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LIFT ME
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Sinan Koray
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Inspirational! Lift Me Up is a cleverly categorised compilation of wisdom and sayings. There are great triggers to change your mood, help heal, clarify and motivate you. The index aids in choosing the right theme for your situation. As a Futures trader I use it as a tool to clear mental blocks and help focus. Being a Mum can be stressful so I use it to cope with anything from worry to slowing down. When travelling I use it as a source to give me a smile or boost that I sometimes need. This collection of powerful quotes will inspire and nourish your soul. Lisa J Norman Qantas Captain, Mum, Futures Trader
In Lift me UP, Sinan Koray has selected inspirational gems which address a wide range of topics. He has sifted through a multitude of possibilities and carefully selected passages which I believe speak to a wide variety of readers. Words, phrases and anecdotes are often important to help one see the world from a different and more favorable perspective. They can also help to refocus one's thoughts towards achieving desirable outcomes. Some of the passages in Lift me UP are familiar but still remain poignant. Others present a glimpse of the wisdom and perspective of authors that one may not have read. In either case, they nudge one to think about the issues at hand from a fresh perspective. The book is an easy read which can be devoured quickly. However, each quotation can be individually pondered and savored. This is the real value that I have found in Lift me UP. Many of the topics contain inspirational passages from a number of different sources which helps one to address the topic at hand from different perspectives. The wisdom gleaned from these sources provides me with excellent starting points for my own internal dialogues aimed at achieving a better understanding of myself and others while moving towards a more fulfilling life. Dr. Robert Pett Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction Love Fear Worry Anger Setbacks And Hardship Betrayal Mistakes Character Responsibility Passion Commitment Security Attitude And Mindset Stress Impressing Others Taking Action Isolation Persistence And Determination Authority Habits You Become Your Thoughts Thoughts Words Actions Beliefs Decisions Focus The Mind Forgiveness Life Keep Things Simple Questions And Explanations Curiosity And Understanding Self Esteem Self Talk Inner Voice Self Help Change Systems Freedom
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New Ideas Risking Courage Communication Winners Happiness Hope You And The Rest Of The World Training Practice Success Money Poverty And Prosperity Trading Luck Excellence Magnificence And Greatness Leadership Teamwork Dreams And Goals Affirmations Meditation Teaching And Contribution Learning Give First Listening Inspiration And Enthusiasm Emotions And Feelings Children Go With The Flow Customer Service Coincidences World Peace Confidence Laughter Relaxation Time The Present Moment The Past Slow Down Miracles Good In Everyone
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INTRODUCTION This book is a resource. I compiled and collected ideas, thoughts, wise words and gems spoken and written by my mentors, teachers, fellow travellers and friends. I take no credit for the wisdom, only for bringing them together. A study was conducted in the 1990s in USA where a group of Psychology undergraduates followed primary school children to record the positive and negative messages they received on average each day. The results were appalling. At the ripe ages of primary school years, these impressionable minds received, on average, thirty two positive messages compared with four hundred thirty two negative messages. That is a ratio of fourteen to one. No wonder we grow up immersed in doom, gloom, pessimism and misery. No wonder we find it easier to find faults than praise. More recently in 2008, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) study into brain functions showed that we spend (ponder) nine times as long on negative information compared with equally positive information. Television, newspapers and electronic media pump nothing but bad news. A good news broadcasting station in Canada that was trialled failed miserably as no one tuned in. The English language has approximately four and a half times as many negative words as positive words. We are addicted to negativity. How are you meant to have a positive outlook on life? How can you make a success out of your life? If you keep thinking negative thoughts, keep hearing bad news, keep focussing on what is missing and not working, you can not come even close to successes, abundance, prosperity, happiness, joy and freedom that is your birthright. In order to get there, you need to balance the negativity you are exposed to. You need to wash yourself clean of the dirt, the muck that is smeared all over you every moment of everyday. There are books, movies, seminars, workshops, ashrams, motivational CDs, DVDs, MP3s available out there. I have gone through quite a few of them. I have collected the best of the best. These words are your first aid kit, your maintenance program, to Lift You Up from the negativity you are exposed to and firstly neutralize and then propel you towards the successes that are rightfully yours. Sinan Koray, Sydney, Australia, 2010 Every effort has been made to acknowledge the author of the quotations used. Please contact us at info@wecarewelistenwehelp.com if this has not occurred.
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LOVE Love is always present, it is we who forget it or remember it. Whatever our differences, we share this: we want to love and we want to be loved. What separates us is the way we go about it. Whenever you are confronted with an opponent conquer him with love. Mahatma Gandhi There is a net of love by which you can catch souls. Mother Teresa When you are in love, you put up with things that when youre out of love, you cite. Judith Martin The best proof of love is trust. Dr. Joyce Brothers Love is the best music in the score of life. Without it, one would forever be out of tune in the immense choir of humanity. Roque Schneider Love me when I least deserve it, because its then when I need it most. Chinese Proverb Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, and the romance in a relationship and find out you still care for that person. To handle yourself is to use your head. To handle others is to use your heart. Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is an illusion. David Icke An angel's heart sees everything as it really is and accepts it with love. Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate can not drive out hate; only love can do that. Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Always there is a drop of madness in love, yet always there is a drop of reason in madness. F. Nietzshe It's better to lose your ego to the one you love, than to lose the one you love because of ego.
