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

"How can you have charisma? Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are making them feel good about you.
-- Dan Reiland, VP of Leadership Dev., INJOY

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die --whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.
-- Gilda Radner

"You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you."
-- Barbara Sher

"The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude
of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances,"
-- William James,
Father of modern day psychology.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
-- William James

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or
even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
-- Hellen Keller

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when.
You can only decide how you're going to live. Now!
-- Joan Baez

Courage isn't the absence of fear; it's the dealing with it.

-- Randall

If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

David Viscott

"The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time."
--Willem de Kooning

"Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together. All things connect."
--Chief Seattle

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
-- e. e. cummings

"Soon we will come to know ourselves as
multisensory, rendering obsolete the belief that we are five-sense creatures. No longer will we speculate about whether our thoughts and emotions have creative authority within our cell tissue; we will come to consider that form of perception as one of the central truths of life."
Carolyn Myss'

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Lao Tzu

Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity.
Albert Einstein

In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone
you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through
your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you
meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good
cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is
struggling with.
Brian Tracy

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone
call to make, who would you call and what would you say?
And why are you waiting?
Stephen Levine

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were
going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care,
kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it
with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be
the same again
Og Mandino

One person caring about another represents life's
greatest value
Jim Rohn

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice
because thorns have roses.
ZIGGY

"A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I
learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you
ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you,
what you do, and trust it."
Barbra Streisand

"What we hope ever to do with ease we must learn first to do with diligence."
Samuel Johnson

Dorothy Day, "The Long Loneliness"

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Og Mandino

Abraham Lincoln

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Aldous Huxley

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

Sir Winston Churchill

Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing.
Brian Tracy

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable.
Christopher Reeves

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything
Napoleon Hill

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie

Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world.
Emerson (1803-1882)

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

William James

William Shakespeare

The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.

Thomas Holdcroft

Wayne Dyer

Kahlil Gibran

Mark Victor Hansen, American
Motivational Speaker, Author

Norman Vincent Peale

Joseph Campbell

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

Milton Berle

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Mahatma Gandhi

Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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