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

If You Want Life Time Happiness

"If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else."

-- Chinese Proverb


"There are two kinds of men who never amount to much:
those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else."

-- Cyrus H. Curtis


"Compassion, caring, teaching, loving, and sharing your gifts,
talents, and abilities are the gateways to power."

-- Jamie Sams

Anyone Can Learn To Do It

"If one person can do something, anyone can learn to do it,” you can take the successful attitudes, decisions, and behaviors of people you admire and use them to fulfill your unique mission."

-- Steve Andreas and Charles Faulkner


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

-- Taisen Deshimaru


"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

Genuinely Love What You Do

"You’ll be twice as passionate about your day when you genuinely love what you do. If you’re not in your ideal job or relationship today, find a way to add your favorite thing to each day."

-- Cliff Michaels


"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong."

-- Charlotte Bronte


"The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."

-- Carl Jung

Draw The Thoughts of Strength

"Don’t be always saying of yourself, “I am weak or cowardly or ill-tempered or imprudent,” Draw to yourself rather the thought current of strength, courage, even temper, prudence and all other good qualities. Keep the image of these qualities in mind and you make them a part of yourself."

-- Prentice Mulford


"My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding."

-- Og Mandino


"Take your life in your own hands and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame."

-- Erica Jong

Make The Decision To Succeed

"The world’s most successful people share a common quality. They make decisions and rarely if ever change their minds. Yes decision makers go to the top and those who do not make decisions seem to go nowhere. Think about it…"

-- Bob Proctor

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"I breathe deeply and fully. I take in the breath of life, and I am nourished."

-- Louise Hay


"There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right."

-- Martin Luther King Jr.

Have Faith in Your Thought

"Whether the object of your faith is real or false, you will get results.  Your subconscious mind responds to the thought in your mind.  Look upon faith as a thought in your mind, and that will suffice."

-- Joseph Murphy


"We honor life when we work. The type of work is not important: the fact of work is. All work feeds the soul if it is honest and done to the best of our abilities and if it brings joy to others."

-- Matthew Fox


"Now in order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it:
they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it -- not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it."

-- John Ruskin

Believed and You Would Received

"He listened. He took time for reflection. He related and assimilated the principles. He prayed sincerely, reverently, and humbly for divine guidance. He believed he would receive it, and because of the lie believed, he did receive it. And when he did, he didn't forget to give a sincere prayer of thanks."

-- W. Clement Stone

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"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."

-- Barbara Kingsolver


"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

-- Aristotle

Don't Get Stuck in the Past

"You have to get over your past, become bigger than it and not dwell in any disappointment. Your prosperity quotient has to be greater than your disappointment quotient.  Many people get stuck in the past because they are contin-ually looking in the rear-view mirror of their life. You cannot go forward if you are constantly looking backwards."

-- Pat Mesiti

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"It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life."

-- Max Frisch


"Hope is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles."

-- Samuel Smiles

Persistence is Interwoven with Success

"Persistence is never developed by accident. You are not born with it and you cannot inherit it. And there is no one in the entire world that can develop persistence for you. Persistence is as interwoven with success as the chicken is with the egg."

-- Bob Proctor

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"Hugs are the universal medicine."

-- MotivationStuff.com


"The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit, and fire."

-- Sharon Ralls Lemon

What Lead To Our Stress

"Unhealthy routines lead to stress, low energy, and poor health. Enthusiasm is driven by the positive fuel we feed our mind, body, and soul. Exercise. Eat well. Find balance."

-- Cliff Michaels

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"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


"Peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from the ability to cope with it."

-- MotivationStuff.com

Attract The Supreme Thoughts of Ideas

"If but two people were to meet at regular intervals and talk of health, strength and vigour of body and mind, at the same time opening their minds to receive of the Supreme the best idea as to the ways and means for securing these blessings, they would attract to them a thought current of such idea."

-- Prentice Mulford

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"We can easily get into trouble in relationships when we assume that we know what someone else is thinking or feeling. Parents, in particular, can be quick to judge what's going on in their children."


"It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumptions."

-- C. West Churchman


"To assume is to be deceived."

-- Yiddish proverb

When The Going Get Tough

"But when the going gets tough, the tough get going. It is only by facing the challenge of a crunch point that you demonstrate to yourself and others what you are really made of. As the Greek philosopher Epictetus once said, “Circumstances do not make the man; they merely reveal him to himself” (and to others as well)."

-- Brian Tracy

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"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

-- John Dewey


"An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart."

-- David Augsburger

Why Repeat Your Affirmation Before Sleeping

"I asked her why she repeated her affirmation prior to sleep. She told me, "Once it is set in motion in a certain direction, the kinetic action of the subconscious mind continues throughout your sleep. That is why it is so critical to give the subconscious mind something beneficial to work on as you drop off into slumber."

-- Joseph Murphy

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"It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal."

-- Dalai Lama


" ... we can no longer afford to throw away even one unimportant day by not noticing the wonder of it all. We have to be willing to discover and then appreciate the authentic moments of happiness available to all of us every day."

-- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Believe In The Reality in Your Mind

"The idea you have for a book, new invention, or play is real in your mind. This is why you can believe you have it now. Believe in the reality of your idea, plan, or invention, and as you do, it will become manifest."

-- Joseph Murphy

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"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

-- Pablo Picasso


"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you."

-- Lewis B. Smedes

How Should Never Be Your Worry

"So you see the way how is never our worry the way how will appear once we have made a REAL DECISION to go for it. Things that before looked impossible now become possible. Do not ask God how this works, take action and make a decision."

