Where Power Grows

"Power grows out of organized knowledge, but mind you, it “grows out of it” through application and use!"

-- Napoleon Hill

Interesting Quality of Subconscious Mind

"You may find one quality of the subconscious mind particularly interesting: you can easily fool it."

-- Natalie Reid

The Past Is Already Gone

"The past is already gone, the future is yours to create.  Make it a commitment to bring joy and love to all.  Speak gentle, encouraging words.  Help those who are in need.  Let's create a pure land on earth."

-- Buddha

The Dimension of Thought

"There are no limits to your ability to think.  You can imagine yourself doing anything.  You can have a perfect relationship with your mate in pure thought. You can be anything, go anywhere, experience all that you want, in this dimension of thought, exclusive of form."

-- Wayne W. Dyer

Taking Responsibility Is The First Step

"If you are not responsible for something, you cannot change it, so taking responsibility is the first step."

-- Natalie Reid

Slow Down and Relax

"Slow down and relax.  Take a deep breath, allow the mind to enjoy some space and tranquility.  The fragrance of the incense drifts into the heart, transforming the moment into an infinity of peace.  Concerns and worries slip away to reveal the purity of the mind.  Form is emptiness.  Emptiness is form.  In the spaciousness of the mind, there is only joy, detachment and wisdom."

-- Buddha

Once We Make Up Our Minds

"We can accomplish pretty much whatever we make up our minds to accomplish.  If we are not forced to test our strength through struggle, through hardship, we seldom discover our possibilities."

-- Napoleon Hill

The Race of Life

"The race of life is a marathon, not a sprint.  The only thing to do is focus on the path in front of you.  Look ahead.  Establish your own pace.  Keep moving forward.  And then create that plan."

-- Anthony Robbins

It's Not True

"Whenever you hear a negative or limiting comment, such as “You’ll never make it on time,” or “Life is just one big struggle,” or one I heard in a line for the cash register, “Life is about waiting,” tell yourself, “It’s not true.”"

-- Natalie Reid

Yearning For Attention

"Believe me, it is virtually impossible to be truly happy and successful when you’re constantly yearning for attention. Because if it’s attention you want, you’re at the mercy of others."

-- T. Harv Eker

When We Do More

"When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do."

-- Zig Ziglar

No Dream You Cannot Realize

"There isn't a dream you can't realize if you're committed enough and creative enough, and if you're willing to find a way to add more value to other people's lives than anybody else."

-- Anthony Robbins

Know Why You Did Not Suceed

"You cannot possibly succeed in any understanding, whether it is large or small, important or otherwise, if you merely think of what you would like to accomplish and then sit down and wait for the thing to materialize without patient, painstaking effort."

-- Napoleon Hill

Winners Take Responsibility

"We all want to win more consistently in our lives. To be a winner you must consistently control your thoughts. By controlling your thoughts, you can change your results. Winners take responsibility for their results by controlling their thoughts."

-- Keith Cameron Smith

Choose Your Thoughts Wisely

"Remind yourself that you are creating your life and that at every moment you will be attracting either success or crap into your life. It is imperative you choose your thoughts and words wisely!"

-- T. Harv Eker

The Key To Perform Your Best

"The key to performing at your best during the crunch times of your life is for you to focus single-mindedly on the solutions rather than the problems. The more you think about possible solutions, the more solutions will occur to you—and the better they will be."

-- Brian Tracy

The Greatest Thing The Mind Can Do

"The greatest thing the mind can do is to imagine!  The so-called genius is merely a person who has created something definite in his mind, through imagination, and then transformed that picture into reality, through bodily action."

-- Napoleon Hill

The Art of Creating

"All things are created by the mind, our thoughts and feelings create our experiences.  Positive thoughts leads to positive speech and actions, and positive experiences.  Likewise, negative thoughts leads to negative speech and unsatisfactorily experiences.  A positive outlook, contentment, gratefulness, love based action and speech, and rejoicing in other's success brings happiness and success.  The reverse is also true."

-- Buddha

You Have To Change

"Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better.  For things to change, you have to change.  For things to get better, you have to get better!"

-- Anthony Robbins

There's More In This World

"The acknowledgement that there's more in this world than just ourselves and that perhaps a higher power gives us both the privilege of this life as well as the gifts of insight and guidance when we're open to them."

-- Anthony Robbins

Profits From Every Experience

"We can sharpen our intellect through the experiences of others, but our emotions are vitalized and developed only through our own personal experiences.  Therefore, we can profit from every experience that works upon our emotions, whether that experience bring joys or grief."

-- Napoleon Hill

What Is The Solution

"These ten little two-letter words — If it is to be it is up to me — are absolutely valid.  The solution is to do it now."

-- Zig Ziglar

Like Attracts Like

"Many teachers in the personal development field talk about the Law of Attraction. It states that “like attracts like,” meaning that when you are complaining, you are actually attracting “crap” into your life."

-- T. Harv Eker

The Law of Familiarity

"The law of familiarity says that if we are around anything (or anyone) long enough, we tend to take things just a little bit for granted.  So awaken to your appreciation, and jot down your list now."

-- Anthony Robbins

Be Dreamers or Live Your Dream

"What makes most people just dreamers versus those who live the dream is that dreamers have never figured out the price of their dreams.  They make the number so big they never begin the journey."

-- Anthony Robbins

The Thing About Optimists People

"Optimists are people who, when they wear out their shoes, just figure they are back on their feet."

-- Zig Ziglar

Travel and Learn Different Skills

"It'll be valuable for you to travel and learn different skills, instead of partying, trying drugs or what people do in university."

-- Aimee Rose Cheng-Bradshaw

Cherish Your Time

"As we age, we become increasingly sensitive to the value of Time.  Our lives are made of moments in time, the wastage of time means living a part of life in vain.  Time cannot lengthen one's life, however cherishing time can bring more value to our lives.  The value of each day is what's most worthy of cherishing, because it symbolises eternity.  Winning time, means you win everything."

-- Buddha

Is Life About Money

"Life is not about money, it's about emotion.  The real goal is to have the lifestyle you want, not the things.  When you die, someone else gets those things anyway."

-- Anthony Robbins

What Makes You Stronger

"There’s a saying that “the North wind made the Vikings.” The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, “What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.”"

-- Brian Tracy

Your Real Effort To Contribute

"Anyone taking from society with no real effort to contribute to society is pessimistic because he fears there won’t be enough for him. The person who is doing his best and is making a contribution is optimistic and confident because he is personally working on the solution."

-- Zig Ziglar

Your Spirit is Unlimited

"So next time you come up with a reason why you can't do something, when you know in your heart that your spirit is unlimited, call bullshit on yourself.  Change your state.  Change your focus.  Come back to the truth.  Adjust your approach and go after what you really want."

-- Anthony Robbins

2015 Blog Leave

Will be going for blog leave from 15 November to 27 November as I will going for holidays with my family.

May all of you have a fruitful and positive year ahead.

-- MotivationStuff.com

Your Strength and Growth

"I have always felt thankful for having had enough sense to realize that strength and growth come only from struggle, that disuse brings atrophy and decay."

-- Napoleon Hill

You Have The Ability To Change Your Life

"There was a time when things seemed like they couldn't change, but you did it, you made it happen.  You do have the ability to change everything in your life.  No matter how long it's been this way, you can change it all in a moment, a moment of real decision that is acted upon."

-- Anthony Robbins

Your Subconscious Mind Never Sleeps

"Your subconscious mind never sleeps, never rests. It is always on the job. You can discover the miracle-working power of your subconscious by plainly stating to your subconscious prior to sleep that you want a specific thing accomplished."

-- Joseph Murphy

Nature Hates Idleness

"Nature hates idleness in all its forms. She gives continuous life only to those elements which are in use. Tie up an arm, or any other portion of the body, taking it out of use, and the idle part will soon atrophy and become lifeless."

-- Napoleon Hill

To Arrive At Your Destination

"No matter how big or small your goals are you can always see ahead far enough to take that next step. By deciding on and taking small, well-measured steps, one at a time, you will eventually arrive at your destination, no matter how far away it may seem today."

-- Tom O Neil

Two Key Elements For Success

"Talent and skill are two key elements to success attainable by anyone who is truly committed.  You can get the skill if you can get beyond the mental limits of how hard, difficult, or "impossible" it may be to master something."

-- Anthony Robbins

Visualization Relies On Feeling

"Despite its name, visualization relies on feeling, not vision. The important thing is that you feel as if it is genuine by acting as if it is true. It is the feeling that convinces your subconscious that it’s real, not the picture."

-- Natalie Reid

Create Change in Your Life

"You have so many opportunities to do the things that scare you and force change in your life. Go forth and implement these actions right away."

-- Dr. Aziz Gazipura

The Way Toward Success

"The man who has a definite aim in mind, and a definite plan for attaining it, has already gone nine-tenths of the way toward success."

-- Napoleon Hill

Don't Be A Control Freak

"Being a control freak damages relationships. Telling people what they should do or how to do things right isn’t likely to attract many friends. In fact, many who have control issues struggle to get close to people because they don’t trust others with any type of responsibility."

-- Amy Morin

Learn Something From Mistake

"Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing. Is fear preventing you from taking action?"

