something 2 think about
1."Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only what you are expecting to give."- Katherine Hepburn
2."Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones."
-Steven R. Covey
3."Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person."
- C. Neil Strait
4."You can disagree without being disagreeable."
--Zig Ziglar
5."Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless."
- Mother Teresa
6."Inside yourself or outside, you will never have to change what you see, only the way you see it."
- Thaddeus Golas
7."If you can imagine it,
You can achieve it.
If you can dream it,
You can become it."
-William Arthur Ward '
8. "You're not the product of a broken home, a devastated economy, a world in the upheaval of war, a minority group, a family of drunkards or a poverty-ridden neighborhood. You are the product of your own thinking processes and whatever you're thinking about today is the cornerstone of your tomorrow."
-Thomas Sikking
9."Your unhappiness is not due to your want of a fortune or high position or fame or sufficient vitamins. It is due not to a want of something outside of you, but to a want of something inside you. You were made for perfect happiness. No wonder everything short of God disappoints you.
--Fulton Sheen
10."God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference."
11."The quality of one's life is directly related to the quality of questions one asks oneself."
-- Tony Robbins
12."Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."
-- Denis Waitley
13."It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."
-- Agnes Repplier
14."Chronos is clocks, deadlines, watches, calendars, agendas, planners, schedules, beepers. Chronos is time at her worst. Chronos keeps track. ...Chronos is the world's time. Kairos is transcendence, infinity, reverence, joy, passion, love, the Sacred. Kairos is intimacy with the Real. Kairos is time at her best. ...Kairos is Spirit's time. We exist in chronos. We long for kairos. That's our duality. Chronos requires speed so that it won't be wasted. Kairos requires space so that it might be savored. We do in chronos. In kairos we're allowed to be ... It takes only a moment to cross over from chronos into kairos, but it does take a moment. All that kairos asks is our willingness to stop running long enough to hear the music of the spheres."
-- Sarah Ban Breathnach
15."He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."
-- Horace
16."When you are able to contain both the light and dark together, that is a very enlightening state. It means that you no longer have to choose one experience over another. You do not have to choose love OR hate, blame OR forgiveness, sadness OR joy, anger OR openheartedness. You are no longer polarized; no particular feeling boxes you in and keeps you from the light of true self. You then have access to the full range of human experiences you came into this life to embrace."
-- Martia Nelson
17."As long as one keeps searching, the answers come."
-- Joan Baez
18."Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else ...."
-- Archibald Alexander
19."When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be."
-- Lao Tzu
20."The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
-- Alvin Toffler
21."The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious."
-- Gardner Murphy
22.list what you believe is holding you back.
23."...look at that word blame. It's just a coincidence that the last two letters spell the word me. But that coincidence is worth thinking about. Other people or unfortunate circumstances may have caused you to feel pain, but only you control whether you allow that pain to go on. If you want those feelings to go away, you have to say: ‘It's up to me.’"
-- Arthur Freeman
24."Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
-- Albert Einstein
25."The soul requires duration of time -- rich, thick, deep, velvety time -- and it thrives on rhythm. Soul can’t be hurried or harried .... We may go through many events in the day and experience nothing because the soul has not had the opportunity to feel them from many different points of view."
-- Robert Sardello
26."The well of Providence is deep. It’s the buckets we bring to it that are small."
-- Mary Webb
27."Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life."
-- Sanskrit poem
28.What drives you?
Our purpose in life has a spiritual foundation. Our MAJOR LIFE ISSUES are usually of 3 types:
- physical and POWER-ORIENTED, like making our stand and being more courageous.
- emotional and LOVE-ORIENTED, like expressing and receiving love, compassion and nurturing others.
- mental and INTELLECT-ORIENTED, like developing our minds and creating new things and processes
29.Relaxation, fun, meditation, and going after our dreams all get the creative juices flowing.
30."Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully."
--Zig Ziglar
31."What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."
-- Abraham H. Maslow
32."Knowing others is wisdom; knowing the self is enlightenment."
-- Tao Te Ching
33."The true profession of man is to find his way to himself."
-- Hermann Hesse
34."We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail...We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart."
-- Julie Cameron
35.We might regularly ask ourselves:
- "What do I really want to do?"
- "What brings me greatest happiness?"
- "How can I bring more of these into my life?"
36."You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."
-- Buddha
37."Every man has a coward and hero in his soul." -- Thomas Carlyle
38."Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything. You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets."
