Important Words During Your Life Journey

"Wherever you are on your journey right now, always remember these very important words: Don't give up. Never, ever give up.  When you are just about to give up is when things are about to turn around."

-- Sonia Ricotti


"All my feelings have the color you desire to paint."

-- Rumi


"History has shown us time and time again that you don't have to know someone to love them with all your heart."

-- Shannon L. Alder

Positive Thoughts Affect Your Body

"Positive thoughts affect your body in a positive way, making you more relaxed, centered, and alert. Positive thoughts will cause the secretion of endorphins in the brain and will reduce pain and increase pleasure."

-- Jack Canfield


"Once you have glimpsed the world as it might be, as it ought to be, as it's going to be (however that vision appears to you), it is impossible to live compliant and complacent anymore in the world as it is."

-- Victoria Safford

Writing Down What You Want

"By writing down what you want in the present or past tense, you are telling the Universe what you want to have in your possession at this exact point in time. The Universe then gives you what you want now, in the present moment, so you can enjoy it now. The Universe requires very simple, direct and literal descriptions."

-- Thomas L. Pauley and Penelope J. Pauley


"We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity."


-- Maria Montessori

Infinite Riches Within Your Reach

"You have infinite riches within your reach. To gain them, all you have to do is open your mental eyes and behold the treasure house of infinity within you. There is a storehouse within you from which you can extract everything you need to live life gloriously, joyously, and abundantly."

-- Joseph Murphy


"Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation."

-- Rabindranath Tagore


"Love leads us into mystery where no one can say what comes next, or how, or why."

-- Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

What Drive Our Mind

"The mind that is driven by the urge of necessity, or out of love to create, develops more rapidly than does the mind that is never stimulated to greater action than which is necessary for existence."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love."

-- Mother Teresa


"Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent."

-- Ralph Fiennes

Finish Each Go At A Time

"Always finish what you are dong.  You will have many short term goals before you meet your major goal.  Finish each one a time.  Use determination to get you through."

-- Barry Parker


"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."

-- Thich Nhat Hanh


"When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace."

-- The 14th Dalai Lama

The Habit of Continuous Learning

"The habit of continuous learning enables average people to become top performers in their fields.  It enables people to go from rags to riches.  It enables people to rise from poverty and frustration to affluence and success.  Continuous learning opens every door for you.  It increases your intelligence and creativity and puts you onto the fast track in your career."

-— Brian Tracy


"There is more power in unity, than in division."

-- Emanuel Cleaver

-- Going off for Christmas Holidays and no posting till Christmas.  Wishing all a Happy Merry Christmas.

Live Rich or Live Poor

"It is just as easy to live rich as it is to live poor. The difference is you. All you have to do is decide what you want and you can have it."

-- Thomas L. Pauley and Penelope J. Pauley


"You learn things by doing."

-- Adele Diamond

The Law of Life

"The law of life is the law of belief. Belief can be summed up briefly as a thought in your mind. As a person thinks, feels, and believes, so is the condition of his or her mind, body, and circumstances.  Essentially, answered prayer is the realization of your heart's desire."

-- Joseph Murphy


"Leap, and the net will appear."

-- John Burroughs

Your Brain To Perform At Its Peak

"If you want your brain to perform at its peak, you've got to be even more vigilant about what you feed it.  Are you feeding it news summaries or mind numbing sitcoms?  Are you reading the tabloids or SUCCESS?  Controlling the input has a direct and measurable impact on your productivity and outcomes."

-- Darren Hardy


"Good habits are worth being fanatical about."

-- John Irving

How To Get Good Luck

"Good luck is nothing but preparedness and opportunity coming together. When the two are mixed together with an alert witnessing of the chaos, a solution emerges that will be of evolutionary benefit to you and to all those that you come into contact with. This is the perfect recipe for success, and it is based on the Law of Detachment."

-- Deepak Chopra


"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food."

-- Hippocrates

So What If You Fail

"So what if you fail?  So what if people laugh at you?  So what if you make a fool of yourself?  So what if you make a mistake?  So what?  It doesn't mean anything anyway, except what you choose to make it mean.  If you make a mistake, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, learn what you are supposed to learn and continue moving forward.  You may be required to shift your direction a bit, but you must move forward."

-- Sonia Ricotti


"The reason why things work is because of love."

-- Jeffrey Wright


"True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it."

-- Daniel Goleman

Put In Only Positive Thoughts

"Make a supreme effort to put only positive thoughts in your memory bank.  Don't let negative, self-deprecatory thoughts grow into mental monsters. Simply refuse to recall unpleasant events or situations."

-- David Joseph Schwartz


"Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live."

-- Jackie Windspear

What Gives Life Meaning and Purpose

"Sharing ourselves with others gives life meaning and purpose, a feeling of fulfillment and inner peace.  There isn't a person alive who is not capable of greatly contributing to the well-being of this planet."

-- Susan Jeffers


"To be here is immense."

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

The Most Effective Learning

"We all learn from our experiences, but the most effective learnig comes from consciously reflecting on those experiences and deciding how you will use the lessons learnt in future."

-- Richard Newton and Ciprian Adrian Rusen


"Whatever you do, make it an offering to me."

-- Bhagavad Gita

How To Take On Challenges

"Face problems and challenges one at a time.  The problem with some  people is that they get overwhelmed and don't know how to attach all the problems they are facing.  It's important to take them on one at a time and overcome them."

-- Barry Parker


"We need to bring learning to people instead of people to learning."

-- Elliot Masie

Why Uncertainty Is Good

"Uncertainty means stepping into the unknown in every moment of our existence. The unknown is the field of all possibilities, ever fresh, ever new, always open to the creation ot new manifestations.  Without uncertainty and the unknown, life is just the stale repetition of outworn memories. You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is your self left over from yesterday."

-- Deepak Chopra


"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

-- Edith Wharton

Never Let Obstacles Stop You

"Don't let obstacles stop you from living your greatest life.  There will be obstacles, no question but you can overcome them.  You may have to work hard, but it is possible.  Simply think outside the box and be different.  Don't follow the crowd."

-- Sonia Ricotti


"Let your capital be simplicity and contentment."

-- Henry David Thoreau

If You Really Want To Excel

"If you want to really excel at what you do, really become a howling success in school, business, or life—do more than is required, always giving something extra, something that is not expected. A business that goes the extra mile earns the respect, loyalty, and referrals of its customers."

-- Jack Canfield


"Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free."

- Thach Nhayt Hainh

You Can Make Powerful Choices

"We can all make powerful choices.  We can all take back control by not blaming chance, fate or anyone else for our outcomes.  It's within our ability to cause everything to change.  Rather than letting past hurtful experiences sap our energy and sabotage our success, we can use them to fuel positive, constructive change."

-- Darren Hardy


"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."

-- Albert Schweitzer

To Have Long-Term Happiness

"We must get clear about what is most important in our lives and decide that we will live by these values, no matter what happens.  The only way for us to have long-term happiness is to live by our highest ideals, to consistently act in accordance with what we believe our life is truly about."

-- Anthony Robbins


"The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist."

-- Eric Hoffer

Out of Resistance Comes Strength

"Out of resistance comes strength.  The strongest oak tree of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun, but it is the one that stands in the open, where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Though the road's been rocky, it sure feels good to me."

-- Bob Marley

Something Bigger Than Yourself

"When you can see yourself connected to something bigger than yourself, your sense of power becomes highly magnified and your fears are greatly diminished."

-- Susan Jeffers


"When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music."

-- Rumi

True Wealth Consciousness

"True wealth consciousness is the ability to have anything you want, anytime you want, and with least effort. To be grounded in this experience you have to be grounded in the wisdom of uncertainty. In this uncertainty you will find the freedom to create anything you want."

-- Deepak Chopra


"If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people."

-- Chinese Proverb

Living an Extra Ordinary Life

"If you want to live an extraordinary life, you have to step away from the crowd.  You have to be prepared to walk your own path.  At times when you do this, people may not agree with what you are doing; they may laugh at or mock youm and they may very well think you're crazy.  Get used to it.  Don't allow others to rain on your parade.  Stay focused and maintain your vision."

-- Sonia Ricotti


"I fear the day technology will surpass our human interaction."