-- Eckhart Tolle

You Have The Capacity To Choose

"You are the captain of your soul (subconscious mind) and the master of your fate. Remember, you have the capacity to choose. Choose life! Choose love! Choose health! Choose happiness!"

-- Joseph Murphy

The Merchant Goods

"The merchant who does not keep his goods going out will soon have none coming in; the corporation which fails to give efficient service will soon lack customers; the attorney who fails to get results will soon lack clients, and so it goes everywhere. Power is contingent upon a proper use of the power already in our possession; what is true in every field of endeavor, every experience in life, is true of the power from which every other power known among men is begotten—spiritual power. Take away the spirit and what is left? Nothing."

-- Charles F. Haanel

Leaders Focus On The Future

"Leaders focus on the future, not the past.  They focus on what can be done now to resolve the problem or improve the situation. They focus on what is under their control, their next decisions and actions. You must do the same."

-- Brian Tracy

Write Down Your Progress Daily

"Establish accountability. We do best when we establish some type of accountability for our progress. Enlist the help of friends and family who can provide support and check in with you about your progress. Be accountable to yourself by writing down your progress daily."

-- Amy Morin

The Conscious and Subconscious Mind Are One

"You must remember that the conscious and subconscious are not two minds. They are merely two spheres of activity within one mind. Your conscious mind is the reasoning mind. It is that phase of mind that chooses."

-- Joseph Murphy

Importance of Your Passion

"Your passion may be in your work, but if it is not (like for most people), it’s vital to find something you are passionate about as an outlet for your mental and physical well being."

-- Tom O Neil

Have a Big Vision

"One mega-earner put it this way: “Having a big vision creates the drive to do something meaningful in a big way.” And another agreed: “I have such a deep sense of mission and purpose that I go into full throttle, even in volunteer work.”"

-- Barbara Stanny

Focus First On Who You Are

"You can find a way to get whatever it is you want, but I challenge you to first discover the kind of person you want to be.  Focusing first on who you want to be empowers you to find a way to create what you want to do and have."

-- Keith Cameron Smith

How The Law of The Subconscious Mind Works

"Once the subconscious mind accepts an idea, it begins to execute it. It is an astonishing and subtle truth that the law of the subconscious mind works for good and bad ideas alike. This law, when applied in a negative way, is the cause of failure, frustration, and unhappiness. When your habitual thinking is harmonious and constructive, however, you experience perfect health, success, and prosperity."

-- Joseph Murphy

Identify One Goal To Focus First

"Create a goal for what you would like to accomplish in the next thirty days. Sometimes people try to change
everything all at once. Identify one goal that you want to focus on first and establish a realistic expectation for what you’d like to see change in one month’s time."

-- Amy Morin

Direct Your Subconscious To Solve Problems

"The subconscious can and will solve any problem for us if we know how to direct it. The subconscious processes are always at work; the only question is, are we to be simply passive recipients of this activity, or are we to consciously direct the work? Shall we have a vision of the destination to be reached, the dangers to be avoided, or shall we simply drift?"

-- Charles F. Haanel

If You Are Not Happy With Your Life

"If you’re not happy with your life or your circumstances, you are the only one who can take responsibility and start changing it. What are you waiting for?"

-- Tom O Neil

Your Most Precious Possession

"Your mind is your most precious possession. It is always with you, but its most amazing powers will be yours only when you have learned how to use it."

-- Joseph Murphy

Failure Part of The Process

"Whatever you choose to accomplish, you will get it wrong more than once as you move toward your goal. Failure is part of the process, and no one who ever got there did it without failing. No one."

-- Henry Cloud

Be Willing To Try Something New

"Your life may not get better. If you don’t change, you can’t make your life better. Many problems that are waiting to be solved require you to do something different. But if you aren’t willing to try something new, those issues are likely to remain unresolved."

-- Amy Morin

The Best People Also Make Mistakes

"Even the best of people, including you, make mistakes. When it happens, focus on damage control and what can be done in the future. Then, take a deep breath and let it go. That’s the key to successfully resolving any business situation."

-- Brian Tracy

Builder of Your Body That Heal You

"Your subconscious mind is the builder of your body and can heal you. Lull yourself to sleep every night with the idea of perfect health, and your subconscious, being your faithful servant, will obey you."

-- Joseph Murphy

Believe It Can Be Done

"Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.  Eliminate "impossible," "won't work," "can't do," "no use trying" from your thinking and speaking vocabularies."

-- David Joseph Schwartz, Ph.D.

Giant Goal From Small Change

"While a giant goal cannot easily be comprehended, small bites will ensure the goal firstly comes into focus, then reaches completion. Each small bite is a decision and action or, put another way, ‘cause and effect’. The cause is your decision to make change; the effect is the following action and the changes it makes in both you and the environment around you."

-- Tom O Neil

You Are Brave and Worthy

"It’s about cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection to wake up in the morning and think, No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough. It’s going to bed at night thinking, Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging."

-- Brene Brown

Circumstances Created By Yourself

"As long as you go on saying, "I can't afford that car, that vacation, that home," you can be sure your subconscious mind will follow your orders. You will go through life experiencing the lack of all these things, and you will believe that circumstances made it so. It will not occur to you that you have created those circumstances yourself, by your own negative, denying thoughts."

-- Joseph Murphy

You Have To Embrace Change

"You won’t learn new things. The world will change with or without you. Don’t think that your choice not to change will prevent anyone else from embracing change. You’ll risk being left in the dust if you choose to keep doing everything the same for the rest of your life."

-- Amy Morin

The Richest Prizes to Thinkers

"Mind in action is thought, and thought is creative. Men are thinking now as they never thought before. Therefore, this is a creative age, and the world is awarding its richest prizes to the thinkers."

-- Charles F. Haanel

Remove Your Constraint

"Focus on the one major limit that is holding you back more than any other factor. Removing this constraint can assist you in the achievement of your most important goal faster than anything else you can do. Get on with it."

-- Brian Tracy

Becoming A Winner Is A Choice

"Like becoming a millionaire, becoming a winner is a choice. Part of that choice is to stop complaining and start appreciating. Winners brighten a room by showing appreciation for life. They talk about the good things that have happened, are happening, and will happen."

-- Keith Cameron Smith

Experience a Rich Full Life

"Staying the same often equals getting stuck in a rut. Life can get pretty boring if you don’t do anything differently. A person who simply decides to keep things as mundane and low-key as possible isn’t likely to experience a rich, full life and might become depressed."

-- Amy Morin

Earnest Desire Bring Expectation

"Earnest Desire will bring about Confident Expectation, and this in turn must be reinforced by Firm Demand. These three cannot fail to bring about Attainment, because the Earnest Desire is the feeling, the Confident Expectation is the thought, and the Firm Demand is the will, and, as we have seen, feeling gives vitality to thought and the will holds it steadily until the Law of Growth brings it into manifestation."

-- Charles F. Haanel

Keep On Keeping On

"It takes a winner to “keep on keeping on” when something goes wrong. A winner sees a setback as a message to learn something new. He resolves to find a way because he believes there is a way. Whiners find an excuse because they don’t believe they can succeed."

-- Keith Cameron Smith

Accept People Make Mistakes

"Refuse to blame anyone for anything. Accept that people make mistakes, and all mistakes cost money and emotion. Focus on the solution and what can be done now to solve the problem."

-- Brian Tracy

Accumulate Failures Learn And Then Win

"As long as you accumulate what you learn from all the small failures and disappointments, you will be in a better position next time you are trusted to take the game-winning shot."

-- Tom O Neil

Start and Complete or Don't Start

"Unless you do this, you had better not start at all, because modern Psychology tells us that when we start something and do not complete it, or make a resolution and do not keep it, we are forming the habit of failure—absolute, ignominious failure. If you do not intend to do a thing, do not start. If you do start, see it through even if the heavens fall; if you make up your mind to do something, do it; let nothing, no one interfere; the “I” in you has determined, the thing is settled; the die is cast, there is no longer any argument."

-- Charles F. Haanel

Discover Your Authentic Self

"When you stop incessant activity, you can discover your authentic self. As you eliminate the unnecessary, you learn what really matters. Once you put empty space in your day, various insights will begin to emerge. Slowing down actually speeds up the creative process."

-- Barbara Stanny

The Best Kind of Success

"It's not how much money you make or how many accolades you receive. If you dream, work, learn, and enjoy, all while being true to your inner core, you have already achieved success—the best kind of success, in that no one can take it away from you."

-- Newt Gingrich

To Reach Your Goal Successfully

"Success in any aspect of life demands and requires a cost that must be paid first.  That cost is giving up something right now — time, money, prestige or comfort. To invest in your future and the future of others, you sometimes need to do some hard, unselfish and fearful things today, so you can reach your goals tomorrow."

-- Tom O Neil

Being Mentally Strong

"Being mentally strong doesn’t mean you have to be completely self-reliant. Mental strength isn’t about proclaiming that you don’t ever need help from anyone or any type of higher power. Admitting you don’t have all the answers, asking for help when you need it, and acknowledging that you can gain strength from a higher power is a sign of a desire to grow stronger."

