"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

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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

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

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"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

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

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"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

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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