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

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

Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. M. Scott Peck

Time is life. It is irreversible and irreplaceable. To waste your time is to waste your life, but to master your time is to master your life & make the most of it. Alan Lakein

"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken." Warren Buffett

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

"You are the average of the 5 people you hang out with." - Marshall Sylver

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

If we want to be compassionate we must be conscious of the words we use. We must both speak & listen from the heart. Marshall B. Rosenberg

"You'll either have disciplines or regrets." - Marshall Sylver

"Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here." — Marianne Williamson

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

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The road to the bottom is paved with good intentions, or at the very least, clever rationalizations. Seth Godin

“The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.” - Zen Saying

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

"As A Man Thinkth in his heart, so is he." King Solomon

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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. Albert Einstein

Any doubt that I believe in recovery? "When you believe in something, you are morally and ethically obligated to sell it." Marshall Sylver

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. Amelia Earhart

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Edmund Burke

"When you make a choice, you change the future." Deepak Chopra

"Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel." — King Solomon

"We are, each of us, angels with only one wing, and we can only fly embracing each other."
– Luciano Decrescenzo

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"Ask yourself: Where do I want to go? Recognize where you are now, then figure out the steps to get there." - Marshall Sylver

"Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever."
– Margaret Cho

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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar. Erica Jong

Not if, When... http://ping.fm/5JCbH

"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight." Helen Keller

“Be an all-out, not a hold-out.” - Norman Vincent Peale

"More is learned in pain than in pleasure." - Marshall Sylver

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire & begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action. Napoleon Hill

"The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on."
– Julia Alvarez

"To forgive someone means to take away the power this person has over you." - Marshall Sylver

"To qualify as humans we must take part in humanitarian acts." José Silva

“Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.”
-- Hans Margolius

“You got to look at things with the eye in your heart, not with the eye in your head.”
-- Lame Deer, Medicine Man of the Oglala people

"See your misfortunes as blessings." - Marshall Sylver

"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness." Napoleon Hill

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended? Confucius

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. -- Mother Teresa

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It may be those who do most, dream most. Stephen Leacock

"Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.” - Roger Babson

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. Napoleon Hill

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"In all affairs, it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." Bertrand Russell

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
– Marcel Proust

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear." – Mark Twain

Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk. Leo Buscaglia

I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past. Stephen Covey

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." - Marshall Sylver

"Do not allow the first failure to destroy you,
nor success to ruin you." José Silva

"Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success."

— Henry Ford

"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it." – John Ruskin

"The rich do get richer - meaning that those who appreciate what they have will get more. Be grateful everyday." - Marshall Sylver

Unless one's family expresses a desire to live upon spiritual principles we think we ought not to urge them. The Big Book, pg. 83

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. Orison Swett Marden

"The greatest discovery you'll ever make, is the potential of your own mind." José Silva

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. Henry Miller

"If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong." Charles F. Kettering

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Some of us have tried to hold on to our old ideas and the result was nil until we let go absolutely. Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 58

I have accepted fear as a part of life, specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: Turn back, turn back; you'll die if you venture too far. Erica Jong

“...we can't survive without enchantment... the loss of it is killing us.”
-- Thomas Moore

There are only two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle, The other is as though everything is a miracle. I believe in the latter. Albert Einstein

“There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts – a sense of wonder.” Andrew Schneider

"It's okay to get off track - It's more important to quickly get back on track." - Marshall Sylver

"No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto." W. Clement Stone

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success."
– Henry David Thoreau

"Put attention on it. You'll be amazed at what gets revealed."
- Marshall Sylver

"To change one's life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions."
– William James

"We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it."
– Abraham Lincoln

“If there are so many seekers, why are there so few finders?”
-- Eckhart Tolle

"In order to get what you want, you must do things you've never done."
- Marshall Sylver

"Wisdom is the accumulation of feelings of success." José Silva

"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over."
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
– Colette

