maintaining the life of our bodies

Shared with others it can be an occasion of joy and communion uniting people

deeply

~ Elise Boulding The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms

-- Socrates You are never going to get it all done - you just wont Rather you will find order

and peace in your workday if you accept it and then do one more thing Implement

a system that consistently shows you whats most critical at any moment what to

do after the critical and where to find everything else when you need to That

system is not hard - its quite simple to set up

Michael Linenberger From Master Your Workday Now Check out his book and bonuses

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Time is limited so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have

just one chance to live this particular day right and to string my days together

into a life of action and purpose

Lance Armstrong 7-Time Winner of the Tour de France

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value

Albert Einstein

We have contributed each in the time allotted us our endeavors to render a

permanent blessing to our country

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826 Third American President)

If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost that is where they

should be Now put foundations under them

~ Henry David Thoreau

If you didnlsquot musterbate then you wouldnlsquot awfulize terribilize

catastrophize say ―I canlsquot stand it and put yourself down

If you only stuck with ―Ilsquod like very much to do well but I never

have to you wouldnlsquot then disturb yourself hellip musterbation is

evil and pernicious

- Albert Ellis

There are 2 theories to arguing with a womanneither works

-Will Rogers

Dont tell me that worry doesnt do any good said the over-worked executive I

know better The things I worry about never happen

-Cited in More ofThe Best of BITS amp PIECES

Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were

innocent Anger is natural Grief is appropriate Healing is mandatory Restoration

is possible

~ Jane Rubietta

Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can

~ Richard Bach

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Inspiration and genius--one and the same

~ Victor Hugo

It is important to acknowledge a mistake instantly correct it and learn from it

That literally turns a failure into a success Success is on the far side of failure

TJ Watson 1874-1956 Founder if IBM

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of

inspiration

~ George Eliot

Trust your hunches Theyre usually based on facts filed away just below the

conscious level

Dr Joyce Brothers Psychologist and Television Personality Every artist was first an amateur

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a

true master For this reason mastery demands all of a person

Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Theoretical Physicist Philosopher and Author In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain

Pliny The Elder (c23-79 Roman neophatonist)

The more difficulties one has to encounter within and without the more

significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be

Horace Bushnell

If the sky falls hold up your hands

Spanish Proverb

Begin with the end in mind

Stephen Covey

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good try to use ordinary

situations

- Jean Paul Richter 1763-1825 German Novelist

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No great man ever complains of want of opportunities

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If people knew how hard I worked to gain my mastery it wouldnt seem so

wonderful

Michelangelo 1475-1564 Painter Sculptor and Architect

We only think when we are confronted with problems

John Dewey (1859-1952 American philosopher educator)

Men do less than they ought unless they do all they can

~ Thomas Carlyle

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex It takes a touch of

genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction

~Albert Einstein

―Ecstasy is your very nature not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary

~Osho

The quieter you can become the more youre able to hear

~Chinese Proverb

The only real valuable thing is intuition

~ Albert Einstein

To be ecstatic is natural spontaneous It needs no effort to be ecstatic it needs

great effort to be miserable

~Osho

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight

Anita DeFrantz Olympic Rower Everyday life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust

our old programs accordingly

Dr Ann Faraday

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I live my life in widening circles

that reach out across the world

I may not ever complete the last one

But I give myself to it

I have been circling for thousands of years

And I still dont know

Am I a falcon a storm or a great song

-Rilke

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to

make them come true

~ Leon J Suenes

Dont be a cynic and disconsolate preacher Dont bewail and moan Omit the

negative propositions Challenge us with incessant affirmatives Dont waste

yourself in rejection or bark against the bad but chant the beauty of the good

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once whether

youre ready or not to put it into action

Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author

Fall seven times stand up eight

Japanese proverb

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars

or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven

to the human spirit

~ Helen Keller

Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends

Jacques Delille (1738-1813 French poet)

First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have

to do

Epictetus

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to

make them come true

Leon J Suenes

If you would create something you must be something

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Stay together friends

Dont scatter and sleep

Our friendship is made

Of being awake

The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away weeping

That way it stays in the garden whereas another roundness rolls

through a dry riverbed looking for what it thinks it wants

Stay here quivering with each moment like a drop of mercury

-Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives as parallel realities It is

always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend when we choose not

to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance

thats present love health family friends work the joys of nature and personal

pursuits that bring us pleasure the wasteland of illusion falls away and we

experience heaven on earth

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach Any time you sincerely want to make a change the first thing you must do is to

raise your standards When people ask me what really changed my life eight years

ago I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I

demanded of myself I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my

life all the things I would no longer tolerate and all the things that I aspired to

becoming

~ Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert) Its nice to know that we dont need to wait till tomorrow we can start to change

the world today

~ Wil Rose

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A bird doesnt sing because it has an answer it sings because it has a song

~ Maya Angelou

Great minds have purposes little minds have wishes Little minds are subdued by

misfortunes great minds rise above them

~ Washington Irving

Step by step I cant think of any other way of accomplishing anything

~ Michael Jordan

If you employed study thinking and planning time daily you could develop and use

the power that can change the course of your destiny

~ W Clement Stone

We are called to speak for the weak for the voiceless for victims of our nation

and for those it calls enemy for no document from human hands can make these

humans any less than our brothers

-Dr Martin Luther King Jr

Disposal of hazardous wastes is not the root problem Rather it is the root

symptom

-Hawken Paul There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the

things we do

Freya Stark

Try a little harder to be a little better

Gordon B Hinckley

If you love something and stick with it you will get phenomenal results

Bob Proctor

You can chain me you can torture me you can even destroy this body but you will

never imprison my mind

Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Political and Spiritual Leader

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Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and

triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friends forehead

Chinese Proverb Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs

Michael Levine

Nurture your mind with great thoughts To believe in the heroic makes heroes

Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881 British Prime Minister The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your

blueprint or plan Strategies are like recipes choose the right ingredients mix

them in the correct proportions and you will always produce the same predictable

results

~ Charles J Givens

More than anything else I believe its our decisions not the conditions of our

lives that determine our destiny

Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)

Happy the manwoman who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his

wishes and his powers

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I hope that my achievements in life shall be these that I will have fought for what

was right and fair that I will have risked for that which mattered and that I will

have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better

place for what Ive done and who Ive been

~ C Hoppe

The vision that you glorify in your mind the ideal that you enthrone in your heart

this you will build your life by and this you will become

James Allen

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Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony

Gandhi

There never was a time when in my opinion some way could not be found to

prevent the drawing of the sword

-General Grant To be a warrior

is to be genuine

in every moment of your life

-Chogyam Trungpa Im convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs

from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance

- Steve Jobs Regret for wasted time is more wasted time

Mason Cooley

Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow

Les Brown (1945- American speaker author trainer motivator)

More than anything else I believe its our decisions not the conditions of our

lives that determine our destiny

Anthony Robbins Author and Speaker

Material possessions will rust away wear away or depreciate but your inner

resources character must never depreciate In seeking success you must also seek

fulfillment Ask yourself not only what you want to be but who you want to be

~ Elizabeth Dole Anything in life that we dont accept will simply make trouble for us until we make

peace with it

~ Shakti Gawain

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious

stupidity

-Dr Martin Luther King Jr

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Real integrity is doing the right thing knowing that nobodys going to know

whether you did it or not

Oprah Winfrey Talk Show Host Producer and Philanthropist

If you must begin then go all the way because if you begin and quit the unfinished

business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time

Chogyam Trungpa

I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career I have lost almost 300 games

On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot and I

missed I have failed over and over and over again in my life And thats precisely

why I succeedcc

~ Michael Jordan

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what

they most enjoy

~ Malcolm Forbes

Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future

Paul Boese Botanist

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons

determination

Tommy Lasorda (1927- American baseball manager) I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more

~ Dr Jonas Salk The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame

Rod Steiger

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul

~ Marcus Aurelius

The best way

to make your dreams come true

is to wake up

-Kabir

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You can do what you have to do and sometimes you can do it even better than you

think you can

Jimmy Carter (1924- American President (39th)) ―If you create an act you create a habit If you create a habit you create a

character If you create a character you create a destiny

ndash Andre Maurois They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them

feel

~ Carl W Buechner When you affirm big believe big and pray big putting faith into action big things

happen

Dr Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993 Preacher and Author You never will be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are taken

out of your life

~ James G Bilkey

In every difficult situation is potential value Believe this then begin looking for it

Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993 American Christian reformed pastor speaker author)

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832 German poet dramatist novelist)

Being vulnerable doesnt have to be threatening Just have the courage to be

sincere open and honest This opens the door to deeper communication all around

It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want

in life Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us These

secrets are what make us sick or fearful Speaking truth helps you get clarity on

your real heart directives

-Sara Paddison

The best thing to spend on your children is your time

~ Louise Hart

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The best things come to those who wait

- Unknown

Ask five economists and youll get five different explanations six if one went to

Harvard

~ Edgar R Fiedler There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through

encouragement from someone else I dont care how great how famous or

successful a man or woman may be each hungers for applause

~ George M Adams Do not fear death fear the unlived life

Natalie Babbitt Leadership is no longer about your position Its now more about your passion for

excellence and making a difference You can lead without a title

Robin Sharma

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back The great champions have

all come back from defeat

Sam Snead (1912-2002 American golfer)

What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision

-Helen Keller The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement

Yet almost no one gets the encouragement they need

to grow to their full potential If everyone received the

encouragement they need to grow the genius in most

everyone would blossom and the world would produce

abundance beyond the wildest dreams We would have

more than one Einstein Edison Schweitzer Mother

Theresa Dr Salk and other great minds in a century

~Sidney Madwed

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Dont build your happiness on someone elses unhappiness

~ Richard Rose

―The mind turned inwards is the Self turned outwards it becomes the ego and all

the world

~ Ramana Maharshi

Somewhere there is someone who dreams of your smile and finds in your presence

that life is worthwhile

So when you are lonely remember its true somebody somewhere is thinking of

you

~ Anon

If youre open to altering your plans a bit you might achieve even better results

than youd anticipated

Peggy McColl A strong passion for any object will ensure success for the desire of the end will

point out the means

William Hazlitt (1778-1830 British essayist)

Successful people dont do different things they just do things differently

- Unknown You never will be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are

taken out of your life

James G Bilkey Author

Dreams do come true if we only wish hard enough You can have anything in life if

you will sacrifice everything else for it

James M Barrie (1860-1937 British playwright)

Seven blunders of the world

that lead to violence

wealth without work

pleasure without conscience

knowledge without character

commerce without morality

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science without humanity

worship without sacrifice

politics without principle

-Mahatma Gandhi

When people speak of prosperity they generally mean success and measure it in

terms of financial abundance There are books seminars and training sessions

designed to help individuals to be prosperous Clearly many are seeking the path to

prosperity Ironically when one is seeking prosperity the message they give to

themselves and the universe is that they do not have enough This is a scarcity

mentality and tends only to manifest more scarcity

~ Gwen Randall Young Money makes money and the money makes more money

~ Benjamin Franklin

BE the change you wish to see in the world

- Ghandhi The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched

They must be felt with the heart

~ Hellen Keller

Understanding does not cure evil but it is a definite help inasmuch as one can cope

with a comprehensible darkness

-Carl Jung

You are not powerless about anything

When you get a vision and then find

alignment with it you ARE powerful

And then amazing things begin to

happen around you

- Abraham-Hicks

Be kind whenever possible It is always possible

~ Dalai Lama

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A consistent soul believes in destiny a capricious one in chance

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881 British statesman Prime Minister)

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots

George Herbert (1593-1632 British metaphysical poet)

It is not the greatness of a mans means that makes him independent so much as

the smallness of his wants

William Cobbett (1762-1835 British journalist reformer)

If you desire many things many things will seem few

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790 American scientist publisher diplomat) Its the little things you do that can make a big difference What are you

attempting to accomplish What little thing can you do today that will make you

more effective You are probably only one step away from greatness

Bob Proctor Author and Speaker You may delay but time will not and lost time is never found again

~ Benjamin Franklin

Procrastination is the seed of self-destruction

~ Matthew Burton

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light

~ Helen Keller

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength

~ Sigmund Freud

Blessed are those that can give without remembering and take without

forgetting

~ Liz Bebesco Waiting is a trap There will always be reasons to wait

The truth is there are only two things in life reasons and results and reasons

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simply dont count

~ Dr Robert Anthony

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become

wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing The long

term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their

Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed

~ Srully Blotnick

If now there is something you

choose to experience in your life

do not want it -- choose it

Do you choose success in worldly

terms Do you choose more money

Good Then choose it Really

Fully Not half-heartedly

- Conversations with God Book 1

Its a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best you

very often get it

-Somerset Maugham

A world of abundance surrounds you if only you will step up and claim it Make life

happen through you rather than letting it happen to you It will make all the

difference in the world

- Ralph Marston Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving

it

~ William Arthur Ward

We must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible

otherwise we would not continue to search

-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Prosperity consciousness is the awareness that all of us have something of value

to offer and we all deserve to get paid for what we provide to others

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Peggy McColl Author of Viral Explosions Proven Techniques to Expand Explode or Ignite Your Business Or Brand Online Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying

~ Christian Furchtegott Gellert

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it

- Lou Holtz Procrastination is opportunitys natural assassin

~ Victor Kiam Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough

- Og Mandino 1923-1996 American Motivational Author and Speaker When you judge others you do not define them you define yourself

~ Earl Nightingale

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly

~ Richard Bach

If you tell the truth you dont have to remember anything

-Mark Twain

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity

belonging to them

William Hazlitt (1778-1830 British essayist)

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back The great champions

have all come back from defeat

Sam Snead 1912-2002 Golfer Faith is the assurance of things hoped for

- Unknown

The mediocre teacher tells The good teacher explains The superior teacher

demonstrates The great teacher inspires

~ William A Ward

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Never complain and never explain

~ --Benjamin Disraeli

Bless a thing and it will bless you Curse it and it will curse you If you bless a

situation it has no power to hurt you

Emmet Fox 1886-1951 Spiritual Leader Man alone has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man

alone can dream and make his dreams come true

Napoleon Hill (1883-1970 American speaker author Think And Grow Rich) Without AMBITION one starts nothing Without WORK one finishes nothing

The prize will NOT be sent to you You have to WIN it

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is to try to please

everyone

- Bill Cosby What we leave behind is not engraved in stone monuments but woven into the lives

of others

~ Pericles The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of

being unwanted

~ Mother Teresa (1910-1997 Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary)

Tough times never last Tough people do

-Robert Schuller

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions

- Eric Butterworth

A fellow at one of my workshops confessed For years I was so miserable that I

prayed to God daily to let me wake up as happy as my dog I went home and

thought about it Am I as happy as my dog Hmmmm

~ Alan Cohen

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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future You must break out of

your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the

unknown

Denis Waitley Author and Speaker

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us

William Feather (1888-19 American writer businessman )

It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow but only

empties today of its strength

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892 Preacher

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win by fearing to

attempt

William Shakespeare (1564-1616 British poet playwright actor)

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future You must break out of

your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the

unknown

Denis Waitley (1933- American author speaker trainer peak performance expert)

Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as

it should There are no mistakes anywhere at any time What appears to be wrong

is simply your own false imagination Thats all

~Robert Adams

How many ideas have there been in history that were unthinkable ten years

before they appeared

~Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Life in itself is an empty canvas it becomes whatsoever you paint on it You can

paint misery you can paint bliss This freedom is your glory

~Osho

―Cease trying to work everything out with your minds it will get you nowhere Live

instead by intuition and inspiration let your whole life become a revelation

~Eileen Caddy

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People should appreciate ugliness because if it wasnt for ugliness beautiful

things wouldnt look beautiful

~ Sam Lau

No great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig If

you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time Let it first

blossom then bear fruit then ripen

~Epictetus

You are the Self that perfect immutable Self Nothing else exists Nothing else

ever existed Nothing else will ever exist There is only one Self and you are That

Rejoice

~Robert Adams

Part of being a champ is acting like a champ You have to learn how to win and not

run away when you lose Everyone has bad stretches and real successes Either way

you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get too confident

~ Nancy Kerrigan

Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they

have deep inside them - a desire a dream a vision

~ Muhammad Ali

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents works his tail off to

develop them into skills and uses these skills to accomplish his goals

~ Larry Bird

Every time you smile at someone it is an action of love a gift to that person a

beautiful thing

-Mother Teresa

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end Its not a day when you

lounge around doing nothing its when youve had everything to do and youve done

it

-Lord Acton

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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do

- Walter Bagehot

Only the weak are cruel Gentleness can only be expected from the strong

~ Leo Buscaglia

If you are too busy to spend time with your children then you are busier than God

intended you to be

~ Rabbi Mendel Epstein

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards

~ Soren Kierkegaard

Procrastination is the fear of success People procrastinate because they are

afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now Because

success is heavy carries a responsibility with it it is much easier to procrastinate

and live on the someday Ill philosophy

~ Denis Waitley

Happiness cannot come from without It must come from within

~ Helen Keller

I make occasional visits to reality But Im not a full- time resident

-Ashleigh Brilliant

People are like sticks of dynamite The power is on the inside but nothing happens

until the fuse gets lit

Mac Anderson Author Are you disappointed discouraged and discontented with your present level of

success Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present status Do you want to

become a better and more beautiful person than you are today Would you like to

be able to really learn how to be proud of yourself and still not lose genuine

humility Then start dreaming Itlsquos possible You can become the person you have

always wanted to be

Robert H Schuller (1926- American minister author social leader)

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You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant

aspiration

- James Allen 1864-1912 Author of As A Man Thinketh

The man who has done his best has done everything

~ Charles Schwab Though no one can go back and make a brand new start anyone can start from now

and make a brand new ending

~ Carl Bard

When I get ready to talk to people I spend two thirds of the time thinking what

they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say

Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 16th President of the United States Discontent is the first necessity of progress

Thomas A Edison (1847-1931 American inventor founder of GE)

You dont get to choose how youre going to die Or when You can only decide how

youre going to live - now

- Joan Baez Singer Songwriter

Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as

it should There are no mistakes anywhere at any time What appears to be wrong

is simply your own false imagination Thats all You are the Self that perfect

immutable Self Nothing else exists Nothing else ever existed Nothing else will

ever exist There is only one Self and you are That Rejoice

~Robert Adams If your dream is a big dream and if you want your life to work on the high level

that you say you do theres no way around doing the work it takes to get you

there

~ Joyce Chapman We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an

imperfect person perfectly

~ Sam Keen

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―A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe a part limited in time

and space He experiences himself his thoughts and feeling as something

separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness This

delusion is a kind of prison for us restricting us to our personal desires and to

affection for a few persons nearest to us Our task must be to free ourselves from

this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and

the whole of nature in its beauty

-- Albert Einstein

―Each contact with a human being is so rare so precious one should preserve it

- Anais Nin

―Only connect That was the whole of her sermon Only connect the prose and the

passion and both will be exalted and human love will be seen at its height Live in

fragments no longer Only connect

-- EM Forster

―Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the

self And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our

connectedness to others

-- Harriet Goldhor Lerner

―And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to

do the same As we are liberated from our fear our presence automatically

liberates others

-- Marianne Williamson

No no we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like

waters and righteousness like a mighty stream

Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968 American Civil Rights leader Nobel Prize winner 964)

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a

very long time

~ Andre Gide (1869-1951 French author)

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Write down the thoughts of the moment Those that come unsought for are

commonly the most valuable

Francis Bacon 1561-1626 Philosopher Statesman Scientist and Author

A woman should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart and set out to

accomplish it Even if she fails again and again to accomplish her purpose (as she

necessarily must until weakness is overcome) the strength of character gained will

be the measure of her true success and this will form a new starting point for

future power and triumph

~ James Allen

To be blind is bad but worse is to have eyes and not see

~ Helen Keller

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning

to see an imperfect person perfectly

` Sam Keen

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start anyone can

start from now and make a brand new ending

` Carl Bard Always make a total effort even when the odds are against you

Arnold Palmer (1929- American golfer)

Learning is finding out what you already know Doing is demonstrating that you

know it Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you You are

all learners doers teachers

Richard Bach (1936- American author)

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day

Jenner Bruce 1949- American track athlete author speaker

Doubt whom you will but never yourself

John Christian Bovee (1820-1904 American author lawyer)

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When you give someone a book you dont give him just paper ink and glue You

give him the possibility of a whole new life

Christopher Morley 1890-1957 Novelist Journalist and Poet

Dont be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality If you can dream

it you can make it so

Belva Davis Award-Winning Journalist

The secret of mans being is not only to live but to have something to live for

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose

Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity and high purpose by itself is

utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Watch your thoughts they become words

Watch your words they become actions

Watch your actions they become habits

Watch your habits they become character

Watch your character it becomes your destiny

~ Frank Outlaw

Take good care of your future because thats where youre going to spend the

rest of your life

~ Charles F Kettering

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams

John Barrymore

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground

Stephen Covey

Its never too late to be what you might have been

George Elliot

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Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder

than anything we can say

Wilfred Peterson

True peace is not merely the absence of some negative force - tension confusion

or war it is the presence of some positive force - justice good will and

brotherhood

-Martin Luther King Jr

The important thing in this world is not where we stand but in what direction we

move

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing Action always

generates inspiration Inspiration seldom generates action

-Frank Tibolt

The only way to eliminate waris to love our children more than we hate our enemies

-Golda Meir

It has never been and never will be easy work But the road that is built in hope

is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they

both lead to the same destination

~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

And in the end its not the years in your life that count Its the life in your

years

~ Abraham Lincoln

Hold your head high stick your chest out You can make it It gets dark

sometimes but morning comes Keep hope alive

~ Jesse Jackson

Set your sights high the higher the better Expect the most wonderful things to

happen not in the future but right now Realize that nothing is too good Allow

absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way

Eileen Caddy Author

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To understand the heart and mind of a person look not at what he has already

achieved but at what he aspires to do

Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931 Lebanese poet novelist )

Bring everything up to the surface Accept your humanity your animality

Whatsoever is there accept it without any condemnation Acceptance is

transformation because through acceptance awareness becomes possible

~Osho

What is the best thing about being 100 years old Lack of peer pressure

-Michael Pritchard

The more credit you give away the more will come back to you The more you help

others the more they will want to help you

~ Brian Tracy

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact

~ William James

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes Chance nature

compulsions habit reason passion desire

~ Aristotle When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth think of Algebra

-Will Rogers

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say Yes Ive got

dreams of course Ive got dreams Then they put the box away and bring it out

once in a while to look in it and yep theyre still there These are great dreams

but they never even get out of the box It takes an uncommon amount of guts to

put your dreams on the line to hold them up and say How good or how bad am I

Thats where courage comes in

~ Erma Bombeck

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You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really

stop to look fear in the face You must do the thing which you think you cannot

do

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you love the money will follow

Marsha Sinetar (American author To Build The Life You Want Create The Work You Love)

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement we must choose freedom and the

responsibility this entails

Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998 American expert on love lecturer author)

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt and the dream will take care of

itself You may be surprised at how easily this happens Your doubts are not as

powerful as your desires unless you make them so

Marcia Wieder (American speaker trainer author)

I work every day -- or at least I force myself into my office or room I may get

nothing done but you dont earn bonuses without putting in time Nothing may

come for three months but you dont earn the fourth without it

Mordecai Richler (1931- Canadian writer)

If things are not going well with you begin your effort at correcting the situation

by carefully examining the service you are rendering and especially the spirit in

which you are rendering it

Roger Babson 1875-1967 Statistician and Columnist Its simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about

what the other fellow is going to do

- John R Amos

All beings are from the very beginning Buddhas

~ Hakuin

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly

or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man

~Chang Tzu

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The important thing is not to stop questioning Curiosity has its own reason for

existing One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of

eternity of life of the marvelous structure of reality It is enough if one tries

merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day Never lose a holy

curiosity

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Expect your every need to be met expect the answer to every problem expect

abundance on every level expect to grow spiritually You are not living by human

laws Expect miracles and see them take place Hold ever before you the thought

of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will

bring it into being

~Eileen Caddy

Bring everything up to the surface Accept your humanity your animality

Whatsoever is there accept it without any condemnation Acceptance is

transformation because through acceptance awareness becomes possible

~Osho

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who

keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road

Dag Hammarskjold 1905-1961 Statesman and Secretary-General of UN

Life is one massive challenge after another for everyone So you cant feel sorry

for yourself One real measure of you as a person is how much you can handle

without whining

~ Mike Brescia Author

We are each of us angels with only one wing And we can only fly by embracing each

other

-Luciano de Crescenzo

He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he

would like to have

~ Socrates

Quite often we change jobs friends and spouses instead of ourselves

~ Akbarali H Jetha

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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame

~ Benjamin Franklin

You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where

your thoughts take you

- James Allen

The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will

embrace for that day We cannot change our past

We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way We cannot change

the inevitable The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have and that

is our attitude

- Charles Swindoll author

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others

- Cicero 106 BC - 43 BC

If you want your life to be more rewarding you have to change the way you think

- Oprah Winfrey

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless

- Mother Teresa

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible

- Italian Proverb

Enthusiasm is the all-essential human jet propeller It is the driving force which

elevates people to miracle workers and creates endless energy the source of all

accomplishment

-Norman Vincent Peale

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends

you choose for you will become like them-

- W Clement Stone

Ones philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one

makes In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves The process

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never ends until we die And the choices we make are ultimately our own

responsibility

- Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 American First Lady We will stay young in life as long as we work toward something that were

supposed to do

~ Richard Rose I love the name of honor more than I fear death

~ Julius Caesar

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future making it predictable

and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible

Hannah Arendt 1906-1975 Political Theorist

Man has no greater enemy than himself

Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374 Italian poet humanist)

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety

-Aesop

You cannot tailor make your situation in life but you can tailor make your

attitudes to fit those situations

- Zig Ziglar speaker and author Set a goal to achieve something that is so big so exhilarating that it excites you

and scares you at the same time It must be a goal that is so appealing so much in

line with your spiritual core that you cant get it out of your mind If you do not

get chills when you set a goal youre not setting big enough goals

Bob Proctor Author and Speaker The only people who never fail are those who never try

Ilka Chase (1905-1978 American author actor)

In truth you are spirit The body has been projected by the mind which itself

originates from Spirit If the wrong identification ceases there will be peace and

permanent indescribable bliss

~Ramana Maharshi

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I flow with loving gratitude for all my blessings today

- Zoe Jarboe

People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be

~ Abraham Lincoln You are wealthy now with an abundance of what you are thinking about The world

is a creative engine and will create whatever you are really thinking Every thought

in your mind is a prayer about you no matter who the subject seems to be

~ Brad Jensen

A man who works with his hands is a laborer a man who works with his hands and

his brain is a craftsman but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his

heart is an artist

-Louis Nizer

When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score

John Enoch Powell (1912-1998 British statesman)

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get credit Try if

you can to belong to the first class there is far less competition

~ Dwight Morrow 1873-1931 Businessman Politician and Diplomat

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone but with heartfelt

conviction that we are doing nothing and God everything

~ St Ignatius Loyola Action is the real measure of intelligence

~ Napoleon Hill

Take the first step and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid But the

first essential is that you begin Once the battle is started all that is within and

without you will come to your assistance

~ Robert Collier

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You are what you are today because of the decisions and the choices YOU made

yesterday

~ Wayne Goonie

I have never seen a man who could do real work except under the stimulus of

encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom he is

working

Charles M Schwab (1862-1939 American industrialist businessman)

Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can

- Danny Kaye (1913-1987) Entertainer A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in

spite of overwhelming obstacles

~ Christopher Reeve A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always

with the same person

~ Mignon McLaughlin

We learn from failure much more than from success we often discover what we

will do by finding our what we will not do and probably he who never made a

mistake never made a discovery

Samuel Smiles (1812-1904 Scottish author)

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 16th American President)

Life has indeed many ills but the mind that views every object in its most

cheering aspect and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good bears

within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote

Lydia H Sigourney 1791-1865 Poet

The Next Step

The first step needs action to start it

The last requires patience to end

So we question which ones most important

When we realize our dreams our best friend

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Well the answer is neither theyre equal

But the one that will help you win through

And connect what you start to the finish

Is the next step thats waiting for you

Lifes dreamers are great Goal Achievers

Their faith and persistence just blends

Into one awesome cocktail of knowledge

That whatever they want they can get

You see they never visualize failure

Its success that they see shining through

Its essential to start and to finish

But the next step is what you must do

Alison Wilson

Set a goal to achieve something that is so big so exhilarating that it excites you

and scares you at the same time It must be a goal that is so appealing so much in

line with your spiritual core that you cant get it out of your mind If you do not

get chills when you set a goal youre not setting big enough goals

Bob Proctor Author and Speaker

There is no such thing as natural touch Touch is something you create by hitting

millions of golf balls

~ Lee Trevino

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation We do not act rightly because

we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted

rightly We are what we repeatedly do Excellence then is not an act but a habit

~ Aristotle

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement If everyone received the

encouragement they need to grow the genius in most everyone would blossom and

the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams

~ Unkwown

I do not believe in miracles at least not defined in the conventional religious

manner as divine disruptions of the natural order But if a miracle is defined as an

infinitely improbable phenomenon then our existence is a miracle which no theory

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natural or supernatural will ever explain

-John Horgan

Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that with nine women

pregnant you can get a baby in a month

--Wernher von Braun

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never

find out

~ Frank A Clark

You are what you are today because of the decisions and the

choices YOU made yesterday

~ Revt Wayne Goonie

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do

a little

~ Edmund Burke

We will stay young in life as long as we work toward something

that were supposed to do

~ Richard Rose

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions Small

people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become

great

- Mark Twain

Rich and poor are first created in the mind

A poor man asks How much will it COST me

A rich man asks How much will it MAKE me

Which one are you

~ Bryan Kumar

If you think you can do something that you cannot the belief itself prevents you

from accomplishing the task either because you never try it in the first place or

because you have block yourself by your belief

-Deena Zalkind Spear

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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear

Marcus Aurelius (121-12180 Roman emperor philosopher)

Character is doing whats right when nobodys looking

- J C Watts Jr Politician

Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions Small people

always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great

Mark Twain 1835-1910 Humorist and Writer

We are all salesmen every day of our lives We are selling our ideas our plans our

enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact

~ Charles M Schwab It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition

- Vernon Howard Maturity begins when were content to feel were right about something without

feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong

Sydney J Harris 1917-1986 Syndicated Columnist

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum

- Frances Willard Educator

Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given

~ Deepak Chopra Once power was considered a masculine attribute In fact power has no gender

~ Katherine Graham

An invasion of armies can be resisted but not an idea whose time has come

Victor Hugo

As the purse is emptied the heart is filled

Victor Hugo

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Be like the bird that passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight feels them

give way beneath her and yet sings knowing that she hath wings

Victor Hugo

Have no fear of robbers or murderers They are external dangers petty dangers

We should fear ourselves Prejudices are the real robbers vices the real murders

The great dangers are within us Why worry about what threatens our heads or

purses Let us think instead of what threatens our souls

Victor Hugo

He who opens a school door closes a prison

Victor Hugo

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man

Victor Hugo Be all you can be and live a good life -- have fun with it

Tina Yothers

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace

Yes Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive inner peace does

not

-Eckhart Tolle

A moments insight is sometimes worth a lifes experience

- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) Physician and writer

The superior persons learning goes in his ear attaches to his heart expands to

the end of his limbs and is established in his actions

Even in his smallest word or slightest action he sets an example

~ Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse) When I thought I couldnt go on I forced myself to keep going My success is

based on persistence not luck

Estee Lauder Entrepreneur

If you always do what interests you at least one person is pleased

Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003 American actress writer)

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Make Your Mark Count A childs life is like a piece of paper on which every person

leaves a mark

- Chinese Proverb

Pain shared is lessened joy shared increased

~ Spider Robinson

The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has its limits

~ Albert Einstein

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift let it be enthusiasm

Bruce Barton (1886-1967 American author advertising expert)

When you give your children knowledge you are telling them what you think That

is you are telling them what they are supposed to know what you want them to

understand is true

When you give your children wisdom you do not tell them what to know or what is

true but rather how to get to their own truth

-Neale Donald Walsch

I have found that if you love life life will love you back

- Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982) Musician

The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see

magic and beauty in them while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves

~ Kahlil Gibran

Practice is just as valuable as a sale The sale will make you a living the skill will

make you a fortune

~ Jim Rohn

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about

Charles Kingsley (1819-1875 British author clergyman)

Dont cry because its over - smile because it happened

Author unknown

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Happiness is like a kiss You must share it to enjoy it

~ Bernard Meltzer Our life is what our thoughts make it

~ Marcus Aurelius The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best Therefore it tends to

become the best It takes the form or character of the best and will receive the

best

-- Wallace Wattles

Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings

-- Marianne Williamson

―And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present and can be none in

the future And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned

to beautiful results

mdash Walt Whitman When you lose touch with inner stillness you lose touch with your Self

When you lose touch with your Self you lose yourself in the world

Your innermost sense of Self of who you are is inseparable from stillness

This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form

Eckhart Tolle Stillness Speaks

With wisdom I see that I am nothing

With love I see that I am everything

Between these two my life turns

Nisargadatta Maharaj Man often becomes what he believes himself to be If I keep on saying to myself

that I cannot do a certain thing it is possible that I may end by really becoming

incapable of doing it On the contrary if I shall have the belief that I can do it I

shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the

beginning

Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Indian Nationalist Leader

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Strategies designed to avoid something eventually produce exactly the thing they

are trying to avoid

-Michael Greenwood and Peter Nunn

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but

are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults

seem insignificant

Charles A Cerami

If all you did was just look for things to appreciate you would live a joyous

spectacular life

~Abraham-Hicks

Three things in human life are important The first is to be kind The second is to

be kind And the third is to be kind

- Henry James (1843-1916) Writer The moment of enlightenment is when a persons dreams of possibilities become

images of probabilities

~ Vic Braden Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot

fly

~ Langston Hugues Life is made up not of great sacrifices or duties but of little things in which

smiles and kindness and small obligations given habitually are what win and

preserve the heart and secure comfort

Humphry Davy 1778-1829 Chemist

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900 German philosopher)

The game of life is the game of boomerangs Our thoughts deeds and words

return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy

- Florence Shinn (1871-1940) Writer

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Some dream of doing great things while others stay awake and get on with it

~ Unknown With all your science can you tell how it is and whence it is that light comes into

the soul

-Hanry David Thoreau

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one but you wont come up

with a handful of mud either

- Leo Burnett (1891-1971) Advertising Executive

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the

only way we can leave the future open

Lillian Smith 1897-1966 Writer Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to

success when they gave up

~ Thomas A Edison Find something youre passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it

Julia Child (1912-2004 American gourmet cook author and television personality)

Now I say to you today my friends even though we face the difficulties of today

and tomorrow I still have a dream It is a dream deeply rooted in the American

dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true

meaning of its creed -- we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are

created equal

- Martin Luther King Jr ―Never let formal education get in the way of your learning

- Mark Twain

The path to success is to take massive determined action

~ Anthony Robbins For every minute you remain angry you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In the practice of tolerance ones enemy is the best teacher

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson When defeat comes accept it as a signal that

your plans are not sound rebuild those plans

and set sail once more toward your coveted goal

~ Napoleon Hill

We are all alike on the inside

Mark Twain (1835-1910 American humorist writer)

If you are going to do something carelessly it is better to give it up entirely

Russian Proverb

The world is like a mirror frown at it and it frowns at you

Smile and it smiles too

Herbert Samuels

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our

children

Charles R Swindoll

The important thing is not so much that every child should be

taught as that every child should be given the wish to learn

John Lubbock

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been

Mark Twain

It is a mistake to think that moving fast is the same as actually going somewhere

Steve Goodier A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops

Henry Adams

It is only with the heart that one can see clearly for the most

essential things are invisible to the eye

~ Antoine de Sainte Exupery

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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the

critical decisive hour Write it on your heart that every day is

the best day of the year

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier Be the living

expression of Gods kindness kindness in your face kindness in your eyes kindness

in your smile

- Mother Teresa

Its never too late to be who you might have been

- George EliotWriter

Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle

- Plato Philosopher

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition

- Vernon Howard

Ilsquove always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up

- Beverly Sills Opera Singer

Help others get ahead You will always stand taller with someone else on your

shoulders

- Bob Moawad Business Leader

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks

like work

Thomas Edison

Dream as if youll live forever

Live as if youll die tomorrow

~ James Dean

The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an

expectation that they can make it work or make it better

Barbara Pletcher Author

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As we grow up we get sophisticated out of enchantment and become too smart

about the things that cause children to wonder

-Thomas Moore

People come out to see you perform and youve got to give them the best you have

within you The lives of most men are patchwork quilts Or at best one matching

outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations A lifetime of

training for just ten seconds

Jesse Owens (1913-1980 American Olympian)

Nothing is easy to the unwilling

- Nikki Giovanni Whatever course you have chosen for yourself it will not be a chore but an

adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving if your sights are set

far above the merely secure and mediocre

~David Sarnoff 1891-1971 Entrepreneur I dont know any other way to lead but by example

Don Shula (1930- American football coach) Flexible people never get bent out of shape

- Author Unknown The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record

of successful experiences behind you

~ William Jennings Bryan The important thing is this To be able at any moment to sacrifice

what we are for what we could become

~ Charles du Bois Success isnt permanent and failure isnt fatal

- Mike Ditka

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The different between us is that I count and you dont

-Huston Smith

I love strange choices Im always interested in people who depart from what is

expected of them and go into new territory

Cate Blanchett Actress Always do your best What you plant now you will harvest later

Og Mandino (1923-1996 American motivational author speaker wwogmandinocom ) Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the Universe is endlessly

bountiful Just put forth a clear enough request and everything that your heart

desires must come to you

~Shakti Gawain The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would

suffice to solve most of the worlds problems

~ Unknown The only real valuable thing is intuition

- Albert Einstein

Waste your money and youre only out of money but waste your time and youve

lost a part of your life

~ Michael Leboeuf Fear is an insidious virus Given a breeding place in our minds it will eat away our

spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors

~ James F Bell

You cant base your life on other peoples expectations

Stevie Wonder Grammy Award Winning SingerSongwriter

An excuse is worse than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded

Alexander Pope (1688-1744 British poet critic translator)

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The thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and

beginning the work of becoming yourself

- Anna Quindlen ―Exert your talents and distinguish yourself and donlsquot think of retiring from the

world until the world will be sorry that you retire

- Samuel Johnson Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of

the odds against them They make the impossible happen

~ Dr Robert Jarvik

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances

if there is any reaction both are transformed

-Carl Jung There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right between

fairly good and the best between mediocrity and superiority

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)

I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright

I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more

I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive

I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger

I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting

I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess

I wish you enough Hellos to get you through the final Goodbye

Bob Perks

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie

~ William Shakespeare

It doesnt matter where you are coming from All that matters is where you are

going

~ Brian Tracy You need to be a somebody before you can be a nobody

-Brant Cortright

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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old

Franz Kafka Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it

bravely and gallantly as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an

unknown country to meet many a joy to find many a comrade to win and lose many

a battle

~ Annie Besant

I believe in taking a positive attitude toward the world My hope still is to leave

the world a little bit better than when I got here

Jim Henson 1936-1990 Muppets Creator Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life

Gita Bellin

Education is when you read the fine print Experience is what you get if you

dont

- Pete Seeger

Keep your thoughts positive because they become your words

Keep your words positive because they become your behaviors

Keep your behaviors positive because they become your habits

Keep your habits positive because they become your values

Keep your values positive because they become your destiny

-Gandhi

The challenge is not to manage time but to manage ourselves

Stephen Covey

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death It not only gives us

fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which

we hold our present being

~ William Hazlitt

Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith Having

faith in yourself in the process of change and in the new direction that change

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sets will reveal your own inner core of steel

Georgette Mosbacher Business Executive

Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life

Gita Bellin

Careful what you wish for Millions long for immortality who do not know what to

do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon

- Susan Ertz

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us What we have done for

others and the world remains and is immortal

Albert Pine

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate Our deepest fear is that we are

powerful beyond measure It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us

We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant gorgeous talented fabulous Actually

who are you NOT to be You are a child of God Your playing small does not serve

the world There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people wont

feel insecure around you We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is

within us It is not just in some of us it is in everyone And as we let our own light

shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same As we are

liberated from our own fear our presence automatically liberates others

~ Marianne Williamson

Focus on where we want to end up not on what we want to avoid

-Paula Underwood Spencer

A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact

that everything has happened for the best

Author Unknown

Change your thoughts and you change the world

- Harold R Mcalindon Today is yesterdays effect and tomorrows cause

~ Phillip Gribble

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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes one of his great surprises is to find

he can do what he was afraid he couldnt do

~ Henry Ford

I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist

- Paul Harvey

Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes

up his mind to do We are all capable of greater things than we realize

Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993 American Christian reformed pastor speaker author)

When everybody is looking for gold its a good time to be in the picks and shovels

business

~ Mark Twain

Waste your money and youre only out of money but waste your time and youve

lost a part of your life

~ Michael Leboeuf

It is a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best you

very often get it

~ W Somerset Maugham

Flatter me and I may not believe you Criticize me and I may not like you Ignore

me and I may not forgive you Encourage me and I will not forget you Love me and

I may be forced to love you

William Arthur Ward

―Trust yourself You know more than you think you do

Benjamin Spock

―A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise

after success

Anon

―Nine tenths of education is encouragement

Anatole Franc

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Maybe you cant change the whole world but if you have love in your heart you can

make small differences every day which really does change the world one life at a

time

Kristina Koncz Customer Experience Specialist

Let us be about setting high standards for life love creativity and wisdom If our

expectations in these areas are low we are not likely to experience wellness

Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward

to

Greg Anderson (American author The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness)

Truce is better than friction

- Charles Herguth

Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they

have deep inside them -- a desire a dream a vision

~ Muhammad Ali

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each mans

life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that

take our breath away

~ George Carlin

You can conquer almost any fear if you will make up your mind to do so For

remember fear doesnt exist anywhere except in the mind

Dale Carnegie 1888-1955 Author and Speaker

Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others

They learn when they do which isnt often on their own the hard way

Robert Heinlein (1907-1988 American science fiction writer)

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the

expense of everybody else

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-Frederic Bastiat

Some think its holding on that makes one strong sometimes its letting go

- Sylvia Robinson We are responsible for what we are and whatever we wish ourselves to be we

have the power to make ourselves If what we are now has been the result of our

own past actions it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be

produced by our present actions so we have to know how to act

~ Swami Vivekananda

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning but anyone can start today and

make a new ending

~ Maria Robinson

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves

Brian Tracy (1944- Canadian-born American trainer speaker author businessman)

Anger is the only thing to put off till tomorrow

- Slovakian Proverb

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know

peace

~Jimi Hendrix Do not wait the time will never be just right

Start where you stand and work with whatever tools you may have at your

command and better tools will be found as you go along

~ Napoleon Hill

When we lose the right to be different we lose the privilege to be free

Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948 American jurist politician)

You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone which can become a

watered-down occasional hope that youll get to tomorrow Intention without

action is useless

Caroline Myss Author of Entering The Castle

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Plan ahead -- It wasnt raining when Noah built the ark

-Anononymous

Only you can be yourself

No one else is qualified for the job

- Shelby Collinge

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall

~ Confucius

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom But in the last analysis our

only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves

~ Bernard M Baruch

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941 Indian poet philosopher)

Worry is the misuse of the imagination

- Dan Zadra

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else you will have succeeded

Maya Angelou

Trust yourself Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your

life Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny inner sparks of possibility into

flames of achievement

~ Foster C McClellan There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal

experience has brought it home

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873 British philosopher economist)

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall

never sit in

-Greek proverb

We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails

- Bertha Calloway

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Democracy arose from mens thinking that if they are equal in any respect they

are equal absolutely

~ Aristotle

Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can

~ Richard Bach

If the world seems cold to you kindle fires to warm it

~ Lucy Larcom All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their

gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible

Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924 Writer Physician Hotel Owner and founder of Success Magazine

A Friend is a treasure more precious than Gold For love shared is priceless and

never grows old

Author Unknown

Only that which cannot be taken away by death is real Everything else is unreal it

is made of the same stuff dreams are made of

~Osho

Personality can open doors but only character can keep them open

- Elmer G Leterman

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they

dont know when to quit Most men succeed because they are determined to

~ George Allen Coach

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what

lies within us

~ Walt Emerson Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by

employing it well Then youth will be happy old age without regret and life a

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beautiful success

Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888 Novelist Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution

experience lifes deepest joy true fulfillment

Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet enough trials to make you

strong enough sorrow to keep you human enough hope to make you happy

-Anonymous

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the

things we do

- Freya Madeline Stark

We must become the change we want to see

~ Mahatma Gandhi

You know its not more knowledge its not more education its not more facts

that we need Its a better use of what we already have that we need to have You

have each and every one of you within your potential power right now to do a

wonderful job in your chosen field - if you would only embrace it and use it

Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think And Grow Rich

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be

respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure

Buddha (568-488 BC Indian born founder of Buddhism)

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change and all patterns alter

- Sharon Salzberg When we let freedom ring when we let it ring from every village and every

hamlet from every state and every city we will be able to speed up that day when

all of Gods children black men and white men Jews and Gentiles Protestants and

Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro

spiritual

Free at last Free at last

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Thank God Almighty we are free at last

~ Reverand Martin Luther King Jr All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them

~ Walt Disney Your own common sense should tell you that common sense alone is not enough

-Ashleigh Brilliant

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and

deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your

place

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)

Know what counts

No matter what youve done for yourself or for humanity if you cant look back on

having given love and attention to your own family what have you really

accomplished

- Lee Iacocca

There is a giant asleep within every man When that giant awakes miracles happen

~ Frederick Faust There are those that look at things the way they are and ask why I dream of

things that never were and ask why not

~ Robert F Kennedy

There is nothing impossible to him who will try

~ Alexander the Great

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance Remember the greatest

failure is to not try Once you find something you love to do be the best at doing

it

Debbi Fields Founder of Mrs Fields Cookies

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul

Marcus Aurelius (121-12180 Roman emperor philosopher)

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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left

undone

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Shoot for the moon Even if you miss youll land among the stars

~ Les Brown

Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been

told is what they cant do They dont know what they want because they dont

know whats available for them

~ Zig Ziglar

Accept that some days youre the pigeon and some days youre the statue

-Anonymous

Be life long or short its completeness depends on what it was lived for

- David Starr Jordan

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life

by altering his attitude

~ William James

It has never been and never will be easy work

But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road

built in despair even though they both lead to the same destination

~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

―No matter what anybody tells you words and ideas can change the world

~ John Keating (from the movie Dead Poets Society) hellip Every tomorrow has two handles We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety

or the handle of faith

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887 American preacher orator writer) The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it

~ Chinese proverb

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Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to

success when they gave up

~ Thomas Edison

I am always doing things I cant do thats how I get to do them

~ Picasso When you maximize your talents youre on path on purpose on target When you

dont youre off path off purpose off target

Kevin Hall Author of Aspire

Comparisons of ones lot with others teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will

Thornton Wilder (1897-1975 American novelist playwright)

Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

While we have the gift of life it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of

us to die - whether it is our spirit our creativity or our glorious uniqueness

- Gilda Radner

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state

of being alive If life is to be sustained hope must remain even where confidence is

wounded trust impaired

~ Erik H Erikson

Dont go on discussing what a good person should be Just be one

Marcus Aurelius

Our wisdom comes from our experience and our experience comes from our

foolishness

Sacha Guitry

I would rather live in a world where life is surrounded by mystery than live in a

world so small that my mind could comprehend it

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Our first teacher is our own heart

Cheyenne proverb

Power coerces

Knowledge persuades

Love converts

Proverb

Do not kiss your children so they will kiss you back but so they will kiss their

children and their childrens children

Noah Benshea

We read to know we are not alone

CS Lewis

Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better

Albert Einstein

Keeping score of old scores and scars getting even and one-upping always makes

you less than you are

- Malcolm Forbes

When you know that youre capable of dealing with whatever comes you have the

only security the world has to offer

Harry Browne 1933-2006 Writer and Politician

You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never

be ableto repay you

- John Wooden

Freedom know this that every manwoman is free to choose his life and what hell

be For this eternal truth is given God will force no man to heaven Hell call

persuade direct aright Bless with wisdom love and light in nameless ways be

good and kind but never force the human mind

~ William C Clegg

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There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than

the one you are capable of living

~ Nelson Mandela to Marianne Williamson If it werent for the rocks in its bed the stream would have no song

-Carl Perkins

Whenever encountering a troublesome person do not identify him as being cruel

or stupid or rude or anything else like that Instead see him as a frightened

person

Vernon Howard 1918-1992 Author and Philosopher When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves it is useless to seek it

elsewhere

~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680 French classical writer) Live for the moment

If I have learnt anything it is that life forms no logical patterns It is haphazard

and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by for who knows whether any

of them will ever return

- Margo Fonteyn

Isnt it strange that princesses and kings and clowns that caper in sawdust rings

and common people like you and me are builders for eternity Each is given a bag of

tools a shapeless mass a book of rules and each must make ere life is flown a

stumbling block or stepping stone

~ Edgar Guest We are what we repeatedly do Excellence then is not an act but a habit

~ Aristotle

Whatever you can do or dream you can do begin it Boldness has genius power

and magic in it

~ Wolfgang von Goethe Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state Being in love shows a person who he should be ~ Anton Chekhov

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Follow the grain in your own wood

- Howard Thurman

It is said that if you are not living your dreams you are living your fears

~ Ghalil Professional Dreamer

―Dont ask what the world needs Ask what makes you come alive because what the

world needs is people who have come alive

- Harold Thurman

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success When you do a thing

do it with all your mind Put your whole soul to it Stamp it with your own

personality Be active be energetic be enthusiastic and faithful and you will

accomplish your object Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Essayist Philosopher and Poet

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do

John Wooden (1910- American basketball coach)

For the most part fear is nothing but an illusion When you share it with someone

else it tends to disappear

- Marilyn C Barrick

The purpose of life is not to arrive safely at your death

- Robert Holden

When everything seems to be going against you remember that theairplane takes

off against the wind not with it

Henry Ford

There are two freedoms the false where a man is free to do what he likes the

true where he is free to do what he ought

~ Charles Kingsley Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one

could find fault with it

John Henry Newman (1801-1890 British religious leader prelate writer)

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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

New ideas pass through three periods

It cant be done

It probably can be done but its not worth doing

I knew it was a good idea all along

-Arthur C Clarke A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you think creates your life all you have to do is ask yourself what you are

willing to accept into your life

~ Ghalil Author - Professional Dreamer

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and

deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your

place

~ Orison Swett Marden Well done is better than well said

~ Benjamin Franklin Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one

could find fault with it

John Henry Newman (1801-1890 British religious leader prelate writer) If youre looking for perfection look in the mirror If you find it there expect it

elsewhere

Malcolm S Forbes (1919-1990 American publisher businessman) Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have

- H Jackson Brown Jr A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish great things

~ Chinese Proverb

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If we listened to our intellect wed never have a love affair Wed never have a

friendship Wed never go into business because wed be cynical Well thats

nonsense Youve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down

~ Ray Bradbury

Successful people decide how they are going to live they are not victims of

circumstance In good times or bad times they know where they are going and they

know that they are going to get there

Bob Proctor Author and Speaker

First they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you then you win

~ Mahatma Gandhi The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing

- Walt Disney 1901-1966 American Film ProducerDirectorAnimator

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas first make him your friend

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))

Doubting everything or believing everything are two equally convenient solutions

both of which save us from thinking

-Jules Henri Poincareacute

Dont be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning Thats only the initial

impression The important thing is not to retreat you have to master yourself

Olga Korbut Olympic Gold Medallist Gymnast

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental

difference in someones life

- Sister Mary Rose McGeady All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future

task of the philosopher which is to solve the problem of value to determine the

true hierarchy of values

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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Let no man pull you low enough to hate him

~ Martin Luther King Dont concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal -

leave that completely to a power greater than yourself All you have to do is know

where youre going The answers will come to you of their own accord and at the

right time

Earl Nightingale 1921-1989 Syndicated Radio Announcer and Author

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs

~ Gloria Steinem

Now I say to you today my friends even though we face the difficulties of today

and tomorrow I still have a dream It is a dream deeply rooted in the American

dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true

meaning of its creed -- we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are

created equal

~ Martin Luther King Jr

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams Live the life you have imagined

David Thoreau Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions Small people always do

that but the really great make you believe that you too can become great

~ Mark Twain Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure (values) and Ill tell

you their philosophy of life

~ Dale Carnegie To forgive is merely to remember ONLY the LOVING thoughts you gave in the

past and those that were given you ALL the rest must be forgotten

~ A Course In Miracles If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a

prophet

Isaac Bashevis Singer 1904-1991 Journalist and Writer

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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us

~ Voltaire

We are all of us stars and we deserve to twinkle

~ Marilyn Monroe

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do

right

~ Nelson Mandela

It has never been and never will be easy work But the road that is built in hope

is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they

both lead to the same destination

~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society

~J Krishnamurti

Every situation properly perceived becomes an opportunity to heal

~ A Course in Miracles

The love that you withhold in life is the pain that you carry

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as

the quality of perseverance It overcomes almost everything even nature

John D Rockefeller (1839-1937 American industrialist philanthropist founder Exxon)

All I ask is for an unfair advantage

~ WC Fields Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words Keep your

words positive because your words become your behaviors Keep your behaviors

positive because your behaviors become your habits Keep your habits positive

because your habits become your values Keep your values positive because your

values become your destiny

~Gandhi

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Your ego is creating obstacles Maya creating maya

~Babaji Step back Observe without judgment unconditional Watch now as obstacles

melt become no-thing Do this each time a block appears Step back and observe

without judgment

~Babaji

Everybody cannot be a painter a poet or a geniusthose are given qualities from

birth But everybody can be enlightened Enlightenment is the only thing the only

experience where everybody is equally capable And it does not depend on whether

you believe in God or not it depends only on one thingand that is a little taste (of

meditation) and suddenly you become confident that youre capable of it

~Osho There are no accidents or coincidences in this world Nothing is by chance

Everything you experience is a direct manifestation of where you focus your

attention and hold your vibration

~Jafree When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off

into the darkness of the unknown faith is knowing one of two things will happen

There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly

~ Barbara J Winter High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly make big decisions quickly and

move into action immediately Follow these principles and you can make your dreams

come true

Robert H Schuller Televangelist Pastor and Author

Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you but seek out another to console and

you will find consolation

J C Macaulay

High Expectations are the key to everything

~ Sam Walton Founder Wal-Mart

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Until you make peace with who you are youll never be content with what you

have

~ Doris Mortman You must constantly ask yourself these questions Who am I around What are

they doing to me What have they got me reading What have they got me saying

Where do they have me going What do they have me thinking And most

important what do they have me becoming Then ask yourself the big question Is

that okay Your life does not get better by chance it gets better by change

Jim Rohn 1930-2009 Author and Speaker

Believe it You CAN succeed at whatever you do as long as you simply take the

right ACTIONS

~ ER Haas CEO

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do The hard

part is doing it

~ General H Norman Schwarzkopf So let your deepest desires direct your aim Set your sights far above the

reasonable target The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire

that stirs the heart

Price Pritchett Author of You2

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do

Walter Bagehot (1826-1977 British economist critic)

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or

better than themselves

~ Tryon Edwards

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high

and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach it

~ Michelangelo Compared to what we ought to be we are only half awake We are making use of

only a small part of our physical and mental resources Stating the thing broadly

the human individual thus lives far within his limits He possesses power of various

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sorts which he habitually fails to use

William James (1842-1910 American psychologist professor author) People wait for opportunity to come along yet it is there every morning

~ Dennis the Menace A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow

~ George S Patton (1885-1945 American army general during World War II)

The last best fruit which comes to late perfection even in the kindliest soul is

tenderness toward the hard forbearance toward the unforbearing warmth toward

the cold philanthropy toward the misanthropic

~ Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825 German novelist)

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a

prophet

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991 Polish-born American journalist writer)

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than

by those given to us by others

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662 French scientist religious philosopher) Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty

~ John Ruskin (1819-1900 British critic social theorist)

Expect your every need to be met expect the answer to every problem expect

abundance on every level expect to grow spiritually You are not living by human

laws Expect miracles and see them take place Hold ever before you the thought

of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will

bring it into being

~Eileen Caddy

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we

believe And the only real wealth for any of us lies in our faith

~ Gordon B Hinckley

Desire is the Starting Point of All Achievement

~ - Napoleon Hill

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And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to

do the same

Nelson Mandela

The more we have the less we own

Meister Eckhart (1260-1326 German mystic)

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs jolted by every

pebble in the road

Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887 Preacher and Abolitionist

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength Richard L Evans

The secret of Happiness is Freedom and the secret of Freedom Courage

~ Thucydides (Greek historian 460-404 BC)

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in

the mature than in the young

Paul McCartney SingerSongwriter I cant believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary

Lou Holtz (937- American football coach)

Dont let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he

was

~ Richard L Evans

To dream anything that you want to dream that is the beauty of the human mind

To do anything that you want to do that is the strength of the human will To trust

yourself to test your limits that is the courage to succeed

~ Bernard Edmonds

I find my greatest pleasure and so my reward in the work that precedes what the

world calls success

Thomas A Edison (1847-1931 American inventor founder of GE)

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It is good to act as if It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer

an act

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832 British sportsman writer)

Tell me what you want and Ill show you how to get it

~ Bob Proctor

One is very crazy when in love

~ Sigmund Freud

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed Always aim at

purifying your thoughts and everything will be well

Mahatma Gandhi

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything keep it

Mahatma Gandhi Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony

Mahatma Gandhi

Hate the sin love the sinner

Mahatma Gandhi

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress

Mahatma Gandhi

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress

Mahatma Gandhi

True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the

future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied

with what we have which is sufficient for he that is so wants nothing The great

blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach

~ Seneca 4 BC to 65 AD - Spanish Philosopher

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When you paint success pictures in your mind you initiate an inner process

whereby your attitudes hopes aspirations and enthusiasm are elevated in

response to an image of a more promising future Every person who aspires must

first sell themselves hope the promise of a better life

US Andersen 1917-1986 Author of The Magic In Your Mind

How far is far how high is high Well never know until we try

Song from the California Special Olympics If you take each challenge one step at a time with faith in every footstep your

strength and understanding will increase

~ James E Faust

What is your individual purpose What would you like to be able to say is your

legacy I believe that each of us wants to find our purpose in life our raison

detre or reason for being We need to have a motive to get out of bed in the

morning We want to feel alive and passionate about something Something that

makes a difference in the world We are not alone in this and yet many of us are

still searching for that purpose

~ Veronica Hay We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds

Warren Buffett (1930- American investment entrepreneur)

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy but its good too to

check up once in a while and make sure you havent lost the things money cant

buy

George Lorimer 1867-1937 Editor of Saturday Evening Post

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence Talent will not nothing is

more common than unsuccessful men with talent Genius will not unrewarded genius

is almost a proverb Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent

~ Calvin Coolidge

Desperation can be as powerful inspirer as genius

Benjamin Disraeli

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We read to know we are not alone

CS Lewis

Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better

Albert Einstein The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the

road after you have shown him the way

Confucius

A baby has a way of making a man out of his father and a boy out of his

grandfather

Angie Papadakis

My father didnt tell me how to live he lived and let me watch him do it

Clarence B Kelland No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing

William Barclay

If you think youre lucky you are

Bobby Dodd

When youre safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when youre

having an adventure you wish you were safe at home

Thornton Wilder Obstacles dont have to stop you If you run into a wall dont turn around and give

up Figure out how to climb it go through it or work around it

~ Michael Jordan In order to attain the impossible one must attempt the impossible

~ Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616 Spanish novelist dramatist poet)

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as

the quality of perseverance It overcomes almost everything even nature

~ John D Rockefeller

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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is

when men are afraid of the light

~ Plato

Doubt of whatever kind can be ended by action alone

Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 Philosopher and Author

Poverty is not a shame but the being ashamed of it is

English Proverb

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well

~ Unknown

We need to exert ourselves that much more and break out of the vicious cycle of

dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful those in command of

immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own

image

~ Nelson Mandela

High Expectations are the key to everything

~ Sam Walton Founder Wal-Mart

Failures are expected by losers ignored by winners

~ Joe Gibbs Football Coach Most people live and die with their music still unplayed They never dare to try

Mary Kay Ash

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own

existence

Aristotle

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to

the eye

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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If A equals success then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z

with X being work Y play and Z keeping your mouth shut

~ Albert Einstein

Tomorrows battle is won during todays practice

Japanese Proverb

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days

What you can do or think you can do begin it For boldness has magic power and

genius in it

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 Poet Novelist and Scientist

Forget about all the reasons why something may not work You only need to find

one good reason why it will

Dr Robert Anthony

No matter how busy you are you must take time to make the other person feel

important

Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001 American businesswoman founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics)

I used to be a very serious not funny negative person Funny-cism Skepticism

Criticism and all Then I got introduced to the world of Positive Thinking Now Im

bipolar

~ Andy Dooley Spiritual Comedian and Professional Speaker

Your past is not your potential In any hour you can choose to liberate the future

Marilyn Ferguson (American writer) Everyone wants to be appreciated so if you appreciate someone dont keep it a

secret

~ Mary Kay Ash 1915-2001 Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds

and these magnets attract to us the forces the people the circumstances of life

which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts

~ Napoleon Hill

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You more often recognize your inadequacies rather than your strengths

~ James E Faust

I live by this credo Have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness

instead of sadness Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations Even

in your darkest moment you usually can find something to laugh about if you try

hard enough

Red Skelton 1913-1997 Comedian

Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth

George W Crane Some self-confronting questions

Where do I want to be at any given time

How am I going to get there

What do I have to do to get myself from where

I am to where I want to be

Whats the first small step I can take to get moving

~ George A Ford The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can

bribe the public with the publics money

- Alexis de Tocqueville The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race

~ Don Marquis At the height of laughter the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new

possibilities

-- Jean Houston Begin to weave and God will give you the thread

~ German Proverb If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who

are rich

John F Kennedy (1917-1963 35th American President)

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If you keep THINKING what you are thinking you will keep DOING what you are

doing and you will keep GETTING what you are getting

~ Dr Robert Anthony The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world

~ Lao-tzu Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them and to

let them know that you trust them

Booker T Washington 1856-1915 Educator and Writer ―Stress is the tax you pay for not taking 100 responsibility for your life

mdashDr Barnet Meltzer Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it

~ Irving Berlin It is by surmounting difficulties not by sinking under them that we discover our

fortitude

~ Hannah Webster Foster

Believing requires action

~ James E Faust

Dont do anything in practice that you wouldnt do in the game

George Halas (1895-1983 American football coach)

Its better to reach for the stars and land on the roof than to reach for the

roof and land in the garbage

~ Savanna Skinner

Whatever you focus your intention on is what will show up in your life

Your consistent thoughts create your consistent results

~ Dr Robert Anthony

He who gains a victory over other men is strong but he who gains a victory over

himself is all powerful

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Lao-Tzu (BC 600- Chinese philosopher founder of Taoism) His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the

memory of a wrong

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great masters merit emulation not worship

-- Alan Cohen

Mirth is Gods medicine Everybody ought to bathe in it

-- Henry Ward Beecher

Snowflakes are one of natures most fragile things but just look what they can do

when they stick together

~ anon

Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you

are and what you want

-- Alan Cohen

Life isnt about waiting for the storm to pass its about learning to dance in the

rain

~Anonymous

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose for this thing that we call

failure is not the falling down but the staying down

Mary Pickford 1893-1979 Actress and Producer

Courage does not always roar Sometimes courage is that quiet voice at the end of

the day that saysI will try again tomorrow

-Mary Anne Radmacher

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act or thought or word that raises

us above ourselves

~ Arthur P Stanley

―You see things and say Whylsquo but I dream things and say Why notlsquo

- George Bernard Shaw

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―The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and

convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges

- Martin Luther King Jr

―Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions Small people always do

that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great

- Mark Twain

―That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as

well

- Abraham Lincoln

―Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though

checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor

suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor

defeat

- Theodore Roosevelt

―Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm

- Winston Churchill

―I have not failed Ilsquove just found 10000 ways that wonlsquot work

- Thomas Edison If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun

--Katharine Hepburn

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist sees

problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems

~ Winston Churchill

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but

are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults

seem insignificant

Charles A Cerami Author

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If everyone on earth loved each other the earth would shine brighter than the

sun

-- Source unknown

As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again you are

merely a vague guest on a dark Earth

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

So many worlds so much to do so little done such things to be

~ Lord Alfred Tennyson

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy nothing can make a fool content

that is why most men are miserable

Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680 French classical writer)

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live

~ Flora Whittemore I am only one but still I am one I cannot do everything but still I can do

something I will not refuse to do the something I can do

Helen Keller 1880-1968 Author and Lecturer Where theres a will theres a way

English Proverb A manwoman without ambition is dead

A man with ambition but no love is dead

A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive

~Pearl Bailey We cant help everyone but everyone can help someone

~ Ronald Reagan

We must not promise what we ought not lest we be called on to perform what we

cannot

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))

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Once you realize you dont need anything youre free to have whatever you want

- Ian Watson

Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable

confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy ~ Norman Vincent Peale Every goal every action every thought every feeling one experiences whether it

be consciously or unconsciously known is an attempt to increase ones level of

peace of mind

~ Sidney Madwed

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so For

remember fear doesnt exist anywhere except in the mind

Dale Carnegie 1888-1955 Speaker and Author Great souls have wills feeble ones have only wishes

Chinese Proverb

―Focus your attention on your desire

not the situation that gave birth to your desire

mdashRich German Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone

and let your hand give in proportion to your purse

~ George Washington

Time I have only just a minute

Only sixty seconds in it

Forced upon me cant refuse it

Didnt seek it didnt choose it

But its up to me to use it

I must suffer if I lose it

Give account if I abuse it

Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it

~ Christine Warren

Do what you can with what you have where you are

~ Theodore Roosevelt

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With every adversity comes a seed of equal or greater opportunity

~ Napoleon Hill

Heart is merely another name for the Supreme Spirit because He is in all hearts

The entire Universe is condensed in the body and the entire body in the Heart

Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe

~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

―If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back then

you suffer Every moment is the most important moment of your life No future

time is better than now to let down your guard and love

~ David Deida

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for youll be criticized anyway Youll

be damned if you do and damned if you dont

~ Eleanor Roosevelt Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do

~ John Wooden

One difference between successful people and all the rest is that successful

people take action

~ Bob Proctor Speaker and Author

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left Every

mans greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life

~ P W Litchfield ―There is a giant asleep within every man When the giant awakes miracles happen

~ Frederick Faust Focus more on your desire than on your doubt and the dream will take care of

itself You may be surprised at how easily this happens Your doubts are not as

powerful as your desires unless you make them so

Marcia Wieder Author and Speaker

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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning by dreams that need

completion by pure love that needs expressing then we truly live life

~ Greg Anderson Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you

Never excuse yourself

~ Henry Ward Beecher There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge

- both poverty and riches are offspring of thought

~ Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think and Grow Rich The person with a fixed goal a clear picture of his desire or an ideal always

before him causes it through repetition to be buried deeply in his subconscious

mind and is thus enabled thanks to its generative and sustaining power to realize

his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort Just pursue

the thought unceasingly Step by step you will achieve realization for all your

faculties and powers become directed to that end

~ Claude M Bristol Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake

~ Henry David Thoreau If opportunity doesnt knock build a door

~ Milton Berle Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well I am

not aware of any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking not exercise

not drugs not surgery--that has a greater impact on our quality of life incidence

of illness and premature death

- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak It is born of strength and

understanding

-- Meher Baba Unworthiness is simply a case of mistaken identity

-- Alan Cohen

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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet

-- Mahatma Gandhi If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march

on

-- Stopford Brooke It is usually the imagination that is wounded first rather than the heart it being

much more sensitive

~ Henry David Thoreau You need not struggle for your good Your good flows to you naturally when you are

relaxed open and trusting

-- Alan Cohen If you dont love it you cant afford it

Alan Cohen

Ask for peace first and you will clearly see your next step

-- Alan Cohen I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited

and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts Namely the physical universe

-- Ken Jenkins Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be exceptional

~ Mark Sanborn Life isnt what you want it to be its what you make it become

~ Anthony Ryan

If you are very quiet you can hear the world applauding

--Source unknown

Do you remember how electrical currents and unseen waves were laughed at

The knowledge about man is still in its infancy

~ Albert Einstein

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Wherever you go go with all your heart

~ Confucius I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up Most people in this

business gave up and went on to other things If you simply didnt give up you

would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you

Harrison Ford Actor

The quality of your life is determined by the number of uncomfortable

conversations you are willing to have

~ Rich German

To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define

themselves As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate

influences of the culture and environment we grow up in we come to have beliefs

about the nature of being human These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of

our psychosomatic systems our minds and brains our nervous systems our

endocrine systems and even our blood and sinews We act speak and think

according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems

~ Jeremy W Hayward

A mans true wealth is the good he does in the world Mohammed (c570-c632

Mecca spiritual leader

Every man is the architect of his own fortune

~ Sallust

What is opportunity and when does it knock

It never knocks

You can wait a whole lifetime listening hoping and you will hear no knocking

None at all

You are opportunity and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny

You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity to pursue and seize opportunity as

you develop the strength of your personality and build a self-image with which you

are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing

~ Maxwell Maltz

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Today I would like to become the man my dog thinks I am

Jack Thomson Entrepreneur BE the change you want to see in the world

- Mahatma Gandhi

Leaders are made they are not born They are made by hard effort

which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile

~ Vince Lombardi To honor the spirit is to accept the opportunity for your healing and personal

evolution When you choose to assume radical personal responsibility knowing that

you are responsible for the effect external circumstances have on you you are

taking a stand for the power of your spiritual nature to run the show

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think Its really important that you feel good Because this feeling good is what goes

out as a signal into the universe and starts to attract more of itself to you So the

more you can feel good the more you will attract the things that help you feel

good and that will keep bringing you up higher and higher

Joe Vitale Author and Speaker Just listen to the still voice within This is the mind to trust This is god

consciousness speaking not the ego that is seeking recognition

~Angela Walker

There is a prayer that lives in the center of your heart If you pray it it will

change your life How does it begin

-- Matthew Anderson

For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin but there was

always some obstacle in the way Something had to be got through first some

unfinished business time still to be served a debt to be paid Then life would

begin At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life

~ Bette Howland

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power then the world will know

peace

Jimmy Hendrix There are two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the

credit Try to be in the first group there is less competition there

Indira Gandhi Its good to have money and all the things that money can buy but its good too to

make sure you havent lost the things that money cant buy George

Horace Lorimer When you take things for granted the things you are granted get taken

Phil Hennessy Self-confidence is a state of mind where you believe that you deserve the best

you are capable of achieving the best and furthermore you expect the best to

happen

--- Dr Barnet Meltzer Writing is good thinking is better Cleverness is good patience is better

~ Hermann Hesse

You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the

greatness you perceive in them is your own

-- Alan Cohen

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their

gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible

Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924 Writer I will not condemn you for what you did yesterday If you do it right today

--Sheldon S Maye

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength

not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will

~ Vince Lombardi

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The moment one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too

-- William Hutchinson Murray

Youve got to get up every morning with determination if youre going to

go to bed with satisfaction

-- George Horace Lorimer Faith is born of Definiteness of Purpose

Keep your mind on the things that you do want and off the things that you do not

want

~ Unknown You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals

George S Patton 1885-1945 American Army General

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have

thrown at him

~ David Brinkley

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough

~ Helen Keller

If what you did yesterday seems big you havent done anything

today

Lou Holtz

Dont wait for extraordinary opportunities Seize common occasions and make

them great Weak menwomen wait for opportunities strong menwomen make

them

~ Orison Swett Marden

The recognition you seek from others is really the recognition you seek from

yourself Give it to yourself and you wont need it from others

-- Alan Cohen Ninety percent of the population wish positive but think negative

~ Leslie Householder

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You are more likely to create success when you are relaxed about a result than

when you are uptight about it

-- Alan Cohen Embrace Change True success can be defined by your ability to adapt to

changing circumstances

-- Connie Sky Aim High The important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for

what we could become

-- Charles Du Bos Dont ask for an easier life ask to be a stronger person

Shared by Kristen Goeser

Your consciousness is a powerful force for creating It determines the people you

are attracted to and the people who are attracted to you If you want to improve

your lot in life or the quality of your relationships choosing to accept personal

responsibility is the first and most important step

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise it is all

over Bolt up at once

-- Sir Walter Scott

You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you cant have it

- Dr Robert Anthony Live so that you wouldnt be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip

Will Rogers 1879-1935 Comedian and Actor

Everyone rides on the merry go round of life but very few ever take the chance

at the brass ring

-- Kevin Veitch

We gain internal freedom through external actions

- Ram Dass

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Everyone was born original but most people die copies

~ Unknown Without passion you dont have energy without energy you have nothing Nothing

great in the world has been accomplished without passion

~ Donald Trump When one door of happiness closes another opens But often we look so long at

the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened before us

~ Helen Keller

I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please

everybody

Bill Cosby Comedian Actor and Author Give up your identity as a seeker and become a finder Then everything you ever

sought will find you

-- Alan Cohen

The reason we put a lot of emphasis on action is because we do not understand the

power of our thought If you analyze it 90 percent of most peoples actions

are spent trying to compensate for inappropriate thought

~ Dr Robert Anthony Prosperity lets go the bridle

-- George Herbert

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered

heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed They won because they refused to

become discouraged by their defeats

Bertie Charles Forbes 1880-1954 Financial Journalist Author and Founder of Forbes Magazine He who jumps to conclusions falls to their death

-- Mark J Ottaviani Im not a believer in nor the advocate of miracles for the reason that I

have enough knowledge of nature to understand that nature never deviates from

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her established laws Her laws are simply so incomprehensible that they produce

what appears to be miracles

~ Napoleon Hill Learn to listen Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly

Frank Tyger

Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways you can as long as

ever you can

John Wesley Work like you dont need the money Love like youve never been hurt Dance like

nobody is watching

-- Mark Twain

You believe that a lover will bring you love but it is your love that will bring you a

lover

-- Alan Cohen

The Universe is not punishing you or blessing you

The Universe is responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting The

more joyful you are the more Well-being flows to you

~Abraham-Hicks What nourishes you is not vitamins in food It is the joy you feel in eating it

-- Ramtha

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this

decide what you want

Ben Stein Attorney Author Actor and Commentator

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure to embrace

the new But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful There is

more security in the adventurous and exciting for in movement there is life and in

change there is power

mdashAlan Cohen

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Vision without action is a daydream Action without vision is a nightmare

-- Japanese Proverb

Success is the result of applying sound principles which align with universal laws

The Science of Success is a powerful road map to guarantee your personal

success

~ Brian Tracy

Part of you thinks that you are not going to die because part of you is not going to

die

-- Alan Cohen

There are 3 things that are certain in life death taxes and change You cant

avoid change its mandatory progress however is optional

-- Bill R Good Jr

Surrender the illusion that anyone other than you has power or authority over

your life

Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either

openly before us or close to us

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You must be the change you want to see in the world

~ Gandhi

Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a

friendly level

~ Max L Forman

If you want your life to be a magnificent story then begin by realizing that you

are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page

-- Mark Houlahan

If you want to develop in profound and significant ways it is essential that you

build up a reservoir of spiritual and emotional conviction a source of boundless

freedom that will give you the energy to transcend the apparent limitations of

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your own emotional psychological and cultural experience By practicing

meditation with deadly seriousness you cultivate that freedom and conviction in

no-limitation as a reference point Thats the only reason to meditate in the

context of Evolutionary Enlightenment

mdash Andrew Cohen

If our actions stem from honesty kindness caring and vision then no matter

what the result of our efforts we have added something of value to our souls and

to the world

~ Joan Boysenko

Too often the opportunity knocks but by the time you push back the chain push

back the bolt unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm its too late

~ Rita Coolidge We are formed and molded by our thoughts

Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts

give joy when they speak or act

Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them

~ Buddha

We feel most alive in the presence of the Beautiful for it meets the needs of the

soul

~ John OlsquoDonohue

No onelsquos past has to be a prison sentence Forgiveness provides the key to

acknowledge the past and move on When we can forgive we have less to be afraid

of

~ Dr Fred Luskin

Isnlsquot it strange that princesses and kings and clowns that caper in sawdust rings

and common people like you and me are builders for eternity Each is given a bag of

tools a shapeless mass a book of rules and each must make ere life is flown a

stumbling block or stepping stone

~ Edgar Guest

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly

~ Richard Bach

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I donlsquot wait for moods

You accomplish nothing if you do that Our mind must know it has got to get down

to work

~ Pearl S Buck

There is a giant asleep within every man When that giant awakes miracles happen

~ Fred Faust

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the

risk it took to bloom

~ Anais Nin

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid but he who conquers that fear

~ Nelson Mandela

Itlsquos not about breaking the rules

It is about abandoning the concept of rules altogether

~ Paul Lemberg

Each moment of our life we either invoke or destroy our dreams

~ Stuart Wilde

Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts This is the

secret of success

Swami Sivananda

Whatever you do do it as totally as possible

Osho

I am not afraidhellipI was born to do this

~Joan of Arc

―There is nothing that you cannot be do or have

~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given

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―Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success When you do a thing

do it with all your might Put your whole soul into it Stamp it with your own

personality Be active be energetic be enthusiastic and faithful and you will

accomplish your object Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Success is never final Failure is never fatal It is courage that counts

~ Winston Churchill

What are you tolerating that would not be a part of your ideal day

-- Alan Cohen Trust yourself You know more than you think you do

-- Dr Benjamin Spock True friends and healers do not limit your options They expand them

-- Alan Cohen When it comes to staying young a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day

-- Marty Bucella Achievement seems to be connected with action Successful men and women keep

moving They make mistakes but they dont quit

Conrad Hilton 1887-1979 Founder of Hilton Hotels Successful people form the habit of doing what failures dont like to do They like

the results they get by doing what they dont necessarily enjoy

Earl Nightingale1921-1989 Author and Syndicated Radio Personality When you are clear what you want will show up in your life and only to the extent

you are clear

Janet AttwoodAuthor of The Passion Test The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it

Chinese proverb

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery the human beings by

changing the inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their

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lives

~ William James

Never look up to the people who have the painted-perfect lives because try as

they might they can never see beyond the canvas

~ Moira Hallsom

Even from a dark night songs of beauty can be born

~ Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body

~ Pythagoras

If life gives you lemons make lemonade

~ Joan Collins

The only place where dreams are impossible is in your own mind

~ Emalie

Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions But no man has

a right to be wrong in his facts

~ Bernard M Baruch

Begin to weave and God will give you the thread

~ German Proverb

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss

~ David Eddings

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we

are and what we can be igniting the circuits of our highest potential

-- Rusty Berkus

The optimist says we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears

this is true

-- Source Unknown

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If I had listened to the critics Id have died drunk in the gutter

-- Chekov

Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice It is not a thing to be

waited for it is a thing to be achieved

-- Jeremy Kitson

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental

difference in someones life

- Sister Mary Rose McGeady

One never knows what each day is going to bring The important thing is to be

open and ready for it

- Henry Moore

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in

the same individual

- Arthur Koestler

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it

- Lou Holtz Motivation is like food for the brain You cannot get enough in one sitting It needs continual and

regular top ups

~ Peter Davies

Dont tell me how hard you work

Tell me how much you get done

~ James Ling

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures

dont like to do

~ Albert Gray

―There is a science of getting rich and it is an exact science like algebra or arithmetic There

are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches and once these laws are learned

and obeyed by anyone that person will get rich with mathematical certainty ~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich

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―Everything you want should be yours the type of work you want the relationships you need

the social mental and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled the money

you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you and any requirement that you may (or

may not) have for achievement or service to others If you donlsquot aim for it all youlsquoll never get it

all To aim for it requires that you know what you want ~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle ―Eliminate the word impossible from your thinking and speaking vocabularies Impossible is a

failure word The thought ―Itlsquos impossible sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove

youlsquore right ~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big ―Think Big and youlsquoll live big Youlsquoll live big in happiness Youlsquoll live big in accomplishment Big in

income Big in friends Big in respecthellip Start now right now to discover how to make your

thinking make magic for you Start out with this thought of the great philosopher Disraeli ―Life

is too short to be little ~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big ―If you have a big problem in your life all that means is that you are being a small person ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind ―It all comes down to this if your subconscious financial blueprintlsquo is not setlsquo for success

nothing you learn nothing you know and nothing you do will make much of a difference ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you If God gives you a bucket of fish you

have to distribute those fish If you donlsquot theylsquore going to rot attract a bunch of flies and

start stinking up your soul ~ Russell Simmons from Do You ―In my experience therelsquos only one thing that will always steer you toward success Thatlsquos to

have a vision and to stick with ithellip Once I have a vision for a new venture Ilsquom going to ride that

vision until the wheels come off ~ Russell Simmons quotes from Do You

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery the human beings by changing the

inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their lives

~ William James

There is no courage without fear

~ Eddie Rickenbacher

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make who would you call and what

would you say And why are you waiting

-- Stephen Levine

Remember we all stumble every one of us Thats why its a comfort to go hand in hand

~ Emily Kimbrough The inspiration of the almighty gives man understanding

~ the Bible

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives

~ Louise Hay

The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation

~ Comer Cotrell

Give it all youve got because you never know if theres going to be a next time

~ Danielle Ingrum

Dont try to force anything Let life be a deep let-go God opens millions of flowers everyday

without forcing their buds

~Osho

The definition of Insanity is Doing the Same Things Over and Over Again and Expecting Different

Results

~ Albert Einstein

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us This little treasure

has great great powers and I would say we only have learnt a very very small part of what it can

do

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work

~ John G Pollard

Vacation is a state of mind not an action

-- Alan Cohen

Whatever games are played with us we must play no games with ourselves

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Desperation does not recognize your power to choose

-- Alan Cohen

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When people talk listen completely Most people never listen

-- Ernest Hemingway

Heaven is gained or lost not by dramatic deeds but by the simple of acts of daily living

-- Alan Cohen

There is only one voice worth listening to

--Alan Cohen Reverie is not a mind vacuum It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul

--Gaston Bachelard

Why get rich quick when you can be rich now

-- Alan Cohen

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure

-- Joseph Campbell

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always view problems as opportunities in work clothes

-- Henry Kaiser

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character of

another

Winston Churchill 1874-1965 Former British Prime Minister

When you are clear what you want will show up in your life and only to the extent you are clear

Janet Attwood Author of The Passion Test

New peace harmony and power fill your relationships when you practice radical personal

responsibility Through it you enter a more refined sphere of relating that enhances your life and

accelerates the realization of your ultimate spiritual self Practicing radical personal responsibility

forever changes the way you approach and resolve conflict

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The Cure for the Common Upset (p 10)

Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and

discomfort We spend enormous energy denying our insecurity fighting pain death and loss and

hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature

- Jack Kornfield A Path with Heart

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Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well I am not aware of

any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking not exercise not drugs not surgery--that has

a greater impact on our quality of life incidence of illness and premature death

- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant they is a fuel in us which needs

to be ignited with sparks

Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Energy is the essence of life Every day you decide how youre going to use it by

knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal and by maintaining

focus

-Oprah Winfrey

The acquisition of wealth is no longer a driving force in the 24th century We

strive to better ourselves and the rest of humanity

-- From the movie Star Trek Insurrection

―You cannot exercise much power without gratitude for it is gratitude that keeps

you connected with Power

~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich

―To do things in a way you want to do them you will have to acquire the ability to

think the way you want to think this is the first step toward getting rich

~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich

―There are three crucial dimensions to your explanatory style permanence

pervasiveness and personalization

~ Martin Seligman from Learned Optimism

―Habits of thinking need not be forever One of the most significant findings in

psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they

think

~ Martin Seligman from Learned Optimism

―Action always beats inaction ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

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―Itlsquos not enough to be in the right place at the right time You have to be the right person in the

right place at the right time ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―Every thought vibrates every thought radiates a signal and every thought

attracts a matching signal back We call that process the Law of Attraction The

Law of Attraction says That which is like unto itself is drawn And so you might

see the powerful Law of Attraction as a sort of Universal Manager that sees to it

that all thoughts that match one another line up

~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given

―It is our desire that you become one who is happy with that which you are and

with that which you havemdashwhile at the same time being eager for more That is the

optimal creative vantage point To stand on the brink of what is coming feeling

eager optimistic anticipationmdashwith no feelings of impatience doubt or

unworthiness hindering the receiving of itmdashthat is the Science of Deliberate

Creation at its best

~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given

―As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around you come to see that every

perceived problem appearing ―out there is really nothing more than a

misperception within your own thinking

~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is

―The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is

When the mind is perfectly clear what is is what we want

~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself You must be

able to sustain yourself against staggering blows There is no code of conduct to

help beginners That is why some people with mediocre talent but with great inner

drive go much further than people with vastly superior talent

Sophia Loren Actress

And in the end its not the years in your life that count Its the life in your

years

-- Abraham Lincoln

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Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by

holding grudges harboring resentments and nursing unhealed wounds It is

rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to

understand and accept other people and ourselves

~ Sidney and Suzanne Simon

Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action for all eternity

Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801 Poet and Physiognomist People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do

things When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success

Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993 Speaker and Author Every achiever that I have ever met says My life turned around when I began to

believe in me

Dr Robert H Schuller Minister and Author

With love in you your only need is to extend it

-- A Course in Miracles

Just because it ended doesnt mean it failed

-- Alan Cohen

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find

it

-- George Moore

Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality

-- Alan Cohen

Our biggest problems cannot be resolved They must be outgrown

-- Carl Jung

True prayer penetrates beyond hope and establishes itself in knowing

-- Alan Cohen

So we see to play successfully the game of life we must train the imaging faculty

A person with an imaging faculty trained to image only good brings into his life

every righteous desire of his heart - health wealth love friends perfect self-

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expression his highest ideals

mdash Florence Scovel Shinn

Dont ask what the world needs ask what makes you come alive and go do it

Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

mdashHoward Thurman

To the degree were not living our dreams our comfort zone has more control of

us than we have over ourselves

-- Peter McWilliams

Never let your memories be greater than your dreams

-- Doug Ivester (President of Coca Cola)

It is not length of life but depth of life

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches with them but

to reveal their own

-- Author Unknown

A free lunch is only found in mousetraps

-- John Capuzzi

If you have the will to win you have achieved half your success if you dont you

have achieved half your failure

-- David Ambrose

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesnt lie in not reaching your

goal The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach It isnt a calamity to die with

dreams unfulfilled but it is a calamity not to dream It is not a disaster to be

unable to capture your ideal but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture It is

not a disgrace not to reach the stars but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach

for Not failure but low aim is a sin

~ Benjamin E Mayes

True success is a state of mindThis mindset is the heart and soul of successful

entrepreneurial enterprise You cant get started without it and you cant make a

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business wildly profitable if you dont get it

~ Unknown

Traditional education will make you a living self-education will make you a

fortune

~ Jim Rohn One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests

~ John Stuart Mill

Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different Rather than wasting

time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we dont have what we

want we can start to pursue other ways to get it

~ Greg Anderson

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it

~ Rudy Guilliani ―Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential And to

do that I insist you throw caution at the wind ignore the pleas of parents

coaches spouses and bosses to be realisticlsquo Realistic people do not accomplish

extraordinary things because the odds of success stymie them The best

performers ignore the odds I will show that instead of limiting themselves to

whatlsquos probable the best will pursue the heart-pounding exciting really big

difference-making dreamsmdashso long as catching them might be possible

~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement ―To be sure great performers are well trained experienced smart and in some

cases divinely talented But the way their brains work during a performance is a

lot more like a squirrellsquos than like Einsteinlsquos Like squirrels the best in every

business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilitiesmdashthey

flat out trust their skills which is why we call this high-performance state of mind

the ―Trusting Mindset Routine access to the Trusting Mindset is what separates

great performers from the rest of the pack

~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement ―In every forest on every farm in every orchard on earth itlsquos whatlsquos under the

ground that creates whatlsquos above the ground Thatlsquos why placing your attention on

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the fruits that you have already grown is futile You cannot change the fruits that

are already hanging on the tree You can however change tomorrowlsquos fruits But to

do so you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―Believe that you are the one who creates your success that you are the one who

creates your mediocrity and that you are the one creating your struggle around

money and success

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―8020 thinking requires and with practice enables us to spot the few really important things

that are happening and ignore the mass of unimportant things It teaches us to see the wood

for the trees ~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle

―The few things that work fantastically well should be identified cultivated nurtured and

multiplied

~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle

―We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection Itlsquos about a process a journey The

master is the one who stays on the path day after day year after year The master is the one

who is willing to try and fail and try again for as long as he or she lives ~ George Leonard from Mastery

―Whenever you feel shortlsquo or in needlsquo of something give what you want first and it will come

back in buckets That is true for money a smile love friendship I know it is often the last

thing a person may want to do but it has always worked for me I just trust that the principle

of reciprocity is true and I give what I want ~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad

―One dad would sayThe love of money is the root of all evillsquo The other The lack of money is

the root of all evillsquo ~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall every step we

take just gets us to the wrong place faster

Stephen Covey

Becoming a star may not be in your destiny but being the best

that you can be is a goal you can set for yourselves

Bryan Lindsay

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Be yourself Who else is better qualified

Frank J Giblin II

Do not learn from your mistakes learn from the mistakes of others

to that you do not make any

Sean Karsten

Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower

Shigenori Kameoka

Every achiever that I have ever met says My life turned around when I began to believe in me

Dr Robert H Schuller Minister and Author

Upsets always contain the gift of learning except most people have never learned how to unwrap

the package

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is

causing anxiety

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970 British philosopher mathematician essayist) Great souls have wills feeble ones have only wishes

Chinese Proverb

We must not promise what we ought not lest we be called on to perform what we cannot

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))

Dont measure yourself by what you have accomplished but by what you should have accomplished

with your ability

John Wooden (1910- American basketball coach)

Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty

John Ruskin (1819-1900 British critic social theorist)

Something good is already happening Can you discover it

-- Alan Cohen

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if theyve got a second Give your

dreams all youve got and youll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you

William James 1842-1910 Philosopher and Author

Out of suffering comes creativity You cannot spell painting without pain

-- John Lithgow in Third Rock From the Sun

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The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings the past and the

future are not as real but rather more real than the present

- Alan Watts

Boldness has genius power and magic in it Begin it now

~ Goethe

―In the heart of Emptiness there is a mysterious impulse mysterious because

there is actually nothing in the heart of Emptiness (for there is nothing in

Emptiness period) Yet there it is this mysterious impulse the impulse to hellip

create To sing to shine to radiate to send forth reach out and celebrate to

sing and shout and walk about to effervesce and bubble over this mysterious

exuberance in the heart of Emptiness

~ Ken Wilber from One Taste July 31

―Evolution goes beyond what went before but because it must embrace what went

before then its very nature is to transcend and include and thus it has an inherent

directionality a secret impulse toward increasing depth increasing intrinsic value

increasing consciousness In order for evolution to move at all it must move in

those directionsmdashtherelsquos no place else for it to go

~ Ken Wilber from A Brief History of Everything

The secret of being boring is to say everything

- Voltaire 1694-1778 French Writer and Philosopher

―Donlsquot let what you canlsquot do stop you from what you can do

- John Wooden

―You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the

shore

- Christopher Columbus

―Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall

- Confucius

―A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed

- Henrik Ibsen

―It is our choices that show what we truly are far more than our abilities

- JK Rowling

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―If you are going through hell keep going

- Winston Churchill

―Yesterday is history Tomorrow is a mystery Today Today is a gift Thatlsquos why

we call it the present

- B Olatunji

―To live is the rarest thing in the world Most people exist thatlsquos all

- Oscar Wilde

―You donlsquot get to choose how you are going to die Or when You can only decide how

you are going to live Now

- Joan Baez

―When one door of happiness closes another opens But often we look so long at

the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us

- Helen Keller

―Imagination is more important than knowledge Knowledge is limited Imagination

encircles the world

- Albert Einstein

―If you want to be happy be

- Leo Tolstoy

―Always do right This will gratify some people and astonish the rest

- Mark Twain

―We must be the change we want to see

- Gandhi

―The friend in my adversity I shall always treasure most I can better trust those

who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to

enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity

- Ulysses S Grant

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―Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting

- Elizabeth Bibesco

―The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort but

where he stands at times of conflict and controversy

- Martin Luther King Jr

―Begin doing what you want to do now We are not living in eternity We have only

this moment sparkling like a star in our hand ndash and melting like a snow flake

- MB Ray

―I shall pass through this life but once Any good therefore that I can do let me

do it now Let me not defer or neglect it For I shall never pass this way again

- Etienne de Grellet

―This above all To your own self be true

- William Shakespeare

―To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make

you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight

and never stop fighting

- EE Cummings

―In three words I can sum up what Ilsquove learned about life It goes on

- Robert Frost

―Imagine

- John Lennon

You can if you think you can

George Reeves

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile

achievement

Henry Ford 1863-1947 Industrialist

No man is capable of self-improvement if he sees no other model but himself

-- Conrado I Generoso

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When I am delivering my very best then that is when I feel successful

~ Art Fettig

The only limitations you will ever have are the ones you put on yourself

~ Kristinna Habashy

The secret of manwomans being is not only

to live but to have something to live for

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

To hell with circumstances I create opportunities

~ Bruce Lee

Simplicity is making the journey of this life

with just baggage enough

~ Charles Dudley Warner

I dont think theres any such thing as setting your goals too high The higher you

set your goals the more you are going to work If you dont reach them then its

okay just as long as you set it and then give 100 of yourself

~ Dan Jansen Speed Skater

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts the circle of Creation

is completed inside us the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal

everything in sight

~ Michael Bridge

Youlsquore darn tootinlsquo Ilsquom going to bring out the best in you You are the best

― Maureen Coleman middle school teacher

Truth is rarely writ in ink It lives in nature

-- Martin H Fischer

Before planning where you want to go decide who you want to be

-- Alan Cohen

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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day wisdom consists in not

exceeding the limit

-- Elbert Hubbard

Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere

-- Alan Cohen

When the Japanese mend broken objects they fill the cracks with gold They

believe that when somethings suffered damage and has a history it becomes more

beautiful

-- Barbara Bloom

Efficiency without love is not really efficient

-- Alan Cohen

The purpose of time is to enable you to learn how to use time constructively

-- A Course in Miracles

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than

any other one thing

Laura Ingalls Wilder 1867-1957 Author

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as

few as there are any other great artists It might even be the greatest of the arts

since the medium is the human mind and spirit

John Steinbeck 1902-1968 Writer and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

Be careful what you spend your day touching because it will shape your mind your

body and your heart

Sam Keen Speaker and Author

I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in

the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life he has imagined he will

meet with success unexpected in common hours

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 Writer and Poet

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out

― Michael Burke

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Turn frustration into fascination

-- Dr Richard Bartlett

Money is not the source of life It is an expression or by-product of doing what

brings you life

-- Alan Cohen

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but

sand the angels come to visit us and we only know them when they are gone

- George Elliot

Proceed when clear

-- Alan Cohen

Slow down and enjoy life Its not only the scenery you miss by going too fast --

you also miss the sense of where you are going and why

Eddie Cantor

Life is here to enjoy The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness When it

appears otherwise you are off the path of destiny Look at your life and ask

What do I need to change to choose in favor of my passions

Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life Be happy now Dont wait for something

outside of yourself to make you happy in the future Think how really precious is

the time you have to spend whether its at work or with your family Every minute

should be enjoyed and savored

Earl Nightingale

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life It turns what we have into enough and

more It turns denial into acceptance chaos into order confusion into clarity It

turns problems into gifts failures into success the unexpected into perfect

timing and mistakes into important events Gratitude makes sense of our past

brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow

Melodie Beattie Writer

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Devotion is commitment at a deep cellular level When you are devoted the

universe will align itself to give you what you desire

Rich German Author of Monetize Your Passion

Action breeds confidence and courage If you want to conquer fear do not sit

home and think about it Go out and get busy

~ Dale Carnegie

The mind turned inwards is the Self turned outwards it becomes the ego and all

the world

~Ramana Maharshi

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be

~Daniel J Boorstin

The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively

from his own resources

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire

not things we fear

~ Brian Tracy

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game and no matter how

great your talent there is only one way to obtain it-work

~ Jack Nicklaus Golfer

A goal without a plan is merely a WISH without a HOPE

~ Unknown

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan in which we must

fervently believe and upon which we must vigorously act There is no other route

to success

~ Stephen A Brennan

Knowledge breeds doubt Wisdom births wonder

Alan Cohen

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When you decide what you want it has to manifestbut only at the level of your

belief

Rich German Author of Monetize Your Passion

Friendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity

- John Dryden

It may make people feel more secure when everyone agrees with them but it

wont create a world made rich by the unique and diverse expressions of the human

soul

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart

Choice is destinys soul mate

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Truth is a gem of many facets Each facet reflects the brilliance within and

without But the whole reveals a deeper more profound message than all the parts

by themselves

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart

He who knows others is wise he who knows himself is enlightened

- Tao Te Ching

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers but for powers equal to

our tasks

-- Helen Keller

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret

-- Ambrose Bierce

We must all suffer one of two things the pain of discipline or the pain of regret

or disappointment

-- Jim Rohn

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Many risks fail because they were not taken in time Too many risks are postponed

until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made This does not mean that one

should say Damn the torpedoes full speed ahead That is foolish and self-

destructive But dont sit back waiting for the perfect moment It almost never

comes

-- David Viscott Risking

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter

-- E E Cummings

Reflect upon your blessings of which every man has plenty not on your past

misfortunes of which all men have some

-- Charles Dickens

What the caterpillar calls the end the rest of the world calls a butterfly

-- Lao Tsu

Out of difficulties grow miracles

-- Jean De La Bruyere

Our patience will achieve more than our force

-- Edmund Burke

You must pay in the past to receive in the future

-- Taylor Simpson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what

lies within us

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why Why Not Why Not You Why Not Now

-- Aslan

To become a leader then you must become yourself become the maker of your

own life

--Warren G Bennis

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You have got to discover you what you do and trust it

Barbra Streisand

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts the

circle of Creation is completed inside us the doors of our souls

fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight

Michael Bridge

Each of us feels that we are just a drop in the ocean but the

ocean would be less without that missing drop

Mother Teresa

You dont just stumble into the future You create your own future

Roger Smith

Just dont give up on trying to do what you really want to do

Where there is love and inspiration I dont think you can go

wrong

Ella Fitzgerald

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot

do

Walter Bagehot

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser

John W Gardner

Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life

forever

Keri Russell

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while

so that we can see Life with a clearer view again

Alex Tan

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There never was a great soul that did not have some divine

inspiration

Marcus T Cicero

Youve got to follow your passion Youve got to figure out what

it is you love--who you really are And have the courage to do

that

Oprah Winfrey

Everything that occurs is an opportunity to experience Love

mdashRich German

Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small

things brought together

- Vincent Van Gogh

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark The real tragedy is when

men are afraid of the light

-- Plato

If I had to select one quality one personal characteristic that I regard as being

most highly correlated with success whatever the field I would pick the trait of

persistence

Richard DeVos Co-Founder of Amway

Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination allows vision and gives us the right

stuff to turn our dreams into reality

~James Womack

No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn

-- Hal Borland

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives We must take charge

of our own destinies design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams

- Les Brown

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on

We act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because

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of imagination

- Maxwell Maltz

There is a sleeping giant in you Release it Believe in yourself

~ Bob Proctor

Wealth depends chiefly on two words industry and frugality that is waste

neither time nor money but make the best use of both

-- Benjamin Franklin

When you talk to God thats prayer When God talks back its schizophrenia

-- Lily Tomlin

Work is not a substitute for love It is an avenue of loves expression

-- Alan Cohen

Look beyond peoplelsquos appearances

Look beyond the roles one plays and the mask they wear

Look deep into their eyes and peer into their soul

There you will find their true essence

There you will find your true essence

And that essence is love

mdashRich German

Everything that occurs is an opportunity to experience Love

mdashRich German

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a

life spent doing nothing

George Bernard Shaw

Formula for success under promise and over deliver

Tom Peters

Efficiency is doing things right effectiveness is doing the right things

Peter F Drucker

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Be the change that you want to see in the world