-- Albert Einstein

Where To Find Inspiration

"Find inspiration in books and articles.  When your motivation starts to slump, read about people who have achieved the goal you want.  Keep several articles of this type ready for use.  Read them over and over whenever you need them."

-- Barry Parker


"Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else."

-- Mitch Albom

The Useless Learning

"Learning without execution is useless.  Motivation without action leads to self-delusion.  Never again will you wish and hope that success will find you.  Let the ideas and success strategies sink in and produce genuine, tangible, measurable outcomes for you."

-- Darren Hardy


"The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less."

-- Socrates

Don't Sell Yourself Short

"When That I-Haven't-Got-What-lt-Takes" Feeling Creeps Up On You, THINK BIG. Remember: if you think you are weak, you are. If you think you're inadequate you are. If you think you're second-class, you are.  Whip that natural tendency to sell yourself short"

-- David Joseph Schwartz


"That best portion of a good man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."

-- William Wordsworth

Bad About Competition and Comparison

"Competition and comparison focus our attention on what others are doing and how they are performing, rather than focusing it on what we want to do.  They distract us from our purpose in life and lead to unneccsary, unhelpful questions about what we should be doing, or what we ought to be doing."

-- Lynn Williams


"Real living is living for others."

-- Bruce Lee

Put The Cosmic Computer To Work

"You can put the cosmic computer with its infinite organizing power to work for you. You can go to that ultimate ground of creation and introduce an intention, and just by introducing the intention, you activate the field of infinite correlation.  The only caution is that you use your intent for the benefit of mankind."

-- Deepak Chopra


"Not all those who wander are lost."

-- J.R.R. Tolkien

Getting Better and Better Everyday

"Make a commitment to keep getting better and better every day in every way. If you do, you’ll enjoy the feelings of increased selfesteem and self-confidence that come from self-improvement, as well as the ultimate success that will inevitably follow."

-- Jack Canfield


"I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be; and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Begin Living The Life You Desire

"It's time to begin living the life you love and desire.  Right now.  Not tomorrow, not one day, not when the stars line up or when all your ducks are in order - right now.  It's time to take ACTION.  Simply by making this decision, you will automatically be pointed and propelled in the direction that is intended for your higher good."

-- Sonia Ricotti


"What art can do is start conversations."

-- Gina Reichert

To Accomplish Anything in Life

"If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen.  You have to make it happened.  You are what you think of all day.  Challenge yourself - you may be surprised.  You can do anything you set your mind."

-- Barry Parker


"Storytelling is part of human continuity."

-- Robert Redford

To Be Extra Ordinary

"It takes very little extra to be EXTRA ordinary.  In all areas of your life, look for the multiplier opportunities where you can go a little further, push yourself a little harder, last a little longer, prepare a little better, and delivery a little bit more."

-- Darren Hardy


"Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted."

-- George Kneller

Your Place of Power and Wisdom

"Trust your intuition.  It is the carrier of messages from the all-knowing place of power and love you hold inside.  Whether you believe it or not, that place of power and wisdom is always there."

-- Susan Jeffers


"There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures."

-- Bell Hooks

Whatever You Put Your Attention On

"Whatever you put your attention on will grow stronger in your life. Whatever you take your attention away from will wither, disintegrate, and disappear. Intention, on the other hand, triggers transformation of energy and information. Intention organizes its own fulfillment."

-- Deepak Chopra


"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."

-- Anne Frank

The Most Important of Courage

"The most important part of courage is the willingness to launch, to take action in the direction of your goals and dreams, with no guarantee of success.  Courage requires you to take risks with time money, emotion, and other resources.  Courage requires you to accept the possibility of losses, setbacks, obstacles, difficulties and temporary failures."

-— Brian Tracy


"In separateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lies the world's true strength."

-- Albert Schweitzer

Believe in What You Are Doing

"You really have to believe in what you are doing.  You have to be patient as things don't happen overnight.  You need to be flexible.  It's great to have a vision, but if you make it too precise you will cause trouble for yourself.  You must have a sense of direction, but things will happen, which make you want to flex it as you go along."

-- Richard Newton and Ciprian Adrian Rusen


"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."

-- Victor Borge

Law of Giving and Receiving

"What I find amazing is that when you go out of your way to give to another person, you will also receive great things in your life.  This is what is called the Law of Giving and Receiving.  You may not receive from the people you are helping, but you will recieve good things from other people and in other ways.  Pay attention to this law and notice how it works."

-- Sonia Ricotti


"There are those who forget that death comes to everyone. For those who remember, all quarrels come to an end."

-- Buddha

Believe and Push of Progress

"Think progress, believe in progress, push for progress. Think improvement in everything you do. Think high standards in everything you do. Over a period of time subordinates tend to become carbon copies of their chief. Be sure the master copy is worth duplicating. Make this a personal resolution: "At home, at work, in community life, if it's progress I'm for it.""

-- David Joseph Schwartz


"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics."

-- Plutarch

The Pros of Peace of Mind

"Peace of mind gives you better physical and emotional health; it increases your mental health and your concentration, and it improves your memory.  And as a bonus, it gives you more energy."

-- Barry Parker


"Flowers are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade."

-- Rudyard Kipling

Don't Wait For Things To Happen

"The reason you want to move out from your comfort zone is that you want to take initiatives to make things happen, not wait for things to happen.  Because of your ability to drive change and create value, you increase your self-worth and confidence level, which allows you to realize that you have what it takes to design your destiny."

-- Tey Bin Yuen


"Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running."

-- Zig Ziglar

The Conscious Mind and Infinite Intelligence

"The sub-conscious mind is the intermediary between the conscious thinking mind and infinite intelligence, and you can invoke the aid of infinite intelligence only through the medium of the sub-conscious mind, by giving it clear instructions as to what you want."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul."

-- Dorothy Day

Visualize To Attract It To Your Life

"Visualize your new life.  Feel and get in touch with what it will be like.  This will not only elevate how you feel at that moment (knowing there is a bright light at the end of the tunnel), but the positive energy you will generate by doing this will help you attract it into your life."

-- Sonia Ricotti


"Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way."

-- Tom Freston

When Your Mind Is At Peace

"When the mind is cluttered, we only see ourselves as fragmented and tired human beings.  When the mind is at peace, we see ourselves floating in a sea of harmony."

-- Susan Jeffers


"I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act."

-- Bill Gates


"If your compassion does not include yourself it is incomplete."

-- Jack Kornfield

The Secret of Success

"Get used to the idea that there is going to be a lot of rejection along the way to the gold ring. The secret to success is to not give up. When someone says no, you say, 'Next!'"

-- Jack Canfield


"No one is born hating another person...People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."

-- Nelson Mandela


"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."

-- Confucius

Forget Your Past and Move On

"Forget your past.  Who are you now?  Who have you decided you really are now?  Who have you decided to become?  Make this decision consciously.  Make it carefully.  Make it powerfully."

-- Anthony Robbins


"The prevalent sensation of oneself as a separate ego enclosed in a bag of skin is a hallucination which accords neither with Western science nor with the experimental philosophy-religions of the East."

- Alan Watts

You Make Your Own Luck

"When they are told how successful a person has been, many people complain, 'He was just lucky.  If I had his luck I would be rich too'.  Luck does enter the picture, and indeed, some people appear to be quite lucky.  But the truth is: to a large degree you make your own luck.  And as the saying goes, 'The harder you work, the luckier you get.'  Remember that."

-- Barry Parker


"Whenever you are in doubt or when the self becomes too much with you...recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

Manifesting Bring It To Existent

"By manifesting, you are bringing something that already exists in your heart and mind into your own subjective universe so that you can observe it and by doing so, make it real. Give it form, depth and meaning in your life."

-- Natalie Reid


"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness."

-- Seneca


"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

-- Ben Franklin

Enlist Your Supporter

"Like a boat moving toward its destination, you need the wind, the waves and even the weather to move along.  Therefore, your friends who support you are just like waves, wind and weather.  Enlist their support to help you to move forward."

-- Tey Bin Yuen


"Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is."

-- Gary Zukav


"The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous."

