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1001 guru thoughts
4. When the student is ready, the master appears. Buddhist Proverb
2 We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt
to bear its ills without being overcome by them. Carl Jung
3 Sometimes our light goes out but is blown again into flame by an
encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest
thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.
Albert Schweitzer
4 In the faces of men and women, I see God. Walt Whitman
5 In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty ... in the wisdom
of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known,
which is the prison of past conditioning. And in our willingness to
step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender
ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the
universe. Deepak Chopra
6 The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it
simply. Kahlil Gibran
7 Strength lies in differences, not in similarities. Stephen Covey
8 You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are
continually flowing on. Heraclitus
9 We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of
endless possibilities. Rudyard Kipling
0 It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
William of Occam
Take a rest. A field that has rested gives a beautiful crop. Ovid
2 Every time we leave home and go to another place, we open up
the possibility of having something wonderful happen to us.
Joseph Dispenza
3 If you are willing to do more than you are paid to do, eventually
you will be paid to do more than you do. Origin Unknown
4 Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they
were. Richard Paul Evans
5 Don’t squander the gift of extra time by spending it on something
that’s not really important. Commit yourself to spending every
minute of it on the goal you want to accomplish.
Michael Masterson
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5. 6 Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations,
our possibilities become limitless. Jamie Paolinetti
7 Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the
way down. Ray Bradbury
8 You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with
sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for
whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can
achieve. Napoleon Hill
9 Life moves forward in one direction only, and each day we are
faced with an actual set of circumstances, not with what might
have been, not with what we might have done, but with what is,
and with where we are now, and from this point we must proceed;
not from where we were, not from where we wish we were, but
from where we are. Richard L. Evans
20 Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. John Keywood
2 Victory belongs to the most persevering. Napolean Bonaparte
22 I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the
final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is
stronger than evil triumphant. Martin Luther King, Jr.
23 Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor
do the children of men 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
24 You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it
within himself. Galileo Galilei
25 Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. Origin Unknown
26 In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life - it
goes on. Robert Frost
27 Be here now. Ram Dass
28 The key to success is to create a vision of who you want to be, and
then picture it as if it has already happened. Arnold Schwarzenegger
29 The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful
servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and
has forgotten the gift. Albert Einstein
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6. 30 The only difference between a thought and physical reality is time,
passion, and physical activity. Peter McWilliams
3 Arrange whatever pieces come your way. Virginia Woolf
32 Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
Christian Furchtegott Gellert
33 Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk
being happy. Dr. Robert Anthony
34 We are, each of us, angels with only one wing, and we can only fly
embracing each other. Luciano Decrescenzo
35 Yes, even as you read this the universe is plotting to make you
utterly happy, healthy and successful, and there isn’t a thing you
can do about it. Steve Bhaerman
36 Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
37 It is not length of life, but depth of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson
38 We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of
them as impossible. C. Malesherbes
39 Victory belongs to the most persevering. Napoleon
40 Your subconscious mind does not argue with you. It accepts what
your conscious mind decrees. If you say, “I can’t afford it,” your
subconscious mind works to make it true. Select a better thought.
Decree, “I’ll buy it. I accept it in my mind.” Dr. Joseph Murphy
4 Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in
your life. Wayne Dyer
42 Listen a hundred times. Ponder a thousand times. Speak once.
Origin Unknown
43 Ignore the rules. There are no rules. There are no regulations. You
get out and you do what you need to do because you believe in
what you’re doing. John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten)
44 Most people give up when they’re about to achieve success. They
quit on the one-yard line. They give up at the last minute of the
game, one foot from a winning touch down. H. Ross Perot
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7. 45 You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the
circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change
yourself. Jim Rohn
46 Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their
sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.
Sam Ewig
47 When anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul high that the
offense cannot reach me. Rene Descartes
48 Don’t let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
Origin Unknown
49 I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that
people are really good at heart. Anne Frank
50 The past does not equal the future. Anthony Robbins
5 There is no security on this Earth, there is only opportunity.
General Douglas MacArthur
52 Smile! And the world will smile with you! Origin Unknown
53 There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
54 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 to fly. Barbara Winter
55 Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
56 A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist
sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Sir Winston Churchill
57 Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is
why it is called Present. Origin Unknown
58 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
59 Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
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8. 60 It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience,
acceptance, and contentment. Richard J. Foster
6 Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift
back to God. Leo Buscaglia
62 Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things
which matter least. Goethe
63 If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and
endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet
with success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau
64 The key to motivation is motive. Stephen Covey
65 Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two my life moves. Nisargadatta Maharaj
66 A man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing and doing it
very well, never loses his self respect. George Bernard Shaw
67 Be governed by your internal compass, not by some clock on the
wall. Stephen Covey
68 How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the
young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving,
and tolerant of the weak - because some day you will have been
all of these. George W. Carver
69 Change can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in a while,
but consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are
doing. Bart Conner
70 We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big
difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which,
over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
Marian Wright Edelman
7 Learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts
in the world. Charles Kettering
72 To know and not to do is not yet to know. Zen Saying
73 To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering
and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and
scramble through as well as I can. Og Mandino
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9. 74 Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what
happens to you in life. John F. Kennedy
75 We are new every day. Irene Claremont de Castillego
76 The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu
77 I can take the next thing that comes along. You must do the thing
you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
78 Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford
79 There will come a time when you believe everything is finished.
That will be the beginning. Louis L’Amour
80 Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what
you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at
it, the money will come. Greer Garson
8 Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and
most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Walter Anderson
82 I look back on my life like a good day’s work; it is done and I am
satisfied with it. Grandma Moses
83 We need only provide the spark to light the Universe’s fire; to hoist
up our sails so that they can be filled with its magical winds.
