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XXXI.III.MMXII

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

- Deepak Chopra

XXX.III.MMXII

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.

- Maxwell Maltz

 

XXIX.III.MMXII

Empowerement is all about letting go so that others can get going.

- Kenneth Blanchard

 

XXVIII.III.MMXII

The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please...

The inferior man is, on the other hand, difficult to serve, but easy to please.

- Confucius

 

XXVII.III.MMXII

No person has ever been honored for what he received.  Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

-Calvin Coolidge

XXVI.III.MMXII

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

-John Heywood

 

XXV.III.MMXII

We can not do great things unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

- Theodore Roosevelt

XXIV.III.MMXII

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

- Blaine Lee

XXIII.III.MMXII

Don't be humble.  You're not that great.

- Golda Meir

XXII.III.MMXII

It is a dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

- H.L. Mencken

XXI.III.MMXII

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

- George Washington

 

XX.III.MMXII

They can because they think they can.

- Virgil

XIX.III.MMXII

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, brooks in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.

- William Shakespeare

XVIII.III.MMXII

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return.  It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.

- Emanuel Swedenborg

XVII.III.MMXII

Adversities do not make the man either weak or strong, but they reveal what he is.

- Faith Forsyte

XVI.III.MMXII

Our greatest weariness comes from work not done.

- Eric Hoffer

XV.III.MMXII

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

XIV.III.MMXII

There is no fixed road to wealth, and goods do not stay with the same master forever.

- Sima Qian

XIII.III.MMXII

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

- Thomas Edison

XII.III.MMXII

The successful person has unusual skill at dealing with conflict and ensuring the best outcome for all.

- Sun Tzu

XI.III.MMXII

For the strength of the pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the pack.

- Rudyard Kipling

X.III.MMXII

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

 

IX.III.MMXII

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

- Alexander Pope

 

VIII.III.MMXII

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for our future.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

VII.III.MMXII

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

- John Andrew Holmes

 

VI.III.MMXII

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

- Epicurus

V.III.MMXII

There is only one success and that is to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

- Christopher Morley

 

IV.III.MMXII

The secrest of success in life is for man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

-Benjamin Disraeli

 

III.III.MMXII

Nothing could be worse that the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpected effort that might have saved the world!

- Jane Addams

II.III.MMXII

Adventure is worthwhile.

- Amelia Earhart

 

I.III.MMXII

 

 

 

 

I.II.MMXII - XXIX.II.MMXII

For the month of February we have put together a collage of quotes with the theme of love!

Enjoy!

I.II.MMXII - XXIX.II.MMXII

 

XXXI.I.MMXII

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

- Wayne Dyer

 

XXX.I.MMXII

In economics the majority is always wrong.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

 

XXIX.I.MMXII

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

- Deepak Chopra

 

XXVIII.I.MMXII

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

- Benjamin Franklin

 

XXVII.I.MMXII

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsiblity for changing them.

- Denis  Waitley

 

XXVI.I.MMXII

Unnecessary fear of a bad decision is a major stumbling block to good decisions.

- Jim Camp

XXV.I.MMXII

Always desire to learn something useful.

- Sophocles

XXIV.I.MMXII

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

- Peter Drucker

 

XXIII.I.MMXII

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

- Earl Nightingale

 

XXII.I.MMXII

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

XXI.I.MMXII

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

- Audrey Hepburn

 

XX.I.MMXII

When you wre born, you cried and the world rejoiced; live your ilfe so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

- White Elk

 

XIX.I.MMXII

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

- Euripedes

 

XVIII.I.MMXII

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

- Buddha

 

XVII.I.MMXII

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

- Sophia Loren

XVI.I.MMXII

Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.

- Marlene Dietrich

XV.I.MMXII

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

- Colin Powell

 

XIV.I.MMXII

Those that are afraid of bad luck will never know good.

- Russian Proverb

 

XIII.I.MMXII

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

- James Lowell

 

XII.I.MMXII

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

XI.I.MMXII

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

- Eric Hoffer

 

X.I.MMXII

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

- Paul Klee

 

IX.I.MMXII

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

- Sigmund Freud

 

VIII.I.MMXII

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

- Albert Einstein

 

VII.I.MMXII

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.

- Indira Gandhi

 

VI.I.MMXII

No great thing is created suddenly.

- Epictetus

 

V.I.MMXII

Never act without purpose or resolve, or without the means to finish the job.

 - Marcus Aurelius

 

IV.I.MMXII

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

- Benjamin Disraeli

 

III.I.MMXII

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

II.I.MMXII

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.  We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

- Dale Carnegie

 

I.I.MMXII

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

- Ralph waldo Emerson

 

WELCOME MMXII

May this year be filled with success in all your endeavours, unconditional love and abundance in mental and physical health.

Remember to keep on learning and growing towards constructive outcomes that benefit as many people as possible.  Learn and grow interdependently. Approaching others with love and trust with get you much further than a fear and hate approach.

Let's make this a great year!

XXXI.XII.MMXI

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

- Abraham Lincoln

 

XXX.XII.MMXI

Tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope.

 - Romans

 

XXIX.XII.MMXI

Good people are good because they have come to wisdom through failure.

- William Saroyan

 

XXVIII.XII.MMXI

Try not to become a person of success, but rather a person of value.

