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Selection of LIFE IN GENERAL quotes...

"Always stand in your full awareness of your Beauty, grace and joy. Holding the space of compassion for all those you meet. May beauty and grace always surround you. I bless you with my love”.

Mother Kwan Yin and Eaglewoman

"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

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt
of in your philosophy." - Shakespeare in Hamlet –

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and
falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its
people. – John F. Kennedy

Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it.
Believe nothing just because it is generally held or written in ancient books.
Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin.
Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.
–Buddha

"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires...courage."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, Poet and Essayist

"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."
Charles Dickens
1812-1870, Novelist

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to
people or things." -- Albert Einstein

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
Charles Kingsley
1819-1875, Author and Clergyman

"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
Author of "I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was"

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've always imagined." ~ Henry David Thoreau

"Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."
Og Mandino
1923-1996, Author and Speaker

"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island...and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life."
Walt Disney
1901-1966, Artist and Film Producer

"The bravest thing you can do
when you are not brave is to
profess courage and act accordingly."
Corra May Harris
1869-1935, Author

"We all want to be happy, but most of us have gone looking for happiness at the wrong address. We've sought fulfillment by having more things. We've sought to be happy by accumulating greater wealth. We've sought peace of mind by demanding that conditions or people arrange themselves to our liking. Yet real happiness comes with being right with our Self, by living our purpose, on purpose." -- Mary Manin Morrissey

"From a little spark, may burst a mighty flame."
Italian Poet Dante (1265-1351)

“The eye is the lamp of the body. So if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light” Mathew 6:22

"A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before we changed."
Earl Nightingale 1921-1989,
Philosopher and Syndicated Radio Personality

"Almost anything we do will be insignificant, but it is very important that we do it." Mohandas Gandhi

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strength. When you go through hardship and decide not to surrender, that is strength."
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Bodybuilder and Actor

"It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt."

Suellen Fried
Author and Speaker

"If you accept a limiting belief, then it will become a truth for you."
~Louise Hay - Author and Speaker

"I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life anytime he is prepared and ready to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within." -Rev. Dr. Preston Bradley

"You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks,
jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you are doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle."
George Lucas
Film Director and Producer

* If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning. * Catherine-

* When I was young, I was put in school for retarded kids for two years
before they realized I actually had a hearing loss. And they called ME slow!
* Kathy Buckley-

* Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
* Eleanor Roosevelt-

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if they've got a second.
Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you."
William James
1842-1910, American Philosopher

"Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today, this hour, this minute is the day, the hour, the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good, with all of its trials and troubles, and perhaps more interesting because of them."
Robert R. Updegraff
Author of "Be Thankful For Your Troubles"

"The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are."
- Thomas Dreier- Author

"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 Eliot, Pseudonym of Marian Evans,
First Rank English Novelist (1819-1880)

"We are not separate and independent entities,
but like links in a chain, and we could not by
any means be what we are without those
who went before us and showed us the way."
~Thomas Mann, Author & Nobel Laureate (1875-1955)

"The universe will reward you for
taking risks on its behalf."
~Shakti Gawain, Bestselling Personal Growth
Author and Motivational Speaker

"If we are the sum of everything that happens to us,
to limit a person's experience
is to limit their growth."
~Dr. David Viscott, Pulitzer Prize Psychiatrist (1938-1996)

"I am still learning — how to take joy in all the people I am,
how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe,
how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed."
~Audre Lorde, African-American Author (1934-1992)

"Minds, like parachutes, function better
when open, but, like fists, they
strike harder when closed."
~L.E. Modesitt, Jr., American Author (1943 -- )

"Adversity
introduces a man to himself."
~Seneca, Roman Statesman and
Philosopher ( 5 BC - 65 AD )

"Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified
to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter
of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can
sometimes create a reality which did not exist before."
~Margaret Halsey, American Author

"Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not
knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and
even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way
through life as complete strangers to ourselves."
~Sydney J. Harris, American Journalist (1917-1986)

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing
the mind as a steady purpose — a point on
which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."
~Mary W. Shelley, English Novelist (1797-1851)

"When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously."
~Shakti Gawain, Bestselling Personal Growth Author

"I think we are drawn to dogs because they
are the uninhibited creatures we might be
if we weren't certain we knew better."
~George Bird Evans, Outdoor Essayist & Dog Breeder