Mike Dooley
84 The cure for a life of emptiness is a life of gratitude.
Raymond Aaron
85 Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Tony Robbins
86 Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things
they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like. Will Rogers
87 Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements.
Werner Erhard
88 The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and
deeds left undone. Harriet Beecher Stowe
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10. 89 Whenever you find yourself anxious or upset about a business or
personal situation, it will be remarkably helpful to think about a
reality of life that seems to escape people who are under stress:
Things change! Robert Ringer
90 The easiest way to become something special is also the fastest.
Just start doing it. Don’t wait for the “right” time. Don’t worry
about not being qualified. And don’t worry about getting paid for
it. Just start doing it. Michael Masterson
91 How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank
92 Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole
staircase. Just take the first step. Martin Luther King, Jr.
93 Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize
all your activities around it. Brian Tracy
94 If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts,
liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. Andrew Carnegie
95 There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. Roger Staubach
96 The true measure of success is revealed only by looking at the
obstacles that an individual had to overcome to achieve their
goals. Bill Phillips
9 If you take something that is spinning and give it a point, it
becomes a drill. Cat Shrier
98 The secret of life isn’t what happens to you, but what you do with
what happens to you. Norman Vincent Peale
99 One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the
only strength, which can overcome adversity. Albert Schweitzer
100 Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how
anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
Stephen R. Covey
101 It’s not what happens to you; it’s what you do about it that makes
the difference. W. Mitchell
102 You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to
lose site of the shore. Origin Unknown
103 I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty
to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller
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11. 89 Whenever you find yourself anxious or upset about a business or
personal situation, it will be remarkably helpful to think about a
reality of life that seems to escape people who are under stress:
Things change! Robert Ringer
90 The easiest way to become something special is also the fastest.
Just start doing it. Don’t wait for the “right” time. Don’t worry
about not being qualified. And don’t worry about getting paid for
it. Just start doing it. Michael Masterson
91 How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank
92 Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole
staircase. Just take the first step. Martin Luther King, Jr.
93 Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize
all your activities around it. Brian Tracy
94 If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts,
liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. Andrew Carnegie
95 There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. Roger Staubach
96 The true measure of success is revealed only by looking at the
obstacles that an individual had to overcome to achieve their
goals. Bill Phillips
9 If you take something that is spinning and give it a point, it
becomes a drill. Cat Shrier
98 The secret of life isn’t what happens to you, but what you do with
what happens to you. Norman Vincent Peale
99 One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the
only strength, which can overcome adversity. Albert Schweitzer
100 Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how
anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
Stephen R. Covey
101 It’s not what happens to you; it’s what you do about it that makes
the difference. W. Mitchell
102 You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to
lose site of the shore. Origin Unknown
103 I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty
to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller
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12. 104 You can have everything in life you want if you’ll just help enough
other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar
105 Love is a bird, she needs to fly. Madonna
106 The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that
you’ll make one. Elbert Hubbard
107 If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it,
change your attitude. Maya Angelou
10 People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine
when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is
revealed only if there is a light from within. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
109 Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin
110 It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most
intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Charles Darwin
111 People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
112 Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a
man of value. Albert Einstein
113 You can do what you want to do. David Thomas
114 The best way to predict the future is to create it. Peter Drucker
115 The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments
of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of
challenge and controversy. Martin Luther King Jr.
116 Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no
path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
117 Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not
something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
11 God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know
the difference. Serenity Prayer
119 You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never
were; and I say ‘Why not?’ George Bernard Shaw
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13. 20 The creative mechanism within you is impersonal. It will work
automatically and impersonally to achieve goals which you yourself
set for it. Present it with success goals, and it functions as a success
mechanism. Present it with negative goals, and it operates just as
impersonally and just as faithfully as a failure mechanism.
Dr. Maxwell Maltz
2 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it
shall be opened unto you. Matthew 7:7
22 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
23 The sage does not hoard, and thereby bestows. The more he lives
for others, the greater his life. The more he gives to others, the
greater his abundance. Lao Tzu
24 The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your
thoughts ... take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to
virtue and reasonable nature. Marcus Aurelius
25 When you work you are a flute through whose heart the
whispering of the hours turn to music ... and what is it to work with
love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart,
even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth ... Kahlil Gibran
26 Only as we connect with our conscience can we create the fire
within. Stephen Covey
27 Live in the present, allow the flow of the universe to deliver your
dreams and enjoy the ride. Austin Beasley
28 A peacock who sits on his tail is just another turkey.
Origin Unknown
29 Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend
on what we have, but on what we are. Henry Van Dyke
30 Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous,
judgement difficult. Hypocrites
3 Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a
wish, but a keen pulsating desire, which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill
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14. 32 Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet
reflection will come even more effective action. Peter Drucker
33 Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable
fortress. Epictetus
34 To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of
becoming, is the only end of life. Robert Louis Stevenson
35 Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for
every dream precedes a goal. Pamela Vaull Starr
36 It’s much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.
Marshall Thurber
37 Sow a thought, reap an act. Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit,
reap a character. Sow a character, reap an eternal destiny.
