"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."
— Zig Ziglar

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"The power of imagination makes us infinite."
- John Muir

"Man can only become what he is able to consciously imagine."
– Dane Rudhyar

“The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.” Swedish Proverb

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"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable."
– Paul Tillich

"If your life is free of failures, you are not taking enough risk."
- Anonymous

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"To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others."
- François Mauriac

"Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating."
– Honoré de Balzac

“We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” Marie Curie

"Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you."
— Zig Ziglar

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"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."
- Gautam Buddha

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“The big rewards come to those who travel the second, undemanded mile.” Bruce Barton

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
- Seneca

"Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind."
- Bruce Lee

"I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's."
– Henry Moore

Merry Christmas to all and Happy Holidays to the rest! Love ya.... Go, Go, Go... Dan :)

"The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart."
– Mencius

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind & sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started." David Allen

"In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions."
– Henry Ward Beecher

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Merry Christmas!

“I just like to smile. Smiling is my favorite.”

Buddy the Elf
from the film, Elf (2003)

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing."
- George Bernard Shaw?

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"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought."
– Henri-Louis Bergson

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” Vincent van Gogh

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"Almost all real new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced."
- Alfred N. Whitehead

"No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched." – George Jean Nathan

"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."
– Sara Teasdale

“If you're going to help a man, you want to know something about him, don't you?” Joseph to Clarence, Angel Second Class from the film, It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

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"Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can."
- Ashleigh Brilliant

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"We must stop assuming that a thing which never been done before probably cannot be done at all."
- Donald M. Nelson

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

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"Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm."
– Charles Caleb Colton

All those things I saw as "scars" became "stars" to light my path to healing! Jo Dozier-Latino

"Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozey, and don't be afraid to hit the ball."
– Billie Jean King

"Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do. "
- Unknown

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope."
– Alexandre Dumas

“One benefit of risking failure: the risk of success.” Sam Parker

"Your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be."
– Raymond Charles Barker

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"Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past." — Tom Peters

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“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.” African proverb

"Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence."
– Lin Yutang

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
- Wayne Gretzky

"When you win, say nothing, when you lose, say less."
- Paul Brown

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“Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.” Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Our very lives, as ex-problem drinkers, depend upon our constant thought of others & how we may help meet their needs. Big Book, p. 20

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“If not now, when?” Hillel (30B.C.–10A.D.)

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"The most important thing for a young man is to
establish credit—a reputation and character."
— John D. Rockefeller

We are there to sweep off our side of the street, … never trying to tell him what he should do. —Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pgs. 77-78

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins; not through strength, but through persistence."
- Buddha

"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving." – St. Francis de Sales

The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. C.S. Lewis

When the Twelfth Step is seen in its full implication, it is really talking about the kind of love that has no price tag on it. 12&12, p.106

We think it no concern of ours what religious bodies our members identify themselves with as individuals. Alcoholics Anonymous 4th ed, p. 28

"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."
– Booker T. Washington

"Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned."
- Charles W. Chesnutt

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"Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives." Anthony Robbins

Self-confidence & a belief in yourself is a must. To instill confidence in others, you first must have confidence in yourself. B & C Pulsifer

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits." – Thomas A. Edison

“ Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never. ” Sir Winston Churchill

"It doesn't matter where you are coming from.
All that matters is where you are going."
— Brian Tracy

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. Sarah Bernhardt

"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory."
- George S. Patton

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth."
– Benjamin Disraeli

The way to get started is to stop talking and start doing. Walt Disney

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
- Confucius

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. e.e. cummings

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
– Sir Winston Churchill

"The most beautiful view is the one I share with you."
- Unknown

"Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked. "
- Ralph Ellison

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. Helen Keller

"Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgment."
– William Penn

“Character is much easier kept than recovered.” Thomas Paine

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful."
- Ninon de L'Enclos

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. "
- Kahlil Gibran

"A person who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
– Albert Einstein

"I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy." Og Mandino

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it,
but to enable it. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. "
- Rabindrath Tagore

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
– Thomas Jefferson

"People with clear, written goals, accomplish far
more in a shorter period of time than people
without them could ever imagine."
Brian Tracy

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.– Ralph Waldo Emerson

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. "
- Anne Frank

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. Helen Keller

"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. " - Jean Paul Richter

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
– Vincent van Gogh

"Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to dust."
– Marcus Aurelius