Mahatma Gandhi

Creating space is as important as filling it

-- Alan Cohen

Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Words may guide you to the door of heaven but only silence opens it

-- Alan Cohen

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more

useful than a life spent doing nothing

Bernard Shaw

Formula for success under promise and over deliver

Tom Peters

Efficiency is doing things right effectiveness is doing the right

things

Peter F Drucker

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives We must take charge

of our own destinies design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams

- Les Brown

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works onWe

act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because of

imagination

- Maxwell Maltz

No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn

-- Hal Borland

There is a sleeping giant in you

Release it Believe in yourself

~ Bob Proctor

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Wealth depends chiefly on two words industry and frugality that is waste

neither time nor money but make the best use of both

-- Benjamin Franklin

Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination allows vision and gives us the right

stuff to turn our dreams into reality

~James Womack

If I had to select one quality one personal characteristic that I regard as being

most highly correlated with success whatever the field I would pick the trait of

persistence

Richard DeVos Co-Founder of Amway

The best way to teach people is by telling a story

Jonathan Swift

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking

what nobody else has thought

Kenneth Blanchard

All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it

-Samuel Butler

Happiness is like a cat If you try to coax it or call it it will avoid you It will never

come

But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business youll find it rubbing

up against your legs and jumping into your lap

- William Bennett

The word impossible is only in the mind and not in the heart

- Sri Chinmoy

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another it is the only

means

Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Physicist

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Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone

And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone

Paul Tillich

Sometimes the cards we are dealt are not always fair However you must keep

smiling amp moving on

~ Tom Jackson

Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you

- Elbert Hubard

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends

with anyone else in the world

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Thus nature has no love for solitude and always leans as it were on some support

and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship

- Cicero

So it is life is actually made up of our choices We are the sum total of them and

if we hold to an attitude of love and thanksgiving for all the good things within our

grasp we may have what all ambitious people long for - success

Delma Neeley

Believe and your belief will create the fact

~ William James

The principle is competing against yourself

Its about self improvement about being better than you were the day before

~ Steve Young

All of us you your children your neighbors and their children are

everyday geniuses even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by

everyone Thats probably because school hasnt encouraged us to notice whats

hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself

~ Peter Kline

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If youll not settle for anything less than your best you will be amazed at what

you can accomplish in your lives

Vince Lombardi

Ya gotta put your behind in your past

Then youre ready for whatever comes next

~ Pumba The Lion King

Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become

~ James Allen

Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well what

causes sadness and what brings happiness what makes us suffer and what leads to

healing

~ Dean Ornish MD

Three components make an entrepreneur the person the ideaand the resources

to make it happen

~ Anita Roddick

What we can or cannot do what we consider possible or impossible is rarely a

function of our true capability It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who

we are

~ Anthony Robbins

Either Do or Do Not There is No Try

~ George Lucas

Theres a name for the magic that transforms lives connects dots moves

mountains and orchestrates coincidences that shock and astound Imagination

And theres a name for all that stops you in your tracks stirs fear spins wheels

and leaves one wondering Hey whats up with that Imagination

Careful where you point that thing

~ The Universe

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with

them

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faith is a passionate intuition

-William Wordsworth

Friendship is a sheltering tree

--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision Vision is the perfume

of the mind

--Harriet Rubin

Striving for excellence motivates you striving for perfection is demoralizing

--Harriet Braiker

I can feel guilty about the past apprehensive about the future but only in the

present can I act The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of

mental wellness

-Abraham Maslow 1908-1970 Psychologist

In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge

-Aristotle

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our

potential

Sir Winston Churchill 1874-1965 Former British Prime Minister

The minute you settle for less than you deserve you get even less than you

settled for

Maureen Dowd Newspaper Columnist

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything

outside ourselves will affect us

Stephen R Covey Author and Speaker

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Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually

attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life

Christiane Northrup Medical Doctor and Author

We must learn to keep ourselves awake by an infinite expectation of the

dawn

-- Henry David Thoreau

You dont need to struggle to get your body to do or be what your spirit already is

-- Alan Cohen

One must steer not talk

-- Seneca

The more you quantify the less you qualify

-- Alan Cohen

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know Most are

born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly

-- Buckminster Fuller

Any act motivated by guilt does not assuage guilt but perpetuates it

-- Alan Cohen

Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for

themselves

-- Peter McArthur

Be so good they cant ignore you

Steve Martin

Its kind of fun to do the impossible

Walt Disney

Its easy to make a buck Its a lot tougher to make a difference

Tom Brokaw

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When I hear somebody sigh Life is hard I am always tempted to

ask Compared to what

Sydney J Harris

In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing The worst

thing you can do is nothing

Sam Walton

I had to pick myself up and get on with it do it all over again only even better

this time

Theodore Roosevelt

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process

~ Jim Rohn

If you can imagine it you can achieve it If you can dream it you can become it

~ William Arthur Ward

There is much in the world to make us afraid There is much more in our faith to

make us unafraid

-- Cropp

Pray for essence rather than form and the form will be a perfect expression of

the essence

-- Alan Cohen

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change

Charles R Swindoll Author and Pastor

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with

- Jim Rohn

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your

dreams

- Les Brown

Life is 10 of what happens to me and 90 of how I react to it

John Maxwell

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What you see depends on what youre looking for

Anon

Mind over matter If you dont mind it doesnt matter

-- Alan Cohen

When you are clear on want to how to shows up

-- Michael Neill

Quit struggling to make your body do or be what your spirit already is

-- Alan Cohen

Truth is the offspring of silence and unbroken meditation

-- Isaac Newton

Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal Whatever you invest it

in will yield more of the same

-- Alan Cohen

When you find yourself stressed ask yourself one question Will this matter five

years from now If yes then do something about the situation If no then let it

go

Catherine Pulsifer Writer

Theres plenty of intelligence in the world but the courage to do things

differently is in short supply

Marilyn vos Savant Columnist Author and Lecturer

Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced

by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas

a strong faith is strengthened by them

Viktor E Frankl 1905-1997 Holocaust Survivor and Author of Mans Search for

Meaning

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength

Richard L Evans

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You were not born a winner and you were not born a loser You are

what you make yourself be

Lou Holtz

Remember if you ever need a helping hand youll find one at the

end of your arm As you grow older you will discover that you

have two hands One for helping yourself the other for helping

others

Audrey Hepburn

Dont take life too seriously because youll never get out alive

Josh Shippe

Without hard work nothing grows but weeds

Gordon B Hinckley

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies

--Mother Teresa

Do what you can to show you care about other people and you will make our world

a better place

--Rosalynn Carter

Again and again the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is

only a tough decision waiting to be made

--Robert H Schuller

If in our daily life we can smile if we can be peaceful and happy not only we but

everyone will profit from it This is the most basic kind of peace work

--Thich Nhat Hanh

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties

disappear and obstacles vanish into air

- John Quincy Adams

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win

~ GK Chesterton

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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown for going

out I found was really going in

mdashJohn Muir 1913

To me itlsquos really so simple that life should be lived on the edge You

have to exercise rebellion To refuse to tape yourself to the rules

to refuse your own success to refuse to repeat yourself to see

every day every year every idea as a true challenge Then you will

live your life on the tightrope

mdashPhilippe Petit (star of the movie Man on Wire)

The first step to creating the lifestyle of your dreams is to simplify

your life

mdashRich German

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist sees

problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems

Winston Churchill

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you

have and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more

~ Robert Collier

Instead of waiting for someone to take you under their wing go out there and

find a good wing to climb under

~ Dave Thomas

If you would convince others seem open to conviction yourself

~ Lord Chesterfield

The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable

competitive advantage

~ Arie de Geus

Human life is purely a matter of deciding whats important to you

-- Source unknown

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Determination and perseverance move the world thinking that others will do it

for you is a sure way to fail

Marva Collins Educator

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them

~ Walt Disney

Everything that happens to you is self-created Whenever youre responding to

any situation whether its a sip of coffee or a traffic jam or a love note or

criticism from a boss or rainy weather youre in fact responding to a signal that

you generated within yourself

- Deepak Chopra

Relationships are not about intellect they are about feeling They require an

intelligence of the heart

- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is

when adults are afraid of the light

- Plato

A good listener is someone who is curious open-minded and nonjudgmental A

good listener is not a know-it-all A good listener knows that truth often reveals

itself bit by bit much like putting together a jigsaw puzzle

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart

Its the night that makes the dawning

Its the depths that make the heights

Its the roots that make the branches

Its the darkness that gives birth to Light

- Joel Heathcote

How you hear what someone says is determined by your interpretations and your

interpretations flow from your past This is very important to know especially if

you find that you overreact to what others say or habitually get your feelings hurt

Remember what someone said is not necessarily what you heard and what you

heard is not necessarily what they meant

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart

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―Everything ndash a horse a vine ndash is created for some dutyhellipFor what task then

were you yourself created A manlsquos true delight is to do the things he was made

for

~ Marcus Aurelius from Meditations

―Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts for the soul becomes dyed with the

color of its thoughts Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as for example

Where life is possible at all a right life is possible

~ Marcus Aurelius from Meditations

―hellipEverything can be taken from a man but one thing the last of the human

freedomsmdashto choose onelsquos attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose

onelsquos own way

~ Viktor Frankl from Manlsquos Search for Meaning

―It did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life

expected from us We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life and

instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by lifemdashdaily

and hourly Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation but in right

action and in right conduct Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to

find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly

sets for each individual

~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Manlsquos Search for Meaning

―Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in lifehellip Therein he cannot be

replaced nor can his life be repeated Thus everyonelsquos task is as unique as is

his specific opportunity to implement it

~ Viktor Frankl from Manlsquos Search for Meaning

―Ultimately man should not ask what the meaning of his life is but rather must

recognize that it is he who is asked In a word each man is questioned by life

and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life to life he can only

respond by being responsible

~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Manlsquos Search for Meaning

―History though shows us that the people who end up changing the world- the

great political social scientific technological artistic even sports

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revolutionaries- are always nuts until theylsquore right and then theylsquore geniuses

~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement

―Great performers are by definition abnormal

~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement

―We all aspire to mastery but the path is always long and sometimes rocky and

it promises no quick pay off So we look for other paths each of which attracts

a different person

~ George Leonard from Mastery

―We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection Itlsquos about a process a

journey The master is the one who stays on the path day after day year after

year The master is the one who is willing to try and fail and try again for as

long as he or she lives

~ George Leonard from Mastery

At the heart of it mastery is practice Mastery is staying on the path

~ George Leonard from Mastery

―Comfort kills If your goal in life is to be comfortable I guarantee two things

First you will never be rich Second you will never be happy Happiness doesnlsquot

come from living a lukewarm life always wondering what could have been

Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up

to our fullest potential

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

―You can be a victim or you can be rich but you canlsquot be both Listen up Every

time and I mean every time you blame justify or complain you are slitting

your financial throat

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―Herelsquos an equation I want you to remember for the rest of your life CZ = WZ

It means your ―comfort zone equals your ―wealth zone By expanding your

comfort zone you will expand the size of your income and wealth zone

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

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―We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we

wait forever before taking action

~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big

―Donlsquot put off until tomorrow what you can do today

~ Benjamin Franklin

―Think Big and youlsquoll live big Youlsquoll live big in happiness Youlsquoll live big in

accomplishment Big in income Big in friends Big in respecthellip Start now right

now to discover how to make your thinking make magic for you Start out with

this thought of the great philosopher Disraeli Life is too short to be littlelsquo

~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big

―In the yogic tradition this principle of using intense effort to burn through

lifelsquos distractions is called Tapas Itlsquos another Sanskrit word roughly defined

as ―heat or ―essential energy The concept is that through a disciplined

approach to work and self-sacrifice Tapas will burn away the negativity that

separates us from God By working our hardest and happily enduring the

hardships of life we are able to create a sense of peace and clarity in

ourselves

~ Russell Simmons from Do You

―The person who understands Dharma will have the opposite reaction to a ―hard

job That person will be eager to get started no matter what kind of work is in

front of her because she understands that shelsquos doing Godlsquos work And when

youlsquore working for God nothing is too hard

~ Russell Simmons from Do You

―It all comes down to this if your subconscious financial blueprintlsquo is not setlsquo

for success nothing you learn nothing you know and nothing you do will make

much of a difference

~ Russell Simmons from Do You

―The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work

~ Vince Lombardi

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The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than

your best

~ Russell Simmons from Do You

―The poor and the middle class work for money The rich have money work for

them

~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad

―We all have tremendous potential and we all are blessed with gifts Yet the

one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt It is not so

much the lack of technical information that holds us back but more the lack of

self-confidence

~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad

―Who will you have to become to achieve all you want

~ Tony Robbins

―You could say that I worked every minute of my life or you could say with

equal justice that I never worked a day I have always subscribed to the

expression ―Thank God itlsquos Friday because to me Friday means I can work for

the next two days without interruption

~ John Hope Franklin

―I do not believe that you should devote overly much effort to correcting your

weaknesses Rather I believe that the highest success in living and the deepest

emotional satisfaction comes from building and using your signature strengths

~ Martin Seligman from Authentic Happiness

When you begin to recognize that your own presence here in this world is part of

something infinitely bigger than yourself you feel a sense of obligation awakening

within youmdasha spiritually inspired soul-level moral imperative to evolve for the sake

of the future of the evolutionary process itself The way you respond to that

obligation and to that sense of cosmic responsibility is by demonstrating that the

process is profoundly positivemdashindeed the process is sacredmdashthrough your own

example through your own victory through your own tangible and unmistakable

higher development

~ Andrew Cohen

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Its the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief And once that belief

becomes a deep conviction things begin to happen

Claude M Bristol 1891-1951 Author of The Magic of Believing

We cant fear the past Fear is a future thing And since the futures all in our

heads fear must be a head thing

Tom Payne Career Development Expert

I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please

everybody

Bill Cosby Actor and Comedian

If we are ever to enjoy life now is the time not tomorrow or next year Today

should always be our most wonderful day

- Thomas Dreier Author

Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their

personnel If people believe in themselves its amazing

what they can accomplish

--Sam Walton

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the

aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker

--Helen Keller

Close scrutiny will show that most crisis situations are opportunities to either

advance or stay where you are

- Maxwell Maltz

Be curious not judgmental

-Walt Whitman

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it

-William James

All life is an experiment

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone

acknowledges who we are and what we can be igniting the circuits

of our highest potential

Rusty Berkus

Being considerate of others will take your children further in

life than any college degree

Marian Wright Edelman

It is common sense to take a method and try it If it fails admit

it frankly and try another But above all try something

Franklin D Roosevelt

see without looking hear without listening breathe

without asking

W H Auden

Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways

you can as long as ever you can

John Wesley

Its better to reach for the stars and land on the roof than to

reach for the roof and land in the garbage

Savanna Skinner

Love looks through a telescope envy through a microscope

~ Josh Billings

Whats going on in the inside shows on the outside

~ Earl Nightingale

Consideration for others is the basis of a good life a good society

~ Confucius

Time is limited so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have

just one chance to live this particular day right and to string my days together

into a life of action and purpose

~ Lance Armstrong

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An ounce of action is worth a ton of good intentions

~ Michael Josephson

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others

-- Cicero

Simplicity Purity Clarity

-- Alan Cohen

Faith mighty faith the promise sees And looks to God alone Laughs at

impossibilities And cries it shall be done

-- Charles Wesley

What is genius but the mind heart and art of God shining to the world through an

open window

-- Alan Cohen

Intuition tells you what not why

-- Source unknown

Changing the world is a natural result of inner peace not a substitute for it

-- Alan Cohen

Fortune sides with him who dares

~ Virgil

We cant fear the past Fear is a future thing And since the futures all in

our heads fear must be a head thing

Tom Payne Career Development Expert

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you

mdashLewis Smedes Each of us has the power to make others more beautiful by our love

- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst a transformer

in any situation any organization Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an

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entire loaf It requires vision initiative patience respect persistence courage

and faith to be a transforming leader

Stephen Covey

Courage is grace under pressure

~ Ernest Hemingway

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions All life is an experiment

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

As long as Youre going o be thinking anyway Think BIG

~ Donald Trump

To win youve got to stay in the game

~ Claude M Bristol

The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head

-- Source unknown

Affirm your value by going where you are valued

-- Alan Cohen

Life is too short to hold a grudge also too long

-- Robert Brault

You cannot borrow greatness from another You can only claim it from within

yourself

-- Alan Cohen

One today is worth two tomorrows never leave that till tomorrow which you can

do today

Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 US Statesman Diplomat and Inventor

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs

the problem The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized

a problem and turned it into an opportunity

Joseph Sugarman Marketing Expert

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You wouldnt worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how

seldom they do

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 American First Lady Author Speaker and Politician

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions

- John Randolph

Opportunities They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere

waiting for the observant eye to discover it

- Orison Swett Marden

Yesterday ended last night Every day is a new beginning Learn the skill of

forgetting And move on

--Norman Vincent Peale

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual it is

best for the race because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every

department

ndash Andrew Carnegie entrepreneur

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society The optimist invents the

airplane and the pessimist the parachute

Gil Stern

Strive for integrity - that means knowing your values in life and behaving in a way

that is consistent with these values

Unknown

The country clubs the cars the boats your assets may be ample But the best

inheritance you can leave your kids Is to be a good example

Barry Spilchuk

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the

goal

Henry Ford

It is never too late to be what you might have been

George Eliott

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The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence the second listening the

third memory the fourth practice the fifth teaching others

Solomon Ibn Gabriol

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers You can tell whether a man is

wise by his questions

Naguib Mahfouz

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others

~ Erich Fromm

Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble

and grateful mind

~ Epictetus

Happiness is activity

~ Aristotle

Every action we take everything we do is either a victory or defeat in the

struggle to become what we want to be

~ Anne Byrhhe

In the absence of clearly defined goals we become strangely loyal to performing

daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it

Robert Heinlein Novelist

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the

consequences of any misfortune

William James 1842-1910 Psychologist and Author

To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle

-- Walt Whitman

God doesnt owe and neither do you

-- Alan Cohen

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Do what makes you smile

-- Dr Richard Bartlett

People who warn that everyone but members of their religion will go to hell dont

realize they are already there

-- Alan Cohen

The emotional frontier is truly the next frontier to conquer in human

understanding The opportunity we face now even before that frontier is fully

explored and settled is to develop our emotional potential and accelerate rather

dramatically into a new state of being

- Doc Childre and Howard Martin The HeartMath Solution

Real transformation requires that you have a beginners mind that you are willing

to say Whatever I think I know may be wrong

Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships

Heroes take journeys confront dragons and discover the treasure of their true

selves

- Carrol Pearson The Hero Within

If a man would move the world he

must first move himself

--Socrates

All sucessful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists They

believed that things went not by luck but by law

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

I skate to where the puck is going to be not where it is

-Wayne Gretzky

When given the choice between being right or being kind always choose kind

--Dr Wayne Dyer Never forget the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for

others

Sir John Templeton 1912-2008 Mutual Fund Pioneer and Philanthropist

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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome

Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Essayist Biographer and Poet

Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on

-- Alan Cohen

Shallow men believe in luck Strong men believe in cause and effect

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Contraction is a sign that birth is imminent

-- Alan Cohen

Work is an extension of personality It is achievement It is one of the ways in

which a person defines himself measures his worth ndash and his humanity

ndash Peter Drucker author

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends

-- John Ruskin

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities

--Janos Arnay

The first time you accept good is the last time you will see excellence

John Ulmo Life is like an onion

You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep

~ Carl Sandburg

Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light

~ L P Jacks Just as iron rusts from disuse even so does inaction spoil the intellect

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

As I grow older I pay less attention to what men sayI JUST watch what they

do

~ Andrew Carnegie

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All Things are Difficult before they are Easy

~ John Norley

Everything has been figured out except how to live

~ Jean Paul Sartre

Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving

Dennis Waitley

Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out

Robert Collier

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal

nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude

Thomas Jefferson

They can because they think they can

Virgil

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself

Menander

Years teach us more than books

Berthold Auerbach

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

When you delightfully fantasize about something you want you set into motion a

wave of energy that calls that situation into reality

-- Alan Cohen

Hurt people hurt people

-- Source unknown

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Doing the right thing may be different than what you have been taught the right

thing is

-- Alan Cohen

The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes

it happen

-- Frank Lloyd Wright All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say no and said yes

Moss Hart 1904-1961 Playwright and Theatre Director

We are built to conquer environment solve problems achieve goals and we find no

real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to

achieve

Maxwell Maltz 1899-1975 Author of Psycho-Cybernetics

You can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because thorns

have roses

-- Ziggy

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug

~ Patricia Neal

My night has become a sunny dawn because of you

--Ibn Abbad

All mankind is divided into three classes those that are immovable those that are

movable and those that move

--Benjamin Franklin

Dont compete Create Find out what everyone else is doing and then dont do it

mdashJoel Weldon

Show a little faith therelsquos magic in the night

mdashfrom ―Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen

Music is to me proof of the existence of God

It is so extraordinarily full of magic and in tough times

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of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference

mdashKurt Vonnegut

Discontent is the source of all trouble but also of all progress

in individuals and nations

Berthold Auerbach

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself

Thomas Sprat

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves

to copy

Oliver Goldsmith

If at first you dont succeed try try again Then quit Theres

no use being a damn fool about it

WC Fields

Impatience never commanded success

Edwin H Chapin

In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are the safest

~ Livy

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights

~ Henry David Thoreau

The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense

insoluble They can never be solved but only outgrown

~ Carl Jung

Life Begins When you Do

Hugh Downs Vision Without Action is a Daydream

Action Without Vision is a Nightmare

~ Japanese Proverb

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Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one

can possibly want and hold

-- Judith Olney

The love affair you seek is with yourself

-- Alan Cohen

The greatest power requires the lightest touch

-- BasharDarryl Anka

You only live once -- but its forever

-- Alan Cohen

Get off the cross Somebody needs the wood

-- From the film Straight Talk

There are two ways to live your life One is as though nothing is a miracle The

other is as though everything is a miracle

~ Albert Einstein

In the long run men hit only what they aim at

~ Henry David Thoreau philosopher

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state

of being alive If life is to be sustained hope must remain even where confidence is

wounded trust impaired

~Erik H Erikson

Freedom know this that every manwoman is free To choose his life and what

hell be For this eternal truth is given God will force no man to heaven Hell call

persuade direct aright Bless with wisdom love and light In nameless ways be

good and kind But never force the human mind

~ William C Clegg

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the

circumstances they want and if they canlsquot find them make them

~ George Bernard Shaw

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Relationships are not things We dont have relationships we are in relationship

with one another

- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships

Relationships are our primary teacher They are the context in which we either

grow into the consciousness of God or deny ourselves and others the opportunity

to do so

- Marianne Williamson

Listen deeply The greatest failure in any relationship is the failure to

participate

- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships

Your future is created by what you do today not tomorrow

Robert Kiyosaki

No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a

reality

Napoleon Hill

If you are not planning today you are planning to fail tomorrow

Gopal

How you do anything is how you do everything

T Harv Eker

There is little difference in people but that little difference

makes a big difference The little difference is attitude The

big difference is whether it is positive or negative

W Clement Stone

The vision must be followed by the venture It is not enough to

stare up the steps - We must step up the stairs

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Vance Havner

Go for it nowThe future is promised to no one

Wayne Dyer

If you realize how powerful your thoughts are you would never

think a negative thought

Peace Pilgrim

Either you run the day or the day runs you

Jim Rohn

You must go after your wish As soon as you start to pursue a

dream your life wakes up and everything has meaning

Barbara Sher

To succeed you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe

and act on it with all of your heart

Christy Borgeld

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers

Anonymous

Let him that would move the world first move himself

Socrates

By the time a man realizes that maybe

his father was right he usually has a son

who thinks hes wrong

~ Charles Wadworth

Without Mistakes Perfection is an Illusion

~ Daniel Frankel

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Its not the hours you put in

but what you put into the hours

that counts

~ Jim Rohn

Be swift to hear slow to speak slow to wrath

~ James 119

Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory

~ Ingrid Bergman

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word

~ William Makepease Thackeray

Professionalism is knowing how

to do it when to do it and doing it

~ Frank Tyger

Intention is not something you do

but rather a force that exists in the universe

as an invisible field of energy

-a power that can carry us

~ Dr Wayne Dyer

I personally measure success in terms

of the contributions an individual makes

to her or his fellow human beings

~ Margaret Mead

Some of the worlds greatest feats

were accomplished by people not

smart enough to know they were

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impossible

~ Doug Larson

Life is a flower of which love is the honey

~ Victor Hugo

Personal integrity is important

not because it gets us what we want

but because it helps us be what we want

~ Michael Josephson

Goals need to be configured to stretch us

but not to break us

~ Kent Krive

Children are apt to live up

to what you believe of them

~ Lady Bird Johnson

Do your work with your whole heart

and you will succeed

- theres so little competition

~ Elbert Hubbard

Hi Karl

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible

objections must first be overcome

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--Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Author

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter

even the most victorious life The human

spirit is never finished when it is defeated

- it is finished when it surrenders

-- Ben Stein Professor and Writer

Love is the first ingredient in the relief

of suffering

-- Padre Pio

Happiness is a function of accepting what is

--Werner Erhard

There are no shortcuts to any place

worth going

- Beverly Sills

It has never been and never will be

easy work But the road that is built in

hope is more pleasant to the traveler

than the road built in despair even though

they both lead to the same destination

~Marion Zimmer Bradley

The reality of life is that your perceptions --

right or wrong -- influence everything else

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you do When you get a proper perspective

of your perceptions you may be surprised

how many other things fall into place

~ Roger Birkman

Everybody is unique Do not compare yourself

with anybody else lest you spoil Gods curriculum

-- Baal Shem Tov

Everybody is unique Do not compare yourself

with anybody else lest you spoil Gods curriculum

-- Baal Shem Tov

Trust yourself You know more than

you think you do

ndash Benjamin Spock doctor

When you play it too safe youre taking

the biggest risk of your life

Time is the only wealth were given

--Barbara Sher

Creativity is inventing experimenting

growing taking risks breaking rules

making mistakes and having fun

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--Mary Lou Cook

Life is playing a violin solo in public and

learning the instrument as one goes on

--Samuel Butler

Opportunities are usually disguised as

hard work so most people dont recognize

them

~ Ann Landers

It is literally true that you can succeed best

and quickest by helping others to succeed

- Napoleon Hill

God loves you and theres nothing you can do about it

-- Sign on church marquis

Give yourself what you would like to receive from others

-- Alan Cohen

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature

-- Emerson

The fewer your words the more compelling your statement

-- Alan Cohen

Pray devoutly hammer stoutly

-- English proverb

There are no blocks to creativity Only distractions

-- Alan Cohen

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If your rules are not working so well borrow someone elses

-- Dr Richard Bartlett

Inner peace is never more than one thought away

-- Alan Cohen

Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret

hiding God

-- Frederick William Robertson

Completion is an attitude not an event

-- Alan Cohen

Enjoy where you are and youll be where youre going

-- Bashar

Your spirit is wireless

-- Alan Cohen

All questions lead to divine knowing

-- Isaac Newton

You cannot import self-worth You can only recognize it

-- Alan Cohen

Enlightened conflict resolution can exist only in an atmosphere of equality

We may not be equal in intelligence or experience or status but we are equal

in our right to be treated with dignity and caring It is not assumed that one

person has more privilege than another that one person is entitled to more

respect or understanding than another nor that one persons feelings are

more important than anothers

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

To seek happiness outside of ourselves Is like trying to lasso a cloud

Happiness is not a thingIt is a state of mind

- Omar Khayyam

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The higher self gets curious The conditioned self gets defensive

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The higher self gets curious The conditioned self gets defensive

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us

well I am not aware of any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking

not exercise not drugs not surgery--that has a greater impact on our

quality of life incidence of illness and premature death

- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy No man was ever wise by chance

~ Seneca

By thought the thing you want is brought to youby action you receive it

~ Wallace D Wattles

Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony

~ Mohandas K Gandhi

Life isnt about finding yourselfLife is about creating yourself

George Bernard Shaw

Im trying to free your mind but I can only show you the doorYou are the one

that has to walk through it

~ Morpheus [ The Matrix ]

A friend is a second self

~ Aristotle

Be great in act as you have been in thought

~ William Shakespeare

Character is higher than intellectA great soul will be strong to liveas well as to

think

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I never think of the futureIt comes soon enough

~ Albert Einstein

Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fearnot absence of fear

~ Mark Twain

Age wrinkles the bodyQuitting wrinkles the soul

~ Douglas MacArthur

If real is what you can feel smell taste and see then real is simply electrical

signals interpreted by your brain

~ Morpheus [ The Matrix ]

Money was never a big motivator for me except for keeping the scoreThe real

excitement is playing the game

~ Donald Trump

Dreams are extremely important You cant do it unless you dream it first

~ George Lucas

If you believe you can you probably can If you believe you wont you most

assuredly wont Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad

~ Denis Waitley

Imagination is more important than knowledge Knowledge is limitedImagination

encircles the world

~ Albert Einstein

Everything is always impossible before it works Thats what entrepreneurs are all

aboutDoing things that people have told them is impossible

~ R Hunt Greene

The truth is lived not taught

~ Hermann Hesse

Be of good cheer Do not think of todays failures but of the success that may

come tomorrow You have set yourself a difficult task but you will succeed if you

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persevere and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles

Helen Keller 1880-1968 Blind and Deaf Educator

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something Its as simple

as that A lot of people have ideas but there are few who decide to do something

about them now Not tomorrow Not next week But today The true entrepreneur

is a doer

-Nolan Bushnell Founder of Atari

Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they

have deep inside them - a desire a dream a vision

Muhammad Ali Three-Time World Heavyweight Champion Boxer

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them

Walt Disney 1901-1966 Cartoon Artist and Filmmaker

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings turn routine jobs into

joy and change ordinary opportunities into blessings

William Arthur Ward

1921-1994 Writer

If you want to achieve excellence you can get there today As of this second quit

doing less than excellent work

Thomas Watson 1874-1956 Founder of IBM

Ive always believed that a lot of the troubles in the world would disappear if we

were talking to each other instead of about each other

Ronald Reagan

1911-2004 40th President of the United States

The most wonderful gift one human being can give to another is in some way to

make that persons life a little bit better to live

John Assaraf Author and Speaker

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm

Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any

occupation no matter how frightening or difficult a new meaning Without

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enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish

miracles

Og Mandino

Constant kindness can accomplish much As the sun makes ice melt kindness

causes misunderstanding mistrust and hostility to evaporate

Dr Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965 Medical Missionary and Nobel Prize Winner

Dwell not on the past Use it to illustrate a point then leave it behind Nothing

really matters except what you do now in this instant of time From this moment

onwards you can be an entirely different person filled with love and understanding

ready with an outstretched hand uplifted and positive in every thought and deed

Eileen Caddy 1917-2006 Spiritual Teacher and Author

Heres the problem Most people are thinking about what they dont want and

theyre wondering why it shows up over and over again

John Assaraf Speaker and Author

Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to

success when they gave up

Thomas Edison 1847-1931 Inventor and Scientist

Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on

building the life you desire

Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly

lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love

Henry Drummond 1851-1897 Scientist and Author

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 Former First Lady Author and Speaker

If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors we are at least

responsible for those we admit and entertain

Charles Newcomb ScreenwriterDirector

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To grow you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your

past Your history is not your destiny

Alan Cohen

If you want a kinder world then behave with kindness if you want a peaceful

world make peace within

Dan Millman Writer and Speaker

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality order

and diligence without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a

time

Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Writer

Believe it can be done When you believe something can be done really believe

your mind will find the ways to do it Believing a solution paves the way to solution

Dr David Schwartz Author of The Magic of Thinking Big

Close your eyes and form a realistic picture of what a post PC world might actually

look like Those who can envision a plausible future thats brighter than today will

earn the opportunity to lead

Ray Ozzie Former Chief Software Architect at Microsoft

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past worry

about the future or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely

and earnestly

- Buddha

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job tellem certainly I can - and get

busy and find out how to do it

-- Theodore Roosevelt

Dont tell me how hard you work Tell mehow much you get done

~ James Ling

Democracy arose from menlsquos thinking that if they are equal in any respect they

are equal absolutely

~ Aristotle

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The beginning is the most important part of the work

~ Plato

Bless those who choose to love and those who choose to hate that those who

choose to hate may choose to love before it is too late

--Esoligh (Underground Hip Hop Artist)

Security is mostly a superstition It does not exist in nature nor do the children

of man as a whole experience it Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than

outright exposure Life is either a daring adventure or nothing

--Helen Keller

Each new hour holds new chances for new beginings The horizon move forward

offering you space to place new steps of change

--Maya Angelou

When a man cares he is unafraid When he is fair he leaves enough for others

When he is humble he can grow

--Lao-Tzu TaoTeChung

Behold the turtle He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out

--James Bryant Conant - Educator and Diplomat

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness not because they never found it

but because they didnt stop to enjoy it

--William Feather

The light of awareness the light of consciousness arises out of a broken heart

the heart by breaking becomes an ocean accommodating all beings

-- Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom

The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need according to the

nature of your thought Your environment and financial condition are the

perfect reflection of your habitual thinking

Thought rules the world

-- Dr Joseph Edward Murphy Surgeon

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The ideals that have lighted my way and time after time have given me new

courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness beauty and truth

ndash Albert Einstein physicist

Hope is the companion of power and mother of success for who so hopes strongly

has within him the gift of miracles

~ Samuel Smiles

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those

things that failures dont like to do

~ Albert Gray

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the

link between belief and biology

- Deepak Chopra

Ive always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best

~ Akeem Olajuwon

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear

ndash Socrates philosopher

The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the

most brilliant single mind but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains

and talents of his associates

~ W Alton Jones

The reason a dog has got so many friends is because its tail waggles and not its

tongue

-Anonymous

Dont fight a problem solve it

--Millard Fuller

If things are not going well with you begin your effort at correcting the situation

by carefully examining the service you are rendering and especially the spirit in

which you are rendering it

--Roger Babson

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The starting point of all riches is the development of a prosperity consciousness

You must become a financial success in your thinking long before you achieve it in

your reality Both poverty and riches are the result of a state of mind and the

most important single step you ever take on the road to wealth and financial

independence is the decision to change your thinking to impress into your mind an

unshakable belief that you can and will achieve your financial goals This must

happen before anything else happens

-- Brian Tracy

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it

We must learn to see the world anew

- Albert Einstein

To forgive is the highest most beautiful form of love In return you will receive

untold peace and happiness

--Dr Robert Muller

Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind the stronger the

trees

--J Willard Marriott Founder of Marriott Hotels

Someday may never come So live each day better than the last That way youll

wake up with so much excitement and anticipation youlsquoll jump out of bed and shout

I cant wait

--Bob Perks

The greatest thief this world ever produced is procrastination and he is still at

large

-- Henry Wheeler Shaw 1818-1885 Humorist

If you dont know where you are going any road will get you there

-- Anonymous

Ive noticed over many years of working with corporate teams that the more

dysfunctional the team the more resistant they are to the concept of love in

the workplace What baggage is it that we drag around behind us like Linus

and his blanket which causes us to be so wounded and pathological Why are

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we blind to the observable truth that those we lead are yearning for us to

open our hearts Why are we in denial about the truth that people--all

people at work and at home--are searching for signs of our approval and

love

- Lance Secretan Industry Week 11202000 We live on our own solitary islands of reality absorbed in and fascinated by

our own points of view Frequently we reach out to one another seeking to

understand or be understood The bridge between our separate realities is

communication To communicate is to relate

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air You

name them--work family health friends and spirit--and youre keeping all

of these in the air You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball If you

drop it it will bounce back But the other four balls-- family health

friends and spirit--are made of glass If you drop one of these they will be

irrevocably scuffed marked nicked damaged or even shattered They will

never be the same You must understand that and strive for balance in your

life

- Brian Dyson CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises from 1959-1994 If you cant be a loving witness to your own anger or rage or sadness or

fear you cant be in the presence of other peoples intense emotions without

your own emotional waters being churned up a bit But if you can learn to

feel safe and fully present to the broad spectrum of emotions within your own

nature you radiate an invisible web of safety that helps others to talk about

their feelings with you

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The world we are experiencing today is the result of our collective

consciousness and if we want a new world each of us must start taking

responsibility for helping create it

- Rosemary Fillmore Rhea A New Heaven and New Earth Your relationships are actually mirrors of your consciousness When you learn

to see your own reflection in the quality of your relationships with others you

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catapult yourself on your path of personal growth and spiritual evolution

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think To put the world right in order we must first put the nation in order to put

the nation in order we must first put the family in order to put the family in

order we must first cultivate our personal life we must first set our hearts

right

- Confucious The sooner we can unburden ourselves of blame the more effective we can

be Blaming others only entrenches us in the role of the victim removing us

from our highest expression of personal power

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

Being vulnerable doesnt have to be threatening Just have the courage to be

sincere open and honest This opens the door to deeper communication all

around It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others

we all want in life Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that

burden us These secrets are what make us sick or fearful Speaking truth

helps you get clarity on your real heart directives

- Sara Paddison The Hidden Power of the Heart Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time

ago

~ Warren Buffet

The only way to do great work is to love what you do If you havent found it yet

keep looking Dont settle As with all matters of the heart youll know when you

find it

~ Steve Jobs

If you love life do not waste time for time is what life is made up of

~ Bruce Lee

I cannot teach anybody anything I can only make them think

~ Socrates

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Change before you have to

~ Jack Welch

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm

~ Winston Churchill

A leader leads by example not by force

~ Sun Tzu

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour Sit with a

pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute You have just experienced

relativity

~ Albert Einstein

Live as if you were to die tomorrow Learn as if you were to live forever

~ Mohandas Gandhi

A clever person solves a problem A wise person avoids it

~ Albert Einstein

If I have seen a little further is by standing on the shoulders of Giants

~ Sir Isaac Newton

Despair says I cannot lift that weight Happiness says I do not have to

-- James Richardson

People who know they are powerful do not need to engage in power struggles

-- Alan Cohen

No man ever stated his troubles as lightly as he might

-- Emerson

What does your spirit most want you to know and do today

-- Alan Cohen

Its not how good you are Its how bad you want it

-- Author unknown

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The better I feel about myself the less I need you to be different

-- Alan Cohen

The best form of flattery is to master the art of listening

-- Chinese proverb

The only thing more valuable than a good source of news is source of good news

-- Alan Cohen

Disappointments are the hooks upon which God hangs his victories

-- Source unknown

It matters not what youve done with your life for better or worse What

matters is what you do with your life today

-- Alan Cohen

Everyone here is not all there

-- Source unknown

If you cant unify then at least harmonize

-- Alan Cohen

Everybody is a genius But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will

spend its whole life believing that it is stupid

-- Albert Einstein

Fear is excitement without breath

-- Fritz Perls

Dont leave yourself out of the equation

-- Alan Cohen

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles

-- Bernard Baruch

They can because they think they can

~ Virgil

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Exert your talents and distinguish yourself

and dont think of retiring from the world

until the world will be sorry that you retire

~ Samuel Johnson

Energy and persistence conquer all things

~ Benjamin Franklin

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom

~ Aristotle

Heaven never helps the man who will not act

~ Sophocles

The only real journey is the journey within

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Anyone who has never made a mistake

has never tried anything new

~ Albert Einstein

Action is the food and drink

that will nourish your success

Action will destroy your procrastination

Act now for is all you have

~ Og Mandino

Computers are incredibly fast accurate and stupid

Humans are incredible slow inaccurate and brilliant

Together they are powerful beyond imagination

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~ Albert Einstein

Practice giving and you will discover how much life can give you

-- Alan Cohen

Oh for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they

ran out of money

-- Source unknown

The best way to heal a bad memory is to create a new and better one

-- Alan Cohen

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love

-- Hamilton Wright Mabie

Fear and resistance are the dragons that stand at the gate of the kingdom that

contains the jewel you seek

-- Alan Cohen

Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy forgiveness To an opponent

tolerance To a friend your heart To a customer service To all charity To

every child a good example To yourself respect

-- Oren Arnold

Affirm I always have enough time to do the things that Spirit would have me do

-- Alan Cohen

There are two obstacles to enlightenment 1 Thinking you know 2 Thinking you

dont know

-- Buddha

Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal Take care how you pay

it

-- Alan Cohen

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles

-- Bernard Baruch

Upgrade your past by seeing it with appreciation

-- Alan Cohen

Families are like fudge -- mostly sweet with a few nuts

-- Source unknown

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of

our treasures

-- Thornton Wilder

The universe does not require you to stress for good things

-- Alan Cohen

When you bless the good that befalls others it becomes yours as well

-- Alan Cohen

How many more idols must you find before your realize that you are the one you

have been searching for

-- Dan Fogelberg

All limits exist only in thought and that is where they are overcome

-- Alan Cohen

To understand unconditional love lock your wife or husband and your dog in the

trunk of your car for an hour When you open it notice to is happier to see you

-- Source unknown

Outrageous ideas are ultimately the most practical

-- Alan Cohen

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are

-- Kurt Cobain

How good can you let it get

-- Alan Cohen

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If we could look into the secret history of our enemies we should find in each

persons life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostilities

-- Longfellow

If you sense there must be more there is more

-- Alan Cohen

Do not wait the time will never be just right Start where you stand and work

with whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found

as you go along

Napoleon Hill

1883-1970 Author of Think And Grow Rich

It doesnt matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes What

matters most is getting off You cannot make progress without making decisions

Jim Rohn

1930-2009 Speaker and Author

Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do Its

a decision about Who You Are When you see this when you understand it

everything changes You begin to see life in a new way All events occurrences and

situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do

Neale Donald Walsch

Author of Conversations With God

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached dont adjust the goals

adjust the action steps

Confucius

551-479 BC Philosopher

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of

you

Henry Ward Beecher

1813-1887 Clergyman Social Reformer and Abolitionist

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Lets choose today to quench our thirst for the good life we think others lead

by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives We can then offer the

universe the gift of our grateful hearts

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Author of Peace and Plenty

Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite

impossible to foresee are ahead You can only see one thing clearly and that is your

goal Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin

Kathleen Norris

1880-1966 Novelist

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends

you choose for you will become like them

W Clement Stone

1902-2002 Businessman Philanthropist and Author

Laugh at yourself and at life Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity but

as a remedy a miracle drug that will ease your pain cure your depression and help

you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at

your predicaments thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that

is certain to come Never take yourself too seriously

Og Mandino

1923-1996 Author of The Choice

Asking is the beginning of receiving Make sure you dont go to the ocean with a

teaspoon At least take a bucket so the kids wont laugh at you

Jim Rohn

1930-2009 Author and Speaker

Happiness comes only when we push our

brains and hearts to the farthest reaches

of which we are capable

--Leo C Rosten

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Do not wait the time will never be just right

Start where you stand and work with whatever

tools you may have at your command and better

tools will be found as you go along

~ Napoleon Hill

I shall do less whenever I shall believe what

I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more

whenever I shall believe doing more will help the

cause I shall try to correct errors when shown to

be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as

they shall appear to be true views

ndash Abraham Lincoln 16th US president

If we become increasingly humble about how l

little we know we may be more eager to search

- Sir John Templeton

I dont think anyone can grow unless hes

loved exactly as he is now appreciated for

what he is rather than what he will be

Love and success always in that order Its

that simple and that difficult

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a

lifetimes work but its worth the effort

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Quoted From Lifes Journeys According

to Mister Rogers

When we do the best we can we never know

what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life

of another

ndash Helen Keller lecturer author

We are responsible for what we are and whatever

we wish ourselves to be we have the power to make

ourselves If what we are now has been the result of

our own past actions it certainly follows that whatever

we wish to be in future can be produced by our present

actions so we have to know how to act

~ Swami Vivekananda

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New Years Resolution To tolerate fools more gladly provided this does not

encourage them to take up more of my time

James Agate

New Years Day is every mans birthday

Charles Lamb

Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right

Oprah Winfrey

―It is never too late to be what you might have been

- TS Eliot

If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain

ndash Emily Dickinson 1830-1886 American Poet

Life is too short to waste Dreams are fulfilled only through action not through

endless planning to take action

David J Schwartz Trainer and Author

Its the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and

sweeps away all obstacles

Claude M Bristol

―The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means time

influence and educational advantages the question is what he will do with the

things he has The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of

opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face and resolves to change

them he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success

-Hamilton Wright Mabie

Just go out there and do what youve got to do

~ Martina Navratilova

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Now I experience the love in everyone I no longer am a person who judges others

for being overweight for being too young or too old for having their hair a certain

way or for how they dress When you judge others you dont define them you

define yourself as someone who needs to judge and compartmentalize people

-Wayne Dyer

The big secret in life is that there is no secret Whatever your goal you can get

there if you are willing to work It is called massive action Action is the gas in the

tank Without it the car will not run

Marcy Blochowiak Author of No Glass Ceiling An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory

-Friedrich Engels

Leaders arent born they are made And they are made just like anything else

through hard work And thats the price well have to pay to achieve that goal or

any goal

Vincent Lombardi

May your trails be crooked winding lonesome dangerous leading to the most

amazing view May your rivers flow without end meandering through pastoral

valleys tinkling with bells past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark

primeval forestdown into a desert of red rock blue mesas domes and pinnacles

and grottos of endless stone And down again into a deep vast ancient unknown

chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs where deer walk across the

white sand beaches where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high

crags until something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than

your deepest dreams waits for you just beyond the next turning of the canyon

walls

-Benedicto by Edward Abbey

An unwritten want is a wish a dream a never-happen The day you put your goal in

writing is the day it becomes a commitment that will change your life Are you

ready

Tom Hopkins Author and Speaker

―Where are you going Who are you looking for Your beloved is right herehellip Cease

looking for flowers there blooms a garden in your own home While you go looking

for trinkets your treasure house awaits you in your own being There is no need

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for suffering God is here

~Rumi Chance favors only the prepared mind

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895 French scientist who developed pasteurization)

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities

enough and if they do not find them they will make them

Samuel Smiles

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen but give us the

determination to make the right things happen

Peter Marshall

If the sky falls hold up your hands

Spanish Proverb

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable but to be certain is to be ridiculous

Chinese Proverb

Knowing is not enough we must apply Willing is not enough we must do

Johann von Goethe

If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is he will not jump If he does

not know how wide it is he will jump and six times out of ten he will make it

Persian Proverb

As I grow to understand life less and less I learn to love it more and more

Jules Renard

The more you praise and celebrate your life the more there is in life to celebrate

Oprah Winfrey (1954- American TV personality producer actress author)

Mind is all that counts You can be whatever you make up your mind to be

Robert Collier

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You dont get to choose how youre going to die Or when You can only decide how

youre going to live Now

Joan Baez Singer Songwriter and Activist The average person goes to their grave with their music still in them

Oliver Wendell Holmes ―Everyone can be great because everyone can serve

- Martin Luther King ―Whatever you can conceive and believe you can achieve

Napoleon Hill We turn not older with years but newer every day

-Emily Dickinson

When reciting affirmations feel the words in your heart as you say them and

know that what you feel youll create

Peggy McColl Author of Relax Your Way to Wealth Everyday life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust

our old programs accordingly

Dr Ann Faraday

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to

get there Then never never never give up

Vincent Peale

We only think when we are confronted with problems

John Dewey (1859-1952 American philosopher educator)

In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain

Pliny The Elder (c23-79 Roman neophatonist)

If your determination is fixed I do not counsel you to despair Few things are

impossible to diligence and skill Great works are performed not by strength but

perseverance

Samuel Johnson

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Dont waste your life in doubts and fears spend yourself on the work before you

well assured that the right performance of this hours duties will be the best

preparation for the hours or ages that follow it

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Poet and Essayist Its nice to know that we dont need to wait till tomorrow we can start to change

the world today

Wil Rose

The good man acts for honors sake and the more so the better he is and acts for

his friends sake and sacrifices his own interest

-Aristotle

In order to excel you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport You

must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism

Without a total 100 percent dedication you wont be able to do this

Willie Mays

Any time you sincerely want to make a change the first thing you must do is to

raise your standards When people ask me what really changed my life eight years

ago I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I

demanded of myself I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my

life all the things I would no longer tolerate and all the things that I aspired to

becoming

Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert

Im a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of

it

Thomas Jefferson

Bring awareness to each act Walking on the road walk fully alert eating eat with

awareness Whatsoever you are doing dont let the past and the future interfere

Be in the present Thats what awareness is all about

~Osho

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There are two dimensions to life and we should be able to touch both

One is like a wave and we call it the historical dimension

The other is like the water and we call it the ultimate dimension or nirvana

We usually touch just the wave but when we discover how to touch the water

we receive the highest fruit that meditation can offer

-Thich Nhat Hanh

Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends

Jacques Delille (1738-1813 French poet

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock the stream always wins -

not through strength but by perseverance

Jackson Brown

When you focus on whats wrong you get more of whats wrong Conversely when

you focus on whats right you get more of whats right

Gina Mollicone-Long Author of the newly released book Think Or Sink

All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave

behind is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into

another

Gail Sheehy (1937- American journalist author)

Anger is one letter away from danger

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Success means having the courage the determination and the will to become the

person you believe you were meant to be

George Sheehan 1918-1993 Physician and Author

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views

so fast as they shall appear to be new views

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 16th American President)

―One ship sails East

And another West

By the self-same winds that blow

lsquoTis the set of the sails

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And not the gales

That tells the way we go

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity Our attitude

toward it Every opportunity has a difficulty and every difficulty has an

opportunity

J Sidlow Baxter 1903-1999 Author and Theologian

If you want to be successful you must either have a chance or take one

Author Unknown

It is common sense to take a method and try it If it fails admit it frankly and try

another But above all try something

Franklin D Roosevelt

It was courage faith endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all

obstacles that built this bridge

~ John J Watson

Past Data should now be the basis of Present Truth Data from a prior time or

experience should always and only be the basis for new questions Always the

treasure should be in the questions not in the answer

-Neale Donald Walsch Even though you may want to move forward in your life you may have one foot on

the brakes In order to be free we must learn how to let go Release the hurt

Release the fear Refuse to entertain your old pain The energy it takes to hang

onto the past is holding you back from a new life What is it you would let go of

today

Mary Manin Morrissey Creator of The Miracle Mastery Conference

It is not what you are called but what you answer to

African Proverb

A failure establishes only this that our determination to succeed was not strong

enough

John Christian Bovee

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If youre not part of a solution youre a part of the problem There is no middle

road I dont think we can destroy the Earth but I think the Earth can destroy

us

-Oh Shinnah

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will

accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop

Robert Hughes

Charity is the spice of riches

Jewish Proverb

If you dont like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and

waiting for you The snake sheds its skin with impunity relying on the same nature

which you rely on

Author Unknown

Its a very funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best

you very often get it

William Somerset Maugham

A leader once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one must

be undaunted when the going gets tough

Ronald Reagan

If I accept you as you are I will make you worse however if I treat you as

though you are what you are capable of becoming I help you become that

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 Author and Philosopher

Every gun that is made every warship launched every rocket signifies in the final

sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed from those who are cold and

not clothed The world in arms is not spending money alone It is spending the

sweat of its laborers the genius of its scientists the hopes of its children

-Dwight D Eisenhower

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Service is nothing but love in work clothes

Author Unknown

A man can do all things if he but wills them

Leon Battista Alberti

A crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk just a

tinkling cymbal where there is not love

Francis Bacon 17th Century English Lord Chancellor philosopher and author

The only way to have a friend is to be one

Ralph Waldo Emerson 19th Century American author and poet

Its not what you do once in a while its what you do day in and day out that

makes the difference

Jenny Craig Diet Specialist

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on

the labors of other men living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to

give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving

Albert Einstein (1879-1955 German-born American physicist)

A resolute determination is the truest wisdom

Napoleon I

Without consistency there is no moral strength

Author Unknown

See first that the design is wise and just that ascertained pursue it resolutely

William Shakespeare

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

-Dale Carnegie

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself

William Penn (1644-1718 British religious leader founder of Pennsylvania)

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How we think shows through in how we act Attitudes are mirrors of the mind

They reflect thinking

David J Schwartz Trainer and Author

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but

to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment

Dorothy Nevill

Vision is freely given to those who ask to see

-Course in Miracles

Tough times never last but tough people do

Dr Robert Schuller

A sure way to lose happiness I found is to want it at the expense of everything

else

Bette Davis (1908-1989 American actress producer)

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything

Alexander Hamilton

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference He has

it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter

Norman Cousins (1915-1990 American editor humanitarian author)

The practice of medicine is an art not a trade a calling not a business a calling in

which your heart will be exercised equally with your head Often the best part of

your work will have nothing to do with powders or potions

-Sir William Osler

Strength does not come from physical capacity It comes from an indomitable

will

~ Mahatma Gandhi

―You dont love someone for their looks or their clothes or for their fancy car

but because they sing a song only you can hear

Anon

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―They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever

Oscar Wilde

―Love is like a friendship caught on fire In the beginning a flame very pretty

often hot and fierce but still only light and flickering As love grows older our

hearts mature and our love becomes as coals deep-burning and unquenchable

Bruce Lee

―Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty

John Finely

―It takes a lot of understanding time and trust to gain a close friendship with

someone As I approach a time of my life of complete uncertainty my friends are

my most precious asset

Anon

―Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process

Harold S Geneen People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest

- Hermann Hesse 1877-1962 Civilization is a method of living an attitude of equal respect for all men

- Jane Addams 1860-1935 The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next

- Matthew Arnold 1822-1888

Vacillating people seldom succeed Successful men and women are very careful in

reaching their decisions and very persistent and determined in action thereafter

~ L G Elliott

Those with goals tend to succeed because they are focused and know where they

are going while those without goals do not

Ted Karam Author from his new book Jumping On Water Awaken Your Joy - Empower Your Life

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Every time you go out on the ice there are slight flaws You can always think of

something you should have done better These are the things you must work on

Dorothy Hamill (1956- American figure skater)

Until you make the unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it

fate

~ Carl Jung When you speak of someone or about someone you should speak as though they

were in the room with you The ears that you speak to today are attached to the

mouth that could relay the message tomorrow

William Biddy Allen 1903-2001 Bus Driver - Loving father of 7 children

It is no failure to fall short of realizing all that we might dream The failure is to

fall short of dreaming all that we might realize

-Dee Hock When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they

are regarded by others let them reflect how little they have contributed to the

happiness of others

Author Unknown

I have become my own version of an optimist If I cant make it through one door

Ill go through another door - or Ill make a door Something terrific will come no

matter how dark the present

~ Rabindranath Tagore

―The present moment

contains past and future

The secret of transformation

is in the way we handle this very moment

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926 - present Vietnamese Buddhist monk)

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―Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it Do not believe in

anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many Do not believe in

anything simply because it is found written in your religious books Do not believe in

anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders Do not believe in

traditions because they have been handed down for many generations But after

observation and analysis when you find that anything agrees with reason and is

conducive to the good and benefit of one and all then accept it and live up to it

Buddha (Founder of Buddhism 568 - 488 BC) I try to avoid looking forward or backward and try to keep looking upward

Charlotte Bronte

Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action for all eternity

Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801 Theologian

There is only one duty only one safe course and that is to try to be right

Winston Churchill (1874-1965 British statesman Prime Minister)

We are born at a given moment in a given place and like vintage years of wine we

have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born Astrology

does not lay claim to anything more

-Carl Jung

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them One is more

delightful for being told one is delightful -- just as one is angrier for being told

one is angry

Katherine F Gerould

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread they can sure make something out

of you

~ Muhammed Ali Beware of the thoughts you keep because everything in reality manifests from

the mind

Justin Palmer Second Year College Student

Confess you were wrong yesterday it will show you are wise today

Author Unknown

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We must accept finite disappointment but we must never lose infinite hope

~ Martin Luther King Jr

In the beginning the Universe was created

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move

-Douglas Adams

Any individual can be in time what he earnestly desires to be if he but set his

face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing and bring all his powers to bear

upon its attainment

Herman J Randall

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world

~ Helen Keller Many of lifes failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success

when they gave up

~ Thomas Edison

When you give your undivided attention to something there is a softening and

opening in the listener that allows access to the meaning underneath the words

-Betty Burkes

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they

are about to change the world I am more awed by those who struggle to make one

small difference

Ellen Goodman Journalist

If you look into your own heart you find nothing wrong there what is there to

fear

Confucius (BC 551-479 Chinese ethical teacher philosopher) Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls

~ Mother Teresa What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self-

conceit For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he

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already knows

- Epictetus 55 AD-135 AD

There are admirable potentialities in every human being Believe in your strength

and your youth Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself It all depends on me

- Andre Gide 1869-1951

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage

- Anais Nin 1903-1977 Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in

other areas But can it really True effectiveness requires balance

~ Stephen Covey

I dont pay good wages because I have a lot of money I have a lot of money

because I pay good wages

- Robert Bosch Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do

the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not it is

the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a mans training

begins it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly

Thomas H Huxley 1825-1895 Biologist

The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have and to be able

to lose all desire for things beyond your reach

Yutang Lin (1895-1976 Chinese writer and philologist)

Men are failures not because they are stupid but because they are not

sufficiently impassioned

Struther Burt

If you look at what you have in life youll always have more If you look at what

you dont have in life youll never have enough

Oprah Winfrey Television Host Producer and Philanthropist

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Im trying not to look too far ahead All Im thinking is one shot at a time one hole

at a time and thats what I want to keep doing

Michelle McGann

I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed but the spirit in

which we face them that constitutes our comfort

-Elizabeth T King My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content

with your failure

~ Abraham Lincoln

―There is nothing but love and all else is illusion

- Dr John Demartini There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer no disease that enough

love will not heal no door that enough love will not open

- Emmet Fox

All my limitations are self-imposed and my liberation can only come from true self-

love

- Max C Robinson

We fail to see that we can control our own destiny make ourselves do whatever is

possible make ourselves become whatever we long to be

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine )

To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will

~ Sugar Ray Robinson 1920-1989 Boxer

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall

Confucius

Half the people you know are above average

-Steven Wright

Your close relationships are either a catalyst for manifesting what you really

want or theyre a hindrance to your manifestation If you truly value the power of

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love in your life you owe it to yourself to discover how to tap into the power of

your relationship as a force for manifestation

Drs Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up Even when they do it is not

perfect and they sigh for more and lose better things in struggling for them

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888 American author )

One is not idle because one is absorbed There is both visible and invisible labor To

contemplate is to toil to think is to do The crossed arms work the clasped hands

act The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation

Victor Hugo (1802-1885 French poet dramatist novelist)

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of

greed in the headlines

-Charles Kuralt

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our

focus we never concentrate our power Most people dabble their way through life

never deciding to master anything in particular

Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)

In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time

~ Anthony J DAngelo

Courage comes from wanting to do it well Security comes from knowing you can do

it well Confidence comes from having done it well

~ Author Unknown

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel

Napoleon Hill

There is a true genius in everyone But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a

tree it would never stop doubting itself

~ Einstein~

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People ask for criticism but they only want praise

- W Somerset Maugham 1874-1965 Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts for if

you let it pass the desire may never return and you may remain in ignorance

- William Wirt 1772-1834 Cynicism is not realistic and tough Its unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it

means you dont have to try

- Peggy Noonan 1950-present There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into

gear

David Mahoney Executive and Philanthropist You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences

W Somerset Maugham (1874-1965 British novelist playwright)

Dont ask yourself what the world needs Ask yourself what makes you come alive

and then go and do that Because what the world needs are people who have come

alive

~ Howard Thurman When a great moment knocks on the door of your life it is often no louder than

the beating of your heart and it is very easy to miss it -Boris Pasternak Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure

~ Thomas Alva Edison

To be successful you have to have your heart in your business and your business in

your heart

- Thomas Watson Sr Begin challenging your own assumptions Your assumptions are your windows on the

world Scrub them off every once and a while or the light wont come in

Alan Alda Actor Writer and Director

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I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most

argumentative

Giovani della Casa (1503-1556 Papal secretary of state)

Have you ever felt like you wanted to go but you felt like you wanted to stay

- Song Lyric Jimmy Durante

To live is the rarest thing in the world most people exist that is all

~ Oscar Wilde

Awareness is like a beam of light that shines endlessly into space We only

perceive that light when it is reflected off some object and consciousness is

producedAwareness is the light by which we see the worldWe mistake the clear

light of pure awareness for the shadows that it casts in consciousnessWe forget

that we are the light itself and imagine that we are the densities that reflect the

light back to us

-Stephen Levine Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal

Albert Camus (1913-1960 French existential writer) The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation

Mark Twain

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn Our rewards

will always be in exact proportion to our service

Earl Nightingale 1921-1989 Author of The Strangest Secret

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he

knows where he is going

Napoleon Hill

Wisdom tells me I am nothing

Love tells me I am everything

And between the two my life flows

-Nisargadatta Maharaj

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No employer today is independent of those about him He cannot succeed alone no

matter how great his ability or capital Business today is more than ever a question

of cooperation

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)

Shoot for the moon Even if you miss youll land among the stars

Les Brown

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world

Joseph Addison (1672-1719 British essayist poet statesman)

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a

fate that falls on man unless they act

~ G K Chesterton

Find something positive to think about and dont let the conversation in your head

end with a negative comment Always end on a positive comment

Dr Tomi Bryan and Dr Jerry White From their latest release The 5 Keys To The Great Life

Whales do not sing because they have a message They sing because they have a

song

-Ashes and Snow

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life

- Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956

Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though

checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor

suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor

defeat

- Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting

- Stanislaw Leszczynski 1677-1766

There is no joy in getting by on your job - doing as little as you can There is a

LOT of pleasure in doing more than you have to And whosoever shall compel you

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to go a mile go with him twain says the Bible wisely

-Norman Carlisle

We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once

Calvin Coolidge

The starting point of all achievement is desire Keep this constantly in mind Weak

desires bring weak results just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat

Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think and Grow Rich

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me

instead of looking within myself to see what was there

Belle Livingstone

Rather than thinking if and when start doing take action stop talking about if

and when

~ Catherine Pulsifer

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity -

Ayn Rand

Being a man or indeed being human is not something for which one should

apologize but something to which one should aspire and with all the gusto he can

muster

-- David Cunningham

The question isnt who is going to let me its who is going to stop me

- Howard Roark The Fountainhead 1943

I am the Master of my Fate Captain of my Soul

-- W E Henley

Whatever you can do or dream you can begin it

Boldness has genius power and magic in it

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me

instead of looking within myself to see what was there

Belle Livingstone

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality order

and diligence without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a

time

Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Novelist

The path to success is to take massive determined action

Anthony Robbins

All of the significant battles are waged within the self

Sheldon Kopp (1929- American psychologist)

Follow effective action with quiet reflection From the quiet reflection will come

even more effective action

~ Peter F Drucker

Dont be dismayed at good-byes

A farewell is necessary before you can meet again

And meeting again after moments or lifetimes

is certain for those who are friends

-Richard Bach

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual

sense of humor

Thomas W Higginson 1823-1911 Minister Abolitionist and Author

When performance exceeds ambition the overlap is called success

Cullen Hightower

Well done is better than well said

Benjamin Franklin

The first and the best victory is to conquer self

Plato (BC 427-347 Greek philosopher)

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Man is what he believes

-Anton Chekhov One half of life is luck the other half is discipline - and thats the important half

for without discipline you wouldnt know what to do with luck

Carl Zuckmeyer 1896-1977 Writer and Playwright

Try and fail but dont fail to try

~ Stephen Kaggwa

I believe that one of the greatest gifts we have been given is our imagination It

costs nothing to access is available 247 and is our doorway to freedom With

imagination we have inside of us the most amazing ability to change our state and

transform our life in a moment

~ Veronica Hay The world is full of abundance and opportunity but far too many people come to

the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car a teaspoon instead of a

steam shovel They expect little and as a result they get little

Ben Sweetland Author of I Will Blessed is the person who sees the need recognizes the responsibility and actively

becomes the answer

William A Ward

I am not a mechanism an assembly of various sections

And it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly that I am ill

I am ill because of wounds to the soul to the deep emotional self

And the wounds to the soul take a long long time only time can help

And patience and a certain difficult repentance

Long difficult repentance realization on lifes mistake and the freeing of oneself

From the endless repetition of the mistake

Which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify

-D H Lawrence

Victory belongs to the most persevering

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Gratitude opens doors It paves the way to abundance and prosperity like nothing

else

It can line your pockets with gold and fill your bank account quicker than a New

York minute

Yet how many of you are living from a thankful heart each day

~Veronica Hay Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe

Bruce Springsteen You gain strength and courage and confidence by each experience in which we

really stop to look fear in the face You must do that which we think we cannot

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 Social Activist and First Lady of the United States

Dont let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you Instead give to

yourself that which empowers you

Les Brown (1945- American speaker author trainer motivator)

―The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having

new eyes

~ Marcel Proust

―Then your light shall break forth like the dawn and your healing shall spring up

quickly

~ Isaiah 588

―And your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music

from it or confused sounds

mdash Kahlil Gibran

In every life the most important change is self-change -- and in every situation

the principles are the same

- J Kingston Cowart

It takes courage to lead a life Any life

Erica Jong

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Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time

-Ken Wilber

Peoples tendency towards good is as waters tendency is to flow downhill

Mencius When I let go of what I am I become what I might be

~ Lao Tsu

The higher my rank the more humbly I behave The greater my power the less I

exercise it The richer my wealth the more I give away Thus I avoid respectively

envy and spite and misery

~ Sun Shu Ao

There is no greater happiness than freedom from worry and there is no greater

wealth than contentment

~Lao Tsu

Failure lies not in falling down Failure lies in not getting up

~ Chinese proverb

A meal however simple is a moment of intersection It is at once the most basic

the most fundamental of our lifes activities maintaining the life of our bodies

Shared with others it can be an occasion of joy and communion uniting people

deeply

~ Elise Boulding The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms

-- Socrates You are never going to get it all done - you just wont Rather you will find order

and peace in your workday if you accept it and then do one more thing Implement

a system that consistently shows you whats most critical at any moment what to

do after the critical and where to find everything else when you need to That

system is not hard - its quite simple to set up

Michael Linenberger From Master Your Workday Now Check out his book and bonuses

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Time is limited so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have

just one chance to live this particular day right and to string my days together

into a life of action and purpose

Lance Armstrong 7-Time Winner of the Tour de France

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value

Albert Einstein

We have contributed each in the time allotted us our endeavors to render a

permanent blessing to our country

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826 Third American President)

If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost that is where they

should be Now put foundations under them

~ Henry David Thoreau

If you didnlsquot musterbate then you wouldnlsquot awfulize terribilize

catastrophize say ―I canlsquot stand it and put yourself down

If you only stuck with ―Ilsquod like very much to do well but I never

have to you wouldnlsquot then disturb yourself hellip musterbation is

evil and pernicious

- Albert Ellis

There are 2 theories to arguing with a womanneither works

-Will Rogers

Dont tell me that worry doesnt do any good said the over-worked executive I

know better The things I worry about never happen

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Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were

innocent Anger is natural Grief is appropriate Healing is mandatory Restoration

is possible

~ Jane Rubietta

Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can

~ Richard Bach

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Inspiration and genius--one and the same

~ Victor Hugo

It is important to acknowledge a mistake instantly correct it and learn from it

That literally turns a failure into a success Success is on the far side of failure

TJ Watson 1874-1956 Founder if IBM

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of

inspiration

~ George Eliot

Trust your hunches Theyre usually based on facts filed away just below the

conscious level

Dr Joyce Brothers Psychologist and Television Personality Every artist was first an amateur

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a

true master For this reason mastery demands all of a person

Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Theoretical Physicist Philosopher and Author In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain

Pliny The Elder (c23-79 Roman neophatonist)

The more difficulties one has to encounter within and without the more

significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be

Horace Bushnell

If the sky falls hold up your hands

Spanish Proverb

Begin with the end in mind

Stephen Covey

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good try to use ordinary

situations

- Jean Paul Richter 1763-1825 German Novelist

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No great man ever complains of want of opportunities

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If people knew how hard I worked to gain my mastery it wouldnt seem so

wonderful

Michelangelo 1475-1564 Painter Sculptor and Architect

We only think when we are confronted with problems

John Dewey (1859-1952 American philosopher educator)

Men do less than they ought unless they do all they can

~ Thomas Carlyle

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex It takes a touch of

genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction

~Albert Einstein

―Ecstasy is your very nature not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary

~Osho

The quieter you can become the more youre able to hear

~Chinese Proverb

The only real valuable thing is intuition

~ Albert Einstein

To be ecstatic is natural spontaneous It needs no effort to be ecstatic it needs

great effort to be miserable

~Osho

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight

Anita DeFrantz Olympic Rower Everyday life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust

our old programs accordingly

Dr Ann Faraday

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I live my life in widening circles

that reach out across the world

I may not ever complete the last one

But I give myself to it

I have been circling for thousands of years

And I still dont know

Am I a falcon a storm or a great song

-Rilke

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to

make them come true

~ Leon J Suenes

Dont be a cynic and disconsolate preacher Dont bewail and moan Omit the

negative propositions Challenge us with incessant affirmatives Dont waste

yourself in rejection or bark against the bad but chant the beauty of the good

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once whether

youre ready or not to put it into action

Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author

Fall seven times stand up eight

Japanese proverb

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars

or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven

to the human spirit

~ Helen Keller

Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends

Jacques Delille (1738-1813 French poet)

First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have

to do

Epictetus

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to

make them come true

Leon J Suenes

If you would create something you must be something

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Stay together friends

Dont scatter and sleep

Our friendship is made

Of being awake

The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away weeping

That way it stays in the garden whereas another roundness rolls

through a dry riverbed looking for what it thinks it wants

Stay here quivering with each moment like a drop of mercury

-Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives as parallel realities It is

always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend when we choose not

to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance

thats present love health family friends work the joys of nature and personal

pursuits that bring us pleasure the wasteland of illusion falls away and we

experience heaven on earth

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach Any time you sincerely want to make a change the first thing you must do is to

raise your standards When people ask me what really changed my life eight years

ago I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I

demanded of myself I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my

life all the things I would no longer tolerate and all the things that I aspired to

becoming

~ Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert) Its nice to know that we dont need to wait till tomorrow we can start to change

the world today

~ Wil Rose

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A bird doesnt sing because it has an answer it sings because it has a song

~ Maya Angelou

Great minds have purposes little minds have wishes Little minds are subdued by

misfortunes great minds rise above them

~ Washington Irving

Step by step I cant think of any other way of accomplishing anything

~ Michael Jordan

If you employed study thinking and planning time daily you could develop and use

the power that can change the course of your destiny

~ W Clement Stone

We are called to speak for the weak for the voiceless for victims of our nation

and for those it calls enemy for no document from human hands can make these

humans any less than our brothers

-Dr Martin Luther King Jr

Disposal of hazardous wastes is not the root problem Rather it is the root

symptom

-Hawken Paul There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the

things we do

Freya Stark

Try a little harder to be a little better

Gordon B Hinckley

If you love something and stick with it you will get phenomenal results

Bob Proctor

You can chain me you can torture me you can even destroy this body but you will

never imprison my mind

Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Political and Spiritual Leader

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Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and

triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friends forehead

Chinese Proverb Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs

Michael Levine

Nurture your mind with great thoughts To believe in the heroic makes heroes

Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881 British Prime Minister The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your

blueprint or plan Strategies are like recipes choose the right ingredients mix

them in the correct proportions and you will always produce the same predictable

results

~ Charles J Givens

More than anything else I believe its our decisions not the conditions of our

lives that determine our destiny

Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)

Happy the manwoman who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his

wishes and his powers

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I hope that my achievements in life shall be these that I will have fought for what

was right and fair that I will have risked for that which mattered and that I will

have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better

place for what Ive done and who Ive been

~ C Hoppe

The vision that you glorify in your mind the ideal that you enthrone in your heart

this you will build your life by and this you will become

James Allen

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Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony

Gandhi

There never was a time when in my opinion some way could not be found to

prevent the drawing of the sword

-General Grant To be a warrior

is to be genuine

in every moment of your life

-Chogyam Trungpa Im convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs

from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance

- Steve Jobs Regret for wasted time is more wasted time

Mason Cooley

Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow

Les Brown (1945- American speaker author trainer motivator)

More than anything else I believe its our decisions not the conditions of our

lives that determine our destiny

Anthony Robbins Author and Speaker

Material possessions will rust away wear away or depreciate but your inner

resources character must never depreciate In seeking success you must also seek

fulfillment Ask yourself not only what you want to be but who you want to be

~ Elizabeth Dole Anything in life that we dont accept will simply make trouble for us until we make

peace with it

~ Shakti Gawain

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious

stupidity

-Dr Martin Luther King Jr

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Real integrity is doing the right thing knowing that nobodys going to know

whether you did it or not

Oprah Winfrey Talk Show Host Producer and Philanthropist

If you must begin then go all the way because if you begin and quit the unfinished

business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time

Chogyam Trungpa

I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career I have lost almost 300 games

On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot and I

missed I have failed over and over and over again in my life And thats precisely

why I succeedcc

~ Michael Jordan

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what

they most enjoy

~ Malcolm Forbes

Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future

Paul Boese Botanist

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons

determination

Tommy Lasorda (1927- American baseball manager) I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more

~ Dr Jonas Salk The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame

Rod Steiger

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul

~ Marcus Aurelius

The best way

to make your dreams come true

is to wake up

-Kabir

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You can do what you have to do and sometimes you can do it even better than you

think you can

Jimmy Carter (1924- American President (39th)) ―If you create an act you create a habit If you create a habit you create a

character If you create a character you create a destiny

ndash Andre Maurois They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them

feel

~ Carl W Buechner When you affirm big believe big and pray big putting faith into action big things

happen

Dr Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993 Preacher and Author You never will be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are taken

out of your life

~ James G Bilkey

In every difficult situation is potential value Believe this then begin looking for it

Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993 American Christian reformed pastor speaker author)

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832 German poet dramatist novelist)

Being vulnerable doesnt have to be threatening Just have the courage to be

sincere open and honest This opens the door to deeper communication all around

It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want

in life Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us These

secrets are what make us sick or fearful Speaking truth helps you get clarity on

your real heart directives

-Sara Paddison

The best thing to spend on your children is your time

~ Louise Hart

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The best things come to those who wait

- Unknown

Ask five economists and youll get five different explanations six if one went to

Harvard

~ Edgar R Fiedler There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through

encouragement from someone else I dont care how great how famous or

successful a man or woman may be each hungers for applause

~ George M Adams Do not fear death fear the unlived life

Natalie Babbitt Leadership is no longer about your position Its now more about your passion for

excellence and making a difference You can lead without a title

Robin Sharma

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back The great champions have

all come back from defeat

Sam Snead (1912-2002 American golfer)

What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision

-Helen Keller The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement

Yet almost no one gets the encouragement they need

to grow to their full potential If everyone received the

encouragement they need to grow the genius in most

everyone would blossom and the world would produce

abundance beyond the wildest dreams We would have

more than one Einstein Edison Schweitzer Mother

Theresa Dr Salk and other great minds in a century

~Sidney Madwed

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Dont build your happiness on someone elses unhappiness

~ Richard Rose

―The mind turned inwards is the Self turned outwards it becomes the ego and all

the world

~ Ramana Maharshi

Somewhere there is someone who dreams of your smile and finds in your presence

that life is worthwhile

So when you are lonely remember its true somebody somewhere is thinking of

you

~ Anon

If youre open to altering your plans a bit you might achieve even better results

than youd anticipated

Peggy McColl A strong passion for any object will ensure success for the desire of the end will

point out the means

William Hazlitt (1778-1830 British essayist)

Successful people dont do different things they just do things differently

- Unknown You never will be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are

taken out of your life

James G Bilkey Author

Dreams do come true if we only wish hard enough You can have anything in life if

you will sacrifice everything else for it

James M Barrie (1860-1937 British playwright)

Seven blunders of the world

that lead to violence

wealth without work

pleasure without conscience

knowledge without character

commerce without morality

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science without humanity

worship without sacrifice

politics without principle

-Mahatma Gandhi

When people speak of prosperity they generally mean success and measure it in

terms of financial abundance There are books seminars and training sessions

designed to help individuals to be prosperous Clearly many are seeking the path to

prosperity Ironically when one is seeking prosperity the message they give to

themselves and the universe is that they do not have enough This is a scarcity

mentality and tends only to manifest more scarcity

~ Gwen Randall Young Money makes money and the money makes more money

~ Benjamin Franklin

BE the change you wish to see in the world

- Ghandhi The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched

They must be felt with the heart

~ Hellen Keller

Understanding does not cure evil but it is a definite help inasmuch as one can cope

with a comprehensible darkness

-Carl Jung

You are not powerless about anything

When you get a vision and then find

alignment with it you ARE powerful

And then amazing things begin to

happen around you

- Abraham-Hicks

Be kind whenever possible It is always possible

~ Dalai Lama

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A consistent soul believes in destiny a capricious one in chance

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881 British statesman Prime Minister)

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots

George Herbert (1593-1632 British metaphysical poet)

It is not the greatness of a mans means that makes him independent so much as

the smallness of his wants

William Cobbett (1762-1835 British journalist reformer)

If you desire many things many things will seem few

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790 American scientist publisher diplomat) Its the little things you do that can make a big difference What are you

attempting to accomplish What little thing can you do today that will make you

more effective You are probably only one step away from greatness

Bob Proctor Author and Speaker You may delay but time will not and lost time is never found again

~ Benjamin Franklin

Procrastination is the seed of self-destruction

~ Matthew Burton

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light

~ Helen Keller

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength

~ Sigmund Freud

Blessed are those that can give without remembering and take without

forgetting

~ Liz Bebesco Waiting is a trap There will always be reasons to wait

The truth is there are only two things in life reasons and results and reasons

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simply dont count

~ Dr Robert Anthony

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become

wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing The long

term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their

Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed

~ Srully Blotnick

If now there is something you

choose to experience in your life

do not want it -- choose it

Do you choose success in worldly

terms Do you choose more money

Good Then choose it Really

Fully Not half-heartedly

- Conversations with God Book 1

Its a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best you

very often get it

-Somerset Maugham

A world of abundance surrounds you if only you will step up and claim it Make life

happen through you rather than letting it happen to you It will make all the

difference in the world

- Ralph Marston Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving

it

~ William Arthur Ward

We must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible

otherwise we would not continue to search

-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Prosperity consciousness is the awareness that all of us have something of value

to offer and we all deserve to get paid for what we provide to others

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Peggy McColl Author of Viral Explosions Proven Techniques to Expand Explode or Ignite Your Business Or Brand Online Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying

~ Christian Furchtegott Gellert

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it

- Lou Holtz Procrastination is opportunitys natural assassin

~ Victor Kiam Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough

- Og Mandino 1923-1996 American Motivational Author and Speaker When you judge others you do not define them you define yourself

~ Earl Nightingale

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly

~ Richard Bach

If you tell the truth you dont have to remember anything

-Mark Twain

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity

belonging to them

William Hazlitt (1778-1830 British essayist)

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back The great champions

have all come back from defeat

Sam Snead 1912-2002 Golfer Faith is the assurance of things hoped for

- Unknown

The mediocre teacher tells The good teacher explains The superior teacher

demonstrates The great teacher inspires

~ William A Ward

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Never complain and never explain

~ --Benjamin Disraeli

Bless a thing and it will bless you Curse it and it will curse you If you bless a

situation it has no power to hurt you

Emmet Fox 1886-1951 Spiritual Leader Man alone has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man

alone can dream and make his dreams come true

Napoleon Hill (1883-1970 American speaker author Think And Grow Rich) Without AMBITION one starts nothing Without WORK one finishes nothing

The prize will NOT be sent to you You have to WIN it

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is to try to please

everyone

- Bill Cosby What we leave behind is not engraved in stone monuments but woven into the lives

of others

~ Pericles The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of

being unwanted

~ Mother Teresa (1910-1997 Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary)

Tough times never last Tough people do

-Robert Schuller

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions

- Eric Butterworth

A fellow at one of my workshops confessed For years I was so miserable that I

prayed to God daily to let me wake up as happy as my dog I went home and

thought about it Am I as happy as my dog Hmmmm

~ Alan Cohen

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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future You must break out of

your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the

unknown

Denis Waitley Author and Speaker

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us

William Feather (1888-19 American writer businessman )

It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow but only

empties today of its strength

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892 Preacher

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win by fearing to

attempt

William Shakespeare (1564-1616 British poet playwright actor)

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future You must break out of

your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the

unknown

Denis Waitley (1933- American author speaker trainer peak performance expert)

Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as

it should There are no mistakes anywhere at any time What appears to be wrong

is simply your own false imagination Thats all

~Robert Adams

How many ideas have there been in history that were unthinkable ten years

before they appeared

~Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Life in itself is an empty canvas it becomes whatsoever you paint on it You can

paint misery you can paint bliss This freedom is your glory

~Osho

―Cease trying to work everything out with your minds it will get you nowhere Live

instead by intuition and inspiration let your whole life become a revelation

~Eileen Caddy

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People should appreciate ugliness because if it wasnt for ugliness beautiful

things wouldnt look beautiful

~ Sam Lau

No great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig If

you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time Let it first

blossom then bear fruit then ripen

~Epictetus

You are the Self that perfect immutable Self Nothing else exists Nothing else

ever existed Nothing else will ever exist There is only one Self and you are That

Rejoice

~Robert Adams

Part of being a champ is acting like a champ You have to learn how to win and not

run away when you lose Everyone has bad stretches and real successes Either way

you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get too confident

~ Nancy Kerrigan

Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they

have deep inside them - a desire a dream a vision

~ Muhammad Ali

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents works his tail off to

develop them into skills and uses these skills to accomplish his goals

~ Larry Bird

Every time you smile at someone it is an action of love a gift to that person a

beautiful thing

-Mother Teresa

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end Its not a day when you

lounge around doing nothing its when youve had everything to do and youve done

it

-Lord Acton

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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do

- Walter Bagehot

Only the weak are cruel Gentleness can only be expected from the strong

~ Leo Buscaglia

If you are too busy to spend time with your children then you are busier than God

intended you to be

~ Rabbi Mendel Epstein

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards

~ Soren Kierkegaard

Procrastination is the fear of success People procrastinate because they are

afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now Because

success is heavy carries a responsibility with it it is much easier to procrastinate

and live on the someday Ill philosophy

~ Denis Waitley

Happiness cannot come from without It must come from within

~ Helen Keller

I make occasional visits to reality But Im not a full- time resident

-Ashleigh Brilliant

People are like sticks of dynamite The power is on the inside but nothing happens

until the fuse gets lit

Mac Anderson Author Are you disappointed discouraged and discontented with your present level of

success Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present status Do you want to

become a better and more beautiful person than you are today Would you like to

be able to really learn how to be proud of yourself and still not lose genuine

humility Then start dreaming Itlsquos possible You can become the person you have

always wanted to be

Robert H Schuller (1926- American minister author social leader)

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You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant

aspiration

- James Allen 1864-1912 Author of As A Man Thinketh

The man who has done his best has done everything

~ Charles Schwab Though no one can go back and make a brand new start anyone can start from now

and make a brand new ending

~ Carl Bard

When I get ready to talk to people I spend two thirds of the time thinking what

they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say

Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 16th President of the United States Discontent is the first necessity of progress

Thomas A Edison (1847-1931 American inventor founder of GE)

You dont get to choose how youre going to die Or when You can only decide how

youre going to live - now

- Joan Baez Singer Songwriter

Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as

it should There are no mistakes anywhere at any time What appears to be wrong

is simply your own false imagination Thats all You are the Self that perfect

immutable Self Nothing else exists Nothing else ever existed Nothing else will

ever exist There is only one Self and you are That Rejoice

~Robert Adams If your dream is a big dream and if you want your life to work on the high level

that you say you do theres no way around doing the work it takes to get you

there

~ Joyce Chapman We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an

imperfect person perfectly

~ Sam Keen

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―A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe a part limited in time

and space He experiences himself his thoughts and feeling as something

separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness This

delusion is a kind of prison for us restricting us to our personal desires and to

affection for a few persons nearest to us Our task must be to free ourselves from

this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and

the whole of nature in its beauty

-- Albert Einstein

―Each contact with a human being is so rare so precious one should preserve it

- Anais Nin

―Only connect That was the whole of her sermon Only connect the prose and the

passion and both will be exalted and human love will be seen at its height Live in

fragments no longer Only connect

-- EM Forster

―Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the

self And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our

connectedness to others

-- Harriet Goldhor Lerner

―And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to

do the same As we are liberated from our fear our presence automatically

liberates others

-- Marianne Williamson

No no we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like

waters and righteousness like a mighty stream

Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968 American Civil Rights leader Nobel Prize winner 964)

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a

very long time

~ Andre Gide (1869-1951 French author)

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Write down the thoughts of the moment Those that come unsought for are

commonly the most valuable

Francis Bacon 1561-1626 Philosopher Statesman Scientist and Author

A woman should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart and set out to

accomplish it Even if she fails again and again to accomplish her purpose (as she

necessarily must until weakness is overcome) the strength of character gained will

be the measure of her true success and this will form a new starting point for

future power and triumph

~ James Allen

To be blind is bad but worse is to have eyes and not see

~ Helen Keller

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning

to see an imperfect person perfectly

` Sam Keen

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start anyone can

start from now and make a brand new ending

` Carl Bard Always make a total effort even when the odds are against you

Arnold Palmer (1929- American golfer)

Learning is finding out what you already know Doing is demonstrating that you

know it Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you You are

all learners doers teachers

Richard Bach (1936- American author)

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day

Jenner Bruce 1949- American track athlete author speaker

Doubt whom you will but never yourself

John Christian Bovee (1820-1904 American author lawyer)

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When you give someone a book you dont give him just paper ink and glue You

give him the possibility of a whole new life

Christopher Morley 1890-1957 Novelist Journalist and Poet

Dont be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality If you can dream

it you can make it so

Belva Davis Award-Winning Journalist

The secret of mans being is not only to live but to have something to live for

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose

Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity and high purpose by itself is

utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Watch your thoughts they become words

Watch your words they become actions

Watch your actions they become habits

Watch your habits they become character

Watch your character it becomes your destiny

~ Frank Outlaw

Take good care of your future because thats where youre going to spend the

rest of your life

~ Charles F Kettering

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams

John Barrymore

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground

Stephen Covey

Its never too late to be what you might have been

George Elliot

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Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder

than anything we can say

Wilfred Peterson

True peace is not merely the absence of some negative force - tension confusion

or war it is the presence of some positive force - justice good will and

brotherhood

-Martin Luther King Jr

The important thing in this world is not where we stand but in what direction we

move

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing Action always

generates inspiration Inspiration seldom generates action

-Frank Tibolt

The only way to eliminate waris to love our children more than we hate our enemies

-Golda Meir

It has never been and never will be easy work But the road that is built in hope

is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they

both lead to the same destination

~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

And in the end its not the years in your life that count Its the life in your

years

~ Abraham Lincoln

Hold your head high stick your chest out You can make it It gets dark

sometimes but morning comes Keep hope alive

~ Jesse Jackson

Set your sights high the higher the better Expect the most wonderful things to

happen not in the future but right now Realize that nothing is too good Allow

absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way

Eileen Caddy Author

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To understand the heart and mind of a person look not at what he has already

achieved but at what he aspires to do

Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931 Lebanese poet novelist )

Bring everything up to the surface Accept your humanity your animality

Whatsoever is there accept it without any condemnation Acceptance is

transformation because through acceptance awareness becomes possible

~Osho

What is the best thing about being 100 years old Lack of peer pressure

-Michael Pritchard

The more credit you give away the more will come back to you The more you help

others the more they will want to help you

~ Brian Tracy

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact

~ William James

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes Chance nature

compulsions habit reason passion desire

~ Aristotle When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth think of Algebra

-Will Rogers

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say Yes Ive got

dreams of course Ive got dreams Then they put the box away and bring it out

once in a while to look in it and yep theyre still there These are great dreams

but they never even get out of the box It takes an uncommon amount of guts to

put your dreams on the line to hold them up and say How good or how bad am I

Thats where courage comes in

~ Erma Bombeck

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You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really

stop to look fear in the face You must do the thing which you think you cannot

do

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you love the money will follow

Marsha Sinetar (American author To Build The Life You Want Create The Work You Love)

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement we must choose freedom and the

responsibility this entails

Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998 American expert on love lecturer author)

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt and the dream will take care of

itself You may be surprised at how easily this happens Your doubts are not as

powerful as your desires unless you make them so

Marcia Wieder (American speaker trainer author)

I work every day -- or at least I force myself into my office or room I may get

nothing done but you dont earn bonuses without putting in time Nothing may

come for three months but you dont earn the fourth without it

Mordecai Richler (1931- Canadian writer)

If things are not going well with you begin your effort at correcting the situation

by carefully examining the service you are rendering and especially the spirit in

which you are rendering it

Roger Babson 1875-1967 Statistician and Columnist Its simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about

what the other fellow is going to do

- John R Amos

All beings are from the very beginning Buddhas

~ Hakuin

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly

or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man

~Chang Tzu

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The important thing is not to stop questioning Curiosity has its own reason for

existing One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of

eternity of life of the marvelous structure of reality It is enough if one tries

merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day Never lose a holy

curiosity

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Expect your every need to be met expect the answer to every problem expect

abundance on every level expect to grow spiritually You are not living by human

laws Expect miracles and see them take place Hold ever before you the thought

of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will

bring it into being

~Eileen Caddy

Bring everything up to the surface Accept your humanity your animality

Whatsoever is there accept it without any condemnation Acceptance is

transformation because through acceptance awareness becomes possible

~Osho

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who

keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road

Dag Hammarskjold 1905-1961 Statesman and Secretary-General of UN

Life is one massive challenge after another for everyone So you cant feel sorry

for yourself One real measure of you as a person is how much you can handle

without whining

~ Mike Brescia Author

We are each of us angels with only one wing And we can only fly by embracing each

other

-Luciano de Crescenzo

He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he

would like to have

~ Socrates

Quite often we change jobs friends and spouses instead of ourselves

~ Akbarali H Jetha

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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame

~ Benjamin Franklin

You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where

your thoughts take you

- James Allen

The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will

embrace for that day We cannot change our past

We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way We cannot change

the inevitable The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have and that

is our attitude

- Charles Swindoll author

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others

- Cicero 106 BC - 43 BC

If you want your life to be more rewarding you have to change the way you think

- Oprah Winfrey

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless

- Mother Teresa

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible

- Italian Proverb

Enthusiasm is the all-essential human jet propeller It is the driving force which

elevates people to miracle workers and creates endless energy the source of all

accomplishment

-Norman Vincent Peale

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends

you choose for you will become like them-

- W Clement Stone

Ones philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one

makes In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves The process

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never ends until we die And the choices we make are ultimately our own

responsibility

- Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 American First Lady We will stay young in life as long as we work toward something that were

supposed to do

~ Richard Rose I love the name of honor more than I fear death

~ Julius Caesar

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future making it predictable

and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible

Hannah Arendt 1906-1975 Political Theorist

Man has no greater enemy than himself

Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374 Italian poet humanist)

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety

-Aesop

You cannot tailor make your situation in life but you can tailor make your

attitudes to fit those situations

- Zig Ziglar speaker and author Set a goal to achieve something that is so big so exhilarating that it excites you

and scares you at the same time It must be a goal that is so appealing so much in

line with your spiritual core that you cant get it out of your mind If you do not

get chills when you set a goal youre not setting big enough goals

Bob Proctor Author and Speaker The only people who never fail are those who never try

Ilka Chase (1905-1978 American author actor)

In truth you are spirit The body has been projected by the mind which itself

originates from Spirit If the wrong identification ceases there will be peace and

permanent indescribable bliss

~Ramana Maharshi

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I flow with loving gratitude for all my blessings today

- Zoe Jarboe

People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be

~ Abraham Lincoln You are wealthy now with an abundance of what you are thinking about The world

is a creative engine and will create whatever you are really thinking Every thought

in your mind is a prayer about you no matter who the subject seems to be

~ Brad Jensen

A man who works with his hands is a laborer a man who works with his hands and

his brain is a craftsman but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his

heart is an artist

-Louis Nizer

When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score

John Enoch Powell (1912-1998 British statesman)

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get credit Try if

you can to belong to the first class there is far less competition

~ Dwight Morrow 1873-1931 Businessman Politician and Diplomat

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone but with heartfelt

conviction that we are doing nothing and God everything

~ St Ignatius Loyola Action is the real measure of intelligence

~ Napoleon Hill

Take the first step and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid But the

first essential is that you begin Once the battle is started all that is within and

without you will come to your assistance

~ Robert Collier

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You are what you are today because of the decisions and the choices YOU made

yesterday

~ Wayne Goonie

I have never seen a man who could do real work except under the stimulus of

encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom he is

working

Charles M Schwab (1862-1939 American industrialist businessman)

Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can

- Danny Kaye (1913-1987) Entertainer A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in

spite of overwhelming obstacles

~ Christopher Reeve A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always

with the same person

~ Mignon McLaughlin

We learn from failure much more than from success we often discover what we

will do by finding our what we will not do and probably he who never made a

mistake never made a discovery

Samuel Smiles (1812-1904 Scottish author)

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 16th American President)

Life has indeed many ills but the mind that views every object in its most

cheering aspect and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good bears

within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote

Lydia H Sigourney 1791-1865 Poet

The Next Step

The first step needs action to start it

The last requires patience to end

So we question which ones most important

When we realize our dreams our best friend

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Well the answer is neither theyre equal

But the one that will help you win through

And connect what you start to the finish

Is the next step thats waiting for you

Lifes dreamers are great Goal Achievers

Their faith and persistence just blends

Into one awesome cocktail of knowledge

That whatever they want they can get

You see they never visualize failure

Its success that they see shining through

Its essential to start and to finish

But the next step is what you must do

Alison Wilson

Set a goal to achieve something that is so big so exhilarating that it excites you

and scares you at the same time It must be a goal that is so appealing so much in

line with your spiritual core that you cant get it out of your mind If you do not

get chills when you set a goal youre not setting big enough goals

Bob Proctor Author and Speaker

There is no such thing as natural touch Touch is something you create by hitting

millions of golf balls

~ Lee Trevino

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation We do not act rightly because

we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted

rightly We are what we repeatedly do Excellence then is not an act but a habit

~ Aristotle

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement If everyone received the

encouragement they need to grow the genius in most everyone would blossom and

the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams

~ Unkwown

I do not believe in miracles at least not defined in the conventional religious

manner as divine disruptions of the natural order But if a miracle is defined as an

infinitely improbable phenomenon then our existence is a miracle which no theory

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natural or supernatural will ever explain

-John Horgan

Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that with nine women

pregnant you can get a baby in a month

--Wernher von Braun

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never

find out

~ Frank A Clark

You are what you are today because of the decisions and the

choices YOU made yesterday

~ Revt Wayne Goonie

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do

a little

~ Edmund Burke

We will stay young in life as long as we work toward something

that were supposed to do

~ Richard Rose

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions Small

people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become

great

- Mark Twain

Rich and poor are first created in the mind

A poor man asks How much will it COST me

A rich man asks How much will it MAKE me

Which one are you

~ Bryan Kumar

If you think you can do something that you cannot the belief itself prevents you

from accomplishing the task either because you never try it in the first place or

because you have block yourself by your belief

-Deena Zalkind Spear

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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear

Marcus Aurelius (121-12180 Roman emperor philosopher)

Character is doing whats right when nobodys looking

- J C Watts Jr Politician

Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions Small people

always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great

Mark Twain 1835-1910 Humorist and Writer

We are all salesmen every day of our lives We are selling our ideas our plans our

enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact

~ Charles M Schwab It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition

- Vernon Howard Maturity begins when were content to feel were right about something without

feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong

Sydney J Harris 1917-1986 Syndicated Columnist

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum

- Frances Willard Educator

Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given

~ Deepak Chopra Once power was considered a masculine attribute In fact power has no gender

~ Katherine Graham

An invasion of armies can be resisted but not an idea whose time has come

Victor Hugo

As the purse is emptied the heart is filled

Victor Hugo

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Be like the bird that passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight feels them

give way beneath her and yet sings knowing that she hath wings

Victor Hugo

Have no fear of robbers or murderers They are external dangers petty dangers

We should fear ourselves Prejudices are the real robbers vices the real murders

The great dangers are within us Why worry about what threatens our heads or

purses Let us think instead of what threatens our souls

Victor Hugo

He who opens a school door closes a prison

Victor Hugo

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man

Victor Hugo Be all you can be and live a good life -- have fun with it

Tina Yothers

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace

Yes Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive inner peace does

not

-Eckhart Tolle

A moments insight is sometimes worth a lifes experience

- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) Physician and writer

The superior persons learning goes in his ear attaches to his heart expands to

the end of his limbs and is established in his actions

Even in his smallest word or slightest action he sets an example

~ Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse) When I thought I couldnt go on I forced myself to keep going My success is

based on persistence not luck

Estee Lauder Entrepreneur

If you always do what interests you at least one person is pleased

Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003 American actress writer)

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Make Your Mark Count A childs life is like a piece of paper on which every person

leaves a mark

- Chinese Proverb

Pain shared is lessened joy shared increased

~ Spider Robinson

The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has its limits

~ Albert Einstein

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift let it be enthusiasm

Bruce Barton (1886-1967 American author advertising expert)

When you give your children knowledge you are telling them what you think That

is you are telling them what they are supposed to know what you want them to

understand is true

When you give your children wisdom you do not tell them what to know or what is

true but rather how to get to their own truth

-Neale Donald Walsch

I have found that if you love life life will love you back

- Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982) Musician

The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see

magic and beauty in them while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves

~ Kahlil Gibran

Practice is just as valuable as a sale The sale will make you a living the skill will

make you a fortune

~ Jim Rohn

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about

Charles Kingsley (1819-1875 British author clergyman)

Dont cry because its over - smile because it happened

Author unknown

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Happiness is like a kiss You must share it to enjoy it

~ Bernard Meltzer Our life is what our thoughts make it

~ Marcus Aurelius The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best Therefore it tends to

become the best It takes the form or character of the best and will receive the

best

-- Wallace Wattles

Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings

-- Marianne Williamson

―And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present and can be none in

the future And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned

to beautiful results

mdash Walt Whitman When you lose touch with inner stillness you lose touch with your Self

When you lose touch with your Self you lose yourself in the world

Your innermost sense of Self of who you are is inseparable from stillness

This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form

Eckhart Tolle Stillness Speaks

With wisdom I see that I am nothing

With love I see that I am everything

Between these two my life turns

Nisargadatta Maharaj Man often becomes what he believes himself to be If I keep on saying to myself

that I cannot do a certain thing it is possible that I may end by really becoming

incapable of doing it On the contrary if I shall have the belief that I can do it I

shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the

beginning

Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Indian Nationalist Leader

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Strategies designed to avoid something eventually produce exactly the thing they

are trying to avoid

-Michael Greenwood and Peter Nunn

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but

are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults

seem insignificant

Charles A Cerami

If all you did was just look for things to appreciate you would live a joyous

spectacular life

~Abraham-Hicks

Three things in human life are important The first is to be kind The second is to

be kind And the third is to be kind

- Henry James (1843-1916) Writer The moment of enlightenment is when a persons dreams of possibilities become

images of probabilities

~ Vic Braden Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot

fly

~ Langston Hugues Life is made up not of great sacrifices or duties but of little things in which

smiles and kindness and small obligations given habitually are what win and

preserve the heart and secure comfort

Humphry Davy 1778-1829 Chemist

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900 German philosopher)

The game of life is the game of boomerangs Our thoughts deeds and words

return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy

- Florence Shinn (1871-1940) Writer

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Some dream of doing great things while others stay awake and get on with it

~ Unknown With all your science can you tell how it is and whence it is that light comes into

the soul

-Hanry David Thoreau

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one but you wont come up

with a handful of mud either

- Leo Burnett (1891-1971) Advertising Executive

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the

only way we can leave the future open

Lillian Smith 1897-1966 Writer Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to

success when they gave up

~ Thomas A Edison Find something youre passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it

Julia Child (1912-2004 American gourmet cook author and television personality)

Now I say to you today my friends even though we face the difficulties of today

and tomorrow I still have a dream It is a dream deeply rooted in the American

dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true

meaning of its creed -- we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are

created equal

- Martin Luther King Jr ―Never let formal education get in the way of your learning