"Love and happiness remind me of sticky peanut
butter. When you spread them around, you
can't help but end up getting some on yourself!
~Marcia Jordan, Hugs & Hope Club

"Life's challenges are not supposed to
paralyze you, they're supposed to help
you discover who you are."
~Bernice Johnson Reagon, African American Composer
Singer and Cultural Historian (1942- )

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves,
and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."
~Agnes Repplier, American Essayist (1855-1950)

"Cherish your visions and your dreams
as they are the children of your soul;
the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."
~Napoleon Hill, American Author & Teacher (1883-1970)

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless
he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
~Andre Gide, French Author (1869-1951)

"Worry is like a rocking chair —
it gives you something to do,
but it doesn't get you anywhere."
~Dorothy Galyean, Author of "Grandmas Little Books"

"Sometimes the heart sees
what is invisible to the eye."
~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Author, "Life's Little Instruction Book"

"To be what we are, and to become what we are
capable of becoming, is the only end in life."
~Robert Louis Stevenson,
Scottish Novelist & Poet (1850-1894)

"In every difficult situation is potential value.
Believe this, then begin looking for it."
--Norman Vincent Peale

"You are what you repeatedly do.
Excellence is not an event - it is a habit."
Aristotle
384-322 BC, Greek Philosopher and Scientist

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-Max Frisch

"The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams."
Og Mandino
1923-1996, Author

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
Ben Franklin

"The essence of knowledge is: having it,
to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance."
Confucius

"Paradigm is an outstandingly clear or typical example or archetype."
-Merriam Webster

"Prosperity is the abundance of all things
held ideal in mind and dear in heart."
-Leslie Fieger

"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
1880-1968, Blind/Deaf Author and Lecturer

"You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you."
Barbara Sher
Author of "I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was"

"No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction."
Charles Kendall Adams
1835-1902, Professor of History and Author

"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, Scientist, Publisher and Diplomat

"Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you."
Jeffrey Gitomer
Author and Sales Trainer

"Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it."
Hank Aaron
Hall of Fame Baseball Player

"Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not the one that has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act."
Dr. Maxwell Maltz
Author of "Psycho-Cybernetics"

What we are looking for is what is looking.
~ St. Francis of Assisi

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters to what lies within us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
~ George Bernard Shaw

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
~ Democritus of Abdera

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however."
Richard Bach

"Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day."
Booker T. Washington
1856-1915, Educator

"I can't do everything, but I can do something.
If we all did something. We could conquer anything."
Robert L. Shimmel
Humanitarian

"Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise."
Vernon Howard
1918-1992, Author and Speaker

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
Albert Einstein
1879-1955, Physicist

"The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them."
Bernard Baruch
1870-1965, Financier and Government Adviser

"To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas."
Leo Burnett
1891-1971, Advertising Pioneer

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."
William James
1842-1910, Psychologist, Professor and Author

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior
teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."
William Arthur Ward
Author, Editor and Pastor

"A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change."
Earl Nightingale
1921-1989, Author and Radio Announcer

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
Anne Bradstreet
1612-1672, Poet

"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

"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"
Anne Frank
1929-1945, Jewish Refugee and Diarist

"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future."

Robert H. Schuller
Author and Minister

"All things are possible until they are proved impossible -
and even the impossible may only be so, as of now."

Pearl S. Buck
1892-1973, Novelist

"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities.
But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates
not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."

Eric Hoffer
1902-1983, Author and Philosopher

"If you believe in unlimited quality and act
in all your business dealings with total integrity,
the rest will take care of itself."

Frank Perdue
Founder of Perdue Chicken

"Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure."

Joseph Sugarman
Author and Marketing Specialist

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs -
ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

Harold Thurman Whitman
Philosopher and Theologian

"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.
Regret is an appalling waste of energy;
you can't build on it, it's only good for wallowing in."

Katherine Mansfield
1888-1923, Author

"I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself."

Willie Shoemaker
Horse Jockey and Trainer

"I've never understood why people consider youth a time of
freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own."

Margaret Atwood
Novelist and Poet

"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, Author

"It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not."

James Gordon
Medical Doctor

"It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances."

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, Poet and Essayist

"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

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."

Herm Albright
1876-1944, Author

" Any intelligent fool can make things bigger , more complex ,
and more violent . It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of
courage -- to move in opposite direction . "
Albert Einstein

"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."