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FEAR Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deep fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves: Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually: Who are you not to be? You are a child of God. You playing small doesnt serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We were born to manifest the glorious God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to be the same. As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others. Maryanne Williamson Resentment is about not having what you want in the past. Anger is about not having what you want now. Fear is about not having what you want in the future. Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness A life lived in fear is a life half lived. Fear, the best way out is through. Helen Keller Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Marie Curie The only time we grow is when we face a fear. Helen Keller Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures. W. Edwards Deming How can I get rid of fear? By walking up to the thing you are afraid of. Florence Scovel Shinn Fear is faith that it won't work out. Sister Mary Tricky Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear. Mark Twain A fiercely guarded palace indicates a scared king or queen inside. Steve and Shaaron Biddulph Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise. Vernon Howard When you can name your dragon, it loses its power.
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Fear of doing it Fear of never doing it Fear of not doing it enough Fear of doing it too much Fear of not doing it well Fear of doing it too well Fear of doing it and not remembering it Fear of doing it with the right person and not enjoying it enough Fear of doing it with the wrong person and enjoying it too much Just do it Nike T-shirt
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WORRY Worry is the misuse of imagination. Worry is a thin stream of fear through the mind. If encouraged it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. Arthur Somers Roche Begin worrying. Details to follow! Jewish Telegram A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband. A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife. A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Was it worth it? Mahatma Gandhi Why worry, it will probably never happen. Florence Scovel Shinn
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ANGER Holding on to anger is like holding on to a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. Buddha Anger is only one letter short of danger. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. Buddha When angry at someone ask yourself: What am I not doing in my life that I could be doing, that I am blaming him/her for not doing it for me? When someone is wronged, he must put aside all resentment and say - my mind shall not be disturbed, no angry words shall escape my lips. I will remain kind and friendly, with loving thoughts and no secret spite. Buddhist Prayer We are most likely to get angry and excited in our opposition to some idea when we ourselves are not quite certain of our own position and are inwardly tempted to take the other side. Thomas Mann When the impulse arises to verbally or physically attack someone, work it out physically. Go for a run or a swim. Get into a room by yourself and yell, beat cushions. Get into a gym and cycle until your legs shriek. Later ask yourself why that person had the power to upset you so much. Later still, an only when you are calm, talk about it. Don't carry a grudge. While you are carrying a grudge, the other guy's out dancing. Buddy Hackett If you are going to pursue revenge, youd better dig two graves. Chinese proverb
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SETBACKS AND HARDSHIP Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you fail to focus on your goals. If God brings you to it, he will bring you through it. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? Rumi When I am working on a problem, I never think of beauty. I think only of how to solve the problem; but when Im finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. R. Buckminster Fuller View a negative experience in your life like you'd look at a photo negative. A single negative can create an unlimited number of positive prints. Gerhard Gschwandtner Things are never as bad as they look. In my world, nothing ever goes wrong. Nissar Gaddata Maharaj You are always being prepared for something better or protected from something worse. Iyanla Vanzant The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. John Vance Cheney We can not adjust the wind ... but we can adjust the sails. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity. If you feel you are getting screwed, you probably are! Chin-Ning Chu Fall seven times, stand up eight. Japanese proverb Things are not as they appear to be. Nor are they otherwise. The Lankavatara Sutra Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. Arnold Bennett Just remember when you think all is lost, the future remains. Robert Goddard
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When there is a problem, there is not something to do, there is something to know. Dr Raymon Charles Barker We always have to work things out. For everything you have missed, you have gained something else. Ralph Waldo Emerson Write your sad times in sand; write your good times in stone. Tiger Woods recovers from bad shots in seven steps. He takes seven steps and it is gone! When you are going through hell, do not stop. Pat Mesiti. In life what sometimes appears to be the end is really a new beginning. Opportunities for personal growth coming from the environment are called upsets. A bend in the road is not the end of the roadunless you fail to make the turn. The only difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is what you do with them. Pat Mesiti. At a certain height there are no clouds. If there are clouds in your life, its because your soul hasnt soared high enough. Mark Fisher, author of The Instant Millionaire When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. Helen Keller
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BETRAYAL If somebody betrays you once, it's their fault. If they betray you twice, it's your fault.
