To Enjoy This Life

"To really enjoy this life, we need good health and we must strive to keep ourselves fit and healthy."

-- Dharma Dev


"We may think will power is involved, but more than likely change is due to want power.

Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now."

-- George Sheehan


"Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others... And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude."

-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh


"In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It's the place of reflection and contemplation, and it's the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way."

-- Angeles Arrien

Plant Priceless Seed

"This life is a fertile land of beauty and if you plant those priceless seed, it is you who will be well rewarded. There is no better time than now in your life. If your plan fails, you have a chance to correct it and try again."

-- Dharma Dev


"View change as the one constant in your life. Welcome it. Expect it. Anticipate it.

-~Denis Waitley


"The world is our school for spiritual discovery."

-- Paul Brunton


"May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you."

-- Bob Dylan

With a Purpose

"Having a purpose provides something around which to structure your actions. Purpose provides direction and tells you which way to aim. With a purpose before you, you can set goals to achieve that purpose and small steps to accomplish the goals."

-- Dr. Beverly Potter


"Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others... And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude."

-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh


"In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It's the place of reflection and contemplation, and it's the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way."

-- Angeles Arrien


"When men are easy in themselves, they let others remain so."

-- Anthony A. Cooper

Become Unstoppable

"Once we are able to visualize the success and cling to the determination steadfastly, then we become unstoppable"

-- Dharma Dev


"When one foot walks, the other foot rests."

-- Indian Proverb


"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.

We need people who can dream of things that never were."

-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy


"Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive."

-- Napoleon Hill

Provide Meaning

"Striving towards an important purpose provides meaning. It makes what may have been insignificant into something important."

-- Dr. Beverly Potter


"... as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become."

-- Bishop Westcott


"The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do."

-- Sarah Ban Breathnach


"Nothing is interesting if you're not interested."

-- Helen MacInness

3 mistakes not to make

"There are three mistakes we must never make and that is to dwell in the past, repeat a mistake and worry about tomorrow."

-- Dharma Dev


"It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see."

-- Eleanor Farjeon


"There is a deceptive and cunning enemy who wants to steal your freedom. It has doomed millions to self-imposed bondage.

Some might know when it has them in its grip, but countless others don't even realize this hidden power is preventing them from experiencing richer, freer and happier conditions of life.

This enemy has a name and its name is Fear."

-- Break Free: How to Conquer Fear

What One Needs

"One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world."

-- Hannah Senesh


"Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible."

-- Mahatma Gandhi


"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one-yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one-foot from a winning touchdown."

-- Ross Perot


"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you."

-- Lewis B. Smedes

Portions of Success

"We translate into reality thoughts of poverty just as quickly as we do thoughts of riches. But when our attitude towards ourselves is big, and our attitude towards others is generous and merciful, we attract big and generous portions of success."

-- W. Clement Stone


"A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains."

-- Dutch Proverb


"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."

-- William Shakespeare


"Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities.

The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them."

-- Rick Warren

Don't Be Stressed By Past

"Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view."

-- Guy Finley


"Never argue with one's own understanding. The whisper of intelligence is always there, whatever you do."

-- Vimala Thakar


"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong."

-- Warren Buffett


"Contentment is not the fulfilment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have."

-- Motivationstuff.com

Seeds of New Self

"We must learn to look our fears, weariness and anxiety directly in the eye and instead of seeing what is impossible according to their view of life, sow the seeds of a new Self by daring to doubt their dark view of things."

-- Guy Finley


"You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link."

-- Kahlil Gibran


"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

-- Thomas Edison


"The more you think, the more time you have."

-- Henry Ford

Interior Discovery

"And just as fruit on a tree must develop into fullness following a certain order of natural events, so too is there a natural order to interior discovery that leads up to winning your own life and living it as you please."

-- Guy Finley


"The song I came to sing remains unsung. I have spent my life stringing and un-stringing my instrument."

-- Rabindranath Tagore


"You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct.

We all start with all there is. It's how we use it that makes things possible."

-- Henry Ford


"Patience is also a form of action."

-- Auguste Rodin

True Conscious Initiative

"We must learn to take the true conscious initiative with each other and then, based in our understanding of this great spiritual law that governs harmonious relationships, make the effort to be to others what we wish them to be four us."

-- Guy Finley


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

-- Denis Waitley


"When you don't choose love, you choose fear."

-- iJourney Editors


"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."

-- Frank Lloyd Wright

Being Just Yourself

"The true individual is one who doesn't need the approval of others in order to know the peace of mind he finds in being just himself."

-- Guy Finley


"Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.

The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity."

-- Joseph Sugarman


"Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble."

-- Sidney J. Harris


"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Listen To Ourselves

"The more we listen to ourselves and make positive changes based on what we discover, the more interesting life becomes."

-- Louise Hay & Cheryl Richardson


"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

-- Bill Cosby


"Those who wish to sing, always find a song."

-- Swedish Proverb


"Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see."

-- William Blake

Real Powers Lifts Us

"Real power lifts us above challenging circumstances, it shelters us from those fears that want to drag us down into troubled thoughts about tomorrow."