Hermann Hesse
1877-1962, Novelist and Poet

"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 enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity
but with it you can accomplish miracles."

Og Mandino
1923-1996, Speaker and Author

"The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life."

William Wordsworth
1770-1850, Poet

"Don't blame others for your failure to be fully accountable for your own life. If others are to blame then you have given them control."

Bob Perks
Speaker and Author

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
Corrie Ten Boom

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. Mother Teresa

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and
achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand ?
Woodrow Wilson

"The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from
the disease and once from the medicine."
William Osler, M.D.

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

The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.
Larry Hardiman

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Voltaire

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao-Tzu

Speak your mind, even when your voice shakes.
Maggie Kuhn

The true spirit of conversation consists more in bringing out the cleverness of others than in showing a great deal in yourself.
Jean de la Bruyere

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Edmund Burke

"Reduce your plan to writing...The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire."

Napoleon Hill
1883-1970, Author of "Think And Grow Rich"

"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too."

David Storey
Novelist and Playwright

"People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to...to work for and hope for."

Dr. Maxwell Maltz
Author of "Psycho-Cybernetics"

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."

Louisa May Alcott
1832-1888, Author

"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."

Calvin Coolidge
1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the United States

"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
1888-1955, Author and Trainer

"If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives, to seek the kinds of growth that we find individually fulfilling, then we can have no security: we will live in a world of sham, in which our selves are determined by the will of others, in which we will be constantly buffeted and increasingly isolated by the changes round us."

Nena O'Neil
Author and Anthropologist

"One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter."

Joseph Addison
1672-1719, British Poet and Statesman

"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
Author and Lecturer

"Heroes are rebels with a cause. Rebels because they challenge the traditional ways of thinking and refuse to follow the herd. They have a cause, a vision, that's larger than life."

Sharif Khan
Author of "Psychology of the Hero Soul"

"To better the lives of others is one of your life's greatest rewards."

Captain Len Kaine US Navy (retired)
President Golden Rule Society
www.goldenrulesociety.org

"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
American Figure Skater

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."

Denis Waitley
Author of The Psychology of Winning

"Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.

James Bryant Conant
1893-1978, Past President of Harvard University

"Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts."

Denis Waitley
Author of The Psychology of Winning

"I was asking myself why I was having these obstacles in my life...then I suddenly became aware that these obstacles were my life, and I began to enjoy them."

John Kanary
Author of "Breaking Through Limitations"

"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."
Conrad Hilton
1887-1979, Founder of Hilton Hotels

"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
Writer and Publisher

"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

"Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character of another."
Winston Churchill
1874-1965, Former British Prime Minister

"One's 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 never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."

Eleanor Roosevelt
1884-1962, Former American First Lady

"Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault. Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state and is ultimately rough on our own self-esteem."

Eric Allenbaugh
Author of "Wake-Up Calls"

"It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets."

Wilma Rudolph
1940-1994, Olympic Gold Medallist in Track

"Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision."

Muhammad Ali
American Boxer

"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service."

John Burroughs
1837-1921, Author and Naturalist

"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, Writer and Humorist

"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."

William Penn
1644-1718, Religious Leader and Founder of Pennsylvania

"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."

Josh Billings
1815-1885, Humorist and Lecturer

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all."

Dale Carnegie
1888-1955, Author and Trainer

"Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination."

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Author and Publicist

"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most people succeed because they are determined to."

George E. Allen
1832-1907, Publisher and Author

"The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become."
Heraclitus, 535-475 BC (approximately), Philosopher and Author

"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

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become...Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by."

Oprah Winfrey
Media Personality

"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
Former British Prime Minister

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for."

Sir John Lubbock
1834-1913, British Statesman and Naturalist

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
William James

"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
1902-1993, Opera Singer

"With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable."

Sir Thomas Buxton
1786-1846, Baronet

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

Peter Drucker
Writer, Teacher and Consultant

"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

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

Helen Keller
1880-1968, Blind and Deaf Educator

"The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top."

Dr. Joyce Brothers
Psychologist and Television Personality

"In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently."

Anthony Robbins
Author and Speaker

"No lions are ever caught in mousetraps. To catch lions you must think in terms of lions, not in terms of mice. Your mind is always creating traps of one kind or another, and what you catch depends on the thinking you do. It is your thinking that attracts to you what you receive.

