You Just Need To Change

"Remember that you just need to change one thing for your life to begin to improve. And, quite often, when you do make that change, the other things in your life that you want to change will follow."

-- Sue Hadfield


"Self-contempt never inspires lasting change."

-- Jane R. Hirschmann & Carol H. Munter


"Who you really are is enough."

-- Oriah Mountain Dreamer

The Fundamental Strategies for Wealth and Happiness

"Become master over what you have and what you are.  That's where the seeds of greatness are sown, great wealth, great health, great results, great influence, and great lifestyle.  Take interest and even delight in doing the small things well.  It will help you become a sophisticated person, one who knows the fundamental strategies for wealth and happiness."

-- Jim Rohn


"The journey to know ourselves ideally brings us to self-understanding and acceptance. It is NOT a quest for self-improvement.

When we open to love and accept ourselves, no matter what, our innate love, power and wisdom emerge naturally."

-- John Robson

Every Effect Has A Cause

"We know that every effect has a cause. And thought is the first cause of success in any worthwhile achievement. If you don't think, you don't succeed. If your thoughts are based on the wrong premises, you fail to get the right answers."

-- W. Clement Stone


"They also serve who only stand and wait."

-- John Milton


"When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you."

-- Susan Sarandon

The Only Important Thing Now

"The only important thing now is today, and the things you have to get done today.  If they're done, and the things you have to get done today.  If they're done well they will influence your future and perhaps make it better.  But the important thing is to live these twenty-four hours as if they were your last - enjoy every moment of them, and you will have a happier life."

-- Barry Parker


"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes


"There is more to life than merely increasing its speed."

-- M.K. Gandhi

Do It Even It Seems Frightening

"Feel the fear and do it anyway!  EVen if it seems frightening, 'So What!'  Fear and action arent' mutually exclusive! with each step forward, we learn to hold fear from a position of power instead of pain."

-- Susan Jeffers


"We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create."

-- Paul Hawken


"Effective leadership isn't about having power over people, it's about doing good for people."

-- Bill Treasurer

Introduce Newness To Your Life

"Think of as many ways you can introduce newness or a change of direction to everything you do. You’ll be pleasantly surprised at how many things you can change, primarily because we tend to establish fixed habits of routine in which we drift mindlessly through life in the same old way, producing the same old results."

-- Gary Dooley


"Self-contempt never inspires lasting change."

-- Jane R. Hirschmann & Carol H. Munter


"Who you really are is enough."

-- Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Look Back On Your Life Without Regrets

"If you see your life on this earth as temporary, if you want to live your life to the full, if want to look back on your life without any regrets, then you can. Others have done it. Why shouldn't you?"

-- Sue Hadfield


"The journey to know ourselves ideally brings us to self-understanding and acceptance. It is NOT a quest for self-improvement.

When we open to love and accept ourselves, no matter what, our innate love, power and wisdom emerge naturally."

-- John Robson

The Right Attitudes Win For You

"Attitudes do make the difference. Salesmen with the right attitude beat their quotas; students with the right attitude make 'A's; right attitudes pave the way to really happy married life. Right attitudes make you effective in dealing with people, enable you to develop as a leader. Right attitudes win for you in every situation."

-- David Joseph Schwartz


"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."

-- Harper Lee


"How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look."

-- Joyce Carol Oates

Few People Understand Failure

"Failure is generally accepted as a curse.  But few people ever understand that failure is a curse only when it is accepted as such.  But few ever learn the truth that failure is seldom permanent."

-- Napoleon Hill


"We arrive on this planet empty handed. We all will soon leave empty handed. So then, how and in what spirit do we want to spend the time in between?"

-- Nimo


"Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity."

- Fritjof Capra

Your Brain Sees No Difference

"When you perform any task in real life, researchers have found, your brain uses the same identical processes it would use if you were only vividly visualizing that activity. In other words, your brain sees no difference whatsoever between visualizing something and actually doing it."

-- Jack Canfield


"And yet, ironically, we always fear and resist opening to that which is most real in us. When we trust in the process and give ourselves over to it, however, our true nature comes forth. The result is real integrity, love, authenticity, creativity, understanding, guidance, joy, power, and serenity-all of the qualities we are forever demanding that personality supply."

-- Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson