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