David O. McKay
38 There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated
from right living. David Starr Jordan
39 The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters
with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. Colin Wilson
40 Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the
chess piece. Ralph Charell
4 What we have done for ourselves dies with us; what we have done
for others and the world remains and is immortal. Albert Pike
42 When someone does something good, applaud! You’ll make two
people happy. Samuel Goldwyn
43 Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the
life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases
by being shared. Buddha
44 Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing, that we see
too late the one that is open. Alexander Graham Bell
45 Catch a passion for helping others and a richer life will come back
to you. William H. Danforth
46 Light tomorrow with today. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
47 I will not “should” myself today. Origin Unknown
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15. 48 When two or more people coordinate in a spirit of harmony and
work toward a definite objective or purpose, they place themselves
in a position, through the alliance, to absorb power directly from
the great storehouse of Infinite Intelligence. Napoleon Hill
49 Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Don Marquis
50 Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or
woman, grasping all, loses everything. James Allen
5 The value of humour is almost a ‘no brainer’ when you think about
it. It can help you get out of a tough spot... Reduce tension... And
put you in a more relaxed frame of mind. Simply put, when you
learn to lighten up, the achievement of almost any goal will go
more smoothly. Robert L. Cox
52 It’s never too late to be who you might have been. George Eliot
53 If everything’s under control, you’re going too slow. Mario Andretti
54 As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be
down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you
otherwise might. Marian Anderson
55 No man ever became great or good except through many and
great mistakes. William E. Gladstone
56 Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming
attractions. Albert Einstein
57 I do not know what the future holds, but I do know who holds the
future. Origin Unknown
58 I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand,
as in what direction we are moving. Oliver Wendel Holmes, Sr.
59 Success isn’t permanent and failure isn’t fatal. Origin Unknown
60 If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that
money can`t buy. Origin Unknown
6 Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are, while your
reputation is merely what others think you are. John Wooden
62 Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what
makes it permanent. Marilyn Vos Savant
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16. 63 How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Annie Dillard
64 Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Abraham Lincoln
65 Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which
I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn
as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw
66 Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of
changing himself. Leo Tolstoy
67 Do what you love and the money will follow. Marsha Sinetar
68 The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond
them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke
69 The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a
person’s determination. Tommy Lasorda
70 Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart
7 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
72 He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has
everything. Origin Unknown
73 Whatever you are, be a good one. Abraham Lincoln
74 Do or do not, there is no try. Yoda
75 Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, it is possible to learn
something that can enrich our lives and the lives of others. ... No
one’s education is ever complete. Sir John Templeton
76 Masters see their creations before they are created.
Dr. Dennis R. Deaton
77 The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that
human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can
change the outer aspects of their lives. William James
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17. 78 Inspiration leads to motivation; it is your spirits desire to grow and
evolve. Robert Gregoire
79 Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to
others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.
Carlos Castaneda
80 An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and
accomplishes without doing. Lao Tzu
8 The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of
wonder. Ralph W. Sockman
82 When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it
and copy it. Anatole France
83 Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound. Herman Melville
84 So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so
much retrospect, that the path of each man’s genius contracts itself
to a very few hours. Ralph Waldo Emerson
85 One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of
the shore for a very long time. Andre Gide
86 A person who has never made a mistake has never tried anything
new. Albert Einstein
87 You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die, or when. You can
only decide how you’re going to live. Now! Joan Baez
88 I’ve never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind.
Being broke is a temporary condition. Mike Todd
89 We’ve all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think
it’s more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from
your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.
Norman Vincent Peale
90 Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. William Hazlitt
9 To be free, to be happy and fruitful, can only be attained through
sacrifice of many common but overestimated things. Robert Henri
92 Genius is only a superior power of seeing. John Ruskin
93 Named must your fear be before banish it you can.
Yoda from Star Wars
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18. 94 May we never let the things we can’t have, or don’t have, or
shouldn’t have, spoil the enjoyment of the things we do have and
can have. Richard L. Evans
95 The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in
liking what one has to do. Origin Unknown
96 Courage is grace under pressure. Ernest Hemingway
97 Make your recovery the first priority in your life. Robin Norwood
98 Perseverance is not a long race, it is many short races one after
another. Walter Elliot
99 Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
200 Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your
enemies. Nelson Mandella
20 There is only one journey: going inside yourself. Rainer Maria Rilke
202 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 his
right road. Dag Hammarskjold
203 Action is the foundational key to all success. Pablo Picasso
204 You must begin to understand, therefore, that the present state
of your bank account, your sales, your health, your social life,
your position at work, etc., is nothing more than the physical
manifestation of your previous thinking. If you sincerely wish to
change or improve your results in the physical world, you must
change your thoughts, and you must change them IMMEDIATELY.
Bob Proctor
205 Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you
concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have
enough. Oprah Winfrey
206 Inaction breeds doubt and fear. 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
207 To keep the body in good health is a duty... Otherwise we shall not
be able to keep our mind strong and clear. Buddha
208 Everyone can have a balanced life. You just need to want it... And
act to achieve it. MaryEllen Tribby
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19. 209 You’ve got to ask. Asking is, in my opinion, the world’s most
powerful and neglected secret to success and happiness.
Percy Ross
20 We come this way once. We can either tiptoe through life and
hope that we get to death without being too badly bruised or we
can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our
wildest dreams. Bob Proctor
2 To fly as fast as thought, to be anywhere there is, you must first
begin by knowing that you have already arrived. Richard Bach
22 You can’t be poor enough to help the poor. Eva Gregory
23 If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up
in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done
against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Dale Carnegie
24 Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Auguste Rodin
25 Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived
forwards. Origin Unknown
26 Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in
the shade? Benjamin Franklin
27 Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not
a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve
had everything to do, and you’ve done it. Margaret Thatcher
28 The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F. Kennedy
29 I plant, nurture and bring light to trees that I don’t expect to stand
under. Jill Fischer
220 There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want,
and after that to enjoy it. Logan Pearsall Smith
22 It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is
the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. Robert H. Goddard
222 Your attitude determines your altitude. Zig Ziglar
223 Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.
Dan Stanford
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20. 224 Our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius
225 Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does
with what happens to him. Aldous Huxley
226 Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving
that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the
proof. John Kenneth Galbraith
227 Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that
created them. Albert Einstein
228 Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it. Publilius Syrus
229 Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every
time we do. Confucius
230 When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Origin Unknown
23 The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
232 There is good and bad surrounding me in this world, I choose to
embrace the good. Rod Berting
233 Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
James Dean
234 If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. W.C. Fields
235 This above all, to thine own self be true. William Shakespeare
236 Hope springs eternal. Alexander Pope
237 You can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice
because thorns have roses. Ziggy
238 Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit
there. Will Rogers
239 It has been said that [the] picturing power of the mind is the
greatest gift that God has ever given to man. It has the ability to
construct images of success before the actual experiences are
born. It can paint pictures that will fire our wills and exalt our spirits.