"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity."
- Leo Nikolaevich Toistoy

"To err is human - but it feels divine."
- Mae West

"Facing it — always facing it — that's the way to get through. Face it!"
– Joseph Conrad

“One knows from daily life that one exists
for other people...” Albert Einstein

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
– Ursula K. Le Guin

"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. "
- Ryunosuke Satoro

"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'"
– Maya Angelou

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. "
- Dr. Seuss

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

"In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes."
– John Ruskin

"We can do no great things, only small things with great love. " - Mother Teresa

"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work." — Robert Orben

"Nurture great thoughts, for you will never go higher than your thoughts." — Benjamin Disraeli

"Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things." - Denis Diderot

“The thing that cowardice fears most is decision.” Soren Kierkegaard

There are only two sins; the first is to interfere with the growth of another human being, & the second is to interfere with one's own growth. A A, p542

"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead to sovereign power."
– Alfred Tennyson

"Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless." - Honoré de Balzac

“Who wants a dream that's near-fetched?” Howard Schultz

"One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."
– Sigmund Freud

"Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, the romance and you find out you still care for that person."
- Unknown

"Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion."
- Georg Wilhelm

"You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you."
– Joseph Joubert

"And when the future hinges on the next words that are said, Don't let logic interfere, believe your heart instead. "
- Philip Robison

"Simple kindness to one's self and all that lives is the most powerful transformational force of all." — Dr. David Hawkins

"There ain't nothing from the outside can lick any of us." – Margaret Mitchell

“If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.” Michelangelo

Look at your past. Your past has determined where you are at this moment. What you do today will determine where you are tomorrow. Are you moving forward or standing still? Tom Hopkins

"Ruin and recovering are both from within."
– Epictetus

“ How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened! ” Thomas Jefferson

No one can really pull you up very high — you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.
– Louis Brandeis

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over & gone. The future is not guaranteed. Wayne Dyer

"By giving people the power to share, we're
making the world more transparent."
— Mark Zuckerberg

Attitude is the way you mentally look at the world around you. It is how you view your environment & your future. It is the focus you develop toward life itself. - Unknown

"I will see it when I believe it."
— Dr. Wayne Dyer

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
– Rita Mae Brown

Fortune favors the brave. Virgil

"The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now. "
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense."
– Arnold Bennett

Pain is a part of being alive, & we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbeatable, & we need to be taught that. Harold Kushner

"May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future. "
- Unknown

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.…Success is shy — it won't come out while you're watching. Tennessee Williams

"The future is purchased by the present. "
- Samuel Johnson

"Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success." – Swami Sivananda Saraswati

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. - Alan Kay

Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives.

"Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny."
– Don Sutton

"Conquer your mind and you will conquer your world"
- Unknown

Congrats Liam Callahan and the Massapequa High School Soccer team, Nassau County Double A Champions!!!

"Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small." — Tim Ferriss

"Every life is a story make yours a best seller."
- Unknown

"We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."
– Carlos Castaneda

I do not intend for 'honor, courage, & commitment' to be just words; I expect them
to frame the way that we live & act. Charles C. Krulak

"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."
– Peter Drucker

"You want to become aware of your thoughts, you want to choose your thoughts carefully, and you want to have fun with this, because you are the masterpiece of your own life."
— Joe Vitale

“ Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ” Carl Jung

"Realize you are responsible for your life. The decisions, the choices you make are yours. Don't blame others for things not working out, take responsibility, change the things that need changing."
- Unknown

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to do what they want to do. Kathleen Winsor

"When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around."
- Willie Nelson

“Pretend that every single person you meet
has a sign around his or her neck that says,
'Make me feel important.'” Mary Kay Ash

"To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything."
– Joan Didion

"I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man who had no feet."
- Indian Proverb

"If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted on the Sistine floor."
– Neil Simon

"Be thankful and count your blessings for what you have, rather than what you want."
- Unknown

“ Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. ” Aldous Huxley

"Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best."
– Marva Collins

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"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."
– Baruch Spinoza

"I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not."
- Lucille Ball

Cal. Prop 19 which would legalize marijuana for personal use was rejected by almost 49% of the voters while 42% supported it.

“ I believe in hard work. It keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit. ” Helena Rubinstein

"A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier."
- Unknown

"You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition."
— W. Clement Stone

"If you are not as wealthy as you
like, there is something you don't know."
— David Wood

"Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes, work never begun."
– Christina Rossetti

"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter."
- Walt Disney

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We feel a man is unthinking when he says that sobriety is enough. He is like the farmer who came up out of his cyclone cellar to find his home ruined. To his wife, he remarked, "Don't see anything the matter here, Ma. Ain't it grand the wind stopped blowin'?"

—Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 82

"Positive things happen to positive people."
- Sarah Beeny

"Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl."
– Saadi

“ The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer. ” Fridtjof Nansen

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"The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, then pretty soon you get it." – Wally "Famous" Amos

“Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.” Alan Keith, Genentech

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

"When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"Be the change you want to see in this world"
- Mahatma Gandhi

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time."
– Anna Freud

Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work & study. Stephen King

"What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you."
— Anthony de Mello

"It is love that makes the impossible possible."
- Indian Proverb

"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."
– George S. Patton

When in doubt, attack, attack, attack!!! Me.

'I haven't left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are for Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection -- either way we're getting screwed!' -- Bette Midler.

"Wealth is not a material gain, but a state of mind." — Jerry Gillies

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Edmund Burke

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed."
– Channing Pollack

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."
– Marie Curie

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles"
- Charlie Chaplin

"Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind
and nourish with repetition and emotion
will one day become a reality."
— Earl Nightingale

“What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage!”
Cowardly Lion
from The Wizard of Oz

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. Matina Horner

"The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith."
- Saudi Arabian Proverb

"Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!"
– Charles Dickens

"Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is."
- Elbert Hubbard

"We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart."
– Blaise Pascal

"Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think."
- Dale Carnegie

"If you realized how powerful your thoughts are,
you would never think a negative thought."
— Peace Pilgrim

“You only have what you give. It's by spending yourself that you become rich.” Isabel Allende

"Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing."
– Socrates

"We do not remember days; we remember moments."
- Cesare Pavese

"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."
– Freya Stark

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes."
- St. Clement of Alexandra

"Never forget: the secret of creating riches
for oneself is to create them for others."
— Sir John Templeton

“If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk.
If you can't walk, crawl. But by all means,
keep moving.” Martin Luther King, Jr

When you get into a tight place & it seems that you can't go on, hold on — for that's just the place & the time that the tide will turn. HB Stowe

"Kind words conquer."
- Tamil Proverb

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."
– Kurt Vonnegut

"What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!"
- Victor Hugo

"Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy."
- Jim Hightower

"We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are."
– Tobias Wolff

Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong motives. —Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 86

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"I get up. I walk. I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing."
– Rabbi Hillel

"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction."
- George Horace Lorimer

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"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."
- Benjamin Disraeli

Gossip barbed with our anger, a polite form of murder by character assassination, has its satisfactions for us, too. Here we are not trying to help those we criticize; we are trying to proclaim our own righteousness. 12&12, p. 67

My talent is that I just try and try and try and try again and little by little it comes to something... Francis Ford Coppola

"Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted."
— Denis Waitley

"We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it."
– William Butler Yeats

"Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth."
- Anonymous

"It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life."
– Queen Christina

"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare."
- Japanese Proverb

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You just make it happen. You kind of force it. Sometimes you get hurt but that's the best way to get hurt. Tony Hawk

"The time is always right to do what is right."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

What can you do right now to begin to turn your life around? The very first thing is to start
making a list of things to be grateful for. Joe Vitale

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"Never let what you cannot do stop you
from doing what you CAN do!"
— Stephen Pierce

"Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little."
– Plutarch

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
- Mother Teresa

“Life is a challenge, meet it.” Mother Teresa

"Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy."
– Pyotr Tchaikovsky

"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life."
- Richard Bach

If somebody hurts us and we are sore, we are in the wrong also. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 90

"To play it safe is not to play."
– Robert Altman

"Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers."
- Anonymous

"Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there."
– Josh Billings

"Education means inspiring someone's mind, not just filling their head."
- Katie Luck

Imagine if the world believed and acted on this? . . . and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 59.