- Mark Twain

The path to success is to take massive determined action

~ Anthony Robbins For every minute you remain angry you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In the practice of tolerance ones enemy is the best teacher

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson When defeat comes accept it as a signal that

your plans are not sound rebuild those plans

and set sail once more toward your coveted goal

~ Napoleon Hill

We are all alike on the inside

Mark Twain (1835-1910 American humorist writer)

If you are going to do something carelessly it is better to give it up entirely

Russian Proverb

The world is like a mirror frown at it and it frowns at you

Smile and it smiles too

Herbert Samuels

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our

children

Charles R Swindoll

The important thing is not so much that every child should be

taught as that every child should be given the wish to learn

John Lubbock

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been

Mark Twain

It is a mistake to think that moving fast is the same as actually going somewhere

Steve Goodier A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops

Henry Adams

It is only with the heart that one can see clearly for the most

essential things are invisible to the eye

~ Antoine de Sainte Exupery

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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the

critical decisive hour Write it on your heart that every day is

the best day of the year

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier Be the living

expression of Gods kindness kindness in your face kindness in your eyes kindness

in your smile

- Mother Teresa

Its never too late to be who you might have been

- George EliotWriter

Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle

- Plato Philosopher

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition

- Vernon Howard

Ilsquove always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up

- Beverly Sills Opera Singer

Help others get ahead You will always stand taller with someone else on your

shoulders

- Bob Moawad Business Leader

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks

like work

Thomas Edison

Dream as if youll live forever

Live as if youll die tomorrow

~ James Dean

The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an

expectation that they can make it work or make it better

Barbara Pletcher Author

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As we grow up we get sophisticated out of enchantment and become too smart

about the things that cause children to wonder

-Thomas Moore

People come out to see you perform and youve got to give them the best you have

within you The lives of most men are patchwork quilts Or at best one matching

outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations A lifetime of

training for just ten seconds

Jesse Owens (1913-1980 American Olympian)

Nothing is easy to the unwilling

- Nikki Giovanni Whatever course you have chosen for yourself it will not be a chore but an

adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving if your sights are set

far above the merely secure and mediocre

~David Sarnoff 1891-1971 Entrepreneur I dont know any other way to lead but by example

Don Shula (1930- American football coach) Flexible people never get bent out of shape

- Author Unknown The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record

of successful experiences behind you

~ William Jennings Bryan The important thing is this To be able at any moment to sacrifice

what we are for what we could become

~ Charles du Bois Success isnt permanent and failure isnt fatal

- Mike Ditka

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The different between us is that I count and you dont

-Huston Smith

I love strange choices Im always interested in people who depart from what is

expected of them and go into new territory

Cate Blanchett Actress Always do your best What you plant now you will harvest later

Og Mandino (1923-1996 American motivational author speaker wwogmandinocom ) Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the Universe is endlessly

bountiful Just put forth a clear enough request and everything that your heart

desires must come to you

~Shakti Gawain The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would

suffice to solve most of the worlds problems

~ Unknown The only real valuable thing is intuition

- Albert Einstein

Waste your money and youre only out of money but waste your time and youve

lost a part of your life

~ Michael Leboeuf Fear is an insidious virus Given a breeding place in our minds it will eat away our

spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors

~ James F Bell

You cant base your life on other peoples expectations

Stevie Wonder Grammy Award Winning SingerSongwriter

An excuse is worse than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded

Alexander Pope (1688-1744 British poet critic translator)

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The thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and

beginning the work of becoming yourself

- Anna Quindlen ―Exert your talents and distinguish yourself and donlsquot think of retiring from the

world until the world will be sorry that you retire

- Samuel Johnson Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of

the odds against them They make the impossible happen

~ Dr Robert Jarvik

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances

if there is any reaction both are transformed

-Carl Jung There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right between

fairly good and the best between mediocrity and superiority

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)

I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright

I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more

I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive

I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger

I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting

I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess

I wish you enough Hellos to get you through the final Goodbye

Bob Perks

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie

~ William Shakespeare

It doesnt matter where you are coming from All that matters is where you are

going

~ Brian Tracy You need to be a somebody before you can be a nobody

-Brant Cortright

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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old

Franz Kafka Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it

bravely and gallantly as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an

unknown country to meet many a joy to find many a comrade to win and lose many

a battle

~ Annie Besant

I believe in taking a positive attitude toward the world My hope still is to leave

the world a little bit better than when I got here

Jim Henson 1936-1990 Muppets Creator Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life

Gita Bellin

Education is when you read the fine print Experience is what you get if you

dont

- Pete Seeger

Keep your thoughts positive because they become your words

Keep your words positive because they become your behaviors

Keep your behaviors positive because they become your habits

Keep your habits positive because they become your values

Keep your values positive because they become your destiny

-Gandhi

The challenge is not to manage time but to manage ourselves

Stephen Covey

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death It not only gives us

fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which

we hold our present being

~ William Hazlitt

Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith Having

faith in yourself in the process of change and in the new direction that change

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sets will reveal your own inner core of steel

Georgette Mosbacher Business Executive

Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life

Gita Bellin

Careful what you wish for Millions long for immortality who do not know what to

do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon

- Susan Ertz

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us What we have done for

others and the world remains and is immortal

Albert Pine

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate Our deepest fear is that we are

powerful beyond measure It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us

We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant gorgeous talented fabulous Actually

who are you NOT to be You are a child of God Your playing small does not serve

the world There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people wont

feel insecure around you We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is

within us It is not just in some of us it is in everyone And as we let our own light

shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same As we are

liberated from our own fear our presence automatically liberates others

~ Marianne Williamson

Focus on where we want to end up not on what we want to avoid

-Paula Underwood Spencer

A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact

that everything has happened for the best

Author Unknown

Change your thoughts and you change the world

- Harold R Mcalindon Today is yesterdays effect and tomorrows cause

~ Phillip Gribble

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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes one of his great surprises is to find

he can do what he was afraid he couldnt do

~ Henry Ford

I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist

- Paul Harvey

Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes

up his mind to do We are all capable of greater things than we realize

Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993 American Christian reformed pastor speaker author)

When everybody is looking for gold its a good time to be in the picks and shovels

business

~ Mark Twain

Waste your money and youre only out of money but waste your time and youve

lost a part of your life

~ Michael Leboeuf

It is a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best you

very often get it

~ W Somerset Maugham

Flatter me and I may not believe you Criticize me and I may not like you Ignore

me and I may not forgive you Encourage me and I will not forget you Love me and

I may be forced to love you

William Arthur Ward

―Trust yourself You know more than you think you do

Benjamin Spock

―A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise

after success

Anon

―Nine tenths of education is encouragement

Anatole Franc

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Maybe you cant change the whole world but if you have love in your heart you can

make small differences every day which really does change the world one life at a

time

Kristina Koncz Customer Experience Specialist

Let us be about setting high standards for life love creativity and wisdom If our

expectations in these areas are low we are not likely to experience wellness

Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward

to

Greg Anderson (American author The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness)

Truce is better than friction

- Charles Herguth

Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they

have deep inside them -- a desire a dream a vision

~ Muhammad Ali

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each mans

life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that

take our breath away

~ George Carlin

You can conquer almost any fear if you will make up your mind to do so For

remember fear doesnt exist anywhere except in the mind

Dale Carnegie 1888-1955 Author and Speaker

Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others

They learn when they do which isnt often on their own the hard way

Robert Heinlein (1907-1988 American science fiction writer)

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the

expense of everybody else

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-Frederic Bastiat

Some think its holding on that makes one strong sometimes its letting go

- Sylvia Robinson We are responsible for what we are and whatever we wish ourselves to be we

have the power to make ourselves If what we are now has been the result of our

own past actions it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be

produced by our present actions so we have to know how to act

~ Swami Vivekananda

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning but anyone can start today and

make a new ending

~ Maria Robinson

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves

Brian Tracy (1944- Canadian-born American trainer speaker author businessman)

Anger is the only thing to put off till tomorrow

- Slovakian Proverb

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know

peace

~Jimi Hendrix Do not wait the time will never be just right

Start where you stand and work with whatever tools you may have at your

command and better tools will be found as you go along

~ Napoleon Hill

When we lose the right to be different we lose the privilege to be free

Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948 American jurist politician)

You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone which can become a

watered-down occasional hope that youll get to tomorrow Intention without

action is useless

Caroline Myss Author of Entering The Castle

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Plan ahead -- It wasnt raining when Noah built the ark

-Anononymous

Only you can be yourself

No one else is qualified for the job

- Shelby Collinge

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall

~ Confucius

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom But in the last analysis our

only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves

~ Bernard M Baruch

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941 Indian poet philosopher)

Worry is the misuse of the imagination

- Dan Zadra

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else you will have succeeded

Maya Angelou

Trust yourself Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your

life Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny inner sparks of possibility into

flames of achievement

~ Foster C McClellan There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal

experience has brought it home

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873 British philosopher economist)

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall

never sit in

-Greek proverb

We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails

- Bertha Calloway

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Democracy arose from mens thinking that if they are equal in any respect they

are equal absolutely

~ Aristotle

Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can

~ Richard Bach

If the world seems cold to you kindle fires to warm it

~ Lucy Larcom All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their

gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible

Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924 Writer Physician Hotel Owner and founder of Success Magazine

A Friend is a treasure more precious than Gold For love shared is priceless and

never grows old

Author Unknown

Only that which cannot be taken away by death is real Everything else is unreal it

is made of the same stuff dreams are made of

~Osho

Personality can open doors but only character can keep them open

- Elmer G Leterman

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they

dont know when to quit Most men succeed because they are determined to

~ George Allen Coach

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what

lies within us

~ Walt Emerson Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by

employing it well Then youth will be happy old age without regret and life a

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beautiful success

Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888 Novelist Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution

experience lifes deepest joy true fulfillment

Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet enough trials to make you

strong enough sorrow to keep you human enough hope to make you happy

-Anonymous

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the

things we do

- Freya Madeline Stark

We must become the change we want to see

~ Mahatma Gandhi

You know its not more knowledge its not more education its not more facts

that we need Its a better use of what we already have that we need to have You

have each and every one of you within your potential power right now to do a

wonderful job in your chosen field - if you would only embrace it and use it

Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think And Grow Rich

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be

respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure

Buddha (568-488 BC Indian born founder of Buddhism)

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change and all patterns alter

- Sharon Salzberg When we let freedom ring when we let it ring from every village and every

hamlet from every state and every city we will be able to speed up that day when

all of Gods children black men and white men Jews and Gentiles Protestants and

Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro

spiritual

Free at last Free at last

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Thank God Almighty we are free at last

~ Reverand Martin Luther King Jr All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them

~ Walt Disney Your own common sense should tell you that common sense alone is not enough

-Ashleigh Brilliant

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and

deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your

place

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)

Know what counts

No matter what youve done for yourself or for humanity if you cant look back on

having given love and attention to your own family what have you really

accomplished

- Lee Iacocca

There is a giant asleep within every man When that giant awakes miracles happen

~ Frederick Faust There are those that look at things the way they are and ask why I dream of

things that never were and ask why not

~ Robert F Kennedy

There is nothing impossible to him who will try

~ Alexander the Great

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance Remember the greatest

failure is to not try Once you find something you love to do be the best at doing

it

Debbi Fields Founder of Mrs Fields Cookies

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul

Marcus Aurelius (121-12180 Roman emperor philosopher)

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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left

undone

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Shoot for the moon Even if you miss youll land among the stars

~ Les Brown

Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been

told is what they cant do They dont know what they want because they dont

know whats available for them

~ Zig Ziglar

Accept that some days youre the pigeon and some days youre the statue

-Anonymous

Be life long or short its completeness depends on what it was lived for

- David Starr Jordan

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life

by altering his attitude

~ William James

It has never been and never will be easy work

But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road

built in despair even though they both lead to the same destination

~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

―No matter what anybody tells you words and ideas can change the world

~ John Keating (from the movie Dead Poets Society) hellip Every tomorrow has two handles We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety

or the handle of faith

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887 American preacher orator writer) The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it

~ Chinese proverb

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Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to

success when they gave up

~ Thomas Edison

I am always doing things I cant do thats how I get to do them

~ Picasso When you maximize your talents youre on path on purpose on target When you

dont youre off path off purpose off target

Kevin Hall Author of Aspire

Comparisons of ones lot with others teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will

Thornton Wilder (1897-1975 American novelist playwright)

Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

While we have the gift of life it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of

us to die - whether it is our spirit our creativity or our glorious uniqueness

- Gilda Radner

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state

of being alive If life is to be sustained hope must remain even where confidence is

wounded trust impaired

~ Erik H Erikson

Dont go on discussing what a good person should be Just be one

Marcus Aurelius

Our wisdom comes from our experience and our experience comes from our

foolishness

Sacha Guitry

I would rather live in a world where life is surrounded by mystery than live in a

world so small that my mind could comprehend it

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Our first teacher is our own heart

Cheyenne proverb

Power coerces

Knowledge persuades

Love converts

Proverb

Do not kiss your children so they will kiss you back but so they will kiss their

children and their childrens children

Noah Benshea

We read to know we are not alone

CS Lewis

Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better

Albert Einstein

Keeping score of old scores and scars getting even and one-upping always makes

you less than you are

- Malcolm Forbes

When you know that youre capable of dealing with whatever comes you have the

only security the world has to offer

Harry Browne 1933-2006 Writer and Politician

You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never

be ableto repay you

- John Wooden

Freedom know this that every manwoman is free to choose his life and what hell

be For this eternal truth is given God will force no man to heaven Hell call

persuade direct aright Bless with wisdom love and light in nameless ways be

good and kind but never force the human mind

~ William C Clegg

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There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than

the one you are capable of living

~ Nelson Mandela to Marianne Williamson If it werent for the rocks in its bed the stream would have no song

-Carl Perkins

Whenever encountering a troublesome person do not identify him as being cruel

or stupid or rude or anything else like that Instead see him as a frightened

person

Vernon Howard 1918-1992 Author and Philosopher When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves it is useless to seek it

elsewhere

~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680 French classical writer) Live for the moment

If I have learnt anything it is that life forms no logical patterns It is haphazard

and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by for who knows whether any

of them will ever return

- Margo Fonteyn

Isnt it strange that princesses and kings and clowns that caper in sawdust rings

and common people like you and me are builders for eternity Each is given a bag of

tools a shapeless mass a book of rules and each must make ere life is flown a

stumbling block or stepping stone

~ Edgar Guest We are what we repeatedly do Excellence then is not an act but a habit

~ Aristotle

Whatever you can do or dream you can do begin it Boldness has genius power

and magic in it

~ Wolfgang von Goethe Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state Being in love shows a person who he should be ~ Anton Chekhov

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Follow the grain in your own wood

- Howard Thurman

It is said that if you are not living your dreams you are living your fears

~ Ghalil Professional Dreamer

―Dont ask what the world needs Ask what makes you come alive because what the

world needs is people who have come alive

- Harold Thurman

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success When you do a thing

do it with all your mind Put your whole soul to it Stamp it with your own

personality Be active be energetic be enthusiastic and faithful and you will

accomplish your object Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Essayist Philosopher and Poet

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do

John Wooden (1910- American basketball coach)

For the most part fear is nothing but an illusion When you share it with someone

else it tends to disappear

- Marilyn C Barrick

The purpose of life is not to arrive safely at your death

- Robert Holden

When everything seems to be going against you remember that theairplane takes

off against the wind not with it

Henry Ford

There are two freedoms the false where a man is free to do what he likes the

true where he is free to do what he ought

~ Charles Kingsley Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one

could find fault with it

John Henry Newman (1801-1890 British religious leader prelate writer)

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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

New ideas pass through three periods

It cant be done

It probably can be done but its not worth doing

I knew it was a good idea all along

-Arthur C Clarke A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you think creates your life all you have to do is ask yourself what you are

willing to accept into your life

~ Ghalil Author - Professional Dreamer

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and

deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your

place

~ Orison Swett Marden Well done is better than well said

~ Benjamin Franklin Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one

could find fault with it

John Henry Newman (1801-1890 British religious leader prelate writer) If youre looking for perfection look in the mirror If you find it there expect it

elsewhere

Malcolm S Forbes (1919-1990 American publisher businessman) Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have

- H Jackson Brown Jr A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish great things

~ Chinese Proverb

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If we listened to our intellect wed never have a love affair Wed never have a

friendship Wed never go into business because wed be cynical Well thats

nonsense Youve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down

~ Ray Bradbury

Successful people decide how they are going to live they are not victims of

circumstance In good times or bad times they know where they are going and they

know that they are going to get there

Bob Proctor Author and Speaker

First they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you then you win

~ Mahatma Gandhi The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing

- Walt Disney 1901-1966 American Film ProducerDirectorAnimator

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas first make him your friend

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))

Doubting everything or believing everything are two equally convenient solutions

both of which save us from thinking

-Jules Henri Poincareacute

Dont be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning Thats only the initial

impression The important thing is not to retreat you have to master yourself

Olga Korbut Olympic Gold Medallist Gymnast

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental

difference in someones life

- Sister Mary Rose McGeady All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future

task of the philosopher which is to solve the problem of value to determine the

true hierarchy of values

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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Let no man pull you low enough to hate him

~ Martin Luther King Dont concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal -

leave that completely to a power greater than yourself All you have to do is know

where youre going The answers will come to you of their own accord and at the

right time

Earl Nightingale 1921-1989 Syndicated Radio Announcer and Author

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs

~ Gloria Steinem

Now I say to you today my friends even though we face the difficulties of today

and tomorrow I still have a dream It is a dream deeply rooted in the American

dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true

meaning of its creed -- we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are

created equal

~ Martin Luther King Jr

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams Live the life you have imagined

David Thoreau Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions Small people always do

that but the really great make you believe that you too can become great

~ Mark Twain Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure (values) and Ill tell

you their philosophy of life

~ Dale Carnegie To forgive is merely to remember ONLY the LOVING thoughts you gave in the

past and those that were given you ALL the rest must be forgotten

~ A Course In Miracles If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a

prophet

Isaac Bashevis Singer 1904-1991 Journalist and Writer

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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us

~ Voltaire

We are all of us stars and we deserve to twinkle

~ Marilyn Monroe

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do

right

~ Nelson Mandela

It has never been and never will be easy work But the road that is built in hope

is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they

both lead to the same destination

~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society

~J Krishnamurti

Every situation properly perceived becomes an opportunity to heal

~ A Course in Miracles

The love that you withhold in life is the pain that you carry

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as

the quality of perseverance It overcomes almost everything even nature

John D Rockefeller (1839-1937 American industrialist philanthropist founder Exxon)

All I ask is for an unfair advantage

~ WC Fields Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words Keep your

words positive because your words become your behaviors Keep your behaviors

positive because your behaviors become your habits Keep your habits positive

because your habits become your values Keep your values positive because your

values become your destiny

~Gandhi

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Your ego is creating obstacles Maya creating maya

~Babaji Step back Observe without judgment unconditional Watch now as obstacles

melt become no-thing Do this each time a block appears Step back and observe

without judgment

~Babaji

Everybody cannot be a painter a poet or a geniusthose are given qualities from

birth But everybody can be enlightened Enlightenment is the only thing the only

experience where everybody is equally capable And it does not depend on whether

you believe in God or not it depends only on one thingand that is a little taste (of

meditation) and suddenly you become confident that youre capable of it

~Osho There are no accidents or coincidences in this world Nothing is by chance

Everything you experience is a direct manifestation of where you focus your

attention and hold your vibration

~Jafree When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off

into the darkness of the unknown faith is knowing one of two things will happen

There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly

~ Barbara J Winter High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly make big decisions quickly and

move into action immediately Follow these principles and you can make your dreams

come true

Robert H Schuller Televangelist Pastor and Author

Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you but seek out another to console and

you will find consolation

J C Macaulay

High Expectations are the key to everything

~ Sam Walton Founder Wal-Mart

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Until you make peace with who you are youll never be content with what you

have

~ Doris Mortman You must constantly ask yourself these questions Who am I around What are

they doing to me What have they got me reading What have they got me saying

Where do they have me going What do they have me thinking And most

important what do they have me becoming Then ask yourself the big question Is

that okay Your life does not get better by chance it gets better by change

Jim Rohn 1930-2009 Author and Speaker

Believe it You CAN succeed at whatever you do as long as you simply take the

right ACTIONS

~ ER Haas CEO

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do The hard

part is doing it

~ General H Norman Schwarzkopf So let your deepest desires direct your aim Set your sights far above the

reasonable target The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire

that stirs the heart

Price Pritchett Author of You2

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do

Walter Bagehot (1826-1977 British economist critic)

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or

better than themselves

~ Tryon Edwards

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high

and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach it

~ Michelangelo Compared to what we ought to be we are only half awake We are making use of

only a small part of our physical and mental resources Stating the thing broadly

the human individual thus lives far within his limits He possesses power of various

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sorts which he habitually fails to use

William James (1842-1910 American psychologist professor author) People wait for opportunity to come along yet it is there every morning

~ Dennis the Menace A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow

~ George S Patton (1885-1945 American army general during World War II)

The last best fruit which comes to late perfection even in the kindliest soul is

tenderness toward the hard forbearance toward the unforbearing warmth toward

the cold philanthropy toward the misanthropic

~ Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825 German novelist)

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a

prophet

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991 Polish-born American journalist writer)

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than

by those given to us by others

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662 French scientist religious philosopher) Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty

~ John Ruskin (1819-1900 British critic social theorist)

Expect your every need to be met expect the answer to every problem expect

abundance on every level expect to grow spiritually You are not living by human

laws Expect miracles and see them take place Hold ever before you the thought

of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will

bring it into being

~Eileen Caddy

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we

believe And the only real wealth for any of us lies in our faith

~ Gordon B Hinckley

Desire is the Starting Point of All Achievement

~ - Napoleon Hill

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And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to

do the same

Nelson Mandela

The more we have the less we own

Meister Eckhart (1260-1326 German mystic)

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs jolted by every

pebble in the road

Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887 Preacher and Abolitionist

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength Richard L Evans

The secret of Happiness is Freedom and the secret of Freedom Courage

~ Thucydides (Greek historian 460-404 BC)

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in

the mature than in the young

Paul McCartney SingerSongwriter I cant believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary

Lou Holtz (937- American football coach)

Dont let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he

was

~ Richard L Evans

To dream anything that you want to dream that is the beauty of the human mind

To do anything that you want to do that is the strength of the human will To trust

yourself to test your limits that is the courage to succeed

~ Bernard Edmonds

I find my greatest pleasure and so my reward in the work that precedes what the

world calls success

Thomas A Edison (1847-1931 American inventor founder of GE)

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It is good to act as if It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer

an act

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832 British sportsman writer)

Tell me what you want and Ill show you how to get it

~ Bob Proctor

One is very crazy when in love

~ Sigmund Freud

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed Always aim at

purifying your thoughts and everything will be well

Mahatma Gandhi

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything keep it

Mahatma Gandhi Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony

Mahatma Gandhi

Hate the sin love the sinner

Mahatma Gandhi

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress

Mahatma Gandhi

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress

Mahatma Gandhi

True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the

future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied

with what we have which is sufficient for he that is so wants nothing The great

blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach

~ Seneca 4 BC to 65 AD - Spanish Philosopher

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When you paint success pictures in your mind you initiate an inner process

whereby your attitudes hopes aspirations and enthusiasm are elevated in

response to an image of a more promising future Every person who aspires must

first sell themselves hope the promise of a better life

US Andersen 1917-1986 Author of The Magic In Your Mind

How far is far how high is high Well never know until we try

Song from the California Special Olympics If you take each challenge one step at a time with faith in every footstep your

strength and understanding will increase

~ James E Faust

What is your individual purpose What would you like to be able to say is your

legacy I believe that each of us wants to find our purpose in life our raison

detre or reason for being We need to have a motive to get out of bed in the

morning We want to feel alive and passionate about something Something that

makes a difference in the world We are not alone in this and yet many of us are

still searching for that purpose

~ Veronica Hay We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds

Warren Buffett (1930- American investment entrepreneur)

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy but its good too to

check up once in a while and make sure you havent lost the things money cant

buy

George Lorimer 1867-1937 Editor of Saturday Evening Post

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence Talent will not nothing is

more common than unsuccessful men with talent Genius will not unrewarded genius

is almost a proverb Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent

~ Calvin Coolidge

Desperation can be as powerful inspirer as genius

Benjamin Disraeli

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We read to know we are not alone

CS Lewis

Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better

Albert Einstein The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the

road after you have shown him the way

Confucius

A baby has a way of making a man out of his father and a boy out of his

grandfather

Angie Papadakis

My father didnt tell me how to live he lived and let me watch him do it

Clarence B Kelland No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing

William Barclay

If you think youre lucky you are

Bobby Dodd

When youre safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when youre

having an adventure you wish you were safe at home

Thornton Wilder Obstacles dont have to stop you If you run into a wall dont turn around and give

up Figure out how to climb it go through it or work around it

~ Michael Jordan In order to attain the impossible one must attempt the impossible

~ Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616 Spanish novelist dramatist poet)

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as

the quality of perseverance It overcomes almost everything even nature

~ John D Rockefeller

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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is

when men are afraid of the light

~ Plato

Doubt of whatever kind can be ended by action alone

Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 Philosopher and Author

Poverty is not a shame but the being ashamed of it is

English Proverb

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well

~ Unknown

We need to exert ourselves that much more and break out of the vicious cycle of

dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful those in command of

immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own

image

~ Nelson Mandela

High Expectations are the key to everything

~ Sam Walton Founder Wal-Mart

Failures are expected by losers ignored by winners

~ Joe Gibbs Football Coach Most people live and die with their music still unplayed They never dare to try

Mary Kay Ash

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own

existence

Aristotle

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to

the eye

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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If A equals success then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z

with X being work Y play and Z keeping your mouth shut

~ Albert Einstein

Tomorrows battle is won during todays practice

Japanese Proverb

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days

What you can do or think you can do begin it For boldness has magic power and

genius in it

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 Poet Novelist and Scientist

Forget about all the reasons why something may not work You only need to find

one good reason why it will

Dr Robert Anthony

No matter how busy you are you must take time to make the other person feel

important

Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001 American businesswoman founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics)

I used to be a very serious not funny negative person Funny-cism Skepticism

Criticism and all Then I got introduced to the world of Positive Thinking Now Im

bipolar

~ Andy Dooley Spiritual Comedian and Professional Speaker

Your past is not your potential In any hour you can choose to liberate the future

Marilyn Ferguson (American writer) Everyone wants to be appreciated so if you appreciate someone dont keep it a

secret

~ Mary Kay Ash 1915-2001 Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds

and these magnets attract to us the forces the people the circumstances of life

which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts

~ Napoleon Hill

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You more often recognize your inadequacies rather than your strengths

~ James E Faust

I live by this credo Have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness

instead of sadness Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations Even

in your darkest moment you usually can find something to laugh about if you try

hard enough

Red Skelton 1913-1997 Comedian

Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth

George W Crane Some self-confronting questions

Where do I want to be at any given time

How am I going to get there

What do I have to do to get myself from where

I am to where I want to be

Whats the first small step I can take to get moving

~ George A Ford The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can

bribe the public with the publics money

- Alexis de Tocqueville The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race

~ Don Marquis At the height of laughter the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new

possibilities

-- Jean Houston Begin to weave and God will give you the thread

~ German Proverb If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who

are rich

John F Kennedy (1917-1963 35th American President)

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If you keep THINKING what you are thinking you will keep DOING what you are

doing and you will keep GETTING what you are getting

~ Dr Robert Anthony The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world

~ Lao-tzu Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them and to

let them know that you trust them

Booker T Washington 1856-1915 Educator and Writer ―Stress is the tax you pay for not taking 100 responsibility for your life

mdashDr Barnet Meltzer Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it

~ Irving Berlin It is by surmounting difficulties not by sinking under them that we discover our

fortitude

~ Hannah Webster Foster

Believing requires action

~ James E Faust

Dont do anything in practice that you wouldnt do in the game

George Halas (1895-1983 American football coach)

Its better to reach for the stars and land on the roof than to reach for the

roof and land in the garbage

~ Savanna Skinner

Whatever you focus your intention on is what will show up in your life

Your consistent thoughts create your consistent results

~ Dr Robert Anthony

He who gains a victory over other men is strong but he who gains a victory over

himself is all powerful

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Lao-Tzu (BC 600- Chinese philosopher founder of Taoism) His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the

memory of a wrong

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great masters merit emulation not worship

-- Alan Cohen

Mirth is Gods medicine Everybody ought to bathe in it

-- Henry Ward Beecher

Snowflakes are one of natures most fragile things but just look what they can do

when they stick together

~ anon

Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you

are and what you want

-- Alan Cohen

Life isnt about waiting for the storm to pass its about learning to dance in the

rain

~Anonymous

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose for this thing that we call

failure is not the falling down but the staying down

Mary Pickford 1893-1979 Actress and Producer

Courage does not always roar Sometimes courage is that quiet voice at the end of

the day that saysI will try again tomorrow

-Mary Anne Radmacher

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act or thought or word that raises

us above ourselves

~ Arthur P Stanley

―You see things and say Whylsquo but I dream things and say Why notlsquo

- George Bernard Shaw

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―The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and

convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges

- Martin Luther King Jr

―Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions Small people always do

that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great

- Mark Twain

―That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as

well

- Abraham Lincoln

―Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though

checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor

suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor

defeat

- Theodore Roosevelt

―Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm

- Winston Churchill

―I have not failed Ilsquove just found 10000 ways that wonlsquot work

- Thomas Edison If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun

--Katharine Hepburn

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist sees

problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems

~ Winston Churchill

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but

are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults

seem insignificant

Charles A Cerami Author

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If everyone on earth loved each other the earth would shine brighter than the

sun

-- Source unknown

As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again you are

merely a vague guest on a dark Earth

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

So many worlds so much to do so little done such things to be

~ Lord Alfred Tennyson

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy nothing can make a fool content

that is why most men are miserable

Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680 French classical writer)

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live

~ Flora Whittemore I am only one but still I am one I cannot do everything but still I can do

something I will not refuse to do the something I can do

Helen Keller 1880-1968 Author and Lecturer Where theres a will theres a way

English Proverb A manwoman without ambition is dead

A man with ambition but no love is dead

A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive

~Pearl Bailey We cant help everyone but everyone can help someone

~ Ronald Reagan

We must not promise what we ought not lest we be called on to perform what we

cannot

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))

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Once you realize you dont need anything youre free to have whatever you want

- Ian Watson

Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable

confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy ~ Norman Vincent Peale Every goal every action every thought every feeling one experiences whether it

be consciously or unconsciously known is an attempt to increase ones level of

peace of mind

~ Sidney Madwed

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so For

remember fear doesnt exist anywhere except in the mind

Dale Carnegie 1888-1955 Speaker and Author Great souls have wills feeble ones have only wishes

Chinese Proverb

―Focus your attention on your desire

not the situation that gave birth to your desire

mdashRich German Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone

and let your hand give in proportion to your purse

~ George Washington

Time I have only just a minute

Only sixty seconds in it

Forced upon me cant refuse it

Didnt seek it didnt choose it

But its up to me to use it

I must suffer if I lose it

Give account if I abuse it

Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it

~ Christine Warren

Do what you can with what you have where you are

~ Theodore Roosevelt

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With every adversity comes a seed of equal or greater opportunity

~ Napoleon Hill

Heart is merely another name for the Supreme Spirit because He is in all hearts

The entire Universe is condensed in the body and the entire body in the Heart

Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe

~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

―If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back then

you suffer Every moment is the most important moment of your life No future

time is better than now to let down your guard and love

~ David Deida

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for youll be criticized anyway Youll

be damned if you do and damned if you dont

~ Eleanor Roosevelt Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do

~ John Wooden

One difference between successful people and all the rest is that successful

people take action

~ Bob Proctor Speaker and Author

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left Every

mans greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life

~ P W Litchfield ―There is a giant asleep within every man When the giant awakes miracles happen

~ Frederick Faust Focus more on your desire than on your doubt and the dream will take care of

itself You may be surprised at how easily this happens Your doubts are not as

powerful as your desires unless you make them so

Marcia Wieder Author and Speaker

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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning by dreams that need

completion by pure love that needs expressing then we truly live life

~ Greg Anderson Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you

Never excuse yourself

~ Henry Ward Beecher There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge

- both poverty and riches are offspring of thought

~ Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think and Grow Rich The person with a fixed goal a clear picture of his desire or an ideal always

before him causes it through repetition to be buried deeply in his subconscious

mind and is thus enabled thanks to its generative and sustaining power to realize

his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort Just pursue

the thought unceasingly Step by step you will achieve realization for all your

faculties and powers become directed to that end

~ Claude M Bristol Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake

~ Henry David Thoreau If opportunity doesnt knock build a door

~ Milton Berle Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well I am

not aware of any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking not exercise

not drugs not surgery--that has a greater impact on our quality of life incidence

of illness and premature death

- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak It is born of strength and

understanding

-- Meher Baba Unworthiness is simply a case of mistaken identity

-- Alan Cohen

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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet

-- Mahatma Gandhi If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march

on

-- Stopford Brooke It is usually the imagination that is wounded first rather than the heart it being

much more sensitive

~ Henry David Thoreau You need not struggle for your good Your good flows to you naturally when you are

relaxed open and trusting

-- Alan Cohen If you dont love it you cant afford it

Alan Cohen

Ask for peace first and you will clearly see your next step

-- Alan Cohen I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited

and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts Namely the physical universe

-- Ken Jenkins Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be exceptional

~ Mark Sanborn Life isnt what you want it to be its what you make it become

~ Anthony Ryan

If you are very quiet you can hear the world applauding

--Source unknown

Do you remember how electrical currents and unseen waves were laughed at

The knowledge about man is still in its infancy

~ Albert Einstein

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Wherever you go go with all your heart

~ Confucius I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up Most people in this

business gave up and went on to other things If you simply didnt give up you

would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you

Harrison Ford Actor

The quality of your life is determined by the number of uncomfortable

conversations you are willing to have

~ Rich German

To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define

themselves As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate

influences of the culture and environment we grow up in we come to have beliefs

about the nature of being human These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of

our psychosomatic systems our minds and brains our nervous systems our

endocrine systems and even our blood and sinews We act speak and think

according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems

~ Jeremy W Hayward

A mans true wealth is the good he does in the world Mohammed (c570-c632

Mecca spiritual leader

Every man is the architect of his own fortune

~ Sallust

What is opportunity and when does it knock

It never knocks

You can wait a whole lifetime listening hoping and you will hear no knocking

None at all

You are opportunity and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny

You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity to pursue and seize opportunity as

you develop the strength of your personality and build a self-image with which you

are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing

~ Maxwell Maltz

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Today I would like to become the man my dog thinks I am

Jack Thomson Entrepreneur BE the change you want to see in the world

- Mahatma Gandhi

Leaders are made they are not born They are made by hard effort

which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile

~ Vince Lombardi To honor the spirit is to accept the opportunity for your healing and personal

evolution When you choose to assume radical personal responsibility knowing that

you are responsible for the effect external circumstances have on you you are

taking a stand for the power of your spiritual nature to run the show

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think Its really important that you feel good Because this feeling good is what goes

out as a signal into the universe and starts to attract more of itself to you So the

more you can feel good the more you will attract the things that help you feel

good and that will keep bringing you up higher and higher

Joe Vitale Author and Speaker Just listen to the still voice within This is the mind to trust This is god

consciousness speaking not the ego that is seeking recognition

~Angela Walker

There is a prayer that lives in the center of your heart If you pray it it will

change your life How does it begin

-- Matthew Anderson

For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin but there was

always some obstacle in the way Something had to be got through first some

unfinished business time still to be served a debt to be paid Then life would

begin At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life

~ Bette Howland

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power then the world will know

peace

Jimmy Hendrix There are two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the

credit Try to be in the first group there is less competition there

Indira Gandhi Its good to have money and all the things that money can buy but its good too to

make sure you havent lost the things that money cant buy George

Horace Lorimer When you take things for granted the things you are granted get taken

Phil Hennessy Self-confidence is a state of mind where you believe that you deserve the best

you are capable of achieving the best and furthermore you expect the best to

happen

--- Dr Barnet Meltzer Writing is good thinking is better Cleverness is good patience is better

~ Hermann Hesse

You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the

greatness you perceive in them is your own

-- Alan Cohen

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their

gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible

Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924 Writer I will not condemn you for what you did yesterday If you do it right today

--Sheldon S Maye

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength

not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will

~ Vince Lombardi

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The moment one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too

-- William Hutchinson Murray

Youve got to get up every morning with determination if youre going to

go to bed with satisfaction

-- George Horace Lorimer Faith is born of Definiteness of Purpose

Keep your mind on the things that you do want and off the things that you do not

want

~ Unknown You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals

George S Patton 1885-1945 American Army General

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have

thrown at him

~ David Brinkley

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough

~ Helen Keller

If what you did yesterday seems big you havent done anything

today

Lou Holtz

Dont wait for extraordinary opportunities Seize common occasions and make

them great Weak menwomen wait for opportunities strong menwomen make

them

~ Orison Swett Marden

The recognition you seek from others is really the recognition you seek from

yourself Give it to yourself and you wont need it from others

-- Alan Cohen Ninety percent of the population wish positive but think negative

~ Leslie Householder

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You are more likely to create success when you are relaxed about a result than

when you are uptight about it

-- Alan Cohen Embrace Change True success can be defined by your ability to adapt to

changing circumstances

-- Connie Sky Aim High The important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for

what we could become

-- Charles Du Bos Dont ask for an easier life ask to be a stronger person

Shared by Kristen Goeser

Your consciousness is a powerful force for creating It determines the people you

are attracted to and the people who are attracted to you If you want to improve

your lot in life or the quality of your relationships choosing to accept personal

responsibility is the first and most important step

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise it is all

over Bolt up at once

-- Sir Walter Scott

You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you cant have it

- Dr Robert Anthony Live so that you wouldnt be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip

Will Rogers 1879-1935 Comedian and Actor

Everyone rides on the merry go round of life but very few ever take the chance

at the brass ring

-- Kevin Veitch

We gain internal freedom through external actions

- Ram Dass

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Everyone was born original but most people die copies

~ Unknown Without passion you dont have energy without energy you have nothing Nothing

great in the world has been accomplished without passion

~ Donald Trump When one door of happiness closes another opens But often we look so long at

the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened before us

~ Helen Keller

I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please

everybody

Bill Cosby Comedian Actor and Author Give up your identity as a seeker and become a finder Then everything you ever

sought will find you

-- Alan Cohen

The reason we put a lot of emphasis on action is because we do not understand the

power of our thought If you analyze it 90 percent of most peoples actions

are spent trying to compensate for inappropriate thought

~ Dr Robert Anthony Prosperity lets go the bridle

-- George Herbert

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered

heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed They won because they refused to

become discouraged by their defeats

Bertie Charles Forbes 1880-1954 Financial Journalist Author and Founder of Forbes Magazine He who jumps to conclusions falls to their death

-- Mark J Ottaviani Im not a believer in nor the advocate of miracles for the reason that I

have enough knowledge of nature to understand that nature never deviates from

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her established laws Her laws are simply so incomprehensible that they produce

what appears to be miracles

~ Napoleon Hill Learn to listen Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly

Frank Tyger

Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways you can as long as

ever you can

John Wesley Work like you dont need the money Love like youve never been hurt Dance like

nobody is watching

-- Mark Twain

You believe that a lover will bring you love but it is your love that will bring you a

lover

-- Alan Cohen

The Universe is not punishing you or blessing you

The Universe is responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting The

more joyful you are the more Well-being flows to you

~Abraham-Hicks What nourishes you is not vitamins in food It is the joy you feel in eating it

-- Ramtha

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this

decide what you want

Ben Stein Attorney Author Actor and Commentator

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure to embrace

the new But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful There is

more security in the adventurous and exciting for in movement there is life and in

change there is power

mdashAlan Cohen

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Vision without action is a daydream Action without vision is a nightmare

-- Japanese Proverb

Success is the result of applying sound principles which align with universal laws

The Science of Success is a powerful road map to guarantee your personal

success

~ Brian Tracy

Part of you thinks that you are not going to die because part of you is not going to

die

-- Alan Cohen

There are 3 things that are certain in life death taxes and change You cant

avoid change its mandatory progress however is optional

-- Bill R Good Jr

Surrender the illusion that anyone other than you has power or authority over

your life

Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either

openly before us or close to us

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You must be the change you want to see in the world

~ Gandhi

Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a

friendly level

~ Max L Forman

If you want your life to be a magnificent story then begin by realizing that you

are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page

-- Mark Houlahan

If you want to develop in profound and significant ways it is essential that you

build up a reservoir of spiritual and emotional conviction a source of boundless

freedom that will give you the energy to transcend the apparent limitations of

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your own emotional psychological and cultural experience By practicing

meditation with deadly seriousness you cultivate that freedom and conviction in

no-limitation as a reference point Thats the only reason to meditate in the

context of Evolutionary Enlightenment

mdash Andrew Cohen

If our actions stem from honesty kindness caring and vision then no matter

what the result of our efforts we have added something of value to our souls and

to the world

~ Joan Boysenko

Too often the opportunity knocks but by the time you push back the chain push

back the bolt unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm its too late

~ Rita Coolidge We are formed and molded by our thoughts

Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts

give joy when they speak or act

Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them

~ Buddha

We feel most alive in the presence of the Beautiful for it meets the needs of the

soul

~ John OlsquoDonohue

No onelsquos past has to be a prison sentence Forgiveness provides the key to

acknowledge the past and move on When we can forgive we have less to be afraid

of

~ Dr Fred Luskin

Isnlsquot it strange that princesses and kings and clowns that caper in sawdust rings

and common people like you and me are builders for eternity Each is given a bag of

tools a shapeless mass a book of rules and each must make ere life is flown a

stumbling block or stepping stone

~ Edgar Guest

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly

~ Richard Bach

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I donlsquot wait for moods

You accomplish nothing if you do that Our mind must know it has got to get down

to work

~ Pearl S Buck

There is a giant asleep within every man When that giant awakes miracles happen

~ Fred Faust

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the

risk it took to bloom

~ Anais Nin

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid but he who conquers that fear

~ Nelson Mandela

Itlsquos not about breaking the rules

It is about abandoning the concept of rules altogether

~ Paul Lemberg

Each moment of our life we either invoke or destroy our dreams

~ Stuart Wilde

Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts This is the

secret of success

Swami Sivananda

Whatever you do do it as totally as possible

Osho

I am not afraidhellipI was born to do this

~Joan of Arc

―There is nothing that you cannot be do or have

~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given

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―Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success When you do a thing

do it with all your might Put your whole soul into it Stamp it with your own

personality Be active be energetic be enthusiastic and faithful and you will

accomplish your object Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Success is never final Failure is never fatal It is courage that counts

~ Winston Churchill

What are you tolerating that would not be a part of your ideal day

-- Alan Cohen Trust yourself You know more than you think you do

-- Dr Benjamin Spock True friends and healers do not limit your options They expand them

-- Alan Cohen When it comes to staying young a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day

-- Marty Bucella Achievement seems to be connected with action Successful men and women keep

moving They make mistakes but they dont quit

Conrad Hilton 1887-1979 Founder of Hilton Hotels Successful people form the habit of doing what failures dont like to do They like

the results they get by doing what they dont necessarily enjoy

Earl Nightingale1921-1989 Author and Syndicated Radio Personality When you are clear what you want will show up in your life and only to the extent

you are clear

Janet AttwoodAuthor of The Passion Test The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it

Chinese proverb

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery the human beings by

changing the inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their

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lives

~ William James

Never look up to the people who have the painted-perfect lives because try as

they might they can never see beyond the canvas

~ Moira Hallsom

Even from a dark night songs of beauty can be born

~ Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body

~ Pythagoras

If life gives you lemons make lemonade

~ Joan Collins

The only place where dreams are impossible is in your own mind

~ Emalie

Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions But no man has

a right to be wrong in his facts

~ Bernard M Baruch

Begin to weave and God will give you the thread

~ German Proverb

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss

~ David Eddings

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we

are and what we can be igniting the circuits of our highest potential

-- Rusty Berkus

The optimist says we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears

this is true

-- Source Unknown

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If I had listened to the critics Id have died drunk in the gutter

-- Chekov

Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice It is not a thing to be

waited for it is a thing to be achieved

-- Jeremy Kitson

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental

difference in someones life

- Sister Mary Rose McGeady

One never knows what each day is going to bring The important thing is to be

open and ready for it

- Henry Moore

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in

the same individual

- Arthur Koestler

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it

- Lou Holtz Motivation is like food for the brain You cannot get enough in one sitting It needs continual and

regular top ups

~ Peter Davies

Dont tell me how hard you work

Tell me how much you get done

~ James Ling

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures

dont like to do

~ Albert Gray

―There is a science of getting rich and it is an exact science like algebra or arithmetic There

are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches and once these laws are learned

and obeyed by anyone that person will get rich with mathematical certainty ~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich

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―Everything you want should be yours the type of work you want the relationships you need

the social mental and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled the money

you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you and any requirement that you may (or

may not) have for achievement or service to others If you donlsquot aim for it all youlsquoll never get it

all To aim for it requires that you know what you want ~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle ―Eliminate the word impossible from your thinking and speaking vocabularies Impossible is a

failure word The thought ―Itlsquos impossible sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove

youlsquore right ~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big ―Think Big and youlsquoll live big Youlsquoll live big in happiness Youlsquoll live big in accomplishment Big in

income Big in friends Big in respecthellip Start now right now to discover how to make your

thinking make magic for you Start out with this thought of the great philosopher Disraeli ―Life

is too short to be little ~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big ―If you have a big problem in your life all that means is that you are being a small person ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind ―It all comes down to this if your subconscious financial blueprintlsquo is not setlsquo for success

nothing you learn nothing you know and nothing you do will make much of a difference ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you If God gives you a bucket of fish you

have to distribute those fish If you donlsquot theylsquore going to rot attract a bunch of flies and

start stinking up your soul ~ Russell Simmons from Do You ―In my experience therelsquos only one thing that will always steer you toward success Thatlsquos to

have a vision and to stick with ithellip Once I have a vision for a new venture Ilsquom going to ride that

vision until the wheels come off ~ Russell Simmons quotes from Do You

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery the human beings by changing the

inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their lives

~ William James

There is no courage without fear

~ Eddie Rickenbacher

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make who would you call and what

would you say And why are you waiting

-- Stephen Levine

Remember we all stumble every one of us Thats why its a comfort to go hand in hand

~ Emily Kimbrough The inspiration of the almighty gives man understanding

~ the Bible

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives

~ Louise Hay

The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation

~ Comer Cotrell

Give it all youve got because you never know if theres going to be a next time

~ Danielle Ingrum

Dont try to force anything Let life be a deep let-go God opens millions of flowers everyday

without forcing their buds

~Osho

The definition of Insanity is Doing the Same Things Over and Over Again and Expecting Different

Results

~ Albert Einstein

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us This little treasure

has great great powers and I would say we only have learnt a very very small part of what it can

do

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work

~ John G Pollard

Vacation is a state of mind not an action

-- Alan Cohen

Whatever games are played with us we must play no games with ourselves

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Desperation does not recognize your power to choose

-- Alan Cohen

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When people talk listen completely Most people never listen

-- Ernest Hemingway

Heaven is gained or lost not by dramatic deeds but by the simple of acts of daily living

-- Alan Cohen

There is only one voice worth listening to

--Alan Cohen Reverie is not a mind vacuum It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul

--Gaston Bachelard

Why get rich quick when you can be rich now

-- Alan Cohen

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure

-- Joseph Campbell

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always view problems as opportunities in work clothes

-- Henry Kaiser

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character of

another

Winston Churchill 1874-1965 Former British Prime Minister

When you are clear what you want will show up in your life and only to the extent you are clear

Janet Attwood Author of The Passion Test

New peace harmony and power fill your relationships when you practice radical personal

responsibility Through it you enter a more refined sphere of relating that enhances your life and

accelerates the realization of your ultimate spiritual self Practicing radical personal responsibility

forever changes the way you approach and resolve conflict

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The Cure for the Common Upset (p 10)

Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and

discomfort We spend enormous energy denying our insecurity fighting pain death and loss and

hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature

- Jack Kornfield A Path with Heart

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Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well I am not aware of

any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking not exercise not drugs not surgery--that has

a greater impact on our quality of life incidence of illness and premature death

- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant they is a fuel in us which needs

to be ignited with sparks

Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Energy is the essence of life Every day you decide how youre going to use it by

knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal and by maintaining

focus

-Oprah Winfrey

The acquisition of wealth is no longer a driving force in the 24th century We

strive to better ourselves and the rest of humanity

-- From the movie Star Trek Insurrection

―You cannot exercise much power without gratitude for it is gratitude that keeps

you connected with Power

~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich

―To do things in a way you want to do them you will have to acquire the ability to

think the way you want to think this is the first step toward getting rich

~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich

―There are three crucial dimensions to your explanatory style permanence

pervasiveness and personalization

~ Martin Seligman from Learned Optimism

―Habits of thinking need not be forever One of the most significant findings in

psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they

think

~ Martin Seligman from Learned Optimism

―Action always beats inaction ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

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―Itlsquos not enough to be in the right place at the right time You have to be the right person in the

right place at the right time ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―Every thought vibrates every thought radiates a signal and every thought

attracts a matching signal back We call that process the Law of Attraction The

Law of Attraction says That which is like unto itself is drawn And so you might

see the powerful Law of Attraction as a sort of Universal Manager that sees to it

that all thoughts that match one another line up

~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given

―It is our desire that you become one who is happy with that which you are and

with that which you havemdashwhile at the same time being eager for more That is the

optimal creative vantage point To stand on the brink of what is coming feeling

eager optimistic anticipationmdashwith no feelings of impatience doubt or

unworthiness hindering the receiving of itmdashthat is the Science of Deliberate

Creation at its best

~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given

―As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around you come to see that every

perceived problem appearing ―out there is really nothing more than a

misperception within your own thinking

~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is

―The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is

When the mind is perfectly clear what is is what we want

~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself You must be

able to sustain yourself against staggering blows There is no code of conduct to

help beginners That is why some people with mediocre talent but with great inner

drive go much further than people with vastly superior talent

Sophia Loren Actress

And in the end its not the years in your life that count Its the life in your

years

-- Abraham Lincoln

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Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by

holding grudges harboring resentments and nursing unhealed wounds It is

rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to

understand and accept other people and ourselves

~ Sidney and Suzanne Simon

Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action for all eternity

Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801 Poet and Physiognomist People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do

things When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success

Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993 Speaker and Author Every achiever that I have ever met says My life turned around when I began to

believe in me

Dr Robert H Schuller Minister and Author

With love in you your only need is to extend it

-- A Course in Miracles

Just because it ended doesnt mean it failed

-- Alan Cohen

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find

it

-- George Moore

Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality

-- Alan Cohen

Our biggest problems cannot be resolved They must be outgrown

-- Carl Jung

True prayer penetrates beyond hope and establishes itself in knowing

-- Alan Cohen

So we see to play successfully the game of life we must train the imaging faculty

A person with an imaging faculty trained to image only good brings into his life

every righteous desire of his heart - health wealth love friends perfect self-

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expression his highest ideals

mdash Florence Scovel Shinn

Dont ask what the world needs ask what makes you come alive and go do it

Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

mdashHoward Thurman

To the degree were not living our dreams our comfort zone has more control of

us than we have over ourselves

-- Peter McWilliams

Never let your memories be greater than your dreams

-- Doug Ivester (President of Coca Cola)

It is not length of life but depth of life

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches with them but

to reveal their own

-- Author Unknown

A free lunch is only found in mousetraps

-- John Capuzzi

If you have the will to win you have achieved half your success if you dont you

have achieved half your failure

-- David Ambrose

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesnt lie in not reaching your

goal The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach It isnt a calamity to die with

dreams unfulfilled but it is a calamity not to dream It is not a disaster to be

unable to capture your ideal but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture It is

not a disgrace not to reach the stars but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach

for Not failure but low aim is a sin

~ Benjamin E Mayes

True success is a state of mindThis mindset is the heart and soul of successful

entrepreneurial enterprise You cant get started without it and you cant make a

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business wildly profitable if you dont get it

~ Unknown

Traditional education will make you a living self-education will make you a

fortune

~ Jim Rohn One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests

~ John Stuart Mill

Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different Rather than wasting

time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we dont have what we

want we can start to pursue other ways to get it

~ Greg Anderson

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it

~ Rudy Guilliani ―Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential And to

do that I insist you throw caution at the wind ignore the pleas of parents

coaches spouses and bosses to be realisticlsquo Realistic people do not accomplish

extraordinary things because the odds of success stymie them The best

performers ignore the odds I will show that instead of limiting themselves to

whatlsquos probable the best will pursue the heart-pounding exciting really big

difference-making dreamsmdashso long as catching them might be possible

~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement ―To be sure great performers are well trained experienced smart and in some

cases divinely talented But the way their brains work during a performance is a

lot more like a squirrellsquos than like Einsteinlsquos Like squirrels the best in every

business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilitiesmdashthey

flat out trust their skills which is why we call this high-performance state of mind

the ―Trusting Mindset Routine access to the Trusting Mindset is what separates

great performers from the rest of the pack

~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement ―In every forest on every farm in every orchard on earth itlsquos whatlsquos under the

ground that creates whatlsquos above the ground Thatlsquos why placing your attention on

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the fruits that you have already grown is futile You cannot change the fruits that

are already hanging on the tree You can however change tomorrowlsquos fruits But to

do so you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―Believe that you are the one who creates your success that you are the one who

creates your mediocrity and that you are the one creating your struggle around

money and success

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―8020 thinking requires and with practice enables us to spot the few really important things

that are happening and ignore the mass of unimportant things It teaches us to see the wood

for the trees ~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle

―The few things that work fantastically well should be identified cultivated nurtured and

multiplied

~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle

―We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection Itlsquos about a process a journey The

master is the one who stays on the path day after day year after year The master is the one

who is willing to try and fail and try again for as long as he or she lives ~ George Leonard from Mastery

―Whenever you feel shortlsquo or in needlsquo of something give what you want first and it will come

back in buckets That is true for money a smile love friendship I know it is often the last

thing a person may want to do but it has always worked for me I just trust that the principle

of reciprocity is true and I give what I want ~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad

―One dad would sayThe love of money is the root of all evillsquo The other The lack of money is

the root of all evillsquo ~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall every step we

take just gets us to the wrong place faster

Stephen Covey

Becoming a star may not be in your destiny but being the best

that you can be is a goal you can set for yourselves

Bryan Lindsay

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Be yourself Who else is better qualified

Frank J Giblin II

Do not learn from your mistakes learn from the mistakes of others

to that you do not make any

Sean Karsten

Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower

Shigenori Kameoka

Every achiever that I have ever met says My life turned around when I began to believe in me

Dr Robert H Schuller Minister and Author

Upsets always contain the gift of learning except most people have never learned how to unwrap

the package

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is

causing anxiety

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970 British philosopher mathematician essayist) Great souls have wills feeble ones have only wishes

Chinese Proverb

We must not promise what we ought not lest we be called on to perform what we cannot

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))

Dont measure yourself by what you have accomplished but by what you should have accomplished

with your ability

John Wooden (1910- American basketball coach)

Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty

John Ruskin (1819-1900 British critic social theorist)

Something good is already happening Can you discover it

-- Alan Cohen

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if theyve got a second Give your

dreams all youve got and youll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you

William James 1842-1910 Philosopher and Author

Out of suffering comes creativity You cannot spell painting without pain

-- John Lithgow in Third Rock From the Sun

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The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings the past and the

future are not as real but rather more real than the present

- Alan Watts

Boldness has genius power and magic in it Begin it now

~ Goethe

―In the heart of Emptiness there is a mysterious impulse mysterious because

there is actually nothing in the heart of Emptiness (for there is nothing in

Emptiness period) Yet there it is this mysterious impulse the impulse to hellip

create To sing to shine to radiate to send forth reach out and celebrate to

sing and shout and walk about to effervesce and bubble over this mysterious

exuberance in the heart of Emptiness

~ Ken Wilber from One Taste July 31

―Evolution goes beyond what went before but because it must embrace what went

before then its very nature is to transcend and include and thus it has an inherent

directionality a secret impulse toward increasing depth increasing intrinsic value

increasing consciousness In order for evolution to move at all it must move in

those directionsmdashtherelsquos no place else for it to go

~ Ken Wilber from A Brief History of Everything

The secret of being boring is to say everything

- Voltaire 1694-1778 French Writer and Philosopher

―Donlsquot let what you canlsquot do stop you from what you can do

- John Wooden

―You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the

shore

- Christopher Columbus

―Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall

- Confucius

―A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed

- Henrik Ibsen

―It is our choices that show what we truly are far more than our abilities

- JK Rowling

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―If you are going through hell keep going

- Winston Churchill

―Yesterday is history Tomorrow is a mystery Today Today is a gift Thatlsquos why

we call it the present

- B Olatunji

―To live is the rarest thing in the world Most people exist thatlsquos all

- Oscar Wilde

―You donlsquot get to choose how you are going to die Or when You can only decide how

you are going to live Now

- Joan Baez

―When one door of happiness closes another opens But often we look so long at

the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us

- Helen Keller

―Imagination is more important than knowledge Knowledge is limited Imagination

encircles the world

- Albert Einstein

―If you want to be happy be

- Leo Tolstoy

―Always do right This will gratify some people and astonish the rest

- Mark Twain

―We must be the change we want to see

- Gandhi

―The friend in my adversity I shall always treasure most I can better trust those

who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to

enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity

- Ulysses S Grant

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―Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting

- Elizabeth Bibesco

―The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort but

where he stands at times of conflict and controversy

- Martin Luther King Jr

―Begin doing what you want to do now We are not living in eternity We have only

this moment sparkling like a star in our hand ndash and melting like a snow flake

- MB Ray

―I shall pass through this life but once Any good therefore that I can do let me

do it now Let me not defer or neglect it For I shall never pass this way again

- Etienne de Grellet

―This above all To your own self be true

- William Shakespeare

―To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make

you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight

and never stop fighting

- EE Cummings

―In three words I can sum up what Ilsquove learned about life It goes on

- Robert Frost

―Imagine

- John Lennon

You can if you think you can

George Reeves

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile

achievement

Henry Ford 1863-1947 Industrialist

No man is capable of self-improvement if he sees no other model but himself

-- Conrado I Generoso

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When I am delivering my very best then that is when I feel successful

~ Art Fettig

The only limitations you will ever have are the ones you put on yourself

~ Kristinna Habashy

The secret of manwomans being is not only

to live but to have something to live for

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

To hell with circumstances I create opportunities

~ Bruce Lee

Simplicity is making the journey of this life

with just baggage enough

~ Charles Dudley Warner

I dont think theres any such thing as setting your goals too high The higher you

set your goals the more you are going to work If you dont reach them then its

okay just as long as you set it and then give 100 of yourself

~ Dan Jansen Speed Skater

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts the circle of Creation

is completed inside us the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal

everything in sight

~ Michael Bridge

Youlsquore darn tootinlsquo Ilsquom going to bring out the best in you You are the best

― Maureen Coleman middle school teacher

Truth is rarely writ in ink It lives in nature

-- Martin H Fischer

Before planning where you want to go decide who you want to be

-- Alan Cohen

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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day wisdom consists in not

exceeding the limit

-- Elbert Hubbard

Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere

-- Alan Cohen

When the Japanese mend broken objects they fill the cracks with gold They

believe that when somethings suffered damage and has a history it becomes more

beautiful

-- Barbara Bloom

Efficiency without love is not really efficient

-- Alan Cohen

The purpose of time is to enable you to learn how to use time constructively

-- A Course in Miracles

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than

any other one thing

Laura Ingalls Wilder 1867-1957 Author

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as

few as there are any other great artists It might even be the greatest of the arts

since the medium is the human mind and spirit

John Steinbeck 1902-1968 Writer and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

Be careful what you spend your day touching because it will shape your mind your

body and your heart

Sam Keen Speaker and Author

I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in

the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life he has imagined he will

meet with success unexpected in common hours

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 Writer and Poet

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out

― Michael Burke

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Turn frustration into fascination

-- Dr Richard Bartlett

Money is not the source of life It is an expression or by-product of doing what

brings you life

-- Alan Cohen

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but

sand the angels come to visit us and we only know them when they are gone

- George Elliot

Proceed when clear

-- Alan Cohen

Slow down and enjoy life Its not only the scenery you miss by going too fast --

you also miss the sense of where you are going and why

Eddie Cantor

Life is here to enjoy The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness When it

appears otherwise you are off the path of destiny Look at your life and ask

What do I need to change to choose in favor of my passions

Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life Be happy now Dont wait for something

outside of yourself to make you happy in the future Think how really precious is

the time you have to spend whether its at work or with your family Every minute

should be enjoyed and savored

Earl Nightingale

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life It turns what we have into enough and

more It turns denial into acceptance chaos into order confusion into clarity It

turns problems into gifts failures into success the unexpected into perfect

timing and mistakes into important events Gratitude makes sense of our past

brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow

Melodie Beattie Writer

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Devotion is commitment at a deep cellular level When you are devoted the

universe will align itself to give you what you desire

Rich German Author of Monetize Your Passion

Action breeds confidence and courage If you want to conquer fear do not sit

home and think about it Go out and get busy

~ Dale Carnegie

The mind turned inwards is the Self turned outwards it becomes the ego and all

the world

~Ramana Maharshi

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be

~Daniel J Boorstin

The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively

from his own resources

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire

not things we fear

~ Brian Tracy

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game and no matter how

great your talent there is only one way to obtain it-work

~ Jack Nicklaus Golfer

A goal without a plan is merely a WISH without a HOPE

~ Unknown

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan in which we must

fervently believe and upon which we must vigorously act There is no other route

to success

~ Stephen A Brennan

Knowledge breeds doubt Wisdom births wonder

Alan Cohen

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When you decide what you want it has to manifestbut only at the level of your

belief

Rich German Author of Monetize Your Passion

Friendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity

- John Dryden

It may make people feel more secure when everyone agrees with them but it

wont create a world made rich by the unique and diverse expressions of the human

soul

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart

Choice is destinys soul mate

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Truth is a gem of many facets Each facet reflects the brilliance within and

without But the whole reveals a deeper more profound message than all the parts

by themselves

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart

He who knows others is wise he who knows himself is enlightened

- Tao Te Ching

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers but for powers equal to

our tasks

-- Helen Keller

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret

-- Ambrose Bierce

We must all suffer one of two things the pain of discipline or the pain of regret

or disappointment

-- Jim Rohn

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Many risks fail because they were not taken in time Too many risks are postponed

until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made This does not mean that one

should say Damn the torpedoes full speed ahead That is foolish and self-

destructive But dont sit back waiting for the perfect moment It almost never

comes

-- David Viscott Risking

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter

-- E E Cummings

Reflect upon your blessings of which every man has plenty not on your past

misfortunes of which all men have some

-- Charles Dickens

What the caterpillar calls the end the rest of the world calls a butterfly

-- Lao Tsu

Out of difficulties grow miracles

-- Jean De La Bruyere

Our patience will achieve more than our force

-- Edmund Burke

You must pay in the past to receive in the future

-- Taylor Simpson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what

lies within us

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why Why Not Why Not You Why Not Now

-- Aslan

To become a leader then you must become yourself become the maker of your

own life

--Warren G Bennis

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You have got to discover you what you do and trust it

Barbra Streisand

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts the

circle of Creation is completed inside us the doors of our souls

fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight

Michael Bridge

Each of us feels that we are just a drop in the ocean but the

ocean would be less without that missing drop

Mother Teresa

You dont just stumble into the future You create your own future

Roger Smith

Just dont give up on trying to do what you really want to do

Where there is love and inspiration I dont think you can go

wrong

Ella Fitzgerald

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot

do

Walter Bagehot

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser

John W Gardner

Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life

forever

Keri Russell

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while

so that we can see Life with a clearer view again

Alex Tan

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There never was a great soul that did not have some divine

inspiration

Marcus T Cicero

Youve got to follow your passion Youve got to figure out what

it is you love--who you really are And have the courage to do

that

Oprah Winfrey

Everything that occurs is an opportunity to experience Love

mdashRich German

Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small

things brought together

- Vincent Van Gogh

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark The real tragedy is when

men are afraid of the light

-- Plato

If I had to select one quality one personal characteristic that I regard as being

most highly correlated with success whatever the field I would pick the trait of

persistence

Richard DeVos Co-Founder of Amway

Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination allows vision and gives us the right

stuff to turn our dreams into reality

~James Womack

No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn

-- Hal Borland

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives We must take charge

of our own destinies design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams

- Les Brown

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on

We act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because

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of imagination

- Maxwell Maltz

There is a sleeping giant in you Release it Believe in yourself

~ Bob Proctor

Wealth depends chiefly on two words industry and frugality that is waste

neither time nor money but make the best use of both

-- Benjamin Franklin

When you talk to God thats prayer When God talks back its schizophrenia

-- Lily Tomlin

Work is not a substitute for love It is an avenue of loves expression

-- Alan Cohen

Look beyond peoplelsquos appearances

Look beyond the roles one plays and the mask they wear

Look deep into their eyes and peer into their soul

There you will find their true essence

There you will find your true essence

And that essence is love

mdashRich German

Everything that occurs is an opportunity to experience Love

mdashRich German

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a

life spent doing nothing

George Bernard Shaw

Formula for success under promise and over deliver

Tom Peters

Efficiency is doing things right effectiveness is doing the right things

Peter F Drucker

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Be the change that you want to see in the world

Mahatma Gandhi

Creating space is as important as filling it

-- Alan Cohen

Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Words may guide you to the door of heaven but only silence opens it

-- Alan Cohen

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more

useful than a life spent doing nothing

Bernard Shaw

Formula for success under promise and over deliver

Tom Peters

Efficiency is doing things right effectiveness is doing the right

things

Peter F Drucker

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives We must take charge

of our own destinies design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams

- Les Brown

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works onWe

act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because of

imagination

- Maxwell Maltz

No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn

-- Hal Borland

There is a sleeping giant in you

Release it Believe in yourself

~ Bob Proctor

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Wealth depends chiefly on two words industry and frugality that is waste

neither time nor money but make the best use of both

-- Benjamin Franklin

Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination allows vision and gives us the right

stuff to turn our dreams into reality

~James Womack

If I had to select one quality one personal characteristic that I regard as being

most highly correlated with success whatever the field I would pick the trait of

persistence

Richard DeVos Co-Founder of Amway

The best way to teach people is by telling a story

Jonathan Swift

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking

what nobody else has thought

Kenneth Blanchard

All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it

-Samuel Butler

Happiness is like a cat If you try to coax it or call it it will avoid you It will never

come

But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business youll find it rubbing

up against your legs and jumping into your lap

- William Bennett

The word impossible is only in the mind and not in the heart

- Sri Chinmoy

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another it is the only

means

Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Physicist

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Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone

And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone

Paul Tillich

Sometimes the cards we are dealt are not always fair However you must keep

smiling amp moving on

~ Tom Jackson

Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you

- Elbert Hubard

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends

with anyone else in the world

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Thus nature has no love for solitude and always leans as it were on some support

and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship

- Cicero

So it is life is actually made up of our choices We are the sum total of them and

if we hold to an attitude of love and thanksgiving for all the good things within our

grasp we may have what all ambitious people long for - success

Delma Neeley

Believe and your belief will create the fact

~ William James

The principle is competing against yourself

Its about self improvement about being better than you were the day before

~ Steve Young

All of us you your children your neighbors and their children are

everyday geniuses even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by

everyone Thats probably because school hasnt encouraged us to notice whats

hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself

~ Peter Kline

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If youll not settle for anything less than your best you will be amazed at what

you can accomplish in your lives

Vince Lombardi

Ya gotta put your behind in your past

Then youre ready for whatever comes next

~ Pumba The Lion King

Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become

~ James Allen

Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well what

causes sadness and what brings happiness what makes us suffer and what leads to

healing

~ Dean Ornish MD

Three components make an entrepreneur the person the ideaand the resources

to make it happen

~ Anita Roddick

What we can or cannot do what we consider possible or impossible is rarely a

function of our true capability It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who

we are

~ Anthony Robbins

Either Do or Do Not There is No Try

~ George Lucas

Theres a name for the magic that transforms lives connects dots moves

mountains and orchestrates coincidences that shock and astound Imagination

And theres a name for all that stops you in your tracks stirs fear spins wheels

and leaves one wondering Hey whats up with that Imagination

Careful where you point that thing

~ The Universe

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with

them

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faith is a passionate intuition

-William Wordsworth

Friendship is a sheltering tree

--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision Vision is the perfume

of the mind

--Harriet Rubin

Striving for excellence motivates you striving for perfection is demoralizing

--Harriet Braiker

I can feel guilty about the past apprehensive about the future but only in the

present can I act The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of

mental wellness

-Abraham Maslow 1908-1970 Psychologist

In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge

-Aristotle

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our

potential

Sir Winston Churchill 1874-1965 Former British Prime Minister

The minute you settle for less than you deserve you get even less than you

settled for

Maureen Dowd Newspaper Columnist

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything

outside ourselves will affect us

Stephen R Covey Author and Speaker

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Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually

attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life

Christiane Northrup Medical Doctor and Author

We must learn to keep ourselves awake by an infinite expectation of the

dawn

-- Henry David Thoreau

You dont need to struggle to get your body to do or be what your spirit already is

-- Alan Cohen

One must steer not talk

-- Seneca

The more you quantify the less you qualify

-- Alan Cohen

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know Most are

born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly

-- Buckminster Fuller

Any act motivated by guilt does not assuage guilt but perpetuates it

-- Alan Cohen

Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for

themselves

-- Peter McArthur

Be so good they cant ignore you

Steve Martin

Its kind of fun to do the impossible

Walt Disney

Its easy to make a buck Its a lot tougher to make a difference

Tom Brokaw

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When I hear somebody sigh Life is hard I am always tempted to

ask Compared to what

Sydney J Harris

In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing The worst

thing you can do is nothing

Sam Walton

I had to pick myself up and get on with it do it all over again only even better

this time

Theodore Roosevelt

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process

~ Jim Rohn

If you can imagine it you can achieve it If you can dream it you can become it

~ William Arthur Ward

There is much in the world to make us afraid There is much more in our faith to

make us unafraid

-- Cropp

Pray for essence rather than form and the form will be a perfect expression of

the essence

-- Alan Cohen

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change

Charles R Swindoll Author and Pastor

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with

- Jim Rohn

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your

dreams

- Les Brown

Life is 10 of what happens to me and 90 of how I react to it

John Maxwell

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What you see depends on what youre looking for

Anon

Mind over matter If you dont mind it doesnt matter

-- Alan Cohen

When you are clear on want to how to shows up

-- Michael Neill

Quit struggling to make your body do or be what your spirit already is

-- Alan Cohen

Truth is the offspring of silence and unbroken meditation

-- Isaac Newton

Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal Whatever you invest it

in will yield more of the same

-- Alan Cohen

When you find yourself stressed ask yourself one question Will this matter five

years from now If yes then do something about the situation If no then let it

go

Catherine Pulsifer Writer

Theres plenty of intelligence in the world but the courage to do things

differently is in short supply

Marilyn vos Savant Columnist Author and Lecturer

Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced

by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas

a strong faith is strengthened by them

Viktor E Frankl 1905-1997 Holocaust Survivor and Author of Mans Search for

Meaning

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength

Richard L Evans

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You were not born a winner and you were not born a loser You are

what you make yourself be

Lou Holtz

Remember if you ever need a helping hand youll find one at the

end of your arm As you grow older you will discover that you

have two hands One for helping yourself the other for helping

others

Audrey Hepburn

Dont take life too seriously because youll never get out alive

Josh Shippe

Without hard work nothing grows but weeds

Gordon B Hinckley

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies

--Mother Teresa

Do what you can to show you care about other people and you will make our world

a better place

--Rosalynn Carter

Again and again the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is

only a tough decision waiting to be made

--Robert H Schuller

If in our daily life we can smile if we can be peaceful and happy not only we but

everyone will profit from it This is the most basic kind of peace work

--Thich Nhat Hanh

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties

disappear and obstacles vanish into air

- John Quincy Adams

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win

~ GK Chesterton

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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown for going

out I found was really going in

mdashJohn Muir 1913

To me itlsquos really so simple that life should be lived on the edge You

have to exercise rebellion To refuse to tape yourself to the rules

to refuse your own success to refuse to repeat yourself to see

every day every year every idea as a true challenge Then you will

live your life on the tightrope

mdashPhilippe Petit (star of the movie Man on Wire)

The first step to creating the lifestyle of your dreams is to simplify

your life

mdashRich German

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist sees

problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems

Winston Churchill

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you

have and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more

~ Robert Collier

Instead of waiting for someone to take you under their wing go out there and

find a good wing to climb under

~ Dave Thomas

If you would convince others seem open to conviction yourself

~ Lord Chesterfield

The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable

competitive advantage

~ Arie de Geus

Human life is purely a matter of deciding whats important to you

-- Source unknown

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Determination and perseverance move the world thinking that others will do it

for you is a sure way to fail

Marva Collins Educator

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them

~ Walt Disney

Everything that happens to you is self-created Whenever youre responding to

any situation whether its a sip of coffee or a traffic jam or a love note or

criticism from a boss or rainy weather youre in fact responding to a signal that

you generated within yourself

- Deepak Chopra

Relationships are not about intellect they are about feeling They require an

intelligence of the heart

- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is

when adults are afraid of the light

- Plato

A good listener is someone who is curious open-minded and nonjudgmental A

good listener is not a know-it-all A good listener knows that truth often reveals

itself bit by bit much like putting together a jigsaw puzzle

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart

Its the night that makes the dawning

Its the depths that make the heights

Its the roots that make the branches

Its the darkness that gives birth to Light

- Joel Heathcote

How you hear what someone says is determined by your interpretations and your

interpretations flow from your past This is very important to know especially if

you find that you overreact to what others say or habitually get your feelings hurt

Remember what someone said is not necessarily what you heard and what you

heard is not necessarily what they meant

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart

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―Everything ndash a horse a vine ndash is created for some dutyhellipFor what task then

were you yourself created A manlsquos true delight is to do the things he was made

for

~ Marcus Aurelius from Meditations

―Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts for the soul becomes dyed with the

color of its thoughts Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as for example

Where life is possible at all a right life is possible

~ Marcus Aurelius from Meditations

―hellipEverything can be taken from a man but one thing the last of the human

freedomsmdashto choose onelsquos attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose

onelsquos own way

~ Viktor Frankl from Manlsquos Search for Meaning

―It did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life

expected from us We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life and

instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by lifemdashdaily

and hourly Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation but in right

action and in right conduct Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to

find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly

sets for each individual

~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Manlsquos Search for Meaning

―Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in lifehellip Therein he cannot be

replaced nor can his life be repeated Thus everyonelsquos task is as unique as is

his specific opportunity to implement it

~ Viktor Frankl from Manlsquos Search for Meaning

―Ultimately man should not ask what the meaning of his life is but rather must

recognize that it is he who is asked In a word each man is questioned by life

and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life to life he can only

respond by being responsible

~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Manlsquos Search for Meaning

―History though shows us that the people who end up changing the world- the

great political social scientific technological artistic even sports

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revolutionaries- are always nuts until theylsquore right and then theylsquore geniuses

~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement

―Great performers are by definition abnormal

~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement

―We all aspire to mastery but the path is always long and sometimes rocky and

it promises no quick pay off So we look for other paths each of which attracts

a different person

~ George Leonard from Mastery

―We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection Itlsquos about a process a

journey The master is the one who stays on the path day after day year after

year The master is the one who is willing to try and fail and try again for as

long as he or she lives

~ George Leonard from Mastery

At the heart of it mastery is practice Mastery is staying on the path

~ George Leonard from Mastery

―Comfort kills If your goal in life is to be comfortable I guarantee two things

First you will never be rich Second you will never be happy Happiness doesnlsquot

come from living a lukewarm life always wondering what could have been

Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up

to our fullest potential

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

―You can be a victim or you can be rich but you canlsquot be both Listen up Every

time and I mean every time you blame justify or complain you are slitting

your financial throat

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―Herelsquos an equation I want you to remember for the rest of your life CZ = WZ

It means your ―comfort zone equals your ―wealth zone By expanding your

comfort zone you will expand the size of your income and wealth zone

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

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―We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we

wait forever before taking action

~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big

―Donlsquot put off until tomorrow what you can do today

~ Benjamin Franklin

―Think Big and youlsquoll live big Youlsquoll live big in happiness Youlsquoll live big in

accomplishment Big in income Big in friends Big in respecthellip Start now right

now to discover how to make your thinking make magic for you Start out with

this thought of the great philosopher Disraeli Life is too short to be littlelsquo

~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big

―In the yogic tradition this principle of using intense effort to burn through

lifelsquos distractions is called Tapas Itlsquos another Sanskrit word roughly defined

as ―heat or ―essential energy The concept is that through a disciplined

approach to work and self-sacrifice Tapas will burn away the negativity that

separates us from God By working our hardest and happily enduring the

hardships of life we are able to create a sense of peace and clarity in

ourselves

~ Russell Simmons from Do You

―The person who understands Dharma will have the opposite reaction to a ―hard

job That person will be eager to get started no matter what kind of work is in

front of her because she understands that shelsquos doing Godlsquos work And when

youlsquore working for God nothing is too hard

~ Russell Simmons from Do You

―It all comes down to this if your subconscious financial blueprintlsquo is not setlsquo

for success nothing you learn nothing you know and nothing you do will make

much of a difference

~ Russell Simmons from Do You

―The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work

~ Vince Lombardi

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The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than

your best

~ Russell Simmons from Do You

―The poor and the middle class work for money The rich have money work for

them

~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad

―We all have tremendous potential and we all are blessed with gifts Yet the

one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt It is not so

much the lack of technical information that holds us back but more the lack of

self-confidence

~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad

―Who will you have to become to achieve all you want

~ Tony Robbins

―You could say that I worked every minute of my life or you could say with

equal justice that I never worked a day I have always subscribed to the

expression ―Thank God itlsquos Friday because to me Friday means I can work for

the next two days without interruption

~ John Hope Franklin

―I do not believe that you should devote overly much effort to correcting your

weaknesses Rather I believe that the highest success in living and the deepest

emotional satisfaction comes from building and using your signature strengths

~ Martin Seligman from Authentic Happiness

When you begin to recognize that your own presence here in this world is part of

something infinitely bigger than yourself you feel a sense of obligation awakening

within youmdasha spiritually inspired soul-level moral imperative to evolve for the sake

of the future of the evolutionary process itself The way you respond to that

obligation and to that sense of cosmic responsibility is by demonstrating that the

process is profoundly positivemdashindeed the process is sacredmdashthrough your own

example through your own victory through your own tangible and unmistakable

higher development

~ Andrew Cohen

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Its the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief And once that belief

becomes a deep conviction things begin to happen

Claude M Bristol 1891-1951 Author of The Magic of Believing

We cant fear the past Fear is a future thing And since the futures all in our

heads fear must be a head thing

Tom Payne Career Development Expert

I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please

everybody

Bill Cosby Actor and Comedian

If we are ever to enjoy life now is the time not tomorrow or next year Today

should always be our most wonderful day

- Thomas Dreier Author

Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their

personnel If people believe in themselves its amazing

what they can accomplish

--Sam Walton

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the

aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker

--Helen Keller

Close scrutiny will show that most crisis situations are opportunities to either

advance or stay where you are

- Maxwell Maltz

Be curious not judgmental

-Walt Whitman

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it

-William James

All life is an experiment

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone

acknowledges who we are and what we can be igniting the circuits

of our highest potential

Rusty Berkus

Being considerate of others will take your children further in

life than any college degree

Marian Wright Edelman

It is common sense to take a method and try it If it fails admit

it frankly and try another But above all try something

Franklin D Roosevelt

see without looking hear without listening breathe

without asking

W H Auden

Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways

you can as long as ever you can

John Wesley

Its better to reach for the stars and land on the roof than to

reach for the roof and land in the garbage

Savanna Skinner

Love looks through a telescope envy through a microscope

~ Josh Billings

Whats going on in the inside shows on the outside

~ Earl Nightingale

Consideration for others is the basis of a good life a good society

~ Confucius

Time is limited so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have

just one chance to live this particular day right and to string my days together

into a life of action and purpose

~ Lance Armstrong

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An ounce of action is worth a ton of good intentions

~ Michael Josephson

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others

-- Cicero

Simplicity Purity Clarity

-- Alan Cohen

Faith mighty faith the promise sees And looks to God alone Laughs at

impossibilities And cries it shall be done

-- Charles Wesley

What is genius but the mind heart and art of God shining to the world through an

open window

-- Alan Cohen

Intuition tells you what not why

-- Source unknown

Changing the world is a natural result of inner peace not a substitute for it

-- Alan Cohen

Fortune sides with him who dares

~ Virgil

We cant fear the past Fear is a future thing And since the futures all in

our heads fear must be a head thing

Tom Payne Career Development Expert

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you

mdashLewis Smedes Each of us has the power to make others more beautiful by our love

- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst a transformer

in any situation any organization Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an

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entire loaf It requires vision initiative patience respect persistence courage

and faith to be a transforming leader

Stephen Covey

Courage is grace under pressure

~ Ernest Hemingway

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions All life is an experiment

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

As long as Youre going o be thinking anyway Think BIG

~ Donald Trump

To win youve got to stay in the game

~ Claude M Bristol

The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head

-- Source unknown

Affirm your value by going where you are valued

-- Alan Cohen

Life is too short to hold a grudge also too long

-- Robert Brault

You cannot borrow greatness from another You can only claim it from within

yourself

-- Alan Cohen

One today is worth two tomorrows never leave that till tomorrow which you can

do today

Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 US Statesman Diplomat and Inventor

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs

the problem The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized

a problem and turned it into an opportunity

Joseph Sugarman Marketing Expert

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You wouldnt worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how

seldom they do

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 American First Lady Author Speaker and Politician

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions

- John Randolph

Opportunities They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere

waiting for the observant eye to discover it

- Orison Swett Marden

Yesterday ended last night Every day is a new beginning Learn the skill of

forgetting And move on

--Norman Vincent Peale

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual it is

best for the race because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every

department

ndash Andrew Carnegie entrepreneur

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society The optimist invents the

airplane and the pessimist the parachute

Gil Stern

Strive for integrity - that means knowing your values in life and behaving in a way

that is consistent with these values

Unknown

The country clubs the cars the boats your assets may be ample But the best

inheritance you can leave your kids Is to be a good example

Barry Spilchuk

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the

goal

Henry Ford

It is never too late to be what you might have been

George Eliott

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The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence the second listening the

third memory the fourth practice the fifth teaching others

Solomon Ibn Gabriol

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers You can tell whether a man is

wise by his questions

Naguib Mahfouz

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others

~ Erich Fromm

Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble

and grateful mind

~ Epictetus

Happiness is activity

~ Aristotle

Every action we take everything we do is either a victory or defeat in the

struggle to become what we want to be

~ Anne Byrhhe

In the absence of clearly defined goals we become strangely loyal to performing

daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it

Robert Heinlein Novelist

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the

consequences of any misfortune

William James 1842-1910 Psychologist and Author

To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle

-- Walt Whitman

God doesnt owe and neither do you

-- Alan Cohen

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Do what makes you smile

-- Dr Richard Bartlett

People who warn that everyone but members of their religion will go to hell dont

realize they are already there

-- Alan Cohen

The emotional frontier is truly the next frontier to conquer in human

understanding The opportunity we face now even before that frontier is fully

explored and settled is to develop our emotional potential and accelerate rather

dramatically into a new state of being

- Doc Childre and Howard Martin The HeartMath Solution

Real transformation requires that you have a beginners mind that you are willing

to say Whatever I think I know may be wrong

Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships

Heroes take journeys confront dragons and discover the treasure of their true

selves

- Carrol Pearson The Hero Within

If a man would move the world he

must first move himself

--Socrates

All sucessful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists They

believed that things went not by luck but by law

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

I skate to where the puck is going to be not where it is

-Wayne Gretzky

When given the choice between being right or being kind always choose kind

--Dr Wayne Dyer Never forget the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for

others

Sir John Templeton 1912-2008 Mutual Fund Pioneer and Philanthropist

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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome

Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Essayist Biographer and Poet

Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on

-- Alan Cohen

Shallow men believe in luck Strong men believe in cause and effect

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Contraction is a sign that birth is imminent

-- Alan Cohen

Work is an extension of personality It is achievement It is one of the ways in

which a person defines himself measures his worth ndash and his humanity

ndash Peter Drucker author

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends

-- John Ruskin

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities

--Janos Arnay

The first time you accept good is the last time you will see excellence

John Ulmo Life is like an onion

You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep

~ Carl Sandburg

Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light

~ L P Jacks Just as iron rusts from disuse even so does inaction spoil the intellect

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

As I grow older I pay less attention to what men sayI JUST watch what they

do

~ Andrew Carnegie

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All Things are Difficult before they are Easy

~ John Norley

Everything has been figured out except how to live

~ Jean Paul Sartre

Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving

Dennis Waitley

Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out

Robert Collier

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal

nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude

Thomas Jefferson

They can because they think they can

Virgil

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself

Menander

Years teach us more than books

Berthold Auerbach

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

When you delightfully fantasize about something you want you set into motion a

wave of energy that calls that situation into reality

-- Alan Cohen

Hurt people hurt people

-- Source unknown

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Doing the right thing may be different than what you have been taught the right

thing is

-- Alan Cohen

The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes

it happen

-- Frank Lloyd Wright All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say no and said yes

Moss Hart 1904-1961 Playwright and Theatre Director

We are built to conquer environment solve problems achieve goals and we find no

real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to

achieve

Maxwell Maltz 1899-1975 Author of Psycho-Cybernetics

You can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because thorns

have roses

-- Ziggy

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug

~ Patricia Neal

My night has become a sunny dawn because of you

--Ibn Abbad

All mankind is divided into three classes those that are immovable those that are

movable and those that move

--Benjamin Franklin

Dont compete Create Find out what everyone else is doing and then dont do it

mdashJoel Weldon

Show a little faith therelsquos magic in the night

mdashfrom ―Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen

Music is to me proof of the existence of God

It is so extraordinarily full of magic and in tough times

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of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference

mdashKurt Vonnegut

Discontent is the source of all trouble but also of all progress

in individuals and nations

Berthold Auerbach

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself

Thomas Sprat

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves

to copy

Oliver Goldsmith

If at first you dont succeed try try again Then quit Theres

no use being a damn fool about it

WC Fields

Impatience never commanded success

Edwin H Chapin

In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are the safest

~ Livy

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights

~ Henry David Thoreau

The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense

insoluble They can never be solved but only outgrown

~ Carl Jung

Life Begins When you Do

Hugh Downs Vision Without Action is a Daydream

Action Without Vision is a Nightmare

~ Japanese Proverb

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Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one

can possibly want and hold

-- Judith Olney

The love affair you seek is with yourself

-- Alan Cohen

The greatest power requires the lightest touch

-- BasharDarryl Anka

You only live once -- but its forever

-- Alan Cohen

Get off the cross Somebody needs the wood

-- From the film Straight Talk

There are two ways to live your life One is as though nothing is a miracle The

other is as though everything is a miracle

~ Albert Einstein

In the long run men hit only what they aim at

~ Henry David Thoreau philosopher

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state

of being alive If life is to be sustained hope must remain even where confidence is

wounded trust impaired

~Erik H Erikson

Freedom know this that every manwoman is free To choose his life and what

hell be For this eternal truth is given God will force no man to heaven Hell call

persuade direct aright Bless with wisdom love and light In nameless ways be

good and kind But never force the human mind

~ William C Clegg

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the

circumstances they want and if they canlsquot find them make them

~ George Bernard Shaw

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Relationships are not things We dont have relationships we are in relationship

with one another

- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships

Relationships are our primary teacher They are the context in which we either

grow into the consciousness of God or deny ourselves and others the opportunity

to do so

- Marianne Williamson

Listen deeply The greatest failure in any relationship is the failure to

participate

- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships

Your future is created by what you do today not tomorrow

Robert Kiyosaki

No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a

reality

Napoleon Hill

If you are not planning today you are planning to fail tomorrow

Gopal

How you do anything is how you do everything

T Harv Eker

There is little difference in people but that little difference

makes a big difference The little difference is attitude The

big difference is whether it is positive or negative

W Clement Stone

The vision must be followed by the venture It is not enough to

stare up the steps - We must step up the stairs

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Vance Havner

Go for it nowThe future is promised to no one

Wayne Dyer

If you realize how powerful your thoughts are you would never

think a negative thought

Peace Pilgrim

Either you run the day or the day runs you

Jim Rohn

You must go after your wish As soon as you start to pursue a

dream your life wakes up and everything has meaning

Barbara Sher

To succeed you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe

and act on it with all of your heart

Christy Borgeld

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers

Anonymous

Let him that would move the world first move himself

Socrates

By the time a man realizes that maybe

his father was right he usually has a son

who thinks hes wrong

~ Charles Wadworth

Without Mistakes Perfection is an Illusion

~ Daniel Frankel

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Its not the hours you put in

but what you put into the hours

that counts

~ Jim Rohn

Be swift to hear slow to speak slow to wrath

~ James 119

Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory

~ Ingrid Bergman

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word

~ William Makepease Thackeray

Professionalism is knowing how

to do it when to do it and doing it

~ Frank Tyger

Intention is not something you do

but rather a force that exists in the universe

as an invisible field of energy

-a power that can carry us

~ Dr Wayne Dyer

I personally measure success in terms

of the contributions an individual makes

to her or his fellow human beings

~ Margaret Mead

Some of the worlds greatest feats

were accomplished by people not

smart enough to know they were

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impossible

~ Doug Larson

Life is a flower of which love is the honey

~ Victor Hugo

Personal integrity is important

not because it gets us what we want

but because it helps us be what we want

~ Michael Josephson

Goals need to be configured to stretch us

but not to break us

~ Kent Krive

Children are apt to live up

to what you believe of them

~ Lady Bird Johnson

Do your work with your whole heart

and you will succeed

- theres so little competition

~ Elbert Hubbard

Hi Karl

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible

objections must first be overcome

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--Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Author

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter

even the most victorious life The human

spirit is never finished when it is defeated

- it is finished when it surrenders

-- Ben Stein Professor and Writer

Love is the first ingredient in the relief

of suffering

-- Padre Pio

Happiness is a function of accepting what is

--Werner Erhard

There are no shortcuts to any place

worth going

- Beverly Sills

It has never been and never will be

easy work But the road that is built in

hope is more pleasant to the traveler

than the road built in despair even though

they both lead to the same destination

~Marion Zimmer Bradley

The reality of life is that your perceptions --

right or wrong -- influence everything else

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you do When you get a proper perspective

of your perceptions you may be surprised

how many other things fall into place

~ Roger Birkman

Everybody is unique Do not compare yourself

with anybody else lest you spoil Gods curriculum

-- Baal Shem Tov

Everybody is unique Do not compare yourself

with anybody else lest you spoil Gods curriculum

-- Baal Shem Tov

Trust yourself You know more than

you think you do

ndash Benjamin Spock doctor

When you play it too safe youre taking

the biggest risk of your life

Time is the only wealth were given

--Barbara Sher

Creativity is inventing experimenting

growing taking risks breaking rules

making mistakes and having fun

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--Mary Lou Cook

Life is playing a violin solo in public and

learning the instrument as one goes on

--Samuel Butler

Opportunities are usually disguised as

hard work so most people dont recognize

them

~ Ann Landers

It is literally true that you can succeed best

and quickest by helping others to succeed

- Napoleon Hill

God loves you and theres nothing you can do about it

-- Sign on church marquis

Give yourself what you would like to receive from others

-- Alan Cohen

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature

-- Emerson

The fewer your words the more compelling your statement

-- Alan Cohen

Pray devoutly hammer stoutly

-- English proverb

There are no blocks to creativity Only distractions

-- Alan Cohen

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If your rules are not working so well borrow someone elses

-- Dr Richard Bartlett

Inner peace is never more than one thought away

-- Alan Cohen

Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret

hiding God

-- Frederick William Robertson

Completion is an attitude not an event

-- Alan Cohen

Enjoy where you are and youll be where youre going

-- Bashar

Your spirit is wireless

-- Alan Cohen

All questions lead to divine knowing

-- Isaac Newton

You cannot import self-worth You can only recognize it

-- Alan Cohen

Enlightened conflict resolution can exist only in an atmosphere of equality

We may not be equal in intelligence or experience or status but we are equal

in our right to be treated with dignity and caring It is not assumed that one

person has more privilege than another that one person is entitled to more

respect or understanding than another nor that one persons feelings are

more important than anothers

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

To seek happiness outside of ourselves Is like trying to lasso a cloud

Happiness is not a thingIt is a state of mind

- Omar Khayyam

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The higher self gets curious The conditioned self gets defensive

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The higher self gets curious The conditioned self gets defensive

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us

well I am not aware of any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking

not exercise not drugs not surgery--that has a greater impact on our

quality of life incidence of illness and premature death

- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy No man was ever wise by chance

~ Seneca

By thought the thing you want is brought to youby action you receive it

~ Wallace D Wattles

Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony

~ Mohandas K Gandhi

Life isnt about finding yourselfLife is about creating yourself

George Bernard Shaw

Im trying to free your mind but I can only show you the doorYou are the one

that has to walk through it

~ Morpheus [ The Matrix ]

A friend is a second self

~ Aristotle

Be great in act as you have been in thought

~ William Shakespeare

Character is higher than intellectA great soul will be strong to liveas well as to

think

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I never think of the futureIt comes soon enough

~ Albert Einstein

Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fearnot absence of fear

~ Mark Twain

Age wrinkles the bodyQuitting wrinkles the soul

~ Douglas MacArthur

If real is what you can feel smell taste and see then real is simply electrical

signals interpreted by your brain

~ Morpheus [ The Matrix ]

Money was never a big motivator for me except for keeping the scoreThe real

excitement is playing the game

~ Donald Trump

Dreams are extremely important You cant do it unless you dream it first

~ George Lucas

If you believe you can you probably can If you believe you wont you most

assuredly wont Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad

~ Denis Waitley

Imagination is more important than knowledge Knowledge is limitedImagination

encircles the world

~ Albert Einstein

Everything is always impossible before it works Thats what entrepreneurs are all

aboutDoing things that people have told them is impossible

~ R Hunt Greene

The truth is lived not taught

~ Hermann Hesse

Be of good cheer Do not think of todays failures but of the success that may

come tomorrow You have set yourself a difficult task but you will succeed if you

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persevere and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles

Helen Keller 1880-1968 Blind and Deaf Educator

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something Its as simple

as that A lot of people have ideas but there are few who decide to do something

about them now Not tomorrow Not next week But today The true entrepreneur

is a doer

-Nolan Bushnell Founder of Atari

Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they

have deep inside them - a desire a dream a vision

Muhammad Ali Three-Time World Heavyweight Champion Boxer

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them

Walt Disney 1901-1966 Cartoon Artist and Filmmaker

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings turn routine jobs into

joy and change ordinary opportunities into blessings

William Arthur Ward

1921-1994 Writer

If you want to achieve excellence you can get there today As of this second quit

doing less than excellent work

Thomas Watson 1874-1956 Founder of IBM

Ive always believed that a lot of the troubles in the world would disappear if we

were talking to each other instead of about each other

Ronald Reagan

1911-2004 40th President of the United States

The most wonderful gift one human being can give to another is in some way to

make that persons life a little bit better to live

John Assaraf Author and Speaker

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm

Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any

occupation no matter how frightening or difficult a new meaning Without

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enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish

miracles

Og Mandino

Constant kindness can accomplish much As the sun makes ice melt kindness

causes misunderstanding mistrust and hostility to evaporate

Dr Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965 Medical Missionary and Nobel Prize Winner

Dwell not on the past Use it to illustrate a point then leave it behind Nothing

really matters except what you do now in this instant of time From this moment

onwards you can be an entirely different person filled with love and understanding

ready with an outstretched hand uplifted and positive in every thought and deed

Eileen Caddy 1917-2006 Spiritual Teacher and Author

Heres the problem Most people are thinking about what they dont want and

theyre wondering why it shows up over and over again

John Assaraf Speaker and Author

Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to

success when they gave up

Thomas Edison 1847-1931 Inventor and Scientist

Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on

building the life you desire

Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly

lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love

Henry Drummond 1851-1897 Scientist and Author

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 Former First Lady Author and Speaker

If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors we are at least

responsible for those we admit and entertain

Charles Newcomb ScreenwriterDirector

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To grow you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your

past Your history is not your destiny

Alan Cohen

If you want a kinder world then behave with kindness if you want a peaceful

world make peace within

Dan Millman Writer and Speaker

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality order

and diligence without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a

time

Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Writer

Believe it can be done When you believe something can be done really believe

your mind will find the ways to do it Believing a solution paves the way to solution

Dr David Schwartz Author of The Magic of Thinking Big

Close your eyes and form a realistic picture of what a post PC world might actually

look like Those who can envision a plausible future thats brighter than today will

earn the opportunity to lead

Ray Ozzie Former Chief Software Architect at Microsoft

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past worry

about the future or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely

and earnestly

- Buddha

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job tellem certainly I can - and get

busy and find out how to do it

-- Theodore Roosevelt

Dont tell me how hard you work Tell mehow much you get done

~ James Ling

Democracy arose from menlsquos thinking that if they are equal in any respect they

are equal absolutely

~ Aristotle

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The beginning is the most important part of the work

~ Plato

Bless those who choose to love and those who choose to hate that those who

choose to hate may choose to love before it is too late

--Esoligh (Underground Hip Hop Artist)

Security is mostly a superstition It does not exist in nature nor do the children

of man as a whole experience it Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than

outright exposure Life is either a daring adventure or nothing

--Helen Keller

Each new hour holds new chances for new beginings The horizon move forward

offering you space to place new steps of change

--Maya Angelou

When a man cares he is unafraid When he is fair he leaves enough for others

When he is humble he can grow

--Lao-Tzu TaoTeChung

Behold the turtle He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out

--James Bryant Conant - Educator and Diplomat

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness not because they never found it

but because they didnt stop to enjoy it

--William Feather

The light of awareness the light of consciousness arises out of a broken heart

the heart by breaking becomes an ocean accommodating all beings

-- Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom

The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need according to the

nature of your thought Your environment and financial condition are the

perfect reflection of your habitual thinking

Thought rules the world

-- Dr Joseph Edward Murphy Surgeon

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The ideals that have lighted my way and time after time have given me new

courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness beauty and truth

ndash Albert Einstein physicist

Hope is the companion of power and mother of success for who so hopes strongly

has within him the gift of miracles

~ Samuel Smiles

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those

things that failures dont like to do

~ Albert Gray

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the

link between belief and biology

- Deepak Chopra

Ive always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best

~ Akeem Olajuwon

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear

ndash Socrates philosopher

The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the

most brilliant single mind but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains

and talents of his associates

~ W Alton Jones

The reason a dog has got so many friends is because its tail waggles and not its

tongue

-Anonymous

Dont fight a problem solve it

--Millard Fuller

If things are not going well with you begin your effort at correcting the situation

by carefully examining the service you are rendering and especially the spirit in

which you are rendering it

--Roger Babson

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The starting point of all riches is the development of a prosperity consciousness

You must become a financial success in your thinking long before you achieve it in

your reality Both poverty and riches are the result of a state of mind and the

most important single step you ever take on the road to wealth and financial

independence is the decision to change your thinking to impress into your mind an

unshakable belief that you can and will achieve your financial goals This must

happen before anything else happens

-- Brian Tracy

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it

We must learn to see the world anew

- Albert Einstein

To forgive is the highest most beautiful form of love In return you will receive

untold peace and happiness

--Dr Robert Muller

Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind the stronger the

trees

--J Willard Marriott Founder of Marriott Hotels

Someday may never come So live each day better than the last That way youll

wake up with so much excitement and anticipation youlsquoll jump out of bed and shout