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MISTAKES There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from. There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub. Elisabeth Kubler Ross To study the error itself does not lead to correction. A Course in Miracles The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. Elbert G. Hubbard, writer We are defined by what we do when something goes wrong. Joel Bauer Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit. Bertrand Russel If I could return to youth, I would commit all those errors again, but a bit earlier. Tallulah Bankhead
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CHARACTER Maturity is the ability to accept responsibilities, to stick with a job until it's finished, to do a job without being supervised, to carry money without spending it, and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even. Cowardice asks the question is it safe? Expediency asks the question is it politic? Vanity asks the question is it popular? But conscience asks the question is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right. Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Personality is nothing but the set of barriers we erect between ourselves and other people. Tibetan Buddhism If you want to know what a person is really like, give him or her some authority. You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. Leo Aikman Blessed is the person who has learned to admire but not envy, follow but not imitate, praise but not flatter and lead but not manipulate. Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the person, too. May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy and enough money to buy gifts. A careless word may kindle strife; a cruel word may wreck a life; a timely word may level stress; a loving word may heal and bless. When I was young and free and my imagination had no limits, I dreamed of changing the world. As I grew older and wiser, I discovered the world would not change, so I shortened my sights somewhat and decided to change only my country. But it too seemed immovable. As I grew into my twilight years, in one last desperate attempt, I settled for changing only family, those closest to me, but alas, they would have none of it. And now as I lay on my deathbed, I suddenly realise: If I had only changed myself first, then by example I would have changed my family. From their inspiration and encouragement, I would then have been
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able to better my country and, who knows, I may have even changed the world. Written on the tomb of an Anglican bishop in the crypts of Westminister Abbey. Don't make promises when you are in joy. Don't reply when you are sad. Don't take decisions when you are angry. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it. Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. John Wooden Keep your head and heart in the right direction and you never will have to worry about your feet. If you are too excited by joy, later you will have to cry. Tibetan saying Have much and be confused. Tao te Ching Fear less, hope more. Eat Less, chew more. Whine less, breathe more. Talk less, say more. Hurt less, love more; and all good things will be yours. Swedish proverb Life is like listening to music. You enjoy the process not the end result. Our world is expanded by those who live at its boundaries. Be football to time and change, the more kicks the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law. Ralph Waldo Emerson Honour what you feel by saying it the way you would want to hear it. When you say it honestly, with love, your job is over Iyanla Vanzant Life isn't waiting for the storm to pass, it's learning to dance under the ongoing rain. Great Minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. Eleanor Roosevelt. The selfish person is one lacking in self-love, who greedily pursues the satisfactions they block themselves from attaining. Erich Fromm
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To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill. Sun Tzu Men want certainty not truth. Bertrand Russell We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace within ourselves. Dalai Lama The longest journey that you will make in your life is from your head to your heart. Sioux Indian elder Life is a game play it Life is a challenge meet it Life is a dream realise it Life is a sacrifice offer it Life is love enjoy it Sai Baba Be kind whenever possible It is always possible. Dalai Lama Our contribution to the progress of the world must, therefore, consist in setting our own house in order. Mahatma Gandhi If I can not work for wages, I will work for the Lord and his benefits package is unmatched. David L. Weatherford There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart pursue those. Running is a road to self awareness and self reliance you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet. But when you are through, exhilarated and exhausted, at least for a moment everything seems right with the world. Dont look back unless you intend to go that way. Marc Holm Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. James Allen The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
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A therapist is a person who watches everyone else when a beautiful girl enters the room. There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. And you must always keep in mind, the choice you make, makes you. All paths lead nowhere. Therefore choose the path with heart. Don Juan quoted by Carlos Castaneda Excuses are lies we tell ourselves. Jim Warda To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Politician Adults do not need praise from adults. It is the childlike side of a person that need praise.
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RESPONSIBILITY Adulthood is defined by the willingness to except full responsibility for where you are at in life; no longer blaming others or circumstances. Joe Westbrook When you blame others, you give up your power to change. Robert Anthony People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I dont believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances that they want, and if they cant find them, make them. George Bernard Shaw Responsibility = Responding with ability Most current affairs are victim stories. Brendan Nicols You do not get to choose the way things are. Because you already did. Werner Erhart. You are not responsible for what people think about you, but you are responsible for what you give them to think about you.
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PASSION Passion is the tension that exists between something you love and something you hate. Robert Kiyosaki
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COMMITMENT Duty is a matter of the mind. Commitment is a matter of the heart. Until one is committed, there is hesitance, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself; then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issue from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it now. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Goethe Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. It is the only thing that has. If you are committed, youll do whatever it takes. If you are interested, youll do what is convenient.
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SECURITY Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Helen Keller There is no security on this earth - only opportunity. General Douglas Macarthur Security is not having things, its handling things.
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ATTITUDE AND MINDSET Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. Thomas Jefferson The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude! William James We can't solve a problem at the same level of thinking we used to create the problem. Einstein You are either part of the problem or part of the solution. Eldridge Cleaver A mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension. When a pickpocket meets a saint, all he notices are his pockets. Sufi saying. Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. Nikos Kazantzakis The longer I live, the more I realise the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, then money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearances, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company a church a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We can not change our past we can not change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is out attitude I am convinced that life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you we are in charge of our Attitudes. Charles Swindoll The pleasure you get from your life is equal to the attitude you put into it. I can complain because rosebushes have thorns... or rejoice because thornbush has a rose. Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success of failure. Norman Vincent Peale There are no ugly people, only ugly thoughts that I hold. Monique Benjamin
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The most painful state of being is remembering the future; particularly the one you can never have. Kirkegard The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost. George Shultz A challenge for you: Treat every person you meet as if they are the most important person on the planet. Earl Nightingale Dissatisfaction is the distance between expectation and realisation.
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STRESS Stress is the trash of modern life we all generate it, but if you dont dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake our life. Danzae Pace
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IMPRESSING OTHERS Some people are funny. They spend money they don't have, to buy things they don't need, to impress people they don't like.