- Albert Einstein

 

XXVII.XII.MMXI

Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.

- Elbert Hubbard

 

XXVI.XII.MMXI

Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.

- Sir Thomas Browne

 

XXV.XII.MMXI

A man becomes like those whose society he loves.

- Hindu Proverb

XXIV.XII.MMXI

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

- Aristotle

 

XXIII.XII.MMXI

From the cradle to the grave, a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object save one - to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort for himself.

- Mark Twain

 

XXII.XII.MMXI

The best way out of a problem is through it.

- Anonymous

 

XXI.XII.MMXI

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

 

XX.XII.MMXI

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.

- Epicurus

XIX.XII.MMXI

It's an ill plan that cannot be changed.

- Latin proverb

 

XVIII.XII.MMXI

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

XVII.XII.MMXI

What most counts is not to live, but to live aright.

- Socrates

XVI.XII.MMXI

The purpose of life is a life with purpose.

- Robert Byrne

 

XV.XII.MMXI

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

- Christian Bovee

 

XIV.XII.MMXI

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

- Publilius Syrus

 

XIII.XII.MMXI

Example is not the main thing in influencing others.  It is the only thing.

- Albert Schweitzer

 

XII.XII.MMXI

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

- Albert Einstein

 

XI.XII.MMXI

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.

  - Indira Gandhi

 

X.XII.MMXI

No great thing is created suddenly.

- Epictetus

 

IX.XII.MMXI

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

VIII.XII.MMXI

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.  Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved.

- Helen Keller

 

VII.XII.MMXI

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

- John Stuart Mill

 

VI.XII.MMXI

The soul is healed by being with children.

- Fyodor Dostoyevski

 

V.XII.MMXI

We are made to persist.  That is how we find out who we are.

- Tobias Wolff

 

IV.XII.MMXI

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

- Marcus Aurelius

 

III.XII.MMXI

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

- Paul Klee

 

II.XII.MMXI

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

- Nelson Mandela

 

I.XII.MMXI

The really happy person is the one that can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

- Anonymous

 

XXX.XI.MMXI

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

- Samuel Butler

 

XXIX.XI.MMXI

An invasion of armies can be resisted but not an idea whose time has come.

- Victor Hugo

XXVIII.XI.MMXI

Employees do not want to feel like the man is just telling them to do things.

- David Stein

 

XXVII.XI.MMXI

The idea of hierarchy that fundamentally empowers the few and disempowers the many is more or less dead.

- Gary Hamel

XXVI.XI.MMXI

Turn your excuses into the reasons why you must succeed, the reasons why you must take action.

- Carrie Wilkerson

XXV.XI.MMXI

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everthing that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

- Brian Tracy

XXIV.XI.MMXI

If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.

- Hesiod (ancient Greek poet)

 

XXIII.XI.MMXI

If I had 8 hours to chop a tree I would take 6 hours sharpening my ax.

- Abraham Lincoln

 

XXII.XI.MMXI

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

- Benjamin Franklin

 

XXI.XI.MMXI

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

- Deepak Chopra

 

XX.XI.MMXI

Productivity is never an accident.  It is always the result of a commitmentto excellence, intelligent planning and focused effort.

- Paul J. Meyer

XIX.XI.MMXI

Each day is a new opportunity to start over.  You learn from your mistakes and apply that knowledge in the future.

- Jack Canfield

XVIII.XI.MMXI

All uncertainty is fruitful so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand.

- Antonio Machado

 

XVII.XI.MMXI

For the strength of the pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the pack.

- Rudyard Kipling

 

XVI.XI.MMXI

Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

- Mark Twain

XV.XI.MMXI

In calm water, every ship has a good captain.

- German proverb

XIV.XI.MMXI

Good is the enemy of great.

- Jim Collins

XIII.XI.MMXI

Fight against mankind, you are a fool.  Fight against yourself, you are a saint.

- Sri Chinmoy

 

XII.XI.MMXI

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

- Peter F. Drucker

XI.XI.MMXI

By three methods we may learn wisdom:  First, by reflection, which is noblest. Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is bitterest.

- Confucius

X.XI.MMXI

The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.

- Deepak Chopra

 

IX.XI.MMXI

Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet.  Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, your life.

- Michelangelo

VIII.XI.MMXI

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart.  Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, AWAKENS.

- Carl Jung

VII.XI.MMXI

If you want to be happy, be.

- Leo Tolstoy

 

VI.XI.MMXI

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

- Hendry David Thoreau

V.XI.MMXI

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

- Andrew Carnegie

 

IV.XI.MMXI

Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it is a cha-cha.

- Robert Brault

III.XI.MMXI

I believe that true optimism is born of gratitude.

- Silken Laumann

II.XI.MMXI

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

- Confucius

 

I.XI.MMXI

Spiritual life always implies something higher than itself towards which it is ascending.

- Nicholas Berdyaev

 

XXXI.X.MMXI

There is a design for all humanity, which will be manifested only as humanity becomes a whole, a design which will make clear all that has gone before.

- N. Sri Ram

XXX.X.MMXI

Opportunities multipy as they are seized.

- Sun Tzu

XXIX.X.MMXI

The opportunities that God sends does not wake up him who is asleep.

