"Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable." -- Leo C. Rosten

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere." -- Agnes Repplier

"The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities."
– Vic Braden

Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives. BB p.86

“The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said." —Peter Drucker

"All spiritual disciplines are done with a view to still the mind. The perfectly still mind is universal spirit." -- Swami Ramdas

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

If we have been thorough about our personal inventory, we have written down a lot. Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 70

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

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

Our grand business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand." -- Thomas Carlyle

"I am a child of God. I came from the womb of creation." -- Tao Te Ching

"A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day."
– Albert Schweitzer

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resolution time! http://ping.fm/gyre6

"You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere." —Lee Iacocca

"God has a big eraser." -- Billy Zeoli

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." -- Paul Boese

"Forgiveness will never fail to free you." -- Jerrold Mundis

"It is the heart always that sees before the head can see."
– Thomas Carlyle

Merry Christmas to all!!!! Go, Go, Go... Dan Callahan :)

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

I have not had a drink since.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 13

For Love! http://ping.fm/rsv3u

When we exist without thought or thanksgiving we are not men, but beasts. M.F.K. Fisher

Strive to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To be too wise for worry, too tolerant for hate, & too courageous to be fearful. In short, to be happy. Unknown

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

"If you start to think the problem is ‘out there,’ stop yourself. That thought is the problem." -- Stephen Covey

"I want to know the thoughts of God; the rest are details." -- Albert Einstein

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

"For all those years you've protected the seed. It’s time to become the beautiful flower." -- Stephen C. Paul

"The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations." Julia Cameron

I just like to smile. Smiling's my favorite. --- Buddy the Elf

"Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them." —Bruce Barton

Recovery First: http://ping.fm/kXy3U

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

"The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love." -- Thomas Merton

"Love is not only something you feel. It is something you do." -- David Wilkerson

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

Simple, but not easy; a price had to be paid. It meant destruction of self-centeredness. Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 14

Recover: http://ping.fm/FG4gR

"We are what we believe we are." -- Benjamin N. Cardozo

"Belief has the word ‘lie’ in it... and that pretty much sums up what the world has us believing about ourselves." -- Doug Firebaugh

"You cannot see anything that you do not first contemplate as a reality." -- Ramtha

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed. Baltasar Gracián y Morales

The last of the human freedoms - to choose
one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. Viktor Frankl

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

"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

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

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

"Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!" -- Donald Gardner

"Talk does not cook rice." -- Chinese proverb

"How soon not now, becomes never." -- Martin Luther

"The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started." -- Dawson Trotman

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

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." -- Sir John Lubbock

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

"Potential is all of the resources you have in front of you. Efficiency is putting those resources to use effectively." — Garrett Gunderson

The good life! http://ping.fm/VQTnp

"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

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

Focus on the good life! http://ping.fm/12sgp

"Your wealth is hiding under the very thing you are afraid to do." — Dr. Joe Vitale

"Don't hurry, don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers." -- Walter Hagen

"Anxiety breaks a man’s backbone." -- Hebrew proverb

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work. Henry David Thoreau

character: http://ping.fm/M0Cp9

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit… we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. Aristotle

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. – T.S. Eliot

If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people. George Lucas

Character: http://ping.fm/eAUEg

“The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?”

-- Oprah

"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."
– George Eliot

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

“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.” -- Abraham H. Maslow

“It is difficult to see the picture when you are inside of the frame.” -- Author Unknown

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

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

Therefore, the main problem of the alcoholic centers in his mind rather than in his body. Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 23

True wealth is a byproduct of living a principled life. — Garrett Gunderson

“Beliefs separate. Loving thoughts unite.” -- Paul Ferrini

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

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

But the moment I made up my mind to go through with the process, I had the curious feeling that my alcoholic condition was relieved, as in fact it proved to be. Big Book, p. 42

Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort. Leonardo da Vinci

Emotions, http://ping.fm/m95qP

Income is derived by what value we can create for others, therefore do what you enjoy, do it the best, and this will allow you to create the most value. Garrett Gunderson

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

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

“If I get to pick what I want to do, then it's play... if someone else tells me that I have to do it, then it's work.” -- Patricia Nourot

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

Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." ~Martin Luther King

We have tried every imaginable remedy. Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 31

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

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces; we become the powerful force ourselves. Leo Buscaglia

The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, ‘Oh how useless and powerless I am.’ It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, ‘I can do it,’ without boasting or fretting. Dalai Lama

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

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

"Conscious evolution begins as we take responsibility for clearing our own obstructions." -- Dan Millman

"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist." -- Gail Sheehy

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

Thoughts are sending out that magnetic signal that is drawing the parallel back to you. — Dr. Joe Vitale

