"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses."
– Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

“Don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for.” -- Marian Wright Edelman

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."
- Robert H. Schuller

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"If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again."
– Flavia Weedn

There are only 2 ways to live your life. 1 is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Einstein

“Luck is not chance, it's toil. Fortune's expensive smile is earned.” Emily Dickinson

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

"Remember, you only have to succeed the last time."
— Brian Tracy

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, & you learn at once how big and precious it is. Aleksei Peshkov

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"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
- Anne Frank

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."
– Alexander Graham Bell

"Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts." — Robert Browning

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” Albert Einstein

Gratitude should go forward, rather than backward. Bill Wilson.

"A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work." – John Lubbock

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing — that's why we recommend it daily." — Zig Ziglar

"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart."
- Helen Keller

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."
- Margaret B. Runbeck

"The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do."
- Anonymous

"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
– Alfred Adler

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"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine."
– Morris West

One exercise that I practice is to try for a full inventory of my blessings. . . . Bill W.

"To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. "
- Tony Dorsett

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“Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity.” Warren Bennis

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

Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role. Paramahansa Yogananda

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Next day we would ask ourselves, in all earnestness and sincerity, how it could have happened. —Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 37

"If we wait for the moment when everything is ready, we shall never begin."
– Ivan Turgenev

“Life is luck, make it.” Mother Teresa

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"It is never too late to be who you might have been."
- George Eliot

"Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age."
- Christopher Morley

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"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
- Martin Luther King Jr

"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us"
- Hermann Hesse

"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
- Albert Schweitzer

"Priorities lead to prosperity." — Michelle Singletary:

“When you stop taking chances
You'll stay where you sit
You won't live any longer
But it'll feel like it”
Bono

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Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense. Marcus Aurelius

"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back"
- Barbara De Angelis

Faith is embracing uncertainty. Mark Batterson.

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"I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody."
– Lily Tomlin

"It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference"
- Jenny Craig

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“Passion persuades.” Anita Roddick

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"We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality."
– Iris Murdoch

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"When you realize that prosperity is your divine
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— Catherine Ponder

“What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.” Friedrich Nietzsche

"To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both"
- St Catherine of Siena

The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart. John Welwood

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"Your real work is to decide what you want and then to focus on it. For it is through focusing on what you want that you will attract it. That is the process of creating"
- Esther Hicks

"Reading is important — read between the lines. Don't swallow everything."
– Gwendolyn Brooks

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“If you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready.” Will Smith

"Light tomorrow with today."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will."
- Sugar Ray Robinson