This ability to travel ahead of our own success can draw us on
with the greatest pleasure towards the most worthwhile objectives.
Sterling w. Sill
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21. 240 Vision is the fundamental force that drives everything else in our
lives. Stephen Covey
24 If you knew everything was really all right, and that it has a
happy ending, you would not feel trepidations about your future.
Abraham-Hicks
242 God does not command that we do great things, only little things
with great love. Mother Teresa
243 Inherent in every intention and desire is the mechanics for its
fulfillment ... intention and desire in the field of pure potentiality
have infinite organizing power. And when we introduce an
intention in the fertile ground of pure potentiality, we put this
infinite organizing power to work for us. Deepak Chopra
244 A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius
245 Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to
think freely, to risk life, to be needed. Storm Jameson
246 There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always
asked to deal with what is most difficult. Rainer Maria Rilke
247 Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run
away. Thomas Fuller
248 I believe that one of life’s greatest risks is never daring to risk.
Oprah Winfrey
249 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
250 Failure is often the line of least persistence. Zig Ziglar
25 Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Dale Carnegie
252 There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence
without integrity. Samuel Johnson
253 Only those who are asleep make no mistakes. Ingvar Kamprad
254 There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be
ignorant. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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22. 255 Only by discussing ourselves, holding back nothing, only by being
willing to take advice and accept direction [can] we set foot on
the road to straight thinking, solid honesty, and genuine humility.
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
256 The wisest mind has something yet to learn. George Santayana
257 If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass
springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple
things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for
your soul is alive. Eleonora Duse
258 Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck
out. James Bryant Conant
259 Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you
are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don’t
do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone.
There is a place that you alone can fill. Jacob M. Braude
260 She said she usually cried at least once each day, not because she
was sad, but because the world was so beautiful … and life was so
short. Brian Andress
26 Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. Vince Lombardi
262 When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on
the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way. Dr. Wayne Dyer
263 What you would do willingly for free is the only thing you should
ever do for money. Raymond Aaron
264 There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than
for bread. Mother Teresa
265 Try as you might, you can’t control the things that happen to you.
You can only control your reaction to them. Michael Masterson
266 If you are distressed by anything internal, the pain is not due to the
thing itself but to the view you have of that thing. How you view
anything is a power you can revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius
267 Every day, we are given dozens of choices - from which foods to
eat to which parts of a newspaper to read to which words to say
in any given conversation. Many of those choices seem to be
insignificant, but when you string them all together they determine
the quality of our lives. Michael Masterson
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23. 268 What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end,
of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
John Ruskin
269 If a man for whatever reason has the opportunity to lead an
extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
270 I’ve always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if
everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well being. Stan Dale
27 Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Richard Bach
272 Being alive is a joy and a privilege. Life flows easier when you greet
each new day with a smile. Thuy Vu
273 A true handicap is what we don’t do with what we have, not what
we can’t do with what we don’t have. Christopher Brewer
274 Never let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality.
Origin Unknown
275 What you can do, or dream you can, begin it; boldness has genius,
power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
276 Every man dies. Not every man truly lives. Braveheart (Movie)
277 We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and
adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if
only we seek them with our eyes open. Jawaharlal Nehru
278 No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to
an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Helen Keller
279 Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln
280 If not us, who, if not now, when? Origin Unknown
28 Things do not change, we change. Henry David Thoreau
282 People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the
world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances
they want and if they can’t find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw
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24. 283 Tough times never last but tough people do. Robert Schuller
284 The time is always right to do what is right. Martin Luther King Jr.
285 It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it
well. Rene Descartes
286 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
287 Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative
effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt
288 When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark; you don’t
throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the
engineer. Corrie Ten Boom
289 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
simply don’t count. Dr. Robert Anthony
290 Live well ... Laugh often ... Love much. Origin Unknown
29 The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
292 What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us. Henry David Thoreau
293 Feel the fear and do it anyway. Susan Jeffers
294 Love conquers all. Virgil
295 The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The
superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William A. Ward
296 Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the
future. Paul Boese
297 He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and
follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through
the maze of the most busy life. Victor Hugo
298 Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein
299 If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will
fail. Winston Churchill
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25. 300 Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot
change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw
30 Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Kahlil Gibran
302 If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get
yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an
opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays
down for good. Thomas J. Watson
303 The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
Leonard Nimoy
304 Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purpose.
Kenneth Hildebrand
305 Happiness is a state of activity. Aristotle
306 Doing more of what doesn’t work won’t make it work any better.
Charles J. Givens
307 Discontent is the first necessity of progress. Thomas Edison
308 Happiness is the way. So treasure every moment you have and
remember that time waits for no one. Happiness is a journey, not a
destination. Souza
309 Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way
things turn out. Ty Boyd
30 It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right
in chains. Thomas H. Huxley
3 Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of
imagination. Oscar Wilde
32 No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character
than trustworthiness. Harry Emerson Fosdick
33 We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a
journey that no one can take us or spare us. Marcel Proust
34 The only urgent thing is that we make a beginning and keep
trying. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
35 Happiness is not in our circumstances but in ourselves. It is not
something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire.