-- Amy Morin

Now Is Time To Make The Effort

"If you cannot do these things it is because you have thus far not made the necessary effort. Now is the time to make the effort. The result will be exactly in proportion to the effort expended. One of the strongest affirmations which you can use for the purpose of strengthening the will and realizing your power to accomplish is, “I can be what I will to be.”"

-- Charles F. Haanel

Identify And Remove Your Constraints

"Between wherever you are today and wherever you want to be in the future, there is something—often several things— that are holding you back. For you to get out of the crunch you are in and achieve your business and personal goals, you must identify your constraints, those factors that are restricting your progress."

-- Brian Tracy

Increase Knowledge To Get What You Want

"Whiners can’t have what they want because of ignorance, low self-esteem, and lack of service. Increase your knowledge about what you do want, ignore criticism, and serve people from your heart—and you can have what you want."

-- Keith Cameron Smith

Goal Setting Require Sacrifice

"All goal setting is undergirded by sacrifice. To gain something tomorrow, you must give up something today."

-- Tom O Neil

Subconscious Mind Responsive To Conscious Will

"We have found that the subconscious mind is responsive to our conscious will, which means that the unlimited creative power of the Universal Mind is within the control of the conscious mind of the individual."

-- Charles F. Haanel

Where Is Greatness Found

"Fear is a positive sign, indicating you’re defying your Ego by doing what you fear. Greatness is always found just beyond your comfort zone."

-- Barbara Stanny

The Important of Will Power

"If you’re strong and have willpower, you can do it. But if you’re weak and don’t have willpower, you can’t."

-- Carol S. DWeck

Winners Know When To Press On

"Winners know when to press on and when to let go. Whiners press on—until the first obstacle—but instead of trusting that the right outcome will happen, they let go. Winners let go and trust. Whiners let go and fear."

-- Keith Cameron Smith

You Have A Choice On How You React

"Keep in mind that one person’s opinion of you doesn’t make it true. You can respectfully choose to disagree and move on without devoting time and energy into trying to change the other person’s mind."

-- Amy Morin

How Successful People See Life

"Successful people see life as a place to give, and as a by-product of giving, they receive back in the end. They are not giving just to get something back, but that is what happens. When a person takes the high road and helps a wayward spouse, sibling, partner, or friend mature through love and enforcing limits, they often get a mature spouse, sibling, partner, or friend in the end as the reward for their sacrifice."

-- Henry Cloud

Have Eye On The Prize

"If you set your sights too high from the outset, you are only setting yourself up to fail. You must have your eye on the prize, of course, but you must also realise that the big prize only comes after lots and lots of small steps."

-- John Bird

Winners Keeps Learning

"Winners, on the other hand, look at people who have more than they do and believe: “If others can do it, so can I.” Then they learn what they need to do to get it."

-- Keith Cameron Smith

How Fear of Failure Impact You

"The worst effect of the fear of failure is that it can cause paralysis. People go into a state of emotional shock, like a deer caught in the headlights. They freeze up. The fear of failure can cause even strong people to become indecisive and irresolute.  You develop courage in yourself by facing your fears and doing the things that you are most afraid to do."

-- Brian Tracy

Important of Friendships

"Friendships, like partnerships, are places where we have a chance to enhance each other’s development, and to validate each other. Both are important. Friends can give each other the wisdom and courage to make growth-enhancing decisions, and friends can reassure each other of their fine qualities."

-- Carol Dweck

How To Be A Real Winner

"You gain your place on that long list of winners by becoming a good loser. Get used to it. A winner is someone who steps out, fails, regroups, and instead of beating himself up, learns from the mistake and tries again."

-- Henry Cloud

You Can Acquire Whatever You Desire

"Winners understand that they can learn to acquire what they desire. You can learn to earn whatever amount of money you desire. You can learn how to be healthy. You can learn how to have deep and meaningful relationships. You can learn to acquire whatever it is you desire."

-- Keith Cameron Smith

Getting Your Mind Off What's Bothering You

"Don’t try solving a problem or addressing an issue with someone when you’re feeling overly emotional. Instead, distract yourself with an activity, like walking or reading, to help you calm down. Getting your mind off what’s bothering you, even for a few minutes, can help you calm down so you can think more rationally."

-- Amy Morin

Always Have To Dreamed Big

"I've always dreamed big. When you have a sense of purpose, a mission in which you truly believe, dreams have a tendency to fall into place. But you can't just dream in a vacuum. All the principles work together. Dreams don't come to fruition without putting in the work."

-- Newt Gingrich

A Successful Student Primary Goal

“A successful student is one whose primary goal is to expand their knowledge and their ways of thinking and investigating the world. They do not see grades as an end in themselves but as means to continue to grow.”

-- Carol Dweck

Knowledge To Get What You Want

"Limitations are simply due to a lack of knowledge. If you see someone winning in an area where you’re losing, it’s simply because they know something that you don’t know and they are choosing to apply it. You can learn whatever it is you need to know to get whatever it is that you want."

-- Keith Cameron Smith

Everything Start From Visualization

"The architect visualizes his building, he sees it as he wishes it to be. His thought becomes a plastic mould from which the building will eventually emerge, a high one or a low one, a beautiful one or a plain one, his vision takes form on paper and eventually the necessary material is utilized and the building stands complete."

-- Charles F. Haanel

One Tiny Step At A Time

"Taking the long road, one tiny step at a time, will actually get you there faster because you will not lose time by trying shortcuts. People who want it now face frequent discouragement because of their many false starts."

-- Henry Cloud

Letting Go of Your Anger

"Choosing to forgive someone who has hurt you, either emotionally or physically, doesn’t mean you have to excuse the other person’s behavior, but letting go of your anger frees you to focus your energy on a more worthwhile cause."

-- Amy Morin

Don't Let Negative Thoughts Stay

"When negative thoughts appear, which they most certainly will, don’t let them stay for very long or they will start to grow roots. Once a thought has started to grow roots, it becomes harder to remove."

-- Keith Cameron Smith

Becoming A Little Better Each Day

“You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By applying yourself to the task of becoming a little better each and every day over a period of time, you will become a lot better.”

-- Carol Dweck

Have Confident in Your Desire

"If we believe and accept as true the fact that our desire has already been accomplished and fulfilled, that it is already completed, then its realization will follow as a thing in the future.  The success of this technique relies on the confident conviction that the thought, the idea, the picture is already fact in mind. In order for anything to have substance in the realm of mind, it must be thought of as actually existing."

-- Joseph Murphy

Identified Your Dreams and See It Often

"Olympian Michael Phelps kept a list of his goals next to his alarm clock so he would see them every day. He won eight Olympic gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics, setting a new record for gold medals in one Olympics, and has fourteen career Olympic gold medals.  Once you have your dreams identified and listed in a place where you'll see them often, it is time to begin working hard to make them come true."

-- Newt Gingrich

Those Who Learn And Try Again

"That is what a winner is—a good loser.  Because good losers— those who learn and try again—become winners in the end. The losers in life either do not lose well, or they avoid losing altogether by not trying in the first place. They avoid losing, and thus they avoid winning as well."

-- Henry Cloud

How To Grow Your Brain Cells

"When you learn new things, these tiny connections in the brain actually multiply and get stronger. The more that you challenge your mind to learn, the more your brain cells grow. Then, things that you once found very hard or even impossible—like speaking a foreign language or doing algebra—seem to become easy. The result is a stronger, smarter brain."

-- Carol Dweck

You Are What You Think

"You are what you think. Think enthusiasm and you'll be enthusiastic. To get high quality work, be enthusiastic about the job you want done. Others will catch the enthusiasm you generate and you'll get first- class performance."

-- David Joseph Schwartz, Ph.D.

Your Emotional Boundaries

"A lack of emotional boundaries can be equally problematic. If you don’t like the way someone treats you, yet you don’t stand up for yourself, you give that person power over your life."

-- Amy Morin

Harnessing Your Creative Powers

"Creativity is like a muscle. It grows stronger with use. The more ideas you generate to solve your problems and improve your life, the more ideas you will come up with later.  By harnessing your creative powers, you actually become smarter in terms of your ability to improve your life and work in multiple ways."

-- Brian Tracy

Setback Happen So Learn From It

"Then there are the setbacks. They know that setbacks will happen. So instead of beating themselves up, they ask: “What can I learn from this? What will I do next time when I’m in this situation?” It’s a learning process—not a battle between the bad you and the good you."

-- Carol Dweck

If The Ant Could Do It So Can You

"The reality was that many tiny ants had taken many tiny steps— one step at a time, one grain of sand at a time, one day at a time.  And voila! A city was built. It hit me and hit me hard. This entire amazing feat was really no more complex than one ant with one pebble. One step at a time, one grain at a time. Suddenly it became clear how to get a dissertation done: one grain of sand at a time; one brick at a time; one step at a time.  If the ant could do it, I could too."

-- Henry Cloud

Remind Yourself Where You Are Headed

"After identifying your big dream and turning it into measurable goals with deadlines, put them in a place where you will see them daily This will remind you of where you are headed and allow your subconscious to continually be working on ways to help you achieve your goal."

-- Newt Gingrich

How To Experience More Happiness

"Gratitude leads to more positive emotions. People who feel grateful experience more happiness, joy, and pleasure on a daily basis. They even feel more awake and energetic."