-- Carl Sagan

Get The Prize of Winners

"People who choose to see themselves as winners get the prizes in life. You can choose to be a winner and get the prizes, too."

-- Natalie Reid


"Listen to the joy in your heart and look at how much peace you have brought into the world before you."

-- Francesca (5 years old)


"When you're very lonely, or when you're hungry, or when you're poor, a large portion of the day is spent entertaining thoughts related to the source of your scarcity."

-- Eldar Shafir

Move Forward with Your Life

"The act of forgiveness is important in order to move forward in your life.  If you want to bounce back quickly and higher than you ever thought possible, it is necessary that you forgive anyone involved in (or was part of) what happened in your situation."

-- Sonia Ricotti


"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

-- Robert Louis Stevenson


"Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it."

-- Niels Bohr

Why You Need To Have Some Purpose in Life

"You have to have specific objectives in life. President Wilson used to say: 'Without a vision, the people perish' And without a direction, you don't know where you're going. You must have some purpose in life."

-- W. Clement Stone


"You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things."

-- Ray Bradbury


"We have enough stuff in the world -- it's just not in the right places."

-- Becky Morrison

Improves Thinking Ability is Education

"Real education, the kind worth investing in, is that which develops and cultivates your mind. How well-educated a person is, is measured by how well his mind is developed—in brief, by how well he thinks. Anything which improves thinking ability is education. And you can obtain education in many ways."

-- David Joseph Schwartz


"The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all."

-- Helen Keller


"Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people."

-- Michael W. Smith

Your Ultimate Measurement

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge.  When you press on despite difficulty, tedium and hardship, that's when you earn your improvement and gain strides on the competition."

-- Darren Hardy


"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of you love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere."

-- The Buddha


"It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it."

-- Frank Warren

Your Subconscious Mind Like a Computer

"The subconscious mind works the way a computer does, storing programs and running them at the appropriate times. It is your job to be sure the programs you want—and only the programs you want—are present in your subconscious, since it is your subconscious that will create a world for you to observe that matches its own programs."

-- Natalie Reid


"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."

-- Confucius


"The secret in caring for the patient is caring for the patient."

-- Victoria Sweet

The Small Voice Yearning To Be Heard

"When we operate from the Higher Self, we feel centered and abundant, in fact, overflowing.  When we experience this abundance, how can we ever feel afraid?  Learn the richness of solitude and quiet.  That 'still small voice' is yearning to be heard."

-- Susan Jeffers


"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.


"It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary."

-- Richard Whately

Don't Try To Be Better All At Once

“Don’t try to be better in all parts of your life at once. First, work to be just 1 percent better in one area and get that cemented in. Then work on another aspect. Pretty soon, getting 1 percent better won’t be something you’re working on, it will be just the way you are. Do and then be."

-- Tom Connellan


"Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change."

-- Bob Kerrey


"The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy."

-- Meryl Streep

Make a Conscious Effort Each Day

"Make a conscious effort each day to ensure you maintain a positive environment.  Set an intention each morning upon rising that you will surround yourself with positive people, positive music, positive media and a clean and uncluttered environment.  Doing so will help shift your energy and allow positive people, things and situations to flow into your life."

-- Sonia Ricotti


"They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore."

-- Prophet Isaiah


"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

-- Henry Ford

Confronting Your Fearful Thing

"Confronting a fearful thing every day helps you to get into the habit of conquering fear.  Bear in mind that the frightening thing you want to confront should have correlate to reaching your goal or adding value to yourself or other people."

-- Tey Bin Yuen


"Every child is an artist. The problem is staying an artist when you grow up."

-- Pablo Picasso


"If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come."

-- Chinese Proverb

Your Brain An Inexhaustible Wealth

"You have in your brain an inexhaustible wealth. You can so develop your power of will that it will command the luxuries, the accomplishments, the marked successes, which potentially lie dormant in every human being."

-- Frank C. Haddock


"We build too many walls and not enough bridges."

-- Isaac Newton


"You are what you do, not what you say you'll do."


-- Carl Jung

Self-Image in Subconscious Mind

"Self-image resides in the subconscious mind and always leads the way for the life and the world you are creating. A person with the self-image of a loser will create a universe where he or she loses.  Consequently, it is imperative that you discover and be aware of what your self-image is; by doing so, you’ll make it a tool you can use consciously. Then, once it’s conscious, you can decide whether you want to keep it or change it."

-- Natalie Reid


"We are mosaics. Pieces of light, love, history, stars...Glued together with magic and music and words."

-- Anita Krizzan


"Habits of the mind also provide our mental framework -- the way we see the world."

-- Gyalwa Dokhampa

Only Think Success Nothing Else

"Do not be deterred by any negativity or discouraging suggestions.  Believe in yourself.  Don't let anyone convince you that your goal is unachievable.  Don't let it even enter your mind.  Think 'success'."

-- Barry Parker


"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."

-- The Dalai Lama


"The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty."

-- Mother Teresa

The Kind of Person You Really Are

"Only when you encounter a setback, an obstacle, a difficulty, or the inevitable crises, do you demonstrate the kind of person you really are.  It is not what you say, wish, hope or intend that reveals your character.  It is only your actions, especially your actions in the face of adversity and possible setbacks or losses."

-— Brian Tracy


"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

-- Benjamin Franklin


"Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circuitry that marks every mammal, from mouse to elephant."

-- Frans de Waal

All Work And No Play

"All work and no play make Jack a dull boy and it's a recipe for backsliding.  There should be a time to celebrate, to enjoy some of the fruits of your victories along the way.  You can't go through this thing sacrificing yourself with no benefits.  You've got to find little rewards to give yourself every month, every week, every day, even something small to acknowledge that you've held yourself to a new behavior."

-- Darren Hardy


"To maintain the state of doubt and to carry on systematic and protracted inquiry -- these are the essentials of thinking."

-- John Dewey


"What becomes available to us when we greet one another as fully human?"

-- Margaret Wheatley

People Who Successfully Changed

"Research has shown that people who successfully changed often slipped early on. The difference is, they viewed that slip not as a disaster but as something that strengthened their commitment. A slip doesn’t need to become a fall.”

-- Tom Connellan


"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a

method is love."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.


"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that."

-- Norman Vincent Peale

The Benefits of Meditation

"Meditation not only reduces stress and puts you in a more peaceful state, but it has also been found to increase creativity, happiness and overal health and well-being while decreasing depression, anxiety and irritability.  All you need to do is dedicate a few minutes each day to this practice."

-- Sonia Ricotti


"I will live for love and the rest will take care of itself."

-- Marina Keegan


"All works of love are works of peace."

-- Mother Teresa

Fear Not Necessarily A Bad Thing

"Research shows that the existence of a certain level of fear is not necessarily a bad thing, because a reasonable level of stress can help you to remain on your toes and perform to the best of your abilities.  Those who do not have fear are likely to become complacent.  As such, their lives may become stagnant, in comparision to those who face their fear bravely and with awareness."

-- Tey Bin Yuen


"The secret of happiness is, find something more important than you are dedicate your life to it."

-- Daniel Dennet


"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

-- Winston Churchill

Nothing Ventured Nothing Gained

"Most of the good stuff requires taking a risk. And the nature of a risk is that it doesn’t always work out. People do lose their investments, people do forget their lines, people do fall off mountains, people do die in accidents. But as the old adage so wisely tells us, 'Nothing ventured, nothing gained.'"

-- Jack Canfield


"Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life."

-- Jackie Robinson


"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try."

-- Dr. Seuss

It Is Necessary To Go To The End

"There are those who have high objectives, but fail.  For they don't even start, or they go the first mile and quit. Perhaps they go the second mile but they don't go on to the end of the road.  Yet to get to your destination, whatever it may be, it is necessary to go to the end."

-- W. Clement Stone


"When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways--either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength."

-- His Holiness the Dalai Lama


"Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor."

-- Thich Nhat Hainh

The Divine Essence Living Within

"Too many of us seem to be searching for something 'out there' to make our lives complete.  What we are all really searching for is the divine essence that lives within."

-- Susan Jeffers


"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."