"What is called genius is the abundance of life and health."
— Henry David Thoreau

"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."
– Sarah Bernhardt

"Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things"
- Denis Diderot

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"You can have, do, and be anything you want."
— Dr. Joe Vitale

"All progress occurs because people dare to be different."
- Harry Milner

"Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble."
– Admiral William Halsey

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"Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Nothing is impossible.” Gertrude Elion

"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
– Pablo Picasso

"Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild."
- Alexis Delp

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"It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act."
– Charles Caleb Colton

Someone who knew what he was talking about once remarked that pain was the touchstone of all spiritual progress. How heartily we A. A’s can agree with him. . . 12/12 p. 93-94

"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death."
- George Bernard Shaw

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"The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing."
– Billie Jean King

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
- Ann Landers

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“You'll never plough a field turning it over
in your mind.” Irish proverb

"Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best."
– Doris Lessing

"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."
- Mother Teresa

The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it. —Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 83

“Blessed is the man who, having nothing
to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence
of the fact.” George Eliot

"Heat is required to forge anything. Every great
accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart."
— Mary Lou Retton

"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
– Bertrand Russell

"Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit."
- Nigerian Proverb

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"When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge."
– Tuli Kupferberg

"When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."
- L.A. Rouchefolicauld

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"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
- Senaca

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"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
– Michelangelo Buonarroti

"I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one."
- Isiah Thomas

1st comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. Napoleon Hill

You must work & do good, not be lazy & gamble, if you wish to earn happiness.
Laziness may appear attractive, but work
gives satisfaction. Anne Frank

"Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same." Lois McMaster Bujold

"The only way to have friends is to be one."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you can't change it, change the way you think about it."
- Mary Engelbreit

"Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work — and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't." – Lucille Ball

"The rose is fairest when it is budding new, and hope is brightest when it dawns from fears."
- Walter Scott

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Your power is proportional to your ability to relax."
— David Allen

Courage is the human virtue that counts most courage to act on limited knowledge & insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have. R Frost

"Never let life's hardships disturb you ... no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages."
- Nichiren Daishonen

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous & the storm terrible, but they have never found those dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. Van Gogh

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."
– Theodore Roosevelt

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"Anger is always more harmful than the insult that caused it."
- Chinese Proverb

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"What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence."
– Samuel Johnson

"A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart."
- Johann Wolfgang Goether

Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous. -Unknown

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"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now."
— Napoleon Hill

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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road. Dag Hammarskjöld

"Like what you do. If you don't like it, do something else."
- Paul Harvey

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Sometimes the greatest gain in productive
energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs,
dealing with old business & clearing the decks. D Allen

"We were born to succeed, not to fail."
- Henry David Thoreau

“One's feelings waste themselves in words;
they ought all to be distilled into actions
which bring results.” Florence Nightingale

But with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance & growth of a spiritual experience, this business of resentment is infinitely grave. We found that it is fatal. BB

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"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."
– Lao-Tzu

"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."
- Booker T. Washington

“As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.” Proverbs 27:17

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
- Albert Einstein

"Education is a progressive discovery of your own ignorance."
- Will Durant

“Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem.” Marian Wright Edelman

"Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it."
— Napoleon Hill

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Laughter is the closest distance between two people."
– Victor Borge

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. Walt Disney

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"The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have."
- Leonard Nimoy

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"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
- Albert Einstein

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"Don't go through life, grow through life."
- Eric Butterworth

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"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval." – Mark Twain

We feel a man is unthinking when he says sobriety is enough. Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 82

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin

"I have always believed that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning & transform it into something of value. Hermann Hesse

"Sometimes in the winds of change we find our true direction"
- Anonymous

Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. Eugéne Delacroix

"Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake." — Paramahansa Yogananda

"All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail."
– Dorothea Brande

"Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by."
– Carl Sandburg

"There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble."
- Jack Kemp

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It's how you cope with the imperfect matches that makes you great. Kim Clijsters

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: Try to please everybody all the time. HB Swope

"Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have."
- Zig Ziglar

But there is One who has all power—that One is God. May you find Him now! —Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 59

"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."
– Leo Tolstoy

"Success lies in the heart, and is activated by the hope that lies in the dream"
- Doug Firebaugh

"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."
– Henry Van Dyke

"A smile is a small curve that solves a big problem."
- Unknown

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"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
– Robin Williams