Thomas Dreier
Author

"If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble."

Elbert Hubbard
1859-1915, Author and Publisher

"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."

Christopher Reeve
Actor who became an Inspirational Speaker after being paralyzed

"How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened."
~ Thomas Jefferson

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your rep is merely what others think of you."

"Men often stumble onto the truth
but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away."
~ Winston Churchill.

"If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be it's victim." ~ Richard Bach

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine,
but will interest his patients in the care
of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause
and prevention of disease."
Thomas Edison

"Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying when
there seemed to be no hope at all."

"The only difference between winners and losers,
is that losers try and fail ... try and fail...
try and fail and give up.

Winners try and fail ... try and fail ...
over and over again until they succeed."

"Some succeed because they are destined to succeed,
other because they're determined to."

"Real leaders are ordinary people with extra-ordinary determination."
Dale Carnegie

"When I first saw you I was afraid to meet you,
when I met you I was afraid to like you,
when I liked you I was afraid to love you and
now that I love you I'm afraid to lose you."

...in order to dream, You gotta still be asleep.
--Bob Dylan, "When You Gonna Wake Up?" (1979)

"We forget ourselves and our destinies in health,
and the chief use of temporary sickness
is to remind us of these concerns."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Bernard Bailey

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

Nelson Mandela
Former President of South Africa

When the little me has recognized the big me and the little I has recognized the big I, oneness is achieved.

"Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them."
- Byron Katie

"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

"Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood."
- Freeman Teague

"To let go in the deepest recesses of the heart, to release all struggle and wanting, leads us to that
knowing which is timeless."
- Jack Kornfeld

"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, Writer and Humorist

"The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms. This knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness."

- Albert Einstein

"In wise love each divines the high secret self of the other, and, refusing to believe in mere daily self, creates a mirror where the lover of the beloved sees an image to copy in daily life".
- W.B. Yeats

"Vision is the world's most desperate need. There are no hopeless situations, only people who think hopelessly."

- Winifred Newman

"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions."

Kahlil Gibran
1883-1931, Poet and Novelist

"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

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
-Tolstoy

"Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It
is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at
the banks, that it becomes a problem.
- Manual Hernandez

"If you shut your door to all errors, truth will be shut out."
- Rabindranath Tagore

"One's lifework, I have learned, grows with the working and the living. Do it as if your life depended on it, and the first thing you know, you'll have made a life out of it. A good life, too."

Theresa Helburn
1887-1959, Broadway Writer, Producer and Director

"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation."

Pearl S. Buck
1892-1973, Author, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize Winner

I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside you of you until it touches everything. And you can feel it inside you. If you never take time out to let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. You can make noise with them, but never really feel anything with them. It’s hollow. E. L. Konigsburg

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

Helen Keller
1880-1968, Blind and Deaf Educator

"Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it - immediately."

Stephen R. Covey
Author and Speaker

“By being receptive, we can avail ourselves of the spiritual wealth available to us. By being open, we can receive things beyond what we ourselves might imagine.” -- Deng Ming-Dao in "Everyday Tao"

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

Melody Beattie
Author

"Please understand my friend, that where you find yourself tomorrow is a function of the positive decisions and actions you take today."

Akin A. Awolaja
Educator of Wise Living

"Success is not a native of any nation neither is it related to any family, so you don't have an excuse not to leave the imprint of impact of the sand of time before your time is over on this planet."

Akin A Awolaja
Educator of Wise Living

"One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us."

Mary Kay
1915-2001, Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."

George Washington Carver
1864-1943, Scientist and Educator

"Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his
ideas, to take a calculated risk and to act."

Dr. Maxwell Maltz
Author of "Psycho-Cybernetics"

"No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?"

Lee Iacocca
Retired Automobile Executive

"One of the 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
1888-1955, Educator

"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered."

Michael J. Fox
Actor

"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."

Henry Ford
1863-1947, Inventor and Founder of Ford Motor Company

"The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach."

Benjamin Mays
1895-1984, Educator and Minister

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant."

Horace
65-8 B.C., Poet and Satirist

"We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear."

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Author

"Obstacles cannot crush me, every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."

Leonardo da Vinci
1452-1519, Scientist, Inventor, Artist

"You can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it, the intelligence to make a realistic plan, and the will to see that plan through to the end."

