Do Not Spoil What You Have

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

-- Epicurus


"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure."

-- Colin Powell


"We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon."

-- Konrad Adenauer


"Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -- over and over announcing your place in the family of things."

-- Mary Oliver

Everything In Life

"For everything in life, there is a price to pay. You do not get anything for free. For everything you take from life, things will be taken away from you. For everything you earnestly and intuitively give to life, things will be bestowed upon you, but they might not be what you had expected. For every single thought or action there is a consequence."

-- Dawn Mellowship


"You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself."

-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj


"The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness with your inner body - to feel it at all times. This will rapidly deepen and transform your life. The more consciousness you direct into the inner body, the higher its vibrational frequency becomes."

-- Eckhart Tolle

Real Power

"Real power comes from being connected with your intuition, from trusting in your higher path, from being your true self. The is what really empowers us, being true to ourselves."

-- Dawn Mellowship


"A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language."

-- Noam Chomsky


"A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely not happen."

-- Edward de Bono


"Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed - borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves."

-- Osho

Truly Happy Life

"The best way to lead a fulfilling and truly happy life is to learn to want what you need, rather than chasing desires that will never be yours."

-- Dawn Mellowship


"Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste."

-- Benjamin Franklin


"I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself."

-- Albert Einstein


"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."

-- Johann Von Goethe

Thoughts Are Energy

"I do believe that our thoughts are really energy. If we constantly have negative thoughts about ourselves and other people, we almost evoke a negative energy that could potentially be detrimental."

-- Dawn Mellowship


"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as in being able to remake ourselves."

-- Mahatma Gandhi


"The mood of success is neither temporary nor capricious, but is a long term mental
attitude or thought-feeling of achievement. The mood of success should be held constantly in mind as you progress through this training and in all the affairs of your life."

-- The Power Within


"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think."

-- Benjamin Disraeli

Slow Pace First

"To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first."

-- William Shakespeare


"Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries."

-- Corita Kent


"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding."

-- Albert Camus


"Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality."

-- Les Brown

Our Actions and Intentions

"This planet is in its current predicament because of our actions and our best intentions will never be enough to change that, unless they are accompanied by the appropriate actions."

-- Dawn Mellowship


"You can come out of the furnace of trouble one of two ways. If you let it consume you, you come out a cinder. But there is a kind of metal which refuses to be consumed,
and it comes out a star."

-- Jean Church


"The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment."

-- Arthur Wang


"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."

-- Paul Valery

When It Did Not manifest

"If you keep trying to achieve something and it just will not manifest, perhaps you are not meant to be doing it in the first place. Perhaps, there is another goal you need to be aiming for. Ask yourself before you pool all your intention into something, if it is what you are really meant to have."

-- Dawn Mellowship


"Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise."

-- William Shakespeare


"I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

-- Henry David Thoreau


"You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices."

-- Deepak Chopra

That Golden Dream

"You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream.
You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself."

-- Diana Ross


"To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body. When you can't make that commitment, they don't call you a champion anymore."

-- Rocky Marciano


"We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware."

-- Julia Moss Seton


"When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today."

-- Anthony de Mello

Match That Intention

"If you are going to do something you have to do it properly. The intention to do it properly, the intention to be good, the intention to change your life for the better has to translate into the right action to match that intention."

-- Dawn Mellowship


"Some men go fishing all their lives without realizing that it is not fish they are after."

-- Henry David Thoreau


"The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?"

-- Jack Kornfield


"The way people treat you is their karma, the way you react to them is yours."

-- Selina Lahood

Just Intentions

"The world is swarming with people with extremely admirable intentions, but for many that is all they are, just intentions. If they never manage to progress any further than that, nothing good will come of it."

-- Dawn Mellowship


"Try not to become a man of success but a man of value."

-- Albert Einstein


"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small people who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."

-- Arthur Wang

Money and Man

"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one."

-- Benjamin Franklin


"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened."

-- Tao Te Ching


"Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere."

-- Joseph Campbell


"Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change."

-- Jerry Frankhauser

Trust Your Intuition

"The main thing to remember is that if you trust your intuition implicitly, you will never ever go wrong in life. The knowledge imparted to us through our intuition, is way above and beyond that of both our physical and our emotional bodies."

-- Dawn Mellowship


"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

-- Epicurus



"Spiritual evolution occurs as the result of removing obstacles and not actually acquiring anything new. Devotion enables surrender of the mind's vanities and cherished illusions so that it progressively becomes more free and more open to the light of Truth."

-- David R. Hawkins


"My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened."

-- Montaigne

Fear Is Important

"Fear has an important part to play in our lives. Rational fear protects us when we are in treacherous situations. I'd like to keep some of my fears thanks, like the one that prevents me from sauntering down a dark alleyway at night alone, or the fear that prevents me from placing my hand on the red hot cooker hub."

-- Dawn Mellowship


"It always seems impossible until it's done."

-- Nelson Mandela


"You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly."

-- Mevlana Jelalu'ddin Rumi


"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it."

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Celebrate Life Itself

"Celebration is a thing that people do when efforts are accomplished and when you know the result. But true masters of the Universal laws know that you need to celebrate every moment of your life. As you celebrate life itself, life will celebrate you. That is why it is so important to visualize the honoring and the awards before you receive them in your reality."

-- Marie Diamond


"One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying."

-- Joan of Arc


"We're all just walking each other home."

-- Ram Dass


"What we have learned from others becomes our own reflection."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work That Challenges You

"Whatever you do, start by choosing the work that challenges you, since challenge is how you reach your full potential. Doing what you already know causes you to stagnate and lose touch with the times."

-- Nancy Anderson


"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character."

-- Henry Clay


"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.

-- Vince Lombardi


"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this -- To rise above the little things."