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TAKING ACTION Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesnt matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle when the sun comes up, youd better be running. Some people make it happen some people watch it happen. Some people wonder what happened. Rochelle Stevens, Olympic Gold Medallist It is not enough to know what should be done, one must also feel it. Colin Camerer, George Loewenstein, Drazen Prelec The best time to plant an oak tree was 20 years ago the next best time is today. Chinese Proverb If you cant make waves, make ripples. You dont have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. Zig Ziglar Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. St. Francis of Assisi Dont tell me how rocky the sea is; just bring the darn ship in. Lou Holtz A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Confucius What we do in life at any given moment is not the cause of what we know but the cause of what we feel. All action is motivated by feelings all inhibition is limited by feelings. Never confuse activity with action. F Scott Fitzgerald Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action. David J. Schwartz Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain
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Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. Dale Carnegie Triumph is made up of two words: Try and Umph! If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams, and endeavours to lead a life which they have imagined, they will meet with success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. Martin Luther King, Jr. Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you can learn to do it well. When you dont like a thing, change it. If you can not change it, change the way you think about it. Maya Angelou To understand the currents of a river, he who wishes to know the truth must enter the water. Nisargadatta Maharaj Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it. Jean Toomer It is very hard to accelerate a parked car. Pat Mesiti You may get delayed to reach your targets, but every step you take towards your target is equal to victory. It's not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place will never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt You dont drown by falling in the water, you drown by staying there. Pat Mesiti
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It does not take much strength to do things, but requires great strength to decide what to do. Elbert Hubbard It is good to be trapped in a corner. That is when you act. Pat Mesiti
You will never possess something you are unwilling to pursue. Pat Mesiti. You will always miss 100% of the shots you do not take. In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try. Some people dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them. Sometimes you have to do the thing you can not do. Dont wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration. Thomas Edison A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. Kahlil Gibran If you know it and you are not doing it, then you do not know it. John Burley A ship in port is safe, but this is not what ships are built for. Grace Hopper Be not afraid of going slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Japanese proverb Even if you are on the right track, youll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers We like getting things easily. Paradoxically, we tend to place more value on what weve worked for rather than what comes too easily. Dr Joy Browne Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do. Bruce Crampton First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the communists and I did not speak out because I was not a
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communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and by then there was no one left to speak out for me. German anti-Nazi activist, Pastor Martin Niemller There are some things you don't have to know how it works only that it works. While some people are studying the roots, others are picking the fruit. It just depends on which end of this you want to get in on. Jim Rohn Indecisive people are like a blind person with a blindfold in a dark room looking for a black cat that is not there. Dr John Demartini ISOLATION He who builds a fence always fences out more than he fences in. The biggest pain we experience is the pain of separation. A Course in Miracles
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PERSISTENCE AND DETERMINATION What matters is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog. Coach Bear Bryant Some people succeed because they are destined to. Most succeed because they are determined to. George Allen One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes, another for thirty days, but it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success of his life. Edward B Butler The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. George Allen Energy and persistence will conquer all things. Benjamin Franklin Nothing in the world can take place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Calvin Coolidge. There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. Dr Wayne Dyer When you really want to do something, in your heart of hearts, you will find a way, but if you dont want to do something, you will find an excuse. Pat Farmer Australian Ultra Marathon runner Take up one thing and do it, and see the end of it, and before you have seen the end, do not give up. Those who only take a nibble here and a nibble there will never attain anything. Swami Vivekananda Never say goodbye if you still want to try - never give up if you still feel you can go on. You will never possess something you are unwilling to pursue. Pat Mesiti.
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AUTHORITY Somebody wants your power and you give it. That is how others get authority over you. Evan Slawson
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HABITS Eaters eat; runners run; guilty people feel guilt; angry people get angry; achievers find a way; victims find a reason. Anthony Robbins How you do anything is how you do everything. Zen saying We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.
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YOU BECOME YOUR THOUGHTS Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. Frank Outlaw All we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think... we become. Buddha Change your thoughts and change your world. Normal Vincent Peale I think, therefore I am. Descartes You only live twice: one in your mind, one in your life. 007 Self discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you dont control what you think you cant control what you do. Simply self discipline enables you to think first and act afterward. Napoleon Hill 50% of what we live is fantasy...The other 50% is projection. You are going to think anyway, so why not think big? Donald Trump
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THOUGHTS WORDS ACTIONS As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. Andrew Carnegie The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy. Florence Shinn In the buffet of life, most people waffle. I invite you not to waffle. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something. Plato After all is said and done, more is said than done.