Sidney A. Friedman
Speaker and Author

"Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourself a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles."

Helen Keller
1880-1968, Blind and Deaf Educator

"There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen."

Dr. Wayne Dyer
Psychotherapist and Author

"Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution."

Dr. Deepak Chopra
Author and Speaker

"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself."

Mark Caine
Author

"If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is
threatened to be a repeat of the past."

A.R. Bernard
Clergyman

"If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is
threatened to be a repeat of the past."

A.R. Bernard
Clergyman

"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon...must inevitably come to pass!"

Paul J. Meyer
Writer

"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's 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 Computer

"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
Spiritual Writer

"You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing."

Marie Carmichael Stopes
1880-1958, Author

"Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision."

Muhammad Ali
American Boxer

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."

Warren Buffett
Investment Entrepreneur

"The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been."

Alan Ashley-Pitt
Author

"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."

Erica Jong
Author

"Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it."

Les Brown
Author and Speaker

Never place a period where God intended a comma.
Gracie Allen

Realization is nothing to be gained afresh; it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought ‘I have not realized.’
Sri Ramana Maharshi

"I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered.
But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue:
"no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall".
Eleanor Roosevelt

To rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.
-- Ayn Rand

"A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous
opportunities that were somehow absent before we changed."

Earl Nightingale
1921-1989, Philosopher and Syndicated Radio Personality

"Almost anything you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." Mohandas Gandhi

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strength. When you go through hardship and decide not to surrender, that is
strength."

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Bodybuilder and Actor

"It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not
make the attempt."

Suellen Fried
Author and Speaker

"If you accept a limiting belief, then it will become a truth for you."

Louise Hay
Author and Speaker

"You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take
risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you are doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle."

George Lucas
Film Director and Producer

Power is the valosity that moves you to failure to failure.
W. Churchill

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
* Eleanor Roosevelt-

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you."

William James
1842-1910, American Philosopher

Robert R. Updegraff
Author of "Be Thankful For Your Troubles"

Thomas Dreier
Author

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

--Norman Vincent Peale

Rev. Dr. Preston Bradley

"You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit."

Aristotle
384-322 BC, Greek Philosopher and Scientist

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
Max Frisch

"The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become
endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams."

Og Mandino
1923-1996, Author

Opportunity does not just come along - it is there all the time - we just have to see it.

Earl Nightingale
From "Our Changing World" Radio Transcript

"Where there is great Love, there are always miracles."
- Willa Cather

"Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!"

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
1898-1993, Author of "The Power of Positive Thinking"

"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity."

Frank Leahy
1908-1973, Award Winning Notre Dame Football Coach

The pen is the tongue of the mind.
-Cervantes

It's kinda fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney

If you think you're too small to be effective you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
Bette Reese

Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be.
Clementine Padford

Someday is not a day of the week.
Anonymous

My agent said:"You aren't good enough for the movies." I said: You're fired.
Sally Field

Never invest in anything that eats or needs repainting.
Billy Rose

One is never as forunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
La Rochefoucauld

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch you have to start with the universe.
Carl Sagan

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
E. W. Howe

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
Annie Dillard

Everyone has the right to express an opinion. No one has the right to be listened to.
Cyril Connelly

Never place a period where God has placed a comma.
Anonymous

Think about it: it is easy to see God's beauty in a glorious sunset or in ocean waves crashing on a beach. But can you find the holiness in a struggle for life?
Rabbi Harold Kushner

There are some days when I think I'm gonna die of an overdose of satisfaction.
Salvador Dali

Selection of LOVE AND ROMANCE quotes ...

Far more critical than what we know or what we don't know is what we don't want to know.
Eric Hoffer

Love is friendship set on fire.
Jeremy Taylor

It isn't that we can't see the solution. We can't see the problem.
G. K. Chesterton

People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you know exactly what to do.
Michelle Vestur

I like long walks. Especially when they're taken by people who annoy me.
Fred Allen

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes the edge off of admiration.
William Hazlitt

On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.
Jean Rostand

It’s not about getting the message out, but getting it in.
Margaret Mead

"In the faces of men and women, I see GOD!"
Walt Whitman

"If you want to experience the joyous ecstasy that life offers, there is one commitment that is absolutely fundamental: the commitment to live in the moment. With that commitment as your guiding focus, whatever you do in your daily life is part of your transformational process. Your commitment to living in the moment becomes your vehicle for spiritual growth."
Yogi Amrit Desai