-- Clark Moustakas
39."Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating; the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to - you have uncovered in yourself your own wise guide."
-- Sogyal Rinpoche
40. "I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light that I have."
-Abraham Lincoln
41."The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival."
-- Aristotle
42."We are not what we know. We are what we are willing to learn."
-- Council on Ideas
43.The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
-- Rumi
44.One must like people as they are, for there is not a soul without a fault.
45.Reading without reflection is like eating without digesting.
46.What you see is news, what you know is source, what you feel is opinion.
47.Courage is having grace under pressure.
48.Nothing great has been done without enthusiasm.
49."It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others."
-- Sydney J. Harris
50."We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal. Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves the way we are, and why we don't accept others the way they are."
-- Don Miguel Ruiz
51."There is no freedom like seeing myself as I am and not losing heart."
-- Elizabeth J. Canham
52."If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away."
-- John Steinbeck
53."The word ‘question’ is derived from the Latin ‘quarrier’ (to seek) which is also the root of ‘quest.’ A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions can be very useful guides. Most useful are open-ended questions; they allow for fresh unanticipated answers to reveal themselves."
-- Source Unknown
54."A person's worth is contingent upon who he is, not upon what he does, or how much he has. The worth of a person, or a thing, or an idea, is in being, not in doing, not in having."
-- Alice Mary Hilton
55."Every achiever that I have ever met says, ‘My life turned around when I began to believe in me.’"
-- Dr. Robert H. Schuller
56."We cannot achieve more in life than what we believe in our heart of hearts we deserve to have."
-- James R. Ball
57.Below are 7 levels of consciousness that clearly outline a path for our evolving consciousness:
- tribal and mass consciousness - one obeys the group and lives by trial and error
- individual consciousness - one develops a stronger sense of self and ego
- seeker’s consciousness - one asks questions and seeks independence
- intuitive consciousness - one develops the heart and is becoming spiritually aware
- group consciousness - one serves a higher good filling the needs of others
- soul consciousness - one experiences spiritual service
58."Knowledge of any kind ... brings about a change in awareness from where it is possible to create new realities."
-- Deepak Chopra
59.As we evolve, we handle knowledge in different ways. We tend to move through these stages:
- We are unaware.
- We become aware of facts, data, information.
- We comprehend meaning from the facts.
- We can personally apply the information in our lives.
- We have wisdom - enlightened, we can lovingly apply our knowledge to world affairs.
- We live in truth.
60."There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul."
-- Arnold Bennett
61."The man who has no imagination has no wings."
-- Muhammad Ali
62."You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'"
-- George Bernard Shaw
63."A good rest is half the work."
-- Yugoslav Proverb
64."I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently."
-- Ernest Hemingway
65."The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That's all you have to do. Change is not something you do, it's something you allow."
-- Will Garcia
66."Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have 24-hour days."
--Zig Ziglar
67."No matter what accomplishment you achieve, somebody helped you."
--Althea Gibson
68.The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.
--Harry Weinberger
69.different aspects of self-awareness:
- Know yourself - Explore who you are: your defences, your blocks, your talents, your aspirations, etc.
- Accept yourself - We are at war with ourselves when we resist or deny certain aspects of who we are. Acknowledge the truth of who you are right now - the positives and the negatives. Only when we own our present reality can we change.
- Control yourself - Set clear, conscious intentions and discipline yourself to meet them.
- Express yourself - Go to your heart to identify what has meaning and purpose for you. Live your truth. Identify ways you can give back to life and be in service.
We work on each of these aspects all the time. But as our lives go through cycles, we predominantly work on one of them more than the others. Which aspect are you more conscious of lately?
70."Our lives improve only when we take chances ... and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."
-- Walter Anderson
71."Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient that fuels daring."
-- Grace Lichtenstein
72.Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
---Will Rogers
73.Truth never is a sin; it just is uncomfortable.
---Mexican quote
74."The positive thing about writing is that you connect with yourself in the deepest way, and that's heaven. You get a chance to know who you are, to know what you think. You begin to have a relationship with your mind."
-- Natalie Goldberg
75.The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention."
--Duguet
76."The significant business of your life is alive and well, awaiting discovery, within your very soul. You and I were born to come into ourselves as complete and distinctive persons. Accepting this, we build a valuable life."
-- Marsha Sinetar
77."The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
-- Joseph Addison
78."Who does not thank for little will not thank for much."
-- Estonian proverb
79."Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation."