-- Amy Morin

Why Change Is Worth It

"Change can be tough, but I’ve never heard anyone say it wasn’t worth it.  People who’ve changed can tell you how their lives have been enhanced. They can tell you about things they have now that they wouldn’t have had, and ways they feel now that they wouldn’t have felt."

-- Carol Dweck

Will You End Up NowWhere

"If you have no plan or goals to get you somewhere, you will end up nowhere. But if you have written out your visions and goals, you are more likely to reach them. Write down the big vision and plan out small but achievable steps that will get you there. Put dates to each step. Have your accountability partners hold you to those dates. Review your plan often."

-- Henry Cloud

Expand Your Pleasant Thought

"Pleasant thought expands it; unpleasant thought contracts it. Thoughts of courage, power, confidence, and hope all produce a corresponding state, but the one arch enemy of the Solar Plexus which must be absolutely destroyed before there is any possibility of letting any light shine is fear. This enemy must be completely destroyed; he must be eliminated; he must be expelled forever; he is the cloud which hides the sun which causes a perpetual gloom."

-- Charles F. Haanel

Gaining Confidence with Task

"If I start something with the hardest task, I will quickly wear myself out. You need to start with things you know you can do with a minimum of effort. Working this way means that you don’t fall at the first hurdle, and that will give you more confidence. Work on today and leave tomorrow until the time comes.“

-- John Bird

Harmony Equal Success in Life

"Success in life, no matter what one may call success, is very largely a matter of adaptation to environment so that there is harmony between the individual and the environment."

-- Napoleon Hill

Universe Care For People Who Feel Gratitude

"People who feel gratitude don’t get sick as often as others. They have better immune systems and report fewer aches and pains. They have lower blood pressure and they exercise more often than the general population. They take better care of their health, sleep longer, and even report feeling more refreshed upon waking."

-- Amy Morin

Keep Your Goal and Timeline in Sight

"Your dream—your goal—should not change, but your path to achieve the goal may change many times. Keep your goal and timeline in sight, and move forward with the flexibility to shift to whichever path moves you forward the fastest and with the least resistance."

-- Newt Gingrich

Don't Just Sit Around and Wait

"If the economy is lousy, do not wait for it to change. Gain a skill in a different field, look somewhere else, find another niche that is hot, enlarge your network or openness to other jobs, start your own service business, or something. Do not just sit around and wait."

-- Henry Cloud

How To Be More Courageous

"Fortunately, courage can be developed by acting courageously. When you do something that you fear, you feel more courageous. In life, the courage follows the courageous behavior. You become courageous by acting courageously, even when you do not feel like it."

-- Brian Tracy

How To Boost Your Confidence

"Feeling sorry for ourselves often stems from a lack of confidence in our ability to handle problems. We tend to think that we’ll never get through something. Remind yourself of times when you’ve solved problems and coped with tragedy in the past.  Reviewing your skills, support systems, and past experiences can give you an extra boost of confidence that will help you stop feeling sorry for yourself."

-- Amy Morin

What To Do When You Feel Physically and Mentally Disturbed

"When you feel physically and mentally disturbed, the best thing you can do is to let go, relax, and still the wheels of your thought processes.  Speak to your subconscious mind. Tell it to take over in peace, harmony, and divine order. You will find that all the functions of your body will become normal again. Be sure to speak to your subconscious mind with authority and conviction. It will respond by carrying out your command."

-- Joseph Murphy

Create a Deadline For Your Dream

"Create a deadline once you have a dream that you know is yours, and yours alone. Determine when you will start working to achieve your dream.  When an obstacle comes up, which it will, don't look at it as an end to your dream, but as a detour to be navigated, as a problem to be figured out and tackled."

-- Newt Gingrich

Be Specific with Your Subconscious Mind

"The subconscious mind never sleeps, never rests, any more than does your heart or your blood. It has been found that by plainly stating to the subconscious mind certain specific things to be accomplished, forces are set in operation that lead to the result desired."

-- Charles F. Haanel

How Does The Successful Face Feared

"I have never seen successful people stall out because of some feared, anticipated, or hypothetical outcome. They just do not think that way. They do what they can and then deal with that outcome just like they dealt with the issue in the first place. They get active and face into it all over again. Unless there is some good reason to believe that making a move is not wise, they do something."

-- Henry Cloud

Health of Your Body

"The health of the body as well as the mind is built upon the principle of harmony! The energy known as life begins to disintegrate and death approaches when the organs of the body stop working in harmony."

-- Napoleon Hill

Listen To Others To Know Your Talent

"Listen to others when they tell you that you have a talent—they are usually right and are there to assist you in determining what you are supposed to do with your life."

-- Newt Gingrich

Why The Need For Accurate Thinking

"Thinking accurately can have the greatest potential consequences of anything you do on an hour-by-hour, day-by-day basis. One good thought, idea, or insight can change your life, especially in the middle of crunch time. That’s why unleashing your creativity is the key to accomplishing extraordinary things for yourself and your family."

-- Brian Tracy

Make Your Mind Image Clear

"Make the image clear and clean-cut, hold it firmly in the mind and you will gradually and constantly bring the thing nearer to you. You can be what “you will to be.”"

-- Charles F. Haanel

Avoidance Does Not Help

"Avoidance is really not helping anything, because you still expend the energy and feel the hurt. It may help you avoid the pain of having the tooth pulled, which is time-limited pain, but it does not help you avoid all pain. In fact, you get to endure the problem much longer than if you just faced the hurt of the surgery, dealt with it, and let it go. You could be done by now. Avoidance always prolongs pain, in the end."

-- Henry Cloud

Progress Piece By Piece

"Pursuing your goals is much like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. While you ultimately seek the final outcome, you still have to work piece by piece. Since you will spend most of your time trying to make progress, you must enjoy what you are doing in order to finish. Take joy from the process, and use the small successes to fuel your continued efforts."

-- David Niven

If You Really Want To Change Something

"If you could just do what you’ve been doing for years to get what you want, you would. My point is that, if you want to change something in your life, you have NO CHOICE but to move out of your comfort zone."

-- John Bird

It's How You Use Your Brains

"Never underestimate your own intelligence and never overestimate the intelligence of others. Don't sell yourself short. Concentrate on your assets.  Discover your superior talents. Remember, it's not how many brains you've got that matters. Rather, it's how you use your brains that counts. Manage your brains instead of worrying about how much IQ you've got."

-- David Joseph Schwartz, Ph.D.

Our Internal Life Creates Our External One

"The reality of the life we see and live on the outside is one that emerges from the inside, from our hearts, minds, and souls. It is our internal life that creates our external one. So, to find our lives we must find what lies below the surface of our skin. We must look at, listen to, discover, and be mindful of our internal life—of such things as our talents, feelings, desires, and dreams.

-- Henry Cloud

The Power Of Attention

"The power of attention can be more readily understood by comparing it with a sun glass in which the rays of sunlight are focused— they possess no particular strength as long as the glass is moved about and the rays directed from one place to another; but let the glass be held perfectly still and let the rays be focused on one spot for any length of time, the effect will become immediately apparent."

-- Charles F. Haanel

How To Achieve That Goal

"Once you have determined your goal, make a list of the steps that you will have to take to achieve that goal. What are the various things that you must do to get from where you are to where you want to go?"

-- Brian Tracy

Demand More Than A Mere Living

"Millions of people struggle all the days of their lives with no stronger motive than that of being able to acquire the necessities of life, such as food, shelter, and clothing. Now and then someone will step out of the ranks of this great army and demand more than a mere living. He or she will be motivated with the strong desire for fortune, and presto! as if by the hand of magic, his or her financial status changes and action begins to turn into cash."

-- Napoleon Hill

Control Your Thoughts

"Every thought therefore is a cause and every condition an effect; for this reason it is absolutely essential that you control your thoughts so as to bring forth only desirable conditions."

-- Charles F. Haanel

Poisons in Your Subconscious Mind

"How often have you wounded yourself by getting angry, fearful, jealous, or vengeful?  These are the poisons that enter your subconscious mind. You were not born with these negative attitudes. Feed your subconscious mind life-giving thoughts and you will wipe out all the negative patterns lodged within it. As you continue to do this, all the past will be wiped out and remembered no more."

-- Joseph Murphy

Wishing for a Thing is not Same as Desiring It

"It must be remembered that wishing for a thing is not the same as desiring it. A wish is merely a passive form of desire.  Only out of intense desire will impelling forces of action grow, driving one to build plans and put those plans to work. Most people never advance beyond the “wishing” stage."

-- Napoleon Hill

How To Get Greater Opportunity

"You have to embrace the uncertainty of outcomes and realize that chance can play for you or against you on any given day. But the more you try, the greater your opportunity to benefit from a lucky outcome."

-- David Niven

The Real Antidote To Worry

"The only real antidote to worry is purposeful action in the direction of your goals. Instead of becoming upset or doubting yourself and your abilities, decide to take action, any action, to resolve the difficulty and get yourself through the crunch. Remind yourself that problems come not to obstruct, but to instruct."

-— Brian Tracy

Subconscious Mind Does Not Argue

"The subconscious mind cannot argue controversially. Hence, if it has accepted wrong suggestions, the sure method of overcoming them is by the use of a strong counter suggestion, frequently repeated, which the mind must accept, thus eventually forming new and healthy habits of thought and life, for the subconscious mind is the seat of Habit."

