We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to accept the life that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
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Turn your wounds into wisdom. You will be wounded many times in your life. You’ll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God’s way of saying, "Excuse me, you’re moving in the wrong direction".
Oprah Winfrey
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If you take a single step toward positive change, that divine energy will take a hundred steps toward you. New worlds and unbelievable possibilities will open up for you. The synchronicities that will begin appearing in your life will become a source of delight and amazement.
Joan Borysenko
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Read. Plant a potato, and discover a treasure chest of new ones when you dig them. Walk down a northern path in springtime, and try to count the dogwood blossoms and the trilliums. Read Shakespeare. Discover love. Then look up at the stars and reach for them.
Richard Cutler
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Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.
A. W. Tozer
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If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.
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I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, then chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respect.
Neil Simon
You change for two reasons: Either you learn enough that you want to, or you've been hurt enough that you have to.
Author Unknown
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You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.
George Lucas
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If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and find what they need without asking for permission; they're driven, talented, and work through negatives by focusing on the positives.
Mike Zimmerman
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We are afraid of losing what we have,
whether it's our life or our possessions and property.
But this fear evaporates when we understand
that our life stories and the history of the world
were written by the same hand.
Paulo Coelho
Brazilian Author and Lyricist
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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
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Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill
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Be prepared to walk away from any situation that is unacceptable to you. This is the ultimate negotiating tool.
Brian Tracy
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
George Eliot
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There must be a time when the man of prayer goes to pray as if it were the first time in his life he had ever prayed, when the man of resolutions puts his resolutions aside as if they had all been broken, and he learns a different wisdom: distinguishing the sun from the moon, the stars from the darkness, the sea from the dry land, and the night sky from the shoulder of a hill.
Thomas Merton
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If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.
Tenzin Gyatso
14th Dalai Lama of Tibet
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I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
~Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt
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Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, ‘We don’t teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice people.’ Wow! What a clever short cut.
~Jim Rohn
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We are now confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there issuch a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929-1968
American Civil Rights Leader
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It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.
Mother Teresa, 1910-1997
Catholic Nun, Missionary and Nobel Prize Recipient
