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

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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

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

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"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

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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

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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

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"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

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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

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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

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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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"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

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"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