Prepare and Be Ready for Opportunities

"Prepare!  Who knows but that it will be vacant tomorrow?  And if not that one, then another just as good, with your concern or some other.  Be ready for your opportunity when it comes."

-- Robert Collier


"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."

-- Storm Jameson


"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

Don't Sit There and Complain

"Don't just sit there and complain, do something.  And remember, it's up to you to make the change, to do something different.  The world doesn't owe you anything.  You have to create it."

-- Jack Canfield


"The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good."

-- Dr. Albert Schweitzer


"Listen to your life. All moments are key moments."

-- Frederick Buechner

Create The Environment First

"Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time.  Start by creating the perfect environment in your thoughts and your actions. When the timing is right, it will all come together and perfectly. "

-- Motivationstuff.com


"This world would not be satisfying unless one person were allowed to express gratitude and thanks to another."

-- Henry E. Barrett


“What you are, and who you are should provide greater clarity about where you have been and where you are headed. Although one distinguishes spiritual from physical nature, the ultimate unification of the two is the consequence of the struggle for internal, external and eternal – peace.”

-- T.F. Hodge

Your Intention Create Reality

"Attach yourself to those kindred spirits who have faith in who you are and what you desire to accomplish.  Inherit their passion for possibility growth and intention.  Intention transforms reality."

-- Stuart Avery Gold


"Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find."

-- Wayne Dyer


"What you WANT is irrelevant, what you've CHOSEN is at hand."

-- Spock (Star Trek)

Who Does Luck Favor

"Luck like to favor those person who prepares. It seems to keep growing when a person takes action. The best thing about luck is that you get to make it yourself!"

-- Motivationstuff.com


"Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change."

-- Wayne W. Dyer


"Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety."

-- William Shakespeare


"In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence."

-- Kahlil Gibran

Lifting Others Bring Success

"By helping to change the circumstances of another life, yours will change too.  The rise to success is achieved by lifting others.  A great part of the journey is who you choose to travel the path with.  Being a compassionate companion, knowing that you can depend on a friend and be dependable for them, through adventure and hardship."

-- Stuart Avery Gold


"Joy is strength."

-- Mother Teresa


"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

Reason For Picturing Yourself

"Whatever you think and feel yourself to be, the Creative Spirit of Life is bound to faithfully reproduce in a corresponding reaction. This is the great reason for picturing yourself and your affairs as you wish them to be as existing facts (though invisible to the physical eye), and live in your picture."

-- Genevieve Behrend (1921)


"I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives."

-- Tracy Chapman


"It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the "I Am," our real presence, can awaken."

-- G.I. Gurdjieff

Huge Improvement Begin with Little Things

"Excellence cannot be achieved in a short period of time or with just one gleaming achievement. It is a matter of starting with the little things and doing them the best way you are able.  Even a small change of just one percent per day will leave you with a huge improvement in just one month. "

-- Motivationstuff.com


"Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder."

- Eberhard Arnold


“I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."

-- Thomas Jefferson

You Chose Your Thoughts

"You can learn what you will, can remain as ignorant as you choose. If you love knowledge you will obtain it; if you love wisdom you will secure it; if you love purity you will  realize it. All things await your acceptance, and you choose by the thoughts which you entertain."

-- James Allen


“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.”

-- Charles R. Swindoll


"Though you may travel the world to find the beautiful, you must have it within you or you will find it not."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To Hoard Is To Lose It

"The man who says he is in possession of knowledge which he cannot give out because the world is incapable of receiving it, either does not possess such knowledge, or, if he does, will soon be deprived of it - if he is not already so deprived. To hoard is to lose; to exclusively retain is to be dispossessed."

-- James Allen


"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."

-- Agnes Repplier


"Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself."

-- Zeno of Elea

Road To Anything Worth Having

"There is no royal road to anything worth having. We must work for what we get. The prizes are not for the weaklings and triflers, but for the persistent, earnest individuals who will "hang on" until they succeed."

-- Theron  Q. Dumont


"Make your future dream a present fact by assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled."

-- Neville Goddard


"When you see it right and when you feel it right in the wholeness of your being, you then have created the condition that makes the result inevitable."

-- Stretton Smith

To Be An Extra Ordinary Human

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary human is that little extra.  Being an extraordinary human really does just take a little extra effort. Our daily choices are made based on subtleties. Chose to be subtly different, and watch your results becoming extraordinary."

-- Motivationstuff.com


"Inward spiritual practices such as meditation, breathing techniques and self-analysis generate insights and enhance abilities, but none are so useful as learning to live harmoniously in a committed relationship, being a skillful parent, or juggling the demands of daily life."

-- Dan Millman


"If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider."

-- Jules Renard

Something To Work Toward Daily

"Goals give us something to work toward every day.  We may question our ability to do what is necessary to realize our goals.  Being aware of the ways in which our emotions enable or hinder goal-setting is as important as establishing tangible goals."

-- Fred Mandell PHD & Kathleen Jordan PHD


"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

-- Lao Tzu


"Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life."

-- Buddha

Know What Recharge You

"Recovery plans vary from person to person.  We each get recharged in different ways.  The important thing is to know what recharges us and then tap into it. Even better, we can be proactive by regularly engaging in those activities that recharge us.  We can strength our emotional durability."

-- Fred Mandell PHD & Kathleen Jordan PHD


"Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time."

-- Clayton Christensen


"What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you."

-- Anthony De Mello

Declare Your Intentions

"The first line of defense in holding true to our life change commitments is us.  Declaring our intentions to others can be a powerful tool in holding ourselves accountable.  By doing so we turn friends and family into enablers of our intentions."

-- Fred Mandell PHD & Kathleen Jordan PHD


"Life teaches, love reveals.  Life's lessons are not easily won. However, when the journey is hard, the greater the prize.  Love on the other hand, has no drudgery to endure in order to reap all of its blessings."