-- Kahil Gabran


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

-- Lao Tzu

Make Your Dreams Come True

"Be prepared to fail and accept it.  Keep saying to yourself, 'I will succeed,' and believe it.  Put your heart into it, and try again.  Remember: Persistence is the key to success.  This has been shown again and again. Through persistence you can achieve anything.  It can make your dreams come true."

-- Barry Parker


"There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge."

-- Napolean Hill


"Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love."

-- Rumi

The Tragic Way To Work

“But that’s a big mistake. For one thing, people who work 10 to 12 hours a day are more than 56 percent likelier to develop heart disease or have a heart attack than people who work less than 10 hours. The tragic thing is, it’s not even worth it anyway, because beyond a certain point, spending extra time at work actually becomes counterproductive.”

-- Tom Connellan


"Art is not a thing -- it is a way."

-- Elbert Hubbard


"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

When You Take Care of Yourself

"You see, when you take care of yourself, your stress levels are lowered, your mind is in a state of inner peace, and your tolerance levels are higher, so your relationships will benefits from it.  The positive energy emanating from you will surely affect the people around you in a good way."

-- Sonia Ricotti


"Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion."

-- John Burroughs


"Happiness is a warm puppy."

-- Charles M. Schulz

Recommended Way To Kick-Start

"While you may want to keep your vision in mind, taking small steps and working on short-term goals are always a recommended way to kick-start your new venture."

-- Tey Bin Yuen


"There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."

-- Dalai Lama


"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."

-- John Muir

Get A Success Buddy

"There are few things as powerful as two people locked arm and arm marching toward the same goal.  To up your chances of success, get a success buddy, someone who'll keep you accountable as you cement your new habit, while you return the favour.  You might seek out a success buddy for regular walks, runs, or dates at the gym or to meet to discuss and trade personal development books."

-- Darren Hardy


"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples."

-- Mother Teresa


"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."

-- Khalil Gibran

Goals Cure Many Chronic Ailments

"The point is this: energy increases, multiplies, when you set a desired goal and resolve to work toward that goal. Many people, millions of them, can find new energy by selecting a goal and giving all they've got to accomplish that goal.  Goals cure boredom. Goals even cure many chronic ailments."

-- David Joseph Schwartz


"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."

-- Kahlil Gibran


"We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness."

-- Albert Schweitzer

Material Equivalent Thru Repetition

"We have found that any idea or thought which is held in the mind, through repetition, has a tendency to direct the physical body to transform such thought or ideas into its material equivalent."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Most of us think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, but we are actually feeling creatures that think."

-- Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor


"Home is knowing. Knowing your mind, knowing your heart, knowing your courage. If we know ourselves, we're always home, anywhere."

-- Glinda, the Wizard of Oz

Positive Beliefs and Positive Expectations

"Postive habits behave in just the same manner of self-perpetuation.  Positive beliefs build up positive expectations, which lead you to behave in a positive way, which produces a positive outcome, which reinforces your positive beliefs, and so on."

-- Lynn Williams


"In the fullness of Love blossoms the beautiful, fragrant flower of compassion."

-- Amma


"As the world community develops in peace, it will open up great untapped reservoirs in human nature."

-- Emily Greene Balch

Snowball Effect To Improvement

"Just as you increase your savings power by earning interest on your interest, there is a snowball effect to improvement, too. Keep paying into your skills bank with deliberate practice, and you will see continuous, growing improvement. At the end of, say, three months or six months, you wouldn’t just be 1 percent better than you were at the start."

-- Tom Connellan


"Music is what feelings sound like."

-- Georgia Cates


"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food."

-- Hippocrates

Focus The Positive Side of Every Situations

"Think about all the areas/situations in your life you are unhappy about, complain about and wish were different.  Write them down.  You are staring at a closed door in each of those areas.  It is time to step away from those closed doors.  It is time to shift your thoughts and focus on the positive side of every situations."

-- Sonia Ricotti


"If mourning is denied outlet, the result will be suffering."

-- Geoffrey Gorer


"Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto."

-- Dale Carnegie

Money Just a ByProduct

"The issue is that most people don't love what they do and they simply choose their careers because of the constant paycheck.  They don't realize that money is only a byproduct of value creation and great service."

-- Tey Bin Yuen


"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

-- Margaret Mead


"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't Be Disappointed As Every One Has Them

"One of the first things successful people learn is that failures and disappointments are not the end.  Everyone has them, and the important thing is to learn from them.  Think of your failure as a challenge."

-- Barry Parker


"Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste."

-- GK Chesterton


"Where words fail, music speaks."

-- Hans Christian Andersen

To Eleminiate A Bad Habit

"Eleminating a bad habit means removing something from your routine.  Installing a new, more productive habit requires an entirely different skill set.  You're planting the tree, watering it, fertilizing it and making sure it's properly rooted.  Doing so takes effort, time and practice."

-- Darren Hardy


"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met."

-- William Butler Yeats


"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."

-- Leonardo da Vinci

The Journey Inward and Upward

"The Journey inward and upward is much like the experience of climbing a mountain.  Sometimes the climb is tough.  But each time you stop to look around, the view becomes more and more spectacular.  And you are propelled higher by the increasing beauty you see."

-- Susan Jeffers


"The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate."

-- O. Henry


"The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return."

-- Maria Edgeworth

Enjoy and Learn Everything

"Lifestyle means expanding your knowledge and experiences from the influence of books, people, films and new adventures.  So take care to enjoy and learn from everything and everyone with whom you come in contact."

-- Jim Rohn


"Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily; If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow."

-- Eknath Easwaran


"Healing yourself is connected with healing others."

-- Yoko Ono

Failure Contains All The Clues

"Any failure is merely feedback about what's happening on the inside.  Failure contains all the clues necessary for you to learn what is standing in your way.  Failure is actually a gift, a built-in mechanism that contains all the answers you are looking for."

-- Sonia Ricotti


"If you see a whole thing -- it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern."

-- Ursula K. Le Guin


"Be a ladder, not a leader."

-- Jayesh Patel

Step Back To Look At Your Beliefs

“Because your beliefs make you feel and act a certain way, your beliefs have the power to help you achieve your goals. Or to block your progress.  To continuously improve and gain that all-important 1 percent, you need to step back and look at your beliefs and change them if they aren’t working for you.”

-- Tom Connellan


"A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera."

-- Dorothea Lange


"Hope is the thing with feathers.That perches in the soul. And sings the tune without the words. And never stops at all."

-- Emily Dickinson

Pay The Success Price

"The best way to predict the future is to create it ourselves, whatever the circumstances.  Success is for people willing to pay the price."

-- Tey Bin Yuen


"Without the fundamentals, the details are useless."

-- James Clear


"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

You Become What You Think

"Thought is the most tremendous force in the universe.
Think kind thoughts ... you become kind.
Think happy thoughts ... you become happy.
Think success ... you become successful.
Think good thoughts ... you become good.
Think evil thoughts ... you become evil.
Think sickness ... you become sick.
Think health ... you become healthy.
YOU BECOME WHAT YOU THINK!"

-- W. Clement Stone

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."

-- Charlotte Bronte 

Paving Your Way To Success

"Study setbacks to pave your way to success. When you lose, learn, and then go on to win next time.  Have the courage to be your own constructive critic. Seek out your faults and weaknesses and then correct them. This makes you a professional."

-- David Joseph Schwartz


"I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself."

-- Maya Angelou


"You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action."

-- Jerome Bruner

Sail Your Life To a New Direction

"Your habits are learned, therefore, they can be unlearned.  If you want to sail your life in a new direction, you have to first pick up the anchors of bad habits that have been weighing you down.  The key is to make your why-power so strong that it overwhelms your urges for instant gratification."

-- Darren Hardy


"The opposite of loneliness is not togetherness, it's intimacy."

-- Richard Bach


"The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand."

-- Robert Valett

Little by Little Make Progress

"Substitute positive thoughts for every negative one that comes into your mind.  Little by little you will make progress.  If you do it long enough, your subconscious mind will take over and change your habits automatically.  In fact, it will change your entire personality."

-- Barry Parker


"Character -- the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life -- is the source from which self-respect springs."

-- Joan Didion


"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become."