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"Being poor is a frame of mind."
-- Mike Todd

The less I say the more my work gets done. Elton John

"You define you. Your circumstances never define you." - Marshall Sylver

"Don't wait. The time will never be just right." Napoleon Hill

Certain drinkers, who would be greatly insulted if called alcoholics, are astonished at their inability to Big Book pg. 33

"This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought."
– Lin Yutang

"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
-- Hans Hofmann

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
– T.S. Eliot

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."
– George Orwel

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"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this — you haven't."
– Thomas A. Edison

"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever."
– Isak Dinesen

"You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible." Deepak Chopra

"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas."
– Linus Pauling

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving. Maxwell Maltz

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." – Beverly Sills

“Don't water your weeds.” - Harvey Mackay

“Problems exist only in the human mind.” - Anthony de Mello

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse. Florence Nightingale

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand & walk & run & climb & dance; one cannot fly into flying. Friedrich Nietzsche

Human beings are made of body, mind and spirit. Of these, spirit is primary, for it connects us to the source of everything, the eternal field of consciousness. Deepak Chopra

MEB, http://ping.fm/jJlhZ

But they had not learned enough of humility, fearlessness & honesty, in the sense we find it necessary, until they told someone else all their life story. Big Book, p.73

"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses."
– Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

“Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned -- not to see what is not.” - Maria Mitchell

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too
lightly: 'tis dearness only that gives every
thing its value. Thomas Paine

"If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone." Maxwell Maltz

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"Map out your future, but do it in pencil." – Jon Bon Jov

Then, like a thunderbolt, a great thought came. It crowded out all else: "Who are you to say there is no God?" Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 56

To be gravely affected, one does not necessarily have to drink a long time nor take the quantities some of us have. Big Book, pg. 33

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"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."
– Aleksei Peshkov

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, & every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle. Deepak Chopra

If he did not work, he would surely drink again, and if he drank, he would surely die. Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 15

Slow down & enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going & why. Eddie Cantor

“...focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” - Greg Anderson

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. – Alexander Graham Bell

Chance favors only the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today. Maxwell Maltz

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. – John Lubbock

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. – St. Francis of Assisi

The people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder. Malcolm Gladwell

"The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years." — Deepak Chopra

Character and Integrity... http://ping.fm/9M3VF

"Instead of becoming sad or mad, choose to be amazed or puzzled - and stay happy within!" The-Happy-Side.com

"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
– Alfred Adler

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."
– Vincent Lombardi

"We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world." James William Fulbrigh

"You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology."
— Deepak Chopra

there is no such thing as just existing. Everything is in service to everything else. Existence is giving and receiving. A stone gives and receives no less than a saint. Jacob Needleman

“Our deepest need is for the joy that comes with …knowing we are of genuine use to others.”
-- Eknath Easwaran

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"If we wait for the moment when everything is ready, we shall never begin."
– Ivan Turgenev

"Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you."
– Dr. Wayne Dyer

"Character must be kept bright as well as clean."
– Philip Dormer Stanhope

"If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall." - Bill Earle

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity & in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. da Vinci

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. Lady Dorothy Nevill

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"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle." – James Russell Lowell

But life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the self. Betty Friedan

"Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself." - Julio Cortazar

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Appreciation: http://ping.fm/M0jRY

Yes, there is a long period of reconstruction ahead. Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 83

Persistence and Hope! http://ping.fm/15VWC

"If you want to reach a goal, you must "see the reaching" in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal." — Zig Ziglar

"Enlightenment must come little by little -- otherwise it would overwhelm." - Idries Shah

"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." - William Faulkner

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. Harvey Fierstein

Our lives improve only when we take chances - & the first & most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. Walter Anderson

"Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Deep Down, http://ping.fm/cBCz9

"What we think, we become." — Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta

What about love? http://ping.fm/5DhcH

"The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self."
-- Phillip James Bailey

