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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Dreams...http://ping.fm/o58BN

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

Dreams: http://ping.fm/dIpAI

"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

All about Love: http://ping.fm/OzPAr

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