When? http://ping.fm/XxoM7

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

Don't mumble your life away. Ethan Lipton

The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size. — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was 'Thank You' that would suffice." ~Meister Eckhart

A resourceful person can see opportunity when others only see obstacles. Garrett Gunderson

The sleeping fox catches no poultry. Benjamin Franklin

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

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, & gratitude. Denis Waitley

It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 66

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

Work hard, play hard! http://ping.fm/mhB37

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

The price of recovery! http://ping.fm/Xa5tw

"Your life wasn't meant to be a struggle; it was meant to be an adventure. Start living the adventure now!" - Marshall Sylver

“Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.” -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Why not concentrate on the now instead of hoping for better times in the future? Why not understand the now instead of forgetting it & hoping for the future? Isn’t the future just another trap? Anthony de Mello

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

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

You can't just ask customers what they want & then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new. Steve Jobs

“A good intention clothes itself with power.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.”

-- Beryl Markham

Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 58

I don’t think God cares where we were graduated or what we did for a living. God wants to know who we are. Discovering this is the work of the soul – it is our true life’s work. Bernie Siegel

"All of us need to grow continuously in our lives."

— Les Brown

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

"Be a lion, not a mowess... ” the Cowardly Lion

"To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day." -- Lao Tzu

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

My greatest wealth is the deep stillness in which I strive & grow & win what the world cannot take from me with fire or sword. Von Goethe

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

Sticks and stones... http://ping.fm/YGDoG

Everybody builds a dream in their lifetime. You’re either going to build your dream, or somebody else's. So build your own! Christopher LaBrec

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

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. Chinese proverb

Live, life, large!!!! http://ping.fm/ZySpr

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. — Benjamin Franklin

“We acquire the strength we have overcome.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ruin and recovering are both from within.
– Epictetus

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. ~Jules Renard

"I do not believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process." ~Oprah Winfrey

If you can't walk... http://ping.fm/cUEUH

"Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart." -- Myla Kabat-Zinn

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

"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."
- William Nelson

What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. -Eleanor Powell

Event plus response = outcome! http://ping.fm/8Hn65

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

What you bring forth out of yourself from the inside will save you. What you do not bring forth out of yourself from the inside will destroy you. Gospel of Thomas

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

“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.” -- William James

“Our high resolves look down on our slumbering acts.” -- L.E. Landon

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

Many thanks and gratitude to all the Veterans of our great Country! Go, Go, Go...

I lead by example in all situations. U.S. Navy SEALs

Why aren't you happy? It's because ninety-nine percent of everything you do, & think, & say, is for yourself -- & there isn't one. Wu Wei Wu

"There is no room for God in him who is full of himself." -- Hasidic saying

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

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

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Up or down? http://ping.fm/XArE2

In a world where the big things have little difference - it's the little things that make a big difference. — Peter Thomson

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

“I want to know the thoughts of God; the rest are details.” -- Albert Einstein

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

“You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.” -- James G. Bilkey

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

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." -- Albert Einstein

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

Don't just like it, LOVE it! http://ping.fm/2q2Tu

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

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

"You can do anything, but not everything." — David Allen

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How am I doing? http://ping.fm/OncBb

"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action." -- James Levin

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

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When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Great acts are made up of small deeds." — Lao Tzu

“When I grip the wheel too tight, I find I lose control.” -- Steve Rapson

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. Mark Twain

I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop? – William Stafford

Never regret! http://ping.fm/c9hOG

"The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives." — Anthony Robbins

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

The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act. -- Martha Graham

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Jack Torrance

Everyone stumbles over the truth from time to time, but most people pick themselves up & hurry off as though nothing ever happened. Winston Churchill

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

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. "Famous" Amos

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

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. -- Frederico Fellini

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

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How to choose? http://ping.fm/bkpIl

Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind & body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit. Radclyffe Hall

Life is a series of near misses. But a lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day & accepting responsibility for your future. Howard Schultz

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

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

"What you believe yourself to be, you are." -- Claude M. Bristol

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
— Dalai Lama

Remove your opinion about that which appears to give you pain and you stand painless.
— Marcus Aurelius

Don't worry... http://ping.fm/M3N9L

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

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

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

"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step." -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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

“The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.” ~ William Booth

5 types of alcoholics identified: http://ping.fm/c3nN7

"The problem is that most people spend their lives looking... but not truly seeing." — Joe Navarro

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

In this world, you must be a bit too kind in order to be kind enough. Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux

The future, higher evolution will belong to those who live in joy, who share joy, and who spread joy. -- Torkom Saraydarian

