Control Those Things You Can Control

"Learn to control those things you can control - and let everything else go.  Ask yourself this question: 'What can I control?'  Once I learned to focus on the things I controlled, I began to make real progress toward my dreams and goals."

-- Pat William and Jim Denney


"Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life."

-- Paul Theroux


"We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time."

-- Pema Chodron

Always Raise Your Sight Higher

"Never ever be so comfortable with your life that you keep your head down. Always raise your sight and see that there is always a higher point in which to aspire.  Whichever point you are in life now, you are never too low or too high to improve."

-- Motivationstuff.com


"If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are at the highest point."

-- Antonio Porchia


"To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself."

-- Gandhi

Seek Your Path To Be Given

“You were given this life because you were strong enough to live it.  You have to seek the path that is your destiny and you will find the strength to complete your journey.  You might not begin the journey with all of the strength and wisdom  but that will be gained by walking the path.  You will be given all you need to begin your journey at the time you begin. ”

-- Motivationstuff.com


“Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to boldly walk through them.”

-- O.S. Marden


"At the end of the day, it’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce."

-- Sheila Wellington

You Have No Limitation

"There is no limit upon you, except the limit you put upon yourself.  You don't need to worry about your rivals, your business competitors.  Indeed, you should be thankful for them.  If it were not for them, you would lack the incentive for effort and soon be dead as the Government bureau."

-- Robert Collier


"Eating is an agricultural act."

-- Wendell Berry


“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”

-- George Bernard Shaw

Discipline Yourself For Success

"Everyone has dreams.  Those who are self-disciplined make their dreams come true.  Whether you want to make a billion dollars or serve the poor, you must discipline yourself for success."

-- Pat William and Jim Denney


“We all need a daily check up from the neck up to avoid stinkin ‘thinkin’ which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes.”

-- Zig Ziglar


"You must have a room,or a certain hour or so a day,where you don't know what was in the newspaper that morning, you don't know who your friends are, you don't know what you owe anybody, you don't know what anybody owes you.  This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be."

-- Joseph Campbell

Be Courageous in Your Life

"Be courageous in your life and in your pursuit of the things you want and what it is you want to become.  You must do in order to master the circumstances of life, or risk having the circumstances of life master you."

-- Stuart Avery Gold


"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

-- William Shakespeare


"Those who wish to sing, always find a song."

-- Swedish proverb

Forever Striving To Be The Best

"When progress is looking for a partner, it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average.  It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can."

-- Pat William and Jim Denney


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

-- Kahlil Gibran


"Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us."

-- Marianne Williamson

Meet The Challenge of Change

"Everyone has problems.  This is because you and everything in the universe are in a constant process of change.  Change is an inexorable natural law.  What is important to you is that your success or failure to meet the challenges of change are dependent upon your mental attitude."

-- W. Clement Stone


"You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true."

-- Richard Bach


"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."

-- Carl Sagan

Be Bold To Be Yourself

"No matter how you got here, you are worthy to be here.  Be boldly who you are my friend, and you will become the person you were meant to be."

-- Pat William and Jim Denney


"Don't be so quick to claim your limitations when you have never truly tested them."

-- Kevin Ngo


"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."

-- Albert Einstein

Defeats Either Keep You Down or Up

"Every type of defeat has the potential of keeping you down.  However, if you were to give up every time you were defeated, it becomes part of who you are. Remember that defeat has the potential to make you stronger; defeat give you the ability to create a new solution. Every defeat will provide you with experience that will teach you to win. Once you began learning how to win, it becomes a habit as well."

-- Motivationstuff.com


"There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world."

-- Oscar Hammerstein II


"Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us."

-- Rainer Maria Rilke