I cant wait

--Bob Perks

The greatest thief this world ever produced is procrastination and he is still at

large

-- Henry Wheeler Shaw 1818-1885 Humorist

If you dont know where you are going any road will get you there

-- Anonymous

Ive noticed over many years of working with corporate teams that the more

dysfunctional the team the more resistant they are to the concept of love in

the workplace What baggage is it that we drag around behind us like Linus

and his blanket which causes us to be so wounded and pathological Why are

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we blind to the observable truth that those we lead are yearning for us to

open our hearts Why are we in denial about the truth that people--all

people at work and at home--are searching for signs of our approval and

love

- Lance Secretan Industry Week 11202000 We live on our own solitary islands of reality absorbed in and fascinated by

our own points of view Frequently we reach out to one another seeking to

understand or be understood The bridge between our separate realities is

communication To communicate is to relate

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air You

name them--work family health friends and spirit--and youre keeping all

of these in the air You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball If you

drop it it will bounce back But the other four balls-- family health

friends and spirit--are made of glass If you drop one of these they will be

irrevocably scuffed marked nicked damaged or even shattered They will

never be the same You must understand that and strive for balance in your

life

- Brian Dyson CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises from 1959-1994 If you cant be a loving witness to your own anger or rage or sadness or

fear you cant be in the presence of other peoples intense emotions without

your own emotional waters being churned up a bit But if you can learn to

feel safe and fully present to the broad spectrum of emotions within your own

nature you radiate an invisible web of safety that helps others to talk about

their feelings with you

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The world we are experiencing today is the result of our collective

consciousness and if we want a new world each of us must start taking

responsibility for helping create it

- Rosemary Fillmore Rhea A New Heaven and New Earth Your relationships are actually mirrors of your consciousness When you learn

to see your own reflection in the quality of your relationships with others you

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catapult yourself on your path of personal growth and spiritual evolution

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think To put the world right in order we must first put the nation in order to put

the nation in order we must first put the family in order to put the family in

order we must first cultivate our personal life we must first set our hearts

right

- Confucious The sooner we can unburden ourselves of blame the more effective we can

be Blaming others only entrenches us in the role of the victim removing us

from our highest expression of personal power

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

Being vulnerable doesnt have to be threatening Just have the courage to be

sincere open and honest This opens the door to deeper communication all

around It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others

we all want in life Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that

burden us These secrets are what make us sick or fearful Speaking truth

helps you get clarity on your real heart directives

- Sara Paddison The Hidden Power of the Heart Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time

ago

~ Warren Buffet

The only way to do great work is to love what you do If you havent found it yet

keep looking Dont settle As with all matters of the heart youll know when you

find it

~ Steve Jobs

If you love life do not waste time for time is what life is made up of

~ Bruce Lee

I cannot teach anybody anything I can only make them think

~ Socrates

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Change before you have to

~ Jack Welch

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm

~ Winston Churchill

A leader leads by example not by force

~ Sun Tzu

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour Sit with a

pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute You have just experienced

relativity

~ Albert Einstein

Live as if you were to die tomorrow Learn as if you were to live forever

~ Mohandas Gandhi

A clever person solves a problem A wise person avoids it

~ Albert Einstein

If I have seen a little further is by standing on the shoulders of Giants

~ Sir Isaac Newton

Despair says I cannot lift that weight Happiness says I do not have to

-- James Richardson

People who know they are powerful do not need to engage in power struggles

-- Alan Cohen

No man ever stated his troubles as lightly as he might

-- Emerson

What does your spirit most want you to know and do today

-- Alan Cohen

Its not how good you are Its how bad you want it

-- Author unknown

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The better I feel about myself the less I need you to be different

-- Alan Cohen

The best form of flattery is to master the art of listening

-- Chinese proverb

The only thing more valuable than a good source of news is source of good news

-- Alan Cohen

Disappointments are the hooks upon which God hangs his victories

-- Source unknown

It matters not what youve done with your life for better or worse What

matters is what you do with your life today

-- Alan Cohen

Everyone here is not all there

-- Source unknown

If you cant unify then at least harmonize

-- Alan Cohen

Everybody is a genius But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will

spend its whole life believing that it is stupid

-- Albert Einstein

Fear is excitement without breath

-- Fritz Perls

Dont leave yourself out of the equation

-- Alan Cohen

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles

-- Bernard Baruch

They can because they think they can

~ Virgil

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Exert your talents and distinguish yourself

and dont think of retiring from the world

until the world will be sorry that you retire

~ Samuel Johnson

Energy and persistence conquer all things

~ Benjamin Franklin

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom

~ Aristotle

Heaven never helps the man who will not act

~ Sophocles

The only real journey is the journey within

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Anyone who has never made a mistake

has never tried anything new

~ Albert Einstein

Action is the food and drink

that will nourish your success

Action will destroy your procrastination

Act now for is all you have

~ Og Mandino

Computers are incredibly fast accurate and stupid

Humans are incredible slow inaccurate and brilliant

Together they are powerful beyond imagination

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~ Albert Einstein

Practice giving and you will discover how much life can give you

-- Alan Cohen

Oh for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they

ran out of money

-- Source unknown

The best way to heal a bad memory is to create a new and better one

-- Alan Cohen

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love

-- Hamilton Wright Mabie

Fear and resistance are the dragons that stand at the gate of the kingdom that

contains the jewel you seek

-- Alan Cohen

Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy forgiveness To an opponent

tolerance To a friend your heart To a customer service To all charity To

every child a good example To yourself respect

-- Oren Arnold

Affirm I always have enough time to do the things that Spirit would have me do

-- Alan Cohen

There are two obstacles to enlightenment 1 Thinking you know 2 Thinking you

dont know

-- Buddha

Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal Take care how you pay

it

-- Alan Cohen

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles

-- Bernard Baruch

Upgrade your past by seeing it with appreciation

-- Alan Cohen

Families are like fudge -- mostly sweet with a few nuts

-- Source unknown

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of

our treasures

-- Thornton Wilder

The universe does not require you to stress for good things

-- Alan Cohen

When you bless the good that befalls others it becomes yours as well

-- Alan Cohen

How many more idols must you find before your realize that you are the one you

have been searching for

-- Dan Fogelberg

All limits exist only in thought and that is where they are overcome

-- Alan Cohen

To understand unconditional love lock your wife or husband and your dog in the

trunk of your car for an hour When you open it notice to is happier to see you

-- Source unknown

Outrageous ideas are ultimately the most practical

-- Alan Cohen

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are

-- Kurt Cobain

How good can you let it get

-- Alan Cohen

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If we could look into the secret history of our enemies we should find in each

persons life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostilities

-- Longfellow

If you sense there must be more there is more

-- Alan Cohen

Do not wait the time will never be just right Start where you stand and work

with whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found

as you go along

Napoleon Hill

1883-1970 Author of Think And Grow Rich

It doesnt matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes What

matters most is getting off You cannot make progress without making decisions

Jim Rohn

1930-2009 Speaker and Author

Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do Its

a decision about Who You Are When you see this when you understand it

everything changes You begin to see life in a new way All events occurrences and

situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do

Neale Donald Walsch

Author of Conversations With God

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached dont adjust the goals

adjust the action steps

Confucius

551-479 BC Philosopher

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of

you

Henry Ward Beecher

1813-1887 Clergyman Social Reformer and Abolitionist

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Lets choose today to quench our thirst for the good life we think others lead

by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives We can then offer the

universe the gift of our grateful hearts

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Author of Peace and Plenty

Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite

impossible to foresee are ahead You can only see one thing clearly and that is your

goal Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin

Kathleen Norris

1880-1966 Novelist

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends

you choose for you will become like them

W Clement Stone

1902-2002 Businessman Philanthropist and Author

Laugh at yourself and at life Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity but

as a remedy a miracle drug that will ease your pain cure your depression and help

you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at

your predicaments thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that

is certain to come Never take yourself too seriously

Og Mandino

1923-1996 Author of The Choice

Asking is the beginning of receiving Make sure you dont go to the ocean with a

teaspoon At least take a bucket so the kids wont laugh at you

Jim Rohn

1930-2009 Author and Speaker

Happiness comes only when we push our

brains and hearts to the farthest reaches

of which we are capable

--Leo C Rosten

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Do not wait the time will never be just right

Start where you stand and work with whatever

tools you may have at your command and better

tools will be found as you go along

~ Napoleon Hill

I shall do less whenever I shall believe what

I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more

whenever I shall believe doing more will help the

cause I shall try to correct errors when shown to

be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as

they shall appear to be true views

ndash Abraham Lincoln 16th US president

If we become increasingly humble about how l

little we know we may be more eager to search

- Sir John Templeton

I dont think anyone can grow unless hes

loved exactly as he is now appreciated for

what he is rather than what he will be

Love and success always in that order Its

that simple and that difficult

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a

lifetimes work but its worth the effort

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Quoted From Lifes Journeys According

to Mister Rogers

When we do the best we can we never know

what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life

of another

ndash Helen Keller lecturer author

We are responsible for what we are and whatever

we wish ourselves to be we have the power to make

ourselves If what we are now has been the result of

our own past actions it certainly follows that whatever

we wish to be in future can be produced by our present

actions so we have to know how to act

~ Swami Vivekananda

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Now I experience the love in everyone I no longer am a person who judges others

for being overweight for being too young or too old for having their hair a certain

way or for how they dress When you judge others you dont define them you

define yourself as someone who needs to judge and compartmentalize people

-Wayne Dyer

The big secret in life is that there is no secret Whatever your goal you can get

there if you are willing to work It is called massive action Action is the gas in the

tank Without it the car will not run

Marcy Blochowiak Author of No Glass Ceiling An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory

-Friedrich Engels

Leaders arent born they are made And they are made just like anything else

through hard work And thats the price well have to pay to achieve that goal or

any goal

Vincent Lombardi

May your trails be crooked winding lonesome dangerous leading to the most

amazing view May your rivers flow without end meandering through pastoral

valleys tinkling with bells past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark

primeval forestdown into a desert of red rock blue mesas domes and pinnacles

and grottos of endless stone And down again into a deep vast ancient unknown

chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs where deer walk across the

white sand beaches where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high

crags until something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than

your deepest dreams waits for you just beyond the next turning of the canyon

walls

-Benedicto by Edward Abbey

An unwritten want is a wish a dream a never-happen The day you put your goal in

writing is the day it becomes a commitment that will change your life Are you

ready

Tom Hopkins Author and Speaker

―Where are you going Who are you looking for Your beloved is right herehellip Cease

looking for flowers there blooms a garden in your own home While you go looking

for trinkets your treasure house awaits you in your own being There is no need

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for suffering God is here

~Rumi Chance favors only the prepared mind

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895 French scientist who developed pasteurization)

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities

enough and if they do not find them they will make them

Samuel Smiles

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen but give us the

determination to make the right things happen

Peter Marshall

If the sky falls hold up your hands

Spanish Proverb

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable but to be certain is to be ridiculous

Chinese Proverb

Knowing is not enough we must apply Willing is not enough we must do

Johann von Goethe

If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is he will not jump If he does

not know how wide it is he will jump and six times out of ten he will make it

Persian Proverb

As I grow to understand life less and less I learn to love it more and more

Jules Renard

The more you praise and celebrate your life the more there is in life to celebrate

Oprah Winfrey (1954- American TV personality producer actress author)

Mind is all that counts You can be whatever you make up your mind to be

Robert Collier

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You dont get to choose how youre going to die Or when You can only decide how

youre going to live Now

Joan Baez Singer Songwriter and Activist The average person goes to their grave with their music still in them

Oliver Wendell Holmes ―Everyone can be great because everyone can serve

- Martin Luther King ―Whatever you can conceive and believe you can achieve

Napoleon Hill We turn not older with years but newer every day

-Emily Dickinson

When reciting affirmations feel the words in your heart as you say them and

know that what you feel youll create

Peggy McColl Author of Relax Your Way to Wealth Everyday life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust

our old programs accordingly

Dr Ann Faraday

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to

get there Then never never never give up

Vincent Peale

We only think when we are confronted with problems

John Dewey (1859-1952 American philosopher educator)

In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain

Pliny The Elder (c23-79 Roman neophatonist)

If your determination is fixed I do not counsel you to despair Few things are

impossible to diligence and skill Great works are performed not by strength but

perseverance

Samuel Johnson

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Dont waste your life in doubts and fears spend yourself on the work before you

well assured that the right performance of this hours duties will be the best

preparation for the hours or ages that follow it

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Poet and Essayist Its nice to know that we dont need to wait till tomorrow we can start to change

the world today

Wil Rose

The good man acts for honors sake and the more so the better he is and acts for

his friends sake and sacrifices his own interest

-Aristotle

In order to excel you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport You

must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism

Without a total 100 percent dedication you wont be able to do this

Willie Mays

Any time you sincerely want to make a change the first thing you must do is to

raise your standards When people ask me what really changed my life eight years

ago I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I

demanded of myself I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my

life all the things I would no longer tolerate and all the things that I aspired to

becoming

Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert

Im a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of

it

Thomas Jefferson

Bring awareness to each act Walking on the road walk fully alert eating eat with

awareness Whatsoever you are doing dont let the past and the future interfere

Be in the present Thats what awareness is all about

~Osho

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There are two dimensions to life and we should be able to touch both

One is like a wave and we call it the historical dimension

The other is like the water and we call it the ultimate dimension or nirvana

We usually touch just the wave but when we discover how to touch the water

we receive the highest fruit that meditation can offer

-Thich Nhat Hanh

Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends

Jacques Delille (1738-1813 French poet

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock the stream always wins -

not through strength but by perseverance

Jackson Brown

When you focus on whats wrong you get more of whats wrong Conversely when

you focus on whats right you get more of whats right

Gina Mollicone-Long Author of the newly released book Think Or Sink

All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave

behind is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into

another

Gail Sheehy (1937- American journalist author)

Anger is one letter away from danger

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Success means having the courage the determination and the will to become the

person you believe you were meant to be

George Sheehan 1918-1993 Physician and Author

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views

so fast as they shall appear to be new views

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 16th American President)

―One ship sails East

And another West

By the self-same winds that blow

lsquoTis the set of the sails

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And not the gales

That tells the way we go

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity Our attitude

toward it Every opportunity has a difficulty and every difficulty has an

opportunity

J Sidlow Baxter 1903-1999 Author and Theologian

If you want to be successful you must either have a chance or take one

Author Unknown

It is common sense to take a method and try it If it fails admit it frankly and try

another But above all try something

Franklin D Roosevelt

It was courage faith endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all

obstacles that built this bridge

~ John J Watson

Past Data should now be the basis of Present Truth Data from a prior time or

experience should always and only be the basis for new questions Always the

treasure should be in the questions not in the answer

-Neale Donald Walsch Even though you may want to move forward in your life you may have one foot on

the brakes In order to be free we must learn how to let go Release the hurt

Release the fear Refuse to entertain your old pain The energy it takes to hang

onto the past is holding you back from a new life What is it you would let go of

today

Mary Manin Morrissey Creator of The Miracle Mastery Conference

It is not what you are called but what you answer to

African Proverb

A failure establishes only this that our determination to succeed was not strong

enough

John Christian Bovee

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If youre not part of a solution youre a part of the problem There is no middle

road I dont think we can destroy the Earth but I think the Earth can destroy

us

-Oh Shinnah

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will

accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop

Robert Hughes

Charity is the spice of riches

Jewish Proverb

If you dont like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and

waiting for you The snake sheds its skin with impunity relying on the same nature

which you rely on

Author Unknown

Its a very funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best

you very often get it

William Somerset Maugham

A leader once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one must

be undaunted when the going gets tough

Ronald Reagan

If I accept you as you are I will make you worse however if I treat you as

though you are what you are capable of becoming I help you become that

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 Author and Philosopher

Every gun that is made every warship launched every rocket signifies in the final

sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed from those who are cold and

not clothed The world in arms is not spending money alone It is spending the

sweat of its laborers the genius of its scientists the hopes of its children

-Dwight D Eisenhower

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Service is nothing but love in work clothes

Author Unknown

A man can do all things if he but wills them

Leon Battista Alberti

A crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk just a

tinkling cymbal where there is not love

Francis Bacon 17th Century English Lord Chancellor philosopher and author

The only way to have a friend is to be one

Ralph Waldo Emerson 19th Century American author and poet

Its not what you do once in a while its what you do day in and day out that

makes the difference

Jenny Craig Diet Specialist

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on

the labors of other men living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to

give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving

Albert Einstein (1879-1955 German-born American physicist)

A resolute determination is the truest wisdom

Napoleon I

Without consistency there is no moral strength

Author Unknown

See first that the design is wise and just that ascertained pursue it resolutely

William Shakespeare

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

-Dale Carnegie

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself

William Penn (1644-1718 British religious leader founder of Pennsylvania)

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How we think shows through in how we act Attitudes are mirrors of the mind

They reflect thinking

David J Schwartz Trainer and Author

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but

to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment

Dorothy Nevill

Vision is freely given to those who ask to see

-Course in Miracles

Tough times never last but tough people do

Dr Robert Schuller

A sure way to lose happiness I found is to want it at the expense of everything

else

Bette Davis (1908-1989 American actress producer)

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything

Alexander Hamilton

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference He has

it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter

Norman Cousins (1915-1990 American editor humanitarian author)

The practice of medicine is an art not a trade a calling not a business a calling in

which your heart will be exercised equally with your head Often the best part of

your work will have nothing to do with powders or potions

-Sir William Osler

Strength does not come from physical capacity It comes from an indomitable

will

~ Mahatma Gandhi

―You dont love someone for their looks or their clothes or for their fancy car

but because they sing a song only you can hear

Anon

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―They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever

Oscar Wilde

―Love is like a friendship caught on fire In the beginning a flame very pretty

often hot and fierce but still only light and flickering As love grows older our

hearts mature and our love becomes as coals deep-burning and unquenchable

Bruce Lee

―Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty

John Finely

―It takes a lot of understanding time and trust to gain a close friendship with

someone As I approach a time of my life of complete uncertainty my friends are

my most precious asset

Anon

―Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process

Harold S Geneen People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest

- Hermann Hesse 1877-1962 Civilization is a method of living an attitude of equal respect for all men

- Jane Addams 1860-1935 The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next

- Matthew Arnold 1822-1888

Vacillating people seldom succeed Successful men and women are very careful in

reaching their decisions and very persistent and determined in action thereafter

~ L G Elliott

Those with goals tend to succeed because they are focused and know where they

are going while those without goals do not

Ted Karam Author from his new book Jumping On Water Awaken Your Joy - Empower Your Life

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Every time you go out on the ice there are slight flaws You can always think of

something you should have done better These are the things you must work on

Dorothy Hamill (1956- American figure skater)

Until you make the unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it

fate

~ Carl Jung When you speak of someone or about someone you should speak as though they

were in the room with you The ears that you speak to today are attached to the

mouth that could relay the message tomorrow

William Biddy Allen 1903-2001 Bus Driver - Loving father of 7 children

It is no failure to fall short of realizing all that we might dream The failure is to

fall short of dreaming all that we might realize

-Dee Hock When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they

are regarded by others let them reflect how little they have contributed to the

happiness of others

Author Unknown

I have become my own version of an optimist If I cant make it through one door

Ill go through another door - or Ill make a door Something terrific will come no

matter how dark the present

~ Rabindranath Tagore

―The present moment

contains past and future

The secret of transformation

is in the way we handle this very moment

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926 - present Vietnamese Buddhist monk)

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―Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it Do not believe in

anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many Do not believe in

anything simply because it is found written in your religious books Do not believe in

anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders Do not believe in

traditions because they have been handed down for many generations But after

observation and analysis when you find that anything agrees with reason and is

conducive to the good and benefit of one and all then accept it and live up to it

Buddha (Founder of Buddhism 568 - 488 BC) I try to avoid looking forward or backward and try to keep looking upward

Charlotte Bronte

Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action for all eternity

Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801 Theologian

There is only one duty only one safe course and that is to try to be right

Winston Churchill (1874-1965 British statesman Prime Minister)

We are born at a given moment in a given place and like vintage years of wine we

have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born Astrology

does not lay claim to anything more

-Carl Jung

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them One is more

delightful for being told one is delightful -- just as one is angrier for being told

one is angry

Katherine F Gerould

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread they can sure make something out

of you

~ Muhammed Ali Beware of the thoughts you keep because everything in reality manifests from

the mind

Justin Palmer Second Year College Student

Confess you were wrong yesterday it will show you are wise today

Author Unknown

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We must accept finite disappointment but we must never lose infinite hope

~ Martin Luther King Jr

In the beginning the Universe was created

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move

-Douglas Adams

Any individual can be in time what he earnestly desires to be if he but set his

face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing and bring all his powers to bear

upon its attainment

Herman J Randall

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world

~ Helen Keller Many of lifes failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success

when they gave up

~ Thomas Edison

When you give your undivided attention to something there is a softening and

opening in the listener that allows access to the meaning underneath the words

-Betty Burkes

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they

are about to change the world I am more awed by those who struggle to make one

small difference

Ellen Goodman Journalist

If you look into your own heart you find nothing wrong there what is there to

fear

Confucius (BC 551-479 Chinese ethical teacher philosopher) Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls

~ Mother Teresa What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self-

conceit For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he

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already knows

- Epictetus 55 AD-135 AD

There are admirable potentialities in every human being Believe in your strength

and your youth Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself It all depends on me

- Andre Gide 1869-1951

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage

- Anais Nin 1903-1977 Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in

other areas But can it really True effectiveness requires balance

~ Stephen Covey

I dont pay good wages because I have a lot of money I have a lot of money

because I pay good wages

- Robert Bosch Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do

the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not it is

the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a mans training

begins it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly

Thomas H Huxley 1825-1895 Biologist

The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have and to be able

to lose all desire for things beyond your reach

Yutang Lin (1895-1976 Chinese writer and philologist)

Men are failures not because they are stupid but because they are not

sufficiently impassioned

Struther Burt

If you look at what you have in life youll always have more If you look at what

you dont have in life youll never have enough

Oprah Winfrey Television Host Producer and Philanthropist

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Im trying not to look too far ahead All Im thinking is one shot at a time one hole

at a time and thats what I want to keep doing

Michelle McGann

I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed but the spirit in

which we face them that constitutes our comfort

-Elizabeth T King My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content

with your failure

~ Abraham Lincoln

―There is nothing but love and all else is illusion

- Dr John Demartini There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer no disease that enough

love will not heal no door that enough love will not open

- Emmet Fox

All my limitations are self-imposed and my liberation can only come from true self-

love

- Max C Robinson

We fail to see that we can control our own destiny make ourselves do whatever is

possible make ourselves become whatever we long to be

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine )

To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will

~ Sugar Ray Robinson 1920-1989 Boxer

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall

Confucius

Half the people you know are above average

-Steven Wright

Your close relationships are either a catalyst for manifesting what you really

want or theyre a hindrance to your manifestation If you truly value the power of

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love in your life you owe it to yourself to discover how to tap into the power of

your relationship as a force for manifestation

Drs Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up Even when they do it is not

perfect and they sigh for more and lose better things in struggling for them

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888 American author )

One is not idle because one is absorbed There is both visible and invisible labor To

contemplate is to toil to think is to do The crossed arms work the clasped hands

act The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation

Victor Hugo (1802-1885 French poet dramatist novelist)

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of

greed in the headlines

-Charles Kuralt

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our

focus we never concentrate our power Most people dabble their way through life

never deciding to master anything in particular

Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)

In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time

~ Anthony J DAngelo

Courage comes from wanting to do it well Security comes from knowing you can do

it well Confidence comes from having done it well

~ Author Unknown

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel

Napoleon Hill

There is a true genius in everyone But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a

tree it would never stop doubting itself

~ Einstein~

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People ask for criticism but they only want praise

- W Somerset Maugham 1874-1965 Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts for if

you let it pass the desire may never return and you may remain in ignorance

- William Wirt 1772-1834 Cynicism is not realistic and tough Its unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it

means you dont have to try

- Peggy Noonan 1950-present There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into

gear

David Mahoney Executive and Philanthropist You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences

W Somerset Maugham (1874-1965 British novelist playwright)

Dont ask yourself what the world needs Ask yourself what makes you come alive

and then go and do that Because what the world needs are people who have come

alive

~ Howard Thurman When a great moment knocks on the door of your life it is often no louder than

the beating of your heart and it is very easy to miss it -Boris Pasternak Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure

~ Thomas Alva Edison

To be successful you have to have your heart in your business and your business in

your heart

- Thomas Watson Sr Begin challenging your own assumptions Your assumptions are your windows on the

world Scrub them off every once and a while or the light wont come in

Alan Alda Actor Writer and Director

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I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most

argumentative

Giovani della Casa (1503-1556 Papal secretary of state)

Have you ever felt like you wanted to go but you felt like you wanted to stay

- Song Lyric Jimmy Durante

To live is the rarest thing in the world most people exist that is all

~ Oscar Wilde

Awareness is like a beam of light that shines endlessly into space We only

perceive that light when it is reflected off some object and consciousness is

producedAwareness is the light by which we see the worldWe mistake the clear

light of pure awareness for the shadows that it casts in consciousnessWe forget

that we are the light itself and imagine that we are the densities that reflect the

light back to us

-Stephen Levine Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal

Albert Camus (1913-1960 French existential writer) The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation

Mark Twain

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn Our rewards

will always be in exact proportion to our service

Earl Nightingale 1921-1989 Author of The Strangest Secret

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he

knows where he is going

Napoleon Hill

Wisdom tells me I am nothing

Love tells me I am everything

And between the two my life flows

-Nisargadatta Maharaj

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No employer today is independent of those about him He cannot succeed alone no

matter how great his ability or capital Business today is more than ever a question

of cooperation

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)

Shoot for the moon Even if you miss youll land among the stars

Les Brown

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world

Joseph Addison (1672-1719 British essayist poet statesman)

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a

fate that falls on man unless they act

~ G K Chesterton

Find something positive to think about and dont let the conversation in your head

end with a negative comment Always end on a positive comment

Dr Tomi Bryan and Dr Jerry White From their latest release The 5 Keys To The Great Life

Whales do not sing because they have a message They sing because they have a

song

-Ashes and Snow

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life

- Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956

Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though

checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor

suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor

defeat

- Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting

- Stanislaw Leszczynski 1677-1766

There is no joy in getting by on your job - doing as little as you can There is a

LOT of pleasure in doing more than you have to And whosoever shall compel you

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to go a mile go with him twain says the Bible wisely

-Norman Carlisle

We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once

Calvin Coolidge

The starting point of all achievement is desire Keep this constantly in mind Weak

desires bring weak results just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat

Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think and Grow Rich

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me

instead of looking within myself to see what was there

Belle Livingstone

Rather than thinking if and when start doing take action stop talking about if

and when

~ Catherine Pulsifer

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity -

Ayn Rand

Being a man or indeed being human is not something for which one should

apologize but something to which one should aspire and with all the gusto he can

muster

-- David Cunningham

The question isnt who is going to let me its who is going to stop me

- Howard Roark The Fountainhead 1943

I am the Master of my Fate Captain of my Soul

-- W E Henley

Whatever you can do or dream you can begin it

Boldness has genius power and magic in it

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me

instead of looking within myself to see what was there

Belle Livingstone

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality order

and diligence without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a

time

Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Novelist

The path to success is to take massive determined action

Anthony Robbins

All of the significant battles are waged within the self

Sheldon Kopp (1929- American psychologist)

Follow effective action with quiet reflection From the quiet reflection will come

even more effective action

~ Peter F Drucker

Dont be dismayed at good-byes

A farewell is necessary before you can meet again

And meeting again after moments or lifetimes

is certain for those who are friends

-Richard Bach

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual

sense of humor

Thomas W Higginson 1823-1911 Minister Abolitionist and Author

When performance exceeds ambition the overlap is called success

Cullen Hightower

Well done is better than well said

Benjamin Franklin

The first and the best victory is to conquer self

Plato (BC 427-347 Greek philosopher)

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Man is what he believes

-Anton Chekhov One half of life is luck the other half is discipline - and thats the important half

for without discipline you wouldnt know what to do with luck

Carl Zuckmeyer 1896-1977 Writer and Playwright

Try and fail but dont fail to try

~ Stephen Kaggwa

I believe that one of the greatest gifts we have been given is our imagination It

costs nothing to access is available 247 and is our doorway to freedom With

imagination we have inside of us the most amazing ability to change our state and

transform our life in a moment

~ Veronica Hay The world is full of abundance and opportunity but far too many people come to

the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car a teaspoon instead of a

steam shovel They expect little and as a result they get little

Ben Sweetland Author of I Will Blessed is the person who sees the need recognizes the responsibility and actively

becomes the answer

William A Ward

I am not a mechanism an assembly of various sections

And it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly that I am ill

I am ill because of wounds to the soul to the deep emotional self

And the wounds to the soul take a long long time only time can help

And patience and a certain difficult repentance

Long difficult repentance realization on lifes mistake and the freeing of oneself

From the endless repetition of the mistake

Which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify

-D H Lawrence

Victory belongs to the most persevering

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Gratitude opens doors It paves the way to abundance and prosperity like nothing

else

It can line your pockets with gold and fill your bank account quicker than a New

York minute

Yet how many of you are living from a thankful heart each day

~Veronica Hay Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe

Bruce Springsteen You gain strength and courage and confidence by each experience in which we

really stop to look fear in the face You must do that which we think we cannot

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 Social Activist and First Lady of the United States

Dont let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you Instead give to

yourself that which empowers you

Les Brown (1945- American speaker author trainer motivator)

―The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having

new eyes

~ Marcel Proust

―Then your light shall break forth like the dawn and your healing shall spring up

quickly

~ Isaiah 588

―And your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music

from it or confused sounds

mdash Kahlil Gibran

In every life the most important change is self-change -- and in every situation

the principles are the same

- J Kingston Cowart

It takes courage to lead a life Any life

Erica Jong

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Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time

-Ken Wilber

Peoples tendency towards good is as waters tendency is to flow downhill

Mencius When I let go of what I am I become what I might be

~ Lao Tsu

The higher my rank the more humbly I behave The greater my power the less I

exercise it The richer my wealth the more I give away Thus I avoid respectively

envy and spite and misery

~ Sun Shu Ao

There is no greater happiness than freedom from worry and there is no greater

wealth than contentment

~Lao Tsu

Failure lies not in falling down Failure lies in not getting up

~ Chinese proverb

A meal however simple is a moment of intersection It is at once the most basic

the most fundamental of our lifes activities maintaining the life of our bodies

Shared with others it can be an occasion of joy and communion uniting people

deeply

~ Elise Boulding The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms

-- Socrates You are never going to get it all done - you just wont Rather you will find order

and peace in your workday if you accept it and then do one more thing Implement

a system that consistently shows you whats most critical at any moment what to

do after the critical and where to find everything else when you need to That

system is not hard - its quite simple to set up

Michael Linenberger From Master Your Workday Now Check out his book and bonuses

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Time is limited so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have

just one chance to live this particular day right and to string my days together

into a life of action and purpose

Lance Armstrong 7-Time Winner of the Tour de France

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value

Albert Einstein

We have contributed each in the time allotted us our endeavors to render a

permanent blessing to our country

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826 Third American President)

If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost that is where they

should be Now put foundations under them

~ Henry David Thoreau

If you didnlsquot musterbate then you wouldnlsquot awfulize terribilize

catastrophize say ―I canlsquot stand it and put yourself down

If you only stuck with ―Ilsquod like very much to do well but I never

have to you wouldnlsquot then disturb yourself hellip musterbation is

evil and pernicious

- Albert Ellis

There are 2 theories to arguing with a womanneither works

-Will Rogers

Dont tell me that worry doesnt do any good said the over-worked executive I

know better The things I worry about never happen

-Cited in More ofThe Best of BITS amp PIECES

Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were

innocent Anger is natural Grief is appropriate Healing is mandatory Restoration

is possible

~ Jane Rubietta

Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can

~ Richard Bach

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Inspiration and genius--one and the same

~ Victor Hugo

It is important to acknowledge a mistake instantly correct it and learn from it

That literally turns a failure into a success Success is on the far side of failure

TJ Watson 1874-1956 Founder if IBM

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of

inspiration

~ George Eliot

Trust your hunches Theyre usually based on facts filed away just below the

conscious level

Dr Joyce Brothers Psychologist and Television Personality Every artist was first an amateur

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a

true master For this reason mastery demands all of a person

Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Theoretical Physicist Philosopher and Author In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain

Pliny The Elder (c23-79 Roman neophatonist)

The more difficulties one has to encounter within and without the more

significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be

Horace Bushnell

If the sky falls hold up your hands

Spanish Proverb

Begin with the end in mind

Stephen Covey

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good try to use ordinary

situations

- Jean Paul Richter 1763-1825 German Novelist

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No great man ever complains of want of opportunities

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If people knew how hard I worked to gain my mastery it wouldnt seem so

wonderful

Michelangelo 1475-1564 Painter Sculptor and Architect

We only think when we are confronted with problems

John Dewey (1859-1952 American philosopher educator)

Men do less than they ought unless they do all they can

~ Thomas Carlyle

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex It takes a touch of

genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction

~Albert Einstein

―Ecstasy is your very nature not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary

~Osho

The quieter you can become the more youre able to hear

~Chinese Proverb

The only real valuable thing is intuition

~ Albert Einstein

To be ecstatic is natural spontaneous It needs no effort to be ecstatic it needs

great effort to be miserable

~Osho

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight

Anita DeFrantz Olympic Rower Everyday life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust

our old programs accordingly

Dr Ann Faraday

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I live my life in widening circles

that reach out across the world

I may not ever complete the last one

But I give myself to it

I have been circling for thousands of years

And I still dont know

Am I a falcon a storm or a great song

-Rilke

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to

make them come true

~ Leon J Suenes

Dont be a cynic and disconsolate preacher Dont bewail and moan Omit the

negative propositions Challenge us with incessant affirmatives Dont waste

yourself in rejection or bark against the bad but chant the beauty of the good

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once whether

youre ready or not to put it into action

Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author

Fall seven times stand up eight

Japanese proverb

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars

or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven

to the human spirit

~ Helen Keller

Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends

Jacques Delille (1738-1813 French poet)

First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have

to do

Epictetus

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to

make them come true

Leon J Suenes

If you would create something you must be something

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Stay together friends

Dont scatter and sleep

Our friendship is made

Of being awake

The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away weeping

That way it stays in the garden whereas another roundness rolls

through a dry riverbed looking for what it thinks it wants

Stay here quivering with each moment like a drop of mercury

-Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives as parallel realities It is

always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend when we choose not

to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance

thats present love health family friends work the joys of nature and personal

pursuits that bring us pleasure the wasteland of illusion falls away and we

experience heaven on earth

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach Any time you sincerely want to make a change the first thing you must do is to

raise your standards When people ask me what really changed my life eight years

ago I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I

demanded of myself I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my

life all the things I would no longer tolerate and all the things that I aspired to

becoming

~ Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert) Its nice to know that we dont need to wait till tomorrow we can start to change

the world today

~ Wil Rose

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A bird doesnt sing because it has an answer it sings because it has a song

~ Maya Angelou

Great minds have purposes little minds have wishes Little minds are subdued by

misfortunes great minds rise above them

~ Washington Irving

Step by step I cant think of any other way of accomplishing anything

~ Michael Jordan

If you employed study thinking and planning time daily you could develop and use

the power that can change the course of your destiny

~ W Clement Stone

We are called to speak for the weak for the voiceless for victims of our nation

and for those it calls enemy for no document from human hands can make these

humans any less than our brothers

-Dr Martin Luther King Jr

Disposal of hazardous wastes is not the root problem Rather it is the root

symptom

-Hawken Paul There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the

things we do

Freya Stark

Try a little harder to be a little better

Gordon B Hinckley

If you love something and stick with it you will get phenomenal results

Bob Proctor

You can chain me you can torture me you can even destroy this body but you will

never imprison my mind

Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Political and Spiritual Leader

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Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and

triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friends forehead

Chinese Proverb Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs

Michael Levine

Nurture your mind with great thoughts To believe in the heroic makes heroes

Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881 British Prime Minister The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your

blueprint or plan Strategies are like recipes choose the right ingredients mix

them in the correct proportions and you will always produce the same predictable

results

~ Charles J Givens

More than anything else I believe its our decisions not the conditions of our

lives that determine our destiny

Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)

Happy the manwoman who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his

wishes and his powers

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I hope that my achievements in life shall be these that I will have fought for what

was right and fair that I will have risked for that which mattered and that I will

have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better

place for what Ive done and who Ive been

~ C Hoppe

The vision that you glorify in your mind the ideal that you enthrone in your heart

this you will build your life by and this you will become

James Allen

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Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony

Gandhi

There never was a time when in my opinion some way could not be found to

prevent the drawing of the sword

-General Grant To be a warrior

is to be genuine

in every moment of your life

-Chogyam Trungpa Im convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs

from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance

- Steve Jobs Regret for wasted time is more wasted time

Mason Cooley

Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow

Les Brown (1945- American speaker author trainer motivator)

More than anything else I believe its our decisions not the conditions of our

lives that determine our destiny

Anthony Robbins Author and Speaker

Material possessions will rust away wear away or depreciate but your inner

resources character must never depreciate In seeking success you must also seek

fulfillment Ask yourself not only what you want to be but who you want to be

~ Elizabeth Dole Anything in life that we dont accept will simply make trouble for us until we make

peace with it

~ Shakti Gawain

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious

stupidity

-Dr Martin Luther King Jr

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Real integrity is doing the right thing knowing that nobodys going to know

whether you did it or not

Oprah Winfrey Talk Show Host Producer and Philanthropist

If you must begin then go all the way because if you begin and quit the unfinished

business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time

Chogyam Trungpa

I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career I have lost almost 300 games

On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot and I

missed I have failed over and over and over again in my life And thats precisely

why I succeedcc

~ Michael Jordan

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what

they most enjoy

~ Malcolm Forbes

Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future

Paul Boese Botanist

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons

determination

Tommy Lasorda (1927- American baseball manager) I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more

~ Dr Jonas Salk The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame

Rod Steiger

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul

~ Marcus Aurelius

The best way

to make your dreams come true

is to wake up

-Kabir

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You can do what you have to do and sometimes you can do it even better than you

think you can

Jimmy Carter (1924- American President (39th)) ―If you create an act you create a habit If you create a habit you create a

character If you create a character you create a destiny

ndash Andre Maurois They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them

feel

~ Carl W Buechner When you affirm big believe big and pray big putting faith into action big things

happen

Dr Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993 Preacher and Author You never will be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are taken

out of your life

~ James G Bilkey

In every difficult situation is potential value Believe this then begin looking for it

Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993 American Christian reformed pastor speaker author)

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832 German poet dramatist novelist)

Being vulnerable doesnt have to be threatening Just have the courage to be

sincere open and honest This opens the door to deeper communication all around

It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want

in life Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us These

secrets are what make us sick or fearful Speaking truth helps you get clarity on

your real heart directives

-Sara Paddison

The best thing to spend on your children is your time

~ Louise Hart

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The best things come to those who wait

- Unknown

Ask five economists and youll get five different explanations six if one went to

Harvard

~ Edgar R Fiedler There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through

encouragement from someone else I dont care how great how famous or

successful a man or woman may be each hungers for applause

~ George M Adams Do not fear death fear the unlived life

Natalie Babbitt Leadership is no longer about your position Its now more about your passion for

excellence and making a difference You can lead without a title

Robin Sharma

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back The great champions have

all come back from defeat

Sam Snead (1912-2002 American golfer)

What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision

-Helen Keller The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement

Yet almost no one gets the encouragement they need

to grow to their full potential If everyone received the

encouragement they need to grow the genius in most

everyone would blossom and the world would produce

abundance beyond the wildest dreams We would have

more than one Einstein Edison Schweitzer Mother

Theresa Dr Salk and other great minds in a century

~Sidney Madwed

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Dont build your happiness on someone elses unhappiness

~ Richard Rose

―The mind turned inwards is the Self turned outwards it becomes the ego and all

the world

~ Ramana Maharshi

Somewhere there is someone who dreams of your smile and finds in your presence

that life is worthwhile

So when you are lonely remember its true somebody somewhere is thinking of

you

~ Anon

If youre open to altering your plans a bit you might achieve even better results

than youd anticipated

Peggy McColl A strong passion for any object will ensure success for the desire of the end will

point out the means

William Hazlitt (1778-1830 British essayist)

Successful people dont do different things they just do things differently

- Unknown You never will be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are

taken out of your life

James G Bilkey Author

Dreams do come true if we only wish hard enough You can have anything in life if

you will sacrifice everything else for it

James M Barrie (1860-1937 British playwright)

Seven blunders of the world

that lead to violence

wealth without work

pleasure without conscience

knowledge without character

commerce without morality

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science without humanity

worship without sacrifice

politics without principle

-Mahatma Gandhi

When people speak of prosperity they generally mean success and measure it in

terms of financial abundance There are books seminars and training sessions

designed to help individuals to be prosperous Clearly many are seeking the path to

prosperity Ironically when one is seeking prosperity the message they give to

themselves and the universe is that they do not have enough This is a scarcity

mentality and tends only to manifest more scarcity

~ Gwen Randall Young Money makes money and the money makes more money

~ Benjamin Franklin

BE the change you wish to see in the world

- Ghandhi The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched

They must be felt with the heart

~ Hellen Keller

Understanding does not cure evil but it is a definite help inasmuch as one can cope

with a comprehensible darkness

-Carl Jung

You are not powerless about anything

When you get a vision and then find

alignment with it you ARE powerful

And then amazing things begin to

happen around you

- Abraham-Hicks

Be kind whenever possible It is always possible

~ Dalai Lama

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A consistent soul believes in destiny a capricious one in chance

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881 British statesman Prime Minister)

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots

George Herbert (1593-1632 British metaphysical poet)

It is not the greatness of a mans means that makes him independent so much as

the smallness of his wants

William Cobbett (1762-1835 British journalist reformer)

If you desire many things many things will seem few

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790 American scientist publisher diplomat) Its the little things you do that can make a big difference What are you

attempting to accomplish What little thing can you do today that will make you

more effective You are probably only one step away from greatness

Bob Proctor Author and Speaker You may delay but time will not and lost time is never found again

~ Benjamin Franklin

Procrastination is the seed of self-destruction

~ Matthew Burton

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light

~ Helen Keller

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength

~ Sigmund Freud

Blessed are those that can give without remembering and take without

forgetting

~ Liz Bebesco Waiting is a trap There will always be reasons to wait

The truth is there are only two things in life reasons and results and reasons

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simply dont count

~ Dr Robert Anthony

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become

wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing The long

term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their

Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed

~ Srully Blotnick

If now there is something you

choose to experience in your life

do not want it -- choose it

Do you choose success in worldly

terms Do you choose more money

Good Then choose it Really

Fully Not half-heartedly

- Conversations with God Book 1

Its a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best you

very often get it

-Somerset Maugham

A world of abundance surrounds you if only you will step up and claim it Make life

happen through you rather than letting it happen to you It will make all the

difference in the world

- Ralph Marston Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving

it

~ William Arthur Ward

We must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible

otherwise we would not continue to search

-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Prosperity consciousness is the awareness that all of us have something of value

to offer and we all deserve to get paid for what we provide to others

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Peggy McColl Author of Viral Explosions Proven Techniques to Expand Explode or Ignite Your Business Or Brand Online Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying

~ Christian Furchtegott Gellert

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it

- Lou Holtz Procrastination is opportunitys natural assassin

~ Victor Kiam Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough

- Og Mandino 1923-1996 American Motivational Author and Speaker When you judge others you do not define them you define yourself

~ Earl Nightingale

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly

~ Richard Bach

If you tell the truth you dont have to remember anything

-Mark Twain

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity

belonging to them

William Hazlitt (1778-1830 British essayist)

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back The great champions

have all come back from defeat

Sam Snead 1912-2002 Golfer Faith is the assurance of things hoped for

- Unknown

The mediocre teacher tells The good teacher explains The superior teacher

demonstrates The great teacher inspires

~ William A Ward

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Never complain and never explain

~ --Benjamin Disraeli

Bless a thing and it will bless you Curse it and it will curse you If you bless a

situation it has no power to hurt you

Emmet Fox 1886-1951 Spiritual Leader Man alone has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man

alone can dream and make his dreams come true

Napoleon Hill (1883-1970 American speaker author Think And Grow Rich) Without AMBITION one starts nothing Without WORK one finishes nothing

The prize will NOT be sent to you You have to WIN it

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is to try to please

everyone

- Bill Cosby What we leave behind is not engraved in stone monuments but woven into the lives

of others

~ Pericles The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of

being unwanted

~ Mother Teresa (1910-1997 Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary)

Tough times never last Tough people do

-Robert Schuller

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions

- Eric Butterworth

A fellow at one of my workshops confessed For years I was so miserable that I

prayed to God daily to let me wake up as happy as my dog I went home and

thought about it Am I as happy as my dog Hmmmm

~ Alan Cohen

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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future You must break out of

your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the

unknown

Denis Waitley Author and Speaker

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us

William Feather (1888-19 American writer businessman )

It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow but only

empties today of its strength

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892 Preacher

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win by fearing to

attempt

William Shakespeare (1564-1616 British poet playwright actor)

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future You must break out of

your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the

unknown

Denis Waitley (1933- American author speaker trainer peak performance expert)

Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as

it should There are no mistakes anywhere at any time What appears to be wrong

is simply your own false imagination Thats all

~Robert Adams

How many ideas have there been in history that were unthinkable ten years

before they appeared

~Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Life in itself is an empty canvas it becomes whatsoever you paint on it You can

paint misery you can paint bliss This freedom is your glory

~Osho

―Cease trying to work everything out with your minds it will get you nowhere Live

instead by intuition and inspiration let your whole life become a revelation

~Eileen Caddy

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People should appreciate ugliness because if it wasnt for ugliness beautiful

things wouldnt look beautiful

~ Sam Lau

No great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig If

you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time Let it first

blossom then bear fruit then ripen

~Epictetus

You are the Self that perfect immutable Self Nothing else exists Nothing else

ever existed Nothing else will ever exist There is only one Self and you are That

Rejoice

~Robert Adams

Part of being a champ is acting like a champ You have to learn how to win and not

run away when you lose Everyone has bad stretches and real successes Either way

you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get too confident

~ Nancy Kerrigan

Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they

have deep inside them - a desire a dream a vision

~ Muhammad Ali

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents works his tail off to

develop them into skills and uses these skills to accomplish his goals

~ Larry Bird

Every time you smile at someone it is an action of love a gift to that person a

beautiful thing

-Mother Teresa

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end Its not a day when you

lounge around doing nothing its when youve had everything to do and youve done

it

-Lord Acton

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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do

- Walter Bagehot

Only the weak are cruel Gentleness can only be expected from the strong

~ Leo Buscaglia

If you are too busy to spend time with your children then you are busier than God

intended you to be

~ Rabbi Mendel Epstein

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards

~ Soren Kierkegaard

Procrastination is the fear of success People procrastinate because they are

afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now Because

success is heavy carries a responsibility with it it is much easier to procrastinate

and live on the someday Ill philosophy

~ Denis Waitley

Happiness cannot come from without It must come from within

~ Helen Keller

I make occasional visits to reality But Im not a full- time resident

-Ashleigh Brilliant

People are like sticks of dynamite The power is on the inside but nothing happens

until the fuse gets lit

Mac Anderson Author Are you disappointed discouraged and discontented with your present level of

success Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present status Do you want to

become a better and more beautiful person than you are today Would you like to

be able to really learn how to be proud of yourself and still not lose genuine

humility Then start dreaming Itlsquos possible You can become the person you have

always wanted to be

Robert H Schuller (1926- American minister author social leader)

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You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant

aspiration

- James Allen 1864-1912 Author of As A Man Thinketh

The man who has done his best has done everything

~ Charles Schwab Though no one can go back and make a brand new start anyone can start from now

and make a brand new ending

~ Carl Bard

When I get ready to talk to people I spend two thirds of the time thinking what

they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say

Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 16th President of the United States Discontent is the first necessity of progress

Thomas A Edison (1847-1931 American inventor founder of GE)

You dont get to choose how youre going to die Or when You can only decide how

youre going to live - now

- Joan Baez Singer Songwriter

Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as

it should There are no mistakes anywhere at any time What appears to be wrong

is simply your own false imagination Thats all You are the Self that perfect

immutable Self Nothing else exists Nothing else ever existed Nothing else will

ever exist There is only one Self and you are That Rejoice

~Robert Adams If your dream is a big dream and if you want your life to work on the high level

that you say you do theres no way around doing the work it takes to get you

there

~ Joyce Chapman We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an

imperfect person perfectly

~ Sam Keen

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―A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe a part limited in time

and space He experiences himself his thoughts and feeling as something

separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness This

delusion is a kind of prison for us restricting us to our personal desires and to

affection for a few persons nearest to us Our task must be to free ourselves from

this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and

the whole of nature in its beauty

-- Albert Einstein

―Each contact with a human being is so rare so precious one should preserve it

- Anais Nin

―Only connect That was the whole of her sermon Only connect the prose and the

passion and both will be exalted and human love will be seen at its height Live in

fragments no longer Only connect

-- EM Forster

―Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the

self And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our

connectedness to others

-- Harriet Goldhor Lerner

―And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to

do the same As we are liberated from our fear our presence automatically

liberates others

-- Marianne Williamson

No no we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like

waters and righteousness like a mighty stream

Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968 American Civil Rights leader Nobel Prize winner 964)

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a

very long time

~ Andre Gide (1869-1951 French author)

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Write down the thoughts of the moment Those that come unsought for are

commonly the most valuable

Francis Bacon 1561-1626 Philosopher Statesman Scientist and Author

A woman should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart and set out to

accomplish it Even if she fails again and again to accomplish her purpose (as she

necessarily must until weakness is overcome) the strength of character gained will

be the measure of her true success and this will form a new starting point for

future power and triumph

~ James Allen

To be blind is bad but worse is to have eyes and not see

~ Helen Keller

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning

to see an imperfect person perfectly

` Sam Keen

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start anyone can

start from now and make a brand new ending

` Carl Bard Always make a total effort even when the odds are against you

Arnold Palmer (1929- American golfer)

Learning is finding out what you already know Doing is demonstrating that you

know it Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you You are

all learners doers teachers

Richard Bach (1936- American author)

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day

Jenner Bruce 1949- American track athlete author speaker

Doubt whom you will but never yourself

John Christian Bovee (1820-1904 American author lawyer)

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When you give someone a book you dont give him just paper ink and glue You

give him the possibility of a whole new life

Christopher Morley 1890-1957 Novelist Journalist and Poet

Dont be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality If you can dream

it you can make it so

Belva Davis Award-Winning Journalist

The secret of mans being is not only to live but to have something to live for

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose

Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity and high purpose by itself is

utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Watch your thoughts they become words

Watch your words they become actions

Watch your actions they become habits

Watch your habits they become character

Watch your character it becomes your destiny

~ Frank Outlaw

Take good care of your future because thats where youre going to spend the

rest of your life

~ Charles F Kettering

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams

John Barrymore

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground

Stephen Covey

Its never too late to be what you might have been

George Elliot

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Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder

than anything we can say

Wilfred Peterson

True peace is not merely the absence of some negative force - tension confusion

or war it is the presence of some positive force - justice good will and

brotherhood

-Martin Luther King Jr

The important thing in this world is not where we stand but in what direction we

move

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing Action always

generates inspiration Inspiration seldom generates action

-Frank Tibolt

The only way to eliminate waris to love our children more than we hate our enemies

-Golda Meir

It has never been and never will be easy work But the road that is built in hope

is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they

both lead to the same destination

~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

And in the end its not the years in your life that count Its the life in your

years

~ Abraham Lincoln

Hold your head high stick your chest out You can make it It gets dark

sometimes but morning comes Keep hope alive

~ Jesse Jackson

Set your sights high the higher the better Expect the most wonderful things to

happen not in the future but right now Realize that nothing is too good Allow

absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way

Eileen Caddy Author

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To understand the heart and mind of a person look not at what he has already

achieved but at what he aspires to do

Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931 Lebanese poet novelist )

Bring everything up to the surface Accept your humanity your animality

Whatsoever is there accept it without any condemnation Acceptance is

transformation because through acceptance awareness becomes possible

~Osho

What is the best thing about being 100 years old Lack of peer pressure

-Michael Pritchard

The more credit you give away the more will come back to you The more you help

others the more they will want to help you

~ Brian Tracy

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact

~ William James

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes Chance nature

compulsions habit reason passion desire

~ Aristotle When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth think of Algebra

-Will Rogers

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say Yes Ive got

dreams of course Ive got dreams Then they put the box away and bring it out

once in a while to look in it and yep theyre still there These are great dreams

but they never even get out of the box It takes an uncommon amount of guts to

put your dreams on the line to hold them up and say How good or how bad am I

Thats where courage comes in

~ Erma Bombeck

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You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really

stop to look fear in the face You must do the thing which you think you cannot

do

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you love the money will follow

Marsha Sinetar (American author To Build The Life You Want Create The Work You Love)

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement we must choose freedom and the

responsibility this entails

Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998 American expert on love lecturer author)

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt and the dream will take care of

itself You may be surprised at how easily this happens Your doubts are not as

powerful as your desires unless you make them so

Marcia Wieder (American speaker trainer author)

I work every day -- or at least I force myself into my office or room I may get

nothing done but you dont earn bonuses without putting in time Nothing may

come for three months but you dont earn the fourth without it

Mordecai Richler (1931- Canadian writer)

If things are not going well with you begin your effort at correcting the situation

by carefully examining the service you are rendering and especially the spirit in

which you are rendering it

Roger Babson 1875-1967 Statistician and Columnist Its simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about

what the other fellow is going to do

- John R Amos

All beings are from the very beginning Buddhas

~ Hakuin

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly

or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man

~Chang Tzu

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The important thing is not to stop questioning Curiosity has its own reason for

existing One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of

eternity of life of the marvelous structure of reality It is enough if one tries

merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day Never lose a holy

curiosity

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Expect your every need to be met expect the answer to every problem expect

abundance on every level expect to grow spiritually You are not living by human

laws Expect miracles and see them take place Hold ever before you the thought

of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will

bring it into being

~Eileen Caddy

Bring everything up to the surface Accept your humanity your animality

Whatsoever is there accept it without any condemnation Acceptance is

transformation because through acceptance awareness becomes possible

~Osho

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who

keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road

Dag Hammarskjold 1905-1961 Statesman and Secretary-General of UN

Life is one massive challenge after another for everyone So you cant feel sorry

for yourself One real measure of you as a person is how much you can handle

without whining

~ Mike Brescia Author

We are each of us angels with only one wing And we can only fly by embracing each

other

-Luciano de Crescenzo

He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he

would like to have

~ Socrates

Quite often we change jobs friends and spouses instead of ourselves

~ Akbarali H Jetha

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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame

~ Benjamin Franklin

You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where

your thoughts take you

- James Allen

The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will

embrace for that day We cannot change our past

We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way We cannot change

the inevitable The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have and that

is our attitude

- Charles Swindoll author

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others

- Cicero 106 BC - 43 BC

If you want your life to be more rewarding you have to change the way you think

- Oprah Winfrey

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless

- Mother Teresa

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible

- Italian Proverb

Enthusiasm is the all-essential human jet propeller It is the driving force which

elevates people to miracle workers and creates endless energy the source of all

accomplishment

-Norman Vincent Peale

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends

you choose for you will become like them-

- W Clement Stone

Ones philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one

makes In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves The process

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never ends until we die And the choices we make are ultimately our own

responsibility

- Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 American First Lady We will stay young in life as long as we work toward something that were

supposed to do

~ Richard Rose I love the name of honor more than I fear death

~ Julius Caesar

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future making it predictable

and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible

Hannah Arendt 1906-1975 Political Theorist

Man has no greater enemy than himself

Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374 Italian poet humanist)

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety

-Aesop

You cannot tailor make your situation in life but you can tailor make your

attitudes to fit those situations

- Zig Ziglar speaker and author Set a goal to achieve something that is so big so exhilarating that it excites you

and scares you at the same time It must be a goal that is so appealing so much in

line with your spiritual core that you cant get it out of your mind If you do not

get chills when you set a goal youre not setting big enough goals

Bob Proctor Author and Speaker The only people who never fail are those who never try

Ilka Chase (1905-1978 American author actor)

In truth you are spirit The body has been projected by the mind which itself

originates from Spirit If the wrong identification ceases there will be peace and

permanent indescribable bliss

~Ramana Maharshi

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I flow with loving gratitude for all my blessings today

- Zoe Jarboe

People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be

~ Abraham Lincoln You are wealthy now with an abundance of what you are thinking about The world

is a creative engine and will create whatever you are really thinking Every thought

in your mind is a prayer about you no matter who the subject seems to be

~ Brad Jensen

A man who works with his hands is a laborer a man who works with his hands and

his brain is a craftsman but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his

heart is an artist

-Louis Nizer

When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score

John Enoch Powell (1912-1998 British statesman)

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get credit Try if

you can to belong to the first class there is far less competition

~ Dwight Morrow 1873-1931 Businessman Politician and Diplomat

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone but with heartfelt

conviction that we are doing nothing and God everything

~ St Ignatius Loyola Action is the real measure of intelligence

~ Napoleon Hill

Take the first step and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid But the

first essential is that you begin Once the battle is started all that is within and

without you will come to your assistance

~ Robert Collier

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You are what you are today because of the decisions and the choices YOU made

yesterday

~ Wayne Goonie

I have never seen a man who could do real work except under the stimulus of

encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom he is

working

Charles M Schwab (1862-1939 American industrialist businessman)

Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can

- Danny Kaye (1913-1987) Entertainer A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in

spite of overwhelming obstacles

~ Christopher Reeve A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always

with the same person

~ Mignon McLaughlin

We learn from failure much more than from success we often discover what we

will do by finding our what we will not do and probably he who never made a

mistake never made a discovery

Samuel Smiles (1812-1904 Scottish author)

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 16th American President)

Life has indeed many ills but the mind that views every object in its most

cheering aspect and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good bears

within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote

Lydia H Sigourney 1791-1865 Poet

The Next Step

The first step needs action to start it

The last requires patience to end

So we question which ones most important

When we realize our dreams our best friend

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Well the answer is neither theyre equal

But the one that will help you win through

And connect what you start to the finish

Is the next step thats waiting for you

Lifes dreamers are great Goal Achievers

Their faith and persistence just blends

Into one awesome cocktail of knowledge

That whatever they want they can get

You see they never visualize failure

Its success that they see shining through

Its essential to start and to finish

But the next step is what you must do

Alison Wilson

Set a goal to achieve something that is so big so exhilarating that it excites you

and scares you at the same time It must be a goal that is so appealing so much in

line with your spiritual core that you cant get it out of your mind If you do not

get chills when you set a goal youre not setting big enough goals

Bob Proctor Author and Speaker

There is no such thing as natural touch Touch is something you create by hitting

millions of golf balls

~ Lee Trevino

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation We do not act rightly because

we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted

rightly We are what we repeatedly do Excellence then is not an act but a habit

~ Aristotle

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement If everyone received the

encouragement they need to grow the genius in most everyone would blossom and

the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams

~ Unkwown

I do not believe in miracles at least not defined in the conventional religious

manner as divine disruptions of the natural order But if a miracle is defined as an

infinitely improbable phenomenon then our existence is a miracle which no theory

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natural or supernatural will ever explain

-John Horgan

Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that with nine women

pregnant you can get a baby in a month

--Wernher von Braun

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never

find out

~ Frank A Clark

You are what you are today because of the decisions and the

choices YOU made yesterday

~ Revt Wayne Goonie

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do

a little

~ Edmund Burke

We will stay young in life as long as we work toward something

that were supposed to do

~ Richard Rose

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions Small

people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become

great

- Mark Twain

Rich and poor are first created in the mind

A poor man asks How much will it COST me

A rich man asks How much will it MAKE me

Which one are you

~ Bryan Kumar

If you think you can do something that you cannot the belief itself prevents you

from accomplishing the task either because you never try it in the first place or

because you have block yourself by your belief

-Deena Zalkind Spear

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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear

Marcus Aurelius (121-12180 Roman emperor philosopher)

Character is doing whats right when nobodys looking

- J C Watts Jr Politician

Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions Small people

always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great

Mark Twain 1835-1910 Humorist and Writer

We are all salesmen every day of our lives We are selling our ideas our plans our

enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact

~ Charles M Schwab It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition

- Vernon Howard Maturity begins when were content to feel were right about something without

feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong

Sydney J Harris 1917-1986 Syndicated Columnist

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum

- Frances Willard Educator

Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given

~ Deepak Chopra Once power was considered a masculine attribute In fact power has no gender

~ Katherine Graham

An invasion of armies can be resisted but not an idea whose time has come

Victor Hugo

As the purse is emptied the heart is filled

Victor Hugo

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Be like the bird that passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight feels them

give way beneath her and yet sings knowing that she hath wings

Victor Hugo

Have no fear of robbers or murderers They are external dangers petty dangers

We should fear ourselves Prejudices are the real robbers vices the real murders

The great dangers are within us Why worry about what threatens our heads or

purses Let us think instead of what threatens our souls

Victor Hugo

He who opens a school door closes a prison

Victor Hugo

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man

Victor Hugo Be all you can be and live a good life -- have fun with it

Tina Yothers

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace

Yes Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive inner peace does

not

-Eckhart Tolle

A moments insight is sometimes worth a lifes experience

- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) Physician and writer

The superior persons learning goes in his ear attaches to his heart expands to

the end of his limbs and is established in his actions

Even in his smallest word or slightest action he sets an example

~ Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse) When I thought I couldnt go on I forced myself to keep going My success is

based on persistence not luck

Estee Lauder Entrepreneur

If you always do what interests you at least one person is pleased

Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003 American actress writer)

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Make Your Mark Count A childs life is like a piece of paper on which every person

leaves a mark

- Chinese Proverb

Pain shared is lessened joy shared increased

~ Spider Robinson

The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has its limits

~ Albert Einstein

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift let it be enthusiasm

Bruce Barton (1886-1967 American author advertising expert)

When you give your children knowledge you are telling them what you think That

is you are telling them what they are supposed to know what you want them to

understand is true

When you give your children wisdom you do not tell them what to know or what is

true but rather how to get to their own truth

-Neale Donald Walsch

I have found that if you love life life will love you back

- Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982) Musician

The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see

magic and beauty in them while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves

~ Kahlil Gibran

Practice is just as valuable as a sale The sale will make you a living the skill will

make you a fortune

~ Jim Rohn

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about

Charles Kingsley (1819-1875 British author clergyman)

Dont cry because its over - smile because it happened

Author unknown

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Happiness is like a kiss You must share it to enjoy it

~ Bernard Meltzer Our life is what our thoughts make it

~ Marcus Aurelius The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best Therefore it tends to

become the best It takes the form or character of the best and will receive the

best

-- Wallace Wattles

Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings

-- Marianne Williamson

―And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present and can be none in

the future And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned

to beautiful results

mdash Walt Whitman When you lose touch with inner stillness you lose touch with your Self

When you lose touch with your Self you lose yourself in the world

Your innermost sense of Self of who you are is inseparable from stillness

This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form

Eckhart Tolle Stillness Speaks

With wisdom I see that I am nothing

With love I see that I am everything

Between these two my life turns

Nisargadatta Maharaj Man often becomes what he believes himself to be If I keep on saying to myself

that I cannot do a certain thing it is possible that I may end by really becoming

incapable of doing it On the contrary if I shall have the belief that I can do it I

shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the

beginning

Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Indian Nationalist Leader

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Strategies designed to avoid something eventually produce exactly the thing they

are trying to avoid

-Michael Greenwood and Peter Nunn

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but

are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults

seem insignificant

Charles A Cerami

If all you did was just look for things to appreciate you would live a joyous

spectacular life

~Abraham-Hicks

Three things in human life are important The first is to be kind The second is to

be kind And the third is to be kind

- Henry James (1843-1916) Writer The moment of enlightenment is when a persons dreams of possibilities become

images of probabilities

~ Vic Braden Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot

fly

~ Langston Hugues Life is made up not of great sacrifices or duties but of little things in which

smiles and kindness and small obligations given habitually are what win and

preserve the heart and secure comfort

Humphry Davy 1778-1829 Chemist

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900 German philosopher)

The game of life is the game of boomerangs Our thoughts deeds and words

return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy

- Florence Shinn (1871-1940) Writer

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Some dream of doing great things while others stay awake and get on with it

~ Unknown With all your science can you tell how it is and whence it is that light comes into

the soul

-Hanry David Thoreau

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one but you wont come up

with a handful of mud either

- Leo Burnett (1891-1971) Advertising Executive

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the

only way we can leave the future open

Lillian Smith 1897-1966 Writer Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to

success when they gave up

~ Thomas A Edison Find something youre passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it

Julia Child (1912-2004 American gourmet cook author and television personality)

Now I say to you today my friends even though we face the difficulties of today

and tomorrow I still have a dream It is a dream deeply rooted in the American

dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true

meaning of its creed -- we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are

created equal

- Martin Luther King Jr ―Never let formal education get in the way of your learning

- Mark Twain

The path to success is to take massive determined action

~ Anthony Robbins For every minute you remain angry you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In the practice of tolerance ones enemy is the best teacher

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson When defeat comes accept it as a signal that

your plans are not sound rebuild those plans

and set sail once more toward your coveted goal

~ Napoleon Hill

We are all alike on the inside

Mark Twain (1835-1910 American humorist writer)

If you are going to do something carelessly it is better to give it up entirely

Russian Proverb

The world is like a mirror frown at it and it frowns at you

Smile and it smiles too

Herbert Samuels

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our

children

Charles R Swindoll

The important thing is not so much that every child should be

taught as that every child should be given the wish to learn

John Lubbock

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been

Mark Twain

It is a mistake to think that moving fast is the same as actually going somewhere

Steve Goodier A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops

Henry Adams

It is only with the heart that one can see clearly for the most

essential things are invisible to the eye

~ Antoine de Sainte Exupery

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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the

critical decisive hour Write it on your heart that every day is

the best day of the year

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier Be the living

expression of Gods kindness kindness in your face kindness in your eyes kindness

in your smile

- Mother Teresa

Its never too late to be who you might have been

- George EliotWriter

Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle

- Plato Philosopher

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition

- Vernon Howard

Ilsquove always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up

- Beverly Sills Opera Singer

Help others get ahead You will always stand taller with someone else on your

shoulders

- Bob Moawad Business Leader

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks

like work

Thomas Edison

Dream as if youll live forever

Live as if youll die tomorrow

~ James Dean

The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an

expectation that they can make it work or make it better

Barbara Pletcher Author

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As we grow up we get sophisticated out of enchantment and become too smart

about the things that cause children to wonder

-Thomas Moore

People come out to see you perform and youve got to give them the best you have

within you The lives of most men are patchwork quilts Or at best one matching

outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations A lifetime of

training for just ten seconds

Jesse Owens (1913-1980 American Olympian)

Nothing is easy to the unwilling

- Nikki Giovanni Whatever course you have chosen for yourself it will not be a chore but an

adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving if your sights are set

far above the merely secure and mediocre

~David Sarnoff 1891-1971 Entrepreneur I dont know any other way to lead but by example

Don Shula (1930- American football coach) Flexible people never get bent out of shape

- Author Unknown The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record

of successful experiences behind you

~ William Jennings Bryan The important thing is this To be able at any moment to sacrifice

what we are for what we could become

~ Charles du Bois Success isnt permanent and failure isnt fatal

- Mike Ditka

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The different between us is that I count and you dont

-Huston Smith

I love strange choices Im always interested in people who depart from what is

expected of them and go into new territory

Cate Blanchett Actress Always do your best What you plant now you will harvest later

Og Mandino (1923-1996 American motivational author speaker wwogmandinocom ) Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the Universe is endlessly

bountiful Just put forth a clear enough request and everything that your heart

desires must come to you

~Shakti Gawain The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would

suffice to solve most of the worlds problems

~ Unknown The only real valuable thing is intuition

- Albert Einstein

Waste your money and youre only out of money but waste your time and youve

lost a part of your life

~ Michael Leboeuf Fear is an insidious virus Given a breeding place in our minds it will eat away our

spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors

~ James F Bell

You cant base your life on other peoples expectations

Stevie Wonder Grammy Award Winning SingerSongwriter

An excuse is worse than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded

Alexander Pope (1688-1744 British poet critic translator)

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The thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and

beginning the work of becoming yourself

- Anna Quindlen ―Exert your talents and distinguish yourself and donlsquot think of retiring from the

world until the world will be sorry that you retire

- Samuel Johnson Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of

the odds against them They make the impossible happen

~ Dr Robert Jarvik

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances

if there is any reaction both are transformed

-Carl Jung There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right between

fairly good and the best between mediocrity and superiority

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)

I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright

I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more

I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive

I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger

I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting

I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess

I wish you enough Hellos to get you through the final Goodbye

Bob Perks

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie

~ William Shakespeare

It doesnt matter where you are coming from All that matters is where you are

going

~ Brian Tracy You need to be a somebody before you can be a nobody

-Brant Cortright

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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old

Franz Kafka Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it

bravely and gallantly as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an

unknown country to meet many a joy to find many a comrade to win and lose many

a battle

~ Annie Besant

I believe in taking a positive attitude toward the world My hope still is to leave

the world a little bit better than when I got here

Jim Henson 1936-1990 Muppets Creator Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life

Gita Bellin

Education is when you read the fine print Experience is what you get if you

dont

- Pete Seeger

Keep your thoughts positive because they become your words

Keep your words positive because they become your behaviors

Keep your behaviors positive because they become your habits

Keep your habits positive because they become your values

Keep your values positive because they become your destiny

-Gandhi

The challenge is not to manage time but to manage ourselves

Stephen Covey

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death It not only gives us

fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which

we hold our present being

~ William Hazlitt

Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith Having

faith in yourself in the process of change and in the new direction that change

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sets will reveal your own inner core of steel

Georgette Mosbacher Business Executive

Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life

Gita Bellin

Careful what you wish for Millions long for immortality who do not know what to

do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon

- Susan Ertz

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us What we have done for

others and the world remains and is immortal

Albert Pine

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate Our deepest fear is that we are

powerful beyond measure It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us

We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant gorgeous talented fabulous Actually

who are you NOT to be You are a child of God Your playing small does not serve

the world There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people wont

feel insecure around you We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is

within us It is not just in some of us it is in everyone And as we let our own light

shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same As we are

liberated from our own fear our presence automatically liberates others

~ Marianne Williamson

Focus on where we want to end up not on what we want to avoid

-Paula Underwood Spencer

A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact

that everything has happened for the best

Author Unknown

Change your thoughts and you change the world

- Harold R Mcalindon Today is yesterdays effect and tomorrows cause

~ Phillip Gribble

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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes one of his great surprises is to find

he can do what he was afraid he couldnt do

~ Henry Ford

I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist

- Paul Harvey

Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes

up his mind to do We are all capable of greater things than we realize

Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993 American Christian reformed pastor speaker author)

When everybody is looking for gold its a good time to be in the picks and shovels

business

~ Mark Twain

Waste your money and youre only out of money but waste your time and youve

lost a part of your life

~ Michael Leboeuf

It is a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best you

very often get it

~ W Somerset Maugham

Flatter me and I may not believe you Criticize me and I may not like you Ignore

me and I may not forgive you Encourage me and I will not forget you Love me and

I may be forced to love you

William Arthur Ward

―Trust yourself You know more than you think you do

Benjamin Spock

―A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise

after success

Anon

―Nine tenths of education is encouragement

Anatole Franc

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Maybe you cant change the whole world but if you have love in your heart you can

make small differences every day which really does change the world one life at a

time

Kristina Koncz Customer Experience Specialist

Let us be about setting high standards for life love creativity and wisdom If our

expectations in these areas are low we are not likely to experience wellness

Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward

to

Greg Anderson (American author The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness)

Truce is better than friction

- Charles Herguth

Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they

have deep inside them -- a desire a dream a vision

~ Muhammad Ali

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each mans

life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that

take our breath away

~ George Carlin

You can conquer almost any fear if you will make up your mind to do so For

remember fear doesnt exist anywhere except in the mind

Dale Carnegie 1888-1955 Author and Speaker

Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others

They learn when they do which isnt often on their own the hard way

Robert Heinlein (1907-1988 American science fiction writer)

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the

expense of everybody else

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-Frederic Bastiat

Some think its holding on that makes one strong sometimes its letting go

- Sylvia Robinson We are responsible for what we are and whatever we wish ourselves to be we

have the power to make ourselves If what we are now has been the result of our

own past actions it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be

produced by our present actions so we have to know how to act

~ Swami Vivekananda

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning but anyone can start today and

make a new ending

~ Maria Robinson

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves

Brian Tracy (1944- Canadian-born American trainer speaker author businessman)

Anger is the only thing to put off till tomorrow

- Slovakian Proverb

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know

peace

~Jimi Hendrix Do not wait the time will never be just right

Start where you stand and work with whatever tools you may have at your

command and better tools will be found as you go along

~ Napoleon Hill

When we lose the right to be different we lose the privilege to be free

Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948 American jurist politician)

You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone which can become a

watered-down occasional hope that youll get to tomorrow Intention without

action is useless

Caroline Myss Author of Entering The Castle

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Plan ahead -- It wasnt raining when Noah built the ark

-Anononymous

Only you can be yourself

No one else is qualified for the job

- Shelby Collinge

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall

~ Confucius

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom But in the last analysis our

only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves

~ Bernard M Baruch

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941 Indian poet philosopher)

Worry is the misuse of the imagination

- Dan Zadra

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else you will have succeeded

Maya Angelou

Trust yourself Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your

life Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny inner sparks of possibility into

flames of achievement

~ Foster C McClellan There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal

experience has brought it home

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873 British philosopher economist)

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall

never sit in

-Greek proverb

We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails

- Bertha Calloway

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Democracy arose from mens thinking that if they are equal in any respect they

are equal absolutely

~ Aristotle

Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can

~ Richard Bach

If the world seems cold to you kindle fires to warm it

~ Lucy Larcom All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their

gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible

Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924 Writer Physician Hotel Owner and founder of Success Magazine

A Friend is a treasure more precious than Gold For love shared is priceless and

never grows old

Author Unknown

Only that which cannot be taken away by death is real Everything else is unreal it

is made of the same stuff dreams are made of

~Osho

Personality can open doors but only character can keep them open

- Elmer G Leterman

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they

dont know when to quit Most men succeed because they are determined to

~ George Allen Coach

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what

lies within us

~ Walt Emerson Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by

employing it well Then youth will be happy old age without regret and life a

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beautiful success

Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888 Novelist Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution

experience lifes deepest joy true fulfillment

Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet enough trials to make you

strong enough sorrow to keep you human enough hope to make you happy

-Anonymous

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the

things we do

- Freya Madeline Stark

We must become the change we want to see

~ Mahatma Gandhi

You know its not more knowledge its not more education its not more facts

that we need Its a better use of what we already have that we need to have You

have each and every one of you within your potential power right now to do a

wonderful job in your chosen field - if you would only embrace it and use it

Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think And Grow Rich

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be

respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure

Buddha (568-488 BC Indian born founder of Buddhism)

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change and all patterns alter

- Sharon Salzberg When we let freedom ring when we let it ring from every village and every

hamlet from every state and every city we will be able to speed up that day when

all of Gods children black men and white men Jews and Gentiles Protestants and

Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro

spiritual

Free at last Free at last

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Thank God Almighty we are free at last

~ Reverand Martin Luther King Jr All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them

~ Walt Disney Your own common sense should tell you that common sense alone is not enough

-Ashleigh Brilliant

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and

deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your

place

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)

Know what counts

No matter what youve done for yourself or for humanity if you cant look back on

having given love and attention to your own family what have you really

accomplished

- Lee Iacocca

There is a giant asleep within every man When that giant awakes miracles happen

~ Frederick Faust There are those that look at things the way they are and ask why I dream of

things that never were and ask why not

~ Robert F Kennedy

There is nothing impossible to him who will try

~ Alexander the Great

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance Remember the greatest

failure is to not try Once you find something you love to do be the best at doing

it

Debbi Fields Founder of Mrs Fields Cookies

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul

Marcus Aurelius (121-12180 Roman emperor philosopher)

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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left

undone

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Shoot for the moon Even if you miss youll land among the stars

~ Les Brown

Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been

told is what they cant do They dont know what they want because they dont

know whats available for them

~ Zig Ziglar

Accept that some days youre the pigeon and some days youre the statue

-Anonymous

Be life long or short its completeness depends on what it was lived for

- David Starr Jordan

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life

by altering his attitude

~ William James

It has never been and never will be easy work

But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road

built in despair even though they both lead to the same destination

~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

―No matter what anybody tells you words and ideas can change the world

~ John Keating (from the movie Dead Poets Society) hellip Every tomorrow has two handles We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety

or the handle of faith

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887 American preacher orator writer) The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it

~ Chinese proverb

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Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to

success when they gave up

~ Thomas Edison

I am always doing things I cant do thats how I get to do them

~ Picasso When you maximize your talents youre on path on purpose on target When you

dont youre off path off purpose off target

Kevin Hall Author of Aspire

Comparisons of ones lot with others teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will

Thornton Wilder (1897-1975 American novelist playwright)

Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

While we have the gift of life it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of

us to die - whether it is our spirit our creativity or our glorious uniqueness

- Gilda Radner

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state

of being alive If life is to be sustained hope must remain even where confidence is

wounded trust impaired

~ Erik H Erikson

Dont go on discussing what a good person should be Just be one

Marcus Aurelius

Our wisdom comes from our experience and our experience comes from our

foolishness

Sacha Guitry

I would rather live in a world where life is surrounded by mystery than live in a

world so small that my mind could comprehend it

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Our first teacher is our own heart

Cheyenne proverb

Power coerces

Knowledge persuades

Love converts

Proverb

Do not kiss your children so they will kiss you back but so they will kiss their

children and their childrens children

Noah Benshea

We read to know we are not alone

CS Lewis

Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better

Albert Einstein

Keeping score of old scores and scars getting even and one-upping always makes

you less than you are

- Malcolm Forbes

When you know that youre capable of dealing with whatever comes you have the

only security the world has to offer

Harry Browne 1933-2006 Writer and Politician

You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never

be ableto repay you

- John Wooden

Freedom know this that every manwoman is free to choose his life and what hell

be For this eternal truth is given God will force no man to heaven Hell call

persuade direct aright Bless with wisdom love and light in nameless ways be

good and kind but never force the human mind

~ William C Clegg

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There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than

the one you are capable of living

~ Nelson Mandela to Marianne Williamson If it werent for the rocks in its bed the stream would have no song

-Carl Perkins

Whenever encountering a troublesome person do not identify him as being cruel

or stupid or rude or anything else like that Instead see him as a frightened

person

Vernon Howard 1918-1992 Author and Philosopher When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves it is useless to seek it

elsewhere

~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680 French classical writer) Live for the moment

If I have learnt anything it is that life forms no logical patterns It is haphazard

and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by for who knows whether any

of them will ever return

- Margo Fonteyn

Isnt it strange that princesses and kings and clowns that caper in sawdust rings

and common people like you and me are builders for eternity Each is given a bag of

tools a shapeless mass a book of rules and each must make ere life is flown a

stumbling block or stepping stone

~ Edgar Guest We are what we repeatedly do Excellence then is not an act but a habit

~ Aristotle

Whatever you can do or dream you can do begin it Boldness has genius power

and magic in it

~ Wolfgang von Goethe Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state Being in love shows a person who he should be ~ Anton Chekhov

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Follow the grain in your own wood

- Howard Thurman

It is said that if you are not living your dreams you are living your fears

~ Ghalil Professional Dreamer

―Dont ask what the world needs Ask what makes you come alive because what the

world needs is people who have come alive

- Harold Thurman

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success When you do a thing

do it with all your mind Put your whole soul to it Stamp it with your own

personality Be active be energetic be enthusiastic and faithful and you will

accomplish your object Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Essayist Philosopher and Poet

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do

John Wooden (1910- American basketball coach)

For the most part fear is nothing but an illusion When you share it with someone

else it tends to disappear

- Marilyn C Barrick

The purpose of life is not to arrive safely at your death

- Robert Holden

When everything seems to be going against you remember that theairplane takes

off against the wind not with it

Henry Ford

There are two freedoms the false where a man is free to do what he likes the

true where he is free to do what he ought

~ Charles Kingsley Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one

could find fault with it

John Henry Newman (1801-1890 British religious leader prelate writer)

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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

New ideas pass through three periods

It cant be done

It probably can be done but its not worth doing

I knew it was a good idea all along

-Arthur C Clarke A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you think creates your life all you have to do is ask yourself what you are

willing to accept into your life

~ Ghalil Author - Professional Dreamer

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and

deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your

place

~ Orison Swett Marden Well done is better than well said

~ Benjamin Franklin Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one

could find fault with it

John Henry Newman (1801-1890 British religious leader prelate writer) If youre looking for perfection look in the mirror If you find it there expect it

elsewhere

Malcolm S Forbes (1919-1990 American publisher businessman) Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have

- H Jackson Brown Jr A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish great things

~ Chinese Proverb

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If we listened to our intellect wed never have a love affair Wed never have a

friendship Wed never go into business because wed be cynical Well thats

nonsense Youve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down

~ Ray Bradbury

Successful people decide how they are going to live they are not victims of

circumstance In good times or bad times they know where they are going and they

know that they are going to get there

Bob Proctor Author and Speaker

First they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you then you win

~ Mahatma Gandhi The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing

- Walt Disney 1901-1966 American Film ProducerDirectorAnimator

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas first make him your friend

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))

Doubting everything or believing everything are two equally convenient solutions

both of which save us from thinking

-Jules Henri Poincareacute

Dont be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning Thats only the initial

impression The important thing is not to retreat you have to master yourself

Olga Korbut Olympic Gold Medallist Gymnast

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental

difference in someones life

- Sister Mary Rose McGeady All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future

task of the philosopher which is to solve the problem of value to determine the

true hierarchy of values

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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Let no man pull you low enough to hate him

~ Martin Luther King Dont concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal -

leave that completely to a power greater than yourself All you have to do is know

where youre going The answers will come to you of their own accord and at the

right time

Earl Nightingale 1921-1989 Syndicated Radio Announcer and Author

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs

~ Gloria Steinem

Now I say to you today my friends even though we face the difficulties of today

and tomorrow I still have a dream It is a dream deeply rooted in the American

dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true

meaning of its creed -- we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are

created equal

~ Martin Luther King Jr

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams Live the life you have imagined

David Thoreau Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions Small people always do

that but the really great make you believe that you too can become great

~ Mark Twain Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure (values) and Ill tell

you their philosophy of life

~ Dale Carnegie To forgive is merely to remember ONLY the LOVING thoughts you gave in the

past and those that were given you ALL the rest must be forgotten

~ A Course In Miracles If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a

prophet

Isaac Bashevis Singer 1904-1991 Journalist and Writer

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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us

~ Voltaire

We are all of us stars and we deserve to twinkle

~ Marilyn Monroe

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do

right

~ Nelson Mandela

It has never been and never will be easy work But the road that is built in hope

is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they

both lead to the same destination

~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society

~J Krishnamurti

Every situation properly perceived becomes an opportunity to heal

~ A Course in Miracles

The love that you withhold in life is the pain that you carry

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as

the quality of perseverance It overcomes almost everything even nature

John D Rockefeller (1839-1937 American industrialist philanthropist founder Exxon)

All I ask is for an unfair advantage

~ WC Fields Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words Keep your

words positive because your words become your behaviors Keep your behaviors

positive because your behaviors become your habits Keep your habits positive

because your habits become your values Keep your values positive because your

values become your destiny

~Gandhi

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Your ego is creating obstacles Maya creating maya

~Babaji Step back Observe without judgment unconditional Watch now as obstacles

melt become no-thing Do this each time a block appears Step back and observe

without judgment

~Babaji

Everybody cannot be a painter a poet or a geniusthose are given qualities from

birth But everybody can be enlightened Enlightenment is the only thing the only

experience where everybody is equally capable And it does not depend on whether

you believe in God or not it depends only on one thingand that is a little taste (of

meditation) and suddenly you become confident that youre capable of it

~Osho There are no accidents or coincidences in this world Nothing is by chance

Everything you experience is a direct manifestation of where you focus your

attention and hold your vibration

~Jafree When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off

into the darkness of the unknown faith is knowing one of two things will happen

There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly

~ Barbara J Winter High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly make big decisions quickly and

move into action immediately Follow these principles and you can make your dreams

come true

Robert H Schuller Televangelist Pastor and Author

Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you but seek out another to console and

you will find consolation

J C Macaulay

High Expectations are the key to everything

~ Sam Walton Founder Wal-Mart

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Until you make peace with who you are youll never be content with what you

have

~ Doris Mortman You must constantly ask yourself these questions Who am I around What are

they doing to me What have they got me reading What have they got me saying

Where do they have me going What do they have me thinking And most

important what do they have me becoming Then ask yourself the big question Is

that okay Your life does not get better by chance it gets better by change

Jim Rohn 1930-2009 Author and Speaker

Believe it You CAN succeed at whatever you do as long as you simply take the

right ACTIONS

~ ER Haas CEO

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do The hard

part is doing it

~ General H Norman Schwarzkopf So let your deepest desires direct your aim Set your sights far above the

reasonable target The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire

that stirs the heart

Price Pritchett Author of You2

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do

Walter Bagehot (1826-1977 British economist critic)

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or

better than themselves

~ Tryon Edwards

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high

and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach it

~ Michelangelo Compared to what we ought to be we are only half awake We are making use of

only a small part of our physical and mental resources Stating the thing broadly

the human individual thus lives far within his limits He possesses power of various

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sorts which he habitually fails to use

William James (1842-1910 American psychologist professor author) People wait for opportunity to come along yet it is there every morning

~ Dennis the Menace A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow

~ George S Patton (1885-1945 American army general during World War II)

The last best fruit which comes to late perfection even in the kindliest soul is

tenderness toward the hard forbearance toward the unforbearing warmth toward

the cold philanthropy toward the misanthropic

~ Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825 German novelist)

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a

prophet

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991 Polish-born American journalist writer)

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than

by those given to us by others

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662 French scientist religious philosopher) Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty

~ John Ruskin (1819-1900 British critic social theorist)

Expect your every need to be met expect the answer to every problem expect

abundance on every level expect to grow spiritually You are not living by human

laws Expect miracles and see them take place Hold ever before you the thought

of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will

bring it into being

~Eileen Caddy

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we

believe And the only real wealth for any of us lies in our faith

~ Gordon B Hinckley

Desire is the Starting Point of All Achievement

~ - Napoleon Hill

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And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to

do the same

Nelson Mandela

The more we have the less we own

Meister Eckhart (1260-1326 German mystic)

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs jolted by every

pebble in the road

Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887 Preacher and Abolitionist

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength Richard L Evans

The secret of Happiness is Freedom and the secret of Freedom Courage

~ Thucydides (Greek historian 460-404 BC)

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in

the mature than in the young

Paul McCartney SingerSongwriter I cant believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary

Lou Holtz (937- American football coach)

Dont let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he

was

~ Richard L Evans

To dream anything that you want to dream that is the beauty of the human mind

To do anything that you want to do that is the strength of the human will To trust

yourself to test your limits that is the courage to succeed

~ Bernard Edmonds

I find my greatest pleasure and so my reward in the work that precedes what the

world calls success

Thomas A Edison (1847-1931 American inventor founder of GE)

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It is good to act as if It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer

an act

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832 British sportsman writer)

Tell me what you want and Ill show you how to get it

~ Bob Proctor

One is very crazy when in love

~ Sigmund Freud

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed Always aim at

purifying your thoughts and everything will be well

Mahatma Gandhi

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything keep it

Mahatma Gandhi Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony

Mahatma Gandhi

Hate the sin love the sinner

Mahatma Gandhi

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress

Mahatma Gandhi

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress

Mahatma Gandhi

True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the

future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied

with what we have which is sufficient for he that is so wants nothing The great

blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach

~ Seneca 4 BC to 65 AD - Spanish Philosopher

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When you paint success pictures in your mind you initiate an inner process

whereby your attitudes hopes aspirations and enthusiasm are elevated in

response to an image of a more promising future Every person who aspires must

first sell themselves hope the promise of a better life

US Andersen 1917-1986 Author of The Magic In Your Mind

How far is far how high is high Well never know until we try

Song from the California Special Olympics If you take each challenge one step at a time with faith in every footstep your

strength and understanding will increase

~ James E Faust

What is your individual purpose What would you like to be able to say is your

legacy I believe that each of us wants to find our purpose in life our raison

detre or reason for being We need to have a motive to get out of bed in the

morning We want to feel alive and passionate about something Something that

makes a difference in the world We are not alone in this and yet many of us are

still searching for that purpose

~ Veronica Hay We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds

Warren Buffett (1930- American investment entrepreneur)

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy but its good too to

check up once in a while and make sure you havent lost the things money cant

buy

George Lorimer 1867-1937 Editor of Saturday Evening Post

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence Talent will not nothing is

more common than unsuccessful men with talent Genius will not unrewarded genius

is almost a proverb Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent

~ Calvin Coolidge

Desperation can be as powerful inspirer as genius

Benjamin Disraeli

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We read to know we are not alone

CS Lewis

Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better

Albert Einstein The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the

road after you have shown him the way

Confucius

A baby has a way of making a man out of his father and a boy out of his

grandfather

Angie Papadakis

My father didnt tell me how to live he lived and let me watch him do it

Clarence B Kelland No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing

William Barclay

If you think youre lucky you are

Bobby Dodd

When youre safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when youre

having an adventure you wish you were safe at home

Thornton Wilder Obstacles dont have to stop you If you run into a wall dont turn around and give

up Figure out how to climb it go through it or work around it

~ Michael Jordan In order to attain the impossible one must attempt the impossible

~ Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616 Spanish novelist dramatist poet)

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as

the quality of perseverance It overcomes almost everything even nature

~ John D Rockefeller

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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is

when men are afraid of the light

~ Plato

Doubt of whatever kind can be ended by action alone

Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 Philosopher and Author

Poverty is not a shame but the being ashamed of it is

English Proverb

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well

~ Unknown

We need to exert ourselves that much more and break out of the vicious cycle of

dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful those in command of

immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own

image

~ Nelson Mandela

High Expectations are the key to everything

~ Sam Walton Founder Wal-Mart

Failures are expected by losers ignored by winners

~ Joe Gibbs Football Coach Most people live and die with their music still unplayed They never dare to try

Mary Kay Ash

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own

existence

Aristotle

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to

the eye

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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If A equals success then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z

with X being work Y play and Z keeping your mouth shut

~ Albert Einstein

Tomorrows battle is won during todays practice

Japanese Proverb

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days

What you can do or think you can do begin it For boldness has magic power and

genius in it

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 Poet Novelist and Scientist

Forget about all the reasons why something may not work You only need to find

one good reason why it will

Dr Robert Anthony

No matter how busy you are you must take time to make the other person feel

important

Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001 American businesswoman founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics)

I used to be a very serious not funny negative person Funny-cism Skepticism

Criticism and all Then I got introduced to the world of Positive Thinking Now Im

bipolar

~ Andy Dooley Spiritual Comedian and Professional Speaker

Your past is not your potential In any hour you can choose to liberate the future

Marilyn Ferguson (American writer) Everyone wants to be appreciated so if you appreciate someone dont keep it a

secret

~ Mary Kay Ash 1915-2001 Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds

and these magnets attract to us the forces the people the circumstances of life

which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts

~ Napoleon Hill

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You more often recognize your inadequacies rather than your strengths

~ James E Faust

I live by this credo Have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness

instead of sadness Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations Even

in your darkest moment you usually can find something to laugh about if you try

hard enough

Red Skelton 1913-1997 Comedian

Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth

George W Crane Some self-confronting questions

Where do I want to be at any given time

How am I going to get there

What do I have to do to get myself from where

I am to where I want to be

Whats the first small step I can take to get moving

~ George A Ford The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can

bribe the public with the publics money

- Alexis de Tocqueville The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race

~ Don Marquis At the height of laughter the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new

possibilities

-- Jean Houston Begin to weave and God will give you the thread

~ German Proverb If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who

are rich

John F Kennedy (1917-1963 35th American President)

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If you keep THINKING what you are thinking you will keep DOING what you are

doing and you will keep GETTING what you are getting

~ Dr Robert Anthony The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world

~ Lao-tzu Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them and to

let them know that you trust them

Booker T Washington 1856-1915 Educator and Writer ―Stress is the tax you pay for not taking 100 responsibility for your life

mdashDr Barnet Meltzer Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it

~ Irving Berlin It is by surmounting difficulties not by sinking under them that we discover our

fortitude

~ Hannah Webster Foster

Believing requires action

~ James E Faust

Dont do anything in practice that you wouldnt do in the game

George Halas (1895-1983 American football coach)

Its better to reach for the stars and land on the roof than to reach for the

roof and land in the garbage

~ Savanna Skinner

Whatever you focus your intention on is what will show up in your life

Your consistent thoughts create your consistent results

~ Dr Robert Anthony

He who gains a victory over other men is strong but he who gains a victory over

himself is all powerful

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Lao-Tzu (BC 600- Chinese philosopher founder of Taoism) His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the

memory of a wrong

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great masters merit emulation not worship

-- Alan Cohen

Mirth is Gods medicine Everybody ought to bathe in it

-- Henry Ward Beecher

Snowflakes are one of natures most fragile things but just look what they can do

when they stick together

~ anon

Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you

are and what you want

-- Alan Cohen

Life isnt about waiting for the storm to pass its about learning to dance in the

rain

~Anonymous

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose for this thing that we call

failure is not the falling down but the staying down

Mary Pickford 1893-1979 Actress and Producer

Courage does not always roar Sometimes courage is that quiet voice at the end of

the day that saysI will try again tomorrow

-Mary Anne Radmacher

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act or thought or word that raises

us above ourselves

~ Arthur P Stanley

―You see things and say Whylsquo but I dream things and say Why notlsquo

- George Bernard Shaw

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―The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and

convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges

- Martin Luther King Jr

―Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions Small people always do

that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great

- Mark Twain

―That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as

well

- Abraham Lincoln

―Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though

checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor

suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor

defeat

- Theodore Roosevelt

―Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm

- Winston Churchill

―I have not failed Ilsquove just found 10000 ways that wonlsquot work

- Thomas Edison If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun

--Katharine Hepburn

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist sees

problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems

~ Winston Churchill

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but

are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults

seem insignificant

Charles A Cerami Author

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If everyone on earth loved each other the earth would shine brighter than the

sun

-- Source unknown

As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again you are

merely a vague guest on a dark Earth

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

So many worlds so much to do so little done such things to be

~ Lord Alfred Tennyson

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy nothing can make a fool content

that is why most men are miserable

Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680 French classical writer)

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live

~ Flora Whittemore I am only one but still I am one I cannot do everything but still I can do

something I will not refuse to do the something I can do

Helen Keller 1880-1968 Author and Lecturer Where theres a will theres a way

English Proverb A manwoman without ambition is dead

A man with ambition but no love is dead

A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive

~Pearl Bailey We cant help everyone but everyone can help someone

~ Ronald Reagan

We must not promise what we ought not lest we be called on to perform what we

cannot

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))

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Once you realize you dont need anything youre free to have whatever you want

- Ian Watson

Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable

confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy ~ Norman Vincent Peale Every goal every action every thought every feeling one experiences whether it

be consciously or unconsciously known is an attempt to increase ones level of

peace of mind

~ Sidney Madwed

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so For

remember fear doesnt exist anywhere except in the mind

Dale Carnegie 1888-1955 Speaker and Author Great souls have wills feeble ones have only wishes

Chinese Proverb

―Focus your attention on your desire

not the situation that gave birth to your desire

mdashRich German Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone

and let your hand give in proportion to your purse

~ George Washington

Time I have only just a minute

Only sixty seconds in it

Forced upon me cant refuse it

Didnt seek it didnt choose it

But its up to me to use it

I must suffer if I lose it

Give account if I abuse it

Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it

~ Christine Warren

Do what you can with what you have where you are

~ Theodore Roosevelt

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With every adversity comes a seed of equal or greater opportunity

~ Napoleon Hill

Heart is merely another name for the Supreme Spirit because He is in all hearts

The entire Universe is condensed in the body and the entire body in the Heart

Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe

~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

―If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back then

you suffer Every moment is the most important moment of your life No future

time is better than now to let down your guard and love

~ David Deida

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for youll be criticized anyway Youll

be damned if you do and damned if you dont

~ Eleanor Roosevelt Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do

~ John Wooden

One difference between successful people and all the rest is that successful

people take action

~ Bob Proctor Speaker and Author

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left Every

mans greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life

~ P W Litchfield ―There is a giant asleep within every man When the giant awakes miracles happen

~ Frederick Faust Focus more on your desire than on your doubt and the dream will take care of

itself You may be surprised at how easily this happens Your doubts are not as

powerful as your desires unless you make them so

Marcia Wieder Author and Speaker

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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning by dreams that need

completion by pure love that needs expressing then we truly live life

~ Greg Anderson Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you

Never excuse yourself

~ Henry Ward Beecher There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge

- both poverty and riches are offspring of thought

~ Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think and Grow Rich The person with a fixed goal a clear picture of his desire or an ideal always

before him causes it through repetition to be buried deeply in his subconscious

mind and is thus enabled thanks to its generative and sustaining power to realize

his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort Just pursue

the thought unceasingly Step by step you will achieve realization for all your

faculties and powers become directed to that end

~ Claude M Bristol Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake

~ Henry David Thoreau If opportunity doesnt knock build a door

~ Milton Berle Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well I am

not aware of any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking not exercise

not drugs not surgery--that has a greater impact on our quality of life incidence

of illness and premature death

- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak It is born of strength and

understanding

-- Meher Baba Unworthiness is simply a case of mistaken identity

-- Alan Cohen

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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet

-- Mahatma Gandhi If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march

on

-- Stopford Brooke It is usually the imagination that is wounded first rather than the heart it being

much more sensitive

~ Henry David Thoreau You need not struggle for your good Your good flows to you naturally when you are

relaxed open and trusting

-- Alan Cohen If you dont love it you cant afford it

Alan Cohen

Ask for peace first and you will clearly see your next step

-- Alan Cohen I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited

and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts Namely the physical universe

-- Ken Jenkins Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be exceptional

~ Mark Sanborn Life isnt what you want it to be its what you make it become

~ Anthony Ryan

If you are very quiet you can hear the world applauding

--Source unknown

Do you remember how electrical currents and unseen waves were laughed at

The knowledge about man is still in its infancy

~ Albert Einstein

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Wherever you go go with all your heart

~ Confucius I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up Most people in this

business gave up and went on to other things If you simply didnt give up you

would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you

Harrison Ford Actor

The quality of your life is determined by the number of uncomfortable

conversations you are willing to have

~ Rich German

To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define

themselves As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate

influences of the culture and environment we grow up in we come to have beliefs

about the nature of being human These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of

our psychosomatic systems our minds and brains our nervous systems our

endocrine systems and even our blood and sinews We act speak and think

according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems

~ Jeremy W Hayward

A mans true wealth is the good he does in the world Mohammed (c570-c632

Mecca spiritual leader

Every man is the architect of his own fortune

~ Sallust

What is opportunity and when does it knock

It never knocks

You can wait a whole lifetime listening hoping and you will hear no knocking

None at all

You are opportunity and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny

You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity to pursue and seize opportunity as

you develop the strength of your personality and build a self-image with which you

are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing

~ Maxwell Maltz

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Today I would like to become the man my dog thinks I am

Jack Thomson Entrepreneur BE the change you want to see in the world

- Mahatma Gandhi

Leaders are made they are not born They are made by hard effort

which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile

~ Vince Lombardi To honor the spirit is to accept the opportunity for your healing and personal

evolution When you choose to assume radical personal responsibility knowing that

you are responsible for the effect external circumstances have on you you are

taking a stand for the power of your spiritual nature to run the show

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think Its really important that you feel good Because this feeling good is what goes

out as a signal into the universe and starts to attract more of itself to you So the

more you can feel good the more you will attract the things that help you feel

good and that will keep bringing you up higher and higher

Joe Vitale Author and Speaker Just listen to the still voice within This is the mind to trust This is god

consciousness speaking not the ego that is seeking recognition

~Angela Walker

There is a prayer that lives in the center of your heart If you pray it it will

change your life How does it begin

-- Matthew Anderson

For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin but there was

always some obstacle in the way Something had to be got through first some

unfinished business time still to be served a debt to be paid Then life would

begin At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life

~ Bette Howland

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power then the world will know

peace

Jimmy Hendrix There are two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the

credit Try to be in the first group there is less competition there

Indira Gandhi Its good to have money and all the things that money can buy but its good too to

make sure you havent lost the things that money cant buy George

Horace Lorimer When you take things for granted the things you are granted get taken