- Senegalese proverb

 

XXVIII.X.MMXI

Be grateful for yourself...  be thankful.

- William Saroyan

XXVII.X.MMXI

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

- Johann von Goethe

 

XXVI.X.MMXI

You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough people get what they want.

- Zig Ziglar

XXV.X.MMXI

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

- Anthony Robbins

XXIV.X.MMXI

Most people spend their lives looking but not truly seeing.

- Joe Navarro

 

XXIII.X.MMXI

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

- Confucius

XXII.X.MMXI

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

XXI.X.MMXI

He does good to himself who does good to his friend.

- Erasmus

XX.X.MMXI

It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.

- Epicurus

XIX.X.MMXI

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

- Henry Ford

 

XVIII.X.MMXI

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

- Mahatma Gandhi

XVII.X.MMXI

How many opportunities present themselves to a man without his noticing them?

- Arab proverb

XVI.X.MMXI

Everyman's life lies within the present, for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

- Marcus Aurelius

XV.X.MMXI

If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today.

- Anonymous

XIV.X. MMXI

All life is a chance. So take it! The person who goes furthest is the one who is willing to do and dare.

- Dale Carnegie

XIII.X.MMXI

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

XII.X.MMXI

One may have good eyes and yet see nothing.

- Italian proverb

 

XI.X.MMXI

He that asks knows one shame.  He that doesn't knows two.

- Armenian proverb

 

X.X.MMXI

We have believed and we do believe now that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible.

- Indira Gandhi

IX.X.MMXI

A puff of wind and popular praise weigh the same.

- English proverb

 

VIII.X.MMXI

Kindness begets kindness.

- Greek proverb

VII.X.MMXI

A statement once let loose cannot be caught by four horses.

- Japanese proverb

VI.X.MMXI

Those that are afraid of bad luck will never know good.

- Russian proverb

V.X.MMXI

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else.

- Mark Twain

IV.X.MMXI

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

- Horace

III.X.MMXI

Good health is a crown on the head of a well person that only a sick person can see.

- Robin Sharma

II.X.MMXI

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised.  You'll get it.

- Malcolm S. Forbes

I.X.MMXI

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

- Sydney J. Harris

XXX.IX.MMXI

Joy is the realization of onesness, the oneness of our soul with the world and of the world-soul with the supreme love.

- Rabindranath Tagore

 

XXIX.IX.MMXI

When anger spreads through the breast, guard thy tongue from barking idly.

- Sappho

XXVIII.IX.MMXI

Running water will run faster if you remove an obstruction here and there. You need not do much more.

- Yogaswami

XXVII.IX.MMXI

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old, seek what they sought.

- Matsuo Basho

 

XXVI.IX.MMXI

To see a world in a grain of sand

And a heaven in a wild flower

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand

And enternity in an hour.

- William Blake

XXV.IX.MMXI

Everything flows, nothing stays sill.

- Heraclitus

 

XXIV.IX.MMXI

Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.

- G. Kleiser

 

XXIII.IX.MMXI

Nature never deceives us.  It is always we who deceive ourselves.

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

 

XXII.IX.MMXI

Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.

- Orison Swett Marden

 

XXI.IX.MMXI

Tell me and I will forget

Show me and I may not remember

Involve me and I will understand.

 - Native American Proverb

 

XX.IX.MMXI

Faith makes all things possible.

Love make all things easy.

Hope makes all things work.

- Unknown

 

XIX.IX.MMXI

You seldom improve quality by cutting costs, but you can often cut costs by improving quality.

- Karl Albrecht (German Entrepreneur)

 

XVIII.IX.MMXI

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

- Sir Winston Churchill

XVII.IX.MMXI

Well done is better than well said.

- Benjamin Franklin

 

XVI.IX.MMXI

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

- Henry Ford

 

XV.IX.MMXI

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

- Leonard Cohen

XIV.IX.MMXI

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

- Albert Einstein

XIII.IX.MMXI

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

- Oscar Wilde

 

XII.IX.MMXI

When one door closes another opens.  But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.

- Alexander Graham Bell

 

XI.IX.MMXI

Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.

- Bernie S. Siegel M.D.

 

X.IX.MMXI

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

- Francis Bacon

 

IX.IX.MMXI

Your daily life is your temple and your religion.

- Khalil Gibran

 

VIII.IX.MMXI

Things do not change; we change.

- Henry David Thoreau

 

VII.IX.MMXI

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

- Carlos Casteneda

 

VI.IX.MMXI

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.  Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

- Helen Keller

 

V.IX.MMXI

Opportunity has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.

- Napolean Hill

 

IV.IX.MMXI

He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet.

- Joseph Joubert

 

III.IX.MMXI

Reputation is what the world thinks a person is; character is what he really is.

- Anonymous

 

II.IX.MMXI

Be fully aware.  Be engaged. Remind yourself to live in the present moment, The Zone.

- Jim Fannin

 

I.IX.MMXI

Expect more than others think possible.

- Howard Schultz

 

XXXI.VIII.MMXI

Logic will get you from A to B.

Imagination will take you everywhere.

- Albert Einstein

 

XXX.VIII.MMXI

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness;

to an opponent, tolerance;

to a friend, your heart;

to your child, a good example;

to a father, deference;

to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you;

to yourself, respect;

to all men, charity.