-- The Buddha

Choose One Thing To Change

“Choose one habit—a way of doing something—that you want to change. Make it a small and specific change. If you make it too broad or difficult, you risk failing and ending up dispirited, as with the grand New Year’s resolutions we talked about.”

-- Tom Connellan


"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

-- Albert Einstein


"Life is more fun if you play games."

-- Roald Dahl

Why People Fail To Take Action

"Many people fail to take action because they’re afraid to fail. Successful people, on the other hand, realize that failure is an important part of the learning process. They know that failure is just a way we learn by trial and error. Not only do we need to stop being so afraid of failure but we also need to be willing to fail—even eager to fail."

-- Jack Canfield


"I've always had the feeling that life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you."

-- Maya Angelou


"The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved."

-- Mother Teresa

Sorry About That

"Many winners in life are those who have been handed the worst life has to offer.  So you can't blame circumstances in your life for holding you back!  Sorry about that!"

-- Susan Jeffers


"Creativity is not found just in the chosen few who exhibit artistic talent. It is a force that flows through every single one of us, allowing us to dream things up and make them happen."

-- Peggy Taylor and Charlie Murphy


"I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization."

-- Roger Ebert

Travel Life's Pathway

"We travel life’s pathway in the energy of love; we are free to acknowledge or ignore it as we choose, though it remains within regardless of the choices we make. This is the energy of the universe, and whether you are aware of it or not, the simple truth is that you are now and always will be in love, literally!"

-- Gary Dooley


"Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood."

-- Fred Rogers


"Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities."

-- Barbara Kingsolver

Give Your Mind New Set of Eyes

"When you define your goals, you give your brain something new to look for and focus on.  It's as if you're giving your mind a new set of eyes from which to see all the people, circumstances, conversations, resources, ideas and creativity surrounding you."

-- Darren Hardy


“So the key to reaching your goal is knowing where you want to go and which actions you need to do to get there—and then persistence and effort will get you there.”

-- Tom Connellan


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

-- Aristotle

The Most Powerful Way To Learn

"The most powerful way I've learned to compress time is to learn through other people's experience.  We can never truly master time as long as our primary strategy for learning and mastering our is based upon trial and error."

-- Anthony Robbins


"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

-- Howard Thurman


"Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear."

-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Fertilize What You Plant In Your Mind

"When you plant a definite chief aim in your sub-conscious mind you must fertilize it with full belief that infinite intelligence will step in and mature that purpose into reality in exact accordance with the nature of the purpose.  Anything short of such belief will bring you disappointment."

-- Napoleon Hill


"To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim."

-- Mark Nepo


"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

-- Confucius

Drive Your Success Into Your Subconscious Mind

"Drive your success into your subconscious mind.  Remember that your subconcious mind can't distingish a vivid imagination of success from real success, and it adjusts your habits accordingly.  So think of your goals every morning when you wake, and in the evening when you go to bed.  See yourself successful - see the end result."

-- Barry Parker


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

-- Lao T


"I don't even think about whether I love music or not because my connection to music is deeper than love."

-- David France

First Know Yourself

"At this moment, do you know exactly what your assets are? Are you aware of your true abilities, your potential for growth, your successes of the past, no matter how small? If you're not, fake inventory of yourself. To know where you're going and how to get there, you must first know yourself."

-- W. Clement Stone


"Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you."

-- Langston Hughes


"The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it."

-- Thich Nhat Hanh

Confusion As You Walk Through Life

"Allow yourself confusion as you walk through life.  It is our way of sorting things out.  It is through confusion that we finally come to clarity.  When you can find the good in any decision you make, it's much easier to accept the responsibility for making it!"

-- Susan Jeffers


"It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate on anything much."

-- Alain de Botton


"Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself -- and there isn't one."

-- Wei Wu Wei

Towards Greater Happiness

"Greater happiness is created by directing the energy of love towards ourselves and others. Love of self, love of life, and love of others awakens an energy that lifts us above the fears and limitations of our negative thoughts. The energy of love connects us all, and when we start to look for it in the world around us we discover an abundance of it within ourselves."

-- Gary Dooley


"Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

-- Franz Kafka


"People who don't have a concept of the whole, can do very unfortunate things."

-- Joseph Campbell

All Thoughts Are Magnetic in Nature

"Tell yourself, "There IS a way." All thoughts are magnetic. As soon as you tell yourself, "I'm beaten. There's no way to conquer this problem," negative thoughts are attracted, and each of these helps convince you that you are right, that you are whipped. Believe instead, "There is a way to solve this problem," and positive thoughts rush into your mind to help you find a solution. It's believing "there is a way" that is important."

-- David Joseph Schwartz


"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."

-- Mark Twain


"Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds."

-- Jack Kornfield

Powerful Commands to Your Subconscious Mind

"Acting as if sends powerful commands to your subconscious mind to find creative ways to achieve your goals. It programs the reticular activating system (RAS) in your brain to start noticing anything that will help you succeed, and it sends strong messages to the universe that this end goal is something you really want."

-- Jack Canfield


"The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity."

-- M. Scott Peck


"One person's trash is another person's treasure."

-- MotivationStuff.com

The One Skill For Abundance Life

"The one skill most responsible for the abundance in my life is learning how to effectively set and achieve goals.  Something almost magical happens when you organize and focus your creative power on a well-defined target.  The highest achievers in the world have all succeeded because they mapped out their visions."

-- Darren Hardy


"WE SEEK TO CONTROL OUR LIVES WHEN WE DO NOT TRUST, WHEN WE DO NOT LOVE. Our ego, perceiving itself to be vulnerable and insecure, uses control in an effort to protect itself.

At the root of our need to control, we find FEAR. It may be fear of the unknown. Fear of not coping. Fear of loss. Or possibly even fear of looking stupid. And as our efforts to control other people and events invariably fail, our fear increases.

Trust, on the other hand, is a quality of the soul. While control is a tool of the mind, TRUST AND FAITH ARE ASPECTS OF THE HEART. Trust comes with the deep knowing that we are spiritual beings in physical bodies. When we trust enough in life to give up our need to control, we can relax and open to the flow of energy in our lives. This brings peace of mind."

-- John Robson

Tell Yourself Failure Is Impossible

"Keep telling yourself that failure is impossible - you won't accept it.  Remember the four things you need for success: discipline, commitment, determination and persistence."

-- Barry Parker


"When I grip the wheel too tight, I find I lose control."

-- Steve Rapson


"Do not abandon trust when your ego thinks things should be different than they are."

-- Wayne Dyer

The Death Of Fear

"Make it a habit to do the things you fear, and the death of fear is certain.  As your level of courage and confidence increases, your fears and doubts will decrease.  The more you confront your fears and eliminate them, the stronger and more confident you will feel.  Your self-esteem and self-respect will rise."

-— Brian Tracy


"The key to success, the key to happiness, is opening your mind and your heart to love."

-- John Legend


"America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life."

-- George W. Bush

What Do You Really Really Want

"Take time to think about what you really want in life, not what others would have you want.  'What do I want?' is a question we need to ask ourselves constantly.  Wants change as we learn to find the power and love within."

-- Susan Jeffers


"Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the "enemies" who appear from time to time in our lives."

-- The Dalai Lama


"Apples, grapes... any kind of fruit gives me the energy I need to get through my busy day."

-- Kristin Chenoweth

The Only Adviser You Will Ever Need

"Meditation is simply a way to transcend the confines of the ego mind to find happiness in stillness and peace – what we really are at source. You won’t need the advice of an expert or guru; in fact, as with all internal aspects of your being, you are the only adviser you will ever need."

-- Gary Dooley


"And yet, ironically, we always fear and resist opening to that which is most real in us. When we trust in the process and give ourselves over to it, however, our true nature comes forth. The result is real integrity, love, authenticity, creativity, understanding, guidance, joy, power, and serenity-all of the qualities we are forever demanding that personality supply."

-- Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson

Success Isn't Overnight

"You know that success isn't easy or overnight.  You understand that when you're committed to making moment-to-moment positive choices (despite the lack of visible or instant results), the compound effect will catapult you to heights that will astound you, bewilder your friends, family and your competition."

-- Darren Hardy


"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr


"No matter how painful our early experiences were, our Essence cannot be harmed. Our Essence is waiting for the opportunity to reveal itself. In a very true sense, we are waiting for the opportunity to become ourselves. Our spirit is yearning to break free, to express itself ..."