Happiness is something we are. John B. Sheerin
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26. 36 Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. Aristotle
37 I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Jonathan Winters
38 Goals are dreams with deadlines. Diana Scharf Hunt
39 Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all
advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
Ben Stein
320 Find something to do that really inspires you, that keeps you up at
night, that you simply love to do. Michael Masterson
32 Maybe you made a mistake that’s been haunting you. Or you
never got around to that “thank you”. So you have a choice. A
lifetime of nagging regret (if it’s lasted this long, it ain’t going away)
- or taking a moment now to deal with it. Charlie Byrne
322 If you want to achieve a high goal, you’re going to have to take
some chances. Alberto Salazar
323 All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find
with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will
not change you. Wayne Dyer
324 You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of
achieving it you become someone worth becoming. Jim Rohn
325 You will never leave where you are, until you decide where you’d
rather be. Dexter Yager
326 Success comes in cans; failure comes in cants. Origin Unknown
327 Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation.
Origin Unknown
328 A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited
enthusiasm. Charles M. Schwab
329 If we all did all the things we are capable of doing we would
literally astound ourselves. Thomas Edison
330 Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be
understood. Helen Keller
33 If we don`t change, we don`t grow. If we don`t grow, we aren`t
really living. Gail Sheehy
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27. 332 Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Sir Winston Churchill
333 Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no
birds sang except those that sang best. Henry Van Dyke
334 Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity.
They seem more afraid of life than death. James F. Bymes
335 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
336 Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to
succeed is always to try one more time. Thomas Edison
337 The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits
to grow sharper. Eden Phillpotts
338 Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress;
working together is success. Origin Unknown
339 The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E.E. Cummings
340 Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves; for they shall never
cease to be amused. Origin Unknown
34 Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.
Les Brown
342 Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent
perspiration. Thomas Edison
343 People don’t care how much you know until they know how much
you care. John C. Maxwellzz
344 The difference between a successful person and others is not a
lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi
345 Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been
hurt and dance like no one is watching. Satchel Paige
346 We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we
give. Sir Winston Churchill
347 Education is that which remains when one has forgotten
everything he learned in school. Albert Einstein
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28. 348 Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the
things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the
bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the winds in your
sails. Explore. Dream. Mark Twain
349 If you can dream it, you can do it. Walt Disney
350 Peace is essentially a function of putting first things first.
Stephen Covey
35 First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you
have to do. Epictetus
352 Like two golden birds perched on the selfsame tree, intimate
friends, the ego and the self dwell in the same body. The former
eats the sweet and sour fruits of the tree of life, while the latter
looks on in detachment. The Mundaka Upanishad
353 If you are willing to admit faults, you have one less fault to admit.
Origin Unknown
354 One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an
adventure. William Feather
355 Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for
it. Establish your priorities and go to work. H.L. Hunt
356 I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the
world is a little better for my having lived in it. Abraham Lincoln
357 Every problem has within it the seeds of its own solution. If you
don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.
Norman Vincent Peale
358 Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances; it was
somebody’s name, or he happened to be there at the time, or
it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise.
Strong men believe in cause and effect. Ralph Waldo Emerson
359 A holiday is like recharging your car battery. If you set up the
connections wrong, no energy goes into the battery. If you do it
right, you return at full charge and your brain is able to work the
way it was designed to. Gord Johansen
360 If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough
problems. And that’s a big mistake. Frank Wilczek
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29. 36 As to methods there may be a million and then some, but
principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully
select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring
principles, is sure to have trouble. Ralph Waldo Emerson
362 Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein
363 A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
Father James Keller
364 As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able
to remake the world... as in being able to remake ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi
365 To accomplish great things, we must not only dream, but act.
Bill Blackman
366 It is no use waiting for your ship to come in unless you have sent
one out. Belgian Proverb
367 You can come out of the furnace of trouble two ways: if you let it
consume you, you come out a cinder; but there is a kind of metal
which refuses to be consumed, and comes out a star. Jean Church
368 If I am through learning, I am through. John Wooden
369 There are two types of people - anchors and motors. You want to
lose the anchors and get with the motors because the motors are
going somewhere and they’re having more fun. The anchors will
just drag you down. Wyland
370 Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our
lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us
in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause
ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves
will never make us happy in the long term; it’s who you become,
as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals
that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of
fulfillment. Anthony Robbins
37 How do you know if your mission in life is finished? If you’re still
alive, it isn’t. Richard Bach
372 Obstacles are like wild animals... They are cowards but they will
bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are
liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye,
they will slink out of sight. Orison Swett Marden
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30. 373 Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.
Anthony Robbins
374 They always say time changes things, but you actually have to
change them yourself. Andy Warhol
375 What you get by achieving your goals is as important as what you
become by achieving your goals. Henry David Thoreau
376 Never give up on your dream... Perseverance is all important. If
you don’t have the desire and the belief in yourself to keep trying
after you’ve been told you should quit, you’ll never make it.
Tawni O’Dell
377 If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it. Jonathan Winters
378 Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or
greater benefit. Napoleon Hill
379 The heights by great men reached and kept, were not obtained by
sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling
upward in the night. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
380 How poor we truly are when we measure wealth in monetary
terms; overlooking the true value of ourselves and those we love.
Kelly Comeau
38 The road to success is always under construction and full of
detours. Enjoy the ride. Origin Unknown
382 Be a good listener, opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.
Origin Unknown
383 I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work.
That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should
get you pretty near. Margaret Thatcher
384 Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting
a few drops on yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
385 When God closes a door, he opens a window. Origin Unknown
386 We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others
judge us by what we have already done.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
387 Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life,
and not something you do in your spare time.