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BELIEFS Re-examine all you have been told...Dismiss what insults your Soul. Walt Whitman Because of its tiny wings and heavy body, aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldnt be able to fly. But the bumblebee doesnt know that, so it flies anyway. Mary Kay Ash Imagination helps us break free the limitations of our belief systems. The doctors told me I would never walk again, but my mother told me I would, so I believed my mother. Wilma Rudolph, the fastest woman on Earth, three time gold medallist, 1960 Olympics We look inside first, decide the kind of world we want to see and then project that world outside, making it the truth as we see it. We make it true by our interpretations of what it is we are seeing. If you do not believe, no answer will suffice. If you believe no answer is required. Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you are right. Henry Ford If you do not believe in yourself, chances are that nobody else will. We see things not as they are but as we are. H. M. Tomlinson Most people want to believe rather than to know, to take for granted rather than to find out. James Thurber Some things have to be believed to be seen. Ralph Hodgson
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DECISIONS What is the secret of success? Right decisions. How do you make right decisions? Experience. How do you get experience? Wrong decisions! You'll never have all the information you need to make a decision. If you did, it would be a foregone conclusion, not a decision. David Mahoney
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FOCUS The successful man is the average man, focused. Anonymous Nothing develops focus like a lack of alternatives. Henry Kissinger
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THE MIND A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. Rabindranath Tagore Your future is in your subconscious mind. Dr Joseph Murphy
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FORGIVENESS Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. Mark Twain Ego wants to get and forget. Love wants to give and forgive. Sai Baba Forgiveness is letting go of hopes of a better past. Colin Tipping It is in the forgiveness of our weaknesses that we are healed of them, and the tenderness of a forgiven heart is a tenderness that will ultimately heal the world. Marianne Williamson Forgiveness means letting go of the past. Gerald Jampolsky There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. Josh Billings, 1815-1885 To understand everything is to forgive everything. Buddha
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LIFE Life is what happens to you as you make other plans. Spinoza Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules. Ashleigh Brilliant Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
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KEEP THINGS SIMPLE While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple. Dr Gerald Grumet
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QUESTIONS AND EXPLANATIONS It is always the ego that questions, because it is only the ego that doubts. A Course in Miracles Never explain, your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. Elbert Hubbard If we go on explaining, we shall cease to understand one another. Talleyrand
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CURIOSITY AND UNDERSTANDING Thinking is the hardest work. That is why so few people do it. Henry Ford. If you understand, things are such as they are; If you do not understand things are such as they are. Zen Gensha Master Life can be understood only looking behind, but can be lived only looking ahead. Soren Kierkegaard The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Aaby Kierkegaard
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SELF ESTEEM No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want. Vernon Howard Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Elbert Hubbard No amount of self-improvement can make up for a lack of self-acceptance. Robert Holden, Writer I am me. I like myself. I like giving love, and I like receiving it. If you think you are good enough, apply within. Steve and Shaaron Biddulph It is better to follow your own life's mission, however imperfectly, than to assume the life mission of another person, however successfully. Baghavad Gita The snow goose need not bathe itself to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. Lao-tzu Live your own life. That is to say: where you are, with what you are and with who you are. Swami Prajnanpad Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. Oscar Wilde You are you. You were you and will continue to be you. In you there is love, wisdom, your own growth and your own lessons. As you go through your lessons you contribute to co-creating lessons for others. They do what they choose to do with their lessons. Never walk on the travelled path, because it only leads you where the others have been. Graham Bell There is no weapon more powerful in achieving the truth than acceptance of oneself. Swami Prajnanpad If you can't stand solitude, maybe you bore others, too.
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When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. Dell Sellers. If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring. He sends you a sunrise every morning. Face it, friend - He is crazy about you! What creates romance is the ability to see yourself as lovable. Deepak Chopra
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SELF TALK If you hear a voice within you saying "You are not a painter" then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. Vincent Van Gogh It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. Mohammed Ali Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, "I have failed three times" and what happens when he says, "I am a failure." S. I. Hayakawa The most important conversation is the conversation you have with yourself. John Stephen Veitch
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INNER VOICE Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path. Henry Winkler Intuition = Inner Tuition.
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SELF HELP It is what you read when you dont have to, that determines what you will be when you cant help it. Oscar Wilde Poor people have big TVs, rich people have big libraries. Jim Rohn If it takes eight hours to cut down a tree, Id spend seven hours sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln People prefer to stay with problems they understand rather than look for solutions theyre uncomfortable with. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy The person who confesses ignorance shows it once; the person who conceals it shows it many times. Japanese proverb In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. Eric Hoffer, Philosopher and Social Pioneer The six mistakes of man 1. The delusion that personal gain is made by crushing others. 2. The tendency to worry about things cannot be changed or corrected. 3. Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it. 4. Refusing to set aside trivial preferences. 5. Neglecting development and refinement of mind, and not acquiring the habit of reading and studying. 6. Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do. Cicero, the Roman Statesman and philosopher, written some 2000 years ago... Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him. James Allen Relationship is the mirror in which we discover ourselves. Krishnamurti Developing your strengths is far more important than fixing your weaknesses. You do not need to be well rounded. Donald Clifton It is not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through pain or through joy. A Course in Miracles
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We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time T. S. Eliot
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CHANGE Change before you have to. Jack Welch Ive been boiling this egg for hours and its still hard. If what you are doing isnt working do something different. Moshe Lang, family therapist. We seldom change without discomfort. What The Bleep Do We Know
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SYSTEMS 94% of all failure is result of not having a system. W. Edwards Deming If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. W. Edwards Deming
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FREEDOM Everything can be taken from a man but ... the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. Viktor Frankl Its like Gullivers Travels. The big giant is tied down by those little rules, regulations and procedures. And the little guy? He just runs around and does what he wants. We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is an illusion. Swami Vivekananda Its better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. Dolores Ibarruri Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. George Orwell
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NEW IDEAS All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C Clarke.