- Benjamin Franklin

XXIX.VIII.MMXI

Tis easy enough to be pleasant when life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when eveything goes dead wrong.

- Buddha

XXVIII.VIII.MMXI

Modesty is the citadel of beauty.

- Demades

XXVII.VIII.MMXI

Be silent, but if you must speak up, say something better than silence.

- Pythagoras

XXVI.VIII.MMXI

Bliss does not come from outside, it comes from inside, from serving the people.

- Anna Hazare

XXV.VIII.MMXI

It is always too early too quit.

- Norman Vincent Peale

XXIV.VIII.MMXI

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find a way.

- Abraham Lincoln

XXIII.VIII.MMXI

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we will change the world.
- Jack Layton

 

XXII.VIII.MMXI

Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up.

- Jesse Jackson

XXI.VIII.MMXI

If you are not fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

- Vince Lombardi

 

XX.VIII.MMXI

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.  Begin it now.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 

XIX.VIII.MMXI

No one can become rich without enriching others.  Anyone who adds to prosperity must prosper in turn.

- GL. Alexander Orndorff

 

XVIII.VIII.MMXI

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.

- Roger Crawford

XVII.VIII.MMXI

People often say that motivation does not last.  Well, neither does bathing and that is why we recommend it daily.

- Zig Ziglar

XVI.VIII.MMXI

Let the past drift away with the water.

- Japanese saying

XV.VIII.MMXI

The problems of the world can not possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.  We need men who can dream of things that never were.

- John F. Kennedy

 

XIV.VIII.MMXI

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

- James Baldwin

 

XIII.VIII.MMXI

It is always in season for old men to learn.

-Aeschylus

 

XII.VIII.MMXI

You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.

- Indira Gandhi

 

XI.VIII.MMXI

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

- John Stuart Mill

 

X.VIII.MMXI

You can not reset the winds but you can adjust your sails.

- German Proverb

IX.VIII.MMXI

You are the masterpiece of your own life.  You are the Michelangelo of your experience.  The David that you are sculpting is you.  And you do it with your thoughts.

- Dr. Joe Vitale

VIII.VIII.MMXI

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life. Not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

- Khalil Gibran

VII.VIII.MMXI

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

- William James

VI.VIII.MMXI

Impossibilites are merely the half hearted efforts of quitters.

- Orison Swett Marden

V.VIII.MMXI

You do not have to be a person of influence to be influential.  In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they have thought me.

- Scott Adams

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A meowing cat catches no mice.

- Yiddish proverb

III.VIII.MMXI

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among he things you only hoped for.

- Epicurus

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The mind is its own place, and in itself it can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

- John Milton

I.VIII.MMXI

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

XXXI.VII.MMXI

If you must make a mistake, make a new one each time.

- Dale Carnegie

XXX.VII.MMXI
If you are planning for a year, plant grain. If you are planning for a decade, plant trees. If you are planning for a century, plant men.
- Chinese Proverb

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.
- Coco Chanel

XXVIII.VII.MMXI
Determine your future now by taking hold of every opportunity.
- Debbye Turner

XXVII.VII.MMXI

Giving is a habit of the heart.  It is not a tax dedution.

- Ernie Wood

XXVI.VII.MMXI
To keep a lamp burning, we have to put oil in it.
- Mother Teresa

XXV.VII.MMXI
When profit is unshared it is less likely to grow greater.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

XXIV.VII.MMXI
He that does good to another, does good also to himself, not only in the consequences, but in the very act; for the consciousness of well-doing is, in itself, ample reward.
- Seneca

XXIII.VII.MMXI
I will charge thee nothing but the promise that thee will help the next man thee finds in trouble.
- Mennonite Proverb

XXII.VII.MMXI
The only thing we do not get enough of is love. The only thing we do not give enough of is love.
- Henry Miller

XXI.VII.MMXI
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

- Mark Twain

XX.VII.MMXI
Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.
- David Jordan

XIX.VII.MMXI
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
- Corrie Ten Boom

XVIII.VII.MMXI
We are judged by what we finish, not what we start.
- unknown

XVII.VII.MMXI
The sure way to miss success is to miss the opportunity.
- Victor Chasles

XVI.VII.MMXI
Three words of praise will soften anybodys heart.
- T.C. Lai

XV.VII.MMXI
To the good I would be good; to the not-good I would also be good, in order to make them good.
- Lao-Tzu

XIV.VII.MMXI
Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.
- Mary D. Poole

XIII.VII.MMXI
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
- Walter Lippmann

XII.VII.MMXI
Do not compromise yourself. You are all you have got.
- Janis Joplin

XI.VII.MMXI
To be successful you do not have to do extraordinary things. Just do ordinary things extraordinarily well.
- Jim Rohn

X.VII.MMXI
Who hath not served cannot command.
- John Florio

IX.VII.MMXI
The tissue of the life to be
We weave with colours all our own.
And in the field of destiny
We reap as we have sown.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

VIII.VII.MMXI
Excellence is never an accident.
- Jerold Panas

VII.VII.MMXI
What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourself, or it will not be yours.
- Goethe

VI.VII.MMXI
You do not ask a juggler which ball is highest in priority. Success is to do it all.
- John Armstrong

