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