"Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable." -- Leo C. Rosten

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere." -- Agnes Repplier

"The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities."
– Vic Braden

Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives. BB p.86

“The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said." —Peter Drucker

"All spiritual disciplines are done with a view to still the mind. The perfectly still mind is universal spirit." -- Swami Ramdas

"Man can only become what he is able to consciously imagine."
– Dane Rudhyar

If we have been thorough about our personal inventory, we have written down a lot. Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 70

Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating. – Honoré de Balzac

The future will depend on what we do in the present. Mahatma Gandhi

Our grand business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand." -- Thomas Carlyle

"I am a child of God. I came from the womb of creation." -- Tao Te Ching

"A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day."
– Albert Schweitzer

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"You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere." —Lee Iacocca

"God has a big eraser." -- Billy Zeoli

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." -- Paul Boese

"Forgiveness will never fail to free you." -- Jerrold Mundis

"It is the heart always that sees before the head can see."
– Thomas Carlyle

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"The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart."
– Mencius

I have not had a drink since.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 13

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When we exist without thought or thanksgiving we are not men, but beasts. M.F.K. Fisher

Strive to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To be too wise for worry, too tolerant for hate, & too courageous to be fearful. In short, to be happy. Unknown

"In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions."
– Henry Ward Beecher

"If you start to think the problem is ‘out there,’ stop yourself. That thought is the problem." -- Stephen Covey

"I want to know the thoughts of God; the rest are details." -- Albert Einstein

"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought." – Henri-Louis Bergson

"For all those years you've protected the seed. It’s time to become the beautiful flower." -- Stephen C. Paul

"The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations." Julia Cameron

I just like to smile. Smiling's my favorite. --- Buddy the Elf

"Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them." —Bruce Barton

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"No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched."
– George Jean Nathan

"The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love." -- Thomas Merton

"Love is not only something you feel. It is something you do." -- David Wilkerson

"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."
– Sara Teasdale

Simple, but not easy; a price had to be paid. It meant destruction of self-centeredness. Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 14

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"We are what we believe we are." -- Benjamin N. Cardozo

"Belief has the word ‘lie’ in it... and that pretty much sums up what the world has us believing about ourselves." -- Doug Firebaugh

"You cannot see anything that you do not first contemplate as a reality." -- Ramtha

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed. Baltasar Gracián y Morales

The last of the human freedoms - to choose
one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. Viktor Frankl

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm. Charles Caleb Colton

"Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozey, and don't be afraid to hit the ball."
– Billie Jean King

"All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope." – Alexandre Dumas

The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer. Fridtjof Nansen

"Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!" -- Donald Gardner

"Talk does not cook rice." -- Chinese proverb

"How soon not now, becomes never." -- Martin Luther

"The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started." -- Dawson Trotman

"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." -- Sir John Lubbock

"Your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be."
– Raymond Charles Barker

"Potential is all of the resources you have in front of you. Efficiency is putting those resources to use effectively." — Garrett Gunderson

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"Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence."
– Lin Yutang

One's feelings waste themselves in words;
they ought all to be distilled into actions
which bring results. Florence Nightingale

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"Your wealth is hiding under the very thing you are afraid to do." — Dr. Joe Vitale

"Don't hurry, don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers." -- Walter Hagen

"Anxiety breaks a man’s backbone." -- Hebrew proverb

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work. Henry David Thoreau

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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit… we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. Aristotle

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. – T.S. Eliot

If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people. George Lucas

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“The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?”

-- Oprah

"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."
– George Eliot

When the Twelfth Step is seen in its full implication, it is really talking about the kind of love that has no price tag on it. 12/12 p. 106

“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.” -- Abraham H. Maslow

“It is difficult to see the picture when you are inside of the frame.” -- Author Unknown

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. Marie Curie

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving. St. Francis de Sales

Therefore, the main problem of the alcoholic centers in his mind rather than in his body. Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 23

True wealth is a byproduct of living a principled life. — Garrett Gunderson

“Beliefs separate. Loving thoughts unite.” -- Paul Ferrini

"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."
– Booker T. Washington

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

But the moment I made up my mind to go through with the process, I had the curious feeling that my alcoholic condition was relieved, as in fact it proved to be. Big Book, p. 42

Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort. Leonardo da Vinci

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Income is derived by what value we can create for others, therefore do what you enjoy, do it the best, and this will allow you to create the most value. Garrett Gunderson

“You'll never plough a field turning it over in your mind.” Irish proverb

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. e. e. cummings

“If I get to pick what I want to do, then it's play... if someone else tells me that I have to do it, then it's work.” -- Patricia Nourot

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
– Sir Winston Churchill

Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." ~Martin Luther King

We have tried every imaginable remedy. Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 31

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. Helen Keller

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces; we become the powerful force ourselves. Leo Buscaglia

The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, ‘Oh how useless and powerless I am.’ It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, ‘I can do it,’ without boasting or fretting. Dalai Lama

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung

"Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgment."
– William Penn

"Conscious evolution begins as we take responsibility for clearing our own obstructions." -- Dan Millman

"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist." -- Gail Sheehy

"A person who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
– Albert Einstein