-- Guy Finley


"Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that?

We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.'"

-- Marie Curie


"Transformation literally means going beyond your form."

-- Wayne Dyer


"It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not."

-- James Gordon, M.D.

Our Thinking Thoughts

"Our thinking either makes us feel good or its makes us feel bad. It's not the events nearly as much as it's the thoughts."

-- Louise Hay & Cheryl Richardson


"Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing."

-- Johann von Schiller


"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."

-- Jim Rohn


"There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate."

-- Robert Brault

Past is Powerless

"The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as it as shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it."

-- Guy Finley


"Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth."

-- Thich Nhat Hanh


""Dependent people need others to get what they want.

Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts.

Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success."

-- Stephen Covey

Live Lives to Fullest

"When we live our lives to the fullest, we're going to make the little things in life wonderful and good and important."

-- Louise Hay & Cheryl Richardson


"Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults."

-- Antisthenes


"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

-- David Brinkley


"Necessity does the work of courage."

-- Nicholas Murray Butler

Affirmations Helping Us

"Affirmations help point us in a new direction so we can focus on a better outcome."

-- Louise Hay & Cheryl Richardson


"If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want."

-- Oscar Wilde


"The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world."

-- Paul Farmer


"One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility.

Then you begin to think, 'Well, I'll have a go of it, too.'"

-- Margaret Thatcher

Grateful Remembrance

"If we work each moment to practice kindness, patience, and persistence, doing so in grateful remembrance that each breath we take is a gift, here's what we'll find: the power of being present in this way ensures that each of our 'tomorrows' dawn with more Light than was seen this day."

-- Guy Finley


"When a child enters your life it's time to learn [not time to teach]."

-- Jaggi Vasudev


"What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?"

-- Robert H. Schuller


"There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it."

-- Seneca

Focused State Of Mnd

"By putting myself in a determined and focused state of mind, I discovered that Life brought me the resource, people, and opportunities I needed to turn my situation around."

-- Louise Hay & Cheryl Richardson


"The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing."

-- John Muir


"They never fail who die in a great cause."

-- George Gordon Byron


"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

-- Oprah Winfrey

Don't Lives in Fearful Preparation

"We are not created to spend our lives in fearful preparation over what may come, but rather to use whatever comes our way, each moment, to help us perfect our understanding that God is good."

-- Guy Finley


"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction."

-- George Lorimer


"We have guided missiles and misguided men."

-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.


"Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time.

From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed."

-- Eileen Caddy

Believe Abundant Universe

"The more we choose to believe in an abundant Universe, the more we find that our needs are met. The affirmation Life loves me, and all my needs are met at all times, will start us on the process."

-- Louise Hay & Cheryl Richardson


"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle, or you can live as if everything is a miracle."

-- Albert Einstein


"When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless."

-- Byron Katie


"The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it."

-- Christian Nestell Bovee

Refuse To Dwell in Discouragement

"Refuse to dwell in discouragement over who your own thoughts are telling you you'll never be. Just get started working on who, and what, you are right now!"

-- Guy Finley


"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it."

-- Jonathan Winters


"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become."

-- James Allen


"Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing."

-- Vincent Lombardi

Never Believe Negative Thought

"Never believe in any negative thought or feeling that would have you believe, 'There's no way!' Always remember instead that real life is a secret and vital flux of possibilities rising up from the Ground of what seems improbable, much as a spring flower manages to bloom in a once-frozen field."

-- Guy Finley


"If you accept a limiting belief, then it will become a truth for you."

-- Louise Hay


"There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in."

-- Seth


"Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."

-- Thomas Carlyle

True Fearlessness

"True fearlessness is knowing we are made for whatever happens to us whenever we are willing to let God remake us in that moment."

-- Guy Finley


"Action is the foundational key to all success."

-- Pablo Picasso


"Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought are commonly the most valuable."

-- Francis Bacon


"Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart."

-- Motivationstuff.com

Get a Good Rest

"Whenever anyone asks me for my secret to success, a good night's sleep is always near the top of the list. I thrive on it, at least eight hours a night, and I've made a point to really honor what my body needs to get good rest."

-- Louise Hay & Cheryl Richardson


"You don't become enormously successful without encountering some really interesting problems."

-- Mark Victor Hansen


"If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting."

-- Benjamin Franklin


"Adults who feel more gratitude are more likely to have increased feelings of well being; higher levels of happiness, and lower levels of depression and stress. Therefore, less attitude and more gratitude."

-- Motivationstuff.com

Key To Success

"Having a positive mindset is key to success. No matter how hard you try, if you do not have the right mindset, things may continually work against you."

-- Sandy Forster


"There isn't much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren't really living without it."

-- Real Live Preacher


"There's a way to do it better -- find it."

-- Thomas Edison


"Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows."

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj

Staying Happy and Optimistic

"Staying happy and optimistic is important if we are to accept life's events and move towards our goals."

-- Jamil Qureshi


"No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required.

It is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction."

-- Charles Kendall Adams


"To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so."

-- Walter Scott


"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes