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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

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm,
you will be fired with enthusiasm.
— Vince Lombardi

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Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense. Marcus Aurelius

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise. - Robert Fritz

You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
– Wayne Gretsky

The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but TO MOVE THROUGH IT to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites. James Hollis

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Marcus Aurelius

It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be. – Anatole France

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional. — Roger Crawford

If your happiness depends solely on external possessions and circumstances, your boat, in the sea of life, will inevitably turn to the safety of the harbor over and over again and you will miss the joy of sailing towards the unknown. - Lucy MacDonald

Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Thomas Edison

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. – Groucho Marx

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward & what holds you back, & choose the path that leads to wisdom. -- Buddha

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. - Walter Elliott

Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
– Ovid

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You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. Albert Camus

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change & behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. - Helen Keller

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience. – Henry Miller

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

When we can begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. – Katherine Mansfield

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. Robert Fulghum

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them. Elbert Hubbard

Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working."
— Pablo Picasso

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein

We can't think narrowly. We have to think in the biggest possible way. Alice Waters

We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt. – William Ernest Hocking

Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation. -- Dalai Lama

Every time words are spoken, something is created. Be conscious of what you say and how you say it. Use words that build up, appreciate, encourage and inspire. - Lucy MacDonald

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. – Grace Murray Hopper

The key is to not resist or rebel against emotions or to try to get around them by devising all sorts of tricks; but to accept them directly, as they are. Takahisa Kora

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If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today. — Lou Holtz

Be an appreciator of the seemingly small things in life; a smile, a kind word, a beautiful flower, a few hours of unstructured time, a laughing child, for it is the small things that become the warp and weft of the fabric of your life. Lucy MacDonald

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
– Ruth Gordon

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? -- Rumi

Any situation that you find yourself in, is an outward reflection of your inner state of beingness. El Morya

As we increasingly master our perceptions, beliefs & thought/feeling patterns, we magnetically attract that which we most desire. Luanne Oakes

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

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough. Oprah

If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold. Howard Schultz

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
– Aristotle

But there is One who has all power—that One is God. May you find Him now! —Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 59

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
– Benjamin Disraeli

Treat an individual as if he were what he ought to be & could be, he will become what he ought to be & could be. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority. -- Tom Hopkins

You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and
build your wings on the way down.
— Ray Bradbury

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

When you stop taking chances. You'll stay where you sit. You won't live any longer. But it'll feel like it. Bono

Security is a superstition--it does not exist in nature. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
– Helen Keller

"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." - Napoleon Hill

"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are."
– e. e. cummings

"A critic is a legless man who teaches running." -- Channing Pollock

"Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize."
– Henry James

“ Do or do not, there is no try.” Yoda

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"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
— Peter F. Drucker

"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a Human." - Unknown

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. Thomas Edison

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. Thomas Paine

Why do we try so hard to fit in when we are born to stand out?

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible — not to have run away. Dag Hammarskjöld

A person's worth is contingent upon who he is, not upon what he does, or how much he has. The worth of a person, or a thing, or an idea, is in being, not in doing, not in having. Alice Mary Hilton

"Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel." - Napoleon Hill

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
– Mahatma Gandhi

"Only by acceptance of the past can you alter it."
– T.S. Eliot

"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you." — Deepak Chopra, M.D.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute… that gives meaning to our lives. - Tony Robbins

"It's never too late to be who you might have been."
– George Eliot