-- Dalai Lama
80."There are three kinds of people and three kinds of richness:
- people who want to have, to collect
- people who want action, work and labor
- people who want to be
The real richness is in be-ness. People can take all that you have, all that you collected. People can stop your labor, or an accident can stop you. When you are, you never lose what you are."
-- Torkom Saraydarian
81.You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do!"
-- Bob Richards
82."A good intention clothes itself with power."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
83."Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge."
-- Audre Lorde
84."When you have compassion and surrender to your own heart, you are surrendering to the hidden power in your heart, God. You are surrendering to love, because God is Love, the cohesive force of the universe that connects us all. Surrender is not just a religious concept; it's a power tool for listening to the voice of your spirit and following its directions. When you surrender your head to your heart, you allow your heart to give you a wider, higher intelligence perspective. Remember the phrase, ‘The real teacher is within you.’ Very simply, that teacher is to be found in the common sense of your own heart."
-- Sara Paddison
85."... the only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or emotion, or respond to an event, or grow, or heal, is this moment, because this is the only moment any of us ever gets. You’re only here now; you’re only alive in this moment."
-- Jon Kabat-Zinn
86."Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and darkness, birth and death. All experience is by contrast, and one would be meaningless without the other."
-- Deepak Chopra
87."The light which man has discovered within himself makes him more aware of the dark; through the good which attracts him, he sees the evil which is the line of least resistance; the activity leading to pain simultaneously permits him to visualize the contrasting pleasure, and thus he experiences something of both hell and heaven."
-- Aart Jurriaanse
88."People ask what must they become to be loving. The answer is ‘nothing.’ It is a process of letting go of what you thought you had become and allowing your true nature to float to the surface naturally."
-- Stephen Levine
89."Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile give him yours."
--Zig Ziglar
90.Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
---Ingrid Bergman
91.I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself... and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part."
-- Shirley MacLaine
92."Every man dies, but not every man lives...."
-- Garth Brooks
93.Thinking brings us to the foot of the mountain; faith brings us to the top.
--Lin-Chi
94."I trust so much in the power of the heart and the soul; I know that the answer to what we need to do next is in our own hearts. All we have to do is listen, then take that one step further and trust what we hear. We will be taught what we need to learn."
-- Melody Beattie
95."If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more."
-- Shirley Hufstedler
96."The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want now."
--Zig Ziglar
97.If universal charity prevailed,
Earth would be a Heaven,
And Hell a fable.
--Charles Colton
98.One cannot alter a condition
with the same mind set that created it in the first place.
--Albert Einstein
99.A smile is a curve that helps to set things straight.
--Anonymous
100.Cure sometimes, soothe frequently, comfort always.
--Anonymous
101.Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
--Victor Borge
102."Deny children -- or anyone else -- the chance to do ‘nothing,’ and we may be denying them the chance to do ‘something’ -- to find and do any work that is truly important to themselves or to someone else."
-- John Holt
103."Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life."
-- Mary Manin Morrissey
104."If moment by moment you can keep your mind clear then nothing will confuse you."
-- Sheng Yen
105."Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that attention over time as best we can. In the process, we become more in touch with our life as it is unfolding."
-- Myla & Jon Kabat-Zinn
106."Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night."
--Zig Ziglar
107.We need to have a balance in our lives if we are going to be able to get the maximum amount of enjoyment from life.
--Zig Ziglar
108.Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.
--John Wesley
109."The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold."
-- Bible
110."Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
-- Albert Einstein
111."Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them."
-- Orison Swett Marden
112."The Lord is a good psychologist: he knows the way our minds run. Turmoil can be the Lord's way of tapping us on the shoulder and saying, 'Don't forget me.'"
-- Eknath Easwaran
113.Seeing is believing, but feeling is the truth.
--Thomas Fuller
114."Any fool can run towards the light. It takes a master with courage to turn and face the darkness and shine his own light there."
--Leslie Fieger - author of the Delfin Knowledge System
115."As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind."
-- Isabelle Holland
116."Whatever we have done, we can always make amends for it without ever looking back in guilt or sorrow."
-- Eknath Easwaran
117."There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations."
--Zig Ziglar
118."It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning."
-- P.D. Ospensky
119.""Life's most persistent and urgent question is, "What are you doing for others?""
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
120."Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable."
-- Brenda Ueland
121."You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
-- Gandhi
122."I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it."
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick
123.A meditative man has insight.
He can see how he himself created his problems.
And then, naturally he stops creating them.
--Osho
124.The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart - the place where love resides.
