Many Of Us Are Running From Things

"Every day when he came home from school, there was a neighborhood dog that would start to bark wildly and chase him. Every single day, at the same block, he would be running scared trying to escape that dog. Finally, he just got tired of the chasing and the running and said, ‘Next time I’m going to find a brick and bust that dog in the head.’ “The next day he was walking home, minding his own business, and sure enough, the dog started barking and chasing him. He started running as usual, and then he saw a brick. He stopped, picked it up and turned around. As the dog got closer, he realized it didn’t have any teeth. He just put down the brick and said, ‘Get out of here,’ as the dog whimpered away. All our lives, many of us are running from things that don’t have any teeth to do us harm.”

-- Larry D Angelo

Don't Deny Your Mind and Soul

"We are all acquainted with the loathsome consequences of living for the body and denying both mind and soul; and we see that real life means the complete expression of all that man can give forth through body, mind, and soul. Whatever he can say, no man can be really happy or satisfied unless his body is living fully in every function, and unless the same is true of his mind and his soul. Wherever there is unexpressed possibility, or function not performed, there is unsatisfied desire. Desire is possibility seeking expression, or function seeking performance."

--  Wallace D. Wattles

Each Goal Successfully Reached

"That’s the way goal-oriented people spend their lives. Each goal, successfully reached, finds them better equipped, with more experience, to set the next goal. Goals for such people tend to ascend in stair-like fashion, each one a bit more demanding and fulfilling than the one before. In a few years they find themselves accomplishing, with surprising ease, goals that would have been impossible for them when they first began their journey into meaning."

-- Earl Nightingale

The Only Thing You Can Control

"We have so little control over our lives. The only thing we can really control is what we spend our days on. What we work on and how hard we work on it. It might seem like a stretch, but I really think the best thing you can do if you want to make art is to pretend you’re starring in your own remake of Groundhog Day: Yesterday’s over, tomorrow may never come, there’s just today and what you can do with it."

-- Austin Kleon

You Are Only Responsible For Your Work

"You must practice being stupid, dumb, unthinking, empty. Then you will be able to DO . . . Try to do some BAD work—the worst you can think of and see what happens but mainly relax and let everything go to hell—you are not responsible for the world—you are only responsible for your work—so DO IT."

-- Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse

Pay Attention

“For anyone trying to discern what to do with their life: PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO. That’s pretty much all the info you need.”

--  Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Take A Walk Out In The Fresh Air

"The people who want to control us through fear and misinformation—the corporations, marketers, politicians—want us to be plugged into our phones or watching TV, because then they can sell us their vision of the world. If we do not get outside, if we do not take a walk out in the fresh air, we do not see our everyday world for what it really is, and we have no vision of our own with which to combat disinformation."

-- Austin Kleon

The Dictionary Defines Will As Choice

"The dictionary defines will as choice, intention, inclination, determination, tendency, and in order to make it the will of Omnipotence you must animate it, make it alive within you by enthusiasm, feeling, and animation until it becomes embodied in the subconscious mind. When man learns to choose wisely, he will choose happiness, peace, security, joy, health, abundance, and all the blessings of life."

-- Joseph Murphy

Now Is The Ony Time You Have

"For now is the only time that we have. It is our only negotiable currency. Yesterday is a canceled check. Tomorrow is a promissory note. It is only today that we may spend in the noble effort of using all the gifts that God gave us."

-- Og Mandino

Take An Honest Look In The Mirror

"Knowledge is different. You can read and gain knowledge; you can go to school and gain knowledge.  With self-awareness or introspection, you step back from the canvas of life, and you take an honest look in the mirror at the person behind the mirror and say, “What am I good at? What do I believe in? What’s important to me? What do I really want to be when I grow up?” This has to do with introspection and authentic self-awareness. We don’t do much of that today, in my opinion."

-- Denis Waitley