Phil Hennessy Self-confidence is a state of mind where you believe that you deserve the best

you are capable of achieving the best and furthermore you expect the best to

happen

--- Dr Barnet Meltzer Writing is good thinking is better Cleverness is good patience is better

~ Hermann Hesse

You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the

greatness you perceive in them is your own

-- Alan Cohen

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their

gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible

Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924 Writer I will not condemn you for what you did yesterday If you do it right today

--Sheldon S Maye

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength

not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will

~ Vince Lombardi

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The moment one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too

-- William Hutchinson Murray

Youve got to get up every morning with determination if youre going to

go to bed with satisfaction

-- George Horace Lorimer Faith is born of Definiteness of Purpose

Keep your mind on the things that you do want and off the things that you do not

want

~ Unknown You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals

George S Patton 1885-1945 American Army General

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have

thrown at him

~ David Brinkley

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough

~ Helen Keller

If what you did yesterday seems big you havent done anything

today

Lou Holtz

Dont wait for extraordinary opportunities Seize common occasions and make

them great Weak menwomen wait for opportunities strong menwomen make

them

~ Orison Swett Marden

The recognition you seek from others is really the recognition you seek from

yourself Give it to yourself and you wont need it from others

-- Alan Cohen Ninety percent of the population wish positive but think negative

~ Leslie Householder

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You are more likely to create success when you are relaxed about a result than

when you are uptight about it

-- Alan Cohen Embrace Change True success can be defined by your ability to adapt to

changing circumstances

-- Connie Sky Aim High The important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for

what we could become

-- Charles Du Bos Dont ask for an easier life ask to be a stronger person

Shared by Kristen Goeser

Your consciousness is a powerful force for creating It determines the people you

are attracted to and the people who are attracted to you If you want to improve

your lot in life or the quality of your relationships choosing to accept personal

responsibility is the first and most important step

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise it is all

over Bolt up at once

-- Sir Walter Scott

You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you cant have it

- Dr Robert Anthony Live so that you wouldnt be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip

Will Rogers 1879-1935 Comedian and Actor

Everyone rides on the merry go round of life but very few ever take the chance

at the brass ring

-- Kevin Veitch

We gain internal freedom through external actions

- Ram Dass

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Everyone was born original but most people die copies

~ Unknown Without passion you dont have energy without energy you have nothing Nothing

great in the world has been accomplished without passion

~ Donald Trump When one door of happiness closes another opens But often we look so long at

the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened before us

~ Helen Keller

I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please

everybody

Bill Cosby Comedian Actor and Author Give up your identity as a seeker and become a finder Then everything you ever

sought will find you

-- Alan Cohen

The reason we put a lot of emphasis on action is because we do not understand the

power of our thought If you analyze it 90 percent of most peoples actions

are spent trying to compensate for inappropriate thought

~ Dr Robert Anthony Prosperity lets go the bridle

-- George Herbert

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered

heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed They won because they refused to

become discouraged by their defeats

Bertie Charles Forbes 1880-1954 Financial Journalist Author and Founder of Forbes Magazine He who jumps to conclusions falls to their death

-- Mark J Ottaviani Im not a believer in nor the advocate of miracles for the reason that I

have enough knowledge of nature to understand that nature never deviates from

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her established laws Her laws are simply so incomprehensible that they produce

what appears to be miracles

~ Napoleon Hill Learn to listen Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly

Frank Tyger

Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways you can as long as

ever you can

John Wesley Work like you dont need the money Love like youve never been hurt Dance like

nobody is watching

-- Mark Twain

You believe that a lover will bring you love but it is your love that will bring you a

lover

-- Alan Cohen

The Universe is not punishing you or blessing you

The Universe is responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting The

more joyful you are the more Well-being flows to you

~Abraham-Hicks What nourishes you is not vitamins in food It is the joy you feel in eating it

-- Ramtha

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this

decide what you want

Ben Stein Attorney Author Actor and Commentator

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure to embrace

the new But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful There is

more security in the adventurous and exciting for in movement there is life and in

change there is power

mdashAlan Cohen

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Vision without action is a daydream Action without vision is a nightmare

-- Japanese Proverb

Success is the result of applying sound principles which align with universal laws

The Science of Success is a powerful road map to guarantee your personal

success

~ Brian Tracy

Part of you thinks that you are not going to die because part of you is not going to

die

-- Alan Cohen

There are 3 things that are certain in life death taxes and change You cant

avoid change its mandatory progress however is optional

-- Bill R Good Jr

Surrender the illusion that anyone other than you has power or authority over

your life

Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either

openly before us or close to us

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You must be the change you want to see in the world

~ Gandhi

Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a

friendly level

~ Max L Forman

If you want your life to be a magnificent story then begin by realizing that you

are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page

-- Mark Houlahan

If you want to develop in profound and significant ways it is essential that you

build up a reservoir of spiritual and emotional conviction a source of boundless

freedom that will give you the energy to transcend the apparent limitations of

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your own emotional psychological and cultural experience By practicing

meditation with deadly seriousness you cultivate that freedom and conviction in

no-limitation as a reference point Thats the only reason to meditate in the

context of Evolutionary Enlightenment

mdash Andrew Cohen

If our actions stem from honesty kindness caring and vision then no matter

what the result of our efforts we have added something of value to our souls and

to the world

~ Joan Boysenko

Too often the opportunity knocks but by the time you push back the chain push

back the bolt unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm its too late

~ Rita Coolidge We are formed and molded by our thoughts

Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts

give joy when they speak or act

Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them

~ Buddha

We feel most alive in the presence of the Beautiful for it meets the needs of the

soul

~ John OlsquoDonohue

No onelsquos past has to be a prison sentence Forgiveness provides the key to

acknowledge the past and move on When we can forgive we have less to be afraid

of

~ Dr Fred Luskin

Isnlsquot it strange that princesses and kings and clowns that caper in sawdust rings

and common people like you and me are builders for eternity Each is given a bag of

tools a shapeless mass a book of rules and each must make ere life is flown a

stumbling block or stepping stone

~ Edgar Guest

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly

~ Richard Bach

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I donlsquot wait for moods

You accomplish nothing if you do that Our mind must know it has got to get down

to work

~ Pearl S Buck

There is a giant asleep within every man When that giant awakes miracles happen

~ Fred Faust

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the

risk it took to bloom

~ Anais Nin

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid but he who conquers that fear

~ Nelson Mandela

Itlsquos not about breaking the rules

It is about abandoning the concept of rules altogether

~ Paul Lemberg

Each moment of our life we either invoke or destroy our dreams

~ Stuart Wilde

Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts This is the

secret of success

Swami Sivananda

Whatever you do do it as totally as possible

Osho

I am not afraidhellipI was born to do this

~Joan of Arc

―There is nothing that you cannot be do or have

~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given

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―Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success When you do a thing

do it with all your might Put your whole soul into it Stamp it with your own

personality Be active be energetic be enthusiastic and faithful and you will

accomplish your object Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Success is never final Failure is never fatal It is courage that counts

~ Winston Churchill

What are you tolerating that would not be a part of your ideal day

-- Alan Cohen Trust yourself You know more than you think you do

-- Dr Benjamin Spock True friends and healers do not limit your options They expand them

-- Alan Cohen When it comes to staying young a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day

-- Marty Bucella Achievement seems to be connected with action Successful men and women keep

moving They make mistakes but they dont quit

Conrad Hilton 1887-1979 Founder of Hilton Hotels Successful people form the habit of doing what failures dont like to do They like

the results they get by doing what they dont necessarily enjoy

Earl Nightingale1921-1989 Author and Syndicated Radio Personality When you are clear what you want will show up in your life and only to the extent

you are clear

Janet AttwoodAuthor of The Passion Test The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it

Chinese proverb

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery the human beings by

changing the inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their

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lives

~ William James

Never look up to the people who have the painted-perfect lives because try as

they might they can never see beyond the canvas

~ Moira Hallsom

Even from a dark night songs of beauty can be born

~ Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body

~ Pythagoras

If life gives you lemons make lemonade

~ Joan Collins

The only place where dreams are impossible is in your own mind

~ Emalie

Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions But no man has

a right to be wrong in his facts

~ Bernard M Baruch

Begin to weave and God will give you the thread

~ German Proverb

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss

~ David Eddings

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we

are and what we can be igniting the circuits of our highest potential

-- Rusty Berkus

The optimist says we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears

this is true

-- Source Unknown

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If I had listened to the critics Id have died drunk in the gutter

-- Chekov

Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice It is not a thing to be

waited for it is a thing to be achieved

-- Jeremy Kitson

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental

difference in someones life

- Sister Mary Rose McGeady

One never knows what each day is going to bring The important thing is to be

open and ready for it

- Henry Moore

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in

the same individual

- Arthur Koestler

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it

- Lou Holtz Motivation is like food for the brain You cannot get enough in one sitting It needs continual and

regular top ups

~ Peter Davies

Dont tell me how hard you work

Tell me how much you get done

~ James Ling

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures

dont like to do

~ Albert Gray

―There is a science of getting rich and it is an exact science like algebra or arithmetic There

are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches and once these laws are learned

and obeyed by anyone that person will get rich with mathematical certainty ~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich

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―Everything you want should be yours the type of work you want the relationships you need

the social mental and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled the money

you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you and any requirement that you may (or

may not) have for achievement or service to others If you donlsquot aim for it all youlsquoll never get it

all To aim for it requires that you know what you want ~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle ―Eliminate the word impossible from your thinking and speaking vocabularies Impossible is a

failure word The thought ―Itlsquos impossible sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove

youlsquore right ~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big ―Think Big and youlsquoll live big Youlsquoll live big in happiness Youlsquoll live big in accomplishment Big in

income Big in friends Big in respecthellip Start now right now to discover how to make your

thinking make magic for you Start out with this thought of the great philosopher Disraeli ―Life

is too short to be little ~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big ―If you have a big problem in your life all that means is that you are being a small person ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind ―It all comes down to this if your subconscious financial blueprintlsquo is not setlsquo for success

nothing you learn nothing you know and nothing you do will make much of a difference ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you If God gives you a bucket of fish you

have to distribute those fish If you donlsquot theylsquore going to rot attract a bunch of flies and

start stinking up your soul ~ Russell Simmons from Do You ―In my experience therelsquos only one thing that will always steer you toward success Thatlsquos to

have a vision and to stick with ithellip Once I have a vision for a new venture Ilsquom going to ride that

vision until the wheels come off ~ Russell Simmons quotes from Do You

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery the human beings by changing the

inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their lives

~ William James

There is no courage without fear

~ Eddie Rickenbacher

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make who would you call and what

would you say And why are you waiting

-- Stephen Levine

Remember we all stumble every one of us Thats why its a comfort to go hand in hand

~ Emily Kimbrough The inspiration of the almighty gives man understanding

~ the Bible

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives

~ Louise Hay

The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation

~ Comer Cotrell

Give it all youve got because you never know if theres going to be a next time

~ Danielle Ingrum

Dont try to force anything Let life be a deep let-go God opens millions of flowers everyday

without forcing their buds

~Osho

The definition of Insanity is Doing the Same Things Over and Over Again and Expecting Different

Results

~ Albert Einstein

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us This little treasure

has great great powers and I would say we only have learnt a very very small part of what it can

do

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work

~ John G Pollard

Vacation is a state of mind not an action

-- Alan Cohen

Whatever games are played with us we must play no games with ourselves

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Desperation does not recognize your power to choose

-- Alan Cohen

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When people talk listen completely Most people never listen

-- Ernest Hemingway

Heaven is gained or lost not by dramatic deeds but by the simple of acts of daily living

-- Alan Cohen

There is only one voice worth listening to

--Alan Cohen Reverie is not a mind vacuum It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul

--Gaston Bachelard

Why get rich quick when you can be rich now

-- Alan Cohen

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure

-- Joseph Campbell

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always view problems as opportunities in work clothes

-- Henry Kaiser

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character of

another

Winston Churchill 1874-1965 Former British Prime Minister

When you are clear what you want will show up in your life and only to the extent you are clear

Janet Attwood Author of The Passion Test

New peace harmony and power fill your relationships when you practice radical personal

responsibility Through it you enter a more refined sphere of relating that enhances your life and

accelerates the realization of your ultimate spiritual self Practicing radical personal responsibility

forever changes the way you approach and resolve conflict

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The Cure for the Common Upset (p 10)

Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and

discomfort We spend enormous energy denying our insecurity fighting pain death and loss and

hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature

- Jack Kornfield A Path with Heart

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Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well I am not aware of

any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking not exercise not drugs not surgery--that has

a greater impact on our quality of life incidence of illness and premature death

- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant they is a fuel in us which needs

to be ignited with sparks

Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Energy is the essence of life Every day you decide how youre going to use it by

knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal and by maintaining

focus

-Oprah Winfrey

The acquisition of wealth is no longer a driving force in the 24th century We

strive to better ourselves and the rest of humanity

-- From the movie Star Trek Insurrection

―You cannot exercise much power without gratitude for it is gratitude that keeps

you connected with Power

~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich

―To do things in a way you want to do them you will have to acquire the ability to

think the way you want to think this is the first step toward getting rich

~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich

―There are three crucial dimensions to your explanatory style permanence

pervasiveness and personalization

~ Martin Seligman from Learned Optimism

―Habits of thinking need not be forever One of the most significant findings in

psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they

think

~ Martin Seligman from Learned Optimism

―Action always beats inaction ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

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―Itlsquos not enough to be in the right place at the right time You have to be the right person in the

right place at the right time ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―Every thought vibrates every thought radiates a signal and every thought

attracts a matching signal back We call that process the Law of Attraction The

Law of Attraction says That which is like unto itself is drawn And so you might

see the powerful Law of Attraction as a sort of Universal Manager that sees to it

that all thoughts that match one another line up

~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given

―It is our desire that you become one who is happy with that which you are and

with that which you havemdashwhile at the same time being eager for more That is the

optimal creative vantage point To stand on the brink of what is coming feeling

eager optimistic anticipationmdashwith no feelings of impatience doubt or

unworthiness hindering the receiving of itmdashthat is the Science of Deliberate

Creation at its best

~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given

―As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around you come to see that every

perceived problem appearing ―out there is really nothing more than a

misperception within your own thinking

~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is

―The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is

When the mind is perfectly clear what is is what we want

~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself You must be

able to sustain yourself against staggering blows There is no code of conduct to

help beginners That is why some people with mediocre talent but with great inner

drive go much further than people with vastly superior talent

Sophia Loren Actress

And in the end its not the years in your life that count Its the life in your

years

-- Abraham Lincoln

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Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by

holding grudges harboring resentments and nursing unhealed wounds It is

rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to

understand and accept other people and ourselves

~ Sidney and Suzanne Simon

Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action for all eternity

Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801 Poet and Physiognomist People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do

things When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success

Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993 Speaker and Author Every achiever that I have ever met says My life turned around when I began to

believe in me

Dr Robert H Schuller Minister and Author

With love in you your only need is to extend it

-- A Course in Miracles

Just because it ended doesnt mean it failed

-- Alan Cohen

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find

it

-- George Moore

Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality

-- Alan Cohen

Our biggest problems cannot be resolved They must be outgrown

-- Carl Jung

True prayer penetrates beyond hope and establishes itself in knowing

-- Alan Cohen

So we see to play successfully the game of life we must train the imaging faculty

A person with an imaging faculty trained to image only good brings into his life

every righteous desire of his heart - health wealth love friends perfect self-

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expression his highest ideals

mdash Florence Scovel Shinn

Dont ask what the world needs ask what makes you come alive and go do it

Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

mdashHoward Thurman

To the degree were not living our dreams our comfort zone has more control of

us than we have over ourselves

-- Peter McWilliams

Never let your memories be greater than your dreams

-- Doug Ivester (President of Coca Cola)

It is not length of life but depth of life

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches with them but

to reveal their own

-- Author Unknown

A free lunch is only found in mousetraps

-- John Capuzzi

If you have the will to win you have achieved half your success if you dont you

have achieved half your failure

-- David Ambrose

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesnt lie in not reaching your

goal The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach It isnt a calamity to die with

dreams unfulfilled but it is a calamity not to dream It is not a disaster to be

unable to capture your ideal but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture It is

not a disgrace not to reach the stars but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach

for Not failure but low aim is a sin

~ Benjamin E Mayes

True success is a state of mindThis mindset is the heart and soul of successful

entrepreneurial enterprise You cant get started without it and you cant make a

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business wildly profitable if you dont get it

~ Unknown

Traditional education will make you a living self-education will make you a

fortune

~ Jim Rohn One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests

~ John Stuart Mill

Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different Rather than wasting

time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we dont have what we

want we can start to pursue other ways to get it

~ Greg Anderson

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it

~ Rudy Guilliani ―Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential And to

do that I insist you throw caution at the wind ignore the pleas of parents

coaches spouses and bosses to be realisticlsquo Realistic people do not accomplish

extraordinary things because the odds of success stymie them The best

performers ignore the odds I will show that instead of limiting themselves to

whatlsquos probable the best will pursue the heart-pounding exciting really big

difference-making dreamsmdashso long as catching them might be possible

~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement ―To be sure great performers are well trained experienced smart and in some

cases divinely talented But the way their brains work during a performance is a

lot more like a squirrellsquos than like Einsteinlsquos Like squirrels the best in every

business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilitiesmdashthey

flat out trust their skills which is why we call this high-performance state of mind

the ―Trusting Mindset Routine access to the Trusting Mindset is what separates

great performers from the rest of the pack

~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement ―In every forest on every farm in every orchard on earth itlsquos whatlsquos under the

ground that creates whatlsquos above the ground Thatlsquos why placing your attention on

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the fruits that you have already grown is futile You cannot change the fruits that

are already hanging on the tree You can however change tomorrowlsquos fruits But to

do so you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―Believe that you are the one who creates your success that you are the one who

creates your mediocrity and that you are the one creating your struggle around

money and success

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―8020 thinking requires and with practice enables us to spot the few really important things

that are happening and ignore the mass of unimportant things It teaches us to see the wood

for the trees ~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle

―The few things that work fantastically well should be identified cultivated nurtured and

multiplied

~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle

―We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection Itlsquos about a process a journey The

master is the one who stays on the path day after day year after year The master is the one

who is willing to try and fail and try again for as long as he or she lives ~ George Leonard from Mastery

―Whenever you feel shortlsquo or in needlsquo of something give what you want first and it will come

back in buckets That is true for money a smile love friendship I know it is often the last

thing a person may want to do but it has always worked for me I just trust that the principle

of reciprocity is true and I give what I want ~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad

―One dad would sayThe love of money is the root of all evillsquo The other The lack of money is

the root of all evillsquo ~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall every step we

take just gets us to the wrong place faster

Stephen Covey

Becoming a star may not be in your destiny but being the best

that you can be is a goal you can set for yourselves

Bryan Lindsay

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Be yourself Who else is better qualified

Frank J Giblin II

Do not learn from your mistakes learn from the mistakes of others

to that you do not make any

Sean Karsten

Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower

Shigenori Kameoka

Every achiever that I have ever met says My life turned around when I began to believe in me

Dr Robert H Schuller Minister and Author

Upsets always contain the gift of learning except most people have never learned how to unwrap

the package

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is

causing anxiety

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970 British philosopher mathematician essayist) Great souls have wills feeble ones have only wishes

Chinese Proverb

We must not promise what we ought not lest we be called on to perform what we cannot

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))

Dont measure yourself by what you have accomplished but by what you should have accomplished

with your ability

John Wooden (1910- American basketball coach)

Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty

John Ruskin (1819-1900 British critic social theorist)

Something good is already happening Can you discover it

-- Alan Cohen

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if theyve got a second Give your

dreams all youve got and youll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you

William James 1842-1910 Philosopher and Author

Out of suffering comes creativity You cannot spell painting without pain

-- John Lithgow in Third Rock From the Sun

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The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings the past and the

future are not as real but rather more real than the present

- Alan Watts

Boldness has genius power and magic in it Begin it now

~ Goethe

―In the heart of Emptiness there is a mysterious impulse mysterious because

there is actually nothing in the heart of Emptiness (for there is nothing in

Emptiness period) Yet there it is this mysterious impulse the impulse to hellip

create To sing to shine to radiate to send forth reach out and celebrate to

sing and shout and walk about to effervesce and bubble over this mysterious

exuberance in the heart of Emptiness

~ Ken Wilber from One Taste July 31

―Evolution goes beyond what went before but because it must embrace what went

before then its very nature is to transcend and include and thus it has an inherent

directionality a secret impulse toward increasing depth increasing intrinsic value

increasing consciousness In order for evolution to move at all it must move in

those directionsmdashtherelsquos no place else for it to go

~ Ken Wilber from A Brief History of Everything

The secret of being boring is to say everything

- Voltaire 1694-1778 French Writer and Philosopher

―Donlsquot let what you canlsquot do stop you from what you can do

- John Wooden

―You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the

shore

- Christopher Columbus

―Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall

- Confucius

―A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed

- Henrik Ibsen

―It is our choices that show what we truly are far more than our abilities

- JK Rowling

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―If you are going through hell keep going

- Winston Churchill

―Yesterday is history Tomorrow is a mystery Today Today is a gift Thatlsquos why

we call it the present

- B Olatunji

―To live is the rarest thing in the world Most people exist thatlsquos all

- Oscar Wilde

―You donlsquot get to choose how you are going to die Or when You can only decide how

you are going to live Now

- Joan Baez

―When one door of happiness closes another opens But often we look so long at

the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us

- Helen Keller

―Imagination is more important than knowledge Knowledge is limited Imagination

encircles the world

- Albert Einstein

―If you want to be happy be

- Leo Tolstoy

―Always do right This will gratify some people and astonish the rest

- Mark Twain

―We must be the change we want to see

- Gandhi

―The friend in my adversity I shall always treasure most I can better trust those

who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to

enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity

- Ulysses S Grant

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―Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting

- Elizabeth Bibesco

―The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort but

where he stands at times of conflict and controversy

- Martin Luther King Jr

―Begin doing what you want to do now We are not living in eternity We have only

this moment sparkling like a star in our hand ndash and melting like a snow flake

- MB Ray

―I shall pass through this life but once Any good therefore that I can do let me

do it now Let me not defer or neglect it For I shall never pass this way again

- Etienne de Grellet

―This above all To your own self be true

- William Shakespeare

―To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make

you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight

and never stop fighting

- EE Cummings

―In three words I can sum up what Ilsquove learned about life It goes on

- Robert Frost

―Imagine

- John Lennon

You can if you think you can

George Reeves

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile

achievement

Henry Ford 1863-1947 Industrialist

No man is capable of self-improvement if he sees no other model but himself

-- Conrado I Generoso

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When I am delivering my very best then that is when I feel successful

~ Art Fettig

The only limitations you will ever have are the ones you put on yourself

~ Kristinna Habashy

The secret of manwomans being is not only

to live but to have something to live for

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

To hell with circumstances I create opportunities

~ Bruce Lee

Simplicity is making the journey of this life

with just baggage enough

~ Charles Dudley Warner

I dont think theres any such thing as setting your goals too high The higher you

set your goals the more you are going to work If you dont reach them then its

okay just as long as you set it and then give 100 of yourself

~ Dan Jansen Speed Skater

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts the circle of Creation

is completed inside us the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal

everything in sight

~ Michael Bridge

Youlsquore darn tootinlsquo Ilsquom going to bring out the best in you You are the best

― Maureen Coleman middle school teacher

Truth is rarely writ in ink It lives in nature

-- Martin H Fischer

Before planning where you want to go decide who you want to be

-- Alan Cohen

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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day wisdom consists in not

exceeding the limit

-- Elbert Hubbard

Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere

-- Alan Cohen

When the Japanese mend broken objects they fill the cracks with gold They

believe that when somethings suffered damage and has a history it becomes more

beautiful

-- Barbara Bloom

Efficiency without love is not really efficient

-- Alan Cohen

The purpose of time is to enable you to learn how to use time constructively

-- A Course in Miracles

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than

any other one thing

Laura Ingalls Wilder 1867-1957 Author

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as

few as there are any other great artists It might even be the greatest of the arts

since the medium is the human mind and spirit

John Steinbeck 1902-1968 Writer and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

Be careful what you spend your day touching because it will shape your mind your

body and your heart

Sam Keen Speaker and Author

I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in

the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life he has imagined he will

meet with success unexpected in common hours

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 Writer and Poet

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out

― Michael Burke

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Turn frustration into fascination

-- Dr Richard Bartlett

Money is not the source of life It is an expression or by-product of doing what

brings you life

-- Alan Cohen

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but

sand the angels come to visit us and we only know them when they are gone

- George Elliot

Proceed when clear

-- Alan Cohen

Slow down and enjoy life Its not only the scenery you miss by going too fast --

you also miss the sense of where you are going and why

Eddie Cantor

Life is here to enjoy The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness When it

appears otherwise you are off the path of destiny Look at your life and ask

What do I need to change to choose in favor of my passions

Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life Be happy now Dont wait for something

outside of yourself to make you happy in the future Think how really precious is

the time you have to spend whether its at work or with your family Every minute

should be enjoyed and savored

Earl Nightingale

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life It turns what we have into enough and

more It turns denial into acceptance chaos into order confusion into clarity It

turns problems into gifts failures into success the unexpected into perfect

timing and mistakes into important events Gratitude makes sense of our past

brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow

Melodie Beattie Writer

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Devotion is commitment at a deep cellular level When you are devoted the

universe will align itself to give you what you desire

Rich German Author of Monetize Your Passion

Action breeds confidence and courage If you want to conquer fear do not sit

home and think about it Go out and get busy

~ Dale Carnegie

The mind turned inwards is the Self turned outwards it becomes the ego and all

the world

~Ramana Maharshi

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be

~Daniel J Boorstin

The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively

from his own resources

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire

not things we fear

~ Brian Tracy

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game and no matter how

great your talent there is only one way to obtain it-work

~ Jack Nicklaus Golfer

A goal without a plan is merely a WISH without a HOPE

~ Unknown

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan in which we must

fervently believe and upon which we must vigorously act There is no other route

to success

~ Stephen A Brennan

Knowledge breeds doubt Wisdom births wonder

Alan Cohen

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When you decide what you want it has to manifestbut only at the level of your

belief

Rich German Author of Monetize Your Passion

Friendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity

- John Dryden

It may make people feel more secure when everyone agrees with them but it

wont create a world made rich by the unique and diverse expressions of the human

soul

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart

Choice is destinys soul mate

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Truth is a gem of many facets Each facet reflects the brilliance within and

without But the whole reveals a deeper more profound message than all the parts

by themselves

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart

He who knows others is wise he who knows himself is enlightened

- Tao Te Ching

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers but for powers equal to

our tasks

-- Helen Keller

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret

-- Ambrose Bierce

We must all suffer one of two things the pain of discipline or the pain of regret

or disappointment

-- Jim Rohn

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Many risks fail because they were not taken in time Too many risks are postponed

until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made This does not mean that one

should say Damn the torpedoes full speed ahead That is foolish and self-

destructive But dont sit back waiting for the perfect moment It almost never

comes

-- David Viscott Risking

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter

-- E E Cummings

Reflect upon your blessings of which every man has plenty not on your past

misfortunes of which all men have some

-- Charles Dickens

What the caterpillar calls the end the rest of the world calls a butterfly

-- Lao Tsu

Out of difficulties grow miracles

-- Jean De La Bruyere

Our patience will achieve more than our force

-- Edmund Burke

You must pay in the past to receive in the future

-- Taylor Simpson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what

lies within us

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why Why Not Why Not You Why Not Now

-- Aslan

To become a leader then you must become yourself become the maker of your

own life

--Warren G Bennis

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You have got to discover you what you do and trust it

Barbra Streisand

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts the

circle of Creation is completed inside us the doors of our souls

fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight

Michael Bridge

Each of us feels that we are just a drop in the ocean but the

ocean would be less without that missing drop

Mother Teresa

You dont just stumble into the future You create your own future

Roger Smith

Just dont give up on trying to do what you really want to do

Where there is love and inspiration I dont think you can go

wrong

Ella Fitzgerald

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot

do

Walter Bagehot

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser

John W Gardner

Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life

forever

Keri Russell

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while

so that we can see Life with a clearer view again

Alex Tan

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There never was a great soul that did not have some divine

inspiration

Marcus T Cicero

Youve got to follow your passion Youve got to figure out what

it is you love--who you really are And have the courage to do

that

Oprah Winfrey

Everything that occurs is an opportunity to experience Love

mdashRich German

Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small

things brought together

- Vincent Van Gogh

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark The real tragedy is when

men are afraid of the light

-- Plato

If I had to select one quality one personal characteristic that I regard as being

most highly correlated with success whatever the field I would pick the trait of

persistence

Richard DeVos Co-Founder of Amway

Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination allows vision and gives us the right

stuff to turn our dreams into reality

~James Womack

No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn

-- Hal Borland

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives We must take charge

of our own destinies design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams

- Les Brown

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on

We act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because

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of imagination

- Maxwell Maltz

There is a sleeping giant in you Release it Believe in yourself

~ Bob Proctor

Wealth depends chiefly on two words industry and frugality that is waste

neither time nor money but make the best use of both

-- Benjamin Franklin

When you talk to God thats prayer When God talks back its schizophrenia

-- Lily Tomlin

Work is not a substitute for love It is an avenue of loves expression

-- Alan Cohen

Look beyond peoplelsquos appearances

Look beyond the roles one plays and the mask they wear

Look deep into their eyes and peer into their soul

There you will find their true essence

There you will find your true essence

And that essence is love

mdashRich German

Everything that occurs is an opportunity to experience Love

mdashRich German

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a

life spent doing nothing

George Bernard Shaw

Formula for success under promise and over deliver

Tom Peters

Efficiency is doing things right effectiveness is doing the right things

Peter F Drucker

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Be the change that you want to see in the world

Mahatma Gandhi

Creating space is as important as filling it

-- Alan Cohen

Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Words may guide you to the door of heaven but only silence opens it

-- Alan Cohen

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more

useful than a life spent doing nothing

Bernard Shaw

Formula for success under promise and over deliver

Tom Peters

Efficiency is doing things right effectiveness is doing the right

things

Peter F Drucker

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives We must take charge

of our own destinies design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams

- Les Brown

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works onWe

act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because of

imagination

- Maxwell Maltz

No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn

-- Hal Borland

There is a sleeping giant in you

Release it Believe in yourself

~ Bob Proctor

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Wealth depends chiefly on two words industry and frugality that is waste

neither time nor money but make the best use of both

-- Benjamin Franklin

Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination allows vision and gives us the right

stuff to turn our dreams into reality

~James Womack

If I had to select one quality one personal characteristic that I regard as being

most highly correlated with success whatever the field I would pick the trait of

persistence

Richard DeVos Co-Founder of Amway

The best way to teach people is by telling a story

Jonathan Swift

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking

what nobody else has thought

Kenneth Blanchard

All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it

-Samuel Butler

Happiness is like a cat If you try to coax it or call it it will avoid you It will never

come

But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business youll find it rubbing

up against your legs and jumping into your lap

- William Bennett

The word impossible is only in the mind and not in the heart

- Sri Chinmoy

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another it is the only

means

Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Physicist

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Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone

And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone

Paul Tillich

Sometimes the cards we are dealt are not always fair However you must keep

smiling amp moving on

~ Tom Jackson

Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you

- Elbert Hubard

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends

with anyone else in the world

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Thus nature has no love for solitude and always leans as it were on some support

and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship

- Cicero

So it is life is actually made up of our choices We are the sum total of them and

if we hold to an attitude of love and thanksgiving for all the good things within our

grasp we may have what all ambitious people long for - success

Delma Neeley

Believe and your belief will create the fact

~ William James

The principle is competing against yourself

Its about self improvement about being better than you were the day before

~ Steve Young

All of us you your children your neighbors and their children are

everyday geniuses even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by

everyone Thats probably because school hasnt encouraged us to notice whats

hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself

~ Peter Kline

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If youll not settle for anything less than your best you will be amazed at what

you can accomplish in your lives

Vince Lombardi

Ya gotta put your behind in your past

Then youre ready for whatever comes next

~ Pumba The Lion King

Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become

~ James Allen

Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well what

causes sadness and what brings happiness what makes us suffer and what leads to

healing

~ Dean Ornish MD

Three components make an entrepreneur the person the ideaand the resources

to make it happen

~ Anita Roddick

What we can or cannot do what we consider possible or impossible is rarely a

function of our true capability It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who

we are

~ Anthony Robbins

Either Do or Do Not There is No Try

~ George Lucas

Theres a name for the magic that transforms lives connects dots moves

mountains and orchestrates coincidences that shock and astound Imagination

And theres a name for all that stops you in your tracks stirs fear spins wheels

and leaves one wondering Hey whats up with that Imagination

Careful where you point that thing

~ The Universe

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with

them

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faith is a passionate intuition

-William Wordsworth

Friendship is a sheltering tree

--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision Vision is the perfume

of the mind

--Harriet Rubin

Striving for excellence motivates you striving for perfection is demoralizing

--Harriet Braiker

I can feel guilty about the past apprehensive about the future but only in the

present can I act The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of

mental wellness

-Abraham Maslow 1908-1970 Psychologist

In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge

-Aristotle

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our

potential

Sir Winston Churchill 1874-1965 Former British Prime Minister

The minute you settle for less than you deserve you get even less than you

settled for

Maureen Dowd Newspaper Columnist

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything

outside ourselves will affect us

Stephen R Covey Author and Speaker

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Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually

attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life

Christiane Northrup Medical Doctor and Author

We must learn to keep ourselves awake by an infinite expectation of the

dawn

-- Henry David Thoreau

You dont need to struggle to get your body to do or be what your spirit already is

-- Alan Cohen

One must steer not talk

-- Seneca

The more you quantify the less you qualify

-- Alan Cohen

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know Most are

born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly

-- Buckminster Fuller

Any act motivated by guilt does not assuage guilt but perpetuates it

-- Alan Cohen

Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for

themselves

-- Peter McArthur

Be so good they cant ignore you

Steve Martin

Its kind of fun to do the impossible

Walt Disney

Its easy to make a buck Its a lot tougher to make a difference

Tom Brokaw

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When I hear somebody sigh Life is hard I am always tempted to

ask Compared to what

Sydney J Harris

In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing The worst

thing you can do is nothing

Sam Walton

I had to pick myself up and get on with it do it all over again only even better

this time

Theodore Roosevelt

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process

~ Jim Rohn

If you can imagine it you can achieve it If you can dream it you can become it

~ William Arthur Ward

There is much in the world to make us afraid There is much more in our faith to

make us unafraid

-- Cropp

Pray for essence rather than form and the form will be a perfect expression of

the essence

-- Alan Cohen

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change

Charles R Swindoll Author and Pastor

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with

- Jim Rohn

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your

dreams

- Les Brown

Life is 10 of what happens to me and 90 of how I react to it

John Maxwell

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What you see depends on what youre looking for

Anon

Mind over matter If you dont mind it doesnt matter

-- Alan Cohen

When you are clear on want to how to shows up

-- Michael Neill

Quit struggling to make your body do or be what your spirit already is

-- Alan Cohen

Truth is the offspring of silence and unbroken meditation

-- Isaac Newton

Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal Whatever you invest it

in will yield more of the same

-- Alan Cohen

When you find yourself stressed ask yourself one question Will this matter five

years from now If yes then do something about the situation If no then let it

go

Catherine Pulsifer Writer

Theres plenty of intelligence in the world but the courage to do things

differently is in short supply

Marilyn vos Savant Columnist Author and Lecturer

Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced

by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas

a strong faith is strengthened by them

Viktor E Frankl 1905-1997 Holocaust Survivor and Author of Mans Search for

Meaning

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength

Richard L Evans

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You were not born a winner and you were not born a loser You are

what you make yourself be

Lou Holtz

Remember if you ever need a helping hand youll find one at the

end of your arm As you grow older you will discover that you

have two hands One for helping yourself the other for helping

others

Audrey Hepburn

Dont take life too seriously because youll never get out alive

Josh Shippe

Without hard work nothing grows but weeds

Gordon B Hinckley

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies

--Mother Teresa

Do what you can to show you care about other people and you will make our world

a better place

--Rosalynn Carter

Again and again the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is

only a tough decision waiting to be made

--Robert H Schuller

If in our daily life we can smile if we can be peaceful and happy not only we but

everyone will profit from it This is the most basic kind of peace work

--Thich Nhat Hanh

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties

disappear and obstacles vanish into air

- John Quincy Adams

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win

~ GK Chesterton

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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown for going

out I found was really going in

mdashJohn Muir 1913

To me itlsquos really so simple that life should be lived on the edge You

have to exercise rebellion To refuse to tape yourself to the rules

to refuse your own success to refuse to repeat yourself to see

every day every year every idea as a true challenge Then you will

live your life on the tightrope

mdashPhilippe Petit (star of the movie Man on Wire)

The first step to creating the lifestyle of your dreams is to simplify

your life

mdashRich German

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist sees

problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems

Winston Churchill

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you

have and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more

~ Robert Collier

Instead of waiting for someone to take you under their wing go out there and

find a good wing to climb under

~ Dave Thomas

If you would convince others seem open to conviction yourself

~ Lord Chesterfield

The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable

competitive advantage

~ Arie de Geus

Human life is purely a matter of deciding whats important to you

-- Source unknown

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Determination and perseverance move the world thinking that others will do it

for you is a sure way to fail

Marva Collins Educator

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them

~ Walt Disney

Everything that happens to you is self-created Whenever youre responding to

any situation whether its a sip of coffee or a traffic jam or a love note or

criticism from a boss or rainy weather youre in fact responding to a signal that

you generated within yourself

- Deepak Chopra

Relationships are not about intellect they are about feeling They require an

intelligence of the heart

- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is

when adults are afraid of the light

- Plato

A good listener is someone who is curious open-minded and nonjudgmental A

good listener is not a know-it-all A good listener knows that truth often reveals

itself bit by bit much like putting together a jigsaw puzzle

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart

Its the night that makes the dawning

Its the depths that make the heights

Its the roots that make the branches

Its the darkness that gives birth to Light

- Joel Heathcote

How you hear what someone says is determined by your interpretations and your

interpretations flow from your past This is very important to know especially if

you find that you overreact to what others say or habitually get your feelings hurt

Remember what someone said is not necessarily what you heard and what you

heard is not necessarily what they meant

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart

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―Everything ndash a horse a vine ndash is created for some dutyhellipFor what task then

were you yourself created A manlsquos true delight is to do the things he was made

for

~ Marcus Aurelius from Meditations

―Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts for the soul becomes dyed with the

color of its thoughts Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as for example

Where life is possible at all a right life is possible

~ Marcus Aurelius from Meditations

―hellipEverything can be taken from a man but one thing the last of the human

freedomsmdashto choose onelsquos attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose

onelsquos own way

~ Viktor Frankl from Manlsquos Search for Meaning

―It did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life

expected from us We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life and

instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by lifemdashdaily

and hourly Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation but in right

action and in right conduct Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to

find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly

sets for each individual

~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Manlsquos Search for Meaning

―Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in lifehellip Therein he cannot be

replaced nor can his life be repeated Thus everyonelsquos task is as unique as is

his specific opportunity to implement it

~ Viktor Frankl from Manlsquos Search for Meaning

―Ultimately man should not ask what the meaning of his life is but rather must

recognize that it is he who is asked In a word each man is questioned by life

and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life to life he can only

respond by being responsible

~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Manlsquos Search for Meaning

―History though shows us that the people who end up changing the world- the

great political social scientific technological artistic even sports

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revolutionaries- are always nuts until theylsquore right and then theylsquore geniuses

~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement

―Great performers are by definition abnormal

~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement

―We all aspire to mastery but the path is always long and sometimes rocky and

it promises no quick pay off So we look for other paths each of which attracts

a different person

~ George Leonard from Mastery

―We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection Itlsquos about a process a

journey The master is the one who stays on the path day after day year after

year The master is the one who is willing to try and fail and try again for as

long as he or she lives

~ George Leonard from Mastery

At the heart of it mastery is practice Mastery is staying on the path

~ George Leonard from Mastery

―Comfort kills If your goal in life is to be comfortable I guarantee two things

First you will never be rich Second you will never be happy Happiness doesnlsquot

come from living a lukewarm life always wondering what could have been

Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up

to our fullest potential

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

―You can be a victim or you can be rich but you canlsquot be both Listen up Every

time and I mean every time you blame justify or complain you are slitting

your financial throat

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―Herelsquos an equation I want you to remember for the rest of your life CZ = WZ

It means your ―comfort zone equals your ―wealth zone By expanding your

comfort zone you will expand the size of your income and wealth zone

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

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―We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we

wait forever before taking action

~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big

―Donlsquot put off until tomorrow what you can do today

~ Benjamin Franklin

―Think Big and youlsquoll live big Youlsquoll live big in happiness Youlsquoll live big in

accomplishment Big in income Big in friends Big in respecthellip Start now right

now to discover how to make your thinking make magic for you Start out with

this thought of the great philosopher Disraeli Life is too short to be littlelsquo

~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big

―In the yogic tradition this principle of using intense effort to burn through

lifelsquos distractions is called Tapas Itlsquos another Sanskrit word roughly defined

as ―heat or ―essential energy The concept is that through a disciplined

approach to work and self-sacrifice Tapas will burn away the negativity that

separates us from God By working our hardest and happily enduring the

hardships of life we are able to create a sense of peace and clarity in

ourselves

~ Russell Simmons from Do You

―The person who understands Dharma will have the opposite reaction to a ―hard

job That person will be eager to get started no matter what kind of work is in

front of her because she understands that shelsquos doing Godlsquos work And when

youlsquore working for God nothing is too hard

~ Russell Simmons from Do You

―It all comes down to this if your subconscious financial blueprintlsquo is not setlsquo

for success nothing you learn nothing you know and nothing you do will make

much of a difference

~ Russell Simmons from Do You

―The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work

~ Vince Lombardi

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The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than

your best

~ Russell Simmons from Do You

―The poor and the middle class work for money The rich have money work for

them

~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad

―We all have tremendous potential and we all are blessed with gifts Yet the

one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt It is not so

much the lack of technical information that holds us back but more the lack of

self-confidence

~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad

―Who will you have to become to achieve all you want

~ Tony Robbins

―You could say that I worked every minute of my life or you could say with

equal justice that I never worked a day I have always subscribed to the

expression ―Thank God itlsquos Friday because to me Friday means I can work for

the next two days without interruption

~ John Hope Franklin

―I do not believe that you should devote overly much effort to correcting your

weaknesses Rather I believe that the highest success in living and the deepest

emotional satisfaction comes from building and using your signature strengths

~ Martin Seligman from Authentic Happiness

When you begin to recognize that your own presence here in this world is part of

something infinitely bigger than yourself you feel a sense of obligation awakening

within youmdasha spiritually inspired soul-level moral imperative to evolve for the sake

of the future of the evolutionary process itself The way you respond to that

obligation and to that sense of cosmic responsibility is by demonstrating that the

process is profoundly positivemdashindeed the process is sacredmdashthrough your own

example through your own victory through your own tangible and unmistakable

higher development

~ Andrew Cohen

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Its the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief And once that belief

becomes a deep conviction things begin to happen

Claude M Bristol 1891-1951 Author of The Magic of Believing

We cant fear the past Fear is a future thing And since the futures all in our

heads fear must be a head thing

Tom Payne Career Development Expert

I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please

everybody

Bill Cosby Actor and Comedian

If we are ever to enjoy life now is the time not tomorrow or next year Today

should always be our most wonderful day

- Thomas Dreier Author

Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their

personnel If people believe in themselves its amazing

what they can accomplish

--Sam Walton

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the

aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker

--Helen Keller

Close scrutiny will show that most crisis situations are opportunities to either

advance or stay where you are

- Maxwell Maltz

Be curious not judgmental

-Walt Whitman

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it

-William James

All life is an experiment

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone

acknowledges who we are and what we can be igniting the circuits

of our highest potential

Rusty Berkus

Being considerate of others will take your children further in

life than any college degree

Marian Wright Edelman

It is common sense to take a method and try it If it fails admit

it frankly and try another But above all try something

Franklin D Roosevelt

see without looking hear without listening breathe

without asking

W H Auden

Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways

you can as long as ever you can

John Wesley

Its better to reach for the stars and land on the roof than to

reach for the roof and land in the garbage

Savanna Skinner

Love looks through a telescope envy through a microscope

~ Josh Billings

Whats going on in the inside shows on the outside

~ Earl Nightingale

Consideration for others is the basis of a good life a good society

~ Confucius

Time is limited so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have

just one chance to live this particular day right and to string my days together

into a life of action and purpose

~ Lance Armstrong

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An ounce of action is worth a ton of good intentions

~ Michael Josephson

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others

-- Cicero

Simplicity Purity Clarity

-- Alan Cohen

Faith mighty faith the promise sees And looks to God alone Laughs at

impossibilities And cries it shall be done

-- Charles Wesley

What is genius but the mind heart and art of God shining to the world through an

open window

-- Alan Cohen

Intuition tells you what not why

-- Source unknown

Changing the world is a natural result of inner peace not a substitute for it

-- Alan Cohen

Fortune sides with him who dares

~ Virgil

We cant fear the past Fear is a future thing And since the futures all in

our heads fear must be a head thing

Tom Payne Career Development Expert

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you

mdashLewis Smedes Each of us has the power to make others more beautiful by our love

- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst a transformer

in any situation any organization Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an

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entire loaf It requires vision initiative patience respect persistence courage

and faith to be a transforming leader

Stephen Covey

Courage is grace under pressure

~ Ernest Hemingway

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions All life is an experiment

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

As long as Youre going o be thinking anyway Think BIG

~ Donald Trump

To win youve got to stay in the game

~ Claude M Bristol

The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head

-- Source unknown

Affirm your value by going where you are valued

-- Alan Cohen

Life is too short to hold a grudge also too long

-- Robert Brault

You cannot borrow greatness from another You can only claim it from within

yourself

-- Alan Cohen

One today is worth two tomorrows never leave that till tomorrow which you can

do today

Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 US Statesman Diplomat and Inventor

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs

the problem The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized

a problem and turned it into an opportunity

Joseph Sugarman Marketing Expert

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You wouldnt worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how

seldom they do

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 American First Lady Author Speaker and Politician

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions

- John Randolph

Opportunities They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere

waiting for the observant eye to discover it

- Orison Swett Marden

Yesterday ended last night Every day is a new beginning Learn the skill of

forgetting And move on

--Norman Vincent Peale

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual it is

best for the race because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every

department

ndash Andrew Carnegie entrepreneur

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society The optimist invents the

airplane and the pessimist the parachute

Gil Stern

Strive for integrity - that means knowing your values in life and behaving in a way

that is consistent with these values

Unknown

The country clubs the cars the boats your assets may be ample But the best

inheritance you can leave your kids Is to be a good example

Barry Spilchuk

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the

goal

Henry Ford

It is never too late to be what you might have been

George Eliott

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The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence the second listening the

third memory the fourth practice the fifth teaching others

Solomon Ibn Gabriol

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers You can tell whether a man is

wise by his questions

Naguib Mahfouz

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others

~ Erich Fromm

Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble

and grateful mind

~ Epictetus

Happiness is activity

~ Aristotle

Every action we take everything we do is either a victory or defeat in the

struggle to become what we want to be

~ Anne Byrhhe

In the absence of clearly defined goals we become strangely loyal to performing

daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it

Robert Heinlein Novelist

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the

consequences of any misfortune

William James 1842-1910 Psychologist and Author

To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle

-- Walt Whitman

God doesnt owe and neither do you

-- Alan Cohen

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Do what makes you smile

-- Dr Richard Bartlett

People who warn that everyone but members of their religion will go to hell dont

realize they are already there

-- Alan Cohen

The emotional frontier is truly the next frontier to conquer in human

understanding The opportunity we face now even before that frontier is fully

explored and settled is to develop our emotional potential and accelerate rather

dramatically into a new state of being

- Doc Childre and Howard Martin The HeartMath Solution

Real transformation requires that you have a beginners mind that you are willing

to say Whatever I think I know may be wrong

Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships

Heroes take journeys confront dragons and discover the treasure of their true

selves

- Carrol Pearson The Hero Within

If a man would move the world he

must first move himself

--Socrates

All sucessful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists They

believed that things went not by luck but by law

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

I skate to where the puck is going to be not where it is

-Wayne Gretzky

When given the choice between being right or being kind always choose kind

--Dr Wayne Dyer Never forget the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for

others

Sir John Templeton 1912-2008 Mutual Fund Pioneer and Philanthropist

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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome

Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Essayist Biographer and Poet

Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on

-- Alan Cohen

Shallow men believe in luck Strong men believe in cause and effect

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Contraction is a sign that birth is imminent

-- Alan Cohen

Work is an extension of personality It is achievement It is one of the ways in

which a person defines himself measures his worth ndash and his humanity

ndash Peter Drucker author

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends

-- John Ruskin

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities

--Janos Arnay

The first time you accept good is the last time you will see excellence

John Ulmo Life is like an onion

You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep

~ Carl Sandburg

Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light

~ L P Jacks Just as iron rusts from disuse even so does inaction spoil the intellect

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

As I grow older I pay less attention to what men sayI JUST watch what they

do

~ Andrew Carnegie

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All Things are Difficult before they are Easy

~ John Norley

Everything has been figured out except how to live

~ Jean Paul Sartre

Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving

Dennis Waitley

Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out

Robert Collier

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal

nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude

Thomas Jefferson

They can because they think they can

Virgil

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself

Menander

Years teach us more than books

Berthold Auerbach

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

When you delightfully fantasize about something you want you set into motion a

wave of energy that calls that situation into reality

-- Alan Cohen

Hurt people hurt people

-- Source unknown

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Doing the right thing may be different than what you have been taught the right

thing is

-- Alan Cohen

The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes

it happen

-- Frank Lloyd Wright All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say no and said yes

Moss Hart 1904-1961 Playwright and Theatre Director

We are built to conquer environment solve problems achieve goals and we find no

real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to

achieve

Maxwell Maltz 1899-1975 Author of Psycho-Cybernetics

You can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because thorns

have roses

-- Ziggy

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug

~ Patricia Neal

My night has become a sunny dawn because of you

--Ibn Abbad

All mankind is divided into three classes those that are immovable those that are

movable and those that move

--Benjamin Franklin

Dont compete Create Find out what everyone else is doing and then dont do it

mdashJoel Weldon

Show a little faith therelsquos magic in the night

mdashfrom ―Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen

Music is to me proof of the existence of God

It is so extraordinarily full of magic and in tough times

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of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference

mdashKurt Vonnegut

Discontent is the source of all trouble but also of all progress

in individuals and nations

Berthold Auerbach

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself

Thomas Sprat

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves

to copy

Oliver Goldsmith

If at first you dont succeed try try again Then quit Theres

no use being a damn fool about it

WC Fields

Impatience never commanded success

Edwin H Chapin

In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are the safest

~ Livy

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights

~ Henry David Thoreau

The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense

insoluble They can never be solved but only outgrown

~ Carl Jung

Life Begins When you Do

Hugh Downs Vision Without Action is a Daydream

Action Without Vision is a Nightmare

~ Japanese Proverb

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Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one

can possibly want and hold

-- Judith Olney

The love affair you seek is with yourself

-- Alan Cohen

The greatest power requires the lightest touch

-- BasharDarryl Anka

You only live once -- but its forever

-- Alan Cohen

Get off the cross Somebody needs the wood

-- From the film Straight Talk

There are two ways to live your life One is as though nothing is a miracle The

other is as though everything is a miracle

~ Albert Einstein

In the long run men hit only what they aim at

~ Henry David Thoreau philosopher

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state

of being alive If life is to be sustained hope must remain even where confidence is

wounded trust impaired

~Erik H Erikson

Freedom know this that every manwoman is free To choose his life and what

hell be For this eternal truth is given God will force no man to heaven Hell call

persuade direct aright Bless with wisdom love and light In nameless ways be

good and kind But never force the human mind

~ William C Clegg

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the

circumstances they want and if they canlsquot find them make them

~ George Bernard Shaw

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Relationships are not things We dont have relationships we are in relationship

with one another

- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships

Relationships are our primary teacher They are the context in which we either

grow into the consciousness of God or deny ourselves and others the opportunity

to do so

- Marianne Williamson

Listen deeply The greatest failure in any relationship is the failure to

participate

- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships

Your future is created by what you do today not tomorrow

Robert Kiyosaki

No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a

reality

Napoleon Hill

If you are not planning today you are planning to fail tomorrow

Gopal

How you do anything is how you do everything

T Harv Eker

There is little difference in people but that little difference

makes a big difference The little difference is attitude The

big difference is whether it is positive or negative

W Clement Stone

The vision must be followed by the venture It is not enough to

stare up the steps - We must step up the stairs

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Vance Havner

Go for it nowThe future is promised to no one

Wayne Dyer

If you realize how powerful your thoughts are you would never

think a negative thought

Peace Pilgrim

Either you run the day or the day runs you

Jim Rohn

You must go after your wish As soon as you start to pursue a

dream your life wakes up and everything has meaning

Barbara Sher

To succeed you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe

and act on it with all of your heart

Christy Borgeld

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers

Anonymous

Let him that would move the world first move himself

Socrates

By the time a man realizes that maybe

his father was right he usually has a son

who thinks hes wrong

~ Charles Wadworth

Without Mistakes Perfection is an Illusion

~ Daniel Frankel

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Its not the hours you put in

but what you put into the hours

that counts

~ Jim Rohn

Be swift to hear slow to speak slow to wrath

~ James 119

Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory

~ Ingrid Bergman

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word

~ William Makepease Thackeray

Professionalism is knowing how

to do it when to do it and doing it

~ Frank Tyger

Intention is not something you do

but rather a force that exists in the universe

as an invisible field of energy

-a power that can carry us

~ Dr Wayne Dyer

I personally measure success in terms

of the contributions an individual makes

to her or his fellow human beings

~ Margaret Mead

Some of the worlds greatest feats

were accomplished by people not

smart enough to know they were

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impossible

~ Doug Larson

Life is a flower of which love is the honey

~ Victor Hugo

Personal integrity is important

not because it gets us what we want

but because it helps us be what we want

~ Michael Josephson

Goals need to be configured to stretch us

but not to break us

~ Kent Krive

Children are apt to live up

to what you believe of them

~ Lady Bird Johnson

Do your work with your whole heart

and you will succeed

- theres so little competition

~ Elbert Hubbard

Hi Karl

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible

objections must first be overcome

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--Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Author

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter

even the most victorious life The human

spirit is never finished when it is defeated

- it is finished when it surrenders

-- Ben Stein Professor and Writer

Love is the first ingredient in the relief

of suffering

-- Padre Pio

Happiness is a function of accepting what is

--Werner Erhard

There are no shortcuts to any place

worth going

- Beverly Sills

It has never been and never will be

easy work But the road that is built in

hope is more pleasant to the traveler

than the road built in despair even though

they both lead to the same destination

~Marion Zimmer Bradley

The reality of life is that your perceptions --

right or wrong -- influence everything else

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you do When you get a proper perspective

of your perceptions you may be surprised

how many other things fall into place

~ Roger Birkman

Everybody is unique Do not compare yourself

with anybody else lest you spoil Gods curriculum

-- Baal Shem Tov

Everybody is unique Do not compare yourself

with anybody else lest you spoil Gods curriculum

-- Baal Shem Tov

Trust yourself You know more than

you think you do

ndash Benjamin Spock doctor

When you play it too safe youre taking

the biggest risk of your life

Time is the only wealth were given

--Barbara Sher

Creativity is inventing experimenting

growing taking risks breaking rules

making mistakes and having fun

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--Mary Lou Cook

Life is playing a violin solo in public and

learning the instrument as one goes on

--Samuel Butler

Opportunities are usually disguised as

hard work so most people dont recognize

them

~ Ann Landers

It is literally true that you can succeed best

and quickest by helping others to succeed

- Napoleon Hill

God loves you and theres nothing you can do about it

-- Sign on church marquis

Give yourself what you would like to receive from others

-- Alan Cohen

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature

-- Emerson

The fewer your words the more compelling your statement

-- Alan Cohen

Pray devoutly hammer stoutly

-- English proverb

There are no blocks to creativity Only distractions

-- Alan Cohen

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If your rules are not working so well borrow someone elses

-- Dr Richard Bartlett

Inner peace is never more than one thought away

-- Alan Cohen

Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret

hiding God

-- Frederick William Robertson

Completion is an attitude not an event

-- Alan Cohen

Enjoy where you are and youll be where youre going

-- Bashar

Your spirit is wireless

-- Alan Cohen

All questions lead to divine knowing

-- Isaac Newton

You cannot import self-worth You can only recognize it

-- Alan Cohen

Enlightened conflict resolution can exist only in an atmosphere of equality

We may not be equal in intelligence or experience or status but we are equal

in our right to be treated with dignity and caring It is not assumed that one

person has more privilege than another that one person is entitled to more

respect or understanding than another nor that one persons feelings are

more important than anothers

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

To seek happiness outside of ourselves Is like trying to lasso a cloud

Happiness is not a thingIt is a state of mind

- Omar Khayyam

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The higher self gets curious The conditioned self gets defensive

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The higher self gets curious The conditioned self gets defensive

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us

well I am not aware of any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking

not exercise not drugs not surgery--that has a greater impact on our

quality of life incidence of illness and premature death

- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy No man was ever wise by chance

~ Seneca

By thought the thing you want is brought to youby action you receive it

~ Wallace D Wattles

Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony

~ Mohandas K Gandhi

Life isnt about finding yourselfLife is about creating yourself

George Bernard Shaw

Im trying to free your mind but I can only show you the doorYou are the one

that has to walk through it

~ Morpheus [ The Matrix ]

A friend is a second self

~ Aristotle

Be great in act as you have been in thought

~ William Shakespeare

Character is higher than intellectA great soul will be strong to liveas well as to

think

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I never think of the futureIt comes soon enough

~ Albert Einstein

Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fearnot absence of fear

~ Mark Twain

Age wrinkles the bodyQuitting wrinkles the soul

~ Douglas MacArthur

If real is what you can feel smell taste and see then real is simply electrical

signals interpreted by your brain

~ Morpheus [ The Matrix ]

Money was never a big motivator for me except for keeping the scoreThe real

excitement is playing the game

~ Donald Trump

Dreams are extremely important You cant do it unless you dream it first

~ George Lucas

If you believe you can you probably can If you believe you wont you most

assuredly wont Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad

~ Denis Waitley

Imagination is more important than knowledge Knowledge is limitedImagination

encircles the world

~ Albert Einstein

Everything is always impossible before it works Thats what entrepreneurs are all

aboutDoing things that people have told them is impossible

~ R Hunt Greene

The truth is lived not taught

~ Hermann Hesse

Be of good cheer Do not think of todays failures but of the success that may

come tomorrow You have set yourself a difficult task but you will succeed if you

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persevere and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles

Helen Keller 1880-1968 Blind and Deaf Educator

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something Its as simple

as that A lot of people have ideas but there are few who decide to do something

about them now Not tomorrow Not next week But today The true entrepreneur

is a doer

-Nolan Bushnell Founder of Atari

Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they

have deep inside them - a desire a dream a vision

Muhammad Ali Three-Time World Heavyweight Champion Boxer

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them

Walt Disney 1901-1966 Cartoon Artist and Filmmaker

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings turn routine jobs into

joy and change ordinary opportunities into blessings

William Arthur Ward

1921-1994 Writer

If you want to achieve excellence you can get there today As of this second quit

doing less than excellent work

Thomas Watson 1874-1956 Founder of IBM

Ive always believed that a lot of the troubles in the world would disappear if we

were talking to each other instead of about each other

Ronald Reagan

1911-2004 40th President of the United States

The most wonderful gift one human being can give to another is in some way to

make that persons life a little bit better to live

John Assaraf Author and Speaker

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm

Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any

occupation no matter how frightening or difficult a new meaning Without

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enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish

miracles

Og Mandino

Constant kindness can accomplish much As the sun makes ice melt kindness

causes misunderstanding mistrust and hostility to evaporate

Dr Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965 Medical Missionary and Nobel Prize Winner

Dwell not on the past Use it to illustrate a point then leave it behind Nothing

really matters except what you do now in this instant of time From this moment

onwards you can be an entirely different person filled with love and understanding

ready with an outstretched hand uplifted and positive in every thought and deed

Eileen Caddy 1917-2006 Spiritual Teacher and Author

Heres the problem Most people are thinking about what they dont want and

theyre wondering why it shows up over and over again

John Assaraf Speaker and Author

Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to

success when they gave up

Thomas Edison 1847-1931 Inventor and Scientist

Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on

building the life you desire

Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly

lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love

Henry Drummond 1851-1897 Scientist and Author

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 Former First Lady Author and Speaker

If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors we are at least

responsible for those we admit and entertain

Charles Newcomb ScreenwriterDirector

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To grow you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your

past Your history is not your destiny

Alan Cohen

If you want a kinder world then behave with kindness if you want a peaceful

world make peace within

Dan Millman Writer and Speaker

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality order

and diligence without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a

time

Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Writer

Believe it can be done When you believe something can be done really believe

your mind will find the ways to do it Believing a solution paves the way to solution

Dr David Schwartz Author of The Magic of Thinking Big

Close your eyes and form a realistic picture of what a post PC world might actually

look like Those who can envision a plausible future thats brighter than today will

earn the opportunity to lead

Ray Ozzie Former Chief Software Architect at Microsoft

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past worry

about the future or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely

and earnestly

- Buddha

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job tellem certainly I can - and get

busy and find out how to do it

-- Theodore Roosevelt

Dont tell me how hard you work Tell mehow much you get done

~ James Ling

Democracy arose from menlsquos thinking that if they are equal in any respect they

are equal absolutely

~ Aristotle

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The beginning is the most important part of the work

~ Plato

Bless those who choose to love and those who choose to hate that those who

choose to hate may choose to love before it is too late

--Esoligh (Underground Hip Hop Artist)

Security is mostly a superstition It does not exist in nature nor do the children

of man as a whole experience it Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than

outright exposure Life is either a daring adventure or nothing

--Helen Keller

Each new hour holds new chances for new beginings The horizon move forward

offering you space to place new steps of change

--Maya Angelou

When a man cares he is unafraid When he is fair he leaves enough for others

When he is humble he can grow

--Lao-Tzu TaoTeChung

Behold the turtle He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out

--James Bryant Conant - Educator and Diplomat

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness not because they never found it

but because they didnt stop to enjoy it

--William Feather

The light of awareness the light of consciousness arises out of a broken heart

the heart by breaking becomes an ocean accommodating all beings

-- Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom

The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need according to the

nature of your thought Your environment and financial condition are the

perfect reflection of your habitual thinking

Thought rules the world

-- Dr Joseph Edward Murphy Surgeon

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The ideals that have lighted my way and time after time have given me new

courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness beauty and truth

ndash Albert Einstein physicist

Hope is the companion of power and mother of success for who so hopes strongly

has within him the gift of miracles

~ Samuel Smiles

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those

things that failures dont like to do

~ Albert Gray

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the

link between belief and biology

- Deepak Chopra

Ive always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best

~ Akeem Olajuwon

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear

ndash Socrates philosopher

The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the

most brilliant single mind but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains

and talents of his associates

~ W Alton Jones

The reason a dog has got so many friends is because its tail waggles and not its

tongue

-Anonymous

Dont fight a problem solve it

--Millard Fuller

If things are not going well with you begin your effort at correcting the situation

by carefully examining the service you are rendering and especially the spirit in

which you are rendering it

--Roger Babson

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The starting point of all riches is the development of a prosperity consciousness

You must become a financial success in your thinking long before you achieve it in

your reality Both poverty and riches are the result of a state of mind and the

most important single step you ever take on the road to wealth and financial

independence is the decision to change your thinking to impress into your mind an

unshakable belief that you can and will achieve your financial goals This must

happen before anything else happens

-- Brian Tracy

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it

We must learn to see the world anew

- Albert Einstein

To forgive is the highest most beautiful form of love In return you will receive

untold peace and happiness

--Dr Robert Muller

Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind the stronger the

trees

--J Willard Marriott Founder of Marriott Hotels

Someday may never come So live each day better than the last That way youll

wake up with so much excitement and anticipation youlsquoll jump out of bed and shout

I cant wait

--Bob Perks

The greatest thief this world ever produced is procrastination and he is still at

large

-- Henry Wheeler Shaw 1818-1885 Humorist

If you dont know where you are going any road will get you there

-- Anonymous

Ive noticed over many years of working with corporate teams that the more

dysfunctional the team the more resistant they are to the concept of love in

the workplace What baggage is it that we drag around behind us like Linus

and his blanket which causes us to be so wounded and pathological Why are

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we blind to the observable truth that those we lead are yearning for us to

open our hearts Why are we in denial about the truth that people--all

people at work and at home--are searching for signs of our approval and

love

- Lance Secretan Industry Week 11202000 We live on our own solitary islands of reality absorbed in and fascinated by

our own points of view Frequently we reach out to one another seeking to

understand or be understood The bridge between our separate realities is

communication To communicate is to relate

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air You

name them--work family health friends and spirit--and youre keeping all

of these in the air You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball If you

drop it it will bounce back But the other four balls-- family health

friends and spirit--are made of glass If you drop one of these they will be

irrevocably scuffed marked nicked damaged or even shattered They will

never be the same You must understand that and strive for balance in your

life

- Brian Dyson CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises from 1959-1994 If you cant be a loving witness to your own anger or rage or sadness or

fear you cant be in the presence of other peoples intense emotions without

your own emotional waters being churned up a bit But if you can learn to

feel safe and fully present to the broad spectrum of emotions within your own

nature you radiate an invisible web of safety that helps others to talk about

their feelings with you

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The world we are experiencing today is the result of our collective

consciousness and if we want a new world each of us must start taking

responsibility for helping create it

- Rosemary Fillmore Rhea A New Heaven and New Earth Your relationships are actually mirrors of your consciousness When you learn

to see your own reflection in the quality of your relationships with others you

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catapult yourself on your path of personal growth and spiritual evolution

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think To put the world right in order we must first put the nation in order to put

the nation in order we must first put the family in order to put the family in

order we must first cultivate our personal life we must first set our hearts

right

- Confucious The sooner we can unburden ourselves of blame the more effective we can

be Blaming others only entrenches us in the role of the victim removing us

from our highest expression of personal power

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

Being vulnerable doesnt have to be threatening Just have the courage to be

sincere open and honest This opens the door to deeper communication all

around It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others

we all want in life Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that

burden us These secrets are what make us sick or fearful Speaking truth

helps you get clarity on your real heart directives

- Sara Paddison The Hidden Power of the Heart Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time

ago

~ Warren Buffet

The only way to do great work is to love what you do If you havent found it yet

keep looking Dont settle As with all matters of the heart youll know when you

find it

~ Steve Jobs

If you love life do not waste time for time is what life is made up of

~ Bruce Lee

I cannot teach anybody anything I can only make them think

~ Socrates

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Change before you have to

~ Jack Welch

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm

~ Winston Churchill

A leader leads by example not by force

~ Sun Tzu

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour Sit with a

pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute You have just experienced

relativity

~ Albert Einstein

Live as if you were to die tomorrow Learn as if you were to live forever

~ Mohandas Gandhi

A clever person solves a problem A wise person avoids it

~ Albert Einstein

If I have seen a little further is by standing on the shoulders of Giants

~ Sir Isaac Newton

Despair says I cannot lift that weight Happiness says I do not have to

-- James Richardson

People who know they are powerful do not need to engage in power struggles

-- Alan Cohen

No man ever stated his troubles as lightly as he might

-- Emerson

What does your spirit most want you to know and do today

-- Alan Cohen

Its not how good you are Its how bad you want it

-- Author unknown

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The better I feel about myself the less I need you to be different

-- Alan Cohen

The best form of flattery is to master the art of listening

-- Chinese proverb

The only thing more valuable than a good source of news is source of good news

-- Alan Cohen

Disappointments are the hooks upon which God hangs his victories

-- Source unknown

It matters not what youve done with your life for better or worse What

matters is what you do with your life today

-- Alan Cohen

Everyone here is not all there

-- Source unknown

If you cant unify then at least harmonize

-- Alan Cohen

Everybody is a genius But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will

spend its whole life believing that it is stupid

-- Albert Einstein

Fear is excitement without breath

-- Fritz Perls

Dont leave yourself out of the equation

-- Alan Cohen

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles

-- Bernard Baruch

They can because they think they can

~ Virgil

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Exert your talents and distinguish yourself

and dont think of retiring from the world

until the world will be sorry that you retire

~ Samuel Johnson

Energy and persistence conquer all things

~ Benjamin Franklin

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom

~ Aristotle

Heaven never helps the man who will not act

~ Sophocles

The only real journey is the journey within

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Anyone who has never made a mistake

has never tried anything new

~ Albert Einstein

Action is the food and drink

that will nourish your success

Action will destroy your procrastination

Act now for is all you have

~ Og Mandino

Computers are incredibly fast accurate and stupid

Humans are incredible slow inaccurate and brilliant

Together they are powerful beyond imagination

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~ Albert Einstein

Practice giving and you will discover how much life can give you

-- Alan Cohen

Oh for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they

ran out of money

-- Source unknown

The best way to heal a bad memory is to create a new and better one

-- Alan Cohen

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love

-- Hamilton Wright Mabie

Fear and resistance are the dragons that stand at the gate of the kingdom that

contains the jewel you seek

-- Alan Cohen

Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy forgiveness To an opponent

tolerance To a friend your heart To a customer service To all charity To

every child a good example To yourself respect

-- Oren Arnold

Affirm I always have enough time to do the things that Spirit would have me do

-- Alan Cohen

There are two obstacles to enlightenment 1 Thinking you know 2 Thinking you

dont know

-- Buddha

Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal Take care how you pay

it

-- Alan Cohen

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles

-- Bernard Baruch

Upgrade your past by seeing it with appreciation

-- Alan Cohen

Families are like fudge -- mostly sweet with a few nuts

-- Source unknown

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of

our treasures

-- Thornton Wilder

The universe does not require you to stress for good things

-- Alan Cohen

When you bless the good that befalls others it becomes yours as well

-- Alan Cohen

How many more idols must you find before your realize that you are the one you

have been searching for

-- Dan Fogelberg

All limits exist only in thought and that is where they are overcome

-- Alan Cohen

To understand unconditional love lock your wife or husband and your dog in the

trunk of your car for an hour When you open it notice to is happier to see you

-- Source unknown

Outrageous ideas are ultimately the most practical

-- Alan Cohen

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are

-- Kurt Cobain

How good can you let it get

-- Alan Cohen

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If we could look into the secret history of our enemies we should find in each

persons life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostilities

-- Longfellow

If you sense there must be more there is more

-- Alan Cohen

Do not wait the time will never be just right Start where you stand and work

with whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found

as you go along

Napoleon Hill

1883-1970 Author of Think And Grow Rich

It doesnt matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes What

matters most is getting off You cannot make progress without making decisions

Jim Rohn

1930-2009 Speaker and Author

Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do Its

a decision about Who You Are When you see this when you understand it

everything changes You begin to see life in a new way All events occurrences and

situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do

Neale Donald Walsch

Author of Conversations With God

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached dont adjust the goals

adjust the action steps

Confucius

551-479 BC Philosopher

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of

you

Henry Ward Beecher

1813-1887 Clergyman Social Reformer and Abolitionist

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Lets choose today to quench our thirst for the good life we think others lead

by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives We can then offer the

universe the gift of our grateful hearts

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Author of Peace and Plenty

Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite

impossible to foresee are ahead You can only see one thing clearly and that is your

goal Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin

Kathleen Norris

1880-1966 Novelist

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends

you choose for you will become like them

W Clement Stone

1902-2002 Businessman Philanthropist and Author

Laugh at yourself and at life Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity but

as a remedy a miracle drug that will ease your pain cure your depression and help

you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at

your predicaments thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that

is certain to come Never take yourself too seriously

Og Mandino

1923-1996 Author of The Choice

Asking is the beginning of receiving Make sure you dont go to the ocean with a

teaspoon At least take a bucket so the kids wont laugh at you

Jim Rohn

1930-2009 Author and Speaker

Happiness comes only when we push our

brains and hearts to the farthest reaches

of which we are capable

--Leo C Rosten

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Do not wait the time will never be just right

Start where you stand and work with whatever

tools you may have at your command and better

tools will be found as you go along

~ Napoleon Hill

I shall do less whenever I shall believe what

I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more

whenever I shall believe doing more will help the

cause I shall try to correct errors when shown to

be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as

they shall appear to be true views

ndash Abraham Lincoln 16th US president

If we become increasingly humble about how l

little we know we may be more eager to search

- Sir John Templeton

I dont think anyone can grow unless hes

loved exactly as he is now appreciated for

what he is rather than what he will be

Love and success always in that order Its

that simple and that difficult

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a

lifetimes work but its worth the effort

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Quoted From Lifes Journeys According

to Mister Rogers

When we do the best we can we never know

what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life

of another

ndash Helen Keller lecturer author

We are responsible for what we are and whatever

we wish ourselves to be we have the power to make

ourselves If what we are now has been the result of

our own past actions it certainly follows that whatever

we wish to be in future can be produced by our present

actions so we have to know how to act

~ Swami Vivekananda

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for suffering God is here

~Rumi Chance favors only the prepared mind

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895 French scientist who developed pasteurization)

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities

enough and if they do not find them they will make them

Samuel Smiles

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen but give us the

determination to make the right things happen

Peter Marshall

If the sky falls hold up your hands

Spanish Proverb

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable but to be certain is to be ridiculous

Chinese Proverb

Knowing is not enough we must apply Willing is not enough we must do

Johann von Goethe

If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is he will not jump If he does

not know how wide it is he will jump and six times out of ten he will make it

Persian Proverb

As I grow to understand life less and less I learn to love it more and more

Jules Renard

The more you praise and celebrate your life the more there is in life to celebrate

Oprah Winfrey (1954- American TV personality producer actress author)

Mind is all that counts You can be whatever you make up your mind to be

Robert Collier

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You dont get to choose how youre going to die Or when You can only decide how

youre going to live Now

Joan Baez Singer Songwriter and Activist The average person goes to their grave with their music still in them

Oliver Wendell Holmes ―Everyone can be great because everyone can serve

- Martin Luther King ―Whatever you can conceive and believe you can achieve

Napoleon Hill We turn not older with years but newer every day

-Emily Dickinson

When reciting affirmations feel the words in your heart as you say them and

know that what you feel youll create

Peggy McColl Author of Relax Your Way to Wealth Everyday life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust

our old programs accordingly

Dr Ann Faraday

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to

get there Then never never never give up

Vincent Peale

We only think when we are confronted with problems

John Dewey (1859-1952 American philosopher educator)

In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain

Pliny The Elder (c23-79 Roman neophatonist)

If your determination is fixed I do not counsel you to despair Few things are

impossible to diligence and skill Great works are performed not by strength but

perseverance

Samuel Johnson

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Dont waste your life in doubts and fears spend yourself on the work before you

well assured that the right performance of this hours duties will be the best

preparation for the hours or ages that follow it

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Poet and Essayist Its nice to know that we dont need to wait till tomorrow we can start to change

the world today

Wil Rose

The good man acts for honors sake and the more so the better he is and acts for

his friends sake and sacrifices his own interest

-Aristotle

In order to excel you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport You

must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism

Without a total 100 percent dedication you wont be able to do this

Willie Mays

Any time you sincerely want to make a change the first thing you must do is to

raise your standards When people ask me what really changed my life eight years

ago I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I

demanded of myself I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my

life all the things I would no longer tolerate and all the things that I aspired to

becoming

Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert

Im a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of

it

Thomas Jefferson

Bring awareness to each act Walking on the road walk fully alert eating eat with

awareness Whatsoever you are doing dont let the past and the future interfere

Be in the present Thats what awareness is all about

~Osho

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There are two dimensions to life and we should be able to touch both

One is like a wave and we call it the historical dimension

The other is like the water and we call it the ultimate dimension or nirvana

We usually touch just the wave but when we discover how to touch the water

we receive the highest fruit that meditation can offer

-Thich Nhat Hanh

Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends

Jacques Delille (1738-1813 French poet

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock the stream always wins -

not through strength but by perseverance

Jackson Brown

When you focus on whats wrong you get more of whats wrong Conversely when

you focus on whats right you get more of whats right

Gina Mollicone-Long Author of the newly released book Think Or Sink

All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave

behind is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into

another

Gail Sheehy (1937- American journalist author)

Anger is one letter away from danger

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Success means having the courage the determination and the will to become the

person you believe you were meant to be

George Sheehan 1918-1993 Physician and Author

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views

so fast as they shall appear to be new views

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 16th American President)

―One ship sails East

And another West

By the self-same winds that blow

lsquoTis the set of the sails

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And not the gales

That tells the way we go

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity Our attitude

toward it Every opportunity has a difficulty and every difficulty has an

opportunity

J Sidlow Baxter 1903-1999 Author and Theologian

If you want to be successful you must either have a chance or take one

Author Unknown

It is common sense to take a method and try it If it fails admit it frankly and try

another But above all try something

Franklin D Roosevelt

It was courage faith endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all

obstacles that built this bridge

~ John J Watson

Past Data should now be the basis of Present Truth Data from a prior time or

experience should always and only be the basis for new questions Always the

treasure should be in the questions not in the answer

-Neale Donald Walsch Even though you may want to move forward in your life you may have one foot on

the brakes In order to be free we must learn how to let go Release the hurt

Release the fear Refuse to entertain your old pain The energy it takes to hang

onto the past is holding you back from a new life What is it you would let go of

today

Mary Manin Morrissey Creator of The Miracle Mastery Conference

It is not what you are called but what you answer to

African Proverb

A failure establishes only this that our determination to succeed was not strong

enough

John Christian Bovee

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If youre not part of a solution youre a part of the problem There is no middle

road I dont think we can destroy the Earth but I think the Earth can destroy

us

-Oh Shinnah

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will

accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop

Robert Hughes

Charity is the spice of riches

Jewish Proverb

If you dont like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and

waiting for you The snake sheds its skin with impunity relying on the same nature

which you rely on

Author Unknown

Its a very funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best

you very often get it

William Somerset Maugham

A leader once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one must

be undaunted when the going gets tough

Ronald Reagan

If I accept you as you are I will make you worse however if I treat you as

though you are what you are capable of becoming I help you become that

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 Author and Philosopher

Every gun that is made every warship launched every rocket signifies in the final

sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed from those who are cold and

not clothed The world in arms is not spending money alone It is spending the

sweat of its laborers the genius of its scientists the hopes of its children

-Dwight D Eisenhower

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Service is nothing but love in work clothes

Author Unknown

A man can do all things if he but wills them

Leon Battista Alberti

A crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk just a

tinkling cymbal where there is not love

Francis Bacon 17th Century English Lord Chancellor philosopher and author

The only way to have a friend is to be one

Ralph Waldo Emerson 19th Century American author and poet

Its not what you do once in a while its what you do day in and day out that

makes the difference

Jenny Craig Diet Specialist

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on

the labors of other men living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to

give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving

Albert Einstein (1879-1955 German-born American physicist)

A resolute determination is the truest wisdom

Napoleon I

Without consistency there is no moral strength

Author Unknown

See first that the design is wise and just that ascertained pursue it resolutely

William Shakespeare

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

-Dale Carnegie

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself

William Penn (1644-1718 British religious leader founder of Pennsylvania)

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How we think shows through in how we act Attitudes are mirrors of the mind

They reflect thinking

David J Schwartz Trainer and Author

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but

to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment

Dorothy Nevill

Vision is freely given to those who ask to see

-Course in Miracles

Tough times never last but tough people do

Dr Robert Schuller

A sure way to lose happiness I found is to want it at the expense of everything

else

Bette Davis (1908-1989 American actress producer)

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything

Alexander Hamilton

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference He has

it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter

Norman Cousins (1915-1990 American editor humanitarian author)

The practice of medicine is an art not a trade a calling not a business a calling in

which your heart will be exercised equally with your head Often the best part of

your work will have nothing to do with powders or potions

-Sir William Osler

Strength does not come from physical capacity It comes from an indomitable

will

~ Mahatma Gandhi

―You dont love someone for their looks or their clothes or for their fancy car

but because they sing a song only you can hear

Anon

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―They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever

Oscar Wilde

―Love is like a friendship caught on fire In the beginning a flame very pretty

often hot and fierce but still only light and flickering As love grows older our

hearts mature and our love becomes as coals deep-burning and unquenchable

Bruce Lee

―Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty

John Finely

―It takes a lot of understanding time and trust to gain a close friendship with

someone As I approach a time of my life of complete uncertainty my friends are

my most precious asset

Anon

―Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process

Harold S Geneen People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest

- Hermann Hesse 1877-1962 Civilization is a method of living an attitude of equal respect for all men

- Jane Addams 1860-1935 The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next

- Matthew Arnold 1822-1888

Vacillating people seldom succeed Successful men and women are very careful in

reaching their decisions and very persistent and determined in action thereafter

~ L G Elliott

Those with goals tend to succeed because they are focused and know where they

are going while those without goals do not

Ted Karam Author from his new book Jumping On Water Awaken Your Joy - Empower Your Life

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Every time you go out on the ice there are slight flaws You can always think of

something you should have done better These are the things you must work on

Dorothy Hamill (1956- American figure skater)

Until you make the unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it

fate

~ Carl Jung When you speak of someone or about someone you should speak as though they

were in the room with you The ears that you speak to today are attached to the

mouth that could relay the message tomorrow

William Biddy Allen 1903-2001 Bus Driver - Loving father of 7 children

It is no failure to fall short of realizing all that we might dream The failure is to

fall short of dreaming all that we might realize

-Dee Hock When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they

are regarded by others let them reflect how little they have contributed to the

happiness of others

Author Unknown

I have become my own version of an optimist If I cant make it through one door

Ill go through another door - or Ill make a door Something terrific will come no

matter how dark the present

~ Rabindranath Tagore

―The present moment

contains past and future

The secret of transformation

is in the way we handle this very moment

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926 - present Vietnamese Buddhist monk)

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―Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it Do not believe in

anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many Do not believe in

anything simply because it is found written in your religious books Do not believe in

anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders Do not believe in

traditions because they have been handed down for many generations But after

observation and analysis when you find that anything agrees with reason and is

conducive to the good and benefit of one and all then accept it and live up to it

Buddha (Founder of Buddhism 568 - 488 BC) I try to avoid looking forward or backward and try to keep looking upward

Charlotte Bronte

Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action for all eternity

Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801 Theologian

There is only one duty only one safe course and that is to try to be right

Winston Churchill (1874-1965 British statesman Prime Minister)

We are born at a given moment in a given place and like vintage years of wine we

have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born Astrology

does not lay claim to anything more

-Carl Jung

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them One is more

delightful for being told one is delightful -- just as one is angrier for being told

one is angry

Katherine F Gerould

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread they can sure make something out

of you

~ Muhammed Ali Beware of the thoughts you keep because everything in reality manifests from

the mind

Justin Palmer Second Year College Student

Confess you were wrong yesterday it will show you are wise today

Author Unknown

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We must accept finite disappointment but we must never lose infinite hope

~ Martin Luther King Jr

In the beginning the Universe was created

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move

-Douglas Adams

Any individual can be in time what he earnestly desires to be if he but set his

face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing and bring all his powers to bear

upon its attainment

Herman J Randall

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world

~ Helen Keller Many of lifes failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success

when they gave up

~ Thomas Edison

When you give your undivided attention to something there is a softening and

opening in the listener that allows access to the meaning underneath the words

-Betty Burkes

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they

are about to change the world I am more awed by those who struggle to make one

small difference

Ellen Goodman Journalist

If you look into your own heart you find nothing wrong there what is there to

fear

Confucius (BC 551-479 Chinese ethical teacher philosopher) Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls

~ Mother Teresa What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self-

conceit For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he

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already knows

- Epictetus 55 AD-135 AD

There are admirable potentialities in every human being Believe in your strength

and your youth Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself It all depends on me

- Andre Gide 1869-1951

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage

- Anais Nin 1903-1977 Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in

other areas But can it really True effectiveness requires balance

~ Stephen Covey

I dont pay good wages because I have a lot of money I have a lot of money

because I pay good wages

- Robert Bosch Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do

the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not it is

the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a mans training

begins it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly

Thomas H Huxley 1825-1895 Biologist

The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have and to be able

to lose all desire for things beyond your reach

Yutang Lin (1895-1976 Chinese writer and philologist)

Men are failures not because they are stupid but because they are not

sufficiently impassioned

Struther Burt

If you look at what you have in life youll always have more If you look at what

you dont have in life youll never have enough

Oprah Winfrey Television Host Producer and Philanthropist

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Im trying not to look too far ahead All Im thinking is one shot at a time one hole

at a time and thats what I want to keep doing

Michelle McGann

I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed but the spirit in

which we face them that constitutes our comfort

-Elizabeth T King My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content

with your failure

~ Abraham Lincoln

―There is nothing but love and all else is illusion

- Dr John Demartini There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer no disease that enough

love will not heal no door that enough love will not open

- Emmet Fox

All my limitations are self-imposed and my liberation can only come from true self-

love

- Max C Robinson

We fail to see that we can control our own destiny make ourselves do whatever is

possible make ourselves become whatever we long to be

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine )

To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will

~ Sugar Ray Robinson 1920-1989 Boxer

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall

Confucius

Half the people you know are above average

-Steven Wright

Your close relationships are either a catalyst for manifesting what you really

want or theyre a hindrance to your manifestation If you truly value the power of

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love in your life you owe it to yourself to discover how to tap into the power of

your relationship as a force for manifestation

Drs Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up Even when they do it is not

perfect and they sigh for more and lose better things in struggling for them

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888 American author )

One is not idle because one is absorbed There is both visible and invisible labor To

contemplate is to toil to think is to do The crossed arms work the clasped hands

act The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation

Victor Hugo (1802-1885 French poet dramatist novelist)

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of

greed in the headlines

-Charles Kuralt

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our

focus we never concentrate our power Most people dabble their way through life

never deciding to master anything in particular

Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)

In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time

~ Anthony J DAngelo

Courage comes from wanting to do it well Security comes from knowing you can do

it well Confidence comes from having done it well

~ Author Unknown

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel

Napoleon Hill

There is a true genius in everyone But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a

tree it would never stop doubting itself

~ Einstein~

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People ask for criticism but they only want praise

- W Somerset Maugham 1874-1965 Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts for if

you let it pass the desire may never return and you may remain in ignorance

- William Wirt 1772-1834 Cynicism is not realistic and tough Its unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it

means you dont have to try

- Peggy Noonan 1950-present There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into

gear

David Mahoney Executive and Philanthropist You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences

W Somerset Maugham (1874-1965 British novelist playwright)

Dont ask yourself what the world needs Ask yourself what makes you come alive

and then go and do that Because what the world needs are people who have come

alive

~ Howard Thurman When a great moment knocks on the door of your life it is often no louder than

the beating of your heart and it is very easy to miss it -Boris Pasternak Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure

~ Thomas Alva Edison

To be successful you have to have your heart in your business and your business in

your heart

- Thomas Watson Sr Begin challenging your own assumptions Your assumptions are your windows on the

world Scrub them off every once and a while or the light wont come in

Alan Alda Actor Writer and Director

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I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most

argumentative

Giovani della Casa (1503-1556 Papal secretary of state)

Have you ever felt like you wanted to go but you felt like you wanted to stay

- Song Lyric Jimmy Durante

To live is the rarest thing in the world most people exist that is all

~ Oscar Wilde

Awareness is like a beam of light that shines endlessly into space We only

perceive that light when it is reflected off some object and consciousness is

producedAwareness is the light by which we see the worldWe mistake the clear

light of pure awareness for the shadows that it casts in consciousnessWe forget

that we are the light itself and imagine that we are the densities that reflect the

light back to us

-Stephen Levine Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal

Albert Camus (1913-1960 French existential writer) The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation

Mark Twain

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn Our rewards

will always be in exact proportion to our service

Earl Nightingale 1921-1989 Author of The Strangest Secret

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he

knows where he is going

Napoleon Hill

Wisdom tells me I am nothing

Love tells me I am everything

And between the two my life flows

-Nisargadatta Maharaj

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No employer today is independent of those about him He cannot succeed alone no

matter how great his ability or capital Business today is more than ever a question

of cooperation

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)

Shoot for the moon Even if you miss youll land among the stars

Les Brown

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world

Joseph Addison (1672-1719 British essayist poet statesman)

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a

fate that falls on man unless they act

~ G K Chesterton

Find something positive to think about and dont let the conversation in your head

end with a negative comment Always end on a positive comment

Dr Tomi Bryan and Dr Jerry White From their latest release The 5 Keys To The Great Life

Whales do not sing because they have a message They sing because they have a

song

-Ashes and Snow

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life

- Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956

Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though

checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor

suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor

defeat

- Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting

- Stanislaw Leszczynski 1677-1766

There is no joy in getting by on your job - doing as little as you can There is a

LOT of pleasure in doing more than you have to And whosoever shall compel you

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to go a mile go with him twain says the Bible wisely

-Norman Carlisle

We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once

Calvin Coolidge

The starting point of all achievement is desire Keep this constantly in mind Weak

desires bring weak results just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat

Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think and Grow Rich

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me

instead of looking within myself to see what was there

Belle Livingstone

Rather than thinking if and when start doing take action stop talking about if

and when

~ Catherine Pulsifer

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity -

Ayn Rand

Being a man or indeed being human is not something for which one should

apologize but something to which one should aspire and with all the gusto he can

muster

-- David Cunningham

The question isnt who is going to let me its who is going to stop me

- Howard Roark The Fountainhead 1943

I am the Master of my Fate Captain of my Soul

-- W E Henley

Whatever you can do or dream you can begin it

Boldness has genius power and magic in it

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me

instead of looking within myself to see what was there

Belle Livingstone

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality order

and diligence without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a

time

Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Novelist

The path to success is to take massive determined action

Anthony Robbins

All of the significant battles are waged within the self

Sheldon Kopp (1929- American psychologist)

Follow effective action with quiet reflection From the quiet reflection will come

even more effective action

~ Peter F Drucker

Dont be dismayed at good-byes

A farewell is necessary before you can meet again

And meeting again after moments or lifetimes

is certain for those who are friends

-Richard Bach

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual

sense of humor

Thomas W Higginson 1823-1911 Minister Abolitionist and Author

When performance exceeds ambition the overlap is called success

Cullen Hightower

Well done is better than well said

Benjamin Franklin

The first and the best victory is to conquer self

Plato (BC 427-347 Greek philosopher)

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Man is what he believes

-Anton Chekhov One half of life is luck the other half is discipline - and thats the important half

for without discipline you wouldnt know what to do with luck

Carl Zuckmeyer 1896-1977 Writer and Playwright

Try and fail but dont fail to try

~ Stephen Kaggwa

I believe that one of the greatest gifts we have been given is our imagination It

costs nothing to access is available 247 and is our doorway to freedom With

imagination we have inside of us the most amazing ability to change our state and

transform our life in a moment

~ Veronica Hay The world is full of abundance and opportunity but far too many people come to

the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car a teaspoon instead of a

steam shovel They expect little and as a result they get little

Ben Sweetland Author of I Will Blessed is the person who sees the need recognizes the responsibility and actively

becomes the answer

William A Ward

I am not a mechanism an assembly of various sections

And it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly that I am ill

I am ill because of wounds to the soul to the deep emotional self

And the wounds to the soul take a long long time only time can help

And patience and a certain difficult repentance

Long difficult repentance realization on lifes mistake and the freeing of oneself

From the endless repetition of the mistake

Which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify

-D H Lawrence

Victory belongs to the most persevering

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Gratitude opens doors It paves the way to abundance and prosperity like nothing

else

It can line your pockets with gold and fill your bank account quicker than a New

York minute

Yet how many of you are living from a thankful heart each day

~Veronica Hay Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe

Bruce Springsteen You gain strength and courage and confidence by each experience in which we

really stop to look fear in the face You must do that which we think we cannot

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 Social Activist and First Lady of the United States

Dont let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you Instead give to

yourself that which empowers you

Les Brown (1945- American speaker author trainer motivator)

―The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having

new eyes

~ Marcel Proust

―Then your light shall break forth like the dawn and your healing shall spring up

quickly

~ Isaiah 588

―And your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music

from it or confused sounds

mdash Kahlil Gibran

In every life the most important change is self-change -- and in every situation

the principles are the same

- J Kingston Cowart

It takes courage to lead a life Any life

Erica Jong

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Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time

-Ken Wilber

Peoples tendency towards good is as waters tendency is to flow downhill

Mencius When I let go of what I am I become what I might be

~ Lao Tsu

The higher my rank the more humbly I behave The greater my power the less I

exercise it The richer my wealth the more I give away Thus I avoid respectively

envy and spite and misery

~ Sun Shu Ao

There is no greater happiness than freedom from worry and there is no greater

wealth than contentment

~Lao Tsu

Failure lies not in falling down Failure lies in not getting up

~ Chinese proverb

A meal however simple is a moment of intersection It is at once the most basic

the most fundamental of our lifes activities maintaining the life of our bodies

Shared with others it can be an occasion of joy and communion uniting people

deeply

~ Elise Boulding The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms

-- Socrates You are never going to get it all done - you just wont Rather you will find order

and peace in your workday if you accept it and then do one more thing Implement

a system that consistently shows you whats most critical at any moment what to

do after the critical and where to find everything else when you need to That

system is not hard - its quite simple to set up

Michael Linenberger From Master Your Workday Now Check out his book and bonuses

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Time is limited so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have

just one chance to live this particular day right and to string my days together

into a life of action and purpose

Lance Armstrong 7-Time Winner of the Tour de France

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value

Albert Einstein

We have contributed each in the time allotted us our endeavors to render a

permanent blessing to our country

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826 Third American President)

If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost that is where they

should be Now put foundations under them

~ Henry David Thoreau

If you didnlsquot musterbate then you wouldnlsquot awfulize terribilize

catastrophize say ―I canlsquot stand it and put yourself down

If you only stuck with ―Ilsquod like very much to do well but I never

have to you wouldnlsquot then disturb yourself hellip musterbation is

evil and pernicious

- Albert Ellis

There are 2 theories to arguing with a womanneither works

-Will Rogers

Dont tell me that worry doesnt do any good said the over-worked executive I

know better The things I worry about never happen

-Cited in More ofThe Best of BITS amp PIECES

Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were

innocent Anger is natural Grief is appropriate Healing is mandatory Restoration

is possible

~ Jane Rubietta

Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can

~ Richard Bach

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Inspiration and genius--one and the same

~ Victor Hugo

It is important to acknowledge a mistake instantly correct it and learn from it

That literally turns a failure into a success Success is on the far side of failure

TJ Watson 1874-1956 Founder if IBM

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of

inspiration

~ George Eliot

Trust your hunches Theyre usually based on facts filed away just below the

conscious level

Dr Joyce Brothers Psychologist and Television Personality Every artist was first an amateur

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a

true master For this reason mastery demands all of a person

Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Theoretical Physicist Philosopher and Author In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain

Pliny The Elder (c23-79 Roman neophatonist)

The more difficulties one has to encounter within and without the more

significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be

Horace Bushnell

If the sky falls hold up your hands

Spanish Proverb

Begin with the end in mind

Stephen Covey

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good try to use ordinary

situations

- Jean Paul Richter 1763-1825 German Novelist

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No great man ever complains of want of opportunities

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If people knew how hard I worked to gain my mastery it wouldnt seem so

wonderful

Michelangelo 1475-1564 Painter Sculptor and Architect

We only think when we are confronted with problems

John Dewey (1859-1952 American philosopher educator)

Men do less than they ought unless they do all they can

~ Thomas Carlyle

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex It takes a touch of

genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction

~Albert Einstein

―Ecstasy is your very nature not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary

~Osho

The quieter you can become the more youre able to hear

~Chinese Proverb

The only real valuable thing is intuition

~ Albert Einstein

To be ecstatic is natural spontaneous It needs no effort to be ecstatic it needs

great effort to be miserable

~Osho

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight

Anita DeFrantz Olympic Rower Everyday life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust

our old programs accordingly

Dr Ann Faraday

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I live my life in widening circles

that reach out across the world

I may not ever complete the last one

But I give myself to it

I have been circling for thousands of years

And I still dont know

Am I a falcon a storm or a great song

-Rilke

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to

make them come true

~ Leon J Suenes

Dont be a cynic and disconsolate preacher Dont bewail and moan Omit the

negative propositions Challenge us with incessant affirmatives Dont waste

yourself in rejection or bark against the bad but chant the beauty of the good

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once whether

youre ready or not to put it into action

Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author

Fall seven times stand up eight

Japanese proverb

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars

or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven

to the human spirit

~ Helen Keller

Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends

Jacques Delille (1738-1813 French poet)

First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have

to do

Epictetus

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to

make them come true

Leon J Suenes

If you would create something you must be something

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Stay together friends

Dont scatter and sleep

Our friendship is made

Of being awake

The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away weeping

That way it stays in the garden whereas another roundness rolls

through a dry riverbed looking for what it thinks it wants

Stay here quivering with each moment like a drop of mercury

-Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives as parallel realities It is

always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend when we choose not

to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance

thats present love health family friends work the joys of nature and personal

pursuits that bring us pleasure the wasteland of illusion falls away and we

experience heaven on earth

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach Any time you sincerely want to make a change the first thing you must do is to

raise your standards When people ask me what really changed my life eight years

ago I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I

demanded of myself I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my

life all the things I would no longer tolerate and all the things that I aspired to

becoming

~ Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert) Its nice to know that we dont need to wait till tomorrow we can start to change

the world today

~ Wil Rose

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A bird doesnt sing because it has an answer it sings because it has a song

~ Maya Angelou

Great minds have purposes little minds have wishes Little minds are subdued by

misfortunes great minds rise above them

~ Washington Irving

Step by step I cant think of any other way of accomplishing anything

~ Michael Jordan

If you employed study thinking and planning time daily you could develop and use

the power that can change the course of your destiny

~ W Clement Stone

We are called to speak for the weak for the voiceless for victims of our nation

and for those it calls enemy for no document from human hands can make these

humans any less than our brothers

-Dr Martin Luther King Jr

Disposal of hazardous wastes is not the root problem Rather it is the root

symptom

-Hawken Paul There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the

things we do

Freya Stark

Try a little harder to be a little better

Gordon B Hinckley

If you love something and stick with it you will get phenomenal results

Bob Proctor

You can chain me you can torture me you can even destroy this body but you will

never imprison my mind

Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Political and Spiritual Leader

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Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and

triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friends forehead

Chinese Proverb Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs

Michael Levine

Nurture your mind with great thoughts To believe in the heroic makes heroes

Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881 British Prime Minister The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your

blueprint or plan Strategies are like recipes choose the right ingredients mix

them in the correct proportions and you will always produce the same predictable

results

~ Charles J Givens

More than anything else I believe its our decisions not the conditions of our

lives that determine our destiny

Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)

Happy the manwoman who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his

wishes and his powers

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I hope that my achievements in life shall be these that I will have fought for what

was right and fair that I will have risked for that which mattered and that I will

have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better

place for what Ive done and who Ive been

~ C Hoppe

The vision that you glorify in your mind the ideal that you enthrone in your heart

this you will build your life by and this you will become

James Allen

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Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony

Gandhi

There never was a time when in my opinion some way could not be found to

prevent the drawing of the sword

-General Grant To be a warrior

is to be genuine

in every moment of your life

-Chogyam Trungpa Im convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs

from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance

- Steve Jobs Regret for wasted time is more wasted time

Mason Cooley

Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow

Les Brown (1945- American speaker author trainer motivator)

