Choosing To Be Positive Creates A Different Experience

"Choosing to be positive as your persist with a tough task is a small choice that creates a profoundly different experience.  You don't have to get depressed when things are going badly, we humans always have the choice to decide out thinking, regardless of the prevailing circumstances."

-- Siimon Reynolds


"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."

-- G.K. Chesterton


"If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily."

-- Gerald Good

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Heights That Great Men Reached

"The heights by great men reached and kept, were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night."

--- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


"Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all."

-- William Faulkner


"Choose to live simply so that others may simply live."

-- Gandhi

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Model What The Best Do

"It doesn't matter what you're trying to achieve, there are plenty of people throughout the history of the world who have achieved similar goals before you.  So copy them.  Model what the best do and you're likely to get similar results."

-- Siimon Reynolds


"Love all. Feed all. Serve All."

-- Neem Karoli Baba


"A smile increases your face value."

-- Dolly Parton.

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Count Your Blessing To Increase Happiness Level

"When you foster an attitude of gratitude you open yourself up to more positively, which in turn fuels success.  Simply by taking the time to consciously count your blessings, even once every week, will increase your satisfaction and happiness level."

-- Sam Cawthorn


"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."

-- Mother Teresa


"May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children."

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

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Don't Be Wishy Washy and Weak

"Focus is crucial.  If you are unclear about the purpose of your life, then your day-to-day actions will often be wishy-washy and weak. Without an overall life purpose to guide you like a golden compass, you will get caught up worrying about the trivial and the urgent, not the important."

-- Siimon Reynolds


"Quiet is the element of discerning what is essential."

-- Gordon Hempton


"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles."

-- Washington Irving

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Optimists Believe All Things Will Pass

"Optimists, on the other hand, see events and situations as temporary.  Even in the midst of crisis these people believe all things will pass and tomorrow will be a brighter day.  Just because something unpleasant is happening now does not resign that person to a life of distress."

-- Sam Cawthorn


"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"

- Abraham Lincoln


"Master your past in the present, or your past will master your future."

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Take The Time To Think

"Taking the time to really think things through is a common trait in winners and usually missing in losers.  Dedicating hours, days or even weeks to conceiving breakthrough ideas is a vital part of achieving uncommon success."

-- Siimon Reynolds


"True spirituality is a mental attitude you can practice at any time."

-- Dalai Lama


"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

-- Aesop

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Fuel Your Additional Success

"In those trying times we assume that we are failing or that the change we are trying to implement won't work, and we can so easily get disheartened.  When you hit the speed bumps, celebrate because it is evidence that you have been making progress, and leverage that positivity to fuel additional success as you spiral upward."

-- Sam Cawthorn


"Goodness is the only investment that never fails."

-- Henry David Thoreau


"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."

-- Helen Keller

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Stress Is Dangerous For You

"Stress is far more dangerous than most of us realise.  Discipline yourself to create breaks through the day and relaxing activities at night and on weekends.  Stress is just too dangerous for you to allow it into your life unchallenged."

-- Siimon Reynolds


"Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded."

-- William Haslitt


"In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past."

-- Dali Lama

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Successful People Keep Moving

"Success seems to be connected with action.  Successful people keep moving.  They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

-- Conrad Hilton


"On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come, I suddenly experienced the universe as intelligent, loving, harmonious."

-- Edgar Mitchell


"Follow the three R's: Respect for self, respect for others and responsibility for all your actions."

-- Dali Lama

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Life Most Remarkable Experiences

"One of life's most remarkables experiences is to travel to a tropical island or a poor African nation and discover that despite owning very little, the inhabitants are usually some of the happiest people you'll see in your entire life."

-- Siimon Reynolds


"This is the unusual thing about nonviolence - nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory."

-- Martin Luther King Jr.


"The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past. You can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches."

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Believe in Positive Outcome

"Believe in yourself and life.  Tough times don't last but tough people do.  No matter how bleak things look today the sun will rise tomorrow; tomorrow is a brand-new day, so practise believing in a positive outcome."

-- Sam Cawthorn


"You cannot discover oceans unless you have the courage to leave the shore."

-- Successories


"A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom."

-- Bob Dylan

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Stress Relationship To Failure

"Stress and failure to achieve go hand in hand.  If you take daily action to keep your stress levels under control, you are far more likely to have both the energy and the motivation to keep striving for victory."

-- Siimon Reynolds


"Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary."

-- Martin Luther King Jr.


"May you live all the days of your life."

-- Jonathan Swift

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Quality Questions Create Quality Life

"Quality questions create a quality life.  You need to burn this idea into your brain, because it's as important as anything else.  Successful people asked better questions, and as a result, they got better answers."