Marion Wright Edelman
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31. 388 Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing. Vince Lombardi
389 You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when
you give of yourself that you truly give. Kahlil Gibran
390 In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in
your years. Abraham Lincoln
39 Better to light a candle than curse the darkness. Eleanor Roosevelt
392 The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with
the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Channing Pollock
393 Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have
trouble remembering how to fly. Origin Unknown
394 Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you’ll help
them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
395 Never give in, never give in - never, never, never.
Sir Winston Churchill
396 The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have
applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. Vince Lombardi
397 Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
Thomas Dewar
398 To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could
anything be more fun. Katherine Graham
399 You are never given a wish without also being given the power to
make it true. You may have to work for it, however. Richard Bach
400 Always do right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
40 Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has
genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
402 If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is
because he hears a different drummer. Henry David Thoreau
403 Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. The Bible
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32. 404 Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are
truly endless. Mother Teresa
405 Men give me credit for genius. All the genius I have lies in this:
When I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and
night, it is before me. I explore it in all its bearings. My mind
becomes pervaded with it. Then ... people are pleased to call [the
effort that I made] the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labour and
thought. Alexander Hamilton
406 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he. Proverbs 23:7
407 Be happy with what you have while pursuing what you want. The
key to happiness is not more. Jim Rohn
408 We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our
exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for
the first time. T.S. Elliot
409 Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any
depth of meditation or of character; and solitude in the presence
of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and
aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which
society could ill do without. John S. Mill
40 What you alone can contribute, no one else can contribute.
Stephen Covey
4 In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific
accomplishments fade to trivia. Charles Lindbergh
42 Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make
unhappiness possible. Marcel Proust
43 After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
Italian Proverb
44 Chance favours only the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur
45 Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in
your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
46 Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...
Lawrence Clark Powell
47 When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is
wrought in our life, or in the life of another. Helen Keller
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33. 48 You will always gravitate to that which you secretly most love. Men
do not attain that which they want but that which they are.
James Allen
49 For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.
Albert Einstein
420 We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now
commit it to life. Edwin Markham
42 This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own
imperfection. Saint Augustine
422 The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable
one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw
423 Live not one’s life as though one had a thousand years, but live
each day as the last. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
424 We can neither think nor act to good purpose until the habit of
self-restraint has become automatic.
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
425 Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do
are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi
426 When you’re ‘happy for no reason,’ you bring happiness to your
everyday experiences rather than try to extract happiness from
them. It’s not that your life always looks perfect - it’s that however
it looks, you’ll still be happy. Marci Shimoff
427 A great turning point in our lives came when we sought for
humility as something we really wanted, rather than as something
we must have. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
428 Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret B. Runbeck
429 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
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34. 430 The individual who wants to reach the top in business must
appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to
break those habits that can break him - and hasten to adopt those
practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the
success he desires. J. Paul Getty
43 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
432 I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their
maximum capabilities. Bob Nardelli
433 The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The
tragedy lies in having no goals to reach. Benjamin Mays
434 One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that
all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical
rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that
are blooming outside our windows today. Dale Carnegie
435 If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more,
learn more, do more, and become more, then you are an excellent
leader. Dolly Parton
436 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
437 You can become an even more excellent person by constantly
setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing
everything possible to live up to those standards. Brian Tracy
438 I am happy and content because I think I am. Atain-Rene Lesage
439 You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave,
find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island
opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other
land, there is no other life but this. Henry David Thoreau
440 We have an innate desire to endlessly learn, grow, and develop.
We want to become more than what we already are. Once
we yield to this inclination for continuous and never-ending
improvement, we lead a life of endless accomplishments and
satisfaction. Chuck Gallozzi
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35. 44 For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just
have to find it. When you come to a road block, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash
442 Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that
everything in life has a purpose. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross M.D.
443 Create your future from your future, not your past. Werner Erhard
444 Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the
kind you want. Bernard M. Baruch
445 Everyone has a defining moment. Either you define the moment
or the moment will define you. Origin Unknown
446 Use the stumbling blocks of life as stepping stones to success.
Origin Unknown
447 If you must make a mistake, at least make a new one.
Origin Unknown
448 If a man is called to be a streetscaper, he should sweep streets
even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or
Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all
the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great
streetscaper who did his job well. Martin Luther King, Jr.
449 Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
Origin Unknown
450 Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people
keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don`t quit.
Conrad Hilton
45 Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. William Yeats
452 Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop
your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not
to surrender, that is strength. Mahatma Gandhi
453 Success leaves clues. Jim Rohn
454 When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long
and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the
one which has opened for us. Alexander Graham Bell
455 And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. 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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36. 456 You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested
in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other
people interested in you. Dale Carnegie
457 The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the
rain. Dolly Parton
458 What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Sir John Lubbock
459 When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. Charles A. Beard
460 If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every
problem as a nail. Abraham Maslow
46 Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind
word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of
caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia
462 There is nothing to fear, but fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt
463 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
464 Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they’re yours.
Richard Bach
465 Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through
experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened,
ambition inspired, and success achieved. Helen Keller
466 You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in
which you really stop to look fear in the face. Eleanor Roosevelt
467 The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.
Stephen Covey
468 He who hesitates is lost. Proverb
469 There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he
doesn’t mind who gets the credit. Robert Woodruff
470 A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at
night and in between does what he wants to do. Bob Dylan
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37. 47 Every mess is a lock on the door that keeps abundance out.
Raymond Aaron
472 Don’t use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved.
Origin Unknown
473 The best is yet to be. Robert Browning
474 Judge not, and ye shall not be judged; condemn not, and ye shall
not be condemned; forgive, and ye shall be forgiven. Luke 6:37
475 Quality of life depends on what happens between stimulus and
response. Stephen Covey
476 Nothing is, unless our thinking makes it so. William Shakespeare
477 There is just one life for each of us: our own. Euripides
478 Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like
kind ... what we sow is what we reap. And when we choose actions
that bring happiness and success to others, the fruit of our karma
is happiness and success. Deepak Chopra
479 Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. Benjamin Franklin
480 If you don’t want to feel great about what’s going on, you can
always choose to feel great in spite of what’s going on.