More than anything else I believe its our decisions not the conditions of our

lives that determine our destiny

Anthony Robbins Author and Speaker

Material possessions will rust away wear away or depreciate but your inner

resources character must never depreciate In seeking success you must also seek

fulfillment Ask yourself not only what you want to be but who you want to be

~ Elizabeth Dole Anything in life that we dont accept will simply make trouble for us until we make

peace with it

~ Shakti Gawain

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious

stupidity

-Dr Martin Luther King Jr

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Real integrity is doing the right thing knowing that nobodys going to know

whether you did it or not

Oprah Winfrey Talk Show Host Producer and Philanthropist

If you must begin then go all the way because if you begin and quit the unfinished

business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time

Chogyam Trungpa

I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career I have lost almost 300 games

On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot and I

missed I have failed over and over and over again in my life And thats precisely

why I succeedcc

~ Michael Jordan

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what

they most enjoy

~ Malcolm Forbes

Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future

Paul Boese Botanist

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons

determination

Tommy Lasorda (1927- American baseball manager) I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more

~ Dr Jonas Salk The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame

Rod Steiger

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul

~ Marcus Aurelius

The best way

to make your dreams come true

is to wake up

-Kabir

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You can do what you have to do and sometimes you can do it even better than you

think you can

Jimmy Carter (1924- American President (39th)) ―If you create an act you create a habit If you create a habit you create a

character If you create a character you create a destiny

ndash Andre Maurois They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them

feel

~ Carl W Buechner When you affirm big believe big and pray big putting faith into action big things

happen

Dr Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993 Preacher and Author You never will be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are taken

out of your life

~ James G Bilkey

In every difficult situation is potential value Believe this then begin looking for it

Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993 American Christian reformed pastor speaker author)

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832 German poet dramatist novelist)

Being vulnerable doesnt have to be threatening Just have the courage to be

sincere open and honest This opens the door to deeper communication all around

It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want

in life Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us These

secrets are what make us sick or fearful Speaking truth helps you get clarity on

your real heart directives

-Sara Paddison

The best thing to spend on your children is your time

~ Louise Hart

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The best things come to those who wait

- Unknown

Ask five economists and youll get five different explanations six if one went to

Harvard

~ Edgar R Fiedler There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through

encouragement from someone else I dont care how great how famous or

successful a man or woman may be each hungers for applause

~ George M Adams Do not fear death fear the unlived life

Natalie Babbitt Leadership is no longer about your position Its now more about your passion for

excellence and making a difference You can lead without a title

Robin Sharma

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back The great champions have

all come back from defeat

Sam Snead (1912-2002 American golfer)

What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision

-Helen Keller The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement

Yet almost no one gets the encouragement they need

to grow to their full potential If everyone received the

encouragement they need to grow the genius in most

everyone would blossom and the world would produce

abundance beyond the wildest dreams We would have

more than one Einstein Edison Schweitzer Mother

Theresa Dr Salk and other great minds in a century

~Sidney Madwed

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Dont build your happiness on someone elses unhappiness

~ Richard Rose

―The mind turned inwards is the Self turned outwards it becomes the ego and all

the world

~ Ramana Maharshi

Somewhere there is someone who dreams of your smile and finds in your presence

that life is worthwhile

So when you are lonely remember its true somebody somewhere is thinking of

you

~ Anon

If youre open to altering your plans a bit you might achieve even better results

than youd anticipated

Peggy McColl A strong passion for any object will ensure success for the desire of the end will

point out the means

William Hazlitt (1778-1830 British essayist)

Successful people dont do different things they just do things differently

- Unknown You never will be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are

taken out of your life

James G Bilkey Author

Dreams do come true if we only wish hard enough You can have anything in life if

you will sacrifice everything else for it

James M Barrie (1860-1937 British playwright)

Seven blunders of the world

that lead to violence

wealth without work

pleasure without conscience

knowledge without character

commerce without morality

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science without humanity

worship without sacrifice

politics without principle

-Mahatma Gandhi

When people speak of prosperity they generally mean success and measure it in

terms of financial abundance There are books seminars and training sessions

designed to help individuals to be prosperous Clearly many are seeking the path to

prosperity Ironically when one is seeking prosperity the message they give to

themselves and the universe is that they do not have enough This is a scarcity

mentality and tends only to manifest more scarcity

~ Gwen Randall Young Money makes money and the money makes more money

~ Benjamin Franklin

BE the change you wish to see in the world

- Ghandhi The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched

They must be felt with the heart

~ Hellen Keller

Understanding does not cure evil but it is a definite help inasmuch as one can cope

with a comprehensible darkness

-Carl Jung

You are not powerless about anything

When you get a vision and then find

alignment with it you ARE powerful

And then amazing things begin to

happen around you

- Abraham-Hicks

Be kind whenever possible It is always possible

~ Dalai Lama

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A consistent soul believes in destiny a capricious one in chance

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881 British statesman Prime Minister)

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots

George Herbert (1593-1632 British metaphysical poet)

It is not the greatness of a mans means that makes him independent so much as

the smallness of his wants

William Cobbett (1762-1835 British journalist reformer)

If you desire many things many things will seem few

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790 American scientist publisher diplomat) Its the little things you do that can make a big difference What are you

attempting to accomplish What little thing can you do today that will make you

more effective You are probably only one step away from greatness

Bob Proctor Author and Speaker You may delay but time will not and lost time is never found again

~ Benjamin Franklin

Procrastination is the seed of self-destruction

~ Matthew Burton

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light

~ Helen Keller

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength

~ Sigmund Freud

Blessed are those that can give without remembering and take without

forgetting

~ Liz Bebesco Waiting is a trap There will always be reasons to wait

The truth is there are only two things in life reasons and results and reasons

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simply dont count

~ Dr Robert Anthony

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become

wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing The long

term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their

Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed

~ Srully Blotnick

If now there is something you

choose to experience in your life

do not want it -- choose it

Do you choose success in worldly

terms Do you choose more money

Good Then choose it Really

Fully Not half-heartedly

- Conversations with God Book 1

Its a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best you

very often get it

-Somerset Maugham

A world of abundance surrounds you if only you will step up and claim it Make life

happen through you rather than letting it happen to you It will make all the

difference in the world

- Ralph Marston Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving

it

~ William Arthur Ward

We must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible

otherwise we would not continue to search

-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Prosperity consciousness is the awareness that all of us have something of value

to offer and we all deserve to get paid for what we provide to others

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Peggy McColl Author of Viral Explosions Proven Techniques to Expand Explode or Ignite Your Business Or Brand Online Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying

~ Christian Furchtegott Gellert

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it

- Lou Holtz Procrastination is opportunitys natural assassin

~ Victor Kiam Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough

- Og Mandino 1923-1996 American Motivational Author and Speaker When you judge others you do not define them you define yourself

~ Earl Nightingale

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly

~ Richard Bach

If you tell the truth you dont have to remember anything

-Mark Twain

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity

belonging to them

William Hazlitt (1778-1830 British essayist)

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back The great champions

have all come back from defeat

Sam Snead 1912-2002 Golfer Faith is the assurance of things hoped for

- Unknown

The mediocre teacher tells The good teacher explains The superior teacher

demonstrates The great teacher inspires

~ William A Ward

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Never complain and never explain

~ --Benjamin Disraeli

Bless a thing and it will bless you Curse it and it will curse you If you bless a

situation it has no power to hurt you

Emmet Fox 1886-1951 Spiritual Leader Man alone has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man

alone can dream and make his dreams come true

Napoleon Hill (1883-1970 American speaker author Think And Grow Rich) Without AMBITION one starts nothing Without WORK one finishes nothing

The prize will NOT be sent to you You have to WIN it

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is to try to please

everyone

- Bill Cosby What we leave behind is not engraved in stone monuments but woven into the lives

of others

~ Pericles The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of

being unwanted

~ Mother Teresa (1910-1997 Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary)

Tough times never last Tough people do

-Robert Schuller

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions

- Eric Butterworth

A fellow at one of my workshops confessed For years I was so miserable that I

prayed to God daily to let me wake up as happy as my dog I went home and

thought about it Am I as happy as my dog Hmmmm

~ Alan Cohen

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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future You must break out of

your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the

unknown

Denis Waitley Author and Speaker

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us

William Feather (1888-19 American writer businessman )

It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow but only

empties today of its strength

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892 Preacher

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win by fearing to

attempt

William Shakespeare (1564-1616 British poet playwright actor)

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future You must break out of

your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the

unknown

Denis Waitley (1933- American author speaker trainer peak performance expert)

Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as

it should There are no mistakes anywhere at any time What appears to be wrong

is simply your own false imagination Thats all

~Robert Adams

How many ideas have there been in history that were unthinkable ten years

before they appeared

~Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Life in itself is an empty canvas it becomes whatsoever you paint on it You can

paint misery you can paint bliss This freedom is your glory

~Osho

―Cease trying to work everything out with your minds it will get you nowhere Live

instead by intuition and inspiration let your whole life become a revelation

~Eileen Caddy

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People should appreciate ugliness because if it wasnt for ugliness beautiful

things wouldnt look beautiful

~ Sam Lau

No great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig If

you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time Let it first

blossom then bear fruit then ripen

~Epictetus

You are the Self that perfect immutable Self Nothing else exists Nothing else

ever existed Nothing else will ever exist There is only one Self and you are That

Rejoice

~Robert Adams

Part of being a champ is acting like a champ You have to learn how to win and not

run away when you lose Everyone has bad stretches and real successes Either way

you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get too confident

~ Nancy Kerrigan

Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they

have deep inside them - a desire a dream a vision

~ Muhammad Ali

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents works his tail off to

develop them into skills and uses these skills to accomplish his goals

~ Larry Bird

Every time you smile at someone it is an action of love a gift to that person a

beautiful thing

-Mother Teresa

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end Its not a day when you

lounge around doing nothing its when youve had everything to do and youve done

it

-Lord Acton

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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do

- Walter Bagehot

Only the weak are cruel Gentleness can only be expected from the strong

~ Leo Buscaglia

If you are too busy to spend time with your children then you are busier than God

intended you to be

~ Rabbi Mendel Epstein

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards

~ Soren Kierkegaard

Procrastination is the fear of success People procrastinate because they are

afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now Because

success is heavy carries a responsibility with it it is much easier to procrastinate

and live on the someday Ill philosophy

~ Denis Waitley

Happiness cannot come from without It must come from within

~ Helen Keller

I make occasional visits to reality But Im not a full- time resident

-Ashleigh Brilliant

People are like sticks of dynamite The power is on the inside but nothing happens

until the fuse gets lit

Mac Anderson Author Are you disappointed discouraged and discontented with your present level of

success Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present status Do you want to

become a better and more beautiful person than you are today Would you like to

be able to really learn how to be proud of yourself and still not lose genuine

humility Then start dreaming Itlsquos possible You can become the person you have

always wanted to be

Robert H Schuller (1926- American minister author social leader)

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You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant

aspiration

- James Allen 1864-1912 Author of As A Man Thinketh

The man who has done his best has done everything

~ Charles Schwab Though no one can go back and make a brand new start anyone can start from now

and make a brand new ending

~ Carl Bard

When I get ready to talk to people I spend two thirds of the time thinking what

they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say

Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 16th President of the United States Discontent is the first necessity of progress

Thomas A Edison (1847-1931 American inventor founder of GE)

You dont get to choose how youre going to die Or when You can only decide how

youre going to live - now

- Joan Baez Singer Songwriter

Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as

it should There are no mistakes anywhere at any time What appears to be wrong

is simply your own false imagination Thats all You are the Self that perfect

immutable Self Nothing else exists Nothing else ever existed Nothing else will

ever exist There is only one Self and you are That Rejoice

~Robert Adams If your dream is a big dream and if you want your life to work on the high level

that you say you do theres no way around doing the work it takes to get you

there

~ Joyce Chapman We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an

imperfect person perfectly

~ Sam Keen

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―A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe a part limited in time

and space He experiences himself his thoughts and feeling as something

separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness This

delusion is a kind of prison for us restricting us to our personal desires and to

affection for a few persons nearest to us Our task must be to free ourselves from

this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and

the whole of nature in its beauty

-- Albert Einstein

―Each contact with a human being is so rare so precious one should preserve it

- Anais Nin

―Only connect That was the whole of her sermon Only connect the prose and the

passion and both will be exalted and human love will be seen at its height Live in

fragments no longer Only connect

-- EM Forster

―Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the

self And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our

connectedness to others

-- Harriet Goldhor Lerner

―And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to

do the same As we are liberated from our fear our presence automatically

liberates others

-- Marianne Williamson

No no we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like

waters and righteousness like a mighty stream

Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968 American Civil Rights leader Nobel Prize winner 964)

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a

very long time

~ Andre Gide (1869-1951 French author)

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Write down the thoughts of the moment Those that come unsought for are

commonly the most valuable

Francis Bacon 1561-1626 Philosopher Statesman Scientist and Author

A woman should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart and set out to

accomplish it Even if she fails again and again to accomplish her purpose (as she

necessarily must until weakness is overcome) the strength of character gained will

be the measure of her true success and this will form a new starting point for

future power and triumph

~ James Allen

To be blind is bad but worse is to have eyes and not see

~ Helen Keller

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning

to see an imperfect person perfectly

` Sam Keen

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start anyone can

start from now and make a brand new ending

` Carl Bard Always make a total effort even when the odds are against you

Arnold Palmer (1929- American golfer)

Learning is finding out what you already know Doing is demonstrating that you

know it Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you You are

all learners doers teachers

Richard Bach (1936- American author)

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day

Jenner Bruce 1949- American track athlete author speaker

Doubt whom you will but never yourself

John Christian Bovee (1820-1904 American author lawyer)

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When you give someone a book you dont give him just paper ink and glue You

give him the possibility of a whole new life

Christopher Morley 1890-1957 Novelist Journalist and Poet

Dont be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality If you can dream

it you can make it so

Belva Davis Award-Winning Journalist

The secret of mans being is not only to live but to have something to live for

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose

Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity and high purpose by itself is

utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Watch your thoughts they become words

Watch your words they become actions

Watch your actions they become habits

Watch your habits they become character

Watch your character it becomes your destiny

~ Frank Outlaw

Take good care of your future because thats where youre going to spend the

rest of your life

~ Charles F Kettering

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams

John Barrymore

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground

Stephen Covey

Its never too late to be what you might have been

George Elliot

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Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder

than anything we can say

Wilfred Peterson

True peace is not merely the absence of some negative force - tension confusion

or war it is the presence of some positive force - justice good will and

brotherhood

-Martin Luther King Jr

The important thing in this world is not where we stand but in what direction we

move

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing Action always

generates inspiration Inspiration seldom generates action

-Frank Tibolt

The only way to eliminate waris to love our children more than we hate our enemies

-Golda Meir

It has never been and never will be easy work But the road that is built in hope

is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they

both lead to the same destination

~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

And in the end its not the years in your life that count Its the life in your

years

~ Abraham Lincoln

Hold your head high stick your chest out You can make it It gets dark

sometimes but morning comes Keep hope alive

~ Jesse Jackson

Set your sights high the higher the better Expect the most wonderful things to

happen not in the future but right now Realize that nothing is too good Allow

absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way

Eileen Caddy Author

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To understand the heart and mind of a person look not at what he has already

achieved but at what he aspires to do

Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931 Lebanese poet novelist )

Bring everything up to the surface Accept your humanity your animality

Whatsoever is there accept it without any condemnation Acceptance is

transformation because through acceptance awareness becomes possible

~Osho

What is the best thing about being 100 years old Lack of peer pressure

-Michael Pritchard

The more credit you give away the more will come back to you The more you help

others the more they will want to help you

~ Brian Tracy

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact

~ William James

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes Chance nature

compulsions habit reason passion desire

~ Aristotle When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth think of Algebra

-Will Rogers

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say Yes Ive got

dreams of course Ive got dreams Then they put the box away and bring it out

once in a while to look in it and yep theyre still there These are great dreams

but they never even get out of the box It takes an uncommon amount of guts to

put your dreams on the line to hold them up and say How good or how bad am I

Thats where courage comes in

~ Erma Bombeck

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You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really

stop to look fear in the face You must do the thing which you think you cannot

do

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you love the money will follow

Marsha Sinetar (American author To Build The Life You Want Create The Work You Love)

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement we must choose freedom and the

responsibility this entails

Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998 American expert on love lecturer author)

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt and the dream will take care of

itself You may be surprised at how easily this happens Your doubts are not as

powerful as your desires unless you make them so

Marcia Wieder (American speaker trainer author)

I work every day -- or at least I force myself into my office or room I may get

nothing done but you dont earn bonuses without putting in time Nothing may

come for three months but you dont earn the fourth without it

Mordecai Richler (1931- Canadian writer)

If things are not going well with you begin your effort at correcting the situation

by carefully examining the service you are rendering and especially the spirit in

which you are rendering it

Roger Babson 1875-1967 Statistician and Columnist Its simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about

what the other fellow is going to do

- John R Amos

All beings are from the very beginning Buddhas

~ Hakuin

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly

or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man

~Chang Tzu

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The important thing is not to stop questioning Curiosity has its own reason for

existing One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of

eternity of life of the marvelous structure of reality It is enough if one tries

merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day Never lose a holy

curiosity

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Expect your every need to be met expect the answer to every problem expect

abundance on every level expect to grow spiritually You are not living by human

laws Expect miracles and see them take place Hold ever before you the thought

of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will

bring it into being

~Eileen Caddy

Bring everything up to the surface Accept your humanity your animality

Whatsoever is there accept it without any condemnation Acceptance is

transformation because through acceptance awareness becomes possible

~Osho

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who

keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road

Dag Hammarskjold 1905-1961 Statesman and Secretary-General of UN

Life is one massive challenge after another for everyone So you cant feel sorry

for yourself One real measure of you as a person is how much you can handle

without whining

~ Mike Brescia Author

We are each of us angels with only one wing And we can only fly by embracing each

other

-Luciano de Crescenzo

He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he

would like to have

~ Socrates

Quite often we change jobs friends and spouses instead of ourselves

~ Akbarali H Jetha

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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame

~ Benjamin Franklin

You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where

your thoughts take you

- James Allen

The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will

embrace for that day We cannot change our past

We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way We cannot change

the inevitable The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have and that

is our attitude

- Charles Swindoll author

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others

- Cicero 106 BC - 43 BC

If you want your life to be more rewarding you have to change the way you think

- Oprah Winfrey

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless

- Mother Teresa

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible

- Italian Proverb

Enthusiasm is the all-essential human jet propeller It is the driving force which

elevates people to miracle workers and creates endless energy the source of all

accomplishment

-Norman Vincent Peale

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends

you choose for you will become like them-

- W Clement Stone

Ones philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one

makes In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves The process

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never ends until we die And the choices we make are ultimately our own

responsibility

- Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 American First Lady We will stay young in life as long as we work toward something that were

supposed to do

~ Richard Rose I love the name of honor more than I fear death

~ Julius Caesar

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future making it predictable

and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible

Hannah Arendt 1906-1975 Political Theorist

Man has no greater enemy than himself

Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374 Italian poet humanist)

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety

-Aesop

You cannot tailor make your situation in life but you can tailor make your

attitudes to fit those situations

- Zig Ziglar speaker and author Set a goal to achieve something that is so big so exhilarating that it excites you

and scares you at the same time It must be a goal that is so appealing so much in

line with your spiritual core that you cant get it out of your mind If you do not

get chills when you set a goal youre not setting big enough goals

Bob Proctor Author and Speaker The only people who never fail are those who never try

Ilka Chase (1905-1978 American author actor)

In truth you are spirit The body has been projected by the mind which itself

originates from Spirit If the wrong identification ceases there will be peace and

permanent indescribable bliss

~Ramana Maharshi

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I flow with loving gratitude for all my blessings today

- Zoe Jarboe

People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be

~ Abraham Lincoln You are wealthy now with an abundance of what you are thinking about The world

is a creative engine and will create whatever you are really thinking Every thought

in your mind is a prayer about you no matter who the subject seems to be

~ Brad Jensen

A man who works with his hands is a laborer a man who works with his hands and

his brain is a craftsman but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his

heart is an artist

-Louis Nizer

When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score

John Enoch Powell (1912-1998 British statesman)

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get credit Try if

you can to belong to the first class there is far less competition

~ Dwight Morrow 1873-1931 Businessman Politician and Diplomat

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone but with heartfelt

conviction that we are doing nothing and God everything

~ St Ignatius Loyola Action is the real measure of intelligence

~ Napoleon Hill

Take the first step and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid But the

first essential is that you begin Once the battle is started all that is within and

without you will come to your assistance

~ Robert Collier

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You are what you are today because of the decisions and the choices YOU made

yesterday

~ Wayne Goonie

I have never seen a man who could do real work except under the stimulus of

encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom he is

working

Charles M Schwab (1862-1939 American industrialist businessman)

Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can

- Danny Kaye (1913-1987) Entertainer A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in

spite of overwhelming obstacles

~ Christopher Reeve A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always

with the same person

~ Mignon McLaughlin

We learn from failure much more than from success we often discover what we

will do by finding our what we will not do and probably he who never made a

mistake never made a discovery

Samuel Smiles (1812-1904 Scottish author)

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 16th American President)

Life has indeed many ills but the mind that views every object in its most

cheering aspect and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good bears

within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote

Lydia H Sigourney 1791-1865 Poet

The Next Step

The first step needs action to start it

The last requires patience to end

So we question which ones most important

When we realize our dreams our best friend

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Well the answer is neither theyre equal

But the one that will help you win through

And connect what you start to the finish

Is the next step thats waiting for you

Lifes dreamers are great Goal Achievers

Their faith and persistence just blends

Into one awesome cocktail of knowledge

That whatever they want they can get

You see they never visualize failure

Its success that they see shining through

Its essential to start and to finish

But the next step is what you must do

Alison Wilson

Set a goal to achieve something that is so big so exhilarating that it excites you

and scares you at the same time It must be a goal that is so appealing so much in

line with your spiritual core that you cant get it out of your mind If you do not

get chills when you set a goal youre not setting big enough goals

Bob Proctor Author and Speaker

There is no such thing as natural touch Touch is something you create by hitting

millions of golf balls

~ Lee Trevino

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation We do not act rightly because

we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted

rightly We are what we repeatedly do Excellence then is not an act but a habit

~ Aristotle

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement If everyone received the

encouragement they need to grow the genius in most everyone would blossom and

the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams

~ Unkwown

I do not believe in miracles at least not defined in the conventional religious

manner as divine disruptions of the natural order But if a miracle is defined as an

infinitely improbable phenomenon then our existence is a miracle which no theory

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natural or supernatural will ever explain

-John Horgan

Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that with nine women

pregnant you can get a baby in a month

--Wernher von Braun

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never

find out

~ Frank A Clark

You are what you are today because of the decisions and the

choices YOU made yesterday

~ Revt Wayne Goonie

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do

a little

~ Edmund Burke

We will stay young in life as long as we work toward something

that were supposed to do

~ Richard Rose

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions Small

people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become

great

- Mark Twain

Rich and poor are first created in the mind

A poor man asks How much will it COST me

A rich man asks How much will it MAKE me

Which one are you

~ Bryan Kumar

If you think you can do something that you cannot the belief itself prevents you

from accomplishing the task either because you never try it in the first place or

because you have block yourself by your belief

-Deena Zalkind Spear

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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear

Marcus Aurelius (121-12180 Roman emperor philosopher)

Character is doing whats right when nobodys looking

- J C Watts Jr Politician

Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions Small people

always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great

Mark Twain 1835-1910 Humorist and Writer

We are all salesmen every day of our lives We are selling our ideas our plans our

enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact

~ Charles M Schwab It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition

- Vernon Howard Maturity begins when were content to feel were right about something without

feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong

Sydney J Harris 1917-1986 Syndicated Columnist

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum

- Frances Willard Educator

Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given

~ Deepak Chopra Once power was considered a masculine attribute In fact power has no gender

~ Katherine Graham

An invasion of armies can be resisted but not an idea whose time has come

Victor Hugo

As the purse is emptied the heart is filled

Victor Hugo

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Be like the bird that passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight feels them

give way beneath her and yet sings knowing that she hath wings

Victor Hugo

Have no fear of robbers or murderers They are external dangers petty dangers

We should fear ourselves Prejudices are the real robbers vices the real murders

The great dangers are within us Why worry about what threatens our heads or

purses Let us think instead of what threatens our souls

Victor Hugo

He who opens a school door closes a prison

Victor Hugo

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man

Victor Hugo Be all you can be and live a good life -- have fun with it

Tina Yothers

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace

Yes Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive inner peace does

not

-Eckhart Tolle

A moments insight is sometimes worth a lifes experience

- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) Physician and writer

The superior persons learning goes in his ear attaches to his heart expands to

the end of his limbs and is established in his actions

Even in his smallest word or slightest action he sets an example

~ Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse) When I thought I couldnt go on I forced myself to keep going My success is

based on persistence not luck

Estee Lauder Entrepreneur

If you always do what interests you at least one person is pleased

Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003 American actress writer)

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Make Your Mark Count A childs life is like a piece of paper on which every person

leaves a mark

- Chinese Proverb

Pain shared is lessened joy shared increased

~ Spider Robinson

The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has its limits

~ Albert Einstein

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift let it be enthusiasm

Bruce Barton (1886-1967 American author advertising expert)

When you give your children knowledge you are telling them what you think That

is you are telling them what they are supposed to know what you want them to

understand is true

When you give your children wisdom you do not tell them what to know or what is

true but rather how to get to their own truth

-Neale Donald Walsch

I have found that if you love life life will love you back

- Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982) Musician

The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see

magic and beauty in them while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves

~ Kahlil Gibran

Practice is just as valuable as a sale The sale will make you a living the skill will

make you a fortune

~ Jim Rohn

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about

Charles Kingsley (1819-1875 British author clergyman)

Dont cry because its over - smile because it happened

Author unknown

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Happiness is like a kiss You must share it to enjoy it

~ Bernard Meltzer Our life is what our thoughts make it

~ Marcus Aurelius The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best Therefore it tends to

become the best It takes the form or character of the best and will receive the

best

-- Wallace Wattles

Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings

-- Marianne Williamson

―And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present and can be none in

the future And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned

to beautiful results

mdash Walt Whitman When you lose touch with inner stillness you lose touch with your Self

When you lose touch with your Self you lose yourself in the world

Your innermost sense of Self of who you are is inseparable from stillness

This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form

Eckhart Tolle Stillness Speaks

With wisdom I see that I am nothing

With love I see that I am everything

Between these two my life turns

Nisargadatta Maharaj Man often becomes what he believes himself to be If I keep on saying to myself

that I cannot do a certain thing it is possible that I may end by really becoming

incapable of doing it On the contrary if I shall have the belief that I can do it I

shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the

beginning

Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Indian Nationalist Leader

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Strategies designed to avoid something eventually produce exactly the thing they

are trying to avoid

-Michael Greenwood and Peter Nunn

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but

are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults

seem insignificant

Charles A Cerami

If all you did was just look for things to appreciate you would live a joyous

spectacular life

~Abraham-Hicks

Three things in human life are important The first is to be kind The second is to

be kind And the third is to be kind

- Henry James (1843-1916) Writer The moment of enlightenment is when a persons dreams of possibilities become

images of probabilities

~ Vic Braden Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot

fly

~ Langston Hugues Life is made up not of great sacrifices or duties but of little things in which

smiles and kindness and small obligations given habitually are what win and

preserve the heart and secure comfort

Humphry Davy 1778-1829 Chemist

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900 German philosopher)

The game of life is the game of boomerangs Our thoughts deeds and words

return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy

- Florence Shinn (1871-1940) Writer

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Some dream of doing great things while others stay awake and get on with it

~ Unknown With all your science can you tell how it is and whence it is that light comes into

the soul

-Hanry David Thoreau

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one but you wont come up

with a handful of mud either

- Leo Burnett (1891-1971) Advertising Executive

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the

only way we can leave the future open

Lillian Smith 1897-1966 Writer Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to

success when they gave up

~ Thomas A Edison Find something youre passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it

Julia Child (1912-2004 American gourmet cook author and television personality)

Now I say to you today my friends even though we face the difficulties of today

and tomorrow I still have a dream It is a dream deeply rooted in the American

dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true

meaning of its creed -- we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are

created equal

- Martin Luther King Jr ―Never let formal education get in the way of your learning

- Mark Twain

The path to success is to take massive determined action

~ Anthony Robbins For every minute you remain angry you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In the practice of tolerance ones enemy is the best teacher

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson When defeat comes accept it as a signal that

your plans are not sound rebuild those plans

and set sail once more toward your coveted goal

~ Napoleon Hill

We are all alike on the inside

Mark Twain (1835-1910 American humorist writer)

If you are going to do something carelessly it is better to give it up entirely

Russian Proverb

The world is like a mirror frown at it and it frowns at you

Smile and it smiles too

Herbert Samuels

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our

children

Charles R Swindoll

The important thing is not so much that every child should be

taught as that every child should be given the wish to learn

John Lubbock

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been

Mark Twain

It is a mistake to think that moving fast is the same as actually going somewhere

Steve Goodier A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops

Henry Adams

It is only with the heart that one can see clearly for the most

essential things are invisible to the eye

~ Antoine de Sainte Exupery

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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the

critical decisive hour Write it on your heart that every day is

the best day of the year

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier Be the living

expression of Gods kindness kindness in your face kindness in your eyes kindness

in your smile

- Mother Teresa

Its never too late to be who you might have been

- George EliotWriter

Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle

- Plato Philosopher

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition

- Vernon Howard

Ilsquove always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up

- Beverly Sills Opera Singer

Help others get ahead You will always stand taller with someone else on your

shoulders

- Bob Moawad Business Leader

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks

like work

Thomas Edison

Dream as if youll live forever

Live as if youll die tomorrow

~ James Dean

The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an

expectation that they can make it work or make it better

Barbara Pletcher Author

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As we grow up we get sophisticated out of enchantment and become too smart

about the things that cause children to wonder

-Thomas Moore

People come out to see you perform and youve got to give them the best you have

within you The lives of most men are patchwork quilts Or at best one matching

outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations A lifetime of

training for just ten seconds

Jesse Owens (1913-1980 American Olympian)

Nothing is easy to the unwilling

- Nikki Giovanni Whatever course you have chosen for yourself it will not be a chore but an

adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving if your sights are set

far above the merely secure and mediocre

~David Sarnoff 1891-1971 Entrepreneur I dont know any other way to lead but by example

Don Shula (1930- American football coach) Flexible people never get bent out of shape

- Author Unknown The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record

of successful experiences behind you

~ William Jennings Bryan The important thing is this To be able at any moment to sacrifice

what we are for what we could become

~ Charles du Bois Success isnt permanent and failure isnt fatal

- Mike Ditka

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The different between us is that I count and you dont

-Huston Smith

I love strange choices Im always interested in people who depart from what is

expected of them and go into new territory

Cate Blanchett Actress Always do your best What you plant now you will harvest later

Og Mandino (1923-1996 American motivational author speaker wwogmandinocom ) Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the Universe is endlessly

bountiful Just put forth a clear enough request and everything that your heart

desires must come to you

~Shakti Gawain The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would

suffice to solve most of the worlds problems

~ Unknown The only real valuable thing is intuition

- Albert Einstein

Waste your money and youre only out of money but waste your time and youve

lost a part of your life

~ Michael Leboeuf Fear is an insidious virus Given a breeding place in our minds it will eat away our

spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors

~ James F Bell

You cant base your life on other peoples expectations

Stevie Wonder Grammy Award Winning SingerSongwriter

An excuse is worse than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded

Alexander Pope (1688-1744 British poet critic translator)

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The thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and

beginning the work of becoming yourself

- Anna Quindlen ―Exert your talents and distinguish yourself and donlsquot think of retiring from the

world until the world will be sorry that you retire

- Samuel Johnson Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of

the odds against them They make the impossible happen

~ Dr Robert Jarvik

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances

if there is any reaction both are transformed

-Carl Jung There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right between

fairly good and the best between mediocrity and superiority

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)

I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright

I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more

I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive

I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger

I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting

I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess

I wish you enough Hellos to get you through the final Goodbye

Bob Perks

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie

~ William Shakespeare

It doesnt matter where you are coming from All that matters is where you are

going

~ Brian Tracy You need to be a somebody before you can be a nobody

-Brant Cortright

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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old

Franz Kafka Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it

bravely and gallantly as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an

unknown country to meet many a joy to find many a comrade to win and lose many

a battle

~ Annie Besant

I believe in taking a positive attitude toward the world My hope still is to leave

the world a little bit better than when I got here

Jim Henson 1936-1990 Muppets Creator Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life

Gita Bellin

Education is when you read the fine print Experience is what you get if you

dont

- Pete Seeger

Keep your thoughts positive because they become your words

Keep your words positive because they become your behaviors

Keep your behaviors positive because they become your habits

Keep your habits positive because they become your values

Keep your values positive because they become your destiny

-Gandhi

The challenge is not to manage time but to manage ourselves

Stephen Covey

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death It not only gives us

fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which

we hold our present being

~ William Hazlitt

Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith Having

faith in yourself in the process of change and in the new direction that change

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sets will reveal your own inner core of steel

Georgette Mosbacher Business Executive

Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life

Gita Bellin

Careful what you wish for Millions long for immortality who do not know what to

do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon

- Susan Ertz

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us What we have done for

others and the world remains and is immortal

Albert Pine

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate Our deepest fear is that we are

powerful beyond measure It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us

We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant gorgeous talented fabulous Actually

who are you NOT to be You are a child of God Your playing small does not serve

the world There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people wont

feel insecure around you We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is

within us It is not just in some of us it is in everyone And as we let our own light

shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same As we are

liberated from our own fear our presence automatically liberates others

~ Marianne Williamson

Focus on where we want to end up not on what we want to avoid

-Paula Underwood Spencer

A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact

that everything has happened for the best

Author Unknown

Change your thoughts and you change the world

- Harold R Mcalindon Today is yesterdays effect and tomorrows cause

~ Phillip Gribble

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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes one of his great surprises is to find

he can do what he was afraid he couldnt do

~ Henry Ford

I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist

- Paul Harvey

Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes

up his mind to do We are all capable of greater things than we realize

Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993 American Christian reformed pastor speaker author)

When everybody is looking for gold its a good time to be in the picks and shovels

business

~ Mark Twain

Waste your money and youre only out of money but waste your time and youve

lost a part of your life

~ Michael Leboeuf

It is a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best you

very often get it

~ W Somerset Maugham

Flatter me and I may not believe you Criticize me and I may not like you Ignore

me and I may not forgive you Encourage me and I will not forget you Love me and

I may be forced to love you

William Arthur Ward

―Trust yourself You know more than you think you do

Benjamin Spock

―A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise

after success

Anon

―Nine tenths of education is encouragement

Anatole Franc

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Maybe you cant change the whole world but if you have love in your heart you can

make small differences every day which really does change the world one life at a

time

Kristina Koncz Customer Experience Specialist

Let us be about setting high standards for life love creativity and wisdom If our

expectations in these areas are low we are not likely to experience wellness

Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward

to

Greg Anderson (American author The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness)

Truce is better than friction

- Charles Herguth

Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they

have deep inside them -- a desire a dream a vision

~ Muhammad Ali

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each mans

life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that

take our breath away

~ George Carlin

You can conquer almost any fear if you will make up your mind to do so For

remember fear doesnt exist anywhere except in the mind

Dale Carnegie 1888-1955 Author and Speaker

Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others

They learn when they do which isnt often on their own the hard way

Robert Heinlein (1907-1988 American science fiction writer)

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the

expense of everybody else

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-Frederic Bastiat

Some think its holding on that makes one strong sometimes its letting go

- Sylvia Robinson We are responsible for what we are and whatever we wish ourselves to be we

have the power to make ourselves If what we are now has been the result of our

own past actions it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be

produced by our present actions so we have to know how to act

~ Swami Vivekananda

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning but anyone can start today and

make a new ending

~ Maria Robinson

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves

Brian Tracy (1944- Canadian-born American trainer speaker author businessman)

Anger is the only thing to put off till tomorrow

- Slovakian Proverb

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know

peace

~Jimi Hendrix Do not wait the time will never be just right

Start where you stand and work with whatever tools you may have at your

command and better tools will be found as you go along

~ Napoleon Hill

When we lose the right to be different we lose the privilege to be free

Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948 American jurist politician)

You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone which can become a

watered-down occasional hope that youll get to tomorrow Intention without

action is useless

Caroline Myss Author of Entering The Castle

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Plan ahead -- It wasnt raining when Noah built the ark

-Anononymous

Only you can be yourself

No one else is qualified for the job

- Shelby Collinge

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall

~ Confucius

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom But in the last analysis our

only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves

~ Bernard M Baruch

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941 Indian poet philosopher)

Worry is the misuse of the imagination

- Dan Zadra

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else you will have succeeded

Maya Angelou

Trust yourself Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your

life Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny inner sparks of possibility into

flames of achievement

~ Foster C McClellan There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal

experience has brought it home

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873 British philosopher economist)

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall

never sit in

-Greek proverb

We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails

- Bertha Calloway

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Democracy arose from mens thinking that if they are equal in any respect they

are equal absolutely

~ Aristotle

Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can

~ Richard Bach

If the world seems cold to you kindle fires to warm it

~ Lucy Larcom All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their

gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible

Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924 Writer Physician Hotel Owner and founder of Success Magazine

A Friend is a treasure more precious than Gold For love shared is priceless and

never grows old

Author Unknown

Only that which cannot be taken away by death is real Everything else is unreal it

is made of the same stuff dreams are made of

~Osho

Personality can open doors but only character can keep them open

- Elmer G Leterman

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they

dont know when to quit Most men succeed because they are determined to

~ George Allen Coach

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what

lies within us

~ Walt Emerson Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by

employing it well Then youth will be happy old age without regret and life a

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beautiful success

Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888 Novelist Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution

experience lifes deepest joy true fulfillment

Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet enough trials to make you

strong enough sorrow to keep you human enough hope to make you happy

-Anonymous

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the

things we do

- Freya Madeline Stark

We must become the change we want to see

~ Mahatma Gandhi

You know its not more knowledge its not more education its not more facts

that we need Its a better use of what we already have that we need to have You

have each and every one of you within your potential power right now to do a

wonderful job in your chosen field - if you would only embrace it and use it

Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think And Grow Rich

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be

respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure

Buddha (568-488 BC Indian born founder of Buddhism)

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change and all patterns alter

- Sharon Salzberg When we let freedom ring when we let it ring from every village and every

hamlet from every state and every city we will be able to speed up that day when

all of Gods children black men and white men Jews and Gentiles Protestants and

Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro

spiritual

Free at last Free at last

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Thank God Almighty we are free at last

~ Reverand Martin Luther King Jr All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them

~ Walt Disney Your own common sense should tell you that common sense alone is not enough

-Ashleigh Brilliant

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and

deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your

place

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)

Know what counts

No matter what youve done for yourself or for humanity if you cant look back on

having given love and attention to your own family what have you really

accomplished

- Lee Iacocca

There is a giant asleep within every man When that giant awakes miracles happen

~ Frederick Faust There are those that look at things the way they are and ask why I dream of

things that never were and ask why not

~ Robert F Kennedy

There is nothing impossible to him who will try

~ Alexander the Great

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance Remember the greatest

failure is to not try Once you find something you love to do be the best at doing

it

Debbi Fields Founder of Mrs Fields Cookies

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul

Marcus Aurelius (121-12180 Roman emperor philosopher)

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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left

undone

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Shoot for the moon Even if you miss youll land among the stars

~ Les Brown

Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been

told is what they cant do They dont know what they want because they dont

know whats available for them

~ Zig Ziglar

Accept that some days youre the pigeon and some days youre the statue

-Anonymous

Be life long or short its completeness depends on what it was lived for

- David Starr Jordan

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life

by altering his attitude

~ William James

It has never been and never will be easy work

But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road

built in despair even though they both lead to the same destination

~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

―No matter what anybody tells you words and ideas can change the world

~ John Keating (from the movie Dead Poets Society) hellip Every tomorrow has two handles We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety

or the handle of faith

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887 American preacher orator writer) The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it

~ Chinese proverb

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Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to

success when they gave up

~ Thomas Edison

I am always doing things I cant do thats how I get to do them

~ Picasso When you maximize your talents youre on path on purpose on target When you

dont youre off path off purpose off target

Kevin Hall Author of Aspire

Comparisons of ones lot with others teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will

Thornton Wilder (1897-1975 American novelist playwright)

Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

While we have the gift of life it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of

us to die - whether it is our spirit our creativity or our glorious uniqueness

- Gilda Radner

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state

of being alive If life is to be sustained hope must remain even where confidence is

wounded trust impaired

~ Erik H Erikson

Dont go on discussing what a good person should be Just be one

Marcus Aurelius

Our wisdom comes from our experience and our experience comes from our

foolishness

Sacha Guitry

I would rather live in a world where life is surrounded by mystery than live in a

world so small that my mind could comprehend it

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Our first teacher is our own heart

Cheyenne proverb

Power coerces

Knowledge persuades

Love converts

Proverb

Do not kiss your children so they will kiss you back but so they will kiss their

children and their childrens children

Noah Benshea

We read to know we are not alone

CS Lewis

Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better

Albert Einstein

Keeping score of old scores and scars getting even and one-upping always makes

you less than you are

- Malcolm Forbes

When you know that youre capable of dealing with whatever comes you have the

only security the world has to offer

Harry Browne 1933-2006 Writer and Politician

You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never

be ableto repay you

- John Wooden

Freedom know this that every manwoman is free to choose his life and what hell

be For this eternal truth is given God will force no man to heaven Hell call

persuade direct aright Bless with wisdom love and light in nameless ways be

good and kind but never force the human mind

~ William C Clegg

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There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than

the one you are capable of living

~ Nelson Mandela to Marianne Williamson If it werent for the rocks in its bed the stream would have no song

-Carl Perkins

Whenever encountering a troublesome person do not identify him as being cruel

or stupid or rude or anything else like that Instead see him as a frightened

person

Vernon Howard 1918-1992 Author and Philosopher When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves it is useless to seek it

elsewhere

~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680 French classical writer) Live for the moment

If I have learnt anything it is that life forms no logical patterns It is haphazard

and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by for who knows whether any

of them will ever return

- Margo Fonteyn

Isnt it strange that princesses and kings and clowns that caper in sawdust rings

and common people like you and me are builders for eternity Each is given a bag of

tools a shapeless mass a book of rules and each must make ere life is flown a

stumbling block or stepping stone

~ Edgar Guest We are what we repeatedly do Excellence then is not an act but a habit

~ Aristotle

Whatever you can do or dream you can do begin it Boldness has genius power

and magic in it

~ Wolfgang von Goethe Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state Being in love shows a person who he should be ~ Anton Chekhov

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Follow the grain in your own wood

- Howard Thurman

It is said that if you are not living your dreams you are living your fears

~ Ghalil Professional Dreamer

―Dont ask what the world needs Ask what makes you come alive because what the

world needs is people who have come alive

- Harold Thurman

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success When you do a thing

do it with all your mind Put your whole soul to it Stamp it with your own

personality Be active be energetic be enthusiastic and faithful and you will

accomplish your object Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Essayist Philosopher and Poet

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do

John Wooden (1910- American basketball coach)

For the most part fear is nothing but an illusion When you share it with someone

else it tends to disappear

- Marilyn C Barrick

The purpose of life is not to arrive safely at your death

- Robert Holden

When everything seems to be going against you remember that theairplane takes

off against the wind not with it

Henry Ford

There are two freedoms the false where a man is free to do what he likes the

true where he is free to do what he ought

~ Charles Kingsley Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one

could find fault with it

John Henry Newman (1801-1890 British religious leader prelate writer)

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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

New ideas pass through three periods

It cant be done

It probably can be done but its not worth doing

I knew it was a good idea all along

-Arthur C Clarke A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you think creates your life all you have to do is ask yourself what you are

willing to accept into your life

~ Ghalil Author - Professional Dreamer

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and

deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your

place

~ Orison Swett Marden Well done is better than well said

~ Benjamin Franklin Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one

could find fault with it

John Henry Newman (1801-1890 British religious leader prelate writer) If youre looking for perfection look in the mirror If you find it there expect it

elsewhere

Malcolm S Forbes (1919-1990 American publisher businessman) Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have

- H Jackson Brown Jr A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish great things

~ Chinese Proverb

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If we listened to our intellect wed never have a love affair Wed never have a

friendship Wed never go into business because wed be cynical Well thats

nonsense Youve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down

~ Ray Bradbury

Successful people decide how they are going to live they are not victims of

circumstance In good times or bad times they know where they are going and they

know that they are going to get there

Bob Proctor Author and Speaker

First they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you then you win

~ Mahatma Gandhi The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing

- Walt Disney 1901-1966 American Film ProducerDirectorAnimator

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas first make him your friend

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))

Doubting everything or believing everything are two equally convenient solutions

both of which save us from thinking

-Jules Henri Poincareacute

Dont be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning Thats only the initial

impression The important thing is not to retreat you have to master yourself

Olga Korbut Olympic Gold Medallist Gymnast

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental

difference in someones life

- Sister Mary Rose McGeady All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future

task of the philosopher which is to solve the problem of value to determine the

true hierarchy of values

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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Let no man pull you low enough to hate him

~ Martin Luther King Dont concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal -

leave that completely to a power greater than yourself All you have to do is know

where youre going The answers will come to you of their own accord and at the

right time

Earl Nightingale 1921-1989 Syndicated Radio Announcer and Author

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs

~ Gloria Steinem

Now I say to you today my friends even though we face the difficulties of today

and tomorrow I still have a dream It is a dream deeply rooted in the American

dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true

meaning of its creed -- we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are

created equal

~ Martin Luther King Jr

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams Live the life you have imagined

David Thoreau Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions Small people always do

that but the really great make you believe that you too can become great

~ Mark Twain Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure (values) and Ill tell

you their philosophy of life

~ Dale Carnegie To forgive is merely to remember ONLY the LOVING thoughts you gave in the

past and those that were given you ALL the rest must be forgotten

~ A Course In Miracles If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a

prophet

Isaac Bashevis Singer 1904-1991 Journalist and Writer

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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us

~ Voltaire

We are all of us stars and we deserve to twinkle

~ Marilyn Monroe

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do

right

~ Nelson Mandela

It has never been and never will be easy work But the road that is built in hope

is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they

both lead to the same destination

~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society

~J Krishnamurti

Every situation properly perceived becomes an opportunity to heal

~ A Course in Miracles

The love that you withhold in life is the pain that you carry

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as

the quality of perseverance It overcomes almost everything even nature

John D Rockefeller (1839-1937 American industrialist philanthropist founder Exxon)

All I ask is for an unfair advantage

~ WC Fields Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words Keep your

words positive because your words become your behaviors Keep your behaviors

positive because your behaviors become your habits Keep your habits positive

because your habits become your values Keep your values positive because your

values become your destiny

~Gandhi

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Your ego is creating obstacles Maya creating maya

~Babaji Step back Observe without judgment unconditional Watch now as obstacles

melt become no-thing Do this each time a block appears Step back and observe

without judgment

~Babaji

Everybody cannot be a painter a poet or a geniusthose are given qualities from

birth But everybody can be enlightened Enlightenment is the only thing the only

experience where everybody is equally capable And it does not depend on whether

you believe in God or not it depends only on one thingand that is a little taste (of

meditation) and suddenly you become confident that youre capable of it

~Osho There are no accidents or coincidences in this world Nothing is by chance

Everything you experience is a direct manifestation of where you focus your

attention and hold your vibration

~Jafree When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off

into the darkness of the unknown faith is knowing one of two things will happen

There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly

~ Barbara J Winter High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly make big decisions quickly and

move into action immediately Follow these principles and you can make your dreams

come true

Robert H Schuller Televangelist Pastor and Author

Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you but seek out another to console and

you will find consolation

J C Macaulay

High Expectations are the key to everything

~ Sam Walton Founder Wal-Mart

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Until you make peace with who you are youll never be content with what you

have

~ Doris Mortman You must constantly ask yourself these questions Who am I around What are

they doing to me What have they got me reading What have they got me saying

Where do they have me going What do they have me thinking And most

important what do they have me becoming Then ask yourself the big question Is

that okay Your life does not get better by chance it gets better by change

Jim Rohn 1930-2009 Author and Speaker

Believe it You CAN succeed at whatever you do as long as you simply take the

right ACTIONS

~ ER Haas CEO

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do The hard

part is doing it

~ General H Norman Schwarzkopf So let your deepest desires direct your aim Set your sights far above the

reasonable target The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire

that stirs the heart

Price Pritchett Author of You2

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do

Walter Bagehot (1826-1977 British economist critic)

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or

better than themselves

~ Tryon Edwards

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high

and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach it

~ Michelangelo Compared to what we ought to be we are only half awake We are making use of

only a small part of our physical and mental resources Stating the thing broadly

the human individual thus lives far within his limits He possesses power of various

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sorts which he habitually fails to use

William James (1842-1910 American psychologist professor author) People wait for opportunity to come along yet it is there every morning

~ Dennis the Menace A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow

~ George S Patton (1885-1945 American army general during World War II)

The last best fruit which comes to late perfection even in the kindliest soul is

tenderness toward the hard forbearance toward the unforbearing warmth toward

the cold philanthropy toward the misanthropic

~ Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825 German novelist)

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a

prophet

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991 Polish-born American journalist writer)

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than

by those given to us by others

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662 French scientist religious philosopher) Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty

~ John Ruskin (1819-1900 British critic social theorist)

Expect your every need to be met expect the answer to every problem expect

abundance on every level expect to grow spiritually You are not living by human

laws Expect miracles and see them take place Hold ever before you the thought

of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will

bring it into being

~Eileen Caddy

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we

believe And the only real wealth for any of us lies in our faith

~ Gordon B Hinckley

Desire is the Starting Point of All Achievement

~ - Napoleon Hill

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And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to

do the same

Nelson Mandela

The more we have the less we own

Meister Eckhart (1260-1326 German mystic)

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs jolted by every

pebble in the road

Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887 Preacher and Abolitionist

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength Richard L Evans

The secret of Happiness is Freedom and the secret of Freedom Courage

~ Thucydides (Greek historian 460-404 BC)

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in

the mature than in the young

Paul McCartney SingerSongwriter I cant believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary

Lou Holtz (937- American football coach)

Dont let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he

was

~ Richard L Evans

To dream anything that you want to dream that is the beauty of the human mind

To do anything that you want to do that is the strength of the human will To trust

yourself to test your limits that is the courage to succeed

~ Bernard Edmonds

I find my greatest pleasure and so my reward in the work that precedes what the

world calls success

Thomas A Edison (1847-1931 American inventor founder of GE)

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It is good to act as if It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer

an act

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832 British sportsman writer)

Tell me what you want and Ill show you how to get it

~ Bob Proctor

One is very crazy when in love

~ Sigmund Freud

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed Always aim at

purifying your thoughts and everything will be well

Mahatma Gandhi

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything keep it

Mahatma Gandhi Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony

Mahatma Gandhi

Hate the sin love the sinner

Mahatma Gandhi

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress

Mahatma Gandhi

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress

Mahatma Gandhi

True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the

future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied

with what we have which is sufficient for he that is so wants nothing The great

blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach

~ Seneca 4 BC to 65 AD - Spanish Philosopher

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When you paint success pictures in your mind you initiate an inner process

whereby your attitudes hopes aspirations and enthusiasm are elevated in

response to an image of a more promising future Every person who aspires must

first sell themselves hope the promise of a better life

US Andersen 1917-1986 Author of The Magic In Your Mind

How far is far how high is high Well never know until we try

Song from the California Special Olympics If you take each challenge one step at a time with faith in every footstep your

strength and understanding will increase

~ James E Faust

What is your individual purpose What would you like to be able to say is your

legacy I believe that each of us wants to find our purpose in life our raison

detre or reason for being We need to have a motive to get out of bed in the

morning We want to feel alive and passionate about something Something that

makes a difference in the world We are not alone in this and yet many of us are

still searching for that purpose

~ Veronica Hay We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds

Warren Buffett (1930- American investment entrepreneur)

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy but its good too to

check up once in a while and make sure you havent lost the things money cant

buy

George Lorimer 1867-1937 Editor of Saturday Evening Post

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence Talent will not nothing is

more common than unsuccessful men with talent Genius will not unrewarded genius

is almost a proverb Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent

~ Calvin Coolidge

Desperation can be as powerful inspirer as genius

Benjamin Disraeli

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We read to know we are not alone

CS Lewis

Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better

Albert Einstein The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the

road after you have shown him the way

Confucius

A baby has a way of making a man out of his father and a boy out of his

grandfather

Angie Papadakis

My father didnt tell me how to live he lived and let me watch him do it

Clarence B Kelland No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing

William Barclay

If you think youre lucky you are

Bobby Dodd

When youre safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when youre

having an adventure you wish you were safe at home

Thornton Wilder Obstacles dont have to stop you If you run into a wall dont turn around and give

up Figure out how to climb it go through it or work around it

~ Michael Jordan In order to attain the impossible one must attempt the impossible

~ Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616 Spanish novelist dramatist poet)

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as

the quality of perseverance It overcomes almost everything even nature

~ John D Rockefeller

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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is

when men are afraid of the light

~ Plato

Doubt of whatever kind can be ended by action alone

Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 Philosopher and Author

Poverty is not a shame but the being ashamed of it is

English Proverb

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well

~ Unknown

We need to exert ourselves that much more and break out of the vicious cycle of

dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful those in command of

immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own

image

~ Nelson Mandela

High Expectations are the key to everything

~ Sam Walton Founder Wal-Mart

Failures are expected by losers ignored by winners

~ Joe Gibbs Football Coach Most people live and die with their music still unplayed They never dare to try

Mary Kay Ash

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own

existence

Aristotle

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to

the eye

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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If A equals success then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z

with X being work Y play and Z keeping your mouth shut

~ Albert Einstein

Tomorrows battle is won during todays practice

Japanese Proverb

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days

What you can do or think you can do begin it For boldness has magic power and

genius in it

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 Poet Novelist and Scientist

Forget about all the reasons why something may not work You only need to find

one good reason why it will

Dr Robert Anthony

No matter how busy you are you must take time to make the other person feel

important

Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001 American businesswoman founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics)

I used to be a very serious not funny negative person Funny-cism Skepticism

Criticism and all Then I got introduced to the world of Positive Thinking Now Im

bipolar

~ Andy Dooley Spiritual Comedian and Professional Speaker

Your past is not your potential In any hour you can choose to liberate the future

Marilyn Ferguson (American writer) Everyone wants to be appreciated so if you appreciate someone dont keep it a

secret

~ Mary Kay Ash 1915-2001 Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds

and these magnets attract to us the forces the people the circumstances of life

which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts

~ Napoleon Hill

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You more often recognize your inadequacies rather than your strengths

~ James E Faust

I live by this credo Have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness

instead of sadness Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations Even

in your darkest moment you usually can find something to laugh about if you try

hard enough

Red Skelton 1913-1997 Comedian

Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth

George W Crane Some self-confronting questions

Where do I want to be at any given time

How am I going to get there

What do I have to do to get myself from where

I am to where I want to be

Whats the first small step I can take to get moving

~ George A Ford The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can

bribe the public with the publics money

- Alexis de Tocqueville The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race

~ Don Marquis At the height of laughter the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new

possibilities

-- Jean Houston Begin to weave and God will give you the thread

~ German Proverb If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who

are rich

John F Kennedy (1917-1963 35th American President)

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If you keep THINKING what you are thinking you will keep DOING what you are

doing and you will keep GETTING what you are getting

~ Dr Robert Anthony The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world

~ Lao-tzu Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them and to

let them know that you trust them

Booker T Washington 1856-1915 Educator and Writer ―Stress is the tax you pay for not taking 100 responsibility for your life

mdashDr Barnet Meltzer Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it

~ Irving Berlin It is by surmounting difficulties not by sinking under them that we discover our

fortitude

~ Hannah Webster Foster

Believing requires action

~ James E Faust

Dont do anything in practice that you wouldnt do in the game

George Halas (1895-1983 American football coach)

Its better to reach for the stars and land on the roof than to reach for the

roof and land in the garbage

~ Savanna Skinner

Whatever you focus your intention on is what will show up in your life

Your consistent thoughts create your consistent results

~ Dr Robert Anthony

He who gains a victory over other men is strong but he who gains a victory over

himself is all powerful

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Lao-Tzu (BC 600- Chinese philosopher founder of Taoism) His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the

memory of a wrong

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great masters merit emulation not worship

-- Alan Cohen

Mirth is Gods medicine Everybody ought to bathe in it

-- Henry Ward Beecher

Snowflakes are one of natures most fragile things but just look what they can do

when they stick together

~ anon

Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you

are and what you want

-- Alan Cohen

Life isnt about waiting for the storm to pass its about learning to dance in the

rain

~Anonymous

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose for this thing that we call

failure is not the falling down but the staying down

Mary Pickford 1893-1979 Actress and Producer

Courage does not always roar Sometimes courage is that quiet voice at the end of

the day that saysI will try again tomorrow

-Mary Anne Radmacher

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act or thought or word that raises

us above ourselves

~ Arthur P Stanley

―You see things and say Whylsquo but I dream things and say Why notlsquo

- George Bernard Shaw

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―The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and

convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges

- Martin Luther King Jr

―Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions Small people always do

that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great

- Mark Twain

―That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as

well

- Abraham Lincoln

―Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though

checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor

suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor

defeat

- Theodore Roosevelt

―Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm

- Winston Churchill

―I have not failed Ilsquove just found 10000 ways that wonlsquot work

- Thomas Edison If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun

--Katharine Hepburn

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist sees

problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems

~ Winston Churchill

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but

are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults

seem insignificant

Charles A Cerami Author

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If everyone on earth loved each other the earth would shine brighter than the

sun

-- Source unknown

As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again you are

merely a vague guest on a dark Earth

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

So many worlds so much to do so little done such things to be

~ Lord Alfred Tennyson

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy nothing can make a fool content

that is why most men are miserable

Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680 French classical writer)

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live

~ Flora Whittemore I am only one but still I am one I cannot do everything but still I can do

something I will not refuse to do the something I can do

Helen Keller 1880-1968 Author and Lecturer Where theres a will theres a way

English Proverb A manwoman without ambition is dead

A man with ambition but no love is dead

A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive

~Pearl Bailey We cant help everyone but everyone can help someone

~ Ronald Reagan

We must not promise what we ought not lest we be called on to perform what we

cannot

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))

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Once you realize you dont need anything youre free to have whatever you want

- Ian Watson

Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable

confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy ~ Norman Vincent Peale Every goal every action every thought every feeling one experiences whether it

be consciously or unconsciously known is an attempt to increase ones level of

peace of mind

~ Sidney Madwed

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so For

remember fear doesnt exist anywhere except in the mind

Dale Carnegie 1888-1955 Speaker and Author Great souls have wills feeble ones have only wishes

Chinese Proverb

―Focus your attention on your desire

not the situation that gave birth to your desire

mdashRich German Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone

and let your hand give in proportion to your purse

~ George Washington

Time I have only just a minute

Only sixty seconds in it

Forced upon me cant refuse it

Didnt seek it didnt choose it

But its up to me to use it

I must suffer if I lose it

Give account if I abuse it

Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it

~ Christine Warren

Do what you can with what you have where you are

~ Theodore Roosevelt

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With every adversity comes a seed of equal or greater opportunity

~ Napoleon Hill

Heart is merely another name for the Supreme Spirit because He is in all hearts

The entire Universe is condensed in the body and the entire body in the Heart

Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe

~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

―If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back then

you suffer Every moment is the most important moment of your life No future

time is better than now to let down your guard and love

~ David Deida

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for youll be criticized anyway Youll

be damned if you do and damned if you dont

~ Eleanor Roosevelt Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do

~ John Wooden

One difference between successful people and all the rest is that successful

people take action

~ Bob Proctor Speaker and Author

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left Every

mans greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life

~ P W Litchfield ―There is a giant asleep within every man When the giant awakes miracles happen

~ Frederick Faust Focus more on your desire than on your doubt and the dream will take care of

itself You may be surprised at how easily this happens Your doubts are not as

powerful as your desires unless you make them so

Marcia Wieder Author and Speaker

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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning by dreams that need

completion by pure love that needs expressing then we truly live life

~ Greg Anderson Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you

Never excuse yourself

~ Henry Ward Beecher There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge

- both poverty and riches are offspring of thought

~ Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think and Grow Rich The person with a fixed goal a clear picture of his desire or an ideal always

before him causes it through repetition to be buried deeply in his subconscious

mind and is thus enabled thanks to its generative and sustaining power to realize

his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort Just pursue

the thought unceasingly Step by step you will achieve realization for all your

faculties and powers become directed to that end

~ Claude M Bristol Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake

~ Henry David Thoreau If opportunity doesnt knock build a door

~ Milton Berle Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well I am

not aware of any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking not exercise

not drugs not surgery--that has a greater impact on our quality of life incidence

of illness and premature death

- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak It is born of strength and

understanding

-- Meher Baba Unworthiness is simply a case of mistaken identity

-- Alan Cohen

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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet

-- Mahatma Gandhi If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march

on

-- Stopford Brooke It is usually the imagination that is wounded first rather than the heart it being

much more sensitive

~ Henry David Thoreau You need not struggle for your good Your good flows to you naturally when you are

relaxed open and trusting

-- Alan Cohen If you dont love it you cant afford it

Alan Cohen

Ask for peace first and you will clearly see your next step

-- Alan Cohen I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited

and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts Namely the physical universe

-- Ken Jenkins Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be exceptional

~ Mark Sanborn Life isnt what you want it to be its what you make it become

~ Anthony Ryan

If you are very quiet you can hear the world applauding

--Source unknown

Do you remember how electrical currents and unseen waves were laughed at

The knowledge about man is still in its infancy

~ Albert Einstein

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Wherever you go go with all your heart

~ Confucius I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up Most people in this

business gave up and went on to other things If you simply didnt give up you

would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you

Harrison Ford Actor

The quality of your life is determined by the number of uncomfortable

conversations you are willing to have

~ Rich German

To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define

themselves As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate

influences of the culture and environment we grow up in we come to have beliefs

about the nature of being human These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of

our psychosomatic systems our minds and brains our nervous systems our

endocrine systems and even our blood and sinews We act speak and think

according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems

~ Jeremy W Hayward

A mans true wealth is the good he does in the world Mohammed (c570-c632

Mecca spiritual leader

Every man is the architect of his own fortune

~ Sallust

What is opportunity and when does it knock

It never knocks

You can wait a whole lifetime listening hoping and you will hear no knocking

None at all

You are opportunity and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny

You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity to pursue and seize opportunity as

you develop the strength of your personality and build a self-image with which you

are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing

~ Maxwell Maltz

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Today I would like to become the man my dog thinks I am

Jack Thomson Entrepreneur BE the change you want to see in the world

- Mahatma Gandhi

Leaders are made they are not born They are made by hard effort

which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile

~ Vince Lombardi To honor the spirit is to accept the opportunity for your healing and personal

evolution When you choose to assume radical personal responsibility knowing that

you are responsible for the effect external circumstances have on you you are

taking a stand for the power of your spiritual nature to run the show

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think Its really important that you feel good Because this feeling good is what goes

out as a signal into the universe and starts to attract more of itself to you So the

more you can feel good the more you will attract the things that help you feel

good and that will keep bringing you up higher and higher

Joe Vitale Author and Speaker Just listen to the still voice within This is the mind to trust This is god

consciousness speaking not the ego that is seeking recognition

~Angela Walker

There is a prayer that lives in the center of your heart If you pray it it will

change your life How does it begin

-- Matthew Anderson

For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin but there was

always some obstacle in the way Something had to be got through first some

unfinished business time still to be served a debt to be paid Then life would

begin At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life

~ Bette Howland

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power then the world will know

peace

Jimmy Hendrix There are two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the

credit Try to be in the first group there is less competition there

Indira Gandhi Its good to have money and all the things that money can buy but its good too to

make sure you havent lost the things that money cant buy George

Horace Lorimer When you take things for granted the things you are granted get taken

Phil Hennessy Self-confidence is a state of mind where you believe that you deserve the best

you are capable of achieving the best and furthermore you expect the best to

happen

--- Dr Barnet Meltzer Writing is good thinking is better Cleverness is good patience is better

~ Hermann Hesse

You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the

greatness you perceive in them is your own

-- Alan Cohen

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their

gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible

Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924 Writer I will not condemn you for what you did yesterday If you do it right today

--Sheldon S Maye

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength

not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will

~ Vince Lombardi

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The moment one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too

-- William Hutchinson Murray

Youve got to get up every morning with determination if youre going to

go to bed with satisfaction

-- George Horace Lorimer Faith is born of Definiteness of Purpose

Keep your mind on the things that you do want and off the things that you do not

want

~ Unknown You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals

George S Patton 1885-1945 American Army General

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have

thrown at him

~ David Brinkley

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough

~ Helen Keller

If what you did yesterday seems big you havent done anything

today

Lou Holtz

Dont wait for extraordinary opportunities Seize common occasions and make

them great Weak menwomen wait for opportunities strong menwomen make

them

~ Orison Swett Marden

The recognition you seek from others is really the recognition you seek from

yourself Give it to yourself and you wont need it from others

-- Alan Cohen Ninety percent of the population wish positive but think negative

~ Leslie Householder

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You are more likely to create success when you are relaxed about a result than

when you are uptight about it

-- Alan Cohen Embrace Change True success can be defined by your ability to adapt to

changing circumstances

-- Connie Sky Aim High The important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for

what we could become

-- Charles Du Bos Dont ask for an easier life ask to be a stronger person

Shared by Kristen Goeser

Your consciousness is a powerful force for creating It determines the people you

are attracted to and the people who are attracted to you If you want to improve

your lot in life or the quality of your relationships choosing to accept personal

responsibility is the first and most important step

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise it is all

over Bolt up at once

-- Sir Walter Scott

You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you cant have it

- Dr Robert Anthony Live so that you wouldnt be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip

Will Rogers 1879-1935 Comedian and Actor

Everyone rides on the merry go round of life but very few ever take the chance

at the brass ring

-- Kevin Veitch

We gain internal freedom through external actions

- Ram Dass

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Everyone was born original but most people die copies

~ Unknown Without passion you dont have energy without energy you have nothing Nothing

great in the world has been accomplished without passion

~ Donald Trump When one door of happiness closes another opens But often we look so long at

the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened before us

~ Helen Keller

I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please

everybody

Bill Cosby Comedian Actor and Author Give up your identity as a seeker and become a finder Then everything you ever

sought will find you

-- Alan Cohen

The reason we put a lot of emphasis on action is because we do not understand the

power of our thought If you analyze it 90 percent of most peoples actions

are spent trying to compensate for inappropriate thought

~ Dr Robert Anthony Prosperity lets go the bridle

-- George Herbert

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered

heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed They won because they refused to

become discouraged by their defeats

Bertie Charles Forbes 1880-1954 Financial Journalist Author and Founder of Forbes Magazine He who jumps to conclusions falls to their death

-- Mark J Ottaviani Im not a believer in nor the advocate of miracles for the reason that I

have enough knowledge of nature to understand that nature never deviates from

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her established laws Her laws are simply so incomprehensible that they produce

what appears to be miracles

~ Napoleon Hill Learn to listen Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly

Frank Tyger

Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways you can as long as

ever you can

John Wesley Work like you dont need the money Love like youve never been hurt Dance like

nobody is watching

-- Mark Twain

You believe that a lover will bring you love but it is your love that will bring you a

lover

-- Alan Cohen

The Universe is not punishing you or blessing you

The Universe is responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting The

more joyful you are the more Well-being flows to you

~Abraham-Hicks What nourishes you is not vitamins in food It is the joy you feel in eating it

-- Ramtha

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this

decide what you want

Ben Stein Attorney Author Actor and Commentator

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure to embrace

the new But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful There is

more security in the adventurous and exciting for in movement there is life and in

change there is power

mdashAlan Cohen

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Vision without action is a daydream Action without vision is a nightmare

-- Japanese Proverb

Success is the result of applying sound principles which align with universal laws

The Science of Success is a powerful road map to guarantee your personal

success

~ Brian Tracy

Part of you thinks that you are not going to die because part of you is not going to

die

-- Alan Cohen

There are 3 things that are certain in life death taxes and change You cant

avoid change its mandatory progress however is optional

-- Bill R Good Jr

Surrender the illusion that anyone other than you has power or authority over

your life

Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either

openly before us or close to us

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You must be the change you want to see in the world

~ Gandhi

Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a

friendly level

~ Max L Forman

If you want your life to be a magnificent story then begin by realizing that you

are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page

-- Mark Houlahan

If you want to develop in profound and significant ways it is essential that you

build up a reservoir of spiritual and emotional conviction a source of boundless

freedom that will give you the energy to transcend the apparent limitations of

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your own emotional psychological and cultural experience By practicing

meditation with deadly seriousness you cultivate that freedom and conviction in

no-limitation as a reference point Thats the only reason to meditate in the

context of Evolutionary Enlightenment

mdash Andrew Cohen

If our actions stem from honesty kindness caring and vision then no matter

what the result of our efforts we have added something of value to our souls and

to the world

~ Joan Boysenko

Too often the opportunity knocks but by the time you push back the chain push

back the bolt unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm its too late

~ Rita Coolidge We are formed and molded by our thoughts

Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts

give joy when they speak or act

Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them

~ Buddha

We feel most alive in the presence of the Beautiful for it meets the needs of the

soul

~ John OlsquoDonohue

No onelsquos past has to be a prison sentence Forgiveness provides the key to

acknowledge the past and move on When we can forgive we have less to be afraid

of

~ Dr Fred Luskin

Isnlsquot it strange that princesses and kings and clowns that caper in sawdust rings

and common people like you and me are builders for eternity Each is given a bag of

tools a shapeless mass a book of rules and each must make ere life is flown a

stumbling block or stepping stone

~ Edgar Guest

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly

~ Richard Bach

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I donlsquot wait for moods

You accomplish nothing if you do that Our mind must know it has got to get down

to work

~ Pearl S Buck

There is a giant asleep within every man When that giant awakes miracles happen

~ Fred Faust

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the

risk it took to bloom

~ Anais Nin

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid but he who conquers that fear

~ Nelson Mandela

Itlsquos not about breaking the rules

It is about abandoning the concept of rules altogether

~ Paul Lemberg

Each moment of our life we either invoke or destroy our dreams

~ Stuart Wilde

Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts This is the

secret of success

Swami Sivananda

Whatever you do do it as totally as possible

Osho

I am not afraidhellipI was born to do this

~Joan of Arc

―There is nothing that you cannot be do or have

~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given

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―Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success When you do a thing

do it with all your might Put your whole soul into it Stamp it with your own

personality Be active be energetic be enthusiastic and faithful and you will

accomplish your object Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Success is never final Failure is never fatal It is courage that counts

~ Winston Churchill

What are you tolerating that would not be a part of your ideal day

-- Alan Cohen Trust yourself You know more than you think you do

-- Dr Benjamin Spock True friends and healers do not limit your options They expand them

-- Alan Cohen When it comes to staying young a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day

-- Marty Bucella Achievement seems to be connected with action Successful men and women keep

moving They make mistakes but they dont quit

Conrad Hilton 1887-1979 Founder of Hilton Hotels Successful people form the habit of doing what failures dont like to do They like

the results they get by doing what they dont necessarily enjoy

Earl Nightingale1921-1989 Author and Syndicated Radio Personality When you are clear what you want will show up in your life and only to the extent

you are clear

Janet AttwoodAuthor of The Passion Test The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it

Chinese proverb

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery the human beings by

changing the inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their

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lives

~ William James

Never look up to the people who have the painted-perfect lives because try as

they might they can never see beyond the canvas

~ Moira Hallsom

Even from a dark night songs of beauty can be born

~ Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body

~ Pythagoras

If life gives you lemons make lemonade

~ Joan Collins

The only place where dreams are impossible is in your own mind

~ Emalie

Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions But no man has

a right to be wrong in his facts

~ Bernard M Baruch

Begin to weave and God will give you the thread

~ German Proverb

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss

~ David Eddings

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we

are and what we can be igniting the circuits of our highest potential

-- Rusty Berkus

The optimist says we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears

this is true

-- Source Unknown

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If I had listened to the critics Id have died drunk in the gutter

-- Chekov

Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice It is not a thing to be

waited for it is a thing to be achieved

-- Jeremy Kitson

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental

difference in someones life

- Sister Mary Rose McGeady

One never knows what each day is going to bring The important thing is to be

open and ready for it

- Henry Moore

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in

the same individual

- Arthur Koestler

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it

- Lou Holtz Motivation is like food for the brain You cannot get enough in one sitting It needs continual and

regular top ups

~ Peter Davies

Dont tell me how hard you work

Tell me how much you get done

~ James Ling

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures

dont like to do

~ Albert Gray

―There is a science of getting rich and it is an exact science like algebra or arithmetic There

are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches and once these laws are learned

and obeyed by anyone that person will get rich with mathematical certainty ~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich

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―Everything you want should be yours the type of work you want the relationships you need

the social mental and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled the money

you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you and any requirement that you may (or

may not) have for achievement or service to others If you donlsquot aim for it all youlsquoll never get it

all To aim for it requires that you know what you want ~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle ―Eliminate the word impossible from your thinking and speaking vocabularies Impossible is a

failure word The thought ―Itlsquos impossible sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove

youlsquore right ~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big ―Think Big and youlsquoll live big Youlsquoll live big in happiness Youlsquoll live big in accomplishment Big in

income Big in friends Big in respecthellip Start now right now to discover how to make your

thinking make magic for you Start out with this thought of the great philosopher Disraeli ―Life

is too short to be little ~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big ―If you have a big problem in your life all that means is that you are being a small person ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind ―It all comes down to this if your subconscious financial blueprintlsquo is not setlsquo for success

nothing you learn nothing you know and nothing you do will make much of a difference ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you If God gives you a bucket of fish you

have to distribute those fish If you donlsquot theylsquore going to rot attract a bunch of flies and

start stinking up your soul ~ Russell Simmons from Do You ―In my experience therelsquos only one thing that will always steer you toward success Thatlsquos to

have a vision and to stick with ithellip Once I have a vision for a new venture Ilsquom going to ride that

vision until the wheels come off ~ Russell Simmons quotes from Do You

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery the human beings by changing the

inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their lives

~ William James

There is no courage without fear

~ Eddie Rickenbacher

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make who would you call and what

would you say And why are you waiting

-- Stephen Levine

Remember we all stumble every one of us Thats why its a comfort to go hand in hand

~ Emily Kimbrough The inspiration of the almighty gives man understanding

~ the Bible

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives

~ Louise Hay

The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation

~ Comer Cotrell

Give it all youve got because you never know if theres going to be a next time

~ Danielle Ingrum

Dont try to force anything Let life be a deep let-go God opens millions of flowers everyday

without forcing their buds

~Osho

The definition of Insanity is Doing the Same Things Over and Over Again and Expecting Different

Results

~ Albert Einstein

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us This little treasure

has great great powers and I would say we only have learnt a very very small part of what it can

do

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work

~ John G Pollard

Vacation is a state of mind not an action

-- Alan Cohen

Whatever games are played with us we must play no games with ourselves

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Desperation does not recognize your power to choose

-- Alan Cohen

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When people talk listen completely Most people never listen

-- Ernest Hemingway

Heaven is gained or lost not by dramatic deeds but by the simple of acts of daily living

-- Alan Cohen

There is only one voice worth listening to

--Alan Cohen Reverie is not a mind vacuum It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul

--Gaston Bachelard

Why get rich quick when you can be rich now

-- Alan Cohen

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure

-- Joseph Campbell

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always view problems as opportunities in work clothes

-- Henry Kaiser

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character of

another

Winston Churchill 1874-1965 Former British Prime Minister

When you are clear what you want will show up in your life and only to the extent you are clear

Janet Attwood Author of The Passion Test

New peace harmony and power fill your relationships when you practice radical personal

responsibility Through it you enter a more refined sphere of relating that enhances your life and

accelerates the realization of your ultimate spiritual self Practicing radical personal responsibility

forever changes the way you approach and resolve conflict

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The Cure for the Common Upset (p 10)

Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and

discomfort We spend enormous energy denying our insecurity fighting pain death and loss and

hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature

- Jack Kornfield A Path with Heart

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Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well I am not aware of

any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking not exercise not drugs not surgery--that has

a greater impact on our quality of life incidence of illness and premature death

- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant they is a fuel in us which needs

to be ignited with sparks

Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Energy is the essence of life Every day you decide how youre going to use it by

knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal and by maintaining

focus

-Oprah Winfrey

The acquisition of wealth is no longer a driving force in the 24th century We

strive to better ourselves and the rest of humanity

-- From the movie Star Trek Insurrection

―You cannot exercise much power without gratitude for it is gratitude that keeps

you connected with Power

~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich

―To do things in a way you want to do them you will have to acquire the ability to

think the way you want to think this is the first step toward getting rich

~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich

―There are three crucial dimensions to your explanatory style permanence

pervasiveness and personalization

~ Martin Seligman from Learned Optimism

―Habits of thinking need not be forever One of the most significant findings in

psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they

think

~ Martin Seligman from Learned Optimism

―Action always beats inaction ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

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―Itlsquos not enough to be in the right place at the right time You have to be the right person in the

right place at the right time ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―Every thought vibrates every thought radiates a signal and every thought

attracts a matching signal back We call that process the Law of Attraction The

Law of Attraction says That which is like unto itself is drawn And so you might

see the powerful Law of Attraction as a sort of Universal Manager that sees to it

that all thoughts that match one another line up

~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given

―It is our desire that you become one who is happy with that which you are and

with that which you havemdashwhile at the same time being eager for more That is the

optimal creative vantage point To stand on the brink of what is coming feeling

eager optimistic anticipationmdashwith no feelings of impatience doubt or

unworthiness hindering the receiving of itmdashthat is the Science of Deliberate

Creation at its best

~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given

―As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around you come to see that every

perceived problem appearing ―out there is really nothing more than a

misperception within your own thinking

~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is

―The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is

When the mind is perfectly clear what is is what we want

~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself You must be

able to sustain yourself against staggering blows There is no code of conduct to

help beginners That is why some people with mediocre talent but with great inner

drive go much further than people with vastly superior talent

Sophia Loren Actress

And in the end its not the years in your life that count Its the life in your

years

-- Abraham Lincoln

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Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by

holding grudges harboring resentments and nursing unhealed wounds It is

rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to

understand and accept other people and ourselves

~ Sidney and Suzanne Simon

Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action for all eternity

Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801 Poet and Physiognomist People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do

things When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success

Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993 Speaker and Author Every achiever that I have ever met says My life turned around when I began to

believe in me

Dr Robert H Schuller Minister and Author

With love in you your only need is to extend it

-- A Course in Miracles

Just because it ended doesnt mean it failed

-- Alan Cohen

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find

it

-- George Moore

Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality

-- Alan Cohen

Our biggest problems cannot be resolved They must be outgrown

-- Carl Jung

True prayer penetrates beyond hope and establishes itself in knowing

-- Alan Cohen

So we see to play successfully the game of life we must train the imaging faculty

A person with an imaging faculty trained to image only good brings into his life

every righteous desire of his heart - health wealth love friends perfect self-

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expression his highest ideals

mdash Florence Scovel Shinn

Dont ask what the world needs ask what makes you come alive and go do it

Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

mdashHoward Thurman

To the degree were not living our dreams our comfort zone has more control of

us than we have over ourselves

-- Peter McWilliams

Never let your memories be greater than your dreams

-- Doug Ivester (President of Coca Cola)

It is not length of life but depth of life

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches with them but

to reveal their own

-- Author Unknown

A free lunch is only found in mousetraps

-- John Capuzzi

If you have the will to win you have achieved half your success if you dont you

have achieved half your failure

-- David Ambrose

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesnt lie in not reaching your

goal The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach It isnt a calamity to die with

dreams unfulfilled but it is a calamity not to dream It is not a disaster to be

unable to capture your ideal but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture It is

not a disgrace not to reach the stars but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach

for Not failure but low aim is a sin

~ Benjamin E Mayes

True success is a state of mindThis mindset is the heart and soul of successful

entrepreneurial enterprise You cant get started without it and you cant make a

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business wildly profitable if you dont get it

~ Unknown

Traditional education will make you a living self-education will make you a

fortune

~ Jim Rohn One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests

~ John Stuart Mill

Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different Rather than wasting

time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we dont have what we

want we can start to pursue other ways to get it

~ Greg Anderson

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it

~ Rudy Guilliani ―Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential And to

do that I insist you throw caution at the wind ignore the pleas of parents

coaches spouses and bosses to be realisticlsquo Realistic people do not accomplish

extraordinary things because the odds of success stymie them The best

performers ignore the odds I will show that instead of limiting themselves to

whatlsquos probable the best will pursue the heart-pounding exciting really big

difference-making dreamsmdashso long as catching them might be possible

~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement ―To be sure great performers are well trained experienced smart and in some

cases divinely talented But the way their brains work during a performance is a

lot more like a squirrellsquos than like Einsteinlsquos Like squirrels the best in every

business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilitiesmdashthey

flat out trust their skills which is why we call this high-performance state of mind

the ―Trusting Mindset Routine access to the Trusting Mindset is what separates

great performers from the rest of the pack

~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement ―In every forest on every farm in every orchard on earth itlsquos whatlsquos under the

ground that creates whatlsquos above the ground Thatlsquos why placing your attention on

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the fruits that you have already grown is futile You cannot change the fruits that

are already hanging on the tree You can however change tomorrowlsquos fruits But to

do so you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―Believe that you are the one who creates your success that you are the one who

creates your mediocrity and that you are the one creating your struggle around

money and success

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―8020 thinking requires and with practice enables us to spot the few really important things

that are happening and ignore the mass of unimportant things It teaches us to see the wood

for the trees ~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle

―The few things that work fantastically well should be identified cultivated nurtured and

multiplied

~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle

―We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection Itlsquos about a process a journey The

master is the one who stays on the path day after day year after year The master is the one

who is willing to try and fail and try again for as long as he or she lives ~ George Leonard from Mastery

―Whenever you feel shortlsquo or in needlsquo of something give what you want first and it will come

back in buckets That is true for money a smile love friendship I know it is often the last

thing a person may want to do but it has always worked for me I just trust that the principle

of reciprocity is true and I give what I want ~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad

―One dad would sayThe love of money is the root of all evillsquo The other The lack of money is

the root of all evillsquo ~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall every step we

take just gets us to the wrong place faster

Stephen Covey

Becoming a star may not be in your destiny but being the best

that you can be is a goal you can set for yourselves

Bryan Lindsay

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Be yourself Who else is better qualified

Frank J Giblin II

Do not learn from your mistakes learn from the mistakes of others

to that you do not make any

Sean Karsten

Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower

Shigenori Kameoka

Every achiever that I have ever met says My life turned around when I began to believe in me

Dr Robert H Schuller Minister and Author

Upsets always contain the gift of learning except most people have never learned how to unwrap

the package

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is

causing anxiety

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970 British philosopher mathematician essayist) Great souls have wills feeble ones have only wishes

Chinese Proverb

We must not promise what we ought not lest we be called on to perform what we cannot

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))

Dont measure yourself by what you have accomplished but by what you should have accomplished

with your ability

John Wooden (1910- American basketball coach)

Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty

John Ruskin (1819-1900 British critic social theorist)

Something good is already happening Can you discover it

-- Alan Cohen

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if theyve got a second Give your

dreams all youve got and youll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you

William James 1842-1910 Philosopher and Author

Out of suffering comes creativity You cannot spell painting without pain

-- John Lithgow in Third Rock From the Sun

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The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings the past and the

future are not as real but rather more real than the present

- Alan Watts

Boldness has genius power and magic in it Begin it now

~ Goethe

―In the heart of Emptiness there is a mysterious impulse mysterious because

there is actually nothing in the heart of Emptiness (for there is nothing in

Emptiness period) Yet there it is this mysterious impulse the impulse to hellip

create To sing to shine to radiate to send forth reach out and celebrate to

sing and shout and walk about to effervesce and bubble over this mysterious

exuberance in the heart of Emptiness

~ Ken Wilber from One Taste July 31

―Evolution goes beyond what went before but because it must embrace what went

before then its very nature is to transcend and include and thus it has an inherent

directionality a secret impulse toward increasing depth increasing intrinsic value

increasing consciousness In order for evolution to move at all it must move in

those directionsmdashtherelsquos no place else for it to go

~ Ken Wilber from A Brief History of Everything

The secret of being boring is to say everything

- Voltaire 1694-1778 French Writer and Philosopher

―Donlsquot let what you canlsquot do stop you from what you can do

- John Wooden

―You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the

shore

- Christopher Columbus

―Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall

- Confucius

―A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed

- Henrik Ibsen

―It is our choices that show what we truly are far more than our abilities

- JK Rowling

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―If you are going through hell keep going

- Winston Churchill

―Yesterday is history Tomorrow is a mystery Today Today is a gift Thatlsquos why

we call it the present

- B Olatunji

―To live is the rarest thing in the world Most people exist thatlsquos all

- Oscar Wilde

―You donlsquot get to choose how you are going to die Or when You can only decide how

you are going to live Now

- Joan Baez

―When one door of happiness closes another opens But often we look so long at

the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us

- Helen Keller

―Imagination is more important than knowledge Knowledge is limited Imagination

encircles the world

- Albert Einstein

―If you want to be happy be

- Leo Tolstoy

―Always do right This will gratify some people and astonish the rest

- Mark Twain

―We must be the change we want to see

- Gandhi

―The friend in my adversity I shall always treasure most I can better trust those

who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to

enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity

- Ulysses S Grant

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―Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting

- Elizabeth Bibesco

―The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort but

where he stands at times of conflict and controversy

- Martin Luther King Jr

―Begin doing what you want to do now We are not living in eternity We have only

this moment sparkling like a star in our hand ndash and melting like a snow flake

- MB Ray

―I shall pass through this life but once Any good therefore that I can do let me

do it now Let me not defer or neglect it For I shall never pass this way again

- Etienne de Grellet

―This above all To your own self be true

- William Shakespeare

―To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make

you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight

and never stop fighting

- EE Cummings

―In three words I can sum up what Ilsquove learned about life It goes on

- Robert Frost

―Imagine

- John Lennon

You can if you think you can

George Reeves

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile

achievement

Henry Ford 1863-1947 Industrialist

No man is capable of self-improvement if he sees no other model but himself

-- Conrado I Generoso

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When I am delivering my very best then that is when I feel successful

~ Art Fettig

The only limitations you will ever have are the ones you put on yourself

~ Kristinna Habashy

The secret of manwomans being is not only

to live but to have something to live for

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

To hell with circumstances I create opportunities

~ Bruce Lee

Simplicity is making the journey of this life

with just baggage enough

~ Charles Dudley Warner

I dont think theres any such thing as setting your goals too high The higher you

set your goals the more you are going to work If you dont reach them then its

okay just as long as you set it and then give 100 of yourself

~ Dan Jansen Speed Skater

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts the circle of Creation

is completed inside us the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal

everything in sight

~ Michael Bridge

Youlsquore darn tootinlsquo Ilsquom going to bring out the best in you You are the best

― Maureen Coleman middle school teacher

Truth is rarely writ in ink It lives in nature

-- Martin H Fischer

Before planning where you want to go decide who you want to be

-- Alan Cohen

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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day wisdom consists in not

exceeding the limit

-- Elbert Hubbard

Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere

-- Alan Cohen

When the Japanese mend broken objects they fill the cracks with gold They

believe that when somethings suffered damage and has a history it becomes more

beautiful

-- Barbara Bloom

Efficiency without love is not really efficient

-- Alan Cohen

The purpose of time is to enable you to learn how to use time constructively

-- A Course in Miracles

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than

any other one thing

Laura Ingalls Wilder 1867-1957 Author

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as

few as there are any other great artists It might even be the greatest of the arts

since the medium is the human mind and spirit

John Steinbeck 1902-1968 Writer and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

Be careful what you spend your day touching because it will shape your mind your

body and your heart

Sam Keen Speaker and Author

I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in

the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life he has imagined he will

meet with success unexpected in common hours

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 Writer and Poet

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out

― Michael Burke

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Turn frustration into fascination

-- Dr Richard Bartlett

Money is not the source of life It is an expression or by-product of doing what

brings you life

-- Alan Cohen

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but

sand the angels come to visit us and we only know them when they are gone

- George Elliot

Proceed when clear

-- Alan Cohen

Slow down and enjoy life Its not only the scenery you miss by going too fast --

you also miss the sense of where you are going and why

Eddie Cantor

Life is here to enjoy The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness When it

appears otherwise you are off the path of destiny Look at your life and ask

What do I need to change to choose in favor of my passions

Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life Be happy now Dont wait for something

outside of yourself to make you happy in the future Think how really precious is

the time you have to spend whether its at work or with your family Every minute

should be enjoyed and savored

Earl Nightingale

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life It turns what we have into enough and

more It turns denial into acceptance chaos into order confusion into clarity It

turns problems into gifts failures into success the unexpected into perfect

timing and mistakes into important events Gratitude makes sense of our past

brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow

Melodie Beattie Writer

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Devotion is commitment at a deep cellular level When you are devoted the

universe will align itself to give you what you desire

Rich German Author of Monetize Your Passion

Action breeds confidence and courage If you want to conquer fear do not sit

home and think about it Go out and get busy

~ Dale Carnegie

The mind turned inwards is the Self turned outwards it becomes the ego and all

the world

~Ramana Maharshi

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be

~Daniel J Boorstin

The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively

from his own resources

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire

not things we fear

~ Brian Tracy

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game and no matter how

great your talent there is only one way to obtain it-work

~ Jack Nicklaus Golfer

A goal without a plan is merely a WISH without a HOPE

~ Unknown

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan in which we must

fervently believe and upon which we must vigorously act There is no other route

to success

~ Stephen A Brennan

Knowledge breeds doubt Wisdom births wonder

Alan Cohen

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When you decide what you want it has to manifestbut only at the level of your

belief

Rich German Author of Monetize Your Passion

Friendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity

- John Dryden

It may make people feel more secure when everyone agrees with them but it

wont create a world made rich by the unique and diverse expressions of the human

soul

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart

Choice is destinys soul mate

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Truth is a gem of many facets Each facet reflects the brilliance within and

without But the whole reveals a deeper more profound message than all the parts

by themselves

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart

He who knows others is wise he who knows himself is enlightened

- Tao Te Ching

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers but for powers equal to

our tasks

-- Helen Keller

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret

-- Ambrose Bierce

We must all suffer one of two things the pain of discipline or the pain of regret

or disappointment

-- Jim Rohn

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Many risks fail because they were not taken in time Too many risks are postponed

until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made This does not mean that one

should say Damn the torpedoes full speed ahead That is foolish and self-

destructive But dont sit back waiting for the perfect moment It almost never

comes

-- David Viscott Risking

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter

-- E E Cummings

Reflect upon your blessings of which every man has plenty not on your past

misfortunes of which all men have some

-- Charles Dickens

What the caterpillar calls the end the rest of the world calls a butterfly

-- Lao Tsu

Out of difficulties grow miracles

-- Jean De La Bruyere

Our patience will achieve more than our force

-- Edmund Burke

You must pay in the past to receive in the future

-- Taylor Simpson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what

lies within us

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why Why Not Why Not You Why Not Now

-- Aslan

To become a leader then you must become yourself become the maker of your

own life

--Warren G Bennis

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You have got to discover you what you do and trust it

Barbra Streisand

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts the

circle of Creation is completed inside us the doors of our souls

fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight

Michael Bridge

Each of us feels that we are just a drop in the ocean but the

ocean would be less without that missing drop

Mother Teresa

You dont just stumble into the future You create your own future

Roger Smith

Just dont give up on trying to do what you really want to do

Where there is love and inspiration I dont think you can go

wrong

Ella Fitzgerald

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot

do

Walter Bagehot

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser

John W Gardner

Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life

forever

Keri Russell

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while

so that we can see Life with a clearer view again

Alex Tan

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There never was a great soul that did not have some divine

inspiration

Marcus T Cicero

Youve got to follow your passion Youve got to figure out what

it is you love--who you really are And have the courage to do

that

Oprah Winfrey

Everything that occurs is an opportunity to experience Love

mdashRich German

Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small

things brought together

- Vincent Van Gogh

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark The real tragedy is when

men are afraid of the light

-- Plato

If I had to select one quality one personal characteristic that I regard as being

most highly correlated with success whatever the field I would pick the trait of

persistence

Richard DeVos Co-Founder of Amway

Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination allows vision and gives us the right

stuff to turn our dreams into reality

~James Womack

No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn

-- Hal Borland

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives We must take charge

of our own destinies design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams

- Les Brown

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on

We act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because

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of imagination

- Maxwell Maltz

There is a sleeping giant in you Release it Believe in yourself

~ Bob Proctor

Wealth depends chiefly on two words industry and frugality that is waste

neither time nor money but make the best use of both

-- Benjamin Franklin

When you talk to God thats prayer When God talks back its schizophrenia

-- Lily Tomlin

Work is not a substitute for love It is an avenue of loves expression

-- Alan Cohen

Look beyond peoplelsquos appearances

Look beyond the roles one plays and the mask they wear

Look deep into their eyes and peer into their soul

There you will find their true essence

There you will find your true essence

And that essence is love

mdashRich German

Everything that occurs is an opportunity to experience Love

mdashRich German

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a

life spent doing nothing

George Bernard Shaw

Formula for success under promise and over deliver

Tom Peters

Efficiency is doing things right effectiveness is doing the right things

Peter F Drucker

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Be the change that you want to see in the world

Mahatma Gandhi

Creating space is as important as filling it

-- Alan Cohen

Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Words may guide you to the door of heaven but only silence opens it

-- Alan Cohen

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more

useful than a life spent doing nothing

Bernard Shaw

Formula for success under promise and over deliver

Tom Peters

Efficiency is doing things right effectiveness is doing the right

things

Peter F Drucker

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives We must take charge

of our own destinies design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams

- Les Brown

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works onWe

act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because of

imagination

- Maxwell Maltz

No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn

-- Hal Borland

There is a sleeping giant in you

Release it Believe in yourself

~ Bob Proctor

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Wealth depends chiefly on two words industry and frugality that is waste

neither time nor money but make the best use of both

-- Benjamin Franklin

Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination allows vision and gives us the right

stuff to turn our dreams into reality

~James Womack

If I had to select one quality one personal characteristic that I regard as being

most highly correlated with success whatever the field I would pick the trait of

persistence

Richard DeVos Co-Founder of Amway

The best way to teach people is by telling a story

Jonathan Swift

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking

what nobody else has thought

Kenneth Blanchard

All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it

-Samuel Butler

Happiness is like a cat If you try to coax it or call it it will avoid you It will never

come

But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business youll find it rubbing

up against your legs and jumping into your lap

- William Bennett

The word impossible is only in the mind and not in the heart

- Sri Chinmoy

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another it is the only

means

Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Physicist

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Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone

And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone

Paul Tillich

Sometimes the cards we are dealt are not always fair However you must keep

smiling amp moving on

~ Tom Jackson

Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you

- Elbert Hubard

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends

with anyone else in the world

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Thus nature has no love for solitude and always leans as it were on some support

and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship

- Cicero

So it is life is actually made up of our choices We are the sum total of them and

if we hold to an attitude of love and thanksgiving for all the good things within our

grasp we may have what all ambitious people long for - success

Delma Neeley

Believe and your belief will create the fact

~ William James

The principle is competing against yourself

Its about self improvement about being better than you were the day before

~ Steve Young

All of us you your children your neighbors and their children are

everyday geniuses even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by

everyone Thats probably because school hasnt encouraged us to notice whats

hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself

~ Peter Kline

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If youll not settle for anything less than your best you will be amazed at what

you can accomplish in your lives

Vince Lombardi

Ya gotta put your behind in your past

Then youre ready for whatever comes next

~ Pumba The Lion King

Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become

~ James Allen

Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well what

causes sadness and what brings happiness what makes us suffer and what leads to

healing

~ Dean Ornish MD

Three components make an entrepreneur the person the ideaand the resources

to make it happen

~ Anita Roddick

What we can or cannot do what we consider possible or impossible is rarely a

function of our true capability It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who

we are

~ Anthony Robbins

Either Do or Do Not There is No Try

~ George Lucas

Theres a name for the magic that transforms lives connects dots moves

mountains and orchestrates coincidences that shock and astound Imagination

And theres a name for all that stops you in your tracks stirs fear spins wheels

and leaves one wondering Hey whats up with that Imagination

Careful where you point that thing

~ The Universe

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with

them

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faith is a passionate intuition

-William Wordsworth

Friendship is a sheltering tree

--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision Vision is the perfume

of the mind

--Harriet Rubin

Striving for excellence motivates you striving for perfection is demoralizing

--Harriet Braiker

I can feel guilty about the past apprehensive about the future but only in the

present can I act The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of

mental wellness

-Abraham Maslow 1908-1970 Psychologist

In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge

-Aristotle

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our

potential

Sir Winston Churchill 1874-1965 Former British Prime Minister

The minute you settle for less than you deserve you get even less than you

settled for

Maureen Dowd Newspaper Columnist

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything

outside ourselves will affect us

Stephen R Covey Author and Speaker

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Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually

attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life

Christiane Northrup Medical Doctor and Author

We must learn to keep ourselves awake by an infinite expectation of the

dawn

-- Henry David Thoreau

You dont need to struggle to get your body to do or be what your spirit already is

-- Alan Cohen

One must steer not talk

-- Seneca

The more you quantify the less you qualify

-- Alan Cohen

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know Most are

born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly

-- Buckminster Fuller

Any act motivated by guilt does not assuage guilt but perpetuates it

-- Alan Cohen

Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for

themselves

-- Peter McArthur

Be so good they cant ignore you

Steve Martin

Its kind of fun to do the impossible

Walt Disney

Its easy to make a buck Its a lot tougher to make a difference

Tom Brokaw

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When I hear somebody sigh Life is hard I am always tempted to

ask Compared to what

Sydney J Harris

In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing The worst

thing you can do is nothing

Sam Walton

I had to pick myself up and get on with it do it all over again only even better

this time

Theodore Roosevelt

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process

~ Jim Rohn

If you can imagine it you can achieve it If you can dream it you can become it

~ William Arthur Ward

There is much in the world to make us afraid There is much more in our faith to

make us unafraid

-- Cropp

Pray for essence rather than form and the form will be a perfect expression of

the essence

-- Alan Cohen

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change

Charles R Swindoll Author and Pastor

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with

- Jim Rohn

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your

dreams

- Les Brown

Life is 10 of what happens to me and 90 of how I react to it

John Maxwell

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What you see depends on what youre looking for

Anon

Mind over matter If you dont mind it doesnt matter

-- Alan Cohen

When you are clear on want to how to shows up

-- Michael Neill

Quit struggling to make your body do or be what your spirit already is

-- Alan Cohen

Truth is the offspring of silence and unbroken meditation

-- Isaac Newton

Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal Whatever you invest it

in will yield more of the same

-- Alan Cohen

When you find yourself stressed ask yourself one question Will this matter five

years from now If yes then do something about the situation If no then let it

go

Catherine Pulsifer Writer

Theres plenty of intelligence in the world but the courage to do things

differently is in short supply

Marilyn vos Savant Columnist Author and Lecturer

Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced

by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas

a strong faith is strengthened by them

Viktor E Frankl 1905-1997 Holocaust Survivor and Author of Mans Search for

Meaning

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength

Richard L Evans

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You were not born a winner and you were not born a loser You are

what you make yourself be

Lou Holtz

Remember if you ever need a helping hand youll find one at the

end of your arm As you grow older you will discover that you

have two hands One for helping yourself the other for helping

others

Audrey Hepburn

Dont take life too seriously because youll never get out alive

Josh Shippe

Without hard work nothing grows but weeds

Gordon B Hinckley

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies

--Mother Teresa

Do what you can to show you care about other people and you will make our world

a better place

--Rosalynn Carter

Again and again the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is

only a tough decision waiting to be made

--Robert H Schuller

If in our daily life we can smile if we can be peaceful and happy not only we but

everyone will profit from it This is the most basic kind of peace work

--Thich Nhat Hanh

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties

disappear and obstacles vanish into air

- John Quincy Adams

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win

~ GK Chesterton

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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown for going

out I found was really going in

mdashJohn Muir 1913

To me itlsquos really so simple that life should be lived on the edge You

have to exercise rebellion To refuse to tape yourself to the rules

to refuse your own success to refuse to repeat yourself to see

every day every year every idea as a true challenge Then you will

live your life on the tightrope

mdashPhilippe Petit (star of the movie Man on Wire)