"We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived."
– Paul Bourget

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear."
— Brian Tracy

We finally saw that faith in some kind of God was a part of our make-up, just as much as the feeling we have for a friend. Big-Book, pg. 55

What about me? http://ping.fm/nr04O

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Vincent van Gogh

"If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost."
— Zig Ziglar

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"The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment." - Henry Miller

"Let us never confuse stability with stagnation." - Mary Jean LeTendre

"We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality." – Iris Murdoch

"A mistake is simply another way of doing things."
– Katharine Graham

I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved. Bill Gates

Wipe it clean... http://ping.fm/jcuFb

They say things happen for a reason... You don't do them, they won't. Donavon Frankenreiter

"Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts." - Elbert Hubbard

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." – Samuel Beckett

People create their own success by learning what they need to learn & then by practicing it until they become proficient at it. Brian Tracy

"Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes."
– Washington Irving

"Smile, it's free therapy."
-- Doug Horton

To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.
Anna Pavlova

"Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance." - John Petit-Senn

"When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have."
– Stephen Hawking

Attitude: http://ping.fm/yZjbs

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Steve Jobs

It's not what you are, but what you don't become that hurts.  Oscar Levant

"If you chase two rabbits, both will escape."
-- Source Unknown

"Often he who does too much does too little."
-- Italian Proverb

"The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time."
-- Sydney Smiles

Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong. Fridtjof Nansen

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes. Etty Hillesum

"Imagine a hot tub for the mind. That is what meditation is; it can bathe your mind in relaxing thoughts." - Eknath Easwaran

"Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory."
– General Douglas MacArthur

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"Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have."
— Brian Tracy

The Road... http://ping.fm/vMTqj

“ While the other guy's sleeping?
I'm working.
While the other guy's eatin'?
I'm working. ”

Will Smith

"If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner." — Zig Ziglar

"Enlightenment is not about imagining figures of light but of making the darkness conscious."
-- C.G. Jung

"Certain activities, attitudes, foods, and persons support the cultivation of an unconscious life. They draw us away from our center. They throw us off-balance. They deplete the soul."
-- Patricia Lynn Reilly

"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him."
– John Steinbeck

“The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and my life, as I write this, is vital.” Andrew Solomon

"It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly."
– Isaac Asimov

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses & disappointments, but let us have patience & we soon shall see them in their proper figures. Joseph Addison

Our purpose is hidden in our joy, our inspiration, our excitement. As we act on what shows up in our life our purpose shows up. James King

"You do not have a future. You only have now."
— Asara Lovejoy

The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it. Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 83

We recovered alcoholics are not so much brothers in virtue as we are brothers in our defects, and in our common strivings to overcome them. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 167

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. William Penn

"Life is a narrative that you have a hand in writing."
-- Henriette Anne Klauser

"The blank page gives us the right to dream."
-- Baston Bachelard

"Simple kindness to one's self and all that lives is the most powerful transformational force of all." — Dr. David Hawkins

"Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning."
– Igor Stravinsky

If we are planning to stop drinking, there must be no reservation of any kind, nor any lurking notion that someday we will be immune to alcohol. Big Book p. 33

You must work & do good, not be lazy & gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. Anne Frank

Lack of trust in yourself, in your healing ability, can be eliminated when you learn to tune into your body & to tell the truth about your thoughts that are either supporting your health or denying it. Asara Lovejoy

"Laughter is like the human body wagging its tail." - Anne Wilson Schaef

"We don’t laugh because we’re happy, we’re happy because we laugh." - William James

Everybody is like a magnet. You attract to yourself reflections of that which you are. If you're friendly then everybody else seems to be friendly too. Dr. David Hawkins

"In violence, we forget who we are."
-- Mary McCarthy

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. Mark Twain

"Inspiration follows aspiration."
– Rabindranath Tagore

"Calmness is the cradle of power." – Josiah Gilbert Holland

On Life... "It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between." - Diane Ackerman