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RISKING Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. Katherine Mansfield To laugh is to risk appearing the fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out for another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas, your dreams, before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To live is to risk dying. To hope is to risk failure. But risks must be taken. Because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. If you risk nothing and do nothing, you dull your spirit. You may avoid suffering and sorrow, But you cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, and live. Chained by your attitude, you are a slave. You have forfeited your freedom. Only a person who risks is free. We take risks not to escape life but to prevent life from escaping us.
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COURAGE "Come to the edge," he said. "We can't, we are afraid." "Come to the edge," he said. "We can't. We will fall." "Come to the edge," he said. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew. Guillaume Apollinaire You can not discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
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COMMUNICATION There is nothing, however difficult, that can't be communicated kindly if we care enough. Conversely, there is nothing, however beautiful, that we can not degrade if we do not care enough.
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WINNERS The Winner is always part of the answer; the Loser is always part of the problem. The Winner always has a program; the Loser always has an excuse. The Winner says "Let me do it for you"; the Loser says "That's not my job". The Winner sees an answer to every problem; the Loser sees a problem with every answer. The Winner sees a green near every sand trap; the Loser sees two or three sand traps near every green. The Winner says "It may be difficult but it is possible"; the Loser says "It may be possible but it is difficult". Winners never quit. Quitters never win.
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HAPPINESS It isnt what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. Dale Carnegie The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches. Many people lose the small joys, in hope for the big happiness. Pearl S. Buck There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. Agnes Repplier (1855-1950) Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face. Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), Pastor and author If you want happiness For an hour take a nap For a day go fishing For a month get married For a year inherit a fortune For a lifetime help someone else. Chinese proverb Happiness is largely a matter of where you place your attention. Tristine Rainer We prefer to be right than to be happy.
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HOPE Second marriages are proof that hope is stronger than experience.
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YOU AND THE REST OF THE WORLD What we call I is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and exhale. Shunryu Suzuki
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TRAINING Once the physical training is done, the difference between winning and not winning is in your head. Charles Garfield, Psychologist and champion Body Builder Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
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PRACTICE Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice. Bobby Knight The more I practice, the luckier I get. Ben Hogan, Golf Champion When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win. Ed Macauley, basketball coach Amateurs practice until they can get it right; professionals practice until they can't get it wrong.
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SUCCESS Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. Bill Gates Successful people go beyond where lazy people stop. Successful people put themselves in uncomfortable situations that lazy people dont. Successful people act where lazy people are trying to make up their mind. Successful people make up their mind quickly and change it slowly. Lazy people make up their mind slowly and change it quickly. Successful people continue to do whatever it takes regardless of what they may be feeling and they do not make other people pay for their emotional fluctuations. Success comes in a can..."I can!" Wally Amos One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us. Mary Kay Success comes to those who still hope although they've been disappointed, to those who still believe although they've been betrayed, to those who still dream although they've been hurt before. Most of my success has come from my ability to get myself to feel certain I could achieve something even though I had no references for it. Anthony Robbins The content of your thoughts and personal beliefs can be proven by a single indicator your current results. James A. Ray When you see a man at the top of a mountain, he did not fall there. Without your involvement you can't succeed. With your involvement you can't fail. When ambition exceeds performance, the gap is called frustration...When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success. Cullen Hightower The distance between success and failure can only be measured by ones desire. Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed theres so little competition. Elbert Hubbard
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MONEY The only people who think more about money than the rich are the poor. Oscar Wilde Money occurs to poor people as something you have (or dont have). Money occurs to middle-class people as something you do (like a job). Money occurs to wealthy people as something you ARE. Werner Erhard Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex: you thought of nothing else if you didnt have it and thought of other things if you did. James Baldwin There is a constant redistribution of wealth away from those who rely on luck to those who demonstrate skill. Steve McKnight When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience. Harvey Mackay
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POVERTY AND PROSPERITY Prosperity involves you running your own mind regardless of what your neighbours and the papers say. Andrew Matthews Knowledge is the best kind of wealth. Dalai Lama Poverty is not the absence of goods, but rather the overabundance of desire. Plato He who knows he has enough is rich. Tao te Ching
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TRADING It is a psychological fact that fear of loss is greater than the desire for gain. Zig Ziglar. Until you manage your emotions, do not expect to manage money. Warren Buffet Most traders take a good system and destroy it by trying to make it into a perfect system. Robert Prechter Some people seem to like to lose so they win by losing money, Ed Seykota Your biggest enemy, when trading, is within yourself. Success will only come when you learn to control your emotions. Edwin Lefvre The successful trader has to fight two deep seated instincts. Instead of hoping he must fear; instead of fearing he must hope. He must fear that his loss may develop into much bigger loss, and hope that his profit may become a big profit. Edwin Lefvre If you want to make a success and make profits, your object must be to know more; study all the time; never think that you know it all. Time spent in gaining knowledge is money in the bank. W. D. Gann The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past. Thomas F. Woodlock One of the great evils of trading is false exactness. Trading is a fuzzy process and I mean fuzzy in the best sense of the word. That is, as in fuzzy logic, as in the willingness to accept the idea that things arent exactly quantifiable and to forge ahead anyway. John Bollinger Numbers rule the universe. Phythagoras
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LUCK Luck is a word used to describe the success of the people you do not like. Charles Jarvis Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Elmer Letterman
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EXCELLENCE Excellence isn't just doing things right, but rather doing the right things right. The race for quality has no finish line. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is the word extra. Details make perfection. Leonardo Da Vinci If you dont do it excellently, dont do it at all. Because if its not excellent, it wont be profitable or fun, and if youre not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there? Robert Townsend The quality of a persons life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence. Vince Lombardi Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skilful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
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MAGNIFICENCE AND GREATNESS You have greatness within you. You have something special. If just one of you can get a glimpse of a larger vision of yourself, of who you really are, of what it is you bring to the planet, of your specialness, then the world will never be the same again. Mr Washington We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. Marianne Williamson You are personally capable of accomplishing so much more than you ever dreamed you could. If toys are for amusement and play, the most available permanent and sophisticated toy for humans is their body. Enemy of a great life is a good life. Brendan Nichols Greatness is not just a gift, sometimes it is a choice. Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
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LEADERSHIP You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you will have to win their hearts to have them work with you. William J. H. Boetcker The job of leadership today is not just to make money. It's to make meaning. John Seely Brown Do not follow where the path may lead... Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. We the willing, led by the unknowing are doing the impossible. If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the quality of his actions and the integrity of his intent. In the end the leaders are much like eagles they dont flock, you find them one at a time. Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination.