"Ever since happiness heard your name its been running through the streets trying to find you."
Hafiz

"Do not get rid of the button pusher, get rid of the buttons."
Yogi Amrit Desai

"My beloved child. Do not break your own heart. Each time you judge yourself you break your own heart."
Bapuji

"You think you create your own life but you do not. You are nothing more than a bundle of conditioned reflexes until you become conscious."
Dr. Deepak Chopra

"We are not all called to be great.
But we are all called to reach
out our hands to our brothers
and sisters, and to care for the
earth in the time we are given."
from SmallGraces by Kent Nerburn

In the Ramayana, Arjuna says to Ram (God):
"When I don't know who I am, i serve you. When I know who I am, I am
you."

Children’s Wisdom

Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening
presents and listen. -- Bobby, age 5

When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down
and little stars come out of you. -- Karen, age 7

If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who
you hate. -- Nikka, age 6

A miracle is not the suspension of natural law, but the operation of a
higher law in the realms of love-based consciousness.

Namaste

"Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity."
Johann Kaspar Lavater
1741-1801, Swiss Theologian

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."
Paul Boese

"Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Few have excellence thrust upon them...They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly by doing what comes naturally and they don't stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose."
John William Gardner
1912-2002, Psychologist, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

"The perfect no-stress environment is the grave. When we change our perception we gain control. The stress becomes a challenge, not a threat. When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress in our life becomes manageable."
Greg Anderson
Author of "The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness"

"An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men."
Thomas Fuller
1608-1661, Clergyman and Author

"Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory."
Alan Alda
Actor and Director

"The greater 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 Buonarroti
1474-1564, Italian Renaissance Painter and Sculptor

"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again."
Stephen Grellet
1773-1855, Quaker Clergyman

"The strongest oak tree of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun."
Napoleon Hill
1883-1970, Author of Think And Grow Rich

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."
Oprah Winfrey
TV Personality, Producer and Author

"Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would not see the beauty of their carvings."
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
1926-2004, Psychiatrist and Author

"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

“Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil...With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good."
Moshe ben Maimon (Maimonides)
1135-1204, Philosopher

"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, Author and Businessman

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."
Denis Waitley
Author and Speaker

"You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true."
Richard Bach
Author

"It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world."
William Cobbett
1763-1835, British Journalist and Reformer

"One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act."
Hannah More
1745-1833, British Writer, Reformer and Philanthropist

"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
Former British Prime Minister

"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."
John Calvin Coolidge
1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA

"Everyone's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities. There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us."
Charles M. Schwab
1862-1939, Industrialist

"Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone."
Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Philosopher and Author

"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements."
Napoleon Hill
1883-1970, Author of Think and Grow Rich

"It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it."
Vince Lombardi
1913-1970, Professional Football Coach

"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
Writer and Publisher

"Don't blame others for your failure to be fully accountable for your own life. If others are to blame then you have given them control."
Bob Perks
Speaker and Author

"We lift ourselves by our thought. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere."
Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, Author and Founder of Success Magazine

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."
Albert Einstein
1879-1955, Physicist

"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."
John Wooden
Basketball Coach

"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

"The kinder and more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness they can find in other people."
Leo Tolstoy
1828-1910, Novelist and Philosopher

"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 enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles."
Og Mandino
1923-1996, Author and Speaker

"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."
Napoleon Hill
1883-1970, Author

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."
William Arthur Ward
1921-1997, Author, Pastor and Teacher

"Never doubt that a small group of people can change the world. Indeed, it is all that ever has."
~ Margaret Mead

What we are looking for is what is looking.
~ St. Francis of Assisi

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters to what lies within us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
~ George Bernard Shaw

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
~ Democritus of Abdera

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however." Richard Bach

"Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day."
Booker T. Washington
1856-1915, Educator

"I can't do everything, but I can do something. If we all did something. We could conquer anything."
Robert L. Shimmel
Humanitarian

"Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise."
Vernon Howard
1918-1992, Author and Speaker

"The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them."
Bernard Baruch
1870-1965, Financier and Government Adviser

"To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas."
Leo Burnett
1891-1971, Advertising Pioneer

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."
William James
1842-1910, Psychologist, Professor and Author

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior
teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."