V.VII.MMXI
Philanthropy flows from a loving heart not an overstuffed pocketbook.
- Douglas Lawson

IV.VII.MMXI
Kindness is the beginning and the end of the law.
- Hebrew Proverb

III.VII.MMXI
One kind word can warm three winter months.
- Japanese Proverb

II.VII.MMXI
I have learned silence from the talkative; tolerance from the intolerant; and kindness from the unkind.
- Kahlil Gibran

I.VII.MMXI
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
- Lao-tzu

XXX.VI.MMXI
There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.
- Anwar el-Sadat

XXIX.VI.MMXI
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
- Adam Smith

XXVIII.VI.MMXI
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill

XXVII.VI.MMXI
It is not what you would do with a million,
If riches should ever be your lot;
But what you are doing at present
With a dollar and quarter you have got?

- unknown

XXVI.VI.MMXI
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin L. Powell

XXV.VI.MMXI
Help and share with others. The real test of business greatness lies in giving opportunities to others.

- Charles M. Schwab

XXIV.VI.MMXI

The thought manifests as the word;

The word manifests as the deed;

The deed develops into habit;

And habit hardens into character;

So watch the thought and its ways with care,

And let it spring from love,

Born out of concern for all beings

As the shadow follows the body

As we think, so we become

- Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

 

XXIII.VI.MMXI

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.  Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

- Hannah More

XXII.VI.MMXI

Be what you are.  This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

- Julius Charles Hare

XXI.VI.MMXI

It is very important to understand that emotional intelligence is not the opposite of intelligence, it is not the triumph of heart over head - it is the unique intersection of both.

- David Caruso

XX.VI.MMXI

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake â€?you can’t learn anything from being perfect.

- Adam Osborne

XIX.VI.MMXI

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

- Albert Cumus

XVIII.VI.MMXI

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

- John C. Maxwell

XVII.VI.MMXI

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

- Mark Twain

XVI.VI.MMXI

The well bred contradict other people.  The wise contradict themselves.

- Oscar Wilde

XV.VI.MMXI

Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.  There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right.  To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

XIV.VI.MMXI

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

- Steve Jobs

XIII.VI.MMXI

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

- Indira Gandhi

XII.VI.MMXI

He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.

- Unknown

XI.VI.MMXI

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

- Hasidic Saying

X.VI.MMXI

When the power of love over comes the love of power, the world will know peace.

- Jimi Hendrix

IX.VI.MMXI

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical enfants.  We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.  We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.

- General Omar N. Bradley

VIII.VI.MMXI

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

- John F. Kennedy

VII.VI.MMXI

There is but one cause of human failure.  And that is man's lack of faith in his true self.

- William James

VI.VI.MMXI

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

- Earl Nightingale

V.VI.MMXI

Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.

- Belgian Proverb

IV.VI.MMXI

Everything on earth has a purpose, every disease a herb to cure it and every person a mission.  This is the Indian theory of existence.

- Mourning Dove Salish

III.VI.MMXI

Be humble for you are made of earth.  Be noble for you are made of stars.

- Serbian Proverb

II.VI.MMXI

A thousand friends are too few, one enemy is too many.

- Armenian Proverb

I.VI.MMXI

Manking must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

- John F. Kennedy

XXXI.V.MMXI

Leaders with a warm heart and a cool head, that's what we need.  That's what all nations need.

- Arshak Chobanian

XXX.V.MMXI

The less you speak the more you hear.

- Anonymous

XXIX.V.MMXI

May you always have wall for the winds

A roof for the rain, tea beside the fire,

Laughter to cheer you, those you love near you

And all our heart might desire.

- Irish Blessing

XXVIII.V.MMXI

Today is today and yesterday is gone.  There is no doubt.

- Pablo Neruda

XXVII.V.MMXI

Justice limps along, but it gets there all the same.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

XXVI.V.MMXI

Every kind of peaceful cooperation is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice or police.

- President Jimmy Carter

 

XXV.V.MMXI

One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal.  We MUST pursue peaceful ends through peaseful means.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

XXIV.V.MMXI

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

-Dalai Lama

XXIII.V.MMXI

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

- John F. Kennedy

XXII.V.MMXI

When you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

-Mark Twain

XXI.V.MMXI

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty.

-Cicero

XX.V.MMXI

I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

-George Burns

XIX.V.MMXI

Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

-Rabbinical Saying

XVIII.V.MMXI

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.

-Bo Bennett

XVII.V.MMXI

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
- William Penn

XVI.V.MMXI

There are people among us who believe contribution matters.  Not because we have to but because it is who we are.

-Rebecca Moradoghli

XV.V.MMXI

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
- John Dewey

XIV.V.MMXI

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
- Anatole France

XIII.V.MMXI

A day is more than 24 hours. It is an opportunity to make something happen - to make a positive and constructive difference in the world we live in.

- Rebecca Moradoghli

XII.V.MMXI

[Peace] comes within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the Universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.

- Black Elk (1863-1950) Lakota (Teton Sioux) holly man and writer (From his book The Sacred Pipe)

XI.V.MMXI

The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.

- Sequichie Comingdeer

X.V.MMXI

Although we are in different boats you in your boat
and we in our canoe we share the same river of life.