-- Anthony Robbins


"This we know; all things are connected like the blood that unites us We do not weave the web of life, we are merely a strand in it Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves."

-- Chief Seattle


"The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had."

-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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The Success and Failure Monster

"One of the first things I do when I'm teaching someone to juggle is to deal with that awful two-headed monster called success and failure.  If you decide to learn to do something, you'll have to confront the fear that, you'll lose control and fail.  To learn how to be successful, to learn how to learn, you have to be willing to accept failing 99 times out of 100.  And through this familiarity with failure, you'll gain the humility required for any task."

-- Michael Moschen, hailed as the world's greatest juggler


"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

-- Mahatma Gandhi


"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."

-- Leo Tolstoy

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Dreams a Projection of Life

"Dreams are a projection of the life we wish to lead.  Therefore, when we allow them to 'pull' us, our dreams unleash a creative force that can overpower all obstacles hindering the attainment of our objectives."

-- Jim Rohn


"We have flown the air like birds and swim the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers."

-- Martin Luther King


"When you give of yourself, and genuinely care for others, the universe will provide that love, care and happiness for you too."

-- Anne-Marie Bauer

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Expression of Gratitude

"To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action.  Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course.  Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you.  Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude."

-- Albert Schweitzer


"Can you see your love for me shining through? Cuz what you see in me, I can see in you. And soon enough, you and me we'll be out of time. And kindness will be all we can leave behind."

-- Nimo Patel


"As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others."

-- Bill Gates

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You A Product of Your Own Thoughts

"A person is a product of his own thoughts. Believe Big. Adjust your thermostat forward. Launch your success offensive with honest, sincere belief that you can succeed. Believe big and grow big."

-- David Joseph Schwartz, Ph.D.


"I call him religious who understands the suffering of others."

-- Mahatma Gandhi


"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."

-- Albert Einstein

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Hardness Monuments of Pride

"I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success.  I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootles, or like the capillary oozing of water, which given time, will rend the hardess monuments of pride."

-- William James


"The wound is the place where the light enters you."

-- Rumi


"Live one day at a time and make it a masterpiece."

-- Dale West

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Wipe Out That Judgement

"If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your judgement of them.  And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now."

-- Marcus Aurelius


"If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough."

-- Vicki Robin


"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

-- Mark Twain


"A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour."

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Don't Put Off Till Tomorrow

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."

-- Pablo Picasso


"You are a deity in jeans and a t-shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be and ever was."

-- Anthon St. Maarten


"When you are down to nothing, God is up to something."

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Wishes To See People Happy

"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God.  Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature."

-- Anne Frank


"More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them."

-- Harold J. Smith


"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."

-- Thornton Wilder.

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Nourishing To The Soul

"Family life is full of major and minor crises - the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage and divorce - and all kinds of characters.  It is tied to places and events and histories.  With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality.  It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul."

-- Thomas Moore


"As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time."

-- Denis Waitley


"Mental time-travel is one of the greatest gifts of the mind. It makes us human, and it makes us special."

-- Claudia Hammond

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Jealously And Love Condition

"Jealously is a disease, love is a healthy condition.  The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealously - infact, they're almost incompatible; one emotion harldy leaves room for the other.  Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil."

-- Robert Heinlein


"The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution."

-- Paul Cezanne


"Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first -- not through intellectual understanding. ...The intellect works best in service to our intuition, our inner guidance, soul, God or higher power -- whichever term we choose for the spiritual energy that animates life."

-- Dr. Christiane Northrupi

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Keep Going When The Going Is Hard

"Patience is waiting.  Not passively waiting.  That is laziness.  But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience."

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"The world we are experiencing today is the result of our collective consciousness, and if we want a new world, each of us must start taking responsibility for helping create it."


"Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice."

- Wendell Berry

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A Grateful Mind Attracts Itself

"A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things."

-- Plato

"Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"

-- Dr. Robert H. Schuller

"We cannot achieve more in life than what we believe in our heart of hearts we deserve to have."

-- James R. Ball

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First Moments of Morning

"List is or lose it.  The first moments of the morning offer unparallelled insights to life's most daunting challenges and most exciting opportunities."

-- Ricky Cohen


"Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great

as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem."

-- Abraham Lincoln


"The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius."

-- Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

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Doing The Same thing Over Again

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results."

-- Rita Mae Brown


"Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart."

-- Wayne Gerard Trotman


"A person's worth is contingent upon who he is, not upon what he does, or how much he has. The worth of a person, or a thing, or an idea, is in being, not in doing, not in having."

-- Alice Mary Hilton

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