-- Charles F. Haanel

The Very Successful and The Very Unsuccessful

"The difference in the very successful and the very unsuccessful finally reduced to differences in attitudes, or difference in thought-management. The top group worried less, was more enthusiastic, had a sincere liking for people."

-- David Joseph Schwartz, Ph.D.

Avoiding Problems is Not Good For Us

"It is comforting to think about everything that goes right as being a product of our personal abilities and everything that goes wrong as being the fault of others. But it is not useful to us because it will not help us produce future successes.

-- David Niven

You Need To Start Anyway

"There is often no right time to start something but you need to start anyway.  As long as you are aware there are good and bad sides to everything, it is not foolish to jump into something. Just be prepared."

-- John Bird

Only You Can Create Your Dreams

"Part of the challenge is for you to determine which dreams are meant for you, and you alone.  While others may influence your dreams, however, only you can create them.  After all, only you know what really makes you excited and ready to work hard."

-- Newt Gingrich and Jackie Gingrich Cushman

Cultivate Your Instincts

"Cultivate your instincts in the direction you want them to lead you, and your growing motivation will make the pursuit of success easier."

-- David Niven

The Right Attitude and One Arm

"An amputee friend is an excellent golfer. One day I asked him how he had been able to develop such a near-perfect style with just one arm. I mentioned that most golfers with two arms can't do nearly as well. His reply says a lot: "Well, it's my experience," he said, "that the right attitude and one arm will beat the wrong attitude and two arms every time." The right attitude and one arm will beat the wrong attitude and two arms every time. Think about that for a while. It holds true not only on the golf course but in every facet of life."

-- David Joseph Schwartz, Ph.D.

A Test of Your Character and Intelligence

"Tell yourself that you can do anything that you put your mind to. Tell yourself that there is no problem that you cannot solve. Look upon solving the problem or resolving the crisis as a test of your character and intelligence. See it as a challenge, something that has been sent to help you to grow in knowledge and wisdom."

-— Brian Tracy

See Problem as a Challenge

"Tell yourself that you can do anything that you put your mind to. Tell yourself that there is no problem that you cannot solve. Look upon solving the problem or resolving the crisis as a test of your character and intelligence. See it as a challenge, something that has been sent to help you to grow in knowledge and wisdom."

-— Brian Tracy

Trust Your Own Judgement

"Don’t aim to be perfect straight away.  Start, and improve as you go along. Be prepared to trust your own judgement because that is all you have."

-- John Bird

Don't Spend Time Worrying

"When we spend time worrying about things that could go wrong, we’re not spending time trying to improve. Which means that worrying about things going wrong increases the chances that they will go wrong."

-- David Niven

No Two Will Grow To Be The Same

"There is no possibility in any man that is not in every man; but if they proceed naturally, no two men will grow into the same thing, or be alike. Every man comes into the world with a predisposition to grow along certain lines, and growth is easier for him along those lines than in any other way."

-- Wallace D. Wattles

Stop Making Excuses

"You will discover that excusitis explains the difference between the person who is going places and the fellow who is barely holding his own. You will find that the more successful the individual, the less inclined he is to make excuses."

-- David Joseph Schwartz, Ph.D.

Dream Bigger Dreams

"You dream bigger dreams. If people don't laugh at you when you share your dreams, then you're not dreaming big enough. Make them laugh. Dream big."

-- Newt Gingrich and Jackie Gingrich Cushman

Accepting Rejection as Part of Life

"Unless you don’t want anything, you’ll have to learn how to love rejection, because it will be coming.” He points to the acting business for ample evidence. “There isn’t an actor you’ve heard of—there isn’t an actor alive—who hasn’t been rejected for more parts than they’ll ever get."

-- David Niven

The Subconscious is Enormous

"The value of the subconscious is enormous: It inspires us; it warns us; it furnishes us with names, facts, and scenes from the storehouse of memory. It directs our thoughts, tastes, and accomplishes tasks so intricate that no conscious mind, even if it had the power, has the capacity."

-- Charles F. Haanel

It is All Right To Feel Scared

"It’s all right to feel scared, as long as that doesn’t stop you acting.  Accept that sometimes you will have to change the way you have always done things."

-- John Bird

Substitute Success Thinking

"Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, "I'll win," not "I'll probably lose." When you compete with someone else, think, "I'm equal to the best,” not “I'm out-classed." When opportunity appears, think "I can do it," never "I can't." Let the master thought "I-will-succeed" dominate your thinking process."

-- David Joseph Schwartz, Ph.D.

When You Are in Control

"Those who persevere, conversely, recognize that they are ultimately responsible, not just for pursuing their goals, but for setting them. When you are in control, what you do matters, and giving up will not seem very attractive."

-- David Niven

No Matter What Has Happened

"No matter what happens, remind yourself that you are a thoroughly good person. You are a person of character, competence, and intelligence. No matter what has happened, you have the ability to rise to the challenge and deal with the situation."

-— Brian Tracy

Great Personal Power

"Knowledge, alone, is not power. Great personal power is acquired only through the harmonious cooperation of a number of people who concentrate their efforts upon some definite plan."

-- Napoleon Hill

Pursue Activities You Really Care About

"If you spend your time worrying and impatiently awaiting an easy life, you will reduce your motivation for success. If, on the other hand, you pursue activities you really care about, your motivation will increase."

-- David Niven

You Are Better Than You Think

"Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are.  Successful people are not supermen. Success does not require a super-intellect.  Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success isn't based on luck.  Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never—yes, never—sell yourself short."

-- David Joseph Schwartz, Ph.D.

Where All Success Lies

"The fact is that all success lies out of your comfort zone. The need to climb over your own personal fence comes when you realise you are not getting what you need inside it."

-- John Bird

Break Up The Big Job

"When you get the picture of what you want, it may cost a few thousand, a few hundred thousand, or a million. That doesn’t really matter. Henry Ford once suggested if you take a big job and break it into small parts you’ll make it easy. So let’s pick a big number. Let’s make it easy."

-- Bob Proctor

Fear of Failure is Powerful

"The fear of failure is powerful. Nobody wants to reveal to others, or to themselves, that they were not capable of doing something they tried to do.  Not trying is, of course, the ultimate failure, for it means you can never make progress toward your goals."

-- David Niven

This Too Shall Pass

"Keep yourself calm by refusing to catastrophic. Refuse to interpret the problem as overwhelmingly negative. Very few things are ever as bad as they seem initially. The four most important words for dealing with any crisis are these: “This too shall pass.”

-— Brian Tracy

Belief is The Thermostat

"Look at it this way. Belief is the thermostat that regulates what we accomplish in life. Study the fellow who is shuffling down there in mediocrity. He believes he is worth little, so he receives little. He believes he can't do big things, and he doesn't. He believes he is unimportant, so everything he does has an unimportant mark."

-- David Joseph Schwartz, Ph.D.

There is a Genius in Every One

"There is a genius in every man and woman, waiting to be brought forth. Every village has its great man or woman; someone to whom all go for advice in time of trouble; some one who is instinctively recognized as being great in wisdom and insight. To such a one the minds of the whole community turn in times of local crisis; he is tacitly recognized as being great."

-- Wallace D. Wattles

Go With What You Have

"It is very rare that the people, money, emotions, skills and even the planets – if you believe in that sort of thing – come together exactly when you want them to. Sometimes you just have to go with what you have."

-- John Bird

Look Into Your Own Talent

"Your big dream will be in an area of your life where you have talent and interest. Talent is an important element because it is unique to you and provides you with the ability to perform better than others in the same area.

-- Newt Gingrich and Jackie Gingrich Cushman

Change The Cause To Change The Effect

"Most people try to change conditions and circumstances by working on those conditions and circumstances. This is a terrible waste of time and effort. They fail to see that their conditions flow from a cause. To remove discord, confusion, lack, and limitation from your life, you must remove the cause. That cause is the way you use your conscious mind, the thoughts and images you encourage in it. Change the cause, and you change the effect. It is just that simple."

-- Joseph Murphy

Staying Calm in a Crisis

"The starting point of staying calm in a crisis is for you to refuse to react automatically and unthinkingly. Instead, take a deep breath to calm your mind and then think carefully about your next words and actions."

-— Brian Tracy

Why You Should Not Wait for The Perfect Time

"Business people who have had success don’t wait for the perfect time to start something.  Sure, they will be thoughtful about having the right skills and people to kick off with, but they also know that if they wait too long, someone else will come along under their nose. So what they do is jump in and solve problems as they come up."

-- John Bird

There is Nothing to Fear

"A knowledge of our ability to consciously radiate health, strength, and harmony will bring us into a realization that there is nothing to fear because we are in touch with Infinite Strength.  This knowledge can be gained only by making a practical application of this information.  We learn by doing—through practice the athlete becomes powerful."

-- Charles F. Haanel

What is Success in Life

"Success in life is not a matter of getting everything. That’s impossible and wouldn’t be much of a joy even if it were possible.  Success is a matter of getting what you need.  Think of success as filling a box. You’ll be finished sooner not just by working harder to fill it but also by choosing a smaller box."