The first step to creating the lifestyle of your dreams is to simplify

your life

mdashRich German

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist sees

problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems

Winston Churchill

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you

have and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more

~ Robert Collier

Instead of waiting for someone to take you under their wing go out there and

find a good wing to climb under

~ Dave Thomas

If you would convince others seem open to conviction yourself

~ Lord Chesterfield

The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable

competitive advantage

~ Arie de Geus

Human life is purely a matter of deciding whats important to you

-- Source unknown

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Determination and perseverance move the world thinking that others will do it

for you is a sure way to fail

Marva Collins Educator

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them

~ Walt Disney

Everything that happens to you is self-created Whenever youre responding to

any situation whether its a sip of coffee or a traffic jam or a love note or

criticism from a boss or rainy weather youre in fact responding to a signal that

you generated within yourself

- Deepak Chopra

Relationships are not about intellect they are about feeling They require an

intelligence of the heart

- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is

when adults are afraid of the light

- Plato

A good listener is someone who is curious open-minded and nonjudgmental A

good listener is not a know-it-all A good listener knows that truth often reveals

itself bit by bit much like putting together a jigsaw puzzle

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart

Its the night that makes the dawning

Its the depths that make the heights

Its the roots that make the branches

Its the darkness that gives birth to Light

- Joel Heathcote

How you hear what someone says is determined by your interpretations and your

interpretations flow from your past This is very important to know especially if

you find that you overreact to what others say or habitually get your feelings hurt

Remember what someone said is not necessarily what you heard and what you

heard is not necessarily what they meant

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart

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―Everything ndash a horse a vine ndash is created for some dutyhellipFor what task then

were you yourself created A manlsquos true delight is to do the things he was made

for

~ Marcus Aurelius from Meditations

―Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts for the soul becomes dyed with the

color of its thoughts Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as for example

Where life is possible at all a right life is possible

~ Marcus Aurelius from Meditations

―hellipEverything can be taken from a man but one thing the last of the human

freedomsmdashto choose onelsquos attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose

onelsquos own way

~ Viktor Frankl from Manlsquos Search for Meaning

―It did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life

expected from us We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life and

instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by lifemdashdaily

and hourly Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation but in right

action and in right conduct Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to

find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly

sets for each individual

~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Manlsquos Search for Meaning

―Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in lifehellip Therein he cannot be

replaced nor can his life be repeated Thus everyonelsquos task is as unique as is

his specific opportunity to implement it

~ Viktor Frankl from Manlsquos Search for Meaning

―Ultimately man should not ask what the meaning of his life is but rather must

recognize that it is he who is asked In a word each man is questioned by life

and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life to life he can only

respond by being responsible

~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Manlsquos Search for Meaning

―History though shows us that the people who end up changing the world- the

great political social scientific technological artistic even sports

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revolutionaries- are always nuts until theylsquore right and then theylsquore geniuses

~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement

―Great performers are by definition abnormal

~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement

―We all aspire to mastery but the path is always long and sometimes rocky and

it promises no quick pay off So we look for other paths each of which attracts

a different person

~ George Leonard from Mastery

―We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection Itlsquos about a process a

journey The master is the one who stays on the path day after day year after

year The master is the one who is willing to try and fail and try again for as

long as he or she lives

~ George Leonard from Mastery

At the heart of it mastery is practice Mastery is staying on the path

~ George Leonard from Mastery

―Comfort kills If your goal in life is to be comfortable I guarantee two things

First you will never be rich Second you will never be happy Happiness doesnlsquot

come from living a lukewarm life always wondering what could have been

Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up

to our fullest potential

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

―You can be a victim or you can be rich but you canlsquot be both Listen up Every

time and I mean every time you blame justify or complain you are slitting

your financial throat

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―Herelsquos an equation I want you to remember for the rest of your life CZ = WZ

It means your ―comfort zone equals your ―wealth zone By expanding your

comfort zone you will expand the size of your income and wealth zone

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

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―We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we

wait forever before taking action

~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big

―Donlsquot put off until tomorrow what you can do today

~ Benjamin Franklin

―Think Big and youlsquoll live big Youlsquoll live big in happiness Youlsquoll live big in

accomplishment Big in income Big in friends Big in respecthellip Start now right

now to discover how to make your thinking make magic for you Start out with

this thought of the great philosopher Disraeli Life is too short to be littlelsquo

~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big

―In the yogic tradition this principle of using intense effort to burn through

lifelsquos distractions is called Tapas Itlsquos another Sanskrit word roughly defined

as ―heat or ―essential energy The concept is that through a disciplined

approach to work and self-sacrifice Tapas will burn away the negativity that

separates us from God By working our hardest and happily enduring the

hardships of life we are able to create a sense of peace and clarity in

ourselves

~ Russell Simmons from Do You

―The person who understands Dharma will have the opposite reaction to a ―hard

job That person will be eager to get started no matter what kind of work is in

front of her because she understands that shelsquos doing Godlsquos work And when

youlsquore working for God nothing is too hard

~ Russell Simmons from Do You

―It all comes down to this if your subconscious financial blueprintlsquo is not setlsquo

for success nothing you learn nothing you know and nothing you do will make

much of a difference

~ Russell Simmons from Do You

―The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work

~ Vince Lombardi

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The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than

your best

~ Russell Simmons from Do You

―The poor and the middle class work for money The rich have money work for

them

~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad

―We all have tremendous potential and we all are blessed with gifts Yet the

one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt It is not so

much the lack of technical information that holds us back but more the lack of

self-confidence

~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad

―Who will you have to become to achieve all you want

~ Tony Robbins

―You could say that I worked every minute of my life or you could say with

equal justice that I never worked a day I have always subscribed to the

expression ―Thank God itlsquos Friday because to me Friday means I can work for

the next two days without interruption

~ John Hope Franklin

―I do not believe that you should devote overly much effort to correcting your

weaknesses Rather I believe that the highest success in living and the deepest

emotional satisfaction comes from building and using your signature strengths

~ Martin Seligman from Authentic Happiness

When you begin to recognize that your own presence here in this world is part of

something infinitely bigger than yourself you feel a sense of obligation awakening

within youmdasha spiritually inspired soul-level moral imperative to evolve for the sake

of the future of the evolutionary process itself The way you respond to that

obligation and to that sense of cosmic responsibility is by demonstrating that the

process is profoundly positivemdashindeed the process is sacredmdashthrough your own

example through your own victory through your own tangible and unmistakable

higher development

~ Andrew Cohen

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Its the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief And once that belief

becomes a deep conviction things begin to happen

Claude M Bristol 1891-1951 Author of The Magic of Believing

We cant fear the past Fear is a future thing And since the futures all in our

heads fear must be a head thing

Tom Payne Career Development Expert

I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please

everybody

Bill Cosby Actor and Comedian

If we are ever to enjoy life now is the time not tomorrow or next year Today

should always be our most wonderful day

- Thomas Dreier Author

Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their

personnel If people believe in themselves its amazing

what they can accomplish

--Sam Walton

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the

aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker

--Helen Keller

Close scrutiny will show that most crisis situations are opportunities to either

advance or stay where you are

- Maxwell Maltz

Be curious not judgmental

-Walt Whitman

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it

-William James

All life is an experiment

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone

acknowledges who we are and what we can be igniting the circuits

of our highest potential

Rusty Berkus

Being considerate of others will take your children further in

life than any college degree

Marian Wright Edelman

It is common sense to take a method and try it If it fails admit

it frankly and try another But above all try something

Franklin D Roosevelt

see without looking hear without listening breathe

without asking

W H Auden

Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways

you can as long as ever you can

John Wesley

Its better to reach for the stars and land on the roof than to

reach for the roof and land in the garbage

Savanna Skinner

Love looks through a telescope envy through a microscope

~ Josh Billings

Whats going on in the inside shows on the outside

~ Earl Nightingale

Consideration for others is the basis of a good life a good society

~ Confucius

Time is limited so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have

just one chance to live this particular day right and to string my days together

into a life of action and purpose

~ Lance Armstrong

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An ounce of action is worth a ton of good intentions

~ Michael Josephson

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others

-- Cicero

Simplicity Purity Clarity

-- Alan Cohen

Faith mighty faith the promise sees And looks to God alone Laughs at

impossibilities And cries it shall be done

-- Charles Wesley

What is genius but the mind heart and art of God shining to the world through an

open window

-- Alan Cohen

Intuition tells you what not why

-- Source unknown

Changing the world is a natural result of inner peace not a substitute for it

-- Alan Cohen

Fortune sides with him who dares

~ Virgil

We cant fear the past Fear is a future thing And since the futures all in

our heads fear must be a head thing

Tom Payne Career Development Expert

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you

mdashLewis Smedes Each of us has the power to make others more beautiful by our love

- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst a transformer

in any situation any organization Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an

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entire loaf It requires vision initiative patience respect persistence courage

and faith to be a transforming leader

Stephen Covey

Courage is grace under pressure

~ Ernest Hemingway

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions All life is an experiment

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

As long as Youre going o be thinking anyway Think BIG

~ Donald Trump

To win youve got to stay in the game

~ Claude M Bristol

The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head

-- Source unknown

Affirm your value by going where you are valued

-- Alan Cohen

Life is too short to hold a grudge also too long

-- Robert Brault

You cannot borrow greatness from another You can only claim it from within

yourself

-- Alan Cohen

One today is worth two tomorrows never leave that till tomorrow which you can

do today

Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 US Statesman Diplomat and Inventor

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs

the problem The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized

a problem and turned it into an opportunity

Joseph Sugarman Marketing Expert

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You wouldnt worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how

seldom they do

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 American First Lady Author Speaker and Politician

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions

- John Randolph

Opportunities They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere

waiting for the observant eye to discover it

- Orison Swett Marden

Yesterday ended last night Every day is a new beginning Learn the skill of

forgetting And move on

--Norman Vincent Peale

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual it is

best for the race because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every

department

ndash Andrew Carnegie entrepreneur

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society The optimist invents the

airplane and the pessimist the parachute

Gil Stern

Strive for integrity - that means knowing your values in life and behaving in a way

that is consistent with these values

Unknown

The country clubs the cars the boats your assets may be ample But the best

inheritance you can leave your kids Is to be a good example

Barry Spilchuk

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the

goal

Henry Ford

It is never too late to be what you might have been

George Eliott

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The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence the second listening the

third memory the fourth practice the fifth teaching others

Solomon Ibn Gabriol

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers You can tell whether a man is

wise by his questions

Naguib Mahfouz

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others

~ Erich Fromm

Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble

and grateful mind

~ Epictetus

Happiness is activity

~ Aristotle

Every action we take everything we do is either a victory or defeat in the

struggle to become what we want to be

~ Anne Byrhhe

In the absence of clearly defined goals we become strangely loyal to performing

daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it

Robert Heinlein Novelist

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the

consequences of any misfortune

William James 1842-1910 Psychologist and Author

To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle

-- Walt Whitman

God doesnt owe and neither do you

-- Alan Cohen

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Do what makes you smile

-- Dr Richard Bartlett

People who warn that everyone but members of their religion will go to hell dont

realize they are already there

-- Alan Cohen

The emotional frontier is truly the next frontier to conquer in human

understanding The opportunity we face now even before that frontier is fully

explored and settled is to develop our emotional potential and accelerate rather

dramatically into a new state of being

- Doc Childre and Howard Martin The HeartMath Solution

Real transformation requires that you have a beginners mind that you are willing

to say Whatever I think I know may be wrong

Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships

Heroes take journeys confront dragons and discover the treasure of their true

selves

- Carrol Pearson The Hero Within

If a man would move the world he

must first move himself

--Socrates

All sucessful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists They

believed that things went not by luck but by law

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

I skate to where the puck is going to be not where it is

-Wayne Gretzky

When given the choice between being right or being kind always choose kind

--Dr Wayne Dyer Never forget the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for

others

Sir John Templeton 1912-2008 Mutual Fund Pioneer and Philanthropist

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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome

Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Essayist Biographer and Poet

Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on

-- Alan Cohen

Shallow men believe in luck Strong men believe in cause and effect

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Contraction is a sign that birth is imminent

-- Alan Cohen

Work is an extension of personality It is achievement It is one of the ways in

which a person defines himself measures his worth ndash and his humanity

ndash Peter Drucker author

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends

-- John Ruskin

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities

--Janos Arnay

The first time you accept good is the last time you will see excellence

John Ulmo Life is like an onion

You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep

~ Carl Sandburg

Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light

~ L P Jacks Just as iron rusts from disuse even so does inaction spoil the intellect

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

As I grow older I pay less attention to what men sayI JUST watch what they

do

~ Andrew Carnegie

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All Things are Difficult before they are Easy

~ John Norley

Everything has been figured out except how to live

~ Jean Paul Sartre

Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving

Dennis Waitley

Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out

Robert Collier

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal

nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude

Thomas Jefferson

They can because they think they can

Virgil

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself

Menander

Years teach us more than books

Berthold Auerbach

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

When you delightfully fantasize about something you want you set into motion a

wave of energy that calls that situation into reality

-- Alan Cohen

Hurt people hurt people

-- Source unknown

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Doing the right thing may be different than what you have been taught the right

thing is

-- Alan Cohen

The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes

it happen

-- Frank Lloyd Wright All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say no and said yes

Moss Hart 1904-1961 Playwright and Theatre Director

We are built to conquer environment solve problems achieve goals and we find no

real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to

achieve

Maxwell Maltz 1899-1975 Author of Psycho-Cybernetics

You can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because thorns

have roses

-- Ziggy

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug

~ Patricia Neal

My night has become a sunny dawn because of you

--Ibn Abbad

All mankind is divided into three classes those that are immovable those that are

movable and those that move

--Benjamin Franklin

Dont compete Create Find out what everyone else is doing and then dont do it

mdashJoel Weldon

Show a little faith therelsquos magic in the night

mdashfrom ―Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen

Music is to me proof of the existence of God

It is so extraordinarily full of magic and in tough times

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of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference

mdashKurt Vonnegut

Discontent is the source of all trouble but also of all progress

in individuals and nations

Berthold Auerbach

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself

Thomas Sprat

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves

to copy

Oliver Goldsmith

If at first you dont succeed try try again Then quit Theres

no use being a damn fool about it

WC Fields

Impatience never commanded success

Edwin H Chapin

In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are the safest

~ Livy

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights

~ Henry David Thoreau

The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense

insoluble They can never be solved but only outgrown

~ Carl Jung

Life Begins When you Do

Hugh Downs Vision Without Action is a Daydream

Action Without Vision is a Nightmare

~ Japanese Proverb

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Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one

can possibly want and hold

-- Judith Olney

The love affair you seek is with yourself

-- Alan Cohen

The greatest power requires the lightest touch

-- BasharDarryl Anka

You only live once -- but its forever

-- Alan Cohen

Get off the cross Somebody needs the wood

-- From the film Straight Talk

There are two ways to live your life One is as though nothing is a miracle The

other is as though everything is a miracle

~ Albert Einstein

In the long run men hit only what they aim at

~ Henry David Thoreau philosopher

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state

of being alive If life is to be sustained hope must remain even where confidence is

wounded trust impaired

~Erik H Erikson

Freedom know this that every manwoman is free To choose his life and what

hell be For this eternal truth is given God will force no man to heaven Hell call

persuade direct aright Bless with wisdom love and light In nameless ways be

good and kind But never force the human mind

~ William C Clegg

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the

circumstances they want and if they canlsquot find them make them

~ George Bernard Shaw

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Relationships are not things We dont have relationships we are in relationship

with one another

- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships

Relationships are our primary teacher They are the context in which we either

grow into the consciousness of God or deny ourselves and others the opportunity

to do so

- Marianne Williamson

Listen deeply The greatest failure in any relationship is the failure to

participate

- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships

Your future is created by what you do today not tomorrow

Robert Kiyosaki

No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a

reality

Napoleon Hill

If you are not planning today you are planning to fail tomorrow

Gopal

How you do anything is how you do everything

T Harv Eker

There is little difference in people but that little difference

makes a big difference The little difference is attitude The

big difference is whether it is positive or negative

W Clement Stone

The vision must be followed by the venture It is not enough to

stare up the steps - We must step up the stairs

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Vance Havner

Go for it nowThe future is promised to no one

Wayne Dyer

If you realize how powerful your thoughts are you would never

think a negative thought

Peace Pilgrim

Either you run the day or the day runs you

Jim Rohn

You must go after your wish As soon as you start to pursue a

dream your life wakes up and everything has meaning

Barbara Sher

To succeed you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe

and act on it with all of your heart

Christy Borgeld

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers

Anonymous

Let him that would move the world first move himself

Socrates

By the time a man realizes that maybe

his father was right he usually has a son

who thinks hes wrong

~ Charles Wadworth

Without Mistakes Perfection is an Illusion

~ Daniel Frankel

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Its not the hours you put in

but what you put into the hours

that counts

~ Jim Rohn

Be swift to hear slow to speak slow to wrath

~ James 119

Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory

~ Ingrid Bergman

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word

~ William Makepease Thackeray

Professionalism is knowing how

to do it when to do it and doing it

~ Frank Tyger

Intention is not something you do

but rather a force that exists in the universe

as an invisible field of energy

-a power that can carry us

~ Dr Wayne Dyer

I personally measure success in terms

of the contributions an individual makes

to her or his fellow human beings

~ Margaret Mead

Some of the worlds greatest feats

were accomplished by people not

smart enough to know they were

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impossible

~ Doug Larson

Life is a flower of which love is the honey

~ Victor Hugo

Personal integrity is important

not because it gets us what we want

but because it helps us be what we want

~ Michael Josephson

Goals need to be configured to stretch us

but not to break us

~ Kent Krive

Children are apt to live up

to what you believe of them

~ Lady Bird Johnson

Do your work with your whole heart

and you will succeed

- theres so little competition

~ Elbert Hubbard

Hi Karl

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible

objections must first be overcome

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--Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Author

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter

even the most victorious life The human

spirit is never finished when it is defeated

- it is finished when it surrenders

-- Ben Stein Professor and Writer

Love is the first ingredient in the relief

of suffering

-- Padre Pio

Happiness is a function of accepting what is

--Werner Erhard

There are no shortcuts to any place

worth going

- Beverly Sills

It has never been and never will be

easy work But the road that is built in

hope is more pleasant to the traveler

than the road built in despair even though

they both lead to the same destination

~Marion Zimmer Bradley

The reality of life is that your perceptions --

right or wrong -- influence everything else

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you do When you get a proper perspective

of your perceptions you may be surprised

how many other things fall into place

~ Roger Birkman

Everybody is unique Do not compare yourself

with anybody else lest you spoil Gods curriculum

-- Baal Shem Tov

Everybody is unique Do not compare yourself

with anybody else lest you spoil Gods curriculum

-- Baal Shem Tov

Trust yourself You know more than

you think you do

ndash Benjamin Spock doctor

When you play it too safe youre taking

the biggest risk of your life

Time is the only wealth were given

--Barbara Sher

Creativity is inventing experimenting

growing taking risks breaking rules

making mistakes and having fun

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--Mary Lou Cook

Life is playing a violin solo in public and

learning the instrument as one goes on

--Samuel Butler

Opportunities are usually disguised as

hard work so most people dont recognize

them

~ Ann Landers

It is literally true that you can succeed best

and quickest by helping others to succeed

- Napoleon Hill

God loves you and theres nothing you can do about it

-- Sign on church marquis

Give yourself what you would like to receive from others

-- Alan Cohen

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature

-- Emerson

The fewer your words the more compelling your statement

-- Alan Cohen

Pray devoutly hammer stoutly

-- English proverb

There are no blocks to creativity Only distractions

-- Alan Cohen

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If your rules are not working so well borrow someone elses

-- Dr Richard Bartlett

Inner peace is never more than one thought away

-- Alan Cohen

Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret

hiding God

-- Frederick William Robertson

Completion is an attitude not an event

-- Alan Cohen

Enjoy where you are and youll be where youre going

-- Bashar

Your spirit is wireless

-- Alan Cohen

All questions lead to divine knowing

-- Isaac Newton

You cannot import self-worth You can only recognize it

-- Alan Cohen

Enlightened conflict resolution can exist only in an atmosphere of equality

We may not be equal in intelligence or experience or status but we are equal

in our right to be treated with dignity and caring It is not assumed that one

person has more privilege than another that one person is entitled to more

respect or understanding than another nor that one persons feelings are

more important than anothers

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

To seek happiness outside of ourselves Is like trying to lasso a cloud

Happiness is not a thingIt is a state of mind

- Omar Khayyam

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The higher self gets curious The conditioned self gets defensive

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The higher self gets curious The conditioned self gets defensive

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us

well I am not aware of any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking

not exercise not drugs not surgery--that has a greater impact on our

quality of life incidence of illness and premature death

- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy No man was ever wise by chance

~ Seneca

By thought the thing you want is brought to youby action you receive it

~ Wallace D Wattles

Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony

~ Mohandas K Gandhi

Life isnt about finding yourselfLife is about creating yourself

George Bernard Shaw

Im trying to free your mind but I can only show you the doorYou are the one

that has to walk through it

~ Morpheus [ The Matrix ]

A friend is a second self

~ Aristotle

Be great in act as you have been in thought

~ William Shakespeare

Character is higher than intellectA great soul will be strong to liveas well as to

think

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I never think of the futureIt comes soon enough

~ Albert Einstein

Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fearnot absence of fear

~ Mark Twain

Age wrinkles the bodyQuitting wrinkles the soul

~ Douglas MacArthur

If real is what you can feel smell taste and see then real is simply electrical

signals interpreted by your brain

~ Morpheus [ The Matrix ]

Money was never a big motivator for me except for keeping the scoreThe real

excitement is playing the game

~ Donald Trump

Dreams are extremely important You cant do it unless you dream it first

~ George Lucas

If you believe you can you probably can If you believe you wont you most

assuredly wont Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad

~ Denis Waitley

Imagination is more important than knowledge Knowledge is limitedImagination

encircles the world

~ Albert Einstein

Everything is always impossible before it works Thats what entrepreneurs are all

aboutDoing things that people have told them is impossible

~ R Hunt Greene

The truth is lived not taught

~ Hermann Hesse

Be of good cheer Do not think of todays failures but of the success that may

come tomorrow You have set yourself a difficult task but you will succeed if you

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persevere and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles

Helen Keller 1880-1968 Blind and Deaf Educator

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something Its as simple

as that A lot of people have ideas but there are few who decide to do something

about them now Not tomorrow Not next week But today The true entrepreneur

is a doer

-Nolan Bushnell Founder of Atari

Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they

have deep inside them - a desire a dream a vision

Muhammad Ali Three-Time World Heavyweight Champion Boxer

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them

Walt Disney 1901-1966 Cartoon Artist and Filmmaker

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings turn routine jobs into

joy and change ordinary opportunities into blessings

William Arthur Ward

1921-1994 Writer

If you want to achieve excellence you can get there today As of this second quit

doing less than excellent work

Thomas Watson 1874-1956 Founder of IBM

Ive always believed that a lot of the troubles in the world would disappear if we

were talking to each other instead of about each other

Ronald Reagan

1911-2004 40th President of the United States

The most wonderful gift one human being can give to another is in some way to

make that persons life a little bit better to live

John Assaraf Author and Speaker

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm

Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any

occupation no matter how frightening or difficult a new meaning Without

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enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish

miracles

Og Mandino

Constant kindness can accomplish much As the sun makes ice melt kindness

causes misunderstanding mistrust and hostility to evaporate

Dr Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965 Medical Missionary and Nobel Prize Winner

Dwell not on the past Use it to illustrate a point then leave it behind Nothing

really matters except what you do now in this instant of time From this moment

onwards you can be an entirely different person filled with love and understanding

ready with an outstretched hand uplifted and positive in every thought and deed

Eileen Caddy 1917-2006 Spiritual Teacher and Author

Heres the problem Most people are thinking about what they dont want and

theyre wondering why it shows up over and over again

John Assaraf Speaker and Author

Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to

success when they gave up

Thomas Edison 1847-1931 Inventor and Scientist

Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on

building the life you desire

Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly

lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love

Henry Drummond 1851-1897 Scientist and Author

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 Former First Lady Author and Speaker

If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors we are at least

responsible for those we admit and entertain

Charles Newcomb ScreenwriterDirector

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To grow you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your

past Your history is not your destiny

Alan Cohen

If you want a kinder world then behave with kindness if you want a peaceful

world make peace within

Dan Millman Writer and Speaker

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality order

and diligence without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a

time

Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Writer

Believe it can be done When you believe something can be done really believe

your mind will find the ways to do it Believing a solution paves the way to solution

Dr David Schwartz Author of The Magic of Thinking Big

Close your eyes and form a realistic picture of what a post PC world might actually

look like Those who can envision a plausible future thats brighter than today will

earn the opportunity to lead

Ray Ozzie Former Chief Software Architect at Microsoft

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past worry

about the future or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely

and earnestly

- Buddha

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job tellem certainly I can - and get

busy and find out how to do it

-- Theodore Roosevelt

Dont tell me how hard you work Tell mehow much you get done

~ James Ling

Democracy arose from menlsquos thinking that if they are equal in any respect they

are equal absolutely

~ Aristotle

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The beginning is the most important part of the work

~ Plato

Bless those who choose to love and those who choose to hate that those who

choose to hate may choose to love before it is too late

--Esoligh (Underground Hip Hop Artist)

Security is mostly a superstition It does not exist in nature nor do the children

of man as a whole experience it Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than

outright exposure Life is either a daring adventure or nothing

--Helen Keller

Each new hour holds new chances for new beginings The horizon move forward

offering you space to place new steps of change

--Maya Angelou

When a man cares he is unafraid When he is fair he leaves enough for others

When he is humble he can grow

--Lao-Tzu TaoTeChung

Behold the turtle He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out

--James Bryant Conant - Educator and Diplomat

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness not because they never found it

but because they didnt stop to enjoy it

--William Feather

The light of awareness the light of consciousness arises out of a broken heart

the heart by breaking becomes an ocean accommodating all beings

-- Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom

The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need according to the

nature of your thought Your environment and financial condition are the

perfect reflection of your habitual thinking

Thought rules the world

-- Dr Joseph Edward Murphy Surgeon

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The ideals that have lighted my way and time after time have given me new

courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness beauty and truth

ndash Albert Einstein physicist

Hope is the companion of power and mother of success for who so hopes strongly

has within him the gift of miracles

~ Samuel Smiles

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those

things that failures dont like to do

~ Albert Gray

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the

link between belief and biology

- Deepak Chopra

Ive always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best

~ Akeem Olajuwon

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear

ndash Socrates philosopher

The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the

most brilliant single mind but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains

and talents of his associates

~ W Alton Jones

The reason a dog has got so many friends is because its tail waggles and not its

tongue

-Anonymous

Dont fight a problem solve it

--Millard Fuller

If things are not going well with you begin your effort at correcting the situation

by carefully examining the service you are rendering and especially the spirit in

which you are rendering it

--Roger Babson

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The starting point of all riches is the development of a prosperity consciousness

You must become a financial success in your thinking long before you achieve it in

your reality Both poverty and riches are the result of a state of mind and the

most important single step you ever take on the road to wealth and financial

independence is the decision to change your thinking to impress into your mind an

unshakable belief that you can and will achieve your financial goals This must

happen before anything else happens

-- Brian Tracy

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it

We must learn to see the world anew

- Albert Einstein

To forgive is the highest most beautiful form of love In return you will receive

untold peace and happiness

--Dr Robert Muller

Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind the stronger the

trees

--J Willard Marriott Founder of Marriott Hotels

Someday may never come So live each day better than the last That way youll

wake up with so much excitement and anticipation youlsquoll jump out of bed and shout

I cant wait

--Bob Perks

The greatest thief this world ever produced is procrastination and he is still at

large

-- Henry Wheeler Shaw 1818-1885 Humorist

If you dont know where you are going any road will get you there

-- Anonymous

Ive noticed over many years of working with corporate teams that the more

dysfunctional the team the more resistant they are to the concept of love in

the workplace What baggage is it that we drag around behind us like Linus

and his blanket which causes us to be so wounded and pathological Why are

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we blind to the observable truth that those we lead are yearning for us to

open our hearts Why are we in denial about the truth that people--all

people at work and at home--are searching for signs of our approval and

love

- Lance Secretan Industry Week 11202000 We live on our own solitary islands of reality absorbed in and fascinated by

our own points of view Frequently we reach out to one another seeking to

understand or be understood The bridge between our separate realities is

communication To communicate is to relate

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air You

name them--work family health friends and spirit--and youre keeping all

of these in the air You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball If you

drop it it will bounce back But the other four balls-- family health

friends and spirit--are made of glass If you drop one of these they will be

irrevocably scuffed marked nicked damaged or even shattered They will

never be the same You must understand that and strive for balance in your

life

- Brian Dyson CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises from 1959-1994 If you cant be a loving witness to your own anger or rage or sadness or

fear you cant be in the presence of other peoples intense emotions without

your own emotional waters being churned up a bit But if you can learn to

feel safe and fully present to the broad spectrum of emotions within your own

nature you radiate an invisible web of safety that helps others to talk about

their feelings with you

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The world we are experiencing today is the result of our collective

consciousness and if we want a new world each of us must start taking

responsibility for helping create it

- Rosemary Fillmore Rhea A New Heaven and New Earth Your relationships are actually mirrors of your consciousness When you learn

to see your own reflection in the quality of your relationships with others you

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catapult yourself on your path of personal growth and spiritual evolution

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think To put the world right in order we must first put the nation in order to put

the nation in order we must first put the family in order to put the family in

order we must first cultivate our personal life we must first set our hearts

right

- Confucious The sooner we can unburden ourselves of blame the more effective we can

be Blaming others only entrenches us in the role of the victim removing us

from our highest expression of personal power

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

Being vulnerable doesnt have to be threatening Just have the courage to be

sincere open and honest This opens the door to deeper communication all

around It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others

we all want in life Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that

burden us These secrets are what make us sick or fearful Speaking truth

helps you get clarity on your real heart directives

- Sara Paddison The Hidden Power of the Heart Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time

ago

~ Warren Buffet

The only way to do great work is to love what you do If you havent found it yet

keep looking Dont settle As with all matters of the heart youll know when you

find it

~ Steve Jobs

If you love life do not waste time for time is what life is made up of

~ Bruce Lee

I cannot teach anybody anything I can only make them think

~ Socrates

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Change before you have to

~ Jack Welch

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm

~ Winston Churchill

A leader leads by example not by force

~ Sun Tzu

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour Sit with a

pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute You have just experienced

relativity

~ Albert Einstein

Live as if you were to die tomorrow Learn as if you were to live forever

~ Mohandas Gandhi

A clever person solves a problem A wise person avoids it

~ Albert Einstein

If I have seen a little further is by standing on the shoulders of Giants

~ Sir Isaac Newton

Despair says I cannot lift that weight Happiness says I do not have to

-- James Richardson

People who know they are powerful do not need to engage in power struggles

-- Alan Cohen

No man ever stated his troubles as lightly as he might

-- Emerson

What does your spirit most want you to know and do today

-- Alan Cohen

Its not how good you are Its how bad you want it

-- Author unknown

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The better I feel about myself the less I need you to be different

-- Alan Cohen

The best form of flattery is to master the art of listening

-- Chinese proverb

The only thing more valuable than a good source of news is source of good news

-- Alan Cohen

Disappointments are the hooks upon which God hangs his victories

-- Source unknown

It matters not what youve done with your life for better or worse What

matters is what you do with your life today

-- Alan Cohen

Everyone here is not all there

-- Source unknown

If you cant unify then at least harmonize

-- Alan Cohen

Everybody is a genius But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will

spend its whole life believing that it is stupid

-- Albert Einstein

Fear is excitement without breath

-- Fritz Perls

Dont leave yourself out of the equation

-- Alan Cohen

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles

-- Bernard Baruch

They can because they think they can

~ Virgil

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Exert your talents and distinguish yourself

and dont think of retiring from the world

until the world will be sorry that you retire

~ Samuel Johnson

Energy and persistence conquer all things

~ Benjamin Franklin

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom

~ Aristotle

Heaven never helps the man who will not act

~ Sophocles

The only real journey is the journey within

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Anyone who has never made a mistake

has never tried anything new

~ Albert Einstein

Action is the food and drink

that will nourish your success

Action will destroy your procrastination

Act now for is all you have

~ Og Mandino

Computers are incredibly fast accurate and stupid

Humans are incredible slow inaccurate and brilliant

Together they are powerful beyond imagination

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~ Albert Einstein

Practice giving and you will discover how much life can give you

-- Alan Cohen

Oh for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they

ran out of money

-- Source unknown

The best way to heal a bad memory is to create a new and better one

-- Alan Cohen

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love

-- Hamilton Wright Mabie

Fear and resistance are the dragons that stand at the gate of the kingdom that

contains the jewel you seek

-- Alan Cohen

Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy forgiveness To an opponent

tolerance To a friend your heart To a customer service To all charity To

every child a good example To yourself respect

-- Oren Arnold

Affirm I always have enough time to do the things that Spirit would have me do

-- Alan Cohen

There are two obstacles to enlightenment 1 Thinking you know 2 Thinking you

dont know

-- Buddha

Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal Take care how you pay

it

-- Alan Cohen

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles

-- Bernard Baruch

Upgrade your past by seeing it with appreciation

-- Alan Cohen

Families are like fudge -- mostly sweet with a few nuts

-- Source unknown

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of

our treasures

-- Thornton Wilder

The universe does not require you to stress for good things

-- Alan Cohen

When you bless the good that befalls others it becomes yours as well

-- Alan Cohen

How many more idols must you find before your realize that you are the one you

have been searching for

-- Dan Fogelberg

All limits exist only in thought and that is where they are overcome

-- Alan Cohen

To understand unconditional love lock your wife or husband and your dog in the

trunk of your car for an hour When you open it notice to is happier to see you

-- Source unknown

Outrageous ideas are ultimately the most practical

-- Alan Cohen

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are

-- Kurt Cobain

How good can you let it get

-- Alan Cohen

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If we could look into the secret history of our enemies we should find in each

persons life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostilities

-- Longfellow

If you sense there must be more there is more

-- Alan Cohen

Do not wait the time will never be just right Start where you stand and work

with whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found

as you go along

Napoleon Hill

1883-1970 Author of Think And Grow Rich

It doesnt matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes What

matters most is getting off You cannot make progress without making decisions

Jim Rohn

1930-2009 Speaker and Author

Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do Its

a decision about Who You Are When you see this when you understand it

everything changes You begin to see life in a new way All events occurrences and

situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do

Neale Donald Walsch

Author of Conversations With God

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached dont adjust the goals

adjust the action steps

Confucius

551-479 BC Philosopher

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of

you

Henry Ward Beecher

1813-1887 Clergyman Social Reformer and Abolitionist

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Lets choose today to quench our thirst for the good life we think others lead

by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives We can then offer the

universe the gift of our grateful hearts

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Author of Peace and Plenty

Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite

impossible to foresee are ahead You can only see one thing clearly and that is your

goal Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin

Kathleen Norris

1880-1966 Novelist

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends

you choose for you will become like them

W Clement Stone

1902-2002 Businessman Philanthropist and Author

Laugh at yourself and at life Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity but

as a remedy a miracle drug that will ease your pain cure your depression and help

you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at

your predicaments thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that

is certain to come Never take yourself too seriously

Og Mandino

1923-1996 Author of The Choice

Asking is the beginning of receiving Make sure you dont go to the ocean with a

teaspoon At least take a bucket so the kids wont laugh at you

Jim Rohn

1930-2009 Author and Speaker

Happiness comes only when we push our

brains and hearts to the farthest reaches

of which we are capable

--Leo C Rosten

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Do not wait the time will never be just right

Start where you stand and work with whatever

tools you may have at your command and better

tools will be found as you go along

~ Napoleon Hill

I shall do less whenever I shall believe what

I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more

whenever I shall believe doing more will help the

cause I shall try to correct errors when shown to

be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as

they shall appear to be true views

ndash Abraham Lincoln 16th US president

If we become increasingly humble about how l

little we know we may be more eager to search

- Sir John Templeton

I dont think anyone can grow unless hes

loved exactly as he is now appreciated for

what he is rather than what he will be

Love and success always in that order Its

that simple and that difficult

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a

lifetimes work but its worth the effort

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Quoted From Lifes Journeys According

to Mister Rogers

When we do the best we can we never know

what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life

of another

ndash Helen Keller lecturer author

We are responsible for what we are and whatever

we wish ourselves to be we have the power to make

ourselves If what we are now has been the result of

our own past actions it certainly follows that whatever

we wish to be in future can be produced by our present

actions so we have to know how to act

~ Swami Vivekananda

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You dont get to choose how youre going to die Or when You can only decide how

youre going to live Now

Joan Baez Singer Songwriter and Activist The average person goes to their grave with their music still in them

Oliver Wendell Holmes ―Everyone can be great because everyone can serve

- Martin Luther King ―Whatever you can conceive and believe you can achieve

Napoleon Hill We turn not older with years but newer every day

-Emily Dickinson

When reciting affirmations feel the words in your heart as you say them and

know that what you feel youll create

Peggy McColl Author of Relax Your Way to Wealth Everyday life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust

our old programs accordingly

Dr Ann Faraday

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to

get there Then never never never give up

Vincent Peale

We only think when we are confronted with problems

John Dewey (1859-1952 American philosopher educator)

In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain

Pliny The Elder (c23-79 Roman neophatonist)

If your determination is fixed I do not counsel you to despair Few things are

impossible to diligence and skill Great works are performed not by strength but

perseverance

Samuel Johnson

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Dont waste your life in doubts and fears spend yourself on the work before you

well assured that the right performance of this hours duties will be the best

preparation for the hours or ages that follow it

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Poet and Essayist Its nice to know that we dont need to wait till tomorrow we can start to change

the world today

Wil Rose

The good man acts for honors sake and the more so the better he is and acts for

his friends sake and sacrifices his own interest

-Aristotle

In order to excel you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport You

must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism

Without a total 100 percent dedication you wont be able to do this

Willie Mays

Any time you sincerely want to make a change the first thing you must do is to

raise your standards When people ask me what really changed my life eight years

ago I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I

demanded of myself I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my

life all the things I would no longer tolerate and all the things that I aspired to

becoming

Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert

Im a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of

it

Thomas Jefferson

Bring awareness to each act Walking on the road walk fully alert eating eat with

awareness Whatsoever you are doing dont let the past and the future interfere

Be in the present Thats what awareness is all about

~Osho

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There are two dimensions to life and we should be able to touch both

One is like a wave and we call it the historical dimension

The other is like the water and we call it the ultimate dimension or nirvana

We usually touch just the wave but when we discover how to touch the water

we receive the highest fruit that meditation can offer

-Thich Nhat Hanh

Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends

Jacques Delille (1738-1813 French poet

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock the stream always wins -

not through strength but by perseverance

Jackson Brown

When you focus on whats wrong you get more of whats wrong Conversely when

you focus on whats right you get more of whats right

Gina Mollicone-Long Author of the newly released book Think Or Sink

All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave

behind is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into

another

Gail Sheehy (1937- American journalist author)

Anger is one letter away from danger

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Success means having the courage the determination and the will to become the

person you believe you were meant to be

George Sheehan 1918-1993 Physician and Author

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views

so fast as they shall appear to be new views

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 16th American President)

―One ship sails East

And another West

By the self-same winds that blow

lsquoTis the set of the sails

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And not the gales

That tells the way we go

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity Our attitude

toward it Every opportunity has a difficulty and every difficulty has an

opportunity

J Sidlow Baxter 1903-1999 Author and Theologian

If you want to be successful you must either have a chance or take one

Author Unknown

It is common sense to take a method and try it If it fails admit it frankly and try

another But above all try something

Franklin D Roosevelt

It was courage faith endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all

obstacles that built this bridge

~ John J Watson

Past Data should now be the basis of Present Truth Data from a prior time or

experience should always and only be the basis for new questions Always the

treasure should be in the questions not in the answer

-Neale Donald Walsch Even though you may want to move forward in your life you may have one foot on

the brakes In order to be free we must learn how to let go Release the hurt

Release the fear Refuse to entertain your old pain The energy it takes to hang

onto the past is holding you back from a new life What is it you would let go of

today

Mary Manin Morrissey Creator of The Miracle Mastery Conference

It is not what you are called but what you answer to

African Proverb

A failure establishes only this that our determination to succeed was not strong

enough

John Christian Bovee

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If youre not part of a solution youre a part of the problem There is no middle

road I dont think we can destroy the Earth but I think the Earth can destroy

us

-Oh Shinnah

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will

accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop

Robert Hughes

Charity is the spice of riches

Jewish Proverb

If you dont like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and

waiting for you The snake sheds its skin with impunity relying on the same nature

which you rely on

Author Unknown

Its a very funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best

you very often get it

William Somerset Maugham

A leader once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one must

be undaunted when the going gets tough

Ronald Reagan

If I accept you as you are I will make you worse however if I treat you as

though you are what you are capable of becoming I help you become that

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 Author and Philosopher

Every gun that is made every warship launched every rocket signifies in the final

sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed from those who are cold and

not clothed The world in arms is not spending money alone It is spending the

sweat of its laborers the genius of its scientists the hopes of its children

-Dwight D Eisenhower

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Service is nothing but love in work clothes

Author Unknown

A man can do all things if he but wills them

Leon Battista Alberti

A crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk just a

tinkling cymbal where there is not love

Francis Bacon 17th Century English Lord Chancellor philosopher and author

The only way to have a friend is to be one

Ralph Waldo Emerson 19th Century American author and poet

Its not what you do once in a while its what you do day in and day out that

makes the difference

Jenny Craig Diet Specialist

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on

the labors of other men living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to

give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving

Albert Einstein (1879-1955 German-born American physicist)

A resolute determination is the truest wisdom

Napoleon I

Without consistency there is no moral strength

Author Unknown

See first that the design is wise and just that ascertained pursue it resolutely

William Shakespeare

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

-Dale Carnegie

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself

William Penn (1644-1718 British religious leader founder of Pennsylvania)

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How we think shows through in how we act Attitudes are mirrors of the mind

They reflect thinking

David J Schwartz Trainer and Author

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but

to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment

Dorothy Nevill

Vision is freely given to those who ask to see

-Course in Miracles

Tough times never last but tough people do

Dr Robert Schuller

A sure way to lose happiness I found is to want it at the expense of everything

else

Bette Davis (1908-1989 American actress producer)

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything

Alexander Hamilton

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference He has

it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter

Norman Cousins (1915-1990 American editor humanitarian author)

The practice of medicine is an art not a trade a calling not a business a calling in

which your heart will be exercised equally with your head Often the best part of

your work will have nothing to do with powders or potions

-Sir William Osler

Strength does not come from physical capacity It comes from an indomitable

will

~ Mahatma Gandhi

―You dont love someone for their looks or their clothes or for their fancy car

but because they sing a song only you can hear

Anon

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―They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever

Oscar Wilde

―Love is like a friendship caught on fire In the beginning a flame very pretty

often hot and fierce but still only light and flickering As love grows older our

hearts mature and our love becomes as coals deep-burning and unquenchable

Bruce Lee

―Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty

John Finely

―It takes a lot of understanding time and trust to gain a close friendship with

someone As I approach a time of my life of complete uncertainty my friends are

my most precious asset

Anon

―Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process

Harold S Geneen People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest

- Hermann Hesse 1877-1962 Civilization is a method of living an attitude of equal respect for all men

- Jane Addams 1860-1935 The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next

- Matthew Arnold 1822-1888

Vacillating people seldom succeed Successful men and women are very careful in

reaching their decisions and very persistent and determined in action thereafter

~ L G Elliott

Those with goals tend to succeed because they are focused and know where they

are going while those without goals do not

Ted Karam Author from his new book Jumping On Water Awaken Your Joy - Empower Your Life

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Every time you go out on the ice there are slight flaws You can always think of

something you should have done better These are the things you must work on

Dorothy Hamill (1956- American figure skater)

Until you make the unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it

fate

~ Carl Jung When you speak of someone or about someone you should speak as though they

were in the room with you The ears that you speak to today are attached to the

mouth that could relay the message tomorrow

William Biddy Allen 1903-2001 Bus Driver - Loving father of 7 children

It is no failure to fall short of realizing all that we might dream The failure is to

fall short of dreaming all that we might realize

-Dee Hock When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they

are regarded by others let them reflect how little they have contributed to the

happiness of others

Author Unknown

I have become my own version of an optimist If I cant make it through one door

Ill go through another door - or Ill make a door Something terrific will come no

matter how dark the present

~ Rabindranath Tagore

―The present moment

contains past and future

The secret of transformation

is in the way we handle this very moment

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926 - present Vietnamese Buddhist monk)

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―Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it Do not believe in

anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many Do not believe in

anything simply because it is found written in your religious books Do not believe in

anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders Do not believe in

traditions because they have been handed down for many generations But after

observation and analysis when you find that anything agrees with reason and is

conducive to the good and benefit of one and all then accept it and live up to it

Buddha (Founder of Buddhism 568 - 488 BC) I try to avoid looking forward or backward and try to keep looking upward

Charlotte Bronte

Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action for all eternity

Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801 Theologian

There is only one duty only one safe course and that is to try to be right

Winston Churchill (1874-1965 British statesman Prime Minister)

We are born at a given moment in a given place and like vintage years of wine we

have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born Astrology

does not lay claim to anything more

-Carl Jung

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them One is more

delightful for being told one is delightful -- just as one is angrier for being told

one is angry

Katherine F Gerould

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread they can sure make something out

of you

~ Muhammed Ali Beware of the thoughts you keep because everything in reality manifests from

the mind

Justin Palmer Second Year College Student

Confess you were wrong yesterday it will show you are wise today

Author Unknown

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We must accept finite disappointment but we must never lose infinite hope

~ Martin Luther King Jr

In the beginning the Universe was created

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move

-Douglas Adams

Any individual can be in time what he earnestly desires to be if he but set his

face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing and bring all his powers to bear

upon its attainment

Herman J Randall

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world

~ Helen Keller Many of lifes failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success

when they gave up

~ Thomas Edison

When you give your undivided attention to something there is a softening and

opening in the listener that allows access to the meaning underneath the words

-Betty Burkes

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they

are about to change the world I am more awed by those who struggle to make one

small difference

Ellen Goodman Journalist

If you look into your own heart you find nothing wrong there what is there to

fear

Confucius (BC 551-479 Chinese ethical teacher philosopher) Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls

~ Mother Teresa What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self-

conceit For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he

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already knows

- Epictetus 55 AD-135 AD

There are admirable potentialities in every human being Believe in your strength

and your youth Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself It all depends on me

- Andre Gide 1869-1951

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage

- Anais Nin 1903-1977 Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in

other areas But can it really True effectiveness requires balance

~ Stephen Covey

I dont pay good wages because I have a lot of money I have a lot of money

because I pay good wages

- Robert Bosch Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do

the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not it is

the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a mans training

begins it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly

Thomas H Huxley 1825-1895 Biologist

The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have and to be able

to lose all desire for things beyond your reach

Yutang Lin (1895-1976 Chinese writer and philologist)

Men are failures not because they are stupid but because they are not

sufficiently impassioned

Struther Burt

If you look at what you have in life youll always have more If you look at what

you dont have in life youll never have enough

Oprah Winfrey Television Host Producer and Philanthropist

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Im trying not to look too far ahead All Im thinking is one shot at a time one hole

at a time and thats what I want to keep doing

Michelle McGann

I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed but the spirit in

which we face them that constitutes our comfort

-Elizabeth T King My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content

with your failure

~ Abraham Lincoln

―There is nothing but love and all else is illusion

- Dr John Demartini There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer no disease that enough

love will not heal no door that enough love will not open

- Emmet Fox

All my limitations are self-imposed and my liberation can only come from true self-

love

- Max C Robinson

We fail to see that we can control our own destiny make ourselves do whatever is

possible make ourselves become whatever we long to be

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine )

To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will

~ Sugar Ray Robinson 1920-1989 Boxer

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall

Confucius

Half the people you know are above average

-Steven Wright

Your close relationships are either a catalyst for manifesting what you really

want or theyre a hindrance to your manifestation If you truly value the power of

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love in your life you owe it to yourself to discover how to tap into the power of

your relationship as a force for manifestation

Drs Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up Even when they do it is not

perfect and they sigh for more and lose better things in struggling for them

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888 American author )

One is not idle because one is absorbed There is both visible and invisible labor To

contemplate is to toil to think is to do The crossed arms work the clasped hands

act The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation

Victor Hugo (1802-1885 French poet dramatist novelist)

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of

greed in the headlines

-Charles Kuralt

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our

focus we never concentrate our power Most people dabble their way through life

never deciding to master anything in particular

Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)

In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time

~ Anthony J DAngelo

Courage comes from wanting to do it well Security comes from knowing you can do

it well Confidence comes from having done it well

~ Author Unknown

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel

Napoleon Hill

There is a true genius in everyone But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a

tree it would never stop doubting itself

~ Einstein~

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People ask for criticism but they only want praise

- W Somerset Maugham 1874-1965 Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts for if

you let it pass the desire may never return and you may remain in ignorance

- William Wirt 1772-1834 Cynicism is not realistic and tough Its unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it

means you dont have to try

- Peggy Noonan 1950-present There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into

gear

David Mahoney Executive and Philanthropist You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences

W Somerset Maugham (1874-1965 British novelist playwright)

Dont ask yourself what the world needs Ask yourself what makes you come alive

and then go and do that Because what the world needs are people who have come

alive

~ Howard Thurman When a great moment knocks on the door of your life it is often no louder than

the beating of your heart and it is very easy to miss it -Boris Pasternak Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure

~ Thomas Alva Edison

To be successful you have to have your heart in your business and your business in

your heart

- Thomas Watson Sr Begin challenging your own assumptions Your assumptions are your windows on the

world Scrub them off every once and a while or the light wont come in

Alan Alda Actor Writer and Director

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I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most

argumentative

Giovani della Casa (1503-1556 Papal secretary of state)

Have you ever felt like you wanted to go but you felt like you wanted to stay

- Song Lyric Jimmy Durante

To live is the rarest thing in the world most people exist that is all

~ Oscar Wilde

Awareness is like a beam of light that shines endlessly into space We only

perceive that light when it is reflected off some object and consciousness is

producedAwareness is the light by which we see the worldWe mistake the clear

light of pure awareness for the shadows that it casts in consciousnessWe forget

that we are the light itself and imagine that we are the densities that reflect the

light back to us

-Stephen Levine Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal

Albert Camus (1913-1960 French existential writer) The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation

Mark Twain

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn Our rewards

will always be in exact proportion to our service

Earl Nightingale 1921-1989 Author of The Strangest Secret

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he

knows where he is going

Napoleon Hill

Wisdom tells me I am nothing

Love tells me I am everything

And between the two my life flows

-Nisargadatta Maharaj

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No employer today is independent of those about him He cannot succeed alone no

matter how great his ability or capital Business today is more than ever a question

of cooperation

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)

Shoot for the moon Even if you miss youll land among the stars

Les Brown

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world

Joseph Addison (1672-1719 British essayist poet statesman)

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a

fate that falls on man unless they act

~ G K Chesterton

Find something positive to think about and dont let the conversation in your head

end with a negative comment Always end on a positive comment

Dr Tomi Bryan and Dr Jerry White From their latest release The 5 Keys To The Great Life

Whales do not sing because they have a message They sing because they have a

song

-Ashes and Snow

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life

- Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956

Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though

checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor

suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor

defeat

- Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting

- Stanislaw Leszczynski 1677-1766

There is no joy in getting by on your job - doing as little as you can There is a

LOT of pleasure in doing more than you have to And whosoever shall compel you

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to go a mile go with him twain says the Bible wisely

-Norman Carlisle

We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once

Calvin Coolidge

The starting point of all achievement is desire Keep this constantly in mind Weak

desires bring weak results just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat

Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think and Grow Rich

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me

instead of looking within myself to see what was there

Belle Livingstone

Rather than thinking if and when start doing take action stop talking about if

and when

~ Catherine Pulsifer

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity -

Ayn Rand

Being a man or indeed being human is not something for which one should

apologize but something to which one should aspire and with all the gusto he can

muster

-- David Cunningham

The question isnt who is going to let me its who is going to stop me

- Howard Roark The Fountainhead 1943

I am the Master of my Fate Captain of my Soul

-- W E Henley

Whatever you can do or dream you can begin it

Boldness has genius power and magic in it

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me

instead of looking within myself to see what was there

Belle Livingstone

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality order

and diligence without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a

time

Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Novelist

The path to success is to take massive determined action

Anthony Robbins

All of the significant battles are waged within the self

Sheldon Kopp (1929- American psychologist)

Follow effective action with quiet reflection From the quiet reflection will come

even more effective action

~ Peter F Drucker

Dont be dismayed at good-byes

A farewell is necessary before you can meet again

And meeting again after moments or lifetimes

is certain for those who are friends

-Richard Bach

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual

sense of humor

Thomas W Higginson 1823-1911 Minister Abolitionist and Author

When performance exceeds ambition the overlap is called success

Cullen Hightower

Well done is better than well said

Benjamin Franklin

The first and the best victory is to conquer self

Plato (BC 427-347 Greek philosopher)

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Man is what he believes

-Anton Chekhov One half of life is luck the other half is discipline - and thats the important half

for without discipline you wouldnt know what to do with luck

Carl Zuckmeyer 1896-1977 Writer and Playwright

Try and fail but dont fail to try

~ Stephen Kaggwa

I believe that one of the greatest gifts we have been given is our imagination It

costs nothing to access is available 247 and is our doorway to freedom With

imagination we have inside of us the most amazing ability to change our state and

transform our life in a moment

~ Veronica Hay The world is full of abundance and opportunity but far too many people come to

the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car a teaspoon instead of a

steam shovel They expect little and as a result they get little

Ben Sweetland Author of I Will Blessed is the person who sees the need recognizes the responsibility and actively

becomes the answer

William A Ward

I am not a mechanism an assembly of various sections

And it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly that I am ill

I am ill because of wounds to the soul to the deep emotional self

And the wounds to the soul take a long long time only time can help

And patience and a certain difficult repentance

Long difficult repentance realization on lifes mistake and the freeing of oneself

From the endless repetition of the mistake

Which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify

-D H Lawrence

Victory belongs to the most persevering

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Gratitude opens doors It paves the way to abundance and prosperity like nothing

else

It can line your pockets with gold and fill your bank account quicker than a New

York minute

Yet how many of you are living from a thankful heart each day

~Veronica Hay Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe

Bruce Springsteen You gain strength and courage and confidence by each experience in which we

really stop to look fear in the face You must do that which we think we cannot

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 Social Activist and First Lady of the United States

Dont let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you Instead give to

yourself that which empowers you

Les Brown (1945- American speaker author trainer motivator)

―The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having

new eyes

~ Marcel Proust

―Then your light shall break forth like the dawn and your healing shall spring up

quickly

~ Isaiah 588

―And your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music

from it or confused sounds

mdash Kahlil Gibran

In every life the most important change is self-change -- and in every situation

the principles are the same

- J Kingston Cowart

It takes courage to lead a life Any life

Erica Jong

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Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time

-Ken Wilber

Peoples tendency towards good is as waters tendency is to flow downhill

Mencius When I let go of what I am I become what I might be

~ Lao Tsu

The higher my rank the more humbly I behave The greater my power the less I

exercise it The richer my wealth the more I give away Thus I avoid respectively

envy and spite and misery

~ Sun Shu Ao

There is no greater happiness than freedom from worry and there is no greater

wealth than contentment

~Lao Tsu

Failure lies not in falling down Failure lies in not getting up

~ Chinese proverb

A meal however simple is a moment of intersection It is at once the most basic

the most fundamental of our lifes activities maintaining the life of our bodies

Shared with others it can be an occasion of joy and communion uniting people

deeply

~ Elise Boulding The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms

-- Socrates You are never going to get it all done - you just wont Rather you will find order

and peace in your workday if you accept it and then do one more thing Implement

a system that consistently shows you whats most critical at any moment what to

do after the critical and where to find everything else when you need to That

system is not hard - its quite simple to set up

Michael Linenberger From Master Your Workday Now Check out his book and bonuses

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Time is limited so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have

just one chance to live this particular day right and to string my days together

into a life of action and purpose

Lance Armstrong 7-Time Winner of the Tour de France

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value

Albert Einstein

We have contributed each in the time allotted us our endeavors to render a

permanent blessing to our country

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826 Third American President)

If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost that is where they

should be Now put foundations under them

~ Henry David Thoreau

If you didnlsquot musterbate then you wouldnlsquot awfulize terribilize

catastrophize say ―I canlsquot stand it and put yourself down

If you only stuck with ―Ilsquod like very much to do well but I never

have to you wouldnlsquot then disturb yourself hellip musterbation is

evil and pernicious

- Albert Ellis

There are 2 theories to arguing with a womanneither works

-Will Rogers

Dont tell me that worry doesnt do any good said the over-worked executive I

know better The things I worry about never happen

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Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were

innocent Anger is natural Grief is appropriate Healing is mandatory Restoration

is possible

~ Jane Rubietta

Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can

~ Richard Bach

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Inspiration and genius--one and the same

~ Victor Hugo

It is important to acknowledge a mistake instantly correct it and learn from it

That literally turns a failure into a success Success is on the far side of failure

TJ Watson 1874-1956 Founder if IBM

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of

inspiration

~ George Eliot

Trust your hunches Theyre usually based on facts filed away just below the

conscious level

Dr Joyce Brothers Psychologist and Television Personality Every artist was first an amateur

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a

true master For this reason mastery demands all of a person

Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Theoretical Physicist Philosopher and Author In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain

Pliny The Elder (c23-79 Roman neophatonist)

The more difficulties one has to encounter within and without the more

significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be

Horace Bushnell

If the sky falls hold up your hands

Spanish Proverb

Begin with the end in mind

Stephen Covey

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good try to use ordinary

situations

- Jean Paul Richter 1763-1825 German Novelist

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No great man ever complains of want of opportunities

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If people knew how hard I worked to gain my mastery it wouldnt seem so

wonderful

Michelangelo 1475-1564 Painter Sculptor and Architect

We only think when we are confronted with problems

John Dewey (1859-1952 American philosopher educator)

Men do less than they ought unless they do all they can

~ Thomas Carlyle

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex It takes a touch of

genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction

~Albert Einstein

―Ecstasy is your very nature not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary

~Osho

The quieter you can become the more youre able to hear

~Chinese Proverb

The only real valuable thing is intuition

~ Albert Einstein

To be ecstatic is natural spontaneous It needs no effort to be ecstatic it needs

great effort to be miserable

~Osho

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight

Anita DeFrantz Olympic Rower Everyday life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust

our old programs accordingly

Dr Ann Faraday

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I live my life in widening circles

that reach out across the world

I may not ever complete the last one

But I give myself to it

I have been circling for thousands of years

And I still dont know

Am I a falcon a storm or a great song

-Rilke

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to

make them come true

~ Leon J Suenes

Dont be a cynic and disconsolate preacher Dont bewail and moan Omit the

negative propositions Challenge us with incessant affirmatives Dont waste

yourself in rejection or bark against the bad but chant the beauty of the good

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once whether

youre ready or not to put it into action

Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author

Fall seven times stand up eight

Japanese proverb

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars

or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven

to the human spirit

~ Helen Keller

Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends

Jacques Delille (1738-1813 French poet)

First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have

to do

Epictetus

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to

make them come true

Leon J Suenes

If you would create something you must be something

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Stay together friends

Dont scatter and sleep

Our friendship is made

Of being awake

The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away weeping

That way it stays in the garden whereas another roundness rolls

through a dry riverbed looking for what it thinks it wants

Stay here quivering with each moment like a drop of mercury

-Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives as parallel realities It is

always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend when we choose not

to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance

thats present love health family friends work the joys of nature and personal

pursuits that bring us pleasure the wasteland of illusion falls away and we

experience heaven on earth

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach Any time you sincerely want to make a change the first thing you must do is to

raise your standards When people ask me what really changed my life eight years

ago I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I

demanded of myself I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my

life all the things I would no longer tolerate and all the things that I aspired to

becoming

~ Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert) Its nice to know that we dont need to wait till tomorrow we can start to change

the world today

~ Wil Rose

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A bird doesnt sing because it has an answer it sings because it has a song

~ Maya Angelou

Great minds have purposes little minds have wishes Little minds are subdued by

misfortunes great minds rise above them

~ Washington Irving

Step by step I cant think of any other way of accomplishing anything

~ Michael Jordan

If you employed study thinking and planning time daily you could develop and use

the power that can change the course of your destiny

~ W Clement Stone

We are called to speak for the weak for the voiceless for victims of our nation

and for those it calls enemy for no document from human hands can make these

humans any less than our brothers

-Dr Martin Luther King Jr

Disposal of hazardous wastes is not the root problem Rather it is the root

symptom

-Hawken Paul There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the

things we do

Freya Stark

Try a little harder to be a little better

Gordon B Hinckley

If you love something and stick with it you will get phenomenal results

Bob Proctor

You can chain me you can torture me you can even destroy this body but you will

never imprison my mind

Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Political and Spiritual Leader

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Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and

triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friends forehead

Chinese Proverb Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs

Michael Levine

Nurture your mind with great thoughts To believe in the heroic makes heroes

Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881 British Prime Minister The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your

blueprint or plan Strategies are like recipes choose the right ingredients mix

them in the correct proportions and you will always produce the same predictable

results

~ Charles J Givens

More than anything else I believe its our decisions not the conditions of our

lives that determine our destiny

Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)

Happy the manwoman who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his

wishes and his powers

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I hope that my achievements in life shall be these that I will have fought for what

was right and fair that I will have risked for that which mattered and that I will

have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better

place for what Ive done and who Ive been

~ C Hoppe

The vision that you glorify in your mind the ideal that you enthrone in your heart

this you will build your life by and this you will become

James Allen

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Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony

Gandhi

There never was a time when in my opinion some way could not be found to

prevent the drawing of the sword

-General Grant To be a warrior

is to be genuine

in every moment of your life

-Chogyam Trungpa Im convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs

from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance

- Steve Jobs Regret for wasted time is more wasted time

Mason Cooley

Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow

Les Brown (1945- American speaker author trainer motivator)

More than anything else I believe its our decisions not the conditions of our

lives that determine our destiny

Anthony Robbins Author and Speaker

Material possessions will rust away wear away or depreciate but your inner

resources character must never depreciate In seeking success you must also seek

fulfillment Ask yourself not only what you want to be but who you want to be

~ Elizabeth Dole Anything in life that we dont accept will simply make trouble for us until we make

peace with it

~ Shakti Gawain

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious

stupidity

-Dr Martin Luther King Jr

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Real integrity is doing the right thing knowing that nobodys going to know

whether you did it or not

Oprah Winfrey Talk Show Host Producer and Philanthropist

If you must begin then go all the way because if you begin and quit the unfinished

business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time

Chogyam Trungpa

I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career I have lost almost 300 games

On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot and I

missed I have failed over and over and over again in my life And thats precisely

why I succeedcc

~ Michael Jordan

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what

they most enjoy

~ Malcolm Forbes

Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future

Paul Boese Botanist

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons

determination

Tommy Lasorda (1927- American baseball manager) I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more

~ Dr Jonas Salk The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame

Rod Steiger

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul

~ Marcus Aurelius

The best way

to make your dreams come true

is to wake up

-Kabir

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You can do what you have to do and sometimes you can do it even better than you

think you can

Jimmy Carter (1924- American President (39th)) ―If you create an act you create a habit If you create a habit you create a

character If you create a character you create a destiny

ndash Andre Maurois They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them

feel

~ Carl W Buechner When you affirm big believe big and pray big putting faith into action big things

happen

Dr Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993 Preacher and Author You never will be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are taken

out of your life

~ James G Bilkey

In every difficult situation is potential value Believe this then begin looking for it

Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993 American Christian reformed pastor speaker author)

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832 German poet dramatist novelist)

Being vulnerable doesnt have to be threatening Just have the courage to be

sincere open and honest This opens the door to deeper communication all around

It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want

in life Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us These

secrets are what make us sick or fearful Speaking truth helps you get clarity on

your real heart directives

-Sara Paddison

The best thing to spend on your children is your time

~ Louise Hart

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The best things come to those who wait

- Unknown

Ask five economists and youll get five different explanations six if one went to

Harvard

~ Edgar R Fiedler There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through

encouragement from someone else I dont care how great how famous or

successful a man or woman may be each hungers for applause

~ George M Adams Do not fear death fear the unlived life

Natalie Babbitt Leadership is no longer about your position Its now more about your passion for

excellence and making a difference You can lead without a title

Robin Sharma

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back The great champions have

all come back from defeat

Sam Snead (1912-2002 American golfer)

What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision

-Helen Keller The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement

Yet almost no one gets the encouragement they need

to grow to their full potential If everyone received the

encouragement they need to grow the genius in most

everyone would blossom and the world would produce

abundance beyond the wildest dreams We would have

more than one Einstein Edison Schweitzer Mother

Theresa Dr Salk and other great minds in a century

~Sidney Madwed

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Dont build your happiness on someone elses unhappiness

~ Richard Rose

―The mind turned inwards is the Self turned outwards it becomes the ego and all

the world

~ Ramana Maharshi

Somewhere there is someone who dreams of your smile and finds in your presence

that life is worthwhile

So when you are lonely remember its true somebody somewhere is thinking of

you

~ Anon

If youre open to altering your plans a bit you might achieve even better results

than youd anticipated

Peggy McColl A strong passion for any object will ensure success for the desire of the end will

point out the means

William Hazlitt (1778-1830 British essayist)

Successful people dont do different things they just do things differently

- Unknown You never will be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are

taken out of your life

James G Bilkey Author

Dreams do come true if we only wish hard enough You can have anything in life if

you will sacrifice everything else for it

James M Barrie (1860-1937 British playwright)

Seven blunders of the world

that lead to violence

wealth without work

pleasure without conscience

knowledge without character

commerce without morality

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science without humanity

worship without sacrifice

politics without principle

-Mahatma Gandhi

When people speak of prosperity they generally mean success and measure it in

terms of financial abundance There are books seminars and training sessions

designed to help individuals to be prosperous Clearly many are seeking the path to

prosperity Ironically when one is seeking prosperity the message they give to

themselves and the universe is that they do not have enough This is a scarcity

mentality and tends only to manifest more scarcity

~ Gwen Randall Young Money makes money and the money makes more money

~ Benjamin Franklin

BE the change you wish to see in the world

- Ghandhi The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched

They must be felt with the heart

~ Hellen Keller

Understanding does not cure evil but it is a definite help inasmuch as one can cope

with a comprehensible darkness

-Carl Jung

You are not powerless about anything

When you get a vision and then find

alignment with it you ARE powerful

And then amazing things begin to

happen around you

- Abraham-Hicks

Be kind whenever possible It is always possible

~ Dalai Lama

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A consistent soul believes in destiny a capricious one in chance

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881 British statesman Prime Minister)

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots

George Herbert (1593-1632 British metaphysical poet)

It is not the greatness of a mans means that makes him independent so much as

the smallness of his wants

William Cobbett (1762-1835 British journalist reformer)

If you desire many things many things will seem few

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790 American scientist publisher diplomat) Its the little things you do that can make a big difference What are you

attempting to accomplish What little thing can you do today that will make you

more effective You are probably only one step away from greatness

Bob Proctor Author and Speaker You may delay but time will not and lost time is never found again

~ Benjamin Franklin

Procrastination is the seed of self-destruction

~ Matthew Burton

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light

~ Helen Keller

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength

~ Sigmund Freud

Blessed are those that can give without remembering and take without

forgetting

~ Liz Bebesco Waiting is a trap There will always be reasons to wait

The truth is there are only two things in life reasons and results and reasons

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simply dont count

~ Dr Robert Anthony

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become

wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing The long

term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their

Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed

~ Srully Blotnick

If now there is something you

choose to experience in your life

do not want it -- choose it

Do you choose success in worldly

terms Do you choose more money

Good Then choose it Really

Fully Not half-heartedly

- Conversations with God Book 1

Its a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best you

very often get it

-Somerset Maugham

A world of abundance surrounds you if only you will step up and claim it Make life

happen through you rather than letting it happen to you It will make all the

difference in the world

- Ralph Marston Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving

it

~ William Arthur Ward

We must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible

otherwise we would not continue to search

-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Prosperity consciousness is the awareness that all of us have something of value

to offer and we all deserve to get paid for what we provide to others

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Peggy McColl Author of Viral Explosions Proven Techniques to Expand Explode or Ignite Your Business Or Brand Online Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying

~ Christian Furchtegott Gellert

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it

- Lou Holtz Procrastination is opportunitys natural assassin

~ Victor Kiam Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough

- Og Mandino 1923-1996 American Motivational Author and Speaker When you judge others you do not define them you define yourself

~ Earl Nightingale

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly

~ Richard Bach

If you tell the truth you dont have to remember anything

-Mark Twain

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity

belonging to them

William Hazlitt (1778-1830 British essayist)

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back The great champions

have all come back from defeat

Sam Snead 1912-2002 Golfer Faith is the assurance of things hoped for

- Unknown

The mediocre teacher tells The good teacher explains The superior teacher

demonstrates The great teacher inspires

~ William A Ward

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Never complain and never explain

~ --Benjamin Disraeli

Bless a thing and it will bless you Curse it and it will curse you If you bless a

situation it has no power to hurt you

Emmet Fox 1886-1951 Spiritual Leader Man alone has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man

alone can dream and make his dreams come true

Napoleon Hill (1883-1970 American speaker author Think And Grow Rich) Without AMBITION one starts nothing Without WORK one finishes nothing

The prize will NOT be sent to you You have to WIN it

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is to try to please

everyone

- Bill Cosby What we leave behind is not engraved in stone monuments but woven into the lives

of others

~ Pericles The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of

being unwanted

~ Mother Teresa (1910-1997 Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary)

Tough times never last Tough people do

-Robert Schuller

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions

- Eric Butterworth

A fellow at one of my workshops confessed For years I was so miserable that I

prayed to God daily to let me wake up as happy as my dog I went home and

thought about it Am I as happy as my dog Hmmmm

~ Alan Cohen

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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future You must break out of

your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the

unknown

Denis Waitley Author and Speaker

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us

William Feather (1888-19 American writer businessman )

It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow but only

empties today of its strength

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892 Preacher

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win by fearing to

attempt

William Shakespeare (1564-1616 British poet playwright actor)

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future You must break out of

your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the

unknown

Denis Waitley (1933- American author speaker trainer peak performance expert)

Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as

it should There are no mistakes anywhere at any time What appears to be wrong

is simply your own false imagination Thats all

~Robert Adams

How many ideas have there been in history that were unthinkable ten years

before they appeared

~Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Life in itself is an empty canvas it becomes whatsoever you paint on it You can

paint misery you can paint bliss This freedom is your glory

~Osho

―Cease trying to work everything out with your minds it will get you nowhere Live

instead by intuition and inspiration let your whole life become a revelation

~Eileen Caddy

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People should appreciate ugliness because if it wasnt for ugliness beautiful

things wouldnt look beautiful

~ Sam Lau

No great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig If

you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time Let it first

blossom then bear fruit then ripen

~Epictetus

You are the Self that perfect immutable Self Nothing else exists Nothing else

ever existed Nothing else will ever exist There is only one Self and you are That

Rejoice

~Robert Adams

Part of being a champ is acting like a champ You have to learn how to win and not

run away when you lose Everyone has bad stretches and real successes Either way

you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get too confident

~ Nancy Kerrigan

Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they

have deep inside them - a desire a dream a vision

~ Muhammad Ali

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents works his tail off to

develop them into skills and uses these skills to accomplish his goals

~ Larry Bird

Every time you smile at someone it is an action of love a gift to that person a

beautiful thing

-Mother Teresa

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end Its not a day when you

lounge around doing nothing its when youve had everything to do and youve done

it

-Lord Acton

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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do

- Walter Bagehot

Only the weak are cruel Gentleness can only be expected from the strong

~ Leo Buscaglia

If you are too busy to spend time with your children then you are busier than God

intended you to be

~ Rabbi Mendel Epstein

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards

~ Soren Kierkegaard

Procrastination is the fear of success People procrastinate because they are

afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now Because

success is heavy carries a responsibility with it it is much easier to procrastinate

and live on the someday Ill philosophy

~ Denis Waitley

Happiness cannot come from without It must come from within

~ Helen Keller

I make occasional visits to reality But Im not a full- time resident

-Ashleigh Brilliant

People are like sticks of dynamite The power is on the inside but nothing happens

until the fuse gets lit

Mac Anderson Author Are you disappointed discouraged and discontented with your present level of

success Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present status Do you want to

become a better and more beautiful person than you are today Would you like to

be able to really learn how to be proud of yourself and still not lose genuine

humility Then start dreaming Itlsquos possible You can become the person you have

always wanted to be

Robert H Schuller (1926- American minister author social leader)

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You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant

aspiration

- James Allen 1864-1912 Author of As A Man Thinketh

The man who has done his best has done everything

~ Charles Schwab Though no one can go back and make a brand new start anyone can start from now

and make a brand new ending

~ Carl Bard

When I get ready to talk to people I spend two thirds of the time thinking what

they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say

Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 16th President of the United States Discontent is the first necessity of progress

Thomas A Edison (1847-1931 American inventor founder of GE)

You dont get to choose how youre going to die Or when You can only decide how

youre going to live - now

- Joan Baez Singer Songwriter

Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as

it should There are no mistakes anywhere at any time What appears to be wrong

is simply your own false imagination Thats all You are the Self that perfect

immutable Self Nothing else exists Nothing else ever existed Nothing else will

ever exist There is only one Self and you are That Rejoice

~Robert Adams If your dream is a big dream and if you want your life to work on the high level

that you say you do theres no way around doing the work it takes to get you

there

~ Joyce Chapman We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an

imperfect person perfectly

~ Sam Keen

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―A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe a part limited in time

and space He experiences himself his thoughts and feeling as something

separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness This

delusion is a kind of prison for us restricting us to our personal desires and to

affection for a few persons nearest to us Our task must be to free ourselves from

this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and

the whole of nature in its beauty

-- Albert Einstein

―Each contact with a human being is so rare so precious one should preserve it

- Anais Nin

―Only connect That was the whole of her sermon Only connect the prose and the

passion and both will be exalted and human love will be seen at its height Live in

fragments no longer Only connect

-- EM Forster

―Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the

self And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our

connectedness to others

-- Harriet Goldhor Lerner

―And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to

do the same As we are liberated from our fear our presence automatically

liberates others

-- Marianne Williamson

No no we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like

waters and righteousness like a mighty stream

Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968 American Civil Rights leader Nobel Prize winner 964)

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a

very long time

~ Andre Gide (1869-1951 French author)

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Write down the thoughts of the moment Those that come unsought for are

commonly the most valuable

Francis Bacon 1561-1626 Philosopher Statesman Scientist and Author

A woman should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart and set out to

accomplish it Even if she fails again and again to accomplish her purpose (as she

necessarily must until weakness is overcome) the strength of character gained will

be the measure of her true success and this will form a new starting point for

future power and triumph

~ James Allen

To be blind is bad but worse is to have eyes and not see

~ Helen Keller

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning

to see an imperfect person perfectly

` Sam Keen

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start anyone can

start from now and make a brand new ending

` Carl Bard Always make a total effort even when the odds are against you

Arnold Palmer (1929- American golfer)

Learning is finding out what you already know Doing is demonstrating that you

know it Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you You are

all learners doers teachers

Richard Bach (1936- American author)

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day

Jenner Bruce 1949- American track athlete author speaker

Doubt whom you will but never yourself

John Christian Bovee (1820-1904 American author lawyer)

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When you give someone a book you dont give him just paper ink and glue You

give him the possibility of a whole new life

Christopher Morley 1890-1957 Novelist Journalist and Poet

Dont be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality If you can dream

it you can make it so

Belva Davis Award-Winning Journalist

The secret of mans being is not only to live but to have something to live for

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose

Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity and high purpose by itself is

utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Watch your thoughts they become words

Watch your words they become actions

Watch your actions they become habits

Watch your habits they become character

Watch your character it becomes your destiny

~ Frank Outlaw

Take good care of your future because thats where youre going to spend the

rest of your life

~ Charles F Kettering

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams

John Barrymore

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground

Stephen Covey

Its never too late to be what you might have been

George Elliot

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Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder

than anything we can say

Wilfred Peterson

True peace is not merely the absence of some negative force - tension confusion

or war it is the presence of some positive force - justice good will and

brotherhood

-Martin Luther King Jr

The important thing in this world is not where we stand but in what direction we

move

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing Action always

generates inspiration Inspiration seldom generates action

-Frank Tibolt

The only way to eliminate waris to love our children more than we hate our enemies

-Golda Meir

It has never been and never will be easy work But the road that is built in hope

is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they

both lead to the same destination

~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

And in the end its not the years in your life that count Its the life in your

years

~ Abraham Lincoln

Hold your head high stick your chest out You can make it It gets dark

sometimes but morning comes Keep hope alive

~ Jesse Jackson

Set your sights high the higher the better Expect the most wonderful things to

happen not in the future but right now Realize that nothing is too good Allow

absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way

Eileen Caddy Author

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To understand the heart and mind of a person look not at what he has already

achieved but at what he aspires to do

Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931 Lebanese poet novelist )

Bring everything up to the surface Accept your humanity your animality

Whatsoever is there accept it without any condemnation Acceptance is

transformation because through acceptance awareness becomes possible

~Osho

What is the best thing about being 100 years old Lack of peer pressure

-Michael Pritchard

The more credit you give away the more will come back to you The more you help

others the more they will want to help you

~ Brian Tracy

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact

~ William James

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes Chance nature

compulsions habit reason passion desire

~ Aristotle When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth think of Algebra

-Will Rogers

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say Yes Ive got

dreams of course Ive got dreams Then they put the box away and bring it out

once in a while to look in it and yep theyre still there These are great dreams

but they never even get out of the box It takes an uncommon amount of guts to

put your dreams on the line to hold them up and say How good or how bad am I

Thats where courage comes in

~ Erma Bombeck

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You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really

stop to look fear in the face You must do the thing which you think you cannot

do

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you love the money will follow

Marsha Sinetar (American author To Build The Life You Want Create The Work You Love)

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement we must choose freedom and the

responsibility this entails

Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998 American expert on love lecturer author)

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt and the dream will take care of

itself You may be surprised at how easily this happens Your doubts are not as

powerful as your desires unless you make them so

Marcia Wieder (American speaker trainer author)

I work every day -- or at least I force myself into my office or room I may get

nothing done but you dont earn bonuses without putting in time Nothing may

come for three months but you dont earn the fourth without it

Mordecai Richler (1931- Canadian writer)

If things are not going well with you begin your effort at correcting the situation

by carefully examining the service you are rendering and especially the spirit in

which you are rendering it

Roger Babson 1875-1967 Statistician and Columnist Its simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about

what the other fellow is going to do

- John R Amos

All beings are from the very beginning Buddhas

~ Hakuin

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly

or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man

~Chang Tzu

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The important thing is not to stop questioning Curiosity has its own reason for

existing One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of

eternity of life of the marvelous structure of reality It is enough if one tries

merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day Never lose a holy

curiosity

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Expect your every need to be met expect the answer to every problem expect

abundance on every level expect to grow spiritually You are not living by human

laws Expect miracles and see them take place Hold ever before you the thought

of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will

bring it into being

~Eileen Caddy

Bring everything up to the surface Accept your humanity your animality

Whatsoever is there accept it without any condemnation Acceptance is

transformation because through acceptance awareness becomes possible

~Osho

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who

keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road

Dag Hammarskjold 1905-1961 Statesman and Secretary-General of UN

Life is one massive challenge after another for everyone So you cant feel sorry

for yourself One real measure of you as a person is how much you can handle

without whining

~ Mike Brescia Author

We are each of us angels with only one wing And we can only fly by embracing each

other

-Luciano de Crescenzo

He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he

would like to have

~ Socrates

Quite often we change jobs friends and spouses instead of ourselves

~ Akbarali H Jetha

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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame

~ Benjamin Franklin

You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where

your thoughts take you

- James Allen

The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will

embrace for that day We cannot change our past

We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way We cannot change

the inevitable The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have and that

is our attitude

- Charles Swindoll author

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others

- Cicero 106 BC - 43 BC

If you want your life to be more rewarding you have to change the way you think

- Oprah Winfrey

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless

- Mother Teresa

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible

- Italian Proverb

Enthusiasm is the all-essential human jet propeller It is the driving force which

elevates people to miracle workers and creates endless energy the source of all

accomplishment

-Norman Vincent Peale

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends

you choose for you will become like them-

- W Clement Stone

Ones philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one

makes In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves The process

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never ends until we die And the choices we make are ultimately our own

responsibility

- Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 American First Lady We will stay young in life as long as we work toward something that were

supposed to do

~ Richard Rose I love the name of honor more than I fear death

~ Julius Caesar

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future making it predictable

and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible

Hannah Arendt 1906-1975 Political Theorist

Man has no greater enemy than himself

Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374 Italian poet humanist)

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety

-Aesop

You cannot tailor make your situation in life but you can tailor make your

attitudes to fit those situations

- Zig Ziglar speaker and author Set a goal to achieve something that is so big so exhilarating that it excites you

and scares you at the same time It must be a goal that is so appealing so much in

line with your spiritual core that you cant get it out of your mind If you do not

get chills when you set a goal youre not setting big enough goals

Bob Proctor Author and Speaker The only people who never fail are those who never try

Ilka Chase (1905-1978 American author actor)

In truth you are spirit The body has been projected by the mind which itself

originates from Spirit If the wrong identification ceases there will be peace and

permanent indescribable bliss

~Ramana Maharshi

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I flow with loving gratitude for all my blessings today

- Zoe Jarboe

People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be

~ Abraham Lincoln You are wealthy now with an abundance of what you are thinking about The world

is a creative engine and will create whatever you are really thinking Every thought

in your mind is a prayer about you no matter who the subject seems to be

~ Brad Jensen

A man who works with his hands is a laborer a man who works with his hands and

his brain is a craftsman but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his

heart is an artist

-Louis Nizer

When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score

John Enoch Powell (1912-1998 British statesman)

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get credit Try if

you can to belong to the first class there is far less competition

~ Dwight Morrow 1873-1931 Businessman Politician and Diplomat

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone but with heartfelt

conviction that we are doing nothing and God everything

~ St Ignatius Loyola Action is the real measure of intelligence

~ Napoleon Hill

Take the first step and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid But the

first essential is that you begin Once the battle is started all that is within and

without you will come to your assistance

~ Robert Collier

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You are what you are today because of the decisions and the choices YOU made

yesterday

~ Wayne Goonie

I have never seen a man who could do real work except under the stimulus of

encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom he is

working

Charles M Schwab (1862-1939 American industrialist businessman)

Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can

- Danny Kaye (1913-1987) Entertainer A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in

spite of overwhelming obstacles

~ Christopher Reeve A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always

with the same person

~ Mignon McLaughlin

We learn from failure much more than from success we often discover what we

will do by finding our what we will not do and probably he who never made a

mistake never made a discovery

Samuel Smiles (1812-1904 Scottish author)

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 16th American President)

Life has indeed many ills but the mind that views every object in its most

cheering aspect and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good bears

within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote

Lydia H Sigourney 1791-1865 Poet

The Next Step

The first step needs action to start it

The last requires patience to end

So we question which ones most important

When we realize our dreams our best friend

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Well the answer is neither theyre equal

But the one that will help you win through

And connect what you start to the finish

Is the next step thats waiting for you

Lifes dreamers are great Goal Achievers

Their faith and persistence just blends

Into one awesome cocktail of knowledge

That whatever they want they can get

You see they never visualize failure

Its success that they see shining through

Its essential to start and to finish

But the next step is what you must do

Alison Wilson

Set a goal to achieve something that is so big so exhilarating that it excites you

and scares you at the same time It must be a goal that is so appealing so much in

line with your spiritual core that you cant get it out of your mind If you do not

get chills when you set a goal youre not setting big enough goals

Bob Proctor Author and Speaker

There is no such thing as natural touch Touch is something you create by hitting

millions of golf balls

~ Lee Trevino

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation We do not act rightly because

we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted

rightly We are what we repeatedly do Excellence then is not an act but a habit

~ Aristotle

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement If everyone received the

encouragement they need to grow the genius in most everyone would blossom and

the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams

~ Unkwown

I do not believe in miracles at least not defined in the conventional religious

manner as divine disruptions of the natural order But if a miracle is defined as an

infinitely improbable phenomenon then our existence is a miracle which no theory

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natural or supernatural will ever explain

-John Horgan

Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that with nine women

pregnant you can get a baby in a month

--Wernher von Braun

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never

find out

~ Frank A Clark

You are what you are today because of the decisions and the

choices YOU made yesterday

~ Revt Wayne Goonie

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do

a little

~ Edmund Burke

We will stay young in life as long as we work toward something

that were supposed to do

~ Richard Rose

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions Small

people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become

great

- Mark Twain

Rich and poor are first created in the mind

A poor man asks How much will it COST me

A rich man asks How much will it MAKE me

Which one are you

~ Bryan Kumar

If you think you can do something that you cannot the belief itself prevents you

from accomplishing the task either because you never try it in the first place or

because you have block yourself by your belief

-Deena Zalkind Spear

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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear

Marcus Aurelius (121-12180 Roman emperor philosopher)

Character is doing whats right when nobodys looking

- J C Watts Jr Politician

Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions Small people

always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great

Mark Twain 1835-1910 Humorist and Writer

We are all salesmen every day of our lives We are selling our ideas our plans our

enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact

~ Charles M Schwab It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition

- Vernon Howard Maturity begins when were content to feel were right about something without

feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong

Sydney J Harris 1917-1986 Syndicated Columnist

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum

- Frances Willard Educator

Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given

~ Deepak Chopra Once power was considered a masculine attribute In fact power has no gender

~ Katherine Graham

An invasion of armies can be resisted but not an idea whose time has come

Victor Hugo

As the purse is emptied the heart is filled

Victor Hugo

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Be like the bird that passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight feels them

give way beneath her and yet sings knowing that she hath wings

Victor Hugo

Have no fear of robbers or murderers They are external dangers petty dangers

We should fear ourselves Prejudices are the real robbers vices the real murders

The great dangers are within us Why worry about what threatens our heads or

purses Let us think instead of what threatens our souls

Victor Hugo

He who opens a school door closes a prison

Victor Hugo

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man

Victor Hugo Be all you can be and live a good life -- have fun with it

Tina Yothers

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace

Yes Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive inner peace does

not

-Eckhart Tolle

A moments insight is sometimes worth a lifes experience

- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) Physician and writer

The superior persons learning goes in his ear attaches to his heart expands to

the end of his limbs and is established in his actions

Even in his smallest word or slightest action he sets an example

~ Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse) When I thought I couldnt go on I forced myself to keep going My success is

based on persistence not luck

Estee Lauder Entrepreneur

If you always do what interests you at least one person is pleased

Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003 American actress writer)

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Make Your Mark Count A childs life is like a piece of paper on which every person

leaves a mark

- Chinese Proverb

Pain shared is lessened joy shared increased

~ Spider Robinson

The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has its limits

~ Albert Einstein

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift let it be enthusiasm

Bruce Barton (1886-1967 American author advertising expert)

When you give your children knowledge you are telling them what you think That

is you are telling them what they are supposed to know what you want them to

understand is true

When you give your children wisdom you do not tell them what to know or what is

true but rather how to get to their own truth

-Neale Donald Walsch

I have found that if you love life life will love you back

- Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982) Musician

The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see

magic and beauty in them while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves

~ Kahlil Gibran

Practice is just as valuable as a sale The sale will make you a living the skill will

make you a fortune

~ Jim Rohn

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about

Charles Kingsley (1819-1875 British author clergyman)

Dont cry because its over - smile because it happened

Author unknown

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Happiness is like a kiss You must share it to enjoy it

~ Bernard Meltzer Our life is what our thoughts make it

~ Marcus Aurelius The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best Therefore it tends to

become the best It takes the form or character of the best and will receive the

best

-- Wallace Wattles

Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings

-- Marianne Williamson

―And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present and can be none in

the future And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned

to beautiful results

mdash Walt Whitman When you lose touch with inner stillness you lose touch with your Self

When you lose touch with your Self you lose yourself in the world

Your innermost sense of Self of who you are is inseparable from stillness

This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form

Eckhart Tolle Stillness Speaks

With wisdom I see that I am nothing

With love I see that I am everything

Between these two my life turns

Nisargadatta Maharaj Man often becomes what he believes himself to be If I keep on saying to myself

that I cannot do a certain thing it is possible that I may end by really becoming

incapable of doing it On the contrary if I shall have the belief that I can do it I

shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the

beginning

Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Indian Nationalist Leader

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Strategies designed to avoid something eventually produce exactly the thing they

are trying to avoid

-Michael Greenwood and Peter Nunn

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but

are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults

seem insignificant

Charles A Cerami

If all you did was just look for things to appreciate you would live a joyous

spectacular life

~Abraham-Hicks

Three things in human life are important The first is to be kind The second is to

be kind And the third is to be kind

- Henry James (1843-1916) Writer The moment of enlightenment is when a persons dreams of possibilities become

images of probabilities

~ Vic Braden Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot

fly

~ Langston Hugues Life is made up not of great sacrifices or duties but of little things in which

smiles and kindness and small obligations given habitually are what win and

preserve the heart and secure comfort

Humphry Davy 1778-1829 Chemist

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900 German philosopher)

The game of life is the game of boomerangs Our thoughts deeds and words

return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy

- Florence Shinn (1871-1940) Writer

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Some dream of doing great things while others stay awake and get on with it

~ Unknown With all your science can you tell how it is and whence it is that light comes into

the soul

-Hanry David Thoreau

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one but you wont come up

with a handful of mud either

- Leo Burnett (1891-1971) Advertising Executive

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the

only way we can leave the future open

Lillian Smith 1897-1966 Writer Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to

success when they gave up

~ Thomas A Edison Find something youre passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it

Julia Child (1912-2004 American gourmet cook author and television personality)

Now I say to you today my friends even though we face the difficulties of today

and tomorrow I still have a dream It is a dream deeply rooted in the American

dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true

meaning of its creed -- we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are

created equal

- Martin Luther King Jr ―Never let formal education get in the way of your learning

- Mark Twain

The path to success is to take massive determined action

~ Anthony Robbins For every minute you remain angry you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In the practice of tolerance ones enemy is the best teacher

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson When defeat comes accept it as a signal that

your plans are not sound rebuild those plans

and set sail once more toward your coveted goal

~ Napoleon Hill

We are all alike on the inside

Mark Twain (1835-1910 American humorist writer)

If you are going to do something carelessly it is better to give it up entirely

Russian Proverb

The world is like a mirror frown at it and it frowns at you

Smile and it smiles too

Herbert Samuels

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our

children

Charles R Swindoll

The important thing is not so much that every child should be

taught as that every child should be given the wish to learn

John Lubbock

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been

Mark Twain

It is a mistake to think that moving fast is the same as actually going somewhere

Steve Goodier A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops

Henry Adams

It is only with the heart that one can see clearly for the most

essential things are invisible to the eye

~ Antoine de Sainte Exupery

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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the

critical decisive hour Write it on your heart that every day is

the best day of the year

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier Be the living

expression of Gods kindness kindness in your face kindness in your eyes kindness

in your smile

- Mother Teresa

Its never too late to be who you might have been

- George EliotWriter

Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle

- Plato Philosopher

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition

- Vernon Howard

Ilsquove always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up

- Beverly Sills Opera Singer

Help others get ahead You will always stand taller with someone else on your

shoulders

- Bob Moawad Business Leader

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks

like work

Thomas Edison

Dream as if youll live forever

Live as if youll die tomorrow

~ James Dean

The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an

expectation that they can make it work or make it better

Barbara Pletcher Author

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As we grow up we get sophisticated out of enchantment and become too smart

about the things that cause children to wonder

-Thomas Moore

People come out to see you perform and youve got to give them the best you have

within you The lives of most men are patchwork quilts Or at best one matching

outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations A lifetime of

training for just ten seconds

Jesse Owens (1913-1980 American Olympian)

Nothing is easy to the unwilling

- Nikki Giovanni Whatever course you have chosen for yourself it will not be a chore but an

adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving if your sights are set

far above the merely secure and mediocre

~David Sarnoff 1891-1971 Entrepreneur I dont know any other way to lead but by example

Don Shula (1930- American football coach) Flexible people never get bent out of shape

- Author Unknown The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record

of successful experiences behind you

~ William Jennings Bryan The important thing is this To be able at any moment to sacrifice

what we are for what we could become

~ Charles du Bois Success isnt permanent and failure isnt fatal

- Mike Ditka

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The different between us is that I count and you dont

-Huston Smith

I love strange choices Im always interested in people who depart from what is

expected of them and go into new territory

Cate Blanchett Actress Always do your best What you plant now you will harvest later

Og Mandino (1923-1996 American motivational author speaker wwogmandinocom ) Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the Universe is endlessly

bountiful Just put forth a clear enough request and everything that your heart

desires must come to you

~Shakti Gawain The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would

suffice to solve most of the worlds problems

~ Unknown The only real valuable thing is intuition

- Albert Einstein

Waste your money and youre only out of money but waste your time and youve

lost a part of your life

~ Michael Leboeuf Fear is an insidious virus Given a breeding place in our minds it will eat away our

spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors

~ James F Bell

You cant base your life on other peoples expectations

Stevie Wonder Grammy Award Winning SingerSongwriter

An excuse is worse than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded

Alexander Pope (1688-1744 British poet critic translator)

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The thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and

beginning the work of becoming yourself

- Anna Quindlen ―Exert your talents and distinguish yourself and donlsquot think of retiring from the

world until the world will be sorry that you retire

- Samuel Johnson Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of

the odds against them They make the impossible happen

~ Dr Robert Jarvik

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances

if there is any reaction both are transformed

-Carl Jung There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right between

fairly good and the best between mediocrity and superiority

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)

I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright

I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more

I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive

I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger

I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting

I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess

I wish you enough Hellos to get you through the final Goodbye

Bob Perks

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie

~ William Shakespeare

It doesnt matter where you are coming from All that matters is where you are

going

~ Brian Tracy You need to be a somebody before you can be a nobody

-Brant Cortright

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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old

Franz Kafka Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it

bravely and gallantly as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an

unknown country to meet many a joy to find many a comrade to win and lose many

a battle

~ Annie Besant

I believe in taking a positive attitude toward the world My hope still is to leave

the world a little bit better than when I got here

Jim Henson 1936-1990 Muppets Creator Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life

Gita Bellin

Education is when you read the fine print Experience is what you get if you

dont

- Pete Seeger

Keep your thoughts positive because they become your words

Keep your words positive because they become your behaviors

Keep your behaviors positive because they become your habits

Keep your habits positive because they become your values

Keep your values positive because they become your destiny

-Gandhi

The challenge is not to manage time but to manage ourselves

Stephen Covey

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death It not only gives us

fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which

we hold our present being

~ William Hazlitt

Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith Having

faith in yourself in the process of change and in the new direction that change

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sets will reveal your own inner core of steel

Georgette Mosbacher Business Executive

Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life

Gita Bellin

Careful what you wish for Millions long for immortality who do not know what to

do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon

- Susan Ertz

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us What we have done for

others and the world remains and is immortal

Albert Pine

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate Our deepest fear is that we are

powerful beyond measure It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us

We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant gorgeous talented fabulous Actually

who are you NOT to be You are a child of God Your playing small does not serve

the world There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people wont

feel insecure around you We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is

within us It is not just in some of us it is in everyone And as we let our own light

shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same As we are

liberated from our own fear our presence automatically liberates others

~ Marianne Williamson

Focus on where we want to end up not on what we want to avoid

-Paula Underwood Spencer

A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact

that everything has happened for the best

Author Unknown

Change your thoughts and you change the world

- Harold R Mcalindon Today is yesterdays effect and tomorrows cause

~ Phillip Gribble

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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes one of his great surprises is to find

he can do what he was afraid he couldnt do

~ Henry Ford

I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist

- Paul Harvey

Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes

up his mind to do We are all capable of greater things than we realize

Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993 American Christian reformed pastor speaker author)

When everybody is looking for gold its a good time to be in the picks and shovels

business

~ Mark Twain

Waste your money and youre only out of money but waste your time and youve

lost a part of your life

~ Michael Leboeuf

It is a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best you

very often get it

~ W Somerset Maugham

Flatter me and I may not believe you Criticize me and I may not like you Ignore

me and I may not forgive you Encourage me and I will not forget you Love me and

I may be forced to love you

William Arthur Ward

―Trust yourself You know more than you think you do

Benjamin Spock

―A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise

after success

Anon

―Nine tenths of education is encouragement

Anatole Franc

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Maybe you cant change the whole world but if you have love in your heart you can

make small differences every day which really does change the world one life at a

time

Kristina Koncz Customer Experience Specialist

Let us be about setting high standards for life love creativity and wisdom If our

expectations in these areas are low we are not likely to experience wellness

Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward

to

Greg Anderson (American author The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness)

Truce is better than friction

- Charles Herguth

Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they

have deep inside them -- a desire a dream a vision

~ Muhammad Ali

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each mans

life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that

take our breath away

~ George Carlin

You can conquer almost any fear if you will make up your mind to do so For

remember fear doesnt exist anywhere except in the mind

Dale Carnegie 1888-1955 Author and Speaker

Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others

They learn when they do which isnt often on their own the hard way

Robert Heinlein (1907-1988 American science fiction writer)

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the

expense of everybody else

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-Frederic Bastiat

Some think its holding on that makes one strong sometimes its letting go

- Sylvia Robinson We are responsible for what we are and whatever we wish ourselves to be we

have the power to make ourselves If what we are now has been the result of our

own past actions it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be

produced by our present actions so we have to know how to act

~ Swami Vivekananda

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning but anyone can start today and

make a new ending

~ Maria Robinson

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves

Brian Tracy (1944- Canadian-born American trainer speaker author businessman)

Anger is the only thing to put off till tomorrow

- Slovakian Proverb

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know

peace

~Jimi Hendrix Do not wait the time will never be just right

Start where you stand and work with whatever tools you may have at your

command and better tools will be found as you go along

~ Napoleon Hill

When we lose the right to be different we lose the privilege to be free

Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948 American jurist politician)

You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone which can become a

watered-down occasional hope that youll get to tomorrow Intention without

action is useless

Caroline Myss Author of Entering The Castle

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Plan ahead -- It wasnt raining when Noah built the ark

-Anononymous

Only you can be yourself

No one else is qualified for the job

- Shelby Collinge

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall

~ Confucius

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom But in the last analysis our

only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves

~ Bernard M Baruch

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941 Indian poet philosopher)

Worry is the misuse of the imagination

- Dan Zadra

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else you will have succeeded

Maya Angelou

Trust yourself Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your

life Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny inner sparks of possibility into

flames of achievement

~ Foster C McClellan There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal

experience has brought it home

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873 British philosopher economist)

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall

never sit in

-Greek proverb

We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails

- Bertha Calloway

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Democracy arose from mens thinking that if they are equal in any respect they

are equal absolutely

~ Aristotle

Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can

~ Richard Bach

If the world seems cold to you kindle fires to warm it

~ Lucy Larcom All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their

gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible

Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924 Writer Physician Hotel Owner and founder of Success Magazine

A Friend is a treasure more precious than Gold For love shared is priceless and

never grows old

Author Unknown

Only that which cannot be taken away by death is real Everything else is unreal it

is made of the same stuff dreams are made of

~Osho

Personality can open doors but only character can keep them open

- Elmer G Leterman

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they

dont know when to quit Most men succeed because they are determined to

~ George Allen Coach

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what

lies within us

~ Walt Emerson Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by

employing it well Then youth will be happy old age without regret and life a

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beautiful success

Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888 Novelist Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution

experience lifes deepest joy true fulfillment

Anthony Robbins (1960- American author speaker peak performance expert coach)

