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"Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!" -- Les Brown

"To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling." -- Jean Shinoda Bolen

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." – Plutarch

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"It's not whether you get knocked down,
it's whether you get up." -Vince Lombardi

"We make our fortunes and call them fate."
– Benjamin Disreali

Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined. Richard Koch

I'm a believer in momentum. Lance Armstrong

"There is no almost, just go for more!" - Marshall Sylver

Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead. Louisa May Alcott

Life will take on new meaning. To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends - this is an experience you must not miss. We know you will not want to miss it. Frequent contact with newcomers and with each other is the bright spot of our lives.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 89

"Choices are the hinges of destiny."
– Pythagoras

"Compassion, caring, teaching, loving, and sharing your gifts, talents, and abilities are the gateways to power." -- Jamie Sams

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, & those who can do nothing else. Cyrus H. Curtis

Where other people were concerned, we had to drop the word "blame" from our speech and thought. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 47

Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing & accepting the 'what.' Pearl S. Buck

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong. -- Charlotte Bronte

"Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." -- Erica Jong

"My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding." -- Og Mandino

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Elbert Hubbard

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"Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future." — Denis Waitley

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True spiritual surrender responsibly opens itself to the unknown. -- Stephen V. Doughty

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. Denis Waitley

"Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice."
– Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence."
-- George Eliot

"When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness." -- Brian Swimme

“If not now, when?” Hillel

"Hope is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles." -- Samuel Smiles

"It’s precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life." Max Frisch

There is action and more action. "Faith without works is dead."... To be helpful is our only aim.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, pp. 88-89

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. Dr. Joyce Brothers

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There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. — Denis Waitley

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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

Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come. Chinese proverb

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm." — Abraham Lincoln

"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character."
– Theodore Roosevelt

"Peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from the ability to cope with it." -- Unknown Source

"It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear."
– Edward Henry Harriman

Above everything, we alcoholics must be rid of this selfishness. We must, or it kills us! Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 62

The member talks to the newcomer not in a spirit of power but in a spirit of humility and weakness. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS COMES OF AGE p. 279

It is necessary to make one's mind all prayer, every breath a melody of devotion, one's heart all love... one's soul a glorified song of compassion, mercy, understanding, & humility. Annalee Skarin

"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else's."
– Billy Wilder

Acceptance says, True, this is my situation at the moment. I’ll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I’ll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me. Catherine Marshall

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Resentment is the "number one" offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 64

When you indulge the "creature" it gains power! Dan Callahan

You only have what you give. It's by spending yourself that you become rich. Isabel Allende

"We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves." -- Orison Swett Marden

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. Norman Vincent Peale

"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength."
– A. J. Cronin

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"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." — Mark Twain

"It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal." -- Dalai Lama

"Instinct is the nose of the mind."
– Delphine Gay de Girardin

"Fear of rejection is a sign of neediness - specifically, the need to be liked." — Jim Camp

“The thing that cowardice fears most is decision.” Soren Kierkegaard

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. Swami Vivekananda

"The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought." -- Eknath Easwaran

"We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once."
– Calvin Coolidge

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[The phenomenon of craving] has never been, by any treatment with which we are familiar, permanently eradicated. The only relief we have to suggest is entire abstinence. Big Book, pg. xxx

Joy is prayer-Joy is strength-Joy is love-Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. She gives most who gives with Joy. Mother Teresa

"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice."
– Edgar Watson Howe

"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays." -- Soren Kierkegaard

"A dream is your creative vision for your life
in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown." — Denis Waitley

This Power has in each case accomplished the miraculous, the humanly impossible. Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 50

Surely this was the answer--self-knowledge. But it was not, for the frightful day came when I drank once more. Big Book, 4th, pg. 7

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Hope is not a dream, but a way of making dreams become reality." – Cardinal Leon Joseph Suenens

"Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself."
– Miles Davis

"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." -- Nietzsche

"Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it." – Madeleine L'Engle

Heaven knows, we have tried hard enough and long enough to drink like other people!

Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 31

"Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention." -- Greg Anderson

"Pretend that every single person you meet
has a sign around his or her neck that says,
'Make me feel important.' " Mary Kay Ash

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"Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans: it’s lovely to be silly at the right moment." -- Horace

"Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid."
– Lady Bird Johnson

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"Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving" — Dennis Waitley

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. Theophrastus

"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace."
– Oscar Wilde

"In my beginning is my end." -- T.S. Eliot

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause. Henry Ward Beecher

No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes. -- Napoleon Hill

One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you're in the room...

Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you're not.

The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.

Seth Godin

"Action is the antidote to despair."
– Joan Baez

"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear ... as it is, infinite." -- William Blake

“The way to get started is to stop talking
and start doing.” Walt Disney

The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink. Our so-called will power becomes practically nonexistent. Big Book, p. 24

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind."
– Henry James

We must let ourselves feel all the painful destruction we want to forgive rather than swallow it in denial. If we do not face it, we cannot choose to forgive it. Kenneth McNoll

"To get to forgiveness, we first have to work through the painful experiences that require it." -- Christiane Northrup

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
– Albert Einstein

"Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty." -- Vernon Howard

"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got." -- Janis Joplin

“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.” African proverb

"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

"One word frees us from the weight and pain of life; that word is love." --Sophocles

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat." – F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets." —Nido Qubein

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"Be happy. It's one way of being wise."
– Colette

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. Katherine Mansfield

"What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are." -- Epicetus

One knows from daily life that one exists
for other people... Albert Einstein

"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
– Bertrand Russell

"Give every person more in use value than you take from them in cash value." WALLACE WATTLES

"The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them."
– Bernard Baruch

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"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."
– Marcel Proust

"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
– Bertrand Russell

"I've got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock." -- Henny Youngman