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

Twenty-Four, http://ping.fm/WRma9

Guest post, excellent read... http://ping.fm/LT9YU

"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

You are who you hang with... winners win! http://ping.fm/7qUMy

"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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If not now when? Recovery Thinking in paperback: Paperback, Recovery Thinking: http://amzn.to/y0ufAO

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

Significance: http://ping.fm/PXLak

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

Significance! http://ping.fm/zlSwf

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Guest Blog is up: http://ping.fm/RIcU1

"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

Blue Skies! http://ping.fm/E1ZNL

"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

Adolescent rehab... http://ping.fm/ORvI7

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