-source unknown
125."Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness within you. Then the chaotic movement around you will never overshadow your access to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality."
-- Deepak Chopra
126.If u have a Problem :
Dont goto God and say i have problem
instead goto Problem and say i have God..
-Anonymous
127."You cannot solve a problem until you acknowledge that you have one and accept responsibility for solving it."
--Zig Ziglar
128."Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think that you've lost time. There is no short-cutting to life. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time."
-- Asha Tyson
129."If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got."
-- Lee Iacocca
130.To live according to nature is to live as the gods have chosen.
--Pythagoras
131.There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
--Henry van Dyke, poet (1852-1933)
132."Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves."
-- Dr. Rollo May
133."Meditation helps me feel the shape, the texture of my inner life. Here, in the quiet, I can begin to taste what Buddhists would call my true nature, what Jews call the still, small voice, what Christians call the holy spirit."
-- Wayne Muller
134.Respect is love in plain clothes.
--Frankie Byrne
135.'Faith is not complacent; faith is action. You don’t have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move."
-- Betty Eadie
136."Your imagination is your preview to life’s coming attractions."
-- Albert Einstein
137."Change is created by those whose imaginations are bigger than their circumstances"
-- Unknown source
138.Character gets you out of bed; commitment moves you to action. Faith, hope and discipline enable you to follow through to completion."
--Zig Ziglar
139."There is a thought in your mind right now. The longer you hold on to it, the more you dwell upon it, the more life you give to that thought. Give it enough life, and it will become real. So make sure the thought is indeed a great one."
-- Ralph Marston
140."Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace."
-- William James
141."Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. You can see that when you think how the friends that really listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius as though it did us good, like ultraviolet rays."
-- Brenda Ueland
142."So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it."
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti
143."Seek not money nor fame as the true gift of life is found in moments of kindness shared with others."
144."When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully -- in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to know; to love is to act. If you really love, from the depths of your Consciousness, that love gives you a native wisdom. You perceive the needs of others intuitively and clearly, with detachment from any personal desires; and you know how to act creatively to meet those needs, dexterously surmounting any obstacle that comes in the way. Such is the immense, driving power of love."
-- Eknath Easwaran
145."Therefore, when I say that ‘I love,’ it is not I who love, but in reality Love who acts through me. Love is not so much something I do as something that I am. Love is not a doing but a state of being - a relatedness, a connectedness to another mortal, an identification with her or him that simply flows within me and through me, independent of my intentions or my efforts."
-- Robert A. Johnson
146."When you are aware that you are the force that is Life, anything is possible. Miracles happen all the time, because those miracles are performed by the heart. The heart is in direct communion with the human soul, and when the heart speaks, even with the resistance of the head, something inside you changes; your heart opens another heart, and true love is possible."
-- Don Miguel Ruiz
147.Happiness is a function of accepting what is; it is coming back to the same point, falling back to mother earth, falling back to the universal consciousness, going to the same source from where you have come. Then there is no struggle against it, no conflict, you simply accept. Acceptance becomes your life and through acceptance comes contentment.
—Osho
148."You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."
--Zig Ziglar
149."Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."
-- Aldous Huxley
150."Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
-- Franklin P. Jones
151.Satisfaction is calmness of the heart under the course of destiny.
--Al-Muhasibi
152."Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
-- C.G. Jung
153."We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves."
-- Vauvenargues
154.Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word,a listening ear,an honest compliment,or the smallest act of caring,all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
--Leo Buscaglia
155."Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference."
-- Nolan Bushnell
156."People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives."
-- J. Michael Straczynski
157."Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."
-- Joseph Joubert
158."To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live, and love."
-- Leo Buscaglia
159."A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
-- George Bernard Shaw
160."Only those who risk going too far can know how far they can go."
-- Unknown source
161."When coasting in our comfort zones, we don't grow. We continue to do more of the same.... Maintaining a comfort zone can, paradoxically, lead to discomfort in the long run. If by being comfortable we avoid important life issues, internal tension accumulates.... Eventually, as both internal and external pressures for change persist, the ‘comfort zone’ ceases to serve us."
-- Eric Allenbaugh
162."Be not afraid of changing slowly; be afraid only of standing still."
-- Chinese Proverb
163."The most pathetic person in the world is the person who has sight, but no vision."
-- Helen Keller
164."Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and follow where they lead."
-- Louisa May Alcott
165."The only limits are, as always, those of vision."