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

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We cannot be helpful to all people, but at least God will show us how to take a kindly and tolerant view of each & every one. Big Book p 67

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. Harriet Beecher Stowe

Hope: http://ping.fm/HE3jy

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"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said." — Peter F. Drucker

Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important. S Covey

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

“Passion persuades.” -- Anita Roddick

"Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

"If you accept a limiting belief, then it will become a truth for you." -- Louise Hay

"We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn."
– Mary Catherine Bateson

Do what we do... http://ping.fm/UbwR6

"People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be." — Harvey Mackay

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. Lance Armstrong

"It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated." -- Sri Ramakrishna

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

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

Don't skip this step... http://ping.fm/ZAGFB

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive & persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning. Denis Waitley

I'll tell you a big secret, my friend. Don't wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. Albert Camus

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance. -- Dr. Paul Tournier

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. Norman Cousins

"Pursuing your passion is fulfilling and leads to financial freedom." — Robert G. Allen

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage." -- Lao Tzu

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

RELAX: http://ping.fm/7JY33

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

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

"He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment." -- Meister Eckhart

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

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

It's wonderful to have a beginner's mind. Steve Jobs

Growth... http://ping.fm/Qahmm

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

If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own. Stephen Covey

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. — Henry Ford

Everything in life can be nourishing. Everything can bless us, but we've got to be there for the blessing to occur. Being present with quality is a decision we are invited to make each day. MacRina Wiederkehr

Go for it, take the risk! http://ping.fm/x1iYG

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it. Jack Canfield

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. Thomas Henry Huxley

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

For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching becomes a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong. 12/12, p. 88

No man can become rich without himself enriching others. — Andrew Carnegie

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. C. S. Lewis

The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, & it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness. M. Scott Peck

I dwell in possibility. -- Emily Dickinson

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

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

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

"The most pathetic person in the world is the person who has sight, but no vision." -- Helen Keller

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

You become what you think about. — Earl Nightingale

Being maniacal about something is very helpful. Bill Gates

"Be not afraid of changing slowly; be afraid only of standing still." -- Chinese Proverb

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. – Alexandre Dumas

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

You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. — Zig Ziglar:

Flexibility: http://ping.fm/m7tZQ

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

change is good... http://ping.fm/Ezaei

Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, & does something about it that makes a difference. Nolan Bushnell

A wonder... http://ping.fm/I7dyM

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time. – Katharine Hepburn

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- C.G. Jung

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
– Truman Capote

"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." -- Aldous Huxley

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

Doors open and close... http://ping.fm/QscSu

"Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else ...." -- Archibald Alexander

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

Don't find fault, find a remedy. — Henry Ford

Flowers or Weeds? http://ping.fm/cilBm

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

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

If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong. Charles F. Kettering

Thinking is easy! http://ping.fm/kqc9F

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. - Confucius

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

Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor & to wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Your imagination is your preview to life’s coming attractions. -- Albert Einstein

Not that bad, yet? http://ping.fm/nBdeL

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart. - J.W. Goether

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

Not that bad? Are you kidding me? http://ping.fm/0qBGO

When we take one step toward God, he takes seven steps toward us. -- Hindu Proverb

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

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action. — Christian Nevell Bovee

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

All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone. -- Blaise Pascal

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

You seldom improve quality by cutting costs, but you can often cut costs by improving quality. Karl Albrecht

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

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, & most people are frightened of responsibility. Sigmund Freud

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. – Mahatma Gandhi

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion.
– Abraham Lincoln

I'm not the sort of person who fears failure. Richard Branson

If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got. — High-tech proverb

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Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others. - Buddha

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed. Etty Hillesum

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation. - Milarepa

I only want people around me who can do the impossible. Elizabeth Arden

There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation. – Margaret Deland

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next to best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. Theodore Roosevelt

One thing for sure you can do is push the luck
on your side. Roger Federer

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

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
– Phillips Brooks

It is always safe to assume, not that the old way is wrong, but that there may be a better way. — Henry F. Harrower

We are what we think. All that we are arises from our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. - Buddha

Always behave like a duck — keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. – Jacob Braude

The almost certain consequences that follow taking even a glass of beer do not crowd into the mind to deter us. Big Book, pg. 24

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

In thinking about our day we may face indecision. … Here we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision. Big Book, pg. 86

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle

To realize one's nature perfectly — that is what each of us is here for. – Oscar Wilde

It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning. -- P.D. Ouspensky

I love getting up in the morning. I clap my hands and say, 'This is gonna be a great day.'
-- the late Dicky Fox

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
– Annie Dillard

Just don't give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love & inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. Ella Fitzgerald

