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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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

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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

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"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

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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

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"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

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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

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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

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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

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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