-- David Niven

Keep Money in the Proper Place in your Mind

"It’s very important for you to keep money in the proper place in your mind. Money will not make you a better person, but it can make you more effective. Money will not make you happy although it will make you more comfortable. And always remember this; money will not make you smarter.

-- Bob Proctor

Your Respond To The Inevitable Ups and Downs of Life

"The only part of the challenge-response equation that you can control is your response. All that you can determine is how you are going to respond to the inevitable ups and downs of business and personal life. Your response is under your control."

-— Brian Tracy

Matter Expands When Heated

"Matter expands when heated...This is a universal truth. It is also a universal truth that whatever you impress on your subconscious mind is expressed on the screen of space as condition, experience, and event."

-- Joseph Murphy

Every Person of Learning is Finally Themselves

"Every person of learning is finally his own teacher, the reason for which is that principles, being of a distinct quality to circumstances, cannot be impressed upon the memory; their place of mental residence is the understanding, and they are never so lasting as when they begin by conception.”

-- Napoleon Hill

Relaxation is an Absolute Necessity

"Tension leads to mental unrest and abnormal mental activity of the mind; it produces worry, care, fear, and anxiety. Relaxation is therefore an absolute necessity in order to allow the mental faculties to exercise the greatest freedom."

-- Charles F. Haanel

Choose A Particular Area

"Choose a particular area that is crucial to what you do, and learn everything you can about it. There is no better way to ensure that you will be invaluable and that your suggestions will be respected and followed."

-- David Niven

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"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

-- Leonardo da Vinci


"Be an opener of doors."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Within Your Subconscious Depths

"Within your subconscious depths lie infinite wisdom, infinite power, an infinite supply of all that is necessary. It is waiting there for you to give it development and expression. If you begin now to recognize these potentialities of your deeper mind, they will take form in the world without."

-- Joseph Murphy

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"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."

-- Henry Ford


"The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself."

-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe


"If we don't forgive ourselves for our mistakes, and others for the wounds they have inflicted upon us, we end up crippled with guilt. And the soul cannot grow under a blanket of guilt, because guilt is isolating, while growth is a gradual process of re-connection to ourselves, to other people, and to a larger whole."

-- Joan Borysenko

Those Who Live The Most Fulfilled Lives

"The individuals who live the most fulfilled lives are those who have a very difficult time differentiating between work and pleasure. That’s a key factor in living the abundant life."

-- Bob Proctor

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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

-- Mahatma Gandhi


"I have sensed a growing discontent amongst many who are on their spiritual path. A common theme appears to be -- 'I have been serving God for so long and have given up so much and it has been such a struggle -- when am I going to get my reward?'"

-- Wendy Munroe.


"It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving."

-- Mother Teresa

The Chemistry of The Mind

"A Master Mind may be created through the bringing together, or blending, in a spirit of perfect harmony, of two or more minds. Out of this harmonious blending, the chemistry of the mind creates a third mind, which may be appropriated and used by one or all of the individual minds."

-- Napoleon Hill

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"The only real voyage consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes; in seeing the universe through the eyes of another, one hundred others--in seeing the hundred universes that each of them sees."

-- Marcel Proust


"Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people."

-- Leo Burnett

The World Within Us is Governed by Us

"The world within is governed by mind. When we discover this world we shall find the solution for every problem—the cause for every effect. Since the world within is subject to our control, all laws of power and possession are also within our control."

-- Charles F. Haanel

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"There is no question that the objects that surround us impact our experience of the world."

-- Katherine Center


"As long as one keeps searching, the answers come."

-- Joan Baez


"Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else...."

-- Archibald Alexander

Be Present in This Moment

"WE ALL MAKE SACRIFICES. The work hours can be brutal. But none of us wants to look back in 10 to 20 years and say, “I wish I had paid attention to the little things — I could have spent more time with people who mattered.” Sure, it’s easy to get distracted, but there comes a point when attempting to do it all might cause us to miss it all.Never forget to be present in the moment."

-- Cliff Michaels

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"Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been."

-- Alan Alda


"Our sadness is an energy we discharge in order to heal. ...Sadness is painful. We try to avoid it. Actually discharging sadness releases the energy involved in our emotional pain. To hold it in is to freeze the pain within us. The therapeutic slogan is that grieving is the 'healing feeling.'"

-- John Bradshaw


"To weep is to make less the depth of grief."

-- William Shakespeare


"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and recovered hope."

-- George Eliot


"Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness."

-- Lao-tzu


"When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left."

-- Sufi epigram

Be Of Greater Service

"The more we give the more we shall get; we must become a channel whereby the Universal can express activity. The Universal is constantly seeking to express itself, to be of service, and it seeks the channel whereby it can find the greatest activity where it can do the most good, where it can be of greatest service to mankind."

-- Charles F. Haanel

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"Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky."

-- John Grogan


"Energy is equal to desire and purpose."

-- Sheryl Adams


"Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you."

-- Wayne Dyer

Nothing That You Can Think Is Impossible

"Nothing that is possible in spirit is impossible in flesh and blood. Nothing that man can think is impossible-in action. Nothing that man can imagine is impossible of realization.  Man is formed for growth, and he is under the necessity of growing.  It is essential to his happiness that he should continuously advance."

-- Wallace D. Wattles

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"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people."

-- Abraham Joshua Heschel


"Certain activities, attitudes, foods, and persons support the cultivation of an unconscious life. They draw us away from our center. They throw us off- balance. They deplete the soul."

-- Patricia Lynn Reilly


"Enlightenment is not about imagining figures of light but of making the darkness conscious."

-- C.G. Jung

The Change is Possible

"The problem is, of course, that change is possible, but it does not come immediately.  Nobody wants to sell us on a program for change that will take years because of course no one would buy it. But it does take years to accomplish the most important changes."

-- David Niven

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

-- Omar Khayyam


"In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential we embody, and if we do not embody that, life is wasted."

-- C.G. Jung


"A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power."

-- Mark Rutherford

Grow Your Motivating Forces

"Just as the oak tree, in the embryo, sleeps within the acorn, success begins in the form of an intense desire. Out of strong desires grow the motivating forces that cause the ambitious to cherish hopes, build plans, develop courage, and stimulate their minds to a highly intensified degree of action in pursuit of some definite plan or purpose."

-- Napoleon Hill

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"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart."

-- Jonathan Swift


"Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties."

-- Sarah Ban Breathnach


"Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are."

-- Julia Cameron

Live in Your Future Success

"You may be saying: “I have failed in life and shall always be a failure.” That is because you are forever looking back, living in your failure and thereby bringing to you more failure. Reverse this attitude of mind; work it the other way and live in future success."

-- Prentice Mulford

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"Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with its sweet oblivious antidote, cleanse the full bosom of all perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart."

-- William Shakespeare


"Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before."

-- Audre Lorde

You Are Either Attracting or Repelling Good

"Abundance is something we magnetize ourselves to.  Business associates, opportunities, sales, money, love, friends, everything we want will come into our life by law not luck. You are either attracting or repelling good. It is your own consciousness that ultimately determines your results."

-- Bob Proctor

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"We race to win, but at what price? Driven by the threat of time, we wonder why we feel so empty at the end of action-filled days."


"When busyness is the measure of time, no matter how much time exists it is never enough."

-- Diana Hunt

To Perform At Your Best

"The thoughts you think determine the emotions that you experience. When you find yourself at a crunch point, when you experience a sudden setback or reversal, your very first job is to seize control of your thoughts and feelings to ensure that you perform at your best."

-- Brian Tracy

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"Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened."

-- Anatole France


"Our human definition of 'everything' gives us, at best, a tiny penlight to help us with our wanderings."

-- Benjamin Walker

Realize Who You Are

"It is neither an accomplishment nor a fault to acknowledge that some people can speak before large audiences and be exhilarated by the experience while others would be petrified. Some people can study an equation for years and be fascinated by it, and others would long for human interaction and variety.  Realize who you are—what your true personality is—and choose a future that fits it."

-- David Niven


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"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend."

-- Martin Luther King Jr.


"We can't fear the past. Fear is a future thing. And since the future's all in our heads, fear must be a head thing."

-- Tom Payne


"I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me."

-- Erica Jong

Our Thought The Dynamic Energy

"The ability of the individual to think is his ability to act on the Universal and bring it into manifestation. Human consciousness consists only in the ability of man to think. Walker says, “Mind in itself is believed to be a subtle form of static energy, from which arises the activities called ‘thought,’ which is the dynamic phase of mind. Mind is static energy, thought is dynamic energy—the two phases of the same thing.” Thought is therefore the vibratory force formed by converting static mind into dynamic mind."

-- Charles F. Haanel

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

-- Mahatma Gandhi


"Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it."

-- Dan Millman


"Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them."

-- Brendan Francis

Responsibility and Ownership

"Responsibility and ownership means that we have to take control, even of being out of control. No blame, no victims.  Unable, but responsible for their inability. Winners take the cards they are dealt and play them well."

-- Henry Cloud

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"Our purpose is hidden in our joy, our inspiration, our excitement. As we act on what shows up in our life our purpose shows up."

-- James King


"There is no more important step you can take than to define your life's purpose. It develops your sense of belonging to our universe."