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TEAMWORK Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. Henry Ford Teamwork divides the task and doubles the success. Either we're pulling together or we're pulling apart. There's really no in-between. Kobi Yamada
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DREAMS AND GOALS The greatest danger for most of us is not that we aim too high and miss it, but that we aim too low and reach it. Michelangelo Children are happier Christmas morning than they are Christmas afternoon. People are happier going to a restaurant than returning from the restaurant, going on a holiday than returning from one. We are happier when we are moving towards our goals than after we have accomplished them. Set goals and as you reach them, set new goals. Earl Nightingale Reach for the sky because if you should happen to miss, you'll still be among the stars. You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal. The sky is the limit when your heart is in it. The key to happiness is having dreams... The key to success is making them come true. Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do everyday what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal. Elbert Hubbard Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go, be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do... The desire in your heart was not placed there if there was no chance of fulfilment. Barbra Rogoff If you try to aim for it, you are turning away from it. Zen Master Develop your dreams and you create passiondevelop the dreams of others and you create heaven. Do not underestimate your ability to create. We all have special powers. All your wants are being co-created right now: you and the world are partners in this cocreation.
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Far way 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 try to follow where they lead. Louisa Mary Alcott Nothing happens unless first a dream. Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to do what they want to do. Kathleen Winsor The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible. Anthony Robbins If you want to do a certain thing, you first have to be a certain person. Once you have become that certain person, you will not care anymore about doing that certain thing. Dogen
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AFFIRMATIONS Day by day in every way I am getting better and better. Emile Cou Something really wonderful is going to happen for me today.
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MEDITATION Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear. Lao-tzu I have so much to do today, I will need to meditate twice as long. Mahatma Gandhi Meditation is not means to an end, it is both the means and the end. Krishnamurti Meditation is not what you think. All mens miseries arise from not being able to sit quietly in a room. Blaise Pascal. Quiet the outgoing mental restlessness and turn the mind within Then you will see the underlying harmony in your life and in nature. Paramahansa Yogananda The only reason we dont see reality are the noises of the mind. Krishnamurti Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself. Audrey Giorgi
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TEACHING AND CONTRIBUTION No matter how fast we click from place to place, it will never replace face to face. Joel Bauer. When you work only for yourself, or for your own personal gain, your mind will seldom rise above the limitations of an undeveloped personal life. But when you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break your bonds: your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you have every dreamed yourself to be. Patanjali We are all teachers. Some teachers complain. Some teachers explain. Some teachers inspire. Sai Baba The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William Arthur Ward Many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. Lord Chesterfield We teach what we most need to learn.. Nothing can be taught to a man; but its possible to help him find the answer within himself. Galileo Galilei There is no master, there is no instructor, there is no person to tell you what you must do. Krishnamurti Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know. Tao te Ching You can not hold a torch to light anothers path without brightening your own. Always give people more than they expect to get. Everybody needs three kinds of relationships. 1- People we look up to and follow mentors, coaches and role models. 2- Peers with whom we can share our lives and whom we can talk about deep issues. 3- People who are following us. Pat Mesiti We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
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In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, but in the experts mind there are few. Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, Zen Master There is a big gap between advice and help. Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you. Augustine of Hippo It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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LEARNING I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Chinese proverb. We hear only half of what is said to us, understand only half of that, believe only half of that, and remember only half of that. Mignon McLaughlin To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. Chinese proverb.
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GIVE FIRST Have you ever found yourself saying: "Ill be nice to them if they are nice to me"? Imagine that you are in front of a cold fireplace, right next to it are some logs. You look at the stove and say: "You give me some heat and then Ill give you a log". Until you put in some logs there is not going to be any heat! It has to start somewhere, let it begin with you. Earl Nightingale
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LISTENING Nothing is quite so annoying as to have someone go right on talking when youre interrupting. The first duty of love is to listen. Paul Tillich What people really need is a good listening. Mary Lou Casey You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time. M. Scott Peck When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something. Jared Sparks I know that you believe you understand what you think I said. But I am not sure you realise that what you heard is not what I meant. Having someone to talk to is very powerful medicine. Dr John Tickell. Unfortunately, sometimes people dont hear you until you scream. Stephanie Powers
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INSPIRATION AND ENTHUSIASM Here is the secret of inspiration. Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly not more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you. William Feather Enthusiasm is like a ripple in the water... it spreads.
