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