- Chief Oren Lyons, Onandaga Nation

IX.V.MMXI

Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Ancient Indian Proverb

VIII.V.MMXI

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

- Albert Ellis

VII.V.MMXI

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

- Plato

VI.V.MMXI

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

- C. S. Lewis

V.V.MMXI

You get a best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.

- Bob Nelson

IV.V.MMXI

Mentor:  someone whose hindsight can become your foresight.

- Anonymous

III.V.MMXI

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

- Mother Teresa

II.V.MMXI

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

- Maya Angelou

I.V.MMXI

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
- Buddha

XXX.IV.MMXI

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity
- John F. Kennedy

XXIX.IV.MMXI

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
- Jean Paul

XXVIII.IV.MMXI

Love is the crowning grace of humanity
- Petrarch

XXVII.IV.MMXI

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
- Leo Tolstoy

XXVI.IV.MMXI

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
- Thomas Jefferson

XXV.IV.MMXI

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

XXIV.IV.MMXI

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
- Bill Richardson

XXIII.IV.MMXI

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.
- Morihei Ueshiba

XXII.IV.MMXI

Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the hearts and cools the sting.

- Peter Allen

XXI.IV.MMXI

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.

- Elizabeth Harrison

XX.IV.MMXI

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

- John C. Maxwell

XIX.IV.MMXI

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

- Benjamin Spock

XVIII.IV.MMXI

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

- William Arthur Ward

XVII.IV.MMXI

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

- Desiderius Erasmus

XVI.IV.MMXI

You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result

- Mahatma Gandhi

XV.IV.MMXI

There are no accidentsâ€?there is only some purpose that we haven’t yet understood.

- Deepak Chopra

XIV.IV.MMXI

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

- Napoleon Hill

XIII.IV.MMXI

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

- Henry David Thoreau

XII.IV.MMXI

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

- Norman Vincent Peale

XI.IV.MMXI

Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.

- Robert C. Gallagher

X.IV.MMXI

You will either step forward into growth or step backward into safety.

- Abraham Maslow

IX.IV.MMXI

The longest distance you will ever travel is the journey from your head to your heart.

- Unknown

VIII.IV.MMXI

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

- Vincent van Gogh

VII.IV.MMXI

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou

VI.IV.MMXI

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- Buddha

V.IV.MMXI

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu

IV.IV.MMXI

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do.
- Dale Carnegie

III.IV.MMXI

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
- Mohandas Gandhi

II.IV.MMXI

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

I.IV.MMXI

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
- Abigail Adams

XXXI.III.MMXI

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
- John Dewey

XXX.III.MMXI

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
- Anatole France

XXIX.III.MMXI

The great secret to success in life is for a man to be ready when his opportunity comes.

- Benjamin Disraeli

XXVIII.III.MMXI

Routine is never the leader of any new behaviour.  Risk & Opportunity are.

- Rebecca Moradoghli

XXVII.III.MMXI

The best way to persuade people is with your ears, by listening to them.

- Dean Rusk

XXVI.III.MMXI

Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.

- W.S. Gilbert

XXV.III.MMXI

To live is the rarest thing in the world.  Most people exist, that is all.

- Oscar Wilde

XXIV.III.MMXI

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

- Joseph Campbell

XXIII.III.MMXI

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

- Horace Walpole

XXII.III.MMXI

Anyone can become angry, that is easy.  But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, this is not easy.

- Aristotle

XXI.III.MMXI

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
- Sophocles

XX.III.MMXI

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli

XIX.III.MMXI

Only the educated are free.
- Epictetus

XVIII.III.MMXI

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson

XVII.III.MMXI

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
- Swami Sivananda

XVI.III.MMXI

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
- Wayne Dyer

XV.III.MMXI

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein

XIV.III.MMXI

Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.
- Mike Honda

XIII.III.MMXI

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
- Edith Wharton

XII.III.MMXI

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
- Jim Rohn

XI.III.MMXI

The more that you read, the more things you will know.  The more that you learn, the more places you will go.

- Dr. Seuss

X.III.MMXI

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.
- Joyce A. Myers

IX.III.MMXI

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

- John Maxwell

VIII.III.MMXI

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

- Aesop

VII.III.MMXI

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
- Michelangelo

VI.III.MMXI

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
- Voltaire

V.III.MMXI

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
- Khalil Gibran

IV.III.MMXI

Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do.  It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.

- David Allen

III.III.MMXI

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

- Zig Ziglar

II.III.MMXI

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you.  If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work for you.  Whatever good things we build end up building us.

- Jim Rohn

I.III.MMXI

All you see in your world is the outcome of your idea about it.

- Neale Donald Walsch

XXVIII.II.MMXI

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
- Jimmy Carter

XXVII.II.MMXI

God gives every bird a worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.

-Swedish Proverb

XXVI.II.MMXI

When there is no enemy within, the enemy outside cannot hurt you.

-African Proverb

XXV.II.MMXI

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
- Kofi Annan

XXIV.II.MMXI

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela

XXIII.II.MMXI

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

XXII.II.MMXI

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

- Lena Horne

XXI.II.MMXI

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

XX.II.MMXI

The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.

- Unknown

XIX.II.MMXI

Wealth is not a material gain, but a state of mind.

