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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

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"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