-- Arnold Patent

Those Thoughts That Receive Our Attention

"We attract not only what we love, but also what we fear. His explanation for why this happens is simple: Those thoughts that receive our attention, good or bad, go into the unconscious to become the fuel for later events in the real world. As Emerson commented, “A person is what he thinks about all day long.”

-- James Allen

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"The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned."

-- Maya Angelou


"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."

-- Demosthenes

Press On Has Solved Many Problems

"The slogan ‘Press on’ has solved and will solve the problems of the human race. The people who never tackled a mountain who perpetually wander in the foothills most of their lives have without even realizing it lied to themselves and everyone else who would listen so often and for so long that they are no longer even aware of what they are doing."

-- Bob Proctor

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"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."

-- Margaret Mead


"Thinking about interior peace destroys interior peace. The patient who constantly feels his pulse is not getting any better."

-- Hubert van Zeller


"So many people work so hard, to achieve, attain, accumulate and cherish their fortunes. How many of us blissfully fill our days and nights being the Divine expression we are? This is the meaning of life. It is to be. As a result, all of your creations are a natural outflow from the Divine within your being. This is the joy of life."

-- Barbara Rose

Let The Creative Mind Serve You

"There is but one creative mind. The creative law of mind serves you.  What you must do is induce an inner realization of health and harmony in your own mentality. Its response is automatic."

-- Joseph Murphy

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"It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it."

-- Dale Carnegie


"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."

-- Eden Phillpotts


"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."

-- William James


"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

-- Lewis Carroll

Writing Down Plans Increase Chances of Achieving It

"Writing down your plans, goals, and ideas makes them more real for you. Every step you take to define what you want and what you need to do to get it increases the chances that you will actually pursue these goals and someday achieve them."

-- David Niven

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"The spirit down here in man and the spirit up there in the sun, in reality are only one spirit, and there is no other one."

-- The Upanishads


"Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful sight will vanish; every sweet word will fade, But do not be disheartened, The source they come from is eternal, growing, branching out, giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep? The source is within you And this whole world is springing up from it."

-- Jelaluddin Rumi

Reacting Effectively To Inevitable Crisis of Life

"The only way that you can realize your full potential, and become everything you are capable of becoming, is by dealing with crunch points effectively. The only way that you can achieve all your goals is by responding and reacting effectively to the inevitable crises of day-to-day life."

-- Brian Tracy

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"Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage.

-- Richard Lovelace

You Must Want Something Badly Enough

"All the world's progress in every field of activity has been the result of action by men and women who experienced inspirational dissatisfaction never by those who were satisfied. For dissatisfaction is man's driving force.  To be dissatisfied, you must want something. And if you want something badly enough, you'll do something. You'll try to get it."

-- W. Clement Stone

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"If I asked you to tell me a memory from high school, you would be able to tell me a memory. But, if you listened to a piece of music from high school, you would actually feel the emotions."

-- Valorie Salimpoor


"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin."

-- Tony Robbins

The Power To Think

"The greatest and most marvelous power which this “I” has been given is the power to think, but few people know how to think constructively—or correctly—so consequently they achieve only indifferent results. Most people allow their thoughts to dwell on selfish purposes, the inevitable result of an infantile mind. When a mind becomes mature, it understands that the germ of defeat is in every selfish thought.

-- Charles F. Haanel

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"We don't laugh because we're happy, we're happy because we laugh."

-- William James


"Laughter is like the human body wagging its tail."

-- Anne Wilson Schaef

Sometimes We Succeed Sometimes We Fail

"Accepting that sometimes we will succeed and sometimes fail frees us to pursue achievements and to spend time thinking about what we can do instead of what we can’t."

-- David Niven

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"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

-- Epictetus


"Let the waters settle you will see stars and moon mirrored in your Being."

-- Rumi


"May all who enter as guests leave as friends."

-- MotivationStuff.com

Helping People in a Greater Way

"It’s your own personal wheel of fortune. Think of how you can do whatever you are doing more effectively.  Think about how you can improve on the quality and the quantity of the service you are rendering. Think of how you can help the people you are helping in a greater way."

-- Bob Proctor

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"Happiness is a choice that I can make no matter how grim circumstances might seem. The joy of being alive is always attainable at some level."

-- Patti Pansa


"Work is not always required ... there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected."

-- George MacDonald


"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time."

-- Sir J. Lubbock

Difficulties a Normal and Natural Part of Life

"Remember that most things in life don’t work out, at least initially. Remind yourself that problems and difficulties are a normal and natural part of life. They are unavoidable. The only thing you can control is how you deal with them."

-- Brian Tracy

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"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

-- Leo Buscaglia


"If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life, as in hoping for another life, and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life."

-- Albert Camus


"Recognize that life is what you get when you’re born ... living is what you do with it."

-- Jim Allen


"It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between."

-- Diane Ackerman

Get Pictures of Things You Want

"Get pictures of the things you want. Visualize your car, house, vacation. Get excited. Feel like it is already yours.  Get enthusiastic about enjoying whatever it is you have asked for. Then . . . do the smart thing. Detach yourself. Turn your back and let the Universe take over."

-- Thomas L. Pauley and Penelope J. Pauley

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"Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality."

-- Ian McEwan


"Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment."

-- Jean De La Bruyare


"Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self-observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving."

-- Jon Kabat Zinn

Seek The Silence Frequently

"Over-work or over-play or over-bodily activity of any kind produces conditions of mental apathy and stagnation which makes it impossible to do the more important work which results in a realization of conscious power. We should, therefore, seek the Silence frequently. Power comes through repose. It is in the Silence that we can be still, and when we are still, we can think, and thought is the secret of all attainment."

-- Charles F. Haanel

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"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new."

-- Ursula K. Le Guin


"More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones."

-- Mother Teresa


"God answers prayer in His own way, not ours."

-- Mohandas Gandhi

Bring in some Motivational Mojo

"Therefore, if we want to attract like-minded people, it helps to bring some motivational mojo to the scene each day.  For the same reason we’re attracted to positive people, others will be attracted or turned off by our attitude. It doesn’t take more than a smile or kind word to share enthusiasm but the benefits are extraordinary."

-- Cliff Michaels

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"Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary."

-- Ray Knight


"Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will. This capacity of one-pointed attention is the essence of genius. When we have this mastery over attention in everything we do, we have a genius for life itself: unshakable security, clear judgment, and deep personal relationships."

-- Eknath Easwaran


"The successful man is the average man, focused."

-- MotivationStuff.com

Circumstances of Your Life

"It is foolish to believe in something that will hurt or harm you. Remember, it is not the thing believed in that hurts or harms you, but the belief or thought in your mind that creates the result. All your experiences, all your actions, and all the events and circumstances of your life are but the reflections and reactions to your own thought."

-- Joseph Murphy

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

-- Benjamin Franklin


"The people who give you their food give you their heart."

-- Cesar Chavez

Your Intelligent To Finding Solution

"Success, too, is the ability to solve problems. The most effective and respected people in every field are those who are the most capable of dealing with the problems that arise in that field.  The good news is that you have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with any problem or crisis you face in life.  There is no problem that you cannot solve by applying your intelligence and creativity to finding the solution."

-- Brian Tracy

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"It is now becoming increasingly clear that the universe is more like a great thought than a great machine."

-- J. Robert Oppenheimer


"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."

-- Henri Bergson


"There is no reality in the absence of observation."

-- The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

Persistence Cannot Be Replaced

"Make persistence your most well developed mental muscle. Persistence cannot be replaced by any other quality. Superior skills will not make up for it. A well rounded, formal education cannot make up to replace it.  Nor will calculated plans nor a magnetic personality.  When you are persistent you will become a leader in your career and industry."

-- Bob Proctor


"Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself."

-- Hermann Hesse


"People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges."

-- Joseph F. Newton


"We have to decide for ourselves what's nourishing to our souls, and do those things over others."

-- Thomas Moore

Windows of Opportunity in Past Adversity

"Past adversity is often the window of opportunity for change and betterment. The mind is a filter that enables us to see  things. Life is not as it happens; life is how you perceive it.  Some people bury the past and move on, other people keep resurrecting a corpse."

-- Pat Mesiti

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"Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!"

-- Stevie Wonder


"When we know that the cause of something is in ourselves, and that we (ourselves) are one of the few things in the universe that we have the right and ability to change, we begin to get a sense of the choices we really do have, an inkling of the power we have, a feeling of being in charge... of our lives, of our future, of our dreams."

-- John-Roger and Peter McWilliams

Our Attitude of Mind Toward Life

"It is our attitude of mind toward life which determines the experiences with which we are to meet; if we expect nothing, we shall have nothing; if we demand much, we shall receive the greater portion. The world is harsh only as we fail to assert ourselves. The criticism of the world is bitter only to those who cannot compel room for their ideas. It is fear of this criticism that causes many ideas to fail to see the light of day."

-- Charles F. Haanel

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"I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person."

-- Walt Whitman


"Life does not happen to us, it happens from us."

-- Mike Wickett


"Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail."

-- John Donne

Remain Optimistic No Matter What

"Remain optimistic, no matter what is going on. Look for something good in the problem or situation. Very often, what appears to be a major setback is an opportunity in disguise. The complete failure of a project, process, or business venture may be exactly what you need because it may compel you to channel your time and resources in another direction."