-Jerry Gillies

XVIII.II.MMXI

Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done.  Life’s too short to think small.

- Tim Ferriss (Entrepreneur)

XVII.II.MMXI

By giving the world the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.

- Mark Zuckerberg (co-founder of Facebook)

XVI.II.MMXI

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 and others

- Dr. David Hawkins

XV.II.MMXI

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy.  The amount of work is the same.

- Carlos Castaneda

XIV.II.MMXI

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. 
- Lao Tzu

XIII.II.MMXI

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

- Elbert Hubbard

XII.II.MMXI

Having a why, a powerful and compelling reason, is the one thing no one can give you.

- Stephen Pierce

XI.II.MMXI

Most people have no idea the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

- Anthony Robbins

X.II.MMXI

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

- King George VI

IX.II.MMXI

All men are created equal; it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.
- David Allan Coe

VIII.II.MMXI

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein

VII.II.MMXI

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

VI.II.MMXI

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
- Golda Meir

V.II.MMXI

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

- Anwar Sadat

IV.II.MMXI

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa

III.II.MMXI

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
- Mao Tse-Tung

II.II.MMXI

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
- Martin Luther

I.II.MMXI

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
- Alexander the Great

XXX.I.MMXI

A good day is a day when I learned something I didn’t know.  Today was a great day and tomorrow will be a greater day.

- Rebecca Moradoghli c/o SHERO

XXIX.I.MMXI

In times of greatest pessimism is your time of greatest opportunity if you can keep your head together.

- Anthony Robbins

XXVIII.I.MMXI

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

-Mohandas Gandhi

XXVII.I.MMXI

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale

XXVI.I.MMXI

Sleeping allows for thoughts to incubate and percolate.  Just like fine wine needs time to breathe, fine thoughts need time to take constructive form.

- Rebecca Moradoghli

(as seen in Success Magazine Feb 2011 issue pg 8)

XXV.I.MMXI

What worries you, masters you.

- John Locke

XXIV.I.MMXI

Common sense is not so common.

- Voltaire

XXIII.I.MMXI

Nothing in life is to be feared it is to be understood.

- Marie Curie

XXII.I.MMXI

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

- Les Brown

XXI.I.MMXI

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

-Henry Ford

XX.I.MMXI

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

-Seneca

XIX.I.MMXI

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

XVIII.I.MMXI

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
- Desmond Tutu

XVII.I.MMXI

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
- Jawaharlal Nehru

XVI.I.MMXI

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln

XV.I.MMXI

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
- John Wooden

XIV.I.MMXI

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an invasion of ideas.

- Victor Hugo

XIII.I.MMXI

Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday.  Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.

- John Maxwell

XII.I.MMXI

Never let my schooling interfere with my education.

- Mark Twain

XI.I.MMXI

Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results.

- James Allen

X.I.MMXI

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

- Oscar Wilde

IX.I.MMXI

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

- Henry Ford

VIII.I.MMXI

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

- W. Clement Stone

VII.I.MMXI

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

- Lao Tzu

VI.I.MMXI

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
- Democritus

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Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.
- Nolan Bushnell

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Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.

- Zig Ziglar

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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

- Indira Gandhi

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie

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If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

- Jim Rohn

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011...

WISHING THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY HAPPINESS, LOVE & HEALTH!

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Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
- Swami Sivananda

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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

- Norman Vincent Peale

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Wisdom begins in wonder.

- Socrates

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To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

- Akhenaton

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
- Confucius

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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

-Galileo Galilei

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Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

- David Frost

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Action is the foundational key to all success.

- Pablo Picasso

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Measure your mind’s height by the shade it casts.

- Robert Browning

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The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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It’s easy to make a buck.  It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.

- Tom Brokaw

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You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

- Zig Ziglar

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Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do.  It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.

- David Allen

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Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

- Anthony Robbins

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People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

-Brian Tracy

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Make a gift of your life and lift all mankind in being kind, considerate, forgiving, and compassionate at all times, in all places, and under all conditions, with everyone as well as yourself.  This is the greatest gift anyone can give.

-Dr. David Hawkins

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If you say nothing, express nothing, stand for nothing, then you are nothing.

-Unknown

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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

- Khalil Gibran

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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
- Walt Disney

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
- Leonardo Da Vinci

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A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
- Nelson Mandela

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Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
- Sun Tzu

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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- Socrates

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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- Buddha

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And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Peace is all around us.  Once we learn to touch this peace we will be healed and transformed.  It is not a matter of faith; it is a matter of practice.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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To me success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection. In fact, success represents 1% of your work that results from the 99% that is called failure.

- Henry Ford

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What can you do right now to begin to turn your life around?  The very first thing is to start making a list of things to be grateful for.

- Dr. Joe Vitale

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You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

- W. Clement Stone

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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

- Mother Teresa

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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

- Theodore Rubin

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.
- Dennis Green

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Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune.

- Jim Rohn

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The future has several names. For the weak, it is the impossible. For the fainthearted, it is the unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is the ideal.
- Victor Hugo

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Use what talents you possess, the woods will be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
- Henry van Dyke

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Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life’s about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw

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Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place we must find.

-Wayne Dyer

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Wealth is not a material gain, but a state of mind.