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"The successful man is the average man, focused." - Source Unknown

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary. Ray Knight

If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin & quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time. Chögyam Trungpa

Seven times down. Eight times up. Japanese proverb

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"Choice is destiny’s soul mate." - Sarah Ban Breathnach

"The more we give love, the greater our capacity to do so." — Dr. David Hawkins

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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.  Anandibai Joshee

What you resist persists. & only what you look at, & own, can disappear. You make it disappear by simply changing your mind about it. Neale Donald Walsch

"When you fight something, you’re tied to it forever. As long as you’re fighting it, you’re giving it power."
-- Anthony de Mello

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
– Booker T. Washington

Self Improvement! http://ping.fm/Yv4iy

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. Helen Keller

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come.
We have only today. Let us begin. Mother Teresa

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." – William Connor Magee

Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself & others. Dr D Hawkins

But there was always the curious mental phenomenon that parallel with our sound reasoning there inevitably ran some insanely trivial excuse for taking the first drink. Big Book, pg. 37

"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." -- Henri Bergson

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less & less important whether I am afraid. Audre Lorde

"The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world." – Bertie Charles Forbes

"Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started." - David Allen

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. - Don Marquis

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Therefore encourage one another and build each other up... 1 Thessalonians 5:11

"Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail." - John Donne

"Life does not happen to us, it happens from us." - Mike Wickett

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"To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious." - Samuel Butler

"Consistency is only a paste jewel that cheap men cherish." – William Allen White

"Out of all-inclusive, unconditional compassion comes the healing of all mankind." — Dr. David Hawkins

"Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent." – Jean Kerr

"You are much grander than you think you are." — Asara Lovejoy

If you have decided you want what we have & are willing to go to any length to get it-then you are ready to take certain steps. BigBook, p58

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"Hire great people and give them the freedom to be awesome." — Andrew Mason

We are what we repeatedly do. -- Aristotle

"When thinking won't cure fear, action will."
– William Clement Stone

"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want." - Ben Stein

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Being convinced that self, manifested in various ways, was what had defeated us, we considered its common manifestations. Big Book pg. 64

Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.  Doris Lessing

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"The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence."
– Bruce Springsteen

"Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you."
-- Og Mandino

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."
-- Lao Tzu

Most of us feel we need look no further for Utopia. We have it with us right here and now. Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 16

The responsibility for both present and future is in our own hands. If we live right today, then tomorrow has to be right. - Eknath Easwaran

"Time is not a line, but a series of now points." - Taisen Deshimaru

I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism, & much more, only to find that truth is basically simple & feels good, clear & right. – Chick Corea

What I want in my life is compassion, a flow between myself and others based on a mutual giving from the heart. Marshall B. Rosenberg

I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow. Julia Cameron

"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 Winfrey

"I learn by going where I have to go."
– Theodore Roethke

We know too much & feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs. Bertrand Russell

A man should take away not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for thus superfluous acts will not follow after. Marcus Aurelius

"A goal should scare you a little, and excite you a lot." — Dr. Joe Vitale

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"Fear doesn't mean stop - it means: Pay Attention." - Marshall Sylver

He changed my life, Earl Nightingale! http://tiny.cc/tiuobw

It was only a matter of being willing to believe in a Power greater than myself. Nothing more was required of me to make my beginning. BB p12

"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
-- Copernicus

The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
-- Aart Van Der Leeuw

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."
– Marie Curie

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"It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving." - Mother Teresa

"You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result."
– Mahatma Gandhi

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"The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Freedom lies in being bold." – Robert Frost

"As long as one keeps searching, the answers come." - Joan Baez

“Whatever games are played with us, we must
play no games with ourselves.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."
– William James

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"When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left." - Sufi epigram

"Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness." - Lao-tzu

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"To weep is to make less the depth of grief." - William Shakespeare

"Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death." — Albert Einstein

"Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix." - Christina Baldwin

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust & sweat & blood; who strives valiantly; who errs- but who does actually strive to do the deeds T Roosevelt