-- John Robson

You Just Need To Change

"Remember that you just need to change one thing for your life to begin to improve. And, quite often, when you do make that change, the other things in your life that you want to change will follow."

-- Sue Hadfield


"Self-contempt never inspires lasting change."

-- Jane R. Hirschmann & Carol H. Munter


"Who you really are is enough."

-- Oriah Mountain Dreamer

The Fundamental Strategies for Wealth and Happiness

"Become master over what you have and what you are.  That's where the seeds of greatness are sown, great wealth, great health, great results, great influence, and great lifestyle.  Take interest and even delight in doing the small things well.  It will help you become a sophisticated person, one who knows the fundamental strategies for wealth and happiness."

-- Jim Rohn


"The journey to know ourselves ideally brings us to self-understanding and acceptance. It is NOT a quest for self-improvement.

When we open to love and accept ourselves, no matter what, our innate love, power and wisdom emerge naturally."

-- John Robson

Every Effect Has A Cause

"We know that every effect has a cause. And thought is the first cause of success in any worthwhile achievement. If you don't think, you don't succeed. If your thoughts are based on the wrong premises, you fail to get the right answers."

-- W. Clement Stone


"They also serve who only stand and wait."

-- John Milton


"When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you."

-- Susan Sarandon

The Only Important Thing Now

"The only important thing now is today, and the things you have to get done today.  If they're done, and the things you have to get done today.  If they're done well they will influence your future and perhaps make it better.  But the important thing is to live these twenty-four hours as if they were your last - enjoy every moment of them, and you will have a happier life."

-- Barry Parker


"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes


"There is more to life than merely increasing its speed."

-- M.K. Gandhi

Do It Even It Seems Frightening

"Feel the fear and do it anyway!  EVen if it seems frightening, 'So What!'  Fear and action arent' mutually exclusive! with each step forward, we learn to hold fear from a position of power instead of pain."

-- Susan Jeffers


"We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create."

-- Paul Hawken


"Effective leadership isn't about having power over people, it's about doing good for people."

-- Bill Treasurer

Introduce Newness To Your Life

"Think of as many ways you can introduce newness or a change of direction to everything you do. You’ll be pleasantly surprised at how many things you can change, primarily because we tend to establish fixed habits of routine in which we drift mindlessly through life in the same old way, producing the same old results."

-- Gary Dooley


"Self-contempt never inspires lasting change."

-- Jane R. Hirschmann & Carol H. Munter


"Who you really are is enough."

-- Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Look Back On Your Life Without Regrets

"If you see your life on this earth as temporary, if you want to live your life to the full, if want to look back on your life without any regrets, then you can. Others have done it. Why shouldn't you?"

-- Sue Hadfield


"The journey to know ourselves ideally brings us to self-understanding and acceptance. It is NOT a quest for self-improvement.

When we open to love and accept ourselves, no matter what, our innate love, power and wisdom emerge naturally."

-- John Robson

The Right Attitudes Win For You

"Attitudes do make the difference. Salesmen with the right attitude beat their quotas; students with the right attitude make 'A's; right attitudes pave the way to really happy married life. Right attitudes make you effective in dealing with people, enable you to develop as a leader. Right attitudes win for you in every situation."

-- David Joseph Schwartz


"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."

-- Harper Lee


"How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look."

-- Joyce Carol Oates

Few People Understand Failure

"Failure is generally accepted as a curse.  But few people ever understand that failure is a curse only when it is accepted as such.  But few ever learn the truth that failure is seldom permanent."

-- Napoleon Hill


"We arrive on this planet empty handed. We all will soon leave empty handed. So then, how and in what spirit do we want to spend the time in between?"

-- Nimo


"Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity."

- Fritjof Capra

Your Brain Sees No Difference

"When you perform any task in real life, researchers have found, your brain uses the same identical processes it would use if you were only vividly visualizing that activity. In other words, your brain sees no difference whatsoever between visualizing something and actually doing it."

-- Jack Canfield


"And yet, ironically, we always fear and resist opening to that which is most real in us. When we trust in the process and give ourselves over to it, however, our true nature comes forth. The result is real integrity, love, authenticity, creativity, understanding, guidance, joy, power, and serenity-all of the qualities we are forever demanding that personality supply."

-- Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson

Why Are You Afraid

"Why are we afraid!  Have you ever heard a parent calling out to a child going off to school, 'Take some risks today, Darling.'  Considering how many 'be carefuls' our parents bombarded us with, it's amazing we even manage to walk out the front door!"

-- Susan Jeffers


"When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing."

-- Rabindranath Tagore


"No matter how painful our early experiences were, our Essence cannot be harmed. Our Essence is waiting for the opportunity to reveal itself. In a very true sense, we are waiting for the opportunity to become ourselves. Our spirit is yearning to break free, to express itself ..."

-- John Robson

Our Comfort Zone Come With A Price

"Change involves a degree of risk, which the comfort zone associates with fear, and in an attempt to avoid the fearful images that accompany the risk we allow our comfort zone to keep us safe where we are. But this security comes at a price. By remaining where we are, we stay stuck in what may be a very damaging and toxic situation."

-- Gary Dooley


"And yet, ironically, we always fear and resist opening to that which is most real in us. When we trust in the process and give ourselves over to it, however, our true nature comes forth. The result is real integrity, love, authenticity, creativity, understanding, guidance, joy, power, and serenity-all of the qualities we are forever demanding that personality supply."

-- Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson

Feel Positive About Yourself

"When you feel positive about yourself and your expectations then you know that it is possible to move in the direction that you want to go and to achieve your goals. "

-- Sue Hadfield


"When the soil disappears, the soul disappears."

-- Terri Guillemets


"No matter how painful our early experiences were, our Essence cannot be harmed. Our Essence is waiting for the opportunity to reveal itself. In a very true sense, we are waiting for the opportunity to become ourselves. Our spirit is yearning to break free, to express itself ..."

-- John Robson

Life Is Passing By While You Wait

"Don't spend time worrying about whether you will lose your job, or whether you will have money or health problems somewhere down the road.  Most of the things that people worry about never come to pass. While you are waiting, life is passing by, and the precious moments that you spend waiting will never come again."

-- Barry Parker


"The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp."

-- John Berry


"It's best not to get too excited or too depressed by the ups and downs of life."

-- Dalai Lama

How To Learn From Personal Experience

"The simple approach of doing things and then reflecting on how they went and what you can learn from the experience of undertaking activities is extremely powerful.  Since the earliest days, mankind has learnt from personal experience."

-- Richard Newton and Ciprian Adrian Rusen


"We are the ocean -- vast, deep, powerful and rich. Nourishing and nurturing. Dive down into the dark stillness of being.  Sense the rising and falling of surface thoughts and emotions, sometimes gentle, sometimes violent. Always shifting. Always in motion. Draw back and watch the waves of your life at play. Know you are the unfathomable depths -- surface agitations can't disturb you. Know that you are bigger than the little things that aggravate you."

-- John Robson

Success Is Based On Imagination

"Your potential is unlimifed.  It depends on you. How far do you want to go?  Remember what Thomas Edison said: Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work."

-- W. Clement Stone


"We can experience any kind of pleasure and pain either too much or too little. But to experience all this at the right time, toward the right objects, toward the right people, for the right reason, and in the right manner -- that is the median and the best course, the course that is a mark of virtue."

-- Aristotle


"He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment."

-- Meister Eckhart

Life An Ongoing Process of Learning

"As long as you can remember that life is an on-going process of learning, you won't have the disgruntling sense that you haven't made it yet."

-- Susan Jeffers


"Why aren't you happy? It's because ninety-nine percent of everything you do, and think, and say, is for yourself -- and there isn't one."

-- Wu Wei Wu


"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."

-- Dalai Lama

Let Your Will Have No Power To Weaken You

"Reframing failure into feedback is a habit that is easily developed. Once your mind gets used to seeing things differently, any unsuccessful outcomes you experience will have no power to weaken your resolve to try again because you feel you are continuously learning something new and useful."

-- Gary Dooley


"There is no room for God in him who is full of himself."