-- John Burroughs

You're Better Than You Think

"Research shows that people often underestimate their ability. You're probably better than you think you are. So set yourself a goal that will stretch and challenge you. If you do that, you may surprise yourself as to what you can achieve."

-- Rob Yeung


"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life -- and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."

-- Georgia O'Keeffe


"Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

-- Charles Dickens


"What has for centuries raised humanity above the beast is not the cudgel but an inward music; the irresistible power of unarmed truth, the powerful attraction of its example."

-- Boris Pasternak

Source of Joy

"We all need a certain amount of joy to keep us surfing the wave of life. But, if you wish to excel in the law of attraction you must have access to a source of joy in yourself and be supported by a joyful home or work space."

-- Marie Diamond


"If you are striving for harmony of feeling, thought, will and conduct with the Universal System in which we live and with all right-motives and psychic intelligence, those goods and that welfare are surely for you, since there is enough goods and welfare for all. You are entitled to call for and receive them as your inalienable right."

-- The Power Within: Law of Psychic Demand


"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself."

-- Henry Ward Beecher

Internal Motivation

"The key to internal motivation is your interest in what you're learning. You can't fake interest or the lack of it. You're eager to learn more about what interests you, what you couldn't care less about doesn't interest you, which is why you can't get motivated to do it."

-- Nancy Anderson


"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."

-- Thomas Jefferson


"What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year."

-- Vern McLellan


"The more we develop the habit of noticing goodness, the more our own sense of wellbeing rises."

-- Brahma Kumaris

Focusing Is Like

"Focusing is more than just concentrating. It is also creating an atmosphere around you that is like what you desire." If you wish harmony than you need to stop the heavy rock music sounds in your car.

-- Marie Diamond


"Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal."

-- Mike Ditka


"Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway."

-- John Wayne


"Another fresh new year is here... Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear,To love and laugh and give!"

-- William Arthur Ward

Motivating Picture

"A vision is a motivating picture of what you hope to achieve because achieving distinguishes a vision from a mere daydream. A daydream is just an idle thought with no actions, no results, while a vision inspires you to take action."

-- Rob Yeung


"The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't."

-- Joseph Mankiewicz


"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you knock long enough and loud enough
at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


"Make no judgements where you have no compassion."

-- Anne McCaffrey

Believe in Yourself

"We often become what we believe ourselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the
ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning."

-- Mahatma Gandhi


"Goals need to be written down so your subconscious will accept what you say as logical."

-- Nancy Anderson


"If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down."

-- Paul Hawken


"Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience."

-- Randolph Bourne

Focus Your Attention

"In order to make the law of attraction work for you, you need to focus for a while on what you wish from the Universe, by focusing you put the process to work. Everything you give attention to will manifest. Focus is a positive way of giving attention."

-- Marie Diamond


"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live."

-- Mortimer Adler


"Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into."

-- Brian Tracy


"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were."

-- Cherie Carter-Scott

Foundation of Success

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

-- Pablo Picasso


"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery


"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

-- Mahatma Gandhi


"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."

-- The Dalai Lama

Create a Vision

"The human being is the only animal that can think about the future, so you may as well use that talent. Whether your long-term aspirations are to be confident and popular in your social life or a successful business person, a winning sports player or a great parent, you need a vision to get you there."

-- Rob Yeung


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

-- David Joseph Schwartz


"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."

-- Aristotle


"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."

-- Albert Einstein

Let Go of Past

"In order to create new space and new opportunities to come to your life you need to let go of the past."

-- Marie Diamond


"Love is the way messengers from the mystery tell us things."

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj


"Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe."

-- Buddha


"Laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population."

-- Albert Einstein

The Point Is To Have a Vision

"Most confident people have a vision of where they want to go, not a rigid plan but at least a broad direction. They may not call them visions, but that doesn't mean that they don't have them. They may think of them as long-term goals, plans or ambitions. Or their sense of purpose and meanings of life. But the point is that they have them."

-- Rob Yeung


"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."

-- Maxim Gorky


"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you. When it seems as though you can't hang on a minute longer... Never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn."

-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Develops Patience

"Like all strengths, patience develops the more you use it. You're tested throughout life to see if impatience will get the best of you and it does, until you interpret setbacks and delays as opportunities to reflect, review and revise."

-- Nancy Anderson


"Look lovingly upon the present, for it holds the only things that are forever true."

-- A Course in Miracles


"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt


"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

-- Epictetus

Live Life with Passion

"I would encourage you to live life with more passion. You don't have to live as if you are living the last day of your life, but do what you do with passion."

-- Marie Diamond


"The first duty of love is to listen."

-- Paul Tillich


"Along with a strong belief in your own inner voice, you also need laser-like focus
combined with unwavering determination."

-- Larry Flynt


"Kind hearts are the gardens. Kind thoughts are the roots. Kind words are the blossoms. Kind deeds are the fruits."

-- Kirpal Singh

Adopt Optimistic View of Life

"Choose to adopt a more optimistic view of life. This isn't about putting on rose-tinted spectacles and pretending that the world is a wonderful place, but simply choosing to focus on what is good in your life rather than dwelling only on what is bad."

-- Rob Yeung


"Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing."

-- Oscar Wilde


"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose.

This thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."

-- Mary Pickford


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

-- Brian Tracy

Hold The Key to Your Destiny

"My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own.

I am the force. I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze.

My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny."

-- Elaine Maxwell


"Once your subconscious accepts the new as better than the old, your dreams will reflect the calm that follows the winds of change."

-- Nancy Anderson


"Be happy. It's one way of being wise."

-- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette


"There is a tremendous power in positive thinking. When you expect the best, you literally create a thought field that magnetizes that which you desire. Like attracts like."

-- Douglas Bloch