Ralph Marston
48 Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work
and to play and to look up at the stars. Henry Van Dyke
482 We make our fortunes, and we call them fate. Earl of Beaconsfield
483 Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but
do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of
you. Stewart E. White
484 Fail often. Fail fast. Fail Cheap. Jim Estill
485 To win you have to risk loss. Jean-Claude Killy
486 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
487 We are unlimited beings. We have no ceiling. The capabilities and
the talents and the gifts and the power that is within every single
individual that is on this planet, is unlimited. Michael Beckwith
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38. 488 Genius is the ability to simplify those things we perceive as
complicated. C. W. Gran
489 I can give you a six word formula for success: think things through
- then follow through. Eddie Rickenbacker
490 Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people
don’t recognize them. Ann Landers
49 Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they
grow up because they are looking for ideas. Paula Poundstone
492 If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of
the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. Chinese Proverb
493 Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
Robert J. Sawyer
494 There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things
we crave most in life happiness, freedom and peace of mind - are
always attained by giving them to someone else.
Peyton Cornway March
495 Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.
Philo of Alexandria
496 Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you
want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb
it well. Jim Rohn
497 Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly
you are doing the impossible. Saint Francis
498 I don’t think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made
good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I
was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
Oprah Winfrey
499 Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the
life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your
road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be
won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours. Ayn Rand
500 Nothing changes until you do. Origin Unknown
50 One of the most important truths about success is that it is a
formula: 10 percent good ideas and 90 percent action.
Michael Masterson
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39. 502 As long as you don’t forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy
rent-free space in your mind. Isabelle Holland
503 All the resources we need are in the mind. Theodore Roosevelt
504 The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it,
therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it with no purpose. Plutarch
505 Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and
commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a
commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the
success you seek. Mario Andretti
506 You have a divine right to abundance, and if you are anything less
than a millionaire, you haven’t had your fair share. Stuart Wilde
507 A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well
that no one could find fault. John Henry Newman
508 Happiness in life comes not from idleness but from working. Not
working at a job you hate, but working at tasks you care about.
Michael Masterson
509 Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-
stones to greater experience... When one door closes, another
always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance. Brian Adams
50 If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it
wouldn’t seem wonderful at all. Michelangelo
5 The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of
life is this: decide what you want. Ben Stein
52 It is better to wear out than to rust out. Richard Cumberland
53 You can’t change the wind, you can however adjust your sails.
Origin Unknown
54 If you want to leave footprints in the sands of time, don’t drag your
feet. Annot L. Sheppard
55 It’s much better to prepare and not have the opportunity than to
have the opportunity and not be prepared. Origin Unknown
56 The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice
what we are for what we could become. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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40. 57 Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another
human being. Each of us owes deeper thanks to those who have
rekindled this light. Albert Schweitzer
58 Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your
parrot to the town gossip. Will Rogers
59 You don`t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
520 Great oaks from little acorns grow. Proverb
52 The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a
time. Abraham Lincoln
522 The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vince Lombardi
523 The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over
and expecting different results. Albert Einstein
524 It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
525 To succeed ... you need to find something to hold on to,
something to motivate you, something to inspire you. Tony Dorsett
526 The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates
527 Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a
while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the
same. Origin Unknown
528 To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe. Anatole France
529 As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically
liberates others. Nelson Mandela
530 Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
53 I am the captain of my soul. William Ernest Henley
532 Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which
escape those who dream only by night. Edgar Allen Poe
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41. 533 The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or
even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
534 No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
535 [The] moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence
moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never
otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from
the decision, raising in one’s favour all manner of unforeseen
incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man
could have dreamed could come his way. Goethe
536 All thoughts which have been emotionalized [given feeling] and
mixed with faith, begin immediately to translate themselves into
their physical equivalent or counterpart. Napoleon Hill
537 When we change the models in our mind, we change the results in
our life. Mark Victor Hansen
538 If we know how to listen to our own hearts, we can listen to the
hearts of others. Stephen Covey
539 I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that
tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all. Ralph Waldo Emerson
540 Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think
some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work
every day some. Robert Fulghum
54 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
542 Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the
moments that take our breath away. George Carlin
543 The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at
once. Samuel Smiles
544 The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a
rat. Lily Tomlin
545 All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding
danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively.
Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the
strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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42. 546 Patience is the companion of wisdom. Saint Augustine
547 Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning - one
that leads you toward becoming the fullest human being you can
be. Oprah Winfrey
548 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
549 Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more;
hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.
Swedish Proverb
550 It’s easy to be negative and unmotivated, but it takes some work
to be positive and motivated. While there’s no off button for those
relentless “tapes,” there are things that you can do to turn down
the volume and shift your focus from negative to the positive.
Donna Cardillo R.N.
55 If you spend your life improving your weaknesses, at the end of
your life you will have many strong weaknesses. Dan Sullivan
552 Never promise more than you can perform. Publilius Syrus
553 Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to
lose. Lyndon b. Johnson
554 Be honest. Be sincere. Be genuine. With yourself and with
everybody else, as often and as much as you can. Nothing else
you’ll resolve to do could make a bigger difference. John Forde
555 Progress always involves risk; you can’t steal second base and keep
your foot on first. Frederick Wilcox
556 You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. That’s
what makes you a winner. Venus Williams
557 The man who does not work for the love of work but only for
money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.
Charles M. Schwab
558 What you think and what you feel and what you manifest is always
a match. Every single time. No exception. Esther Hicks-Abraham
559 If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. Milton Berle
560 Seek first to understand, then be understood. Stephen Covey
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43. 56 Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier
562 I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the
more I have of it. Thomas Jefferson
563 You only get out what you put in. Origin Unknown
564 What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
Robert Schuller
565 You are what you think you are. Bob Richards
566 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
567 The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it. John Ruskin
568 Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close
they were to success when they gave up. Thomas Edison
569 Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
570 A life lived in fear is a life half lived. Proverb
57 Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear
is that we are powerful beyond measure. Marianne Williamson
572 Two roads diverged in a wood, and I ... I took the one less traveled
by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost
573 Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original
dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes
574 Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things
which are important are not urgent. President Dwight Eisenhower
575 People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie
576 Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
Cicero
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44. 577 Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom ... our thoughts,
our words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw
around ourselves. Swami Vivekananda
578 Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness
is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the
following of that impulse. Henry Van Dyke
579 Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is. H.