William Arthur Ward
Author, Editor and Pastor

"A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change."

Earl Nightingale
1921-1989, Author and Radio Announcer

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."

Anne Bradstreet
1612-1672, Poet

"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

"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"

Anne Frank
1929-1945, Jewish Refugee and Diarist

"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future."

Robert H. Schuller
Author and Minister

"All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now."

Pearl S. Buck
1892-1973, Novelist

"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."

Eric Hoffer
1902-1983, Author and Philosopher

"If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your business dealings with total integrity, the rest will take care of itself."

Frank Perdue
Founder of Perdue Chicken

Joseph Sugarman
Author and Marketing Specialist

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs - ask yourself what makes you
come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who
have come alive."

Harold Thurman Whitman
Philosopher and Theologian

"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it, it's only good for wallowing in."

Katherine Mansfield
1888-1923, Author

"I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself."

Willie Shoemaker
Horse Jockey and Trainer

"I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own."

Margaret Atwood
Novelist and Poet

Greg Anderson
Author

"It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not."

James Gordon
Medical Doctor

"It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances."

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, Poet and Essayist

"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

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."

Herm Albright
1876-1944, Author

" Any intelligent fool can make things bigger , more complex ,
and more violent . It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of
courage -- to move in opposite direction . "
Albert Einstein

"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."

Hermann Hesse
1877-1962, Novelist and Poet

Og Mandino
1923-1996, Speaker and Author

"The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life."

William Wordsworth
1770-1850, Poet

"Don't blame others for your failure to be fully accountable for your own life. If others are to blame then you have given them control."

Bob Perks
Speaker and Author

"Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!"

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
1898-1993, Author of "The Power of Positive Thinking"

"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity."

Frank Leahy
1908-1973, Award Winning Notre Dame Football Coach

The pen is the tongue of the mind. Cervantes

Dance, when you’re broken up.
Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood.
Dance, when you’re perfectly free.—Rumi

"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."
Calvin Coolidge
1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the United States

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."
Maureen Dowd
Newspaper Columnist

"Silent and Listen are spelled with the same letters."

Dali Lama – A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.

"I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds I sow I will harvest, because every action, good or bad, is always followed by an equal reaction. I will plant only good seeds this day."
Og Mandino
1923-1996, Author and Speaker

“If you have a clear mind and an open heart, you won’t have to search for direction. Direction will come to you.” (Phil Jackson)

“In this infinite sea of potentials that exist around us, how come we keep recreating the same realities?”
-Dr. Joseph Dispenza

“No one has ever come along and ever given you sufficient, intelligent knowledge about your beautiful self. How you work from the inside out. Why do you have addictions? Because you have nothing better. You have dreamt nothing better.”
-Ramtha

“Why can’t I change? What am I addicted to? What will I lose that I’m chemically attached to? What person, place, thing, time or event, that I’m chemically attached to, do I not want to lose, because I may have to experience the chemical withdrawal from it?

Hence, the human drama.”
-Dr. Joseph Dispenza

“Have you ever seen yourself through the eyes of someone else that you have become?

Have you ever stopped for a moment and looked at yourself through the eyes of the ultimate Observer?”
-Ramtha

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
"I don't much care where -- " said Alice.
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.
" -- so long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation.
"Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."
Alice in Wonderland.

“How can you continue to see the world as real if the self determining it to be real is intangible?”
-Ramtha

“If I change my mind, will I change my choices? If I change my choices, will my life change?”
-Dr. Joseph Dispenza

"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
1902-1993, Concert and Opera Singer

"Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined."
Johnny Carson
1925-2005, Talk Show Host and Entertainer

"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live."
Mortimer J. Adler
Educator and Philosopher

"After seventeen years of research and twenty seven books, I can reduce the keys to raising high achieving children to three words...'gentle but firm.'"
Doug Wead
Author of The Raising of a President

One hundred percent of the shots you don't take - don't go in.
- Wayne Gretzky

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
- C.S. Lewis

If I am not for myself, who will be? And if I am for myself alone, then what am I? And if not now, when?
- Rabbi Hillel, Pirke Avot 1:14

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain

There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
- unknown

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
- Lloyd Jones

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley

"Never doubt that a small group of people can change the world. Indeed, it is all that ever has." ~ Margaret Mead