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EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS Reasoning is never enough, as any parent of a two-year old knows. Steve and Shaaron Biddulph Are humans any easier to lead than dogs? No, because sometimes humans are in an emotional state. Also a human will say Why?, whereas a dog does without asking. Cesar Millan, aka The Dog Whisperer Emotions cost you money, Strategies build you money. Dr John DeMartini Emotions make you think you can do it quicker than you can, bigger than you can. Dr John DeMartini The full expression of a feeling is its funeral pyre. Stanislav Grof Tears are the words the heart cant express.
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FRIENDSHIP The best vitamin for developing friends is B1. The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right. Mark Twain Friendship is a work of Heart. The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.
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CHILDREN The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have. Leo Buscaglia If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money on them. Abigail Van Buren Children! Tired of being harassed by your stupid parents? Act now. Move out, get a job. Pay your own bills. Really enjoy yourselves, while you still know everything! Parents are often blamed, but seldom trained. Dr Thomas Gordon, founder of Parent Effectiveness Training, PET A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in or the kind of car I drove but the whole world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.
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GO WITH THE FLOW It is easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going. Werner Erhart
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CUSTOMER SERVICE A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider on our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favour by serving him. He is doing us a favour by giving us the opportunity to do so. Mahatma Gandhi
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COINCIDENCES Seekers are offered clues all the time from the world of spirit. Ordinary people call these clues coincidences. Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
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WORLD PEACE One day, the people of the world will want peace so much that the governments are going to have to get out of their way and let them have it. Dwight D Eisenhower
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CONFIDENCE Confidence comes not from always being right, but from not fearing to be wrong. Peter T. McIntyre
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RELAXATION The time to relax is when you dont have time for it. Jim Goodwin
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TIME The bad news is time flies. The good news is youre the pilot. Michael Althsuler Time is very slow for those who wait, very fast for those who are scared, very long for those who lament, very short for those who celebrate. But, for those who love, time is eternity. William Shakespeare As you move faster, time moves slower. Albert Einstein A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. John Peer Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. Herodotus, 484-420BC Remember, tomorrow, today will be yesterday.
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THE PRESENT MOMENT The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. Abraham H. Maslow The past is history, the future is mystery, that is why the present is called the present: it is a gift. The robbers of time are the past and the future. Florence Scovel Shinn
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THE PAST The past is not dead. In fact it is not even past. William Faulkner
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SLOW DOWN Slow down and the thing you are chasing will come and catch you. Zen Saying If it is that important, it will still be important tomorrow. Things always take longer that we think they will. Joel Bauer
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MIRACLES The world is full of miracles: every moment, everywhere. We get accustomed to them and wonder where the miracles have gone. Sometimes it takes a shift to open our eyes. Tune in your awareness to the wonderment around, savour every moment. You will begin to see the stream of miracles around you. It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
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GOOD IN EVERYONE In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it. Michelangelo
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SEX To hear many religious people talk, one would think God created the torso, head, legs and arms, but the devil slapped on the genitals. Don Schrader
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AGING Old age isnt bad when you consider the alternative. Maurice Chevalier
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TAKE A BREAK Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen. Leonardo Da Vinci
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MAKE WAVES To stay the course ... sometimes you have to make waves.
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COMPUTERS Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. Pablo Picasso
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NEWS If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. Mark Twain
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GRASS IS GREENER The reverse side has also its reverse side. Japanese proverb
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WRITE IT DOWN The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen. Lee Iacocca The worst words you ever write are better than the best words you never write.
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PRAYERS Lord, Make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love; for it is in giving that I receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi Ask, and it shall be given you; Seek, and ye shall find; Knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For everyone that asketh, reveiveth; And he that seeketh, findeth; And to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Matthew 7:7,8 God Grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. Reinhol Niebuhr (now the Serenity Prayer of Alcoholics Anonymous)
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INDEX OF TOPICS Affirmations Aging Anger Attitude And Mindset Authority Beliefs Betrayal Change Character Children Coincidences Commitment Communication Computers Confidence Courage Curiosity And Understanding Customer Service Decisions Dreams And Goals Emotions And Feelings Excellence Fear Focus Forgiveness Freedom Give First Go With The Flow Good In Everyone Grass Is Greener Habits Happiness Hope Impressing Others Inner Voice Inspiration And Enthusiasm Isolation Keep Things Simple Laughter Leadership
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Learning Life Listening Love Luck Magnificence And Greatness Make Waves Meditation Miracles Mistakes Money New Ideas News Passion Persistence And Determination Poverty And Prosperity Practice Prayers Questions And Explanations Relaxation Responsibility Risking Security Self Esteem Self Help Self Talk Setbacks And Hardship Sex Slow Down Stress Success Systems Take A Break Taking Action Teaching And Contribution Teamwork The Mind The Past The Present Moment Thoughts Words Actions Time Trading
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Training Winners World Peace Worry Write It Down You And The Rest Of The World You Become Your Thoughts
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