-- James Broughton
166."Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there."
-- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
167."One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride."
-- Richard Nelson Bolles
168."It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
-- Walt Disney
169."The door to a balanced success opens widest on the hinges of hope and encouragement."
--Zig Ziglar
170.You can find at least two ways to look at virtually everything. A pessimist looks for difficulty in the opportunity, whereas an optimist looks for opportunity in the difficulty.
--Zig Ziglar
171.There is no such thing as can't only won't.If you're qualified,all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish,to make a change, Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we all realize we are special people.
--Jan Ashford
172."What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation."
-- Joseph M. Dodge
173."If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own."
-- Stephen Covey
174."Growth takes place in a person by working at a deep inner level in a sustained atmosphere of silence."
-- Dr. Ira Progoff
175."Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others... And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude."
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
176."In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It’s the place of reflection and contemplation, and it’s the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way."
-- Angeles Arrien
177."He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment."
-- Meister Eckhart
178."It’s best not to get too excited or too depressed by the ups and downs of life."
-- Dalai Lama
179."Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
-- Lao Tzu
180.Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.
181."If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you."
--Zig Ziglar
182."At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance."
-- Dr. Paul Tournier
183.If you do not enjoy what you have, how could you be happy with more.
--Tibetan quote
184."No one can tell whether they are richer or poor by turning to their ledger. It is the heart that makes a person rich. One is rich according to what one is, not according to what one has."
-- Henry Ward Beecher
185."If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."
-- Edmund Burke
186."By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The non-existent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."
-- Nikos Kazantzakis
187."Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything."
-- Anthony de Mello
188."We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure is to undo the negative conditioning to which it has been subjected; then we will be left with pure, unconditioned awareness."
-- Eknath Easwaran
189."It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in so doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility."
-- Albert Einstein
190."One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time."
-- John Wanamaker
191. "...focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it."
-- Greg Anderson
192."Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important."
-- Stephen Covey
193."Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.'"
-- Lao-Tzu
194."Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
195."Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast -- you also miss the sense of where you are going and why."
-- Eddie Cantor
196."Everyone stumbles over the truth from time to time, but most people pick themselves up and hurry off as though nothing ever happened."
-- Sir Winston Churchill
197."Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action."
-- James Levin
198.“Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.”
-- Dale Dauten
199.Life is a play!'Tis not its length but its performance that counts.
--Seneca
200."Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-- Albert Einstein
201."Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself."
-- Marcus Cicero
202.“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”
-- Denis Waitley
203."The great Western disease is, ‘I'll be happy when… When I get the money. When I get a BMW. When I get this job.’ Well, the reality is, you never get to when. The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now."
-- Marshall Goldsmith
204.“For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.”
-- Robert Fulghum
205."There is an Indian Belief that everyone is in a house of four rooms: A physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time, but unless we go into every room everyday, even if only to keep it aired, we are not complete."
-- Rumer Godden
206.“Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.”
-- Nancy Kerrigan
207."If you start to think the problem is ‘out there,’ stop yourself. That thought is the problem."
-- Stephen Covey
208. "People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity."
-- Benjamin Disraeli
209. "Success means fulfilling your own dreams, singing your own song, dancing your own dance, creating from your heart and enjoying the journey, trusting that whatever happens, it will be OK. Creating your own adventure!"
-- Elana Lindquist
210. "The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started."
-- Dawson Trotman
211. "The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
212."Don't hurry, don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers."
-- Walter Hagen
213."Character isn’t inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains."
-- Helen Douglas
214.“Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.”
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
215."Strive to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To be too wise for worry, too tolerant for hate, and too courageous to be fearful. In short, to be happy."
-- Unknown Source
216."Belief has the word ‘lie’ in it... and that pretty much sums up what the world has us believing about ourselves."
-- Doug Firebaugh
217."Hope is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles."
-- Samuel Smiles
218."When things seem bad, look to see if you're not facing the wrong direction. When you're looking at the sun, you see no shadows. When the outlook isn't good, try the uplook—it's always good!"
--Zig Ziglar
219."Discipline isn't on your back needling you with imperatives. It is at your side encouraging you with incentives."
-Cybil Stanton
220."The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
-- William Faulkner
221."How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."
--George Washington Carver
222.Translation is the art of erasing oneself in order to speak in
another's voice.
--David Cole
223."People are about as happy as they choose to be."
- Abraham Lincoln
224."Waste no time debating what a good person should be. Be one."
- Marcus Aurelius
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