"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
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"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