-Jerry Gillies

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Nurture great thoughts, for you will never go higher than your thoughts.

-Benjamin Disraeli

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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- Buddha

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Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.

-Ralph W. Sockman

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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
- Tecumseh

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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.  
- Martin Luther King Jr.

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My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

-Henry Ford

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.

- Mark Twain

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We are what we repeatedly do.

- Aristotle

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Persistence: Fall down seven times, stand up eight.

- Japanese Proverb

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History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill

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Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey

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Success is what you attract by the person you become.
- Jim Rohn

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The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
- Stephen Covey

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Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
- Muhammad Ali

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You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people to get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar

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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.

- Pope John Paul I

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If you’re going through hell, keep going.

-Winston Churchill

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Hard work is a great principle. Being your best at any given moment is a great principle. The belief that it has to be perfect or it doesn't count or it's a failure is what I question. Appreciating the process and the people along the way is what's valuable.
-Rebecca Moradoghli, Sheep to SHERO pg 230

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you're willing to do it, that's another matter

- Peter Drucker

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You wander from room to room hunting for the diamond necklace that is already around your neck!

- Rumi

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop that picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

- Norman Vincent Peale

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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

- Ann Landers

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To me success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection. In fact, success represents 1% of your work that results from the 99% that is called failure

- Henry Ford

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Possessions of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake.

-Paramahansa Yogananda

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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

-Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

- Margaret Thatcher

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We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in the past. We have the power of choice.

- Stephen Covey

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If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.

- Jimmy Durante

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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

- Dr David Schwartz

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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy.

- Martin Luther King

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You'll see it, when you believe it.

- Dr Wayne Dyer

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The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

- Napoleon Hill

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

- Thomas A. Edison

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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

-Socrates

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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

-Lou Holtz

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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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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.  He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

-Ralph Lauren

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Success is not the key to happiness.  Happiness is the key to success.  If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

-Albert Schweitzer

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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

-John D. Rockefeller

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Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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It is time to make the time.

-Henry Dumas

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Never let what you cannot do stop you from doing what you CAN do!”

-Stephen Pierce

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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

-William Saroyan

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
-W. Clement Stone

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 A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
-Winston Churchill

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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
-Dalai Lama

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
- Martin Luther

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The latest thing is for people to detoxify their bodies with organic food, yet nobody is placing value on detoxifying our beliefs and thought processes.

-Sheep to SHERO pg 72

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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

-Marcus Aurelius

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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

-Einstein

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What do Christopher Columbus and Ibn Battuta have in common?  A sense of adventure and exploration!  Sometimes getting to know yourself means knowing the world around you.

-SHERO

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Life is an adventure, dare it.

-Mother Teresa

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Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

-George Halas - Founder of Chicago Bears

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The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.

-Michelangelo: Italian sculptor, painter and architect.

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Men are not prisoners of fate but only prisoners of their own minds.

-Franklin Roosevelt

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Nothing in life is to be feared.  It is only to be understood.

-Marie Curie

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In life what we can potentially do is limitless and yet we limit ourselves based on the belief systems and principles we tap into.  Life, Tuum Est!

-Sheep to SHERO pg 168

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Treat a man as he appears to be and you will make him worse.  Treat a man as he already were what he potentially could be and you’ll make him what he should be.

- Goethe

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, yet reveal to them their own

- Benjamin Disraeli

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Difficulties strengthen the mind,  As labour strengthens the body.

-Seneca

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The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.

-Confucius

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Generosity is giving more than you can,

And pride is taking less than you need!

-Khalil Gibran

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So many thirsty pass so close to the water, yet do not drink.

-Sufi proverb

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Never fear to negotiate, never negotiate out of fear!

-R. Kennedy

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No matter what our background, race, religion, gender or age we are bombarded daily with BS that shape our lives.  Most of which we do not question and own as our truth.

-SHERO

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It is clear that persons who live close to their capacity who continue to activate their potential have a pronounced sense of well-being and considerable energy.  They see themselves as leading purposeful and creative lives.

-Herbert Otto

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Successful people are not without problems, they have learned to solve their problems.

-Earl Nightingale

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The past and the future are only in your mind.  The present is now. Give your best for the present.

-SHERO

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Press on.  Nothing can take the place of persistence.  Talent will not; the world is full of unsuccessful people with talent.  Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.  Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.  Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

-Calvin Coolidge

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What we do in life echoes in eternity.

-General Maximus "Gladiator"

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Take full account of the excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
-Emperor Marcus Aurelius

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Ask not that events happen as you will, yet let your will be that events happen as they do and you shall have peace.

-Epictetus

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There are many paths to enlightenment.  Be sure to take one with a heart.
-Lao Tzu

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How can you solve the problems of today thinking the way you did when you created them?
-Einstein

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People don't care how much you know,
once they know how much you care.
-Harvey Mackay

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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
-John C. Maxwell

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The challenge of leadership is
to be strong, but not rude;
be kind, but not weak;
be bold, but not bully;
be thoughtful, but not lazy;
be humble, but not timid;
be proud, but not arrogant;
-Jim Rohn

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The Gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

-Chinese Proverb

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.

-Gandhi

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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The thought of helping others is compassion

Knowing how we can do it is wisdom

Doing something about it is courage!

-Sakyong Mipham