"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
the rose.” Kahlil Gibran

"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,
but to enable it.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"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.”

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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

"There is only one thing more powerful than all the armies of the world, that is an idea whose time has come." -- Victor Hugo

"The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter."
– Norman Cousins