-- Bob Proctor

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"Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. She gives most who gives with Joy."

-- Mother Teresa


"Never miss a joy in this world of trouble ... that's my theory! ... Happiness, like mercy, is twice blest: it blesses those most intimately associated with it and it blesses all those who see it, hear it, touch it or breathe the same atmosphere."

-- Kate Douglas Wiggin

Stop Trying To Be Perfect

"Be yourself.  And the major reason why is that both your happiness and your success depends to a large degree on your self-acceptance.  In fact, it's difficult to be truly happy or successful without it.  So stop trying to be perfect; see yourself as you are."

-- Barry Parker


"Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided."

-- Paracelsus


"Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."

-- John Steinbeck

Thoughts and Respond, Then Habit

"You have the ability to engage in self-suggestion by the thoughts you think, and when you repeat these thoughts and respond to them by action again and again, you establish a habit. By directing your thoughts, you can build and control the habits you wish to acquire and substitute new habits for old."

-- W. Clement Stone


"Spirituality is the sacred center out of which all life comes, including Mondays and Tuesdays and rainy Saturday afternoons in all their mundane and glorious detail. ... The spiritual journey is the soul's life commingling with ordinary life."

-- Christina Baldwin


"It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me."

-- Simone Weil

How Your Subconscious Mind Respond

"Remember, your subconscious mind does not engage in proving whether your thoughts are good or bad, true or false. It responds according to the nature of your thoughts or suggestions. For example, if you consciously assume that something is true, even though it may be false, your subconscious mind will accept it as true and proceed to bring about results that must necessarily follow because you consciously assumed it to be true."

-- Joseph Murphy


"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together."

-- William Shakespeare


"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."

-- Soren Kierkegaard

Decided and Get Started

"So let’s start with DECISION because none of the success and money we desire is magnetized to us until we know what we want and we have made a Committed DECISION to have what we want!!"

-- Bob Proctor


"Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?"

-- Eric Allenbaugh


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

-- Mother Teresa

Once You Discovered Your Unique Ability

"Once you’ve discovered your unique ability, it’s a good idea to delegate, collaborate, or eliminate stuff you don’t know, don’t do well, don’t like, or don’t have time for. I repeat this mantra often — and for good reason."

-- Cliff Michaels


"I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end."

-- Abraham Lincoln


"Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention."

-- Greg Anderson

Get Excited, This Is Your Life

"This is your life. Get excited, the possibilities are limited only by your desire. Stretch your mind. Unbridle your imagination. Reach for the stars. It is this striving for your greatest possible good that allows you to grow. You’re protected. The Universe will give you what’s best for you in the end."

-- Thomas L. Pauley and Penelope J. Pauley


"Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans: it's lovely to be silly at the right moment."

-- Horace


"We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life."

-- Martha Graham

Complaining Is Pointless

"Anyone who wants to prosper must work on what they have now. Those who are condemned to failure are those who complain about what they have lost, what could have been, might have been or should have been. Such complaining is pointless; it drains energy and is a prosperity thief. "

-- Pat Mesiti


"Bouncing ideas off trusted peers is a great way to escape the confines of your own mind. Moreover, you don’t need a business to start a support group. We all deal with challenges."

-- Cliff Michaels


"Even the smallest changes in our daily routine can create incredible ripple effects that expand our vision of what is possible."

-- Charles F. Glassman

Why Many Succeed, Why So Many Failed

"That is why many persons succeed because they start for a specific destination and keep going until they reach it It's hard to stop them. Also that's why many fail because they don't get started they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin."

-- W. Clement Stone


"Most of the time, we fall in love but can't remain there. The world then calls the state we were in a delusion or infatuation... But we merely lacked, or someone else lacked, the emotional skills to hold on to the magic when the morning came. ...In truth, we can go to the moon and retain its magic for a lifetime."

-- Marianne Williamson


"We think, sometimes, there's not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests ... What a pleasure to be wrong. Princesses, knights, enchantments and dragons, mystery and adventure ... not only are they here-and-now, they're all that ever lived on earth! Masters of reality still meet us in dreams to tell us that we've never lost the shield we need against dragons, that blue-fire voltage arcs through us now to change our world as we wish. Intuition whispers true: We're not dust, we're magic!"

-- Richard Bach

What Is Faith Like

"Know that faith is like a seed planted in the ground; it grows after its kind. Plant the idea (seed) in your mind, water and fertilize it with expectancy, and it will become manifest."

-- Joseph Murphy


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

-- Alice Mary Hilton


"...for magic to happen in your life, you must believe in magic."

-- Grandmother, quoted by Lynn Andrews

The Secret To Your Power

"The attitude of mind necessarily depends upon what we think. Therefore, the secret of all power, all achievement, and all possession depends upon our method of thinking."

-- Charles F. Haanel


"So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing."

-- T.S. Elliot


"The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results."

-- Eknath Easwaran

Believe, Proceed and Succeed

"Your subconscious mind is much like the pool. You’ll not see a visible change in a hurry however know that if you continually pump in clean, pure, powerful, prosperity concepts the old conditioning will be weakened.  Ultimately the truth will fill your consciousness, your mind will return to its pure, prosperous state. Evidence of this will appear in the physical world, yes you will see results. Yes, you will most certainly be openly rewarded for your faith. Believe, proceed, and succeed…"

-- Bob Proctor


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

-- Vernon Howard


"Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought."

-- E.Y. Harburg