-- Brian Tracy

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"More than any other part of the body, our hands reveal our inner state."

-- Omraam Mikhavanhov


"What is always speaking silently is the body."

-- Norman Brown

The Death of Fear

"The principle became crystal clear to me: Do what you're afraid to do ... go where you're afraid to go . . . when you run away because you are afraid to do something big, you pass opportunity by.  Face your fears, and the death of fear is certain!"

-- W. Clement Stone

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"Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."

-- Leonard Cohen


"When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you're giving it power."

-- Anthony de Mello


"What you resist persists. And only what you look at, and own, can disappear. You make it disappear by simply changing your mind about it."

-- Neale Donald Walsch

Do It Even If You Are Scare

"Making a decision must never be based I will TRY that, but only if this happens first etc. There are no tries, ifs or buts on the road to success and certainly not in real decision making.  If it scares us, well then we do it scared and if something does not scare and excite us at the same time then it’s not really Big enough a dream."

-- Bob Proctor


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"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."

-- John F. Kennedy


"After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world."

-- Philip Pullman

Practice The Serenity Prayer

"People who worry about things they cannot control would do well to learn and practice the Serenity Prayer: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

-- Henry Cloud

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"If you expect the best, you will be the best. Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world; change your mental habits to belief instead of disbelief. Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility."

-- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale


"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."

-- Helen Keller

The Thought of Your Mind

"Belief is a thought in your mind that causes the power of your subconscious to be distributed into all phases of your life according to your thinking habits. You must realize that when the Bible speaks of belief, it is not talking about your belief in some ritual, ceremony, form, institution, or formula. It is talking about belief itself. The belief of your mind is simply the thought of your mind."

-- Joseph Murphy

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"At the end of the day it's not about what have accomplished...it's about who you've lifted up, who you've made better."

-- Denzel Washington


"All good things are wild and free."

-- Henry David Thoreau

To Know Your True Direction

"Anything you are doing that causes stress and struggle, she says, no matter how worthy you think it is, is probably not part of your true direction. When you find something that gives you joy and at which you seem easily productive - what in eastern philosophy is called “non-action” - it is probably close to your North Star."

-- Martha Beck

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"Once, when we were discussing a world peace project with my teacher, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, somebody asked him, 'Where is all the money going to come from?' And he replied without hesitation, 'From wherever it is at the moment.'"

-- Deepak Chopra


"Manifestation is an act of trust. It is the soul pouring itself out into its world, like a fisherman casting a net to gather in the fish he seeks; with each cast properly made, we will bring what we need to us, but first we must hurl ourselves into the depths without knowing just what lies beneath us."

-- David Spangler

Seek The Valuable Lesson For Every Crises

"Within every problem you face, there is the seed of an equal or greater benefit or advantage.  When you discipline yourself to look for the good in the situation, and to seek the valuable lessons that the situation or crisis might contain, you automatically remain calm, positive, and optimistic. As a result, all the powers of your wonderful mind remain available to you to solve the problem or resolve the crisis."

-- Brian Tracy

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"See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls."

-- Mother Theresa


"A warm smile is the universal language of kindness."

-- William Arthur Ward

How to Prevent Negative Things from Happening

"Wise people play the movie to prevent negative things happening as well as increase positive things in life. And by doing so, they can change behavior that they would not otherwise be likely to change."

-- Henry Cloud

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"Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self."

-- Maxwell Maltz


"No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence."

-- George Eliot

How To Be Motivated Every Single Day

"Commit to inspiring routines. Review written goals daily. Read motivational quotes. Hang inspirational art or photos. Listen to your favorite music. Listen to or talk with passionate people."

-- Cliff Michaels


"Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it."

-- Confucius


"When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness."

-- Brian Swimme

Make Decision For Your Own Life

"ONLY YOU know what you want so only YOU should be the one making decisions about your own life. As long as what you decide is not hurting yourself or others GO FOR IT. Especially if what you want is helping educate your mind and spirit then say YES to these things."

-- Bob Proctor


"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."

-- Marcus Aurelius


"To those who have given up on love: I say, 'Trust life a little bit.'"

-- Maya Angelou

Distorted Concepts in Your Subconscious Mind

"Everything that has happened to you happened because of thoughts impressed on your subconscious mind through belief. If you have communicated wrong or distorted concepts to your subconscious mind, it is of the most urgent importance to correct them. The sure way to do this is by repeatedly giving your subconscious mind constructive, harmonious thoughts."

-- Joseph Murphy


"Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


"At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled."

-- Marshall B. Rosenberg

The Future Reality

"We act as if the present is all there is; we forget that the future is going to come either way. Immediate relief from hard work is not the only consequence. By avoiding the immediate discomfort, you also sign up for the negative consequence residing within the future reality."

-- Henry Cloud


"We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves."

-- Orison Swett Marden


"I believe our true nature IS kindness and that when we are not acting out of fear we act out of love."

-- Glinda

Use Your Subconscious Mind Wisely

"The subconscious mind draws just and accurate inferences from premises furnished from outside sources. Where the premise is true, the subconscious mind reaches a faultless conclusion, but, where the premise or suggestion is an error, the whole structure falls. The subconscious mind does not engage in the process of proving. It relies upon the conscious mind, “the watchman at the gate,” to guard it from mistaken impressions."

-- Charles F. Haanel


"I have gone through life believing in the strength and competence of others; never in my own. Now, dazzled, I discovered that my capacities were real. It was like finding a fortune in the lining of an old coat."

-- Joan Mills


"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success."

-- Norman Vincent Peale

You Didn't Realize What Hardships Brings

"They did not realize that their hardships helped them build courage, character and strength and that by giving their children too much with too little effort on their part, their children did not have the opportunity to build the same qualities."

-- H. Stephen Glenn


"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

-- Mother Teresa


"The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order."

-- Henry Miller

Our Mind and Body Are The Same

"The mind and body are parts of the same system. Our thoughts constantly affect our breathing, muscles, etc., which in turn affect our thinking. Control your thoughts and you control your body."

-- Steve Andreas and Charles Faulkner


"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."

-- Copernicus


"Life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now."

-- Thich Nhat Hanh

Those Who Ceases From Growth

"Life without progress becomes unendurable, and the person who ceases from growth must either become imbecile or insane. The greater and more harmonious and well rounded his growth, the happier man will be."

-- Wallace D. Wattles


"I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible."

-- William James


"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."

-- Niels Bohr

Play Now Pay Later, Pay Now Play Later

"Play now, pay later. Pay now, play later. We teach this to six-year-olds. How much better our adult lives would be if we would always live it out ourselves."

-- Henry Cloud


"Walking is man's best medicine."

-- Hippocrates


"The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced."

-- Aart Van Der Leeuw

Decision Making Bring Mind Order

"The person who makes the decision to strengthen these mental muscles receives as their reward what is often considered a charmed life.  You can virtually eliminate conflict and confusion in your life by becoming proficient in making decisions. Decision making brings order to your mind. And of course this order is reflected in your objective world, your results."

-- Bob Proctor


"We lie in the lap of immense intelligence."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections."

-- Katherine Paterson

Believe and You Shall Receive

"The most wonderful thing to know is this: Imagine the end desired and feel its reality; then the infinite life principle will respond to your conscious choice and your conscious request. This is the meaning of the text - believe you have received, and you shall receive."

-- Joseph Murphy


"Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life."

-- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi


"There is only one thing more powerful than all the armies of the world, that is an idea whose time has come."

-- Victor Hugo

Life is Huge, Rejoice It

"Life is huge!  Rejoice about the sun, moon, flowers and sky.  Rejoice about the food you have to eat.  Rejoice about the  body that houses your spirit.  Rejoice about the fact that you can be a positive force in the world around you.  Rejoice about the love that is around you.  If you want to be happy, commit to making your life one of rejoicing."

-- Susan Jeffers


"The responsibility for both present and future is in our own hands. If we live right today, then tomorrow has to be right."

-- Eknath Easwaran


"Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly."

-- George MacDonald

Use Circumstances To Aid Progress

"What measures us, what reveals us, is how we use those circumstances as an aid or spur to progress. A successful person or community, in short, is one who is most efficient at processing failure."

-- James Allen


"Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten -- it knows the sacred that is within all that exists, and through a depth of feeling we can once again experience this connection, this belonging."

-- Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee


"Time is not a line, but a series of now points."

-- Taisen Deshimaru

You Are Today Because of Your Past Thinking

"We are today the result of our past thinking, and we shall be what we are thinking today.  The Law of Attraction is bringing to us not the things we should like, or the things we wish for, or the things someone else has, but it brings us “our own”— the things which we have created by our thought processes, whether consciously or unconsciously."

-- Charles F. Haanel


"To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling."

-- Jean Shinoda Bolen


"Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!"

-- Les Brown

Kill Boredom

"Boredom will eat away at your persistence and resolve. No one can do the same job, requiring the same tasks, with perpetual interest and enthusiasm.  When evaluating a job opportunity, don’t just worry about the salary and workload; investigate how much variety there is in the tasks you’ll perform."

-- David Niven


"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float."

-- Alan Watts


"The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place."

-- David Brower