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet enough trials to make you

strong enough sorrow to keep you human enough hope to make you happy

-Anonymous

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the

things we do

- Freya Madeline Stark

We must become the change we want to see

~ Mahatma Gandhi

You know its not more knowledge its not more education its not more facts

that we need Its a better use of what we already have that we need to have You

have each and every one of you within your potential power right now to do a

wonderful job in your chosen field - if you would only embrace it and use it

Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think And Grow Rich

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be

respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure

Buddha (568-488 BC Indian born founder of Buddhism)

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change and all patterns alter

- Sharon Salzberg When we let freedom ring when we let it ring from every village and every

hamlet from every state and every city we will be able to speed up that day when

all of Gods children black men and white men Jews and Gentiles Protestants and

Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro

spiritual

Free at last Free at last

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Thank God Almighty we are free at last

~ Reverand Martin Luther King Jr All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them

~ Walt Disney Your own common sense should tell you that common sense alone is not enough

-Ashleigh Brilliant

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and

deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your

place

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924 American author founder of Success Magazine)

Know what counts

No matter what youve done for yourself or for humanity if you cant look back on

having given love and attention to your own family what have you really

accomplished

- Lee Iacocca

There is a giant asleep within every man When that giant awakes miracles happen

~ Frederick Faust There are those that look at things the way they are and ask why I dream of

things that never were and ask why not

~ Robert F Kennedy

There is nothing impossible to him who will try

~ Alexander the Great

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance Remember the greatest

failure is to not try Once you find something you love to do be the best at doing

it

Debbi Fields Founder of Mrs Fields Cookies

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul

Marcus Aurelius (121-12180 Roman emperor philosopher)

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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left

undone

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Shoot for the moon Even if you miss youll land among the stars

~ Les Brown

Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been

told is what they cant do They dont know what they want because they dont

know whats available for them

~ Zig Ziglar

Accept that some days youre the pigeon and some days youre the statue

-Anonymous

Be life long or short its completeness depends on what it was lived for

- David Starr Jordan

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life

by altering his attitude

~ William James

It has never been and never will be easy work

But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road

built in despair even though they both lead to the same destination

~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

―No matter what anybody tells you words and ideas can change the world

~ John Keating (from the movie Dead Poets Society) hellip Every tomorrow has two handles We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety

or the handle of faith

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887 American preacher orator writer) The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it

~ Chinese proverb

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Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to

success when they gave up

~ Thomas Edison

I am always doing things I cant do thats how I get to do them

~ Picasso When you maximize your talents youre on path on purpose on target When you

dont youre off path off purpose off target

Kevin Hall Author of Aspire

Comparisons of ones lot with others teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will

Thornton Wilder (1897-1975 American novelist playwright)

Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

While we have the gift of life it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of

us to die - whether it is our spirit our creativity or our glorious uniqueness

- Gilda Radner

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state

of being alive If life is to be sustained hope must remain even where confidence is

wounded trust impaired

~ Erik H Erikson

Dont go on discussing what a good person should be Just be one

Marcus Aurelius

Our wisdom comes from our experience and our experience comes from our

foolishness

Sacha Guitry

I would rather live in a world where life is surrounded by mystery than live in a

world so small that my mind could comprehend it

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Our first teacher is our own heart

Cheyenne proverb

Power coerces

Knowledge persuades

Love converts

Proverb

Do not kiss your children so they will kiss you back but so they will kiss their

children and their childrens children

Noah Benshea

We read to know we are not alone

CS Lewis

Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better

Albert Einstein

Keeping score of old scores and scars getting even and one-upping always makes

you less than you are

- Malcolm Forbes

When you know that youre capable of dealing with whatever comes you have the

only security the world has to offer

Harry Browne 1933-2006 Writer and Politician

You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never

be ableto repay you

- John Wooden

Freedom know this that every manwoman is free to choose his life and what hell

be For this eternal truth is given God will force no man to heaven Hell call

persuade direct aright Bless with wisdom love and light in nameless ways be

good and kind but never force the human mind

~ William C Clegg

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There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than

the one you are capable of living

~ Nelson Mandela to Marianne Williamson If it werent for the rocks in its bed the stream would have no song

-Carl Perkins

Whenever encountering a troublesome person do not identify him as being cruel

or stupid or rude or anything else like that Instead see him as a frightened

person

Vernon Howard 1918-1992 Author and Philosopher When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves it is useless to seek it

elsewhere

~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680 French classical writer) Live for the moment

If I have learnt anything it is that life forms no logical patterns It is haphazard

and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by for who knows whether any

of them will ever return

- Margo Fonteyn

Isnt it strange that princesses and kings and clowns that caper in sawdust rings

and common people like you and me are builders for eternity Each is given a bag of

tools a shapeless mass a book of rules and each must make ere life is flown a

stumbling block or stepping stone

~ Edgar Guest We are what we repeatedly do Excellence then is not an act but a habit

~ Aristotle

Whatever you can do or dream you can do begin it Boldness has genius power

and magic in it

~ Wolfgang von Goethe Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state Being in love shows a person who he should be ~ Anton Chekhov

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Follow the grain in your own wood

- Howard Thurman

It is said that if you are not living your dreams you are living your fears

~ Ghalil Professional Dreamer

―Dont ask what the world needs Ask what makes you come alive because what the

world needs is people who have come alive

- Harold Thurman

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success When you do a thing

do it with all your mind Put your whole soul to it Stamp it with your own

personality Be active be energetic be enthusiastic and faithful and you will

accomplish your object Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Essayist Philosopher and Poet

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do

John Wooden (1910- American basketball coach)

For the most part fear is nothing but an illusion When you share it with someone

else it tends to disappear

- Marilyn C Barrick

The purpose of life is not to arrive safely at your death

- Robert Holden

When everything seems to be going against you remember that theairplane takes

off against the wind not with it

Henry Ford

There are two freedoms the false where a man is free to do what he likes the

true where he is free to do what he ought

~ Charles Kingsley Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one

could find fault with it

John Henry Newman (1801-1890 British religious leader prelate writer)

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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

New ideas pass through three periods

It cant be done

It probably can be done but its not worth doing

I knew it was a good idea all along

-Arthur C Clarke A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you think creates your life all you have to do is ask yourself what you are

willing to accept into your life

~ Ghalil Author - Professional Dreamer

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and

deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your

place

~ Orison Swett Marden Well done is better than well said

~ Benjamin Franklin Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one

could find fault with it

John Henry Newman (1801-1890 British religious leader prelate writer) If youre looking for perfection look in the mirror If you find it there expect it

elsewhere

Malcolm S Forbes (1919-1990 American publisher businessman) Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have

- H Jackson Brown Jr A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish great things

~ Chinese Proverb

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If we listened to our intellect wed never have a love affair Wed never have a

friendship Wed never go into business because wed be cynical Well thats

nonsense Youve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down

~ Ray Bradbury

Successful people decide how they are going to live they are not victims of

circumstance In good times or bad times they know where they are going and they

know that they are going to get there

Bob Proctor Author and Speaker

First they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you then you win

~ Mahatma Gandhi The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing

- Walt Disney 1901-1966 American Film ProducerDirectorAnimator

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas first make him your friend

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))

Doubting everything or believing everything are two equally convenient solutions

both of which save us from thinking

-Jules Henri Poincareacute

Dont be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning Thats only the initial

impression The important thing is not to retreat you have to master yourself

Olga Korbut Olympic Gold Medallist Gymnast

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental

difference in someones life

- Sister Mary Rose McGeady All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future

task of the philosopher which is to solve the problem of value to determine the

true hierarchy of values

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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Let no man pull you low enough to hate him

~ Martin Luther King Dont concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal -

leave that completely to a power greater than yourself All you have to do is know

where youre going The answers will come to you of their own accord and at the

right time

Earl Nightingale 1921-1989 Syndicated Radio Announcer and Author

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs

~ Gloria Steinem

Now I say to you today my friends even though we face the difficulties of today

and tomorrow I still have a dream It is a dream deeply rooted in the American

dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true

meaning of its creed -- we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are

created equal

~ Martin Luther King Jr

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams Live the life you have imagined

David Thoreau Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions Small people always do

that but the really great make you believe that you too can become great

~ Mark Twain Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure (values) and Ill tell

you their philosophy of life

~ Dale Carnegie To forgive is merely to remember ONLY the LOVING thoughts you gave in the

past and those that were given you ALL the rest must be forgotten

~ A Course In Miracles If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a

prophet

Isaac Bashevis Singer 1904-1991 Journalist and Writer

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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us

~ Voltaire

We are all of us stars and we deserve to twinkle

~ Marilyn Monroe

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do

right

~ Nelson Mandela

It has never been and never will be easy work But the road that is built in hope

is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they

both lead to the same destination

~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society

~J Krishnamurti

Every situation properly perceived becomes an opportunity to heal

~ A Course in Miracles

The love that you withhold in life is the pain that you carry

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as

the quality of perseverance It overcomes almost everything even nature

John D Rockefeller (1839-1937 American industrialist philanthropist founder Exxon)

All I ask is for an unfair advantage

~ WC Fields Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words Keep your

words positive because your words become your behaviors Keep your behaviors

positive because your behaviors become your habits Keep your habits positive

because your habits become your values Keep your values positive because your

values become your destiny

~Gandhi

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Your ego is creating obstacles Maya creating maya

~Babaji Step back Observe without judgment unconditional Watch now as obstacles

melt become no-thing Do this each time a block appears Step back and observe

without judgment

~Babaji

Everybody cannot be a painter a poet or a geniusthose are given qualities from

birth But everybody can be enlightened Enlightenment is the only thing the only

experience where everybody is equally capable And it does not depend on whether

you believe in God or not it depends only on one thingand that is a little taste (of

meditation) and suddenly you become confident that youre capable of it

~Osho There are no accidents or coincidences in this world Nothing is by chance

Everything you experience is a direct manifestation of where you focus your

attention and hold your vibration

~Jafree When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off

into the darkness of the unknown faith is knowing one of two things will happen

There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly

~ Barbara J Winter High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly make big decisions quickly and

move into action immediately Follow these principles and you can make your dreams

come true

Robert H Schuller Televangelist Pastor and Author

Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you but seek out another to console and

you will find consolation

J C Macaulay

High Expectations are the key to everything

~ Sam Walton Founder Wal-Mart

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Until you make peace with who you are youll never be content with what you

have

~ Doris Mortman You must constantly ask yourself these questions Who am I around What are

they doing to me What have they got me reading What have they got me saying

Where do they have me going What do they have me thinking And most

important what do they have me becoming Then ask yourself the big question Is

that okay Your life does not get better by chance it gets better by change

Jim Rohn 1930-2009 Author and Speaker

Believe it You CAN succeed at whatever you do as long as you simply take the

right ACTIONS

~ ER Haas CEO

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do The hard

part is doing it

~ General H Norman Schwarzkopf So let your deepest desires direct your aim Set your sights far above the

reasonable target The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire

that stirs the heart

Price Pritchett Author of You2

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do

Walter Bagehot (1826-1977 British economist critic)

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or

better than themselves

~ Tryon Edwards

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high

and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach it

~ Michelangelo Compared to what we ought to be we are only half awake We are making use of

only a small part of our physical and mental resources Stating the thing broadly

the human individual thus lives far within his limits He possesses power of various

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sorts which he habitually fails to use

William James (1842-1910 American psychologist professor author) People wait for opportunity to come along yet it is there every morning

~ Dennis the Menace A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow

~ George S Patton (1885-1945 American army general during World War II)

The last best fruit which comes to late perfection even in the kindliest soul is

tenderness toward the hard forbearance toward the unforbearing warmth toward

the cold philanthropy toward the misanthropic

~ Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825 German novelist)

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a

prophet

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991 Polish-born American journalist writer)

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than

by those given to us by others

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662 French scientist religious philosopher) Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty

~ John Ruskin (1819-1900 British critic social theorist)

Expect your every need to be met expect the answer to every problem expect

abundance on every level expect to grow spiritually You are not living by human

laws Expect miracles and see them take place Hold ever before you the thought

of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will

bring it into being

~Eileen Caddy

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we

believe And the only real wealth for any of us lies in our faith

~ Gordon B Hinckley

Desire is the Starting Point of All Achievement

~ - Napoleon Hill

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And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to

do the same

Nelson Mandela

The more we have the less we own

Meister Eckhart (1260-1326 German mystic)

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs jolted by every

pebble in the road

Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887 Preacher and Abolitionist

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength Richard L Evans

The secret of Happiness is Freedom and the secret of Freedom Courage

~ Thucydides (Greek historian 460-404 BC)

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in

the mature than in the young

Paul McCartney SingerSongwriter I cant believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary

Lou Holtz (937- American football coach)

Dont let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he

was

~ Richard L Evans

To dream anything that you want to dream that is the beauty of the human mind

To do anything that you want to do that is the strength of the human will To trust

yourself to test your limits that is the courage to succeed

~ Bernard Edmonds

I find my greatest pleasure and so my reward in the work that precedes what the

world calls success

Thomas A Edison (1847-1931 American inventor founder of GE)

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It is good to act as if It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer

an act

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832 British sportsman writer)

Tell me what you want and Ill show you how to get it

~ Bob Proctor

One is very crazy when in love

~ Sigmund Freud

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed Always aim at

purifying your thoughts and everything will be well

Mahatma Gandhi

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything keep it

Mahatma Gandhi Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony

Mahatma Gandhi

Hate the sin love the sinner

Mahatma Gandhi

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress

Mahatma Gandhi

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress

Mahatma Gandhi

True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the

future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied

with what we have which is sufficient for he that is so wants nothing The great

blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach

~ Seneca 4 BC to 65 AD - Spanish Philosopher

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When you paint success pictures in your mind you initiate an inner process

whereby your attitudes hopes aspirations and enthusiasm are elevated in

response to an image of a more promising future Every person who aspires must

first sell themselves hope the promise of a better life

US Andersen 1917-1986 Author of The Magic In Your Mind

How far is far how high is high Well never know until we try

Song from the California Special Olympics If you take each challenge one step at a time with faith in every footstep your

strength and understanding will increase

~ James E Faust

What is your individual purpose What would you like to be able to say is your

legacy I believe that each of us wants to find our purpose in life our raison

detre or reason for being We need to have a motive to get out of bed in the

morning We want to feel alive and passionate about something Something that

makes a difference in the world We are not alone in this and yet many of us are

still searching for that purpose

~ Veronica Hay We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds

Warren Buffett (1930- American investment entrepreneur)

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy but its good too to

check up once in a while and make sure you havent lost the things money cant

buy

George Lorimer 1867-1937 Editor of Saturday Evening Post

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence Talent will not nothing is

more common than unsuccessful men with talent Genius will not unrewarded genius

is almost a proverb Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent

~ Calvin Coolidge

Desperation can be as powerful inspirer as genius

Benjamin Disraeli

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We read to know we are not alone

CS Lewis

Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better

Albert Einstein The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the

road after you have shown him the way

Confucius

A baby has a way of making a man out of his father and a boy out of his

grandfather

Angie Papadakis

My father didnt tell me how to live he lived and let me watch him do it

Clarence B Kelland No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing

William Barclay

If you think youre lucky you are

Bobby Dodd

When youre safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when youre

having an adventure you wish you were safe at home

Thornton Wilder Obstacles dont have to stop you If you run into a wall dont turn around and give

up Figure out how to climb it go through it or work around it

~ Michael Jordan In order to attain the impossible one must attempt the impossible

~ Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616 Spanish novelist dramatist poet)

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as

the quality of perseverance It overcomes almost everything even nature

~ John D Rockefeller

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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is

when men are afraid of the light

~ Plato

Doubt of whatever kind can be ended by action alone

Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 Philosopher and Author

Poverty is not a shame but the being ashamed of it is

English Proverb

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well

~ Unknown

We need to exert ourselves that much more and break out of the vicious cycle of

dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful those in command of

immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own

image

~ Nelson Mandela

High Expectations are the key to everything

~ Sam Walton Founder Wal-Mart

Failures are expected by losers ignored by winners

~ Joe Gibbs Football Coach Most people live and die with their music still unplayed They never dare to try

Mary Kay Ash

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own

existence

Aristotle

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to

the eye

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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If A equals success then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z

with X being work Y play and Z keeping your mouth shut

~ Albert Einstein

Tomorrows battle is won during todays practice

Japanese Proverb

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days

What you can do or think you can do begin it For boldness has magic power and

genius in it

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 Poet Novelist and Scientist

Forget about all the reasons why something may not work You only need to find

one good reason why it will

Dr Robert Anthony

No matter how busy you are you must take time to make the other person feel

important

Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001 American businesswoman founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics)

I used to be a very serious not funny negative person Funny-cism Skepticism

Criticism and all Then I got introduced to the world of Positive Thinking Now Im

bipolar

~ Andy Dooley Spiritual Comedian and Professional Speaker

Your past is not your potential In any hour you can choose to liberate the future

Marilyn Ferguson (American writer) Everyone wants to be appreciated so if you appreciate someone dont keep it a

secret

~ Mary Kay Ash 1915-2001 Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds

and these magnets attract to us the forces the people the circumstances of life

which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts

~ Napoleon Hill

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You more often recognize your inadequacies rather than your strengths

~ James E Faust

I live by this credo Have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness

instead of sadness Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations Even

in your darkest moment you usually can find something to laugh about if you try

hard enough

Red Skelton 1913-1997 Comedian

Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth

George W Crane Some self-confronting questions

Where do I want to be at any given time

How am I going to get there

What do I have to do to get myself from where

I am to where I want to be

Whats the first small step I can take to get moving

~ George A Ford The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can

bribe the public with the publics money

- Alexis de Tocqueville The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race

~ Don Marquis At the height of laughter the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new

possibilities

-- Jean Houston Begin to weave and God will give you the thread

~ German Proverb If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who

are rich

John F Kennedy (1917-1963 35th American President)

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If you keep THINKING what you are thinking you will keep DOING what you are

doing and you will keep GETTING what you are getting

~ Dr Robert Anthony The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world

~ Lao-tzu Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them and to

let them know that you trust them

Booker T Washington 1856-1915 Educator and Writer ―Stress is the tax you pay for not taking 100 responsibility for your life

mdashDr Barnet Meltzer Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it

~ Irving Berlin It is by surmounting difficulties not by sinking under them that we discover our

fortitude

~ Hannah Webster Foster

Believing requires action

~ James E Faust

Dont do anything in practice that you wouldnt do in the game

George Halas (1895-1983 American football coach)

Its better to reach for the stars and land on the roof than to reach for the

roof and land in the garbage

~ Savanna Skinner

Whatever you focus your intention on is what will show up in your life

Your consistent thoughts create your consistent results

~ Dr Robert Anthony

He who gains a victory over other men is strong but he who gains a victory over

himself is all powerful

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Lao-Tzu (BC 600- Chinese philosopher founder of Taoism) His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the

memory of a wrong

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great masters merit emulation not worship

-- Alan Cohen

Mirth is Gods medicine Everybody ought to bathe in it

-- Henry Ward Beecher

Snowflakes are one of natures most fragile things but just look what they can do

when they stick together

~ anon

Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you

are and what you want

-- Alan Cohen

Life isnt about waiting for the storm to pass its about learning to dance in the

rain

~Anonymous

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose for this thing that we call

failure is not the falling down but the staying down

Mary Pickford 1893-1979 Actress and Producer

Courage does not always roar Sometimes courage is that quiet voice at the end of

the day that saysI will try again tomorrow

-Mary Anne Radmacher

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act or thought or word that raises

us above ourselves

~ Arthur P Stanley

―You see things and say Whylsquo but I dream things and say Why notlsquo

- George Bernard Shaw

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―The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and

convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges

- Martin Luther King Jr

―Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions Small people always do

that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great

- Mark Twain

―That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as

well

- Abraham Lincoln

―Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though

checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor

suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor

defeat

- Theodore Roosevelt

―Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm

- Winston Churchill

―I have not failed Ilsquove just found 10000 ways that wonlsquot work

- Thomas Edison If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun

--Katharine Hepburn

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist sees

problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems

~ Winston Churchill

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but

are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults

seem insignificant

Charles A Cerami Author

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If everyone on earth loved each other the earth would shine brighter than the

sun

-- Source unknown

As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again you are

merely a vague guest on a dark Earth

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

So many worlds so much to do so little done such things to be

~ Lord Alfred Tennyson

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy nothing can make a fool content

that is why most men are miserable

Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680 French classical writer)

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live

~ Flora Whittemore I am only one but still I am one I cannot do everything but still I can do

something I will not refuse to do the something I can do

Helen Keller 1880-1968 Author and Lecturer Where theres a will theres a way

English Proverb A manwoman without ambition is dead

A man with ambition but no love is dead

A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive

~Pearl Bailey We cant help everyone but everyone can help someone

~ Ronald Reagan

We must not promise what we ought not lest we be called on to perform what we

cannot

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))

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Once you realize you dont need anything youre free to have whatever you want

- Ian Watson

Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable

confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy ~ Norman Vincent Peale Every goal every action every thought every feeling one experiences whether it

be consciously or unconsciously known is an attempt to increase ones level of

peace of mind

~ Sidney Madwed

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so For

remember fear doesnt exist anywhere except in the mind

Dale Carnegie 1888-1955 Speaker and Author Great souls have wills feeble ones have only wishes

Chinese Proverb

―Focus your attention on your desire

not the situation that gave birth to your desire

mdashRich German Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone

and let your hand give in proportion to your purse

~ George Washington

Time I have only just a minute

Only sixty seconds in it

Forced upon me cant refuse it

Didnt seek it didnt choose it

But its up to me to use it

I must suffer if I lose it

Give account if I abuse it

Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it

~ Christine Warren

Do what you can with what you have where you are

~ Theodore Roosevelt

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With every adversity comes a seed of equal or greater opportunity

~ Napoleon Hill

Heart is merely another name for the Supreme Spirit because He is in all hearts

The entire Universe is condensed in the body and the entire body in the Heart

Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe

~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

―If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back then

you suffer Every moment is the most important moment of your life No future

time is better than now to let down your guard and love

~ David Deida

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for youll be criticized anyway Youll

be damned if you do and damned if you dont

~ Eleanor Roosevelt Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do

~ John Wooden

One difference between successful people and all the rest is that successful

people take action

~ Bob Proctor Speaker and Author

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left Every

mans greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life

~ P W Litchfield ―There is a giant asleep within every man When the giant awakes miracles happen

~ Frederick Faust Focus more on your desire than on your doubt and the dream will take care of

itself You may be surprised at how easily this happens Your doubts are not as

powerful as your desires unless you make them so

Marcia Wieder Author and Speaker

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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning by dreams that need

completion by pure love that needs expressing then we truly live life

~ Greg Anderson Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you

Never excuse yourself

~ Henry Ward Beecher There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge

- both poverty and riches are offspring of thought

~ Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author of Think and Grow Rich The person with a fixed goal a clear picture of his desire or an ideal always

before him causes it through repetition to be buried deeply in his subconscious

mind and is thus enabled thanks to its generative and sustaining power to realize

his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort Just pursue

the thought unceasingly Step by step you will achieve realization for all your

faculties and powers become directed to that end

~ Claude M Bristol Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake

~ Henry David Thoreau If opportunity doesnt knock build a door

~ Milton Berle Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well I am

not aware of any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking not exercise

not drugs not surgery--that has a greater impact on our quality of life incidence

of illness and premature death

- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak It is born of strength and

understanding

-- Meher Baba Unworthiness is simply a case of mistaken identity

-- Alan Cohen

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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet

-- Mahatma Gandhi If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march

on

-- Stopford Brooke It is usually the imagination that is wounded first rather than the heart it being

much more sensitive

~ Henry David Thoreau You need not struggle for your good Your good flows to you naturally when you are

relaxed open and trusting

-- Alan Cohen If you dont love it you cant afford it

Alan Cohen

Ask for peace first and you will clearly see your next step

-- Alan Cohen I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited

and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts Namely the physical universe

-- Ken Jenkins Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be exceptional

~ Mark Sanborn Life isnt what you want it to be its what you make it become

~ Anthony Ryan

If you are very quiet you can hear the world applauding

--Source unknown

Do you remember how electrical currents and unseen waves were laughed at

The knowledge about man is still in its infancy

~ Albert Einstein

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Wherever you go go with all your heart

~ Confucius I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up Most people in this

business gave up and went on to other things If you simply didnt give up you

would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you

Harrison Ford Actor

The quality of your life is determined by the number of uncomfortable

conversations you are willing to have

~ Rich German

To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define

themselves As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate

influences of the culture and environment we grow up in we come to have beliefs

about the nature of being human These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of

our psychosomatic systems our minds and brains our nervous systems our

endocrine systems and even our blood and sinews We act speak and think

according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems

~ Jeremy W Hayward

A mans true wealth is the good he does in the world Mohammed (c570-c632

Mecca spiritual leader

Every man is the architect of his own fortune

~ Sallust

What is opportunity and when does it knock

It never knocks

You can wait a whole lifetime listening hoping and you will hear no knocking

None at all

You are opportunity and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny

You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity to pursue and seize opportunity as

you develop the strength of your personality and build a self-image with which you

are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing

~ Maxwell Maltz

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Today I would like to become the man my dog thinks I am

Jack Thomson Entrepreneur BE the change you want to see in the world

- Mahatma Gandhi

Leaders are made they are not born They are made by hard effort

which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile

~ Vince Lombardi To honor the spirit is to accept the opportunity for your healing and personal

evolution When you choose to assume radical personal responsibility knowing that

you are responsible for the effect external circumstances have on you you are

taking a stand for the power of your spiritual nature to run the show

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think Its really important that you feel good Because this feeling good is what goes

out as a signal into the universe and starts to attract more of itself to you So the

more you can feel good the more you will attract the things that help you feel

good and that will keep bringing you up higher and higher

Joe Vitale Author and Speaker Just listen to the still voice within This is the mind to trust This is god

consciousness speaking not the ego that is seeking recognition

~Angela Walker

There is a prayer that lives in the center of your heart If you pray it it will

change your life How does it begin

-- Matthew Anderson

For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin but there was

always some obstacle in the way Something had to be got through first some

unfinished business time still to be served a debt to be paid Then life would

begin At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life

~ Bette Howland

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power then the world will know

peace

Jimmy Hendrix There are two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the

credit Try to be in the first group there is less competition there

Indira Gandhi Its good to have money and all the things that money can buy but its good too to

make sure you havent lost the things that money cant buy George

Horace Lorimer When you take things for granted the things you are granted get taken

Phil Hennessy Self-confidence is a state of mind where you believe that you deserve the best

you are capable of achieving the best and furthermore you expect the best to

happen

--- Dr Barnet Meltzer Writing is good thinking is better Cleverness is good patience is better

~ Hermann Hesse

You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the

greatness you perceive in them is your own

-- Alan Cohen

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their

gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible

Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924 Writer I will not condemn you for what you did yesterday If you do it right today

--Sheldon S Maye

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength

not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will

~ Vince Lombardi

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The moment one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too

-- William Hutchinson Murray

Youve got to get up every morning with determination if youre going to

go to bed with satisfaction

-- George Horace Lorimer Faith is born of Definiteness of Purpose

Keep your mind on the things that you do want and off the things that you do not

want

~ Unknown You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals

George S Patton 1885-1945 American Army General

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have

thrown at him

~ David Brinkley

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough

~ Helen Keller

If what you did yesterday seems big you havent done anything

today

Lou Holtz

Dont wait for extraordinary opportunities Seize common occasions and make

them great Weak menwomen wait for opportunities strong menwomen make

them

~ Orison Swett Marden

The recognition you seek from others is really the recognition you seek from

yourself Give it to yourself and you wont need it from others

-- Alan Cohen Ninety percent of the population wish positive but think negative

~ Leslie Householder

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You are more likely to create success when you are relaxed about a result than

when you are uptight about it

-- Alan Cohen Embrace Change True success can be defined by your ability to adapt to

changing circumstances

-- Connie Sky Aim High The important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for

what we could become

-- Charles Du Bos Dont ask for an easier life ask to be a stronger person

Shared by Kristen Goeser

Your consciousness is a powerful force for creating It determines the people you

are attracted to and the people who are attracted to you If you want to improve

your lot in life or the quality of your relationships choosing to accept personal

responsibility is the first and most important step

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise it is all

over Bolt up at once

-- Sir Walter Scott

You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you cant have it

- Dr Robert Anthony Live so that you wouldnt be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip

Will Rogers 1879-1935 Comedian and Actor

Everyone rides on the merry go round of life but very few ever take the chance

at the brass ring

-- Kevin Veitch

We gain internal freedom through external actions

- Ram Dass

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Everyone was born original but most people die copies

~ Unknown Without passion you dont have energy without energy you have nothing Nothing

great in the world has been accomplished without passion

~ Donald Trump When one door of happiness closes another opens But often we look so long at

the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened before us

~ Helen Keller

I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please

everybody

Bill Cosby Comedian Actor and Author Give up your identity as a seeker and become a finder Then everything you ever

sought will find you

-- Alan Cohen

The reason we put a lot of emphasis on action is because we do not understand the

power of our thought If you analyze it 90 percent of most peoples actions

are spent trying to compensate for inappropriate thought

~ Dr Robert Anthony Prosperity lets go the bridle

-- George Herbert

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered

heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed They won because they refused to

become discouraged by their defeats

Bertie Charles Forbes 1880-1954 Financial Journalist Author and Founder of Forbes Magazine He who jumps to conclusions falls to their death

-- Mark J Ottaviani Im not a believer in nor the advocate of miracles for the reason that I

have enough knowledge of nature to understand that nature never deviates from

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her established laws Her laws are simply so incomprehensible that they produce

what appears to be miracles

~ Napoleon Hill Learn to listen Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly

Frank Tyger

Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways you can as long as

ever you can

John Wesley Work like you dont need the money Love like youve never been hurt Dance like

nobody is watching

-- Mark Twain

You believe that a lover will bring you love but it is your love that will bring you a

lover

-- Alan Cohen

The Universe is not punishing you or blessing you

The Universe is responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting The

more joyful you are the more Well-being flows to you

~Abraham-Hicks What nourishes you is not vitamins in food It is the joy you feel in eating it

-- Ramtha

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this

decide what you want

Ben Stein Attorney Author Actor and Commentator

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure to embrace

the new But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful There is

more security in the adventurous and exciting for in movement there is life and in

change there is power

mdashAlan Cohen

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Vision without action is a daydream Action without vision is a nightmare

-- Japanese Proverb

Success is the result of applying sound principles which align with universal laws

The Science of Success is a powerful road map to guarantee your personal

success

~ Brian Tracy

Part of you thinks that you are not going to die because part of you is not going to

die

-- Alan Cohen

There are 3 things that are certain in life death taxes and change You cant

avoid change its mandatory progress however is optional

-- Bill R Good Jr

Surrender the illusion that anyone other than you has power or authority over

your life

Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either

openly before us or close to us

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You must be the change you want to see in the world

~ Gandhi

Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a

friendly level

~ Max L Forman

If you want your life to be a magnificent story then begin by realizing that you

are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page

-- Mark Houlahan

If you want to develop in profound and significant ways it is essential that you

build up a reservoir of spiritual and emotional conviction a source of boundless

freedom that will give you the energy to transcend the apparent limitations of

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your own emotional psychological and cultural experience By practicing

meditation with deadly seriousness you cultivate that freedom and conviction in

no-limitation as a reference point Thats the only reason to meditate in the

context of Evolutionary Enlightenment

mdash Andrew Cohen

If our actions stem from honesty kindness caring and vision then no matter

what the result of our efforts we have added something of value to our souls and

to the world

~ Joan Boysenko

Too often the opportunity knocks but by the time you push back the chain push

back the bolt unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm its too late

~ Rita Coolidge We are formed and molded by our thoughts

Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts

give joy when they speak or act

Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them

~ Buddha

We feel most alive in the presence of the Beautiful for it meets the needs of the

soul

~ John OlsquoDonohue

No onelsquos past has to be a prison sentence Forgiveness provides the key to

acknowledge the past and move on When we can forgive we have less to be afraid

of

~ Dr Fred Luskin

Isnlsquot it strange that princesses and kings and clowns that caper in sawdust rings

and common people like you and me are builders for eternity Each is given a bag of

tools a shapeless mass a book of rules and each must make ere life is flown a

stumbling block or stepping stone

~ Edgar Guest

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly

~ Richard Bach

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I donlsquot wait for moods

You accomplish nothing if you do that Our mind must know it has got to get down

to work

~ Pearl S Buck

There is a giant asleep within every man When that giant awakes miracles happen

~ Fred Faust

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the

risk it took to bloom

~ Anais Nin

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid but he who conquers that fear

~ Nelson Mandela

Itlsquos not about breaking the rules

It is about abandoning the concept of rules altogether

~ Paul Lemberg

Each moment of our life we either invoke or destroy our dreams

~ Stuart Wilde

Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts This is the

secret of success

Swami Sivananda

Whatever you do do it as totally as possible

Osho

I am not afraidhellipI was born to do this

~Joan of Arc

―There is nothing that you cannot be do or have

~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given

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―Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success When you do a thing

do it with all your might Put your whole soul into it Stamp it with your own

personality Be active be energetic be enthusiastic and faithful and you will

accomplish your object Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Success is never final Failure is never fatal It is courage that counts

~ Winston Churchill

What are you tolerating that would not be a part of your ideal day

-- Alan Cohen Trust yourself You know more than you think you do

-- Dr Benjamin Spock True friends and healers do not limit your options They expand them

-- Alan Cohen When it comes to staying young a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day

-- Marty Bucella Achievement seems to be connected with action Successful men and women keep

moving They make mistakes but they dont quit

Conrad Hilton 1887-1979 Founder of Hilton Hotels Successful people form the habit of doing what failures dont like to do They like

the results they get by doing what they dont necessarily enjoy

Earl Nightingale1921-1989 Author and Syndicated Radio Personality When you are clear what you want will show up in your life and only to the extent

you are clear

Janet AttwoodAuthor of The Passion Test The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it

Chinese proverb

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery the human beings by

changing the inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their

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lives

~ William James

Never look up to the people who have the painted-perfect lives because try as

they might they can never see beyond the canvas

~ Moira Hallsom

Even from a dark night songs of beauty can be born

~ Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body

~ Pythagoras

If life gives you lemons make lemonade

~ Joan Collins

The only place where dreams are impossible is in your own mind

~ Emalie

Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions But no man has

a right to be wrong in his facts

~ Bernard M Baruch

Begin to weave and God will give you the thread

~ German Proverb

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss

~ David Eddings

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we

are and what we can be igniting the circuits of our highest potential

-- Rusty Berkus

The optimist says we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears

this is true

-- Source Unknown

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If I had listened to the critics Id have died drunk in the gutter

-- Chekov

Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice It is not a thing to be

waited for it is a thing to be achieved

-- Jeremy Kitson

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental

difference in someones life

- Sister Mary Rose McGeady

One never knows what each day is going to bring The important thing is to be

open and ready for it

- Henry Moore

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in

the same individual

- Arthur Koestler

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it

- Lou Holtz Motivation is like food for the brain You cannot get enough in one sitting It needs continual and

regular top ups

~ Peter Davies

Dont tell me how hard you work

Tell me how much you get done

~ James Ling

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures

dont like to do

~ Albert Gray

―There is a science of getting rich and it is an exact science like algebra or arithmetic There

are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches and once these laws are learned

and obeyed by anyone that person will get rich with mathematical certainty ~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich

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―Everything you want should be yours the type of work you want the relationships you need

the social mental and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled the money

you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you and any requirement that you may (or

may not) have for achievement or service to others If you donlsquot aim for it all youlsquoll never get it

all To aim for it requires that you know what you want ~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle ―Eliminate the word impossible from your thinking and speaking vocabularies Impossible is a

failure word The thought ―Itlsquos impossible sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove

youlsquore right ~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big ―Think Big and youlsquoll live big Youlsquoll live big in happiness Youlsquoll live big in accomplishment Big in

income Big in friends Big in respecthellip Start now right now to discover how to make your

thinking make magic for you Start out with this thought of the great philosopher Disraeli ―Life

is too short to be little ~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big ―If you have a big problem in your life all that means is that you are being a small person ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind ―It all comes down to this if your subconscious financial blueprintlsquo is not setlsquo for success

nothing you learn nothing you know and nothing you do will make much of a difference ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you If God gives you a bucket of fish you

have to distribute those fish If you donlsquot theylsquore going to rot attract a bunch of flies and

start stinking up your soul ~ Russell Simmons from Do You ―In my experience therelsquos only one thing that will always steer you toward success Thatlsquos to

have a vision and to stick with ithellip Once I have a vision for a new venture Ilsquom going to ride that

vision until the wheels come off ~ Russell Simmons quotes from Do You

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery the human beings by changing the

inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their lives

~ William James

There is no courage without fear

~ Eddie Rickenbacher

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make who would you call and what

would you say And why are you waiting

-- Stephen Levine

Remember we all stumble every one of us Thats why its a comfort to go hand in hand

~ Emily Kimbrough The inspiration of the almighty gives man understanding

~ the Bible

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives

~ Louise Hay

The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation

~ Comer Cotrell

Give it all youve got because you never know if theres going to be a next time

~ Danielle Ingrum

Dont try to force anything Let life be a deep let-go God opens millions of flowers everyday

without forcing their buds

~Osho

The definition of Insanity is Doing the Same Things Over and Over Again and Expecting Different

Results

~ Albert Einstein

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us This little treasure

has great great powers and I would say we only have learnt a very very small part of what it can

do

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work

~ John G Pollard

Vacation is a state of mind not an action

-- Alan Cohen

Whatever games are played with us we must play no games with ourselves

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Desperation does not recognize your power to choose

-- Alan Cohen

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When people talk listen completely Most people never listen

-- Ernest Hemingway

Heaven is gained or lost not by dramatic deeds but by the simple of acts of daily living

-- Alan Cohen

There is only one voice worth listening to

--Alan Cohen Reverie is not a mind vacuum It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul

--Gaston Bachelard

Why get rich quick when you can be rich now

-- Alan Cohen

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure

-- Joseph Campbell

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always view problems as opportunities in work clothes

-- Henry Kaiser

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character of

another

Winston Churchill 1874-1965 Former British Prime Minister

When you are clear what you want will show up in your life and only to the extent you are clear

Janet Attwood Author of The Passion Test

New peace harmony and power fill your relationships when you practice radical personal

responsibility Through it you enter a more refined sphere of relating that enhances your life and

accelerates the realization of your ultimate spiritual self Practicing radical personal responsibility

forever changes the way you approach and resolve conflict

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The Cure for the Common Upset (p 10)

Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and

discomfort We spend enormous energy denying our insecurity fighting pain death and loss and

hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature

- Jack Kornfield A Path with Heart

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Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well I am not aware of

any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking not exercise not drugs not surgery--that has

a greater impact on our quality of life incidence of illness and premature death

- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant they is a fuel in us which needs

to be ignited with sparks

Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Energy is the essence of life Every day you decide how youre going to use it by

knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal and by maintaining

focus

-Oprah Winfrey

The acquisition of wealth is no longer a driving force in the 24th century We

strive to better ourselves and the rest of humanity

-- From the movie Star Trek Insurrection

―You cannot exercise much power without gratitude for it is gratitude that keeps

you connected with Power

~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich

―To do things in a way you want to do them you will have to acquire the ability to

think the way you want to think this is the first step toward getting rich

~ Wallace D Wattles from The Science of Getting Rich

―There are three crucial dimensions to your explanatory style permanence

pervasiveness and personalization

~ Martin Seligman from Learned Optimism

―Habits of thinking need not be forever One of the most significant findings in

psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they

think

~ Martin Seligman from Learned Optimism

―Action always beats inaction ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

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―Itlsquos not enough to be in the right place at the right time You have to be the right person in the

right place at the right time ~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―Every thought vibrates every thought radiates a signal and every thought

attracts a matching signal back We call that process the Law of Attraction The

Law of Attraction says That which is like unto itself is drawn And so you might

see the powerful Law of Attraction as a sort of Universal Manager that sees to it

that all thoughts that match one another line up

~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given

―It is our desire that you become one who is happy with that which you are and

with that which you havemdashwhile at the same time being eager for more That is the

optimal creative vantage point To stand on the brink of what is coming feeling

eager optimistic anticipationmdashwith no feelings of impatience doubt or

unworthiness hindering the receiving of itmdashthat is the Science of Deliberate

Creation at its best

~ Esther amp Jerry Hicks from Ask and It Is Given

―As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around you come to see that every

perceived problem appearing ―out there is really nothing more than a

misperception within your own thinking

~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is

―The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is

When the mind is perfectly clear what is is what we want

~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself You must be

able to sustain yourself against staggering blows There is no code of conduct to

help beginners That is why some people with mediocre talent but with great inner

drive go much further than people with vastly superior talent

Sophia Loren Actress

And in the end its not the years in your life that count Its the life in your

years

-- Abraham Lincoln

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Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by

holding grudges harboring resentments and nursing unhealed wounds It is

rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to

understand and accept other people and ourselves

~ Sidney and Suzanne Simon

Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action for all eternity

Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801 Poet and Physiognomist People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do

things When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success

Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993 Speaker and Author Every achiever that I have ever met says My life turned around when I began to

believe in me

Dr Robert H Schuller Minister and Author

With love in you your only need is to extend it

-- A Course in Miracles

Just because it ended doesnt mean it failed

-- Alan Cohen

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find

it

-- George Moore

Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality

-- Alan Cohen

Our biggest problems cannot be resolved They must be outgrown

-- Carl Jung

True prayer penetrates beyond hope and establishes itself in knowing

-- Alan Cohen

So we see to play successfully the game of life we must train the imaging faculty

A person with an imaging faculty trained to image only good brings into his life

every righteous desire of his heart - health wealth love friends perfect self-

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expression his highest ideals

mdash Florence Scovel Shinn

Dont ask what the world needs ask what makes you come alive and go do it

Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

mdashHoward Thurman

To the degree were not living our dreams our comfort zone has more control of

us than we have over ourselves

-- Peter McWilliams

Never let your memories be greater than your dreams

-- Doug Ivester (President of Coca Cola)

It is not length of life but depth of life

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches with them but

to reveal their own

-- Author Unknown

A free lunch is only found in mousetraps

-- John Capuzzi

If you have the will to win you have achieved half your success if you dont you

have achieved half your failure

-- David Ambrose

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesnt lie in not reaching your

goal The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach It isnt a calamity to die with

dreams unfulfilled but it is a calamity not to dream It is not a disaster to be

unable to capture your ideal but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture It is

not a disgrace not to reach the stars but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach

for Not failure but low aim is a sin

~ Benjamin E Mayes

True success is a state of mindThis mindset is the heart and soul of successful

entrepreneurial enterprise You cant get started without it and you cant make a

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business wildly profitable if you dont get it

~ Unknown

Traditional education will make you a living self-education will make you a

fortune

~ Jim Rohn One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests

~ John Stuart Mill

Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different Rather than wasting

time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we dont have what we

want we can start to pursue other ways to get it

~ Greg Anderson

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it

~ Rudy Guilliani ―Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential And to

do that I insist you throw caution at the wind ignore the pleas of parents

coaches spouses and bosses to be realisticlsquo Realistic people do not accomplish

extraordinary things because the odds of success stymie them The best

performers ignore the odds I will show that instead of limiting themselves to

whatlsquos probable the best will pursue the heart-pounding exciting really big

difference-making dreamsmdashso long as catching them might be possible

~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement ―To be sure great performers are well trained experienced smart and in some

cases divinely talented But the way their brains work during a performance is a

lot more like a squirrellsquos than like Einsteinlsquos Like squirrels the best in every

business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilitiesmdashthey

flat out trust their skills which is why we call this high-performance state of mind

the ―Trusting Mindset Routine access to the Trusting Mindset is what separates

great performers from the rest of the pack

~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement ―In every forest on every farm in every orchard on earth itlsquos whatlsquos under the

ground that creates whatlsquos above the ground Thatlsquos why placing your attention on

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the fruits that you have already grown is futile You cannot change the fruits that

are already hanging on the tree You can however change tomorrowlsquos fruits But to

do so you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―Believe that you are the one who creates your success that you are the one who

creates your mediocrity and that you are the one creating your struggle around

money and success

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―8020 thinking requires and with practice enables us to spot the few really important things

that are happening and ignore the mass of unimportant things It teaches us to see the wood

for the trees ~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle

―The few things that work fantastically well should be identified cultivated nurtured and

multiplied

~ Richard Koch from The 8020 Principle

―We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection Itlsquos about a process a journey The

master is the one who stays on the path day after day year after year The master is the one

who is willing to try and fail and try again for as long as he or she lives ~ George Leonard from Mastery

―Whenever you feel shortlsquo or in needlsquo of something give what you want first and it will come

back in buckets That is true for money a smile love friendship I know it is often the last

thing a person may want to do but it has always worked for me I just trust that the principle

of reciprocity is true and I give what I want ~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad

―One dad would sayThe love of money is the root of all evillsquo The other The lack of money is

the root of all evillsquo ~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall every step we

take just gets us to the wrong place faster

Stephen Covey

Becoming a star may not be in your destiny but being the best

that you can be is a goal you can set for yourselves

Bryan Lindsay

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Be yourself Who else is better qualified

Frank J Giblin II

Do not learn from your mistakes learn from the mistakes of others

to that you do not make any

Sean Karsten

Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower

Shigenori Kameoka

Every achiever that I have ever met says My life turned around when I began to believe in me

Dr Robert H Schuller Minister and Author

Upsets always contain the gift of learning except most people have never learned how to unwrap

the package

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is

causing anxiety

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970 British philosopher mathematician essayist) Great souls have wills feeble ones have only wishes

Chinese Proverb

We must not promise what we ought not lest we be called on to perform what we cannot

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 American President (16th))

Dont measure yourself by what you have accomplished but by what you should have accomplished

with your ability

John Wooden (1910- American basketball coach)

Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty

John Ruskin (1819-1900 British critic social theorist)

Something good is already happening Can you discover it

-- Alan Cohen

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if theyve got a second Give your

dreams all youve got and youll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you

William James 1842-1910 Philosopher and Author

Out of suffering comes creativity You cannot spell painting without pain

-- John Lithgow in Third Rock From the Sun

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The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings the past and the

future are not as real but rather more real than the present

- Alan Watts

Boldness has genius power and magic in it Begin it now

~ Goethe

―In the heart of Emptiness there is a mysterious impulse mysterious because

there is actually nothing in the heart of Emptiness (for there is nothing in

Emptiness period) Yet there it is this mysterious impulse the impulse to hellip

create To sing to shine to radiate to send forth reach out and celebrate to

sing and shout and walk about to effervesce and bubble over this mysterious

exuberance in the heart of Emptiness

~ Ken Wilber from One Taste July 31

―Evolution goes beyond what went before but because it must embrace what went

before then its very nature is to transcend and include and thus it has an inherent

directionality a secret impulse toward increasing depth increasing intrinsic value

increasing consciousness In order for evolution to move at all it must move in

those directionsmdashtherelsquos no place else for it to go

~ Ken Wilber from A Brief History of Everything

The secret of being boring is to say everything

- Voltaire 1694-1778 French Writer and Philosopher

―Donlsquot let what you canlsquot do stop you from what you can do

- John Wooden

―You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the

shore

- Christopher Columbus

―Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall

- Confucius

―A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed

- Henrik Ibsen

―It is our choices that show what we truly are far more than our abilities

- JK Rowling

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―If you are going through hell keep going

- Winston Churchill

―Yesterday is history Tomorrow is a mystery Today Today is a gift Thatlsquos why

we call it the present

- B Olatunji

―To live is the rarest thing in the world Most people exist thatlsquos all

- Oscar Wilde

―You donlsquot get to choose how you are going to die Or when You can only decide how

you are going to live Now

- Joan Baez

―When one door of happiness closes another opens But often we look so long at

the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us

- Helen Keller

―Imagination is more important than knowledge Knowledge is limited Imagination

encircles the world

- Albert Einstein

―If you want to be happy be

- Leo Tolstoy

―Always do right This will gratify some people and astonish the rest

- Mark Twain

―We must be the change we want to see

- Gandhi

―The friend in my adversity I shall always treasure most I can better trust those

who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to

enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity

- Ulysses S Grant

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―Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting

- Elizabeth Bibesco

―The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort but

where he stands at times of conflict and controversy

- Martin Luther King Jr

―Begin doing what you want to do now We are not living in eternity We have only

this moment sparkling like a star in our hand ndash and melting like a snow flake

- MB Ray

―I shall pass through this life but once Any good therefore that I can do let me

do it now Let me not defer or neglect it For I shall never pass this way again

- Etienne de Grellet

―This above all To your own self be true

- William Shakespeare

―To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make

you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight

and never stop fighting

- EE Cummings

―In three words I can sum up what Ilsquove learned about life It goes on

- Robert Frost

―Imagine

- John Lennon

You can if you think you can

George Reeves

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile

achievement

Henry Ford 1863-1947 Industrialist

No man is capable of self-improvement if he sees no other model but himself

-- Conrado I Generoso

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When I am delivering my very best then that is when I feel successful

~ Art Fettig

The only limitations you will ever have are the ones you put on yourself

~ Kristinna Habashy

The secret of manwomans being is not only

to live but to have something to live for

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

To hell with circumstances I create opportunities

~ Bruce Lee

Simplicity is making the journey of this life

with just baggage enough

~ Charles Dudley Warner

I dont think theres any such thing as setting your goals too high The higher you

set your goals the more you are going to work If you dont reach them then its

okay just as long as you set it and then give 100 of yourself

~ Dan Jansen Speed Skater

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts the circle of Creation

is completed inside us the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal

everything in sight

~ Michael Bridge

Youlsquore darn tootinlsquo Ilsquom going to bring out the best in you You are the best

― Maureen Coleman middle school teacher

Truth is rarely writ in ink It lives in nature

-- Martin H Fischer

Before planning where you want to go decide who you want to be

-- Alan Cohen

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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day wisdom consists in not

exceeding the limit

-- Elbert Hubbard

Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere

-- Alan Cohen

When the Japanese mend broken objects they fill the cracks with gold They

believe that when somethings suffered damage and has a history it becomes more

beautiful

-- Barbara Bloom

Efficiency without love is not really efficient

-- Alan Cohen

The purpose of time is to enable you to learn how to use time constructively

-- A Course in Miracles

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than

any other one thing

Laura Ingalls Wilder 1867-1957 Author

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as

few as there are any other great artists It might even be the greatest of the arts

since the medium is the human mind and spirit

John Steinbeck 1902-1968 Writer and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

Be careful what you spend your day touching because it will shape your mind your

body and your heart

Sam Keen Speaker and Author

I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in

the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life he has imagined he will

meet with success unexpected in common hours

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 Writer and Poet

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out

― Michael Burke

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Turn frustration into fascination

-- Dr Richard Bartlett

Money is not the source of life It is an expression or by-product of doing what

brings you life

-- Alan Cohen

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but

sand the angels come to visit us and we only know them when they are gone

- George Elliot

Proceed when clear

-- Alan Cohen

Slow down and enjoy life Its not only the scenery you miss by going too fast --

you also miss the sense of where you are going and why

Eddie Cantor

Life is here to enjoy The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness When it

appears otherwise you are off the path of destiny Look at your life and ask

What do I need to change to choose in favor of my passions

Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life Be happy now Dont wait for something

outside of yourself to make you happy in the future Think how really precious is

the time you have to spend whether its at work or with your family Every minute

should be enjoyed and savored

Earl Nightingale

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life It turns what we have into enough and

more It turns denial into acceptance chaos into order confusion into clarity It

turns problems into gifts failures into success the unexpected into perfect

timing and mistakes into important events Gratitude makes sense of our past

brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow

Melodie Beattie Writer

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Devotion is commitment at a deep cellular level When you are devoted the

universe will align itself to give you what you desire

Rich German Author of Monetize Your Passion

Action breeds confidence and courage If you want to conquer fear do not sit

home and think about it Go out and get busy

~ Dale Carnegie

The mind turned inwards is the Self turned outwards it becomes the ego and all

the world

~Ramana Maharshi

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be

~Daniel J Boorstin

The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively

from his own resources

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire

not things we fear

~ Brian Tracy

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game and no matter how

great your talent there is only one way to obtain it-work

~ Jack Nicklaus Golfer

A goal without a plan is merely a WISH without a HOPE

~ Unknown

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan in which we must

fervently believe and upon which we must vigorously act There is no other route

to success

~ Stephen A Brennan

Knowledge breeds doubt Wisdom births wonder

Alan Cohen

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When you decide what you want it has to manifestbut only at the level of your

belief

Rich German Author of Monetize Your Passion

Friendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity

- John Dryden

It may make people feel more secure when everyone agrees with them but it

wont create a world made rich by the unique and diverse expressions of the human

soul

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart

Choice is destinys soul mate

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Truth is a gem of many facets Each facet reflects the brilliance within and

without But the whole reveals a deeper more profound message than all the parts

by themselves

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart

He who knows others is wise he who knows himself is enlightened

- Tao Te Ching

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers but for powers equal to

our tasks

-- Helen Keller

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret

-- Ambrose Bierce

We must all suffer one of two things the pain of discipline or the pain of regret

or disappointment

-- Jim Rohn

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Many risks fail because they were not taken in time Too many risks are postponed

until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made This does not mean that one

should say Damn the torpedoes full speed ahead That is foolish and self-

destructive But dont sit back waiting for the perfect moment It almost never

comes

-- David Viscott Risking

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter

-- E E Cummings

Reflect upon your blessings of which every man has plenty not on your past

misfortunes of which all men have some

-- Charles Dickens

What the caterpillar calls the end the rest of the world calls a butterfly

-- Lao Tsu

Out of difficulties grow miracles

-- Jean De La Bruyere

Our patience will achieve more than our force

-- Edmund Burke

You must pay in the past to receive in the future

-- Taylor Simpson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what

lies within us

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why Why Not Why Not You Why Not Now

-- Aslan

To become a leader then you must become yourself become the maker of your

own life

--Warren G Bennis

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You have got to discover you what you do and trust it

Barbra Streisand

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts the

circle of Creation is completed inside us the doors of our souls

fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight

Michael Bridge

Each of us feels that we are just a drop in the ocean but the

ocean would be less without that missing drop

Mother Teresa

You dont just stumble into the future You create your own future

Roger Smith

Just dont give up on trying to do what you really want to do

Where there is love and inspiration I dont think you can go

wrong

Ella Fitzgerald

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot

do

Walter Bagehot

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser

John W Gardner

Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life

forever

Keri Russell

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while

so that we can see Life with a clearer view again

Alex Tan

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There never was a great soul that did not have some divine

inspiration

Marcus T Cicero

Youve got to follow your passion Youve got to figure out what

it is you love--who you really are And have the courage to do

that

Oprah Winfrey

Everything that occurs is an opportunity to experience Love

mdashRich German

Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small

things brought together

- Vincent Van Gogh

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark The real tragedy is when

men are afraid of the light

-- Plato

If I had to select one quality one personal characteristic that I regard as being

most highly correlated with success whatever the field I would pick the trait of

persistence

Richard DeVos Co-Founder of Amway

Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination allows vision and gives us the right

stuff to turn our dreams into reality

~James Womack

No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn

-- Hal Borland

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives We must take charge

of our own destinies design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams

- Les Brown

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on

We act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because

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of imagination

- Maxwell Maltz

There is a sleeping giant in you Release it Believe in yourself

~ Bob Proctor

Wealth depends chiefly on two words industry and frugality that is waste

neither time nor money but make the best use of both

-- Benjamin Franklin

When you talk to God thats prayer When God talks back its schizophrenia

-- Lily Tomlin

Work is not a substitute for love It is an avenue of loves expression

-- Alan Cohen

Look beyond peoplelsquos appearances

Look beyond the roles one plays and the mask they wear

Look deep into their eyes and peer into their soul

There you will find their true essence

There you will find your true essence

And that essence is love

mdashRich German

Everything that occurs is an opportunity to experience Love

mdashRich German

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a

life spent doing nothing

George Bernard Shaw

Formula for success under promise and over deliver

Tom Peters

Efficiency is doing things right effectiveness is doing the right things

Peter F Drucker

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Be the change that you want to see in the world

Mahatma Gandhi

Creating space is as important as filling it

-- Alan Cohen

Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Words may guide you to the door of heaven but only silence opens it

-- Alan Cohen

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more

useful than a life spent doing nothing

Bernard Shaw

Formula for success under promise and over deliver

Tom Peters

Efficiency is doing things right effectiveness is doing the right

things

Peter F Drucker

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives We must take charge

of our own destinies design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams

- Les Brown

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works onWe

act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because of

imagination

- Maxwell Maltz

No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn

-- Hal Borland

There is a sleeping giant in you

Release it Believe in yourself

~ Bob Proctor

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Wealth depends chiefly on two words industry and frugality that is waste

neither time nor money but make the best use of both

-- Benjamin Franklin

Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination allows vision and gives us the right

stuff to turn our dreams into reality

~James Womack

If I had to select one quality one personal characteristic that I regard as being

most highly correlated with success whatever the field I would pick the trait of

persistence

Richard DeVos Co-Founder of Amway

The best way to teach people is by telling a story

Jonathan Swift

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking

what nobody else has thought

Kenneth Blanchard

All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it

-Samuel Butler

Happiness is like a cat If you try to coax it or call it it will avoid you It will never

come

But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business youll find it rubbing

up against your legs and jumping into your lap

- William Bennett

The word impossible is only in the mind and not in the heart

- Sri Chinmoy

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another it is the only

means

Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Physicist

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Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone

And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone

Paul Tillich

Sometimes the cards we are dealt are not always fair However you must keep

smiling amp moving on

~ Tom Jackson

Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you

- Elbert Hubard

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends

with anyone else in the world

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Thus nature has no love for solitude and always leans as it were on some support

and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship

- Cicero

So it is life is actually made up of our choices We are the sum total of them and

if we hold to an attitude of love and thanksgiving for all the good things within our

grasp we may have what all ambitious people long for - success

Delma Neeley

Believe and your belief will create the fact

~ William James

The principle is competing against yourself

Its about self improvement about being better than you were the day before

~ Steve Young

All of us you your children your neighbors and their children are

everyday geniuses even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by

everyone Thats probably because school hasnt encouraged us to notice whats

hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself

~ Peter Kline

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If youll not settle for anything less than your best you will be amazed at what

you can accomplish in your lives

Vince Lombardi

Ya gotta put your behind in your past

Then youre ready for whatever comes next

~ Pumba The Lion King

Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become

~ James Allen

Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well what

causes sadness and what brings happiness what makes us suffer and what leads to

healing

~ Dean Ornish MD

Three components make an entrepreneur the person the ideaand the resources

to make it happen

~ Anita Roddick

What we can or cannot do what we consider possible or impossible is rarely a

function of our true capability It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who

we are

~ Anthony Robbins

Either Do or Do Not There is No Try

~ George Lucas

Theres a name for the magic that transforms lives connects dots moves

mountains and orchestrates coincidences that shock and astound Imagination

And theres a name for all that stops you in your tracks stirs fear spins wheels

and leaves one wondering Hey whats up with that Imagination

Careful where you point that thing

~ The Universe

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with

them

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faith is a passionate intuition

-William Wordsworth

Friendship is a sheltering tree

--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision Vision is the perfume

of the mind

--Harriet Rubin

Striving for excellence motivates you striving for perfection is demoralizing

--Harriet Braiker

I can feel guilty about the past apprehensive about the future but only in the

present can I act The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of

mental wellness

-Abraham Maslow 1908-1970 Psychologist

In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge

-Aristotle

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our

potential

Sir Winston Churchill 1874-1965 Former British Prime Minister

The minute you settle for less than you deserve you get even less than you

settled for

Maureen Dowd Newspaper Columnist

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything

outside ourselves will affect us

Stephen R Covey Author and Speaker

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Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually

attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life

Christiane Northrup Medical Doctor and Author

We must learn to keep ourselves awake by an infinite expectation of the

dawn

-- Henry David Thoreau

You dont need to struggle to get your body to do or be what your spirit already is

-- Alan Cohen

One must steer not talk

-- Seneca

The more you quantify the less you qualify

-- Alan Cohen

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know Most are

born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly

-- Buckminster Fuller

Any act motivated by guilt does not assuage guilt but perpetuates it

-- Alan Cohen

Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for

themselves

-- Peter McArthur

Be so good they cant ignore you

Steve Martin

Its kind of fun to do the impossible

Walt Disney

Its easy to make a buck Its a lot tougher to make a difference

Tom Brokaw

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When I hear somebody sigh Life is hard I am always tempted to

ask Compared to what

Sydney J Harris

In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing The worst

thing you can do is nothing

Sam Walton

I had to pick myself up and get on with it do it all over again only even better

this time

Theodore Roosevelt

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process

~ Jim Rohn

If you can imagine it you can achieve it If you can dream it you can become it

~ William Arthur Ward

There is much in the world to make us afraid There is much more in our faith to

make us unafraid

-- Cropp

Pray for essence rather than form and the form will be a perfect expression of

the essence

-- Alan Cohen

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change

Charles R Swindoll Author and Pastor

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with

- Jim Rohn

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your

dreams

- Les Brown

Life is 10 of what happens to me and 90 of how I react to it

John Maxwell

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What you see depends on what youre looking for

Anon

Mind over matter If you dont mind it doesnt matter

-- Alan Cohen

When you are clear on want to how to shows up

-- Michael Neill

Quit struggling to make your body do or be what your spirit already is

-- Alan Cohen

Truth is the offspring of silence and unbroken meditation

-- Isaac Newton

Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal Whatever you invest it

in will yield more of the same

-- Alan Cohen

When you find yourself stressed ask yourself one question Will this matter five

years from now If yes then do something about the situation If no then let it

go

Catherine Pulsifer Writer

Theres plenty of intelligence in the world but the courage to do things

differently is in short supply

Marilyn vos Savant Columnist Author and Lecturer

Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced

by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas

a strong faith is strengthened by them

Viktor E Frankl 1905-1997 Holocaust Survivor and Author of Mans Search for

Meaning

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength

Richard L Evans

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You were not born a winner and you were not born a loser You are

what you make yourself be

Lou Holtz

Remember if you ever need a helping hand youll find one at the

end of your arm As you grow older you will discover that you

have two hands One for helping yourself the other for helping

others

Audrey Hepburn

Dont take life too seriously because youll never get out alive

Josh Shippe

Without hard work nothing grows but weeds

Gordon B Hinckley

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies

--Mother Teresa

Do what you can to show you care about other people and you will make our world

a better place

--Rosalynn Carter

Again and again the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is

only a tough decision waiting to be made

--Robert H Schuller

If in our daily life we can smile if we can be peaceful and happy not only we but

everyone will profit from it This is the most basic kind of peace work

--Thich Nhat Hanh

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties

disappear and obstacles vanish into air

- John Quincy Adams

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win

~ GK Chesterton

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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown for going

out I found was really going in

mdashJohn Muir 1913

To me itlsquos really so simple that life should be lived on the edge You

have to exercise rebellion To refuse to tape yourself to the rules

to refuse your own success to refuse to repeat yourself to see

every day every year every idea as a true challenge Then you will

live your life on the tightrope

mdashPhilippe Petit (star of the movie Man on Wire)

The first step to creating the lifestyle of your dreams is to simplify

your life

mdashRich German

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist sees

problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems

Winston Churchill

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you

have and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more

~ Robert Collier

Instead of waiting for someone to take you under their wing go out there and

find a good wing to climb under

~ Dave Thomas

If you would convince others seem open to conviction yourself

~ Lord Chesterfield

The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable

competitive advantage

~ Arie de Geus

Human life is purely a matter of deciding whats important to you

-- Source unknown

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Determination and perseverance move the world thinking that others will do it

for you is a sure way to fail

Marva Collins Educator

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them

~ Walt Disney

Everything that happens to you is self-created Whenever youre responding to

any situation whether its a sip of coffee or a traffic jam or a love note or

criticism from a boss or rainy weather youre in fact responding to a signal that

you generated within yourself

- Deepak Chopra

Relationships are not about intellect they are about feeling They require an

intelligence of the heart

- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is

when adults are afraid of the light

- Plato

A good listener is someone who is curious open-minded and nonjudgmental A

good listener is not a know-it-all A good listener knows that truth often reveals

itself bit by bit much like putting together a jigsaw puzzle

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart

Its the night that makes the dawning

Its the depths that make the heights

Its the roots that make the branches

Its the darkness that gives birth to Light

- Joel Heathcote

How you hear what someone says is determined by your interpretations and your

interpretations flow from your past This is very important to know especially if

you find that you overreact to what others say or habitually get your feelings hurt

Remember what someone said is not necessarily what you heard and what you

heard is not necessarily what they meant

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart

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―Everything ndash a horse a vine ndash is created for some dutyhellipFor what task then

were you yourself created A manlsquos true delight is to do the things he was made

for

~ Marcus Aurelius from Meditations

―Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts for the soul becomes dyed with the

color of its thoughts Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as for example

Where life is possible at all a right life is possible

~ Marcus Aurelius from Meditations

―hellipEverything can be taken from a man but one thing the last of the human

freedomsmdashto choose onelsquos attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose

onelsquos own way

~ Viktor Frankl from Manlsquos Search for Meaning

―It did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life

expected from us We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life and

instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by lifemdashdaily

and hourly Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation but in right

action and in right conduct Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to

find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly

sets for each individual

~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Manlsquos Search for Meaning

―Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in lifehellip Therein he cannot be

replaced nor can his life be repeated Thus everyonelsquos task is as unique as is

his specific opportunity to implement it

~ Viktor Frankl from Manlsquos Search for Meaning

―Ultimately man should not ask what the meaning of his life is but rather must

recognize that it is he who is asked In a word each man is questioned by life

and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life to life he can only

respond by being responsible

~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Manlsquos Search for Meaning

―History though shows us that the people who end up changing the world- the

great political social scientific technological artistic even sports

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revolutionaries- are always nuts until theylsquore right and then theylsquore geniuses

~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement

―Great performers are by definition abnormal

~ Dr John Eliot from Overachievement

―We all aspire to mastery but the path is always long and sometimes rocky and

it promises no quick pay off So we look for other paths each of which attracts

a different person

~ George Leonard from Mastery

―We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection Itlsquos about a process a

journey The master is the one who stays on the path day after day year after

year The master is the one who is willing to try and fail and try again for as

long as he or she lives

~ George Leonard from Mastery

At the heart of it mastery is practice Mastery is staying on the path

~ George Leonard from Mastery

―Comfort kills If your goal in life is to be comfortable I guarantee two things

First you will never be rich Second you will never be happy Happiness doesnlsquot

come from living a lukewarm life always wondering what could have been

Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up

to our fullest potential

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

―You can be a victim or you can be rich but you canlsquot be both Listen up Every

time and I mean every time you blame justify or complain you are slitting

your financial throat

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

―Herelsquos an equation I want you to remember for the rest of your life CZ = WZ

It means your ―comfort zone equals your ―wealth zone By expanding your

comfort zone you will expand the size of your income and wealth zone

~ T Harv Eker from Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

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―We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we

wait forever before taking action

~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big

―Donlsquot put off until tomorrow what you can do today

~ Benjamin Franklin

―Think Big and youlsquoll live big Youlsquoll live big in happiness Youlsquoll live big in

accomplishment Big in income Big in friends Big in respecthellip Start now right

now to discover how to make your thinking make magic for you Start out with

this thought of the great philosopher Disraeli Life is too short to be littlelsquo

~ David J Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big

―In the yogic tradition this principle of using intense effort to burn through

lifelsquos distractions is called Tapas Itlsquos another Sanskrit word roughly defined

as ―heat or ―essential energy The concept is that through a disciplined

approach to work and self-sacrifice Tapas will burn away the negativity that

separates us from God By working our hardest and happily enduring the

hardships of life we are able to create a sense of peace and clarity in

ourselves

~ Russell Simmons from Do You

―The person who understands Dharma will have the opposite reaction to a ―hard

job That person will be eager to get started no matter what kind of work is in

front of her because she understands that shelsquos doing Godlsquos work And when

youlsquore working for God nothing is too hard

~ Russell Simmons from Do You

―It all comes down to this if your subconscious financial blueprintlsquo is not setlsquo

for success nothing you learn nothing you know and nothing you do will make

much of a difference

~ Russell Simmons from Do You

―The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work

~ Vince Lombardi

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The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than

your best

~ Russell Simmons from Do You

―The poor and the middle class work for money The rich have money work for

them

~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad

―We all have tremendous potential and we all are blessed with gifts Yet the

one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt It is not so

much the lack of technical information that holds us back but more the lack of

self-confidence

~ Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad

―Who will you have to become to achieve all you want

~ Tony Robbins

―You could say that I worked every minute of my life or you could say with

equal justice that I never worked a day I have always subscribed to the

expression ―Thank God itlsquos Friday because to me Friday means I can work for

the next two days without interruption

~ John Hope Franklin

―I do not believe that you should devote overly much effort to correcting your

weaknesses Rather I believe that the highest success in living and the deepest

emotional satisfaction comes from building and using your signature strengths

~ Martin Seligman from Authentic Happiness

When you begin to recognize that your own presence here in this world is part of

something infinitely bigger than yourself you feel a sense of obligation awakening

within youmdasha spiritually inspired soul-level moral imperative to evolve for the sake

of the future of the evolutionary process itself The way you respond to that

obligation and to that sense of cosmic responsibility is by demonstrating that the

process is profoundly positivemdashindeed the process is sacredmdashthrough your own

example through your own victory through your own tangible and unmistakable

higher development

~ Andrew Cohen

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Its the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief And once that belief

becomes a deep conviction things begin to happen

Claude M Bristol 1891-1951 Author of The Magic of Believing

We cant fear the past Fear is a future thing And since the futures all in our

heads fear must be a head thing

Tom Payne Career Development Expert

I dont know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please

everybody

Bill Cosby Actor and Comedian

If we are ever to enjoy life now is the time not tomorrow or next year Today

should always be our most wonderful day

- Thomas Dreier Author

Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their

personnel If people believe in themselves its amazing

what they can accomplish

--Sam Walton

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the

aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker

--Helen Keller

Close scrutiny will show that most crisis situations are opportunities to either

advance or stay where you are

- Maxwell Maltz

Be curious not judgmental

-Walt Whitman

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it

-William James

All life is an experiment

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone

acknowledges who we are and what we can be igniting the circuits

of our highest potential

Rusty Berkus

Being considerate of others will take your children further in

life than any college degree

Marian Wright Edelman

It is common sense to take a method and try it If it fails admit

it frankly and try another But above all try something

Franklin D Roosevelt

see without looking hear without listening breathe

without asking

W H Auden

Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways

you can as long as ever you can

John Wesley

Its better to reach for the stars and land on the roof than to

reach for the roof and land in the garbage

Savanna Skinner

Love looks through a telescope envy through a microscope

~ Josh Billings

Whats going on in the inside shows on the outside

~ Earl Nightingale

Consideration for others is the basis of a good life a good society

~ Confucius

Time is limited so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have

just one chance to live this particular day right and to string my days together

into a life of action and purpose

~ Lance Armstrong

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An ounce of action is worth a ton of good intentions

~ Michael Josephson

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others

-- Cicero

Simplicity Purity Clarity

-- Alan Cohen

Faith mighty faith the promise sees And looks to God alone Laughs at

impossibilities And cries it shall be done

-- Charles Wesley

What is genius but the mind heart and art of God shining to the world through an

open window

-- Alan Cohen

Intuition tells you what not why

-- Source unknown

Changing the world is a natural result of inner peace not a substitute for it

-- Alan Cohen

Fortune sides with him who dares

~ Virgil

We cant fear the past Fear is a future thing And since the futures all in

our heads fear must be a head thing

Tom Payne Career Development Expert

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you

mdashLewis Smedes Each of us has the power to make others more beautiful by our love

- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst a transformer

in any situation any organization Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an

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entire loaf It requires vision initiative patience respect persistence courage

and faith to be a transforming leader

Stephen Covey

Courage is grace under pressure

~ Ernest Hemingway

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions All life is an experiment

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

As long as Youre going o be thinking anyway Think BIG

~ Donald Trump

To win youve got to stay in the game

~ Claude M Bristol

The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head

-- Source unknown

Affirm your value by going where you are valued

-- Alan Cohen

Life is too short to hold a grudge also too long

-- Robert Brault

You cannot borrow greatness from another You can only claim it from within

yourself

-- Alan Cohen

One today is worth two tomorrows never leave that till tomorrow which you can

do today

Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 US Statesman Diplomat and Inventor

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs

the problem The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized

a problem and turned it into an opportunity

Joseph Sugarman Marketing Expert

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You wouldnt worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how

seldom they do

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 American First Lady Author Speaker and Politician

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions

- John Randolph

Opportunities They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere

waiting for the observant eye to discover it

- Orison Swett Marden

Yesterday ended last night Every day is a new beginning Learn the skill of

forgetting And move on

--Norman Vincent Peale

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual it is

best for the race because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every

department

ndash Andrew Carnegie entrepreneur

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society The optimist invents the

airplane and the pessimist the parachute

Gil Stern

Strive for integrity - that means knowing your values in life and behaving in a way

that is consistent with these values

Unknown

The country clubs the cars the boats your assets may be ample But the best

inheritance you can leave your kids Is to be a good example

Barry Spilchuk

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the

goal

Henry Ford

It is never too late to be what you might have been

George Eliott

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The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence the second listening the

third memory the fourth practice the fifth teaching others

Solomon Ibn Gabriol

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers You can tell whether a man is

wise by his questions

Naguib Mahfouz

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others

~ Erich Fromm

Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble

and grateful mind

~ Epictetus

Happiness is activity

~ Aristotle

Every action we take everything we do is either a victory or defeat in the

struggle to become what we want to be

~ Anne Byrhhe

In the absence of clearly defined goals we become strangely loyal to performing

daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it

Robert Heinlein Novelist

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the

consequences of any misfortune

William James 1842-1910 Psychologist and Author

To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle

-- Walt Whitman

God doesnt owe and neither do you

-- Alan Cohen

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Do what makes you smile

-- Dr Richard Bartlett

People who warn that everyone but members of their religion will go to hell dont

realize they are already there

-- Alan Cohen

The emotional frontier is truly the next frontier to conquer in human

understanding The opportunity we face now even before that frontier is fully

explored and settled is to develop our emotional potential and accelerate rather

dramatically into a new state of being

- Doc Childre and Howard Martin The HeartMath Solution

Real transformation requires that you have a beginners mind that you are willing

to say Whatever I think I know may be wrong

Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships

Heroes take journeys confront dragons and discover the treasure of their true

selves

- Carrol Pearson The Hero Within

If a man would move the world he

must first move himself

--Socrates

All sucessful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists They

believed that things went not by luck but by law

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

I skate to where the puck is going to be not where it is

-Wayne Gretzky

When given the choice between being right or being kind always choose kind

--Dr Wayne Dyer Never forget the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for

others

Sir John Templeton 1912-2008 Mutual Fund Pioneer and Philanthropist

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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome

Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Essayist Biographer and Poet

Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on

-- Alan Cohen

Shallow men believe in luck Strong men believe in cause and effect

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Contraction is a sign that birth is imminent

-- Alan Cohen

Work is an extension of personality It is achievement It is one of the ways in

which a person defines himself measures his worth ndash and his humanity

ndash Peter Drucker author

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends

-- John Ruskin

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities

--Janos Arnay

The first time you accept good is the last time you will see excellence

John Ulmo Life is like an onion

You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep

~ Carl Sandburg

Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light

~ L P Jacks Just as iron rusts from disuse even so does inaction spoil the intellect

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

As I grow older I pay less attention to what men sayI JUST watch what they

do

~ Andrew Carnegie

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All Things are Difficult before they are Easy

~ John Norley

Everything has been figured out except how to live

~ Jean Paul Sartre

Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving

Dennis Waitley

Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out

Robert Collier

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal

nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude

Thomas Jefferson

They can because they think they can

Virgil

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself

Menander

Years teach us more than books

Berthold Auerbach

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

When you delightfully fantasize about something you want you set into motion a

wave of energy that calls that situation into reality

-- Alan Cohen

Hurt people hurt people

-- Source unknown

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Doing the right thing may be different than what you have been taught the right

thing is

-- Alan Cohen

The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes

it happen

-- Frank Lloyd Wright All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say no and said yes

Moss Hart 1904-1961 Playwright and Theatre Director

We are built to conquer environment solve problems achieve goals and we find no

real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to

achieve

Maxwell Maltz 1899-1975 Author of Psycho-Cybernetics

You can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because thorns

have roses

-- Ziggy

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug

~ Patricia Neal

My night has become a sunny dawn because of you

--Ibn Abbad

All mankind is divided into three classes those that are immovable those that are

movable and those that move

--Benjamin Franklin

Dont compete Create Find out what everyone else is doing and then dont do it

mdashJoel Weldon

Show a little faith therelsquos magic in the night

mdashfrom ―Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen

Music is to me proof of the existence of God

It is so extraordinarily full of magic and in tough times

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of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference

mdashKurt Vonnegut

Discontent is the source of all trouble but also of all progress

in individuals and nations

Berthold Auerbach

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself

Thomas Sprat

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves

to copy

Oliver Goldsmith

If at first you dont succeed try try again Then quit Theres

no use being a damn fool about it

WC Fields

Impatience never commanded success

Edwin H Chapin

In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are the safest

~ Livy

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights

~ Henry David Thoreau

The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense

insoluble They can never be solved but only outgrown

~ Carl Jung

Life Begins When you Do

Hugh Downs Vision Without Action is a Daydream

Action Without Vision is a Nightmare

~ Japanese Proverb

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Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one

can possibly want and hold

-- Judith Olney

The love affair you seek is with yourself

-- Alan Cohen

The greatest power requires the lightest touch

-- BasharDarryl Anka

You only live once -- but its forever

-- Alan Cohen

Get off the cross Somebody needs the wood

-- From the film Straight Talk

There are two ways to live your life One is as though nothing is a miracle The

other is as though everything is a miracle

~ Albert Einstein

In the long run men hit only what they aim at

~ Henry David Thoreau philosopher

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state

of being alive If life is to be sustained hope must remain even where confidence is

wounded trust impaired

~Erik H Erikson

Freedom know this that every manwoman is free To choose his life and what

hell be For this eternal truth is given God will force no man to heaven Hell call

persuade direct aright Bless with wisdom love and light In nameless ways be

good and kind But never force the human mind

~ William C Clegg

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the

circumstances they want and if they canlsquot find them make them

~ George Bernard Shaw

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Relationships are not things We dont have relationships we are in relationship

with one another

- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships

Relationships are our primary teacher They are the context in which we either

grow into the consciousness of God or deny ourselves and others the opportunity

to do so

- Marianne Williamson

Listen deeply The greatest failure in any relationship is the failure to

participate

- Layne and Paul Cutright Secrets and Strategies For Successful Relationships

Your future is created by what you do today not tomorrow

Robert Kiyosaki

No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a

reality

Napoleon Hill

If you are not planning today you are planning to fail tomorrow

Gopal

How you do anything is how you do everything

T Harv Eker

There is little difference in people but that little difference

makes a big difference The little difference is attitude The

big difference is whether it is positive or negative

W Clement Stone

The vision must be followed by the venture It is not enough to

stare up the steps - We must step up the stairs

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Vance Havner

Go for it nowThe future is promised to no one

Wayne Dyer

If you realize how powerful your thoughts are you would never

think a negative thought

Peace Pilgrim

Either you run the day or the day runs you

Jim Rohn

You must go after your wish As soon as you start to pursue a

dream your life wakes up and everything has meaning

Barbara Sher

To succeed you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe

and act on it with all of your heart

Christy Borgeld

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers

Anonymous

Let him that would move the world first move himself

Socrates

By the time a man realizes that maybe

his father was right he usually has a son

who thinks hes wrong

~ Charles Wadworth

Without Mistakes Perfection is an Illusion

~ Daniel Frankel

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Its not the hours you put in

but what you put into the hours

that counts

~ Jim Rohn

Be swift to hear slow to speak slow to wrath

~ James 119

Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory

~ Ingrid Bergman

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word

~ William Makepease Thackeray

Professionalism is knowing how

to do it when to do it and doing it

~ Frank Tyger

Intention is not something you do

but rather a force that exists in the universe

as an invisible field of energy

-a power that can carry us

~ Dr Wayne Dyer

I personally measure success in terms

of the contributions an individual makes

to her or his fellow human beings

~ Margaret Mead

Some of the worlds greatest feats

were accomplished by people not

smart enough to know they were

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impossible

~ Doug Larson

Life is a flower of which love is the honey

~ Victor Hugo

Personal integrity is important

not because it gets us what we want

but because it helps us be what we want

~ Michael Josephson

Goals need to be configured to stretch us

but not to break us

~ Kent Krive

Children are apt to live up

to what you believe of them

~ Lady Bird Johnson

Do your work with your whole heart

and you will succeed

- theres so little competition

~ Elbert Hubbard

Hi Karl

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible

objections must first be overcome

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--Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Author

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter

even the most victorious life The human

spirit is never finished when it is defeated

- it is finished when it surrenders

-- Ben Stein Professor and Writer

Love is the first ingredient in the relief

of suffering

-- Padre Pio

Happiness is a function of accepting what is

--Werner Erhard

There are no shortcuts to any place

worth going

- Beverly Sills

It has never been and never will be

easy work But the road that is built in

hope is more pleasant to the traveler

than the road built in despair even though

they both lead to the same destination

~Marion Zimmer Bradley

The reality of life is that your perceptions --

right or wrong -- influence everything else

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you do When you get a proper perspective

of your perceptions you may be surprised

how many other things fall into place

~ Roger Birkman

Everybody is unique Do not compare yourself

with anybody else lest you spoil Gods curriculum

-- Baal Shem Tov

Everybody is unique Do not compare yourself

with anybody else lest you spoil Gods curriculum

-- Baal Shem Tov

Trust yourself You know more than

you think you do

ndash Benjamin Spock doctor

When you play it too safe youre taking

the biggest risk of your life

Time is the only wealth were given

--Barbara Sher

Creativity is inventing experimenting

growing taking risks breaking rules

making mistakes and having fun

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--Mary Lou Cook

Life is playing a violin solo in public and

learning the instrument as one goes on

--Samuel Butler

Opportunities are usually disguised as

hard work so most people dont recognize

them

~ Ann Landers

It is literally true that you can succeed best

and quickest by helping others to succeed

- Napoleon Hill

God loves you and theres nothing you can do about it

-- Sign on church marquis

Give yourself what you would like to receive from others

-- Alan Cohen

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature

-- Emerson

The fewer your words the more compelling your statement

-- Alan Cohen

Pray devoutly hammer stoutly

-- English proverb

There are no blocks to creativity Only distractions

-- Alan Cohen

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If your rules are not working so well borrow someone elses

-- Dr Richard Bartlett

Inner peace is never more than one thought away

-- Alan Cohen

Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret

hiding God

-- Frederick William Robertson

Completion is an attitude not an event

-- Alan Cohen

Enjoy where you are and youll be where youre going

-- Bashar

Your spirit is wireless

-- Alan Cohen

All questions lead to divine knowing

-- Isaac Newton

You cannot import self-worth You can only recognize it

-- Alan Cohen

Enlightened conflict resolution can exist only in an atmosphere of equality

We may not be equal in intelligence or experience or status but we are equal

in our right to be treated with dignity and caring It is not assumed that one

person has more privilege than another that one person is entitled to more

respect or understanding than another nor that one persons feelings are

more important than anothers

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

To seek happiness outside of ourselves Is like trying to lasso a cloud

Happiness is not a thingIt is a state of mind

- Omar Khayyam

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The higher self gets curious The conditioned self gets defensive

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The higher self gets curious The conditioned self gets defensive

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us

well I am not aware of any other factor in medicine--not diet not smoking

not exercise not drugs not surgery--that has a greater impact on our

quality of life incidence of illness and premature death

- Dean Ornish Love and Survival The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy No man was ever wise by chance

~ Seneca

By thought the thing you want is brought to youby action you receive it

~ Wallace D Wattles

Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony

~ Mohandas K Gandhi

Life isnt about finding yourselfLife is about creating yourself

George Bernard Shaw

Im trying to free your mind but I can only show you the doorYou are the one

that has to walk through it

~ Morpheus [ The Matrix ]

A friend is a second self

~ Aristotle

Be great in act as you have been in thought

~ William Shakespeare

Character is higher than intellectA great soul will be strong to liveas well as to

think

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I never think of the futureIt comes soon enough

~ Albert Einstein

Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fearnot absence of fear

~ Mark Twain

Age wrinkles the bodyQuitting wrinkles the soul

~ Douglas MacArthur

If real is what you can feel smell taste and see then real is simply electrical

signals interpreted by your brain

~ Morpheus [ The Matrix ]

Money was never a big motivator for me except for keeping the scoreThe real

excitement is playing the game

~ Donald Trump

Dreams are extremely important You cant do it unless you dream it first

~ George Lucas

If you believe you can you probably can If you believe you wont you most

assuredly wont Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad

~ Denis Waitley

Imagination is more important than knowledge Knowledge is limitedImagination

encircles the world

~ Albert Einstein

Everything is always impossible before it works Thats what entrepreneurs are all

aboutDoing things that people have told them is impossible

~ R Hunt Greene

The truth is lived not taught

~ Hermann Hesse

Be of good cheer Do not think of todays failures but of the success that may

come tomorrow You have set yourself a difficult task but you will succeed if you

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persevere and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles

Helen Keller 1880-1968 Blind and Deaf Educator

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something Its as simple

as that A lot of people have ideas but there are few who decide to do something

about them now Not tomorrow Not next week But today The true entrepreneur

is a doer

-Nolan Bushnell Founder of Atari

Champions arent made in the gyms Champions are made from something they

have deep inside them - a desire a dream a vision

Muhammad Ali Three-Time World Heavyweight Champion Boxer

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them

Walt Disney 1901-1966 Cartoon Artist and Filmmaker

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings turn routine jobs into

joy and change ordinary opportunities into blessings

William Arthur Ward

1921-1994 Writer

If you want to achieve excellence you can get there today As of this second quit

doing less than excellent work

Thomas Watson 1874-1956 Founder of IBM

Ive always believed that a lot of the troubles in the world would disappear if we

were talking to each other instead of about each other

Ronald Reagan

1911-2004 40th President of the United States

The most wonderful gift one human being can give to another is in some way to

make that persons life a little bit better to live

John Assaraf Author and Speaker

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm

Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any

occupation no matter how frightening or difficult a new meaning Without

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enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish

miracles

Og Mandino

Constant kindness can accomplish much As the sun makes ice melt kindness

causes misunderstanding mistrust and hostility to evaporate

Dr Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965 Medical Missionary and Nobel Prize Winner

Dwell not on the past Use it to illustrate a point then leave it behind Nothing

really matters except what you do now in this instant of time From this moment

onwards you can be an entirely different person filled with love and understanding

ready with an outstretched hand uplifted and positive in every thought and deed

Eileen Caddy 1917-2006 Spiritual Teacher and Author

Heres the problem Most people are thinking about what they dont want and

theyre wondering why it shows up over and over again

John Assaraf Speaker and Author

Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to

success when they gave up

Thomas Edison 1847-1931 Inventor and Scientist

Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on

building the life you desire

Napoleon Hill 1883-1970 Author

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly

lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love

Henry Drummond 1851-1897 Scientist and Author

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 Former First Lady Author and Speaker

If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors we are at least

responsible for those we admit and entertain

Charles Newcomb ScreenwriterDirector

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To grow you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your

past Your history is not your destiny

Alan Cohen

If you want a kinder world then behave with kindness if you want a peaceful

world make peace within

Dan Millman Writer and Speaker

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality order

and diligence without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a

time

Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Writer

Believe it can be done When you believe something can be done really believe

your mind will find the ways to do it Believing a solution paves the way to solution

Dr David Schwartz Author of The Magic of Thinking Big

Close your eyes and form a realistic picture of what a post PC world might actually

look like Those who can envision a plausible future thats brighter than today will

earn the opportunity to lead

Ray Ozzie Former Chief Software Architect at Microsoft

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past worry

about the future or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely

and earnestly

- Buddha

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job tellem certainly I can - and get

busy and find out how to do it

-- Theodore Roosevelt

Dont tell me how hard you work Tell mehow much you get done

~ James Ling

Democracy arose from menlsquos thinking that if they are equal in any respect they

are equal absolutely

~ Aristotle

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The beginning is the most important part of the work

~ Plato

Bless those who choose to love and those who choose to hate that those who

choose to hate may choose to love before it is too late

--Esoligh (Underground Hip Hop Artist)

Security is mostly a superstition It does not exist in nature nor do the children

of man as a whole experience it Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than

outright exposure Life is either a daring adventure or nothing

--Helen Keller

Each new hour holds new chances for new beginings The horizon move forward

offering you space to place new steps of change

--Maya Angelou

When a man cares he is unafraid When he is fair he leaves enough for others

When he is humble he can grow

--Lao-Tzu TaoTeChung

Behold the turtle He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out

--James Bryant Conant - Educator and Diplomat

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness not because they never found it

but because they didnt stop to enjoy it

--William Feather

The light of awareness the light of consciousness arises out of a broken heart

the heart by breaking becomes an ocean accommodating all beings

-- Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom

The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need according to the

nature of your thought Your environment and financial condition are the

perfect reflection of your habitual thinking

Thought rules the world

-- Dr Joseph Edward Murphy Surgeon

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The ideals that have lighted my way and time after time have given me new

courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness beauty and truth

ndash Albert Einstein physicist

Hope is the companion of power and mother of success for who so hopes strongly

has within him the gift of miracles

~ Samuel Smiles

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those

things that failures dont like to do

~ Albert Gray

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the

link between belief and biology

- Deepak Chopra

Ive always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best

~ Akeem Olajuwon

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear

ndash Socrates philosopher

The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the

most brilliant single mind but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains

and talents of his associates

~ W Alton Jones

The reason a dog has got so many friends is because its tail waggles and not its

tongue

-Anonymous

Dont fight a problem solve it

--Millard Fuller

If things are not going well with you begin your effort at correcting the situation

by carefully examining the service you are rendering and especially the spirit in

which you are rendering it

--Roger Babson

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The starting point of all riches is the development of a prosperity consciousness

You must become a financial success in your thinking long before you achieve it in

your reality Both poverty and riches are the result of a state of mind and the

most important single step you ever take on the road to wealth and financial

independence is the decision to change your thinking to impress into your mind an

unshakable belief that you can and will achieve your financial goals This must

happen before anything else happens

-- Brian Tracy

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it

We must learn to see the world anew

- Albert Einstein

To forgive is the highest most beautiful form of love In return you will receive

untold peace and happiness

--Dr Robert Muller

Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind the stronger the

trees

--J Willard Marriott Founder of Marriott Hotels

Someday may never come So live each day better than the last That way youll

wake up with so much excitement and anticipation youlsquoll jump out of bed and shout

I cant wait

--Bob Perks

The greatest thief this world ever produced is procrastination and he is still at

large

-- Henry Wheeler Shaw 1818-1885 Humorist

If you dont know where you are going any road will get you there

-- Anonymous

Ive noticed over many years of working with corporate teams that the more

dysfunctional the team the more resistant they are to the concept of love in

the workplace What baggage is it that we drag around behind us like Linus

and his blanket which causes us to be so wounded and pathological Why are

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we blind to the observable truth that those we lead are yearning for us to

open our hearts Why are we in denial about the truth that people--all

people at work and at home--are searching for signs of our approval and

love

- Lance Secretan Industry Week 11202000 We live on our own solitary islands of reality absorbed in and fascinated by

our own points of view Frequently we reach out to one another seeking to

understand or be understood The bridge between our separate realities is

communication To communicate is to relate

- Layne and Paul Cutright Straight From the Heart Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air You

name them--work family health friends and spirit--and youre keeping all

of these in the air You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball If you

drop it it will bounce back But the other four balls-- family health

friends and spirit--are made of glass If you drop one of these they will be

irrevocably scuffed marked nicked damaged or even shattered They will

never be the same You must understand that and strive for balance in your

life

- Brian Dyson CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises from 1959-1994 If you cant be a loving witness to your own anger or rage or sadness or

fear you cant be in the presence of other peoples intense emotions without

your own emotional waters being churned up a bit But if you can learn to

feel safe and fully present to the broad spectrum of emotions within your own

nature you radiate an invisible web of safety that helps others to talk about

their feelings with you

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think The world we are experiencing today is the result of our collective

consciousness and if we want a new world each of us must start taking

responsibility for helping create it

- Rosemary Fillmore Rhea A New Heaven and New Earth Your relationships are actually mirrors of your consciousness When you learn

to see your own reflection in the quality of your relationships with others you

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catapult yourself on your path of personal growth and spiritual evolution

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think To put the world right in order we must first put the nation in order to put

the nation in order we must first put the family in order to put the family in

order we must first cultivate our personal life we must first set our hearts

right

- Confucious The sooner we can unburden ourselves of blame the more effective we can

be Blaming others only entrenches us in the role of the victim removing us

from our highest expression of personal power

- Layne and Paul Cutright Youre Never Upset for the Reason You Think

Being vulnerable doesnt have to be threatening Just have the courage to be

sincere open and honest This opens the door to deeper communication all

around It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others

we all want in life Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that

burden us These secrets are what make us sick or fearful Speaking truth

helps you get clarity on your real heart directives

- Sara Paddison The Hidden Power of the Heart Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time

ago

~ Warren Buffet

The only way to do great work is to love what you do If you havent found it yet

keep looking Dont settle As with all matters of the heart youll know when you

find it

~ Steve Jobs

If you love life do not waste time for time is what life is made up of

~ Bruce Lee

I cannot teach anybody anything I can only make them think

~ Socrates

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Change before you have to

~ Jack Welch

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm

~ Winston Churchill

A leader leads by example not by force

~ Sun Tzu

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour Sit with a

pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute You have just experienced

relativity

~ Albert Einstein

Live as if you were to die tomorrow Learn as if you were to live forever

~ Mohandas Gandhi

A clever person solves a problem A wise person avoids it

~ Albert Einstein

If I have seen a little further is by standing on the shoulders of Giants

~ Sir Isaac Newton

Despair says I cannot lift that weight Happiness says I do not have to

-- James Richardson

People who know they are powerful do not need to engage in power struggles

-- Alan Cohen

No man ever stated his troubles as lightly as he might

-- Emerson

What does your spirit most want you to know and do today

-- Alan Cohen

Its not how good you are Its how bad you want it

-- Author unknown

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The better I feel about myself the less I need you to be different

-- Alan Cohen

The best form of flattery is to master the art of listening

-- Chinese proverb

The only thing more valuable than a good source of news is source of good news

-- Alan Cohen

Disappointments are the hooks upon which God hangs his victories

-- Source unknown

It matters not what youve done with your life for better or worse What

matters is what you do with your life today

-- Alan Cohen

Everyone here is not all there

-- Source unknown

If you cant unify then at least harmonize

-- Alan Cohen

Everybody is a genius But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will

spend its whole life believing that it is stupid

-- Albert Einstein

Fear is excitement without breath

-- Fritz Perls

Dont leave yourself out of the equation

-- Alan Cohen

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles

-- Bernard Baruch

They can because they think they can

~ Virgil

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Exert your talents and distinguish yourself

and dont think of retiring from the world

until the world will be sorry that you retire

~ Samuel Johnson

Energy and persistence conquer all things

~ Benjamin Franklin

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom

~ Aristotle

Heaven never helps the man who will not act

~ Sophocles

The only real journey is the journey within

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Anyone who has never made a mistake

has never tried anything new

~ Albert Einstein

Action is the food and drink

that will nourish your success

Action will destroy your procrastination

Act now for is all you have

~ Og Mandino

Computers are incredibly fast accurate and stupid

Humans are incredible slow inaccurate and brilliant

Together they are powerful beyond imagination

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~ Albert Einstein

Practice giving and you will discover how much life can give you

-- Alan Cohen

Oh for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they

ran out of money

-- Source unknown

The best way to heal a bad memory is to create a new and better one

-- Alan Cohen

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love

-- Hamilton Wright Mabie

Fear and resistance are the dragons that stand at the gate of the kingdom that

contains the jewel you seek

-- Alan Cohen

Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy forgiveness To an opponent

tolerance To a friend your heart To a customer service To all charity To

every child a good example To yourself respect

-- Oren Arnold

Affirm I always have enough time to do the things that Spirit would have me do

-- Alan Cohen

There are two obstacles to enlightenment 1 Thinking you know 2 Thinking you

dont know

-- Buddha

Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal Take care how you pay

it

-- Alan Cohen

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles

-- Bernard Baruch

Upgrade your past by seeing it with appreciation

-- Alan Cohen

Families are like fudge -- mostly sweet with a few nuts

-- Source unknown

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of

our treasures

-- Thornton Wilder

The universe does not require you to stress for good things

-- Alan Cohen

When you bless the good that befalls others it becomes yours as well

-- Alan Cohen

How many more idols must you find before your realize that you are the one you

have been searching for

-- Dan Fogelberg

All limits exist only in thought and that is where they are overcome

-- Alan Cohen

To understand unconditional love lock your wife or husband and your dog in the

trunk of your car for an hour When you open it notice to is happier to see you

-- Source unknown

Outrageous ideas are ultimately the most practical

-- Alan Cohen

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are

-- Kurt Cobain

How good can you let it get

-- Alan Cohen

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If we could look into the secret history of our enemies we should find in each

persons life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostilities

-- Longfellow

If you sense there must be more there is more

-- Alan Cohen

Do not wait the time will never be just right Start where you stand and work

with whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found

as you go along

Napoleon Hill

1883-1970 Author of Think And Grow Rich

It doesnt matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes What

matters most is getting off You cannot make progress without making decisions

Jim Rohn

1930-2009 Speaker and Author

Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do Its

a decision about Who You Are When you see this when you understand it

everything changes You begin to see life in a new way All events occurrences and

situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do

Neale Donald Walsch

Author of Conversations With God

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached dont adjust the goals

adjust the action steps

Confucius

551-479 BC Philosopher

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of

you

Henry Ward Beecher

1813-1887 Clergyman Social Reformer and Abolitionist

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Lets choose today to quench our thirst for the good life we think others lead

by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives We can then offer the

universe the gift of our grateful hearts

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Author of Peace and Plenty

Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite

impossible to foresee are ahead You can only see one thing clearly and that is your

goal Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin

Kathleen Norris

1880-1966 Novelist

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends

you choose for you will become like them

W Clement Stone

1902-2002 Businessman Philanthropist and Author

Laugh at yourself and at life Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity but

as a remedy a miracle drug that will ease your pain cure your depression and help

you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at

your predicaments thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that

is certain to come Never take yourself too seriously

Og Mandino

1923-1996 Author of The Choice

Asking is the beginning of receiving Make sure you dont go to the ocean with a

teaspoon At least take a bucket so the kids wont laugh at you

Jim Rohn

1930-2009 Author and Speaker

Happiness comes only when we push our

brains and hearts to the farthest reaches

of which we are capable

--Leo C Rosten

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Do not wait the time will never be just right

Start where you stand and work with whatever

tools you may have at your command and better

tools will be found as you go along

~ Napoleon Hill

I shall do less whenever I shall believe what

I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more

whenever I shall believe doing more will help the

cause I shall try to correct errors when shown to

be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as

they shall appear to be true views

ndash Abraham Lincoln 16th US president

If we become increasingly humble about how l

little we know we may be more eager to search

- Sir John Templeton

I dont think anyone can grow unless hes

loved exactly as he is now appreciated for

what he is rather than what he will be

Love and success always in that order Its

that simple and that difficult

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a

lifetimes work but its worth the effort

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Quoted From Lifes Journeys According

to Mister Rogers

When we do the best we can we never know

what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life

of another

ndash Helen Keller lecturer author

We are responsible for what we are and whatever

we wish ourselves to be we have the power to make

ourselves If what we are now has been the result of

our own past actions it certainly follows that whatever

we wish to be in future can be produced by our present

actions so we have to know how to act

~ Swami Vivekananda

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