-- Hasidic Saying


"Do not feed your ego and your problems, with your attention. ... Slowly, surely, the ego will lose weight, until one fine day it will be nothing but a thin ghost of its former self. You will be able to see right through it, to the divine presence that shines in each of us."

-- Eknath Easwaran

How May Years of Your Life Ahead

"You will never know how many years lie ahead of you, so it makes sense to make sure that you are not wasting them but that you spend your life in a way that makes you feel proud of yourself. "

-- Sue Hadfield


"On the spiritual path, we must be diligent to discriminate whether we are acting from ego or from soul. If ego is in charge, what we do is self- referencing. At the deepest levels, we are motivated by our own self-interest. We're looking out for ourselves more than for others.

Although soul works through individuals, its focus is on the needs of others and on service to humanity."

-- John Robson

What Are Healthy Conversion

"Conversation is a big part of our psychological environment. Some conversation is healthy. It encourages you. It makes you feel like you're taking a walk in the warm sunshine of a spring day. Some conversation makes you feel like a winner.  But other conversation is more like walking through a poisonous, radioactive cloud. It chokes you. It makes you feel ill. It turns you into a loser."

-- David Joseph Schwartz


"Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things."

-- Albert Einstein


"Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort."

-- Paul J. Meyer

Worrying Too Much About Failure

"If you spend very much time worrying about failure, it will build, and in the end you will fail.  The best way around this is to look upon them as challenges.  Act aggressively to get them out of your mind.  If you do this quickly every time they crop up, they will soon disappear."

-- Barry Parker


"Many of us have been taught to do our duty. What reaction does this bring up for you?

For me, doing my duty often means doing something I really don't want to do. My heart's not in it. When this is the case, tasks may get done but there's no gift to the world. We do not truly serve if we give to others with resentment.

Perhaps we need to give ourselves permission to say no and look after our own needs. When our own needs are met, we are much more likely to want to give from a full heart.

It's not selfish to look after ourselves -- it's essential!"

-- John Robson

Meaningless of Comparison to Other People

"While there is value in encouraging the best from ourselves, and in living up to our own standards, there is little to be gained from trying to see how well or badly we do in comparison to other people."

-- Lynn Williams


"The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."

-- Henry Ford


"To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart."

-- Pearl S. Buck

The Purpose of Your Life

"If you make anything external the purpose of your life, you will always make yourself a candidate for mental torture.  Even if you succeed in getting what you want, you will always live with the fear of losing it."

-- Susan Jeffers


"We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open."

-- Harry Edwards


"We love because it's the only true adventure."

-- Nikki Giovanni

Use Failure As Feedback

"By changing the word ‘failure’ to ‘feedback’ we change our response because the word ‘feedback’ is highly unlikely to have any previously established unconscious negative associations for us."

-- Gary Dooley


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

-- Louise Hay


"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend."

-- Melody Beattie

Take Care Of Your Own Health

"Taking care of your own health is all part of living a full and happy lifestyle. Believing that you are worth it means believing that you should look after yourself – with all the things you already know you need. Working hard, looking after a family, and having fun are all easier to achieve if you are feeling rested, well and energetic."

-- Sue Hadfield


"Pick one aspect of your life, e.g. your health, your competence, your prosperity or relationships, and think back to when you were a child. What messages about this subject did you hear from adults at that time that are still playing on your subconscious tape recorder? Messages like: "Men can't be trusted." "Money doesn't grow on trees." "You're not smart enough to succeed in business."

How is your world reflecting your beliefs back to you, today?"

-- John Robson

Creating Greater Self Confidence

"The habit of faith requires that you simply believe that there is a higher power in the universe and that this power wants the very best of you.  The greater faith you develop, the greater confidence you will have that everything that is happening to you is part of a great plan that is moving you inevitably toward something better."

-— Brian Tracy


"Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


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

-- Seth

What You Can Never Lose

"You can lose the material things, but you can never lose your mastery, what you learn and who you become in the process of achieving your goals."

-- Jack Canfield


"Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important."

-- Stephen Covey


"Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.'"

-- Lao-Tzu

Unconscious Mind Needs You To Take Action

"The unconscioous mind will, indeed, produce the winning feeling, but unless you are actually working towards achieving your goal it will soon get stuck in a rut.  You have to see yourself as making progress, and for this you have to take action."

-- Barry Parker


"Time management is all about making decisions. At each step of the way, we want to choose activities that best support what we want to do with our lives. To do this, we need to be clear about our short and long-term goals.

Here's a general question to ask yourself often: "Is this the best use of my time in terms of meeting my goals?" Sometimes, of course, we don't have any choice. But ask yourself honestly, "Could I take more control if I really wanted to?" Often, we play the victim because we don't want to make the effort to change our behaviour."

-- John Robson

Being Perfect Is Very Limiting

"Trying to be perfect is very limiting.  It also creates an intense feeling of being trapped!  We go about our lives pulling ourselves down instead of building ourselves up.  Maybe we should all walk around with compasses."

-- Susan Jeffers


"We could hardly wait to get up in the morning."

-- Wilbur Wright


"Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard."

-- Anne Sexton

The Toxic Fears Will Die

"The way to break out of our toxic fear habits is to understand that they need ‘fuel’ in order to continue; without our input the toxic fears will die. The key to change, therefore, lies in learning how to stop feeding the fire."

-- Gary Dooley


"Passion emerges when your essence expresses itself. How do you stop yourself from fully expressing who you are?"

-- John Robson


"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."

-- Henri Frederic Amiel

Have The Reserves To Persevere

"Being resilient means that you are prepared for setbacks and disappointments: you don't expect that it's going to be a smooth journey, but you have the reserves to enable you to persevere."

-- Sue Hadfield


"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."

-- Andrew Carnegie


"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life."

-- Frederico Fellini

Every Seed of Adversity

"Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: Every Adversity Has the Seed of an Equivalent or Greater Benefit."

-- W. Clement Stone


"Despite our passion for romantic love, relationships are not the easiest way to find love and peace. They are, however, one of the most effective for finding our blocks.

Relationships naturally bring out into full view our desires, attachments and unconscious programs - our likes, dislikes, belief systems, judgments, compulsions, conformities, etc. Relationships challenge us because they take us deep into thoughts, feelings and experiences we have suppressed for a lifetime. That's why they provide the very best arena for personal growth!"

-- John Robson

Negators Will Destroy Your Plan

"Be extra, extra cautious about this: don't let negative thinking people —"negators"—destroy your plan to think yourself to success. Negators are everywhere and they seem to delight in sabotaging the positive progress of others."

-- David Joseph Schwartz


"It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else."

-- Samuel Rogers


"Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us."

-- Eknath Easwaran

When You Are Undergoing What You Believe

"When Divine Intelligence wants a great man or woman to render some needed service in the world, the fortunate one is tested out through some form of failure.  If you are undergoing what you believe to be failure, have patience; you may be passing through your testing time."

-- Napoleon Hill


"View money and things not as something you create to fill a lack, but as tools to help you more fully express yourself and realize your potential."

-- Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer


"The key to getting lots of strangers to work together is not to create an endless stream of new laws or institutions but to create a set of shared values. Laws are something you merely obey. Values are something you feel."

-- Edward Slingerland

Get Off The Victim Routine

"Once we get off the victim routine, it's amazing how creative we can become.  We begin to pull our power and fill ourselves with enthusiasm and a sense of wonder at the huge number of possibilities."

-- Susan Jeffers


"What is [the role of money] in the search for meaning? Is our relationship to it one of the chief factors that keeps us in our prison, or could it also be a tool for breaking out, for awakening to a life filled with intensity of purpose?"

-- Jacob Needleman


"Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul."

-- Henry David Thoreau

The Abundance That Flows Our Daily Life

"Consider the abundance that flows into your daily life. Cultivating gratitude nourishes our state of mind, moving us effortlessly beyond the repressive grip of the ego and its illusion of unworthiness."

-- Gary Dooley


"Our personality has a need for security. As a human in a material world, we need money to survive. If we don't have enough for basics, our lives cannot function. At the same time, with too much emphasis on the material, we lose the spiritual awareness that brings meaning and fulfillment. The key lies in the balance.

