I've lived a long life and seen a lot of hard times...most of which never happened.
-- Mark Twain

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.
-- Jack Canfield

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“I will never quit. I persevere and thrive on adversity... If knocked down, I will get back up, every time.” U.S. Navy SEALs

"We make our fortunes and call them fate."
– Benjamin Disreali

"Never fear a shadow as it simply means that the light is somewhere nearby."
- Anonymous

I believe we are a brand new book, not a chapter but a brand new book. Jo Dozier-Latino

I believe we are a brand new book, not a chapter but a brand new book. Jo Latino-Dozier

"Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead."
– Louisa May Alcott

"I'm not rich; I have a heart that makes me feel rich."
- Anonymous

We are going to know a new freedom. . . .

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 83

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"Choices are the hinges of destiny."
– Pythagoras

"Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it, take with you your all."
- Kahlil Gibran

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“This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is the time to dare and endure.” Winston Churchill

"Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you."
- St. Jerome

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Benjamin Spock

Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
-- Albert Camus

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. Thich Nhat Hanh

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"Sometimes the fear of doing something often leads to a great reward and lifetime of happiness."
- Anonymous

Then, gathering all his forces, he attempted to stop altogether and found he could not.

—Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 32

"Never let what you cannot do stop you from doing what you CAN do!"
— Stephen Pierce

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“Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.” Marian Wright Edelman

"Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice."
– Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There's lots of people in this world who spend
so much time watching their health that
they haven't the time to enjoy it."
— Josh Billings

If we haven't the will to do [step nine], we ask until it comes. —Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 76

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Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
– Wayne Dyer

"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character."
– Theodore Roosevelt

“They say things happen for a reason...
You don't do them, they won't.” Donavon Frankenreiter

"Be the change you want to see in this world"
- Mahatma Gandhi

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"It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear."
– Edward Henry Harriman

"A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart."
- Johann Wolfgang Goether

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When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
-- Seneca

Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch

"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass, it's about learning how to dance in the rain."
- Anonymous

"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else's."
– Billy Wilder

hey must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
-- Confucius

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The member talks to the newcomer not in a spirit of power but in a spirit of humility and weakness. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS COMES OF AGE p. 279

“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.” Mother Teresa

"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength."
– A. J. Cronin

"The rose is fairest when it is budding new, and hope is brightest when it dawns from fears."
- Walter Scott

No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. —Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 84

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"Anger is always more harmful than the insult that caused it."
- Chinese Proverb

"Instinct is the nose of the mind."
– Delphine Gay de Girardin

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
-- Oscar Wilde

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“No victor believes in chance.” Friedrich Nietzsche

"We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once."
– Calvin Coolidge

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. --Buddhist proverb

Saints are sinners who kept on going. --Robert Louis Stevenson

"When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no 'I'll start tomorrow.' Tomorrow is disease."
— Terri Guillemets

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"If you can't change it, change the way you think about it."
- Mary Engelbreit

"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice."
– Edgar Watson Howe

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A friend is one who knows us , but loves us anyway."
- Fr. Jerome Cummings

Practicing A.A 's remaining eleven Steps means the adoption of attitudes and actions that almost no alcoholic who is still drinking can dream of taking. 12/12

"Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself."
– Miles Davis

"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't leave footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave butt-prints in the sands of time?
Unknown

"Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it."
– Madeleine L'Engle

"Well done is better than well said."
- Benjamin Franklin

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. Once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Muhammad Ali

“If you rest, you rust.” Helen Hayes

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"There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble."
- Jack Kemp

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
--Dalai Lama

"Sometimes in the winds of change we find our true direction"
- Anonymous

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Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness. --Ram Dass

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"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace."
– Oscar Wilde

“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.” Kahlil Gibran

"A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks, he becomes."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
--Abraham Lincoln

"If you wait until all the lights are 'Green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top."
— Zig Ziglar

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"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else."
– Judy Garland

"Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be"
--Eckhart Tolle

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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Action is the antidote to despair."
– Joan Baez

“Whatever it takes, that's what I do.” David Mellor

We are not to be the hasty and foolish martyr who would needlessly sacrifice others to save himself from the alcoholic pit. Alc Anon, p. 79

"Don't go through life, grow through life."
- Eric Butterworth

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

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
– Albert Einstein

"If you are not willing to risk the unusual,
you will have to settle for the ordinary."
— Jim Rohn

Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point. We asked His protection & care with complete abandon. Alc. Anon. p. 59

“Patience is necessary... one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.” Soren Kierkegaard

"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure"
- Sven Goran Eriksson

"I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful." Warren Buffett

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“Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.” Marcus Aurelius

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. Albert Schweitzer

"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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"The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them."
– Bernard Baruch

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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. Richard M. DeVos

“I can do anything good!”
-- Jessica
American 4-year-old motivator

"Don't ever save anything for a special occasion.Being alive is a special occasion."
- Anonymous

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"The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain"
- Kahlil Gibran