-- Motivationstuff.com


"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn one's back on life."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Life Change Need Sustained Effort

"Life change can be many things at different times: it can be thrilling, exciting, fun, scary or confusing.  Life change, like any creative process, requires sustained effort.  If we imagine a new life, but don't take active steps to make it happen, we'll stay the same as always.  Discipline is a key to successful life change."

-- Fred Mandell PHD & Kathleen Jordan PHD


"Learn to feel what you think, and think what you feel."

-- G. I. Gurdjieff


"Do not listen to all the negative things going on in the world, listen to the birds."

-- A Lady Dying From Cancer

Enjoy Your Journey of Life

"The journey towards your life is a place of happiness as much as the destination.  When plotting your journey to the place in life that will make you happy, be sure to take your time to enjoy it and do some sightseeing along the way.  Remember, it is the experience that counts."

-- Motivationstuff.com


"Nothing in life is trivial. Life is whole wherever and whenever we touch it, and one moment or event is not less sacred than another. it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it."

-- Vimala Thakar


"There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub."

-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Rewarded With Life

"The risks of life change are inescapable, but they are worth it.  When we embrace the uncertainties that surround life choices and take action despite those uncertainties, we will be rewarded with a life that is truly ours."

-- Fred Mandell PHD & Kathleen Jordan PHD


“The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.”

-- Dr. Wayne Dyer


“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.”

--Denis Waitley

Embracing Uncertainty

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.  Like it or not, life is uncertain.  Navigating life's changes requires that we cultivate the skill of embracing uncertainty.  Embracing uncertainty involves acting on the opportunities, sometimes hidden, presented by change and uncertainty."

-- Fred Mandell PHD & Kathleen Jordan PHD


"Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am."

-- Voltaire


"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live."

-- Flora Whittemore

No Accidents in Your Life

"You are the thinker of your thoughts and as such you are the maker of yourself and condition. Thought is causal and creative, and appears in your character and life in the form of results. There are no accidents in your life. Both its harmonies and antagonisms are the responsive echoes of your thoughts. A man thinks, and his life appears."

-- James Allen


"Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved."

-- Jane Goodall


"What you permit, you promote.
What you allow, you encourage.
What you condone, you own."

-- Motivationstuff.com

Taking Chances

"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."

-- Geogria O'Keeffe


"A great library provides. It is enmeshed in the life of a community in a way that makes it indispensable. A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need."

-- Vicki Myron


“If you don’t take a chance, you don’t stand a chance.”

-- Sarah Wallace


“God gives every bird his worm but He does not throw it into the nest”

-- P.D. James

You Can Do Anything

"You can do anything you think you can.  This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for though it you can solve every human problem.  It should make of you an incurable optimist.  It is the open door to unlimited possibilities."

-- Robert Collier


"We spend too much time living in the 'what if' and need to learn to live in the 'what is.'"

-- Rev. Leroy Allison


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

-- Buddha

Battle For Achievement

"The battle for the achievement of success is half won when one knows definitely what is wanted.  The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be."

-- Napoleon Hill


"The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things."

-- St. Teresa of Avila

Quest of Our Self

"It is the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never ending journey we must all make."

-- Max Beckmann


"The best way to multiply joy is to divide it by helping those that need it brings you what you need. By sharing the joy in your heart will multiply it back to you."

-- Motivationstuff.com


"The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony."

-- Orhan Pamuk

Life Lessons of Wisdom

"Life is a great school for the development of character, and all, through strife and struggle, vice and virtue, success and failure, are slowly but surely learning the lessons of wisdom."

-- James Allen


"If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved."

-- Maurice Chevalier


"Our business in life is not to get ahead of other people, but to get ahead of ourselves."

-- Maltbie Matlock

Still Your Own Decision

"Each morning, you have the wonderful opportunity to transform your life for the day.  You have the choice to choose to remain where you are or reinvent any part of it. Either way it is still your own decision; and it all begins and ends with the power of your mind."

-- Motivationstuff.com


"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."

-- James Allen


"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind."

-- Romans 12:2

Winds of Fortune

"If the winds of Fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.  A kite rises against the wind, not with it!"

-- Napoleon Hill


"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

-- Albert Einstein


"If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem."

-- Jiddu Krishnamurti

Thoughts Are Activated by Emotions

"The law of attraction says your thoughts are activated by your emotions, either positive or negative and that they then create a force field of energy around you that attracts into your life, like iron filings to a magnet, exactly the people and circumstances that are in harmony with those thoughts."

-- Brian Tracy


"For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great."

-- Jose Ortega y Gasset


"Both fortune and love befriend the bold."

-- Ovid

Basis of Action is Our Belief

"Belief is the basis of all action, and, this being so, the belief which dominates the hearts or mind is shown in the life. Every man acts, thinks, lives in exact accord- ance with the belief which is rooted in his innermost being, and such is the math- ematical nature of the laws which govern mind that it is absolutely impossible for anyone to believe in two opposing conditions at the same time."

-- James Allen


“The only time success occurs before work is in the dictionary.”

-- Cameron Cashmore


"The appearance of things change according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.?

-- Kahlil Gibran

Avoid Problem or Solve It

"You see, when you know the cause of a problem, you can often avoid it.  Or you can find your own solution to that problem if you already have it."

-- W. Clement Stone


"When the Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes not that you won or lost, but how you played the Game."

-- Grantland Rice


"Having all the answers just means you've been asking boring questions."

-- Joey Comeau

Your Capacity of Achievement

"You will never know what is your capacity for achievement until you learn how to mix your efforts with imagination."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books."

-- John Lubbock


"What you are looking for is what is looking."

-- St. Francis of Assisi