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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