What draws most of your attention, time and energy: spiritual growth or money? Reflect on (or better yet, journal on) the balance or lack of balance of these two in your life."

-- John Robson

Take Things In Stages

"You have to take things in stages, and the first stage is deciding what is important to you – what you are going to change. The next is to realize that it may be difficult and time-consuming, but that – if you have a plan – anything is possible. Acknowledge that there will be difficulties and drawbacks; the time will never be right and you will always have reasons to put things off and become discouraged."

-- Sue Hadfield


"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."

-- Omar Khayyam


"May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder."

-- John O'Donohue

All Of Us Makes Mistakes

"Everyone makes mistakes on thier way to success, and some people learn from them, and others don't.  You have to be one of the people who learn from their mistakes.  You have to try something until you get a 'hit' that works and is successful.  And keep in mind that you may encounter many mistakes before you acquire overall success."

-- Barry Parker


"Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating; the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to - you have uncovered in yourself your own wise guide."

-- Sogyal Rinpoche


"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."

-- Robert Frost

Our Spiritual Journey

Our spiritual journey unfolds through two stages.

THE PATH OF PERSONALITY

We arise from the one source of all, to be born as individuals in a world of form. In this physical world, we experience separation and limitation. This is a time of immersion in a world of effects, form, ego, distortion, illusion and pain.

THE PATH OF SOUL

When we have experienced enough pain, we find our way back home to our spiritual source. We let go of the illusion of separation to embrace unity and wholeness. We work with cause instead of effects.

Paradoxically, it's only with a strong and healthy personality that we become capable of expressing soul.

WHERE ARE YOU ON YOUR PATH?

Are you struggling to do more and have more?
Are you aware of your soul challenging you to open to the bigger picture of life?

-- John Robson

When You Change Yourself

"You can change all things for the better when you change yourself for the better.  After all, you aren't just a plant or an animal, completely dependent on instinctive behaviour.  You are a human being, a most remarkable creation."

-- Jim Rohn


"For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe."

-- Larry Eisenberg


"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."

-- W.B. Yeats

Accepting The Law of Cause and Effect

"Accept the law of cause and effect. Take a second look at what appears to be someone's "good luck." You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking preceded his good fortune."

-- David Joseph Schwartz, Ph.D.


"If our minds are always busy, they don't get time to do basic maintenance - to sort, tidy up and take out the trash. If we don't periodically clear out space in our minds, there are no room for new ideas to take root.

Where do you find stillness each day and each week? Plan for quiet time, relaxation and stillness daily, even if it's only for 5 or 10 minutes."

-- John Robson

When Your Friends Constantly Complain

"If your freinds constantly complain, the solution is simple, find new friends.  Don't feel disloyal.  They'll have no problem finding someone else to complain to."

-- Susan Jeffers


"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

-- Mary Oliver


"My greatest wealth is the deep stillness in which I strive and grow and win what the world cannot take from me with fire or sword."

-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Our Unconscious Mind Directed By Our Words

"Words direct our unconscious mind to establish automatic tendencies towards a positive or negative view of the world. Since we were not born with either view, it seems we have unconsciously programmed ourselves one way or the other."

-- Gary Dooley


"Mysterious and intimidating to contemplate, the human brain is the most complex thing there is and the most difficult task it can undertake is to understand itself."

-- David Noonan


"I don't think God cares where we were graduated or what we did for a living. God wants to know who we are. Discovering this is the work of the soul - it is our true life’s work."

-- Bernie Siegel

Give Yourself Time To Think

"When you never have time to make love, or even to feel passionate and loving, then life has become a treadmill, where you have lost sight of what is important. If you think this is where you are heading, then take a step back and give yourself time to think and to breathe."

-- Sue Hadfield


"How deeply can you answer this question? Please realize that you are the only one who can answer it. No one else can tell you who you are. You must discover this for yourself. And the challenge of knowing ourselves is no easy task. We hope this question excites rather than intimidates you. There's so much more to you than you know at present! Isn't this intriguing? Perhaps it's time to go exploring."

-- John Robson

Your Life Equal To Your Environment

"You are a product of your environment.  So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment.  Are the things around you helping you toward success or are they holding you back?"

-- W. Clement Stone


"To lead people walk behind them."

-- Lao Tzu


"Please... tell me who you are and what you want. And if you think those are simple questions, keep in mind that most people live their entire lives without arriving at an answer."

-- Gary Zukav

With Enthusiasm Nothing Can Stop You

"With enough enthusiasm, nothing can stop you; it can, indeed, help give you anything you want in life.  It creates persistence; enthusiastic people do not give up until they achieve their goal.  And in most cases this is what makes the difference."

-- Barry Parker


"To be authentic is literally to be your own author..., to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them."

-- Warren G. Bennis


"Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives."

-- Vernon Howard

The Key To Your Winning

"The key to winning what you want lies in thinking positively toward yourself. The only real basis other people have for judging your abilities is your actions. And your actions are controlled by your thoughts."

-- David Joseph Schwartz


"Who am I? To answer this, we must first learn to become more aware of ourselves. To be aware, we must STOP and PAY ATTENTION! We need to STOP and objectively watch ourselves in action.

We live most of our lives by habit. These habits keep us stuck in patterns that limit our experience of life. Once we detect a pattern we were previously unconscious of, we can choose differently, if we want. With awareness comes choice and with choice, we gain freedom."

-- John Robson

Don't Be Stuck Waiting For Life

"Stop waiting for someone to give you your life.  You'll be waiting a long time.  You have many choices in life.  Always choose the Path that contributes to your growth and that makes you feel at peace with yourself and others."

-- Susan Jeffers


"Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive."

-- Jamais Cascio


"You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself."

-- Beryl Markham

What Our Mind Attracts

"We know that our mind attracts what we think about, so if we mentally rehearse the changes we want, we provide it with a target at which to direct its subliminal attention. Seeing internal pictures of ourselves in the outcomes we want is one of the most influential habits we could ever cultivate in our desire for change."

-- Gary Dooley


"It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. ...I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing."

-- Oriah Mountain Dreamer


"Let me listen to me and not to them."

-- Gertrude Stein

How To Keep Your Dream Alive

"If your dream is to travel and see more of the world, keep your dream alive by having a photograph or picture of the places that you would like to visit on your fridge or your desk (use travel brochures). Don't leave it until it is too late: don't become one of those people who spent their later years regretting the things they didn't do."

-- Sue Hadfield


"We are each unique beings with a unique path in life. If we wish to be fulfilled, we need to go to our own hearts for direction. We might regularly ask ourselves:

"What do I really want to do?"
"What brings me greatest happiness?"
"How can I bring more of these into my life?"
Life wants us to go for what brings us most joy and meaning."

-- John Robson

How To Stretch Yourself To Succeed Forever

"To achieve a big goal, you are going to have to become a bigger person. You are going to have to develop new skills, new attitudes, and new capabilities. You are going to have to stretch yourself, and in so doing, you will be stretched forever."

-- Jack Canfield


"We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail...We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart."

-- Julia Cameron

Stop That Forever Thinking and Try Something

"We would advise anyone who is doing something they haven't done before is to constantly experiment.  Don't spend forever thinking, try some stuff.  It is works great.  But it's great if it doesn't work as well, as long as you learn and then adjust what you are doing.  The most important thing is to take action and make some progress."

-- Richard Newton and Ciprian Adrian Rusen


"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."

-- Carl Sagan


"What you must dare is to be yourself."

-- Dag Hammarskjold

Look At The Positive In Your Life

"Too often people dwell on their problems, but there are always positive things in your life that you should be thankful for.  You may have your health.  Thank God you do."

-- Barry Parker


"A critic is a legless man who teaches running."

-- Channing Pollock


"Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish."

-- Barbara Sher

You Have The Power To Find The Path

"We all have the power to find the Path that teaches us, strengthens us, and allows us to move away from the people and situations that hurt us."

-- Susan Jeffers


"Thanks to the power of our inner critics, most of us have a very poor opinion of ourselves. Yet self- contempt merely keeps us miserable and stuck in our mediocrity.

If we were to make only one change to transform the quality of our lives, we might try sending a little love our own way."

-- John Robson