"If you're waiting for someone to believe in you, you'll be waiting forever. You must believe in yourself."
- Cher

"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey."
— Dr. Stephen Covey

"One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure."
- William Feather

The thing that is really hard, & really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."
– Anna Quindlen

“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.” St. Francis de Sales

"Everything you see happening is the consequence of that which you are."
— Dr. David Hawkins

"Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing."
– George Sheehan

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There are only 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

My attitude everyday will determine my success in the future. Today I will walk, talk, act and believe like the person I wish to become!!! Jimmy Meyer

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"The most important thing about having goals is having one"
- Geoffrey F. Abert

“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.” Colin Powell

"A heart in love with beauty never grows old."
- Turkish Proverb

"Change your thoughts and you change your world." — Norman Vincent Peale

“Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful.
If it's bad, it's experience.” Victoria Holt

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning. Gail Godwin

"No great man ever complains of want of opportunities."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When you get to the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
– Anatole France

"When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable."
- Walt Disney

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"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."
– James Bryant Conant

"Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy."
- Dale Carnegie

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive. Albert Einstein

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"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time."
– Winston Churchill

"The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again."
– Shana Alexander

"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."
– Frank Lloyd Wright

“If you can't outplay them, outwork them.” Ben Hogan

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"The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success."
- enry Ward Beecher

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"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."
– Peter Ustinov

"Whether you think you can or you think you can't - you are right."
- Henry Ford

It isn't easy to be frank with yourself. But, if you wish to find your particular success in life, it is the most rewarding reaction of them all. Brownie Wise

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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
– Theodore Seuss Giesel

"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. "
- Frank Lloyd Wright

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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. St. Francis De Sales

"When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object."
– Milan Kundera

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"It is love that makes the impossible possible."
- Indian Proverb

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"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."
– Eleanor Roosevelt

"The time is always right to do what is right."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

My father instilled in me that if you don't see
things happening the way you want them to,
you get out there & make them happen. Susan Powter

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"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."
– Will Rogers

"More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin."
- Anonymous

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“Be conscious in this world.” Alice Waters

"It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles."
- Claude M.Bristol

"If you want success, then don't rely on
other people to do what YOU can do!"
— Sasha Azevedo

"Belief or the lack of it can be the source of or the end of your inspiration. When you begin to believe, you begin to learn."
- Anonymous

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"Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure."
– Jack Lemmon

“The greater the tension, the greater is the potential.” Carl Jung

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 83

"Comfort is the enemy of adventure"
- Positive Person

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

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"What we think determines what happens
to us, so if we want to change our lives,
we need to stretch our minds."
— Dr. Wayne Dyer

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"Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more."
– Louis L'Amour

"People fall forward to success."
— Mary Kay Ash

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
– Carl Jung

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless" - Mother Teresa

“For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use being anything else...” Sir Winston Churchill

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. Helen Keller

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"Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you."
- Wayne Dyer

"You miss 100% of the shots you never take."
– Wayne Gretsky

"You can have it all. Just not all at once."
— Oprah Winfrey

“I dwell in possibility.” Emily Dickinson

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"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
- Mahatma Gandhi

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"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be."
– Groucho Marx

"Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you"
- Herbert Gasser

"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

“You can't always
get what you want,
But if you try sometimes,
you might find,
You get what you need.”
--- Mick Jagger

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"A mind that is stretched by a new experience
can never go back to its old dimensions."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm & adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. - Jawaharlal Nehru

"Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why."
- Bernard M. Baruch

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“The future will depend on what we do in the present.” Mahatma Gandhi

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"We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt."
– William Ernest Hocking

"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it."
— George Halas

"The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame."
- Rod Steiger

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We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service. Earl Nightingale

"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."
– Grace Murray Hopper

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"Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use."
– Ruth Gordon

“There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.”
Franz Kafka

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."
- Roger Bannister

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"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."
- Sophocles

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."
– Thomas A. Edison

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."
– Benjamin Disraeli

Treat an individual as if he were what he ought to be & could be, he will become what he ought to be & could be. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
- Henry Ford

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“On no account brood over your wrong-doing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.” Aldous Huxley

"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

"Be the change you want to see in the world"
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life."
- Harvey Mackay

"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are." – e. e. cummings

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Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them. Rita Levi-Montalcini