"Character is simply habit long enough continued." – Plutarch

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."
– Sir Winston Churchill

"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

"The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results." -- Eknath Easwaran

"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."
– Henri Frédéric Amiel

We shouldn't be shy on this matter of prayer. Better men than we are using it constantly. Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pgs. 85-86

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"A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power." -- Mark Rutherford

In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential we embody, & if we do not embody that, life is wasted. C.G. Jung

"Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different." – Katherine Mansfield

You can't always get what you want, But if you try sometimes, you might find, You get what you need. Mick Jagger

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it." — Albert Einstein

"When you start using senses you’ve neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes." -- Barbara Sher

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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. Sarah Bernhardt

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Real life isn’t always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties. Sarah Ban Breathnach

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best. Marva Collins

True prosperity is an incredible gift. It's a gift YOU deserve. & no matter what anyone says, it's a gift that IS available to you - right now. Joe Vitale

"When busyness is the measure of time, no matter how much time exists it is never enough." -- Diana Hunt

"The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous." — Carl Sagan

“Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things
at the price of labour.” Leonardo da Vinci

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
– Helen Keller

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

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me." -- Erica Jong

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high & falling short; but in setting our aim too low, & achieving our mark. Michelangelo Buonarroti

“What we do in life, echoes in eternity.” Maximus Decimus Meridias

"Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it." -- Dan Millman

"Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them." -- Brendan Francis

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"Make voyages! — Attempt them! — there's nothing else…" – Tennessee Williams

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He who knows most, knows how little he knows. Thomas Jefferson

"If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters."
– Abigail Van Buren

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"Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time." — Jim Rohn

Act swiftly and vigorously, without "buts" and "ifs"... ” Napoleon Bonaparte

People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives. Stedman Graham

"When we blame, we give away our power." -- Greg Anderson

"What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere."
– Ovid

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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. Boris Pasternak

"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room." -- Anita Roddick

"You may be good, but what are you good for?You’ve got to be good for something. You’ve got to be about some project, some task that requires you to be humble and obedient to the universal principles of service." Stephen R. Covey

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. Gail Sheehy

"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action." -- James Levin

"Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success." -- Richard Carlson

"Action without study is fatal. Study without action is futile." – Mary Ritter Beard

Patience is necessary... one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. Soren Kierkegaard

The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul. Rona Barrett

Asking for help doesn’t mean that we are weak or incompetent. It usually indicates an advanced level of honesty & intelligence. Anne Wilson Schaef

"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention." — Jim Rohn

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." -- Epictetus

“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” Helen Keller

"Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich." – Sir Thomas Browne

"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it."
– William C. Durant

"Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea." — Jim Rohn

“Who wants a dream that's near-fetched?” Howard Schultz

"Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference."
– Virginia Satir

"No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"God answers prayer in His own way, not ours."
-- Mohandas Gandhi

"More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones." -- Mother Teresa

"Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be."
– Grandma Moses

"You only find out who is swimming naked
when the tide goes out." — Warren Buffett

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If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life. Thich Nhat Hanh

Work is not always required... there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected. George MacDonald

"When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself."
– Isak Dinesen

"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit." — Napoleon Hill

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"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." — Jim Rohn

“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns;
the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of
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"We have to decide for ourselves what’s nourishing to our souls, and do those things over others." -- Thomas Moore

"People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges." -- Joseph F. Newton

"The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going."
– David Starr Jordan

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"You don’t have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days." -- Source Unknown

"Accomplishment is all three: the result, personal growth and having fun." -- Peter L. Hirsch

"He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much." -- Elbert Hubbard

"A goal is a dream with a deadline." — Napoleon Hill

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.” Abraham Lincoln

"Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits."
– Hannah More

"The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach."
– Benjamin Mays

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"I wish Pooh were here. It’s so much more friendly with two." -- Piglet (A.A. Milne)

"Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend."
– Walter Savage Landor

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"Never let life's hardships disturb you…no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages."
– Nichiren Daishonin

"What is always speaking silently is the body." -- Norman Brown

"More than any other part of the body, our hands reveal our inner state." -- Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

“The big rewards come to those who travel the second, undemanded mile.” Bruce Barton

"If you do the right job then money will come to you. Because people who need you will request, will ask for you, will attract you, and will be willing to pay you for your services." — Jose Silva

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"If each of us sweeps in front of our own steps, the whole world would be clean." -- Goethe

Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries, & many would never try if they were not forced to. Basil Maturin

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. Dag Hammarskjold

"The purpose of relationships is not happiness, but transformation." -- Andrew Schneider

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"Don't let other people tell you what you want."
– Pat Riley

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"Let me listen to me and not to them." – Gertrude Stein

"Success is not for the timid. It is for those who seek guidance, make decisions, and take decisive action." — Jose Silva

"Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to." -- Alan Keightley

"I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself." -- Rita Mae Brown

"When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity…I can be sure that I am right."
– Federico Fellini

"You will either have discipline or regrets. Have more effective disciplines and you'll have less regrets." - Marshall Sylver

"We each need to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly."
– Shakti Gawain

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"It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life."
– Katharine Butler Hathaway

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. ~ Margaret Mead

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"One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world." -- Ann Radcliffe

"Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them... he cried, ‘Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?’... God said, ‘I did do something. I made you.’"-- Sufi Teaching

"God has no other hands than ours." -- Dorothee Solle

If you rarely give a little more, should you really expect to get a little more? Sam Parker

"When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself."
– Sir Alexander Paterson

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We are able to be of service to those who suffer only to the extent that we have been able to transform fear in our own lives. Rbt Sardello

"Our deepest need is for the joy that comes with loving and being loved, with knowing we are of genuine use to others." -- Eknath Easwaran

"When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, choose the bolder."
– William Joseph Slim

Half measures availed us nothing.
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 59

"Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident." -- Chuck Knox

"Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up." -- A. A. Milne

"Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, & imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence. Eleanor Roosevelt

"The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink, and somebody to love you."
– Brendan Behan

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it." -- Marcus Aurelius

"At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled." -- Marshall B. Rosenberg

"Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
– Winston Churchill

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"The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied."
— Richard Koch

"Try to be like the turtle -- at ease in your own shell." -- Bill Copeland

"If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot." -- John Bunyan

"When the sun rises, I go to work. When the sun goes down, I take my rest. I dig the well from which I drink. I farm the soil which yields my food. I share creation. Kings can do no more." -- Chinese proverb

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"You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering." – Henri Frédéric Amiel

“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it,
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"We do not want to gain at someone else's loss; we want to gain while helping the other person to also gain." — Jose Silva

"If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better."
– Jane Austen

While you can work hard to dream smaller dreams, I think it's better to embrace the fear and find bigger goals instead. -- Seth Godin

Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety. -- Seth Godin

If you’re short on passion, it might be because your goals are too small or the fear is too big. --Seth Godin

"Poverty is in separatism. Abundance is in unity." -- Torkom Saraydarian

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine & at last you create what you will. George Bernard Shaw

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley

If doubt is challenging you & you do not act, doubts will grow. Challenge the doubts with action & you will grow. Doubt & action are incompatible. John Kanary

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you." Nathaniel Hawthorne

Carry this message to other alcoholics! You can help when no one else can. You can secure their confidence when others fail. Big Book, p. 89

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing. William Butler Yeats

I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy . . . you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in. Katherine Mansfield

When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on. Bernie S. Siegel

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“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”

-- Winston Churchill --

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On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the Dawn of Victory, sat down to wait - & waiting, died. George Cecil

"The greatest discovery you'll ever make,
is the potential of your own mind."

— Jose Silva

"We lie in the lap of immense intelligence."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson