"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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