Yes, there is a long period of reconstruction ahead. Big Book, p. 83

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind. -- Isabelle Holland

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

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

Expect more than others think possible. — Howard Schultz

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Logic will get you from A to B.
Imagination will take you everywhere.
— Albert Einstein

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

A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project. – Abigail Van Buren

I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension of existence. I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes. Bill Wilson

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You can't start a fire worrying about your little world falling apart. Bruce Springsteen

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. Orison Swett Marden

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

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

"If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words." -- Chinese Proverb

The tremendous fact for every one of us is that we have discovered a common solution. —Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 17

Life is luck, make it. Mother Teresa

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, & all beings in his own Self, & looks on everything with an impartial eye. Buddha

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. H B Swope

"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." -- Albert Einstein

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out. Vaclav Havel

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

Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now. . . . the dark past is . . . the key to life and happiness for others. Big Book, p. 124

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

I used to say, 'I sure hope things will change.' Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change. Jim Rohn

"The world was the way it is before you arrived - accept this truth, do your best and enjoy yourself!" Happy-Side.com

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"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." — Steve Jobs

“Now is the time...” Martin Luther King, Jr.

"No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty."
– Leon Wieseltier

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"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."
— Michael Jordan

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

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A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success. Mahatma Gandhi

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

They have solved the drink problem.

—Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 17

Be fully aware. Be engaged. Remind yourself to live in the present moment, The Zone. — Jim Fannin

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

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Paulo Coelho

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
– Andy Warhol

Have the courage to follow your heart & intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. Steve Jobs

My stability came out of trying to give, not out of demanding that I receive. Bill Wilson

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

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

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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

Guys... It's not gonna work unless we dig deep. Don't worry about anything right now except digging deep. Kayla Kelly

Circumstances! I make circumstances! Napoleon Bonaparte

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest. Mark Twain

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. – Erich Fromm

The meaning of life is to give life meaning. -- Ken Hudgins

To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious. -- Samuel Butler

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

There was little serious or effective thought during the period of premeditation of what the terrific consequences might be. Big Book, p. 37

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The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. - Arnold H. Glasow

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

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

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. Epicurus

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 Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does.
– Warren Buffett

Poolside and the hot tub.... Life is gooooddddd

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

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

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

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. C. S. Lewis

Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them. Colton

We often spend so much time coping with problems along our path that we only have a dim or even inaccurate view of what's really important to us. Peter Senge

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

We attempt to sweep away the debris which has accumulated out of our effort to live on self-will and run the show ourselves. Big Book, p. 76

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
- Rodin

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin

You always pass failure on the way to success.
- Mickey Rooney

You can't reset the winds.
But you can adjust your sails! — German Proverb

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. Stephen Covey

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

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

You are the masterpiece of your own life;
you are the Michelangelo of your experience. The David that you are sculpting is you.
And you do it with your thoughts. Joe Vitale

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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 greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. William James

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

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

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. - Henry Ward Beecher

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Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. -- Woody Allen

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. - Henry Ward Beecher

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. — Zig Ziglar

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

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. - Henry Ward Beecher

Follow your bliss. -- Joseph Campbell

The mind is the ground of everything. Thich Nhat Hanh

Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults. - Unknown

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

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If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner. — Zig Ziglar

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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough & loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Never follow someone else's path... unless you're in the woods & you're lost & you see a path then by all means you should follow that. Ellen DeGeneres

"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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Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it. - T.S. Eliot

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it. – Abraham Lincoln

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Remember... People are watching you. And, we lead by example... one way or the other. Sam Parker

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

To love what you do and feel that it matters how could anything be more fun - Katherine Graham

Homesick for a place I've never been... :)

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Instead of thinking about what you're missing, try thinking about what you have that everyone else is missing. - Unknown

People usually fail when they are on the verge of success. So give as much care to the end as to the beginning. – Lao-Tzu

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Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, & all good things will be yours. Swedish Proverb

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up & try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait & watch & work: you don't give up. Anne Lamott

"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." — William James

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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Turn frustration into fascination... Fascination with the opportunity to grow! Big Dan :)

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What you can do or dream you can do, begin it;
boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
— Johann von Goethe

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

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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

Who does not thank for little will not thank for much. -- Estonian proverb

Gotta love Florida... I am so happy to live here!

"Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead

No one can become rich without enriching others. Anyone who adds to prosperity must prosper in turn. — G. Alexander Orndorff

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

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Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt. William Shakespeare

Just for today, no matter where I am going, or what I am doing, or who I am doing it with, it is my intention to focus on the positive. Lucy MacDonald

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. – Samuel Johnson

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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. – Thomas Jefferson

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

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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

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind. - Norman Vincent Peale