Jackson Browne
580 The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is
gone, or to recreate it. Johnette Napolitano
58 If you want to get to the top, you must first get off your bottom.
Khow Wong
582 The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the
green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling
truly alive. Thich Nhat Hanh
583 Life is too short to be small. Benjamin Disraeli
584 A person’s true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Mohammed
585 The purpose of human life is to show compassion and the will to
help others. Albert Schweitzer
586 Every now and again take a good look at something not made
with hands - a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will
come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the
assurance that you are not alone in the world. Sidney Lovett
587 Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment
and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen
next. Delicious ambiguity. Gilda Radner
588 Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they
think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What
you believe, you can achieve. Mary Kay Ash
589 All meaning is self-created. Virginia Satir
590 You can achieve anything you want in life, as long as you don’t
care who gets the credit. U.S. President Ronald Reagan
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45. 59 Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious data base
outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to
one. This data base is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In
other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise
people regularly consult that smarter part. Michael J. Gelb
592 The mind is like an elastic band; once stretched by a new idea, it
never regains its original dimension. Oliver Wendell Holmes
593 It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. John Wooden
594 The secret to success is action, not attitude. It doesn’t matter what
your attitude is. What matters is what you do with your time. If
you do the right things you will be successful regardless of your
emotional condition or mental attitude. If you do the wrong things,
no amount of positive thinking will save you. Michael Masterson
595 Fall down seven times, get up eight times. Japanese Proverb
596 Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. Charles F. Kettering
597 If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or
reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and
all that is left is a compromise. Robert Fritz
598 Work is love made visible. And if you can’t work with love but only
with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at
the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with
joy. Kahlil Gibran
599 How will you know the taste of victory if you don’t take the risk?
Origin Unknown
600 Leave everything a little better than you found it. Origin Unknown
60 Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Vince Lombardi
602 Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise,
risking more than other’s think safe, dreaming more than others
think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
Origin Unknown
603 You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
604 Everything is okay in the end. If it’s not okay, then it’s not the end.
Origin Unknown
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46. 605 If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you
can become it. William A. Ward
606 We will either find a way or make one. Hannibal
607 Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird
that cannot fly. Langston Hughes
608 You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan
609 Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick
themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill
60 The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their
commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of
endeavour. Vince Lombardi
6 Thoughts become things. Mike Dooley
62 To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may
be the world. Origin Unknown
63 Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where
there were only walls. Joseph Campbell
64 I think therefore I am. Rene Descartes
65 I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to
always reach my destination. Jimmy Dean
66 You alter your destiny by altering your thoughts.
Dr. Dennis R. Deaton
67 If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the
roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the
invisible. T. Harv Eker
68 There is so much we can render service, to make a difference
in the world - no matter how large or how small our circle of
influence. Stephen Covey
69 In the beginning there was desire, which was the first seed of
mind; sages, having meditated in their hearts, have discovered by
their wisdom the connection of the existent with the non-existent.
Hymn of Creation, The Rig Veda
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47. 620 You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is
your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your
destiny. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
62 Kiss your life. Accept it, just as it is. Today. Now. So that those
moments of happiness you’re waiting for don’t pass you by.
Origin Unknown
622 Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who
think. La Bruyere
623 Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events
that have to occur for you to achieve your goal. George L. Morrisey
624 Intellectual growth should begin at growth and cease only at
death. Albert Einstein
625 The first person gets the oyster, the second person gets the shell.
Andrew Carnegie
626 The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us,
but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.
Joseph Henry
627 Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite
them. Bill Cosby
628 “I can’t do it” never accomplished anything. “I will try” has
performed wonders. George P. Burnham
629 There is a difference between interest and commitment. When
you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when it’s
convenient. When you are committed to something, you accept
no excuses, only results. Ken Blanchard
630 It is important that you recognize your progress and take pride
in your accomplishments. Share your achievements with others.
Brag a little. The recognition and support of those around you is
nurturing. Rosemarie Rossetti
63 We are NOT sentient, self-respecting, intelligent creatures. We only
tell ourselves that we are. The truth is, we are driven by emotion.
We only use our thinking brain to rationalize those emotional
decisions after they’re made. Clayton Makepeace
632 It’s not the will to win that matters - everyone has that. It’s the will
to prepare to win that matters. Paul “Bear” Bryant
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48. 633 If you are bored with life, if you don’t get up every morning with a
burning desire to do things - you don’t have enough goals.
Lou Holtz
634 Experience gives you the test first, the lesson after.
Origin Unknown
635 The harder you fall the higher you bounce. Horace
636 Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you
can on it. Danny Kaye
637 Change comes from within. Origin Unknown
638 Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that
perfectly. St. Francis of De Sales
639 In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein
640 Whatever we think about and thank about we bring about.
Dr John F Demartini
64 It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no
man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
642 To see a world in a grain of sand. And heaven in a wild flower, hold
infinity in the palm of your hand. And eternity in an hour.
William Blake
643 The source of all creation is pure consciousness ... pure potentiality
seeking expression from the unmanifest to the manifest. And when
we realize that our true self is one of pure potentiality, we align
with the power that manifests everything in the universe.
Deepak Chopra
644 Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in
virtuous activities. Aristotle
645 Optimism means expecting the best, but confidence means
knowing how to handle the worst. Never make a move if you are
merely optimistic. The Zurich Axioms
646 A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford
to let alone. Henry David Thoreau
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