Tension or Relxation

"Tension is who you think you should be.

Relaxation is who you are."

Chinese Proverb

Prosperity

“If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain.

If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees.

If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.”

Chinese Proverb

Choose A Friend

“A man should choose a friend who is better than himself.

There are plenty of acquaintances in the world;

but very few real friends.”

Chinese Proverb

Japanese Proverb

‎"One kind word can warm three winter months."

Japanese Proverb

Appearances

“Do not judge by appearances;

a rich heart may be under a poor coat.”

Scottish Proverb

Irish Blessing

“May God grant you always...

A sunbeam to warm you,

a moonbeam to charm you,

a sheltering Angel

so nothing can harm you.

Laughter to cheer you.

Faithful friends near you.

And whenever you pray,

Heaven to hear you.”

Irish Blessing

One Moment of Anger

‎"If you are patient in one moment of anger,

you will escape

a hundred days of sorrow."

Chinese Proverb

Apache Blessing

"May the sun bring you new energy by day,

may the moon softly restore you by night,

may the rain wash away your worries,

may the breeze blow new strength

into your being,

may you walk gently through the world

and know its beauty all the days of your life."

Apache Blessing

A Thousand Voices

“It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story.”

Native American Proverb

Unknown Blessings

“Give thanks for unknown blessings

already on their way.”

Native American saying

A Valuable Worthwhile Human Being

"You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being, not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money, but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason."

Dr Wayne Dyer

To Live Is To Choose

“To live is to choose.

But to choose well,

you must know who you are

and what you stand for,

where you want to go

and why you want to get there.”

Kofi Annan

Surprise

“Life takes us by surprise

and orders us to move toward the unknown;

even when we don't want to

and when we think we don't need to.”

Paulo Coelho

Performance

“You cannot perform in a manner

inconsistent with the way you see yourself.”

Zig Ziglar

Criticism Easily Avoided

“Criticism

is something you can easily avoid

by saying nothing,

doing nothing,

and being nothing.”

Aristotle

Opportunity Has a Sly Habit

‎"Opportunity ...

It has a sly habit of slipping in

by the back door,

and often it comes disguised in

the form of misfortune,

or temporary defeat.

Perhaps this is why so many fail

to recognize opportunity."

Napoleon Hill

Awareness

‎"Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world."

Eckhart Tolle

Great Things

“All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim,

have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high,

one which sometimes seemed impossible.”

Orison Swett Marden

Call Troubles Experiences

“If you will call your troubles experiences,

and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you,

you will grow vigorous and happy,

however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.”

John Heywood

Safe Harbour

“A ship is safe in harbour,

but that’s not what ships are for.”

William Shedd

Happy Thoughts

‎"Let a series of happy thoughts

run through your mind.

They will show on your face."

Norman Vincent Peale

The Road of Life

“The road of life twists and turns

and no two directions are ever the same.

Yet our lessons come from the journey,

not the destination.”

Don Williams

Gratitude is an Attitude

"Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply.

And the more grateful you are,

the closer you become to your maker,

to the architect of the universe,

to the spiritual core of your being".

Bob Proctor

Destiny Grants Us

“Destiny grants us our wishes,

but in its own way,

in order to give us something beyond our wishes.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Plans Miscarry

“Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.

When a man does not know what harbour he is making for,

no wind is the right wind.”

Seneca

Shadow of the World

“Time is but the shadow of the world

upon the background of eternity.”

Jerome K. Jerome

Seek Out and Follow It

“Seek out that particular mental attribute,

which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive,

along with which comes the inner voice which says,

“This is the real me,”

and when you have found that attitude,

follow it!”

William James

Every Thought You Have

“Imagine that every thought you have,

every word you utter,

every deed of yours

brings some benefit to the world.”

Deepak Chopra

Taking Time

“Taking time to do nothing

often brings everything into perspective.”

Doe Zantamata

Something You Love Enough

“You have to find something that you love enough

to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles

and break through the brick walls

that are always going to be placed in front of you.

If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you’re doing,

you’ll stop at the first giant hurdle.”

George Lucas

Care About People

‎"Care about people,

not what you want from them,

but what you can give them,

and you will have all you want."

Chip Esajian

What Is The Difference?

‎"What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity?

Our attitude toward it.

Every opportunity has a difficulty,

and every difficulty has an opportunity."

J. Sidlow Baxter

‎"You Are A Living Magnet

‎"You are a living magnet

and you attract into your life

the people and the circumstances

that are in harmony with your dominant thoughts."

Brian Tracy

Promises

‎"Promises are the uniquely human way

of ordering the future,

making it predictable and reliable

to the extent that this is humanly possible."

Hannah Arendt

Yesterday I Was Clever

‎" Yesterday I was clever,

so I wanted to change the world.

Today I am wise,

so I am changing myself "

Rumi

How Precious and Valuable

“Remind yourself of how much

you have to give and of

how precious and valuable your giving is.”

Dr. Wayne Dyer

Everything You Want

“Most everything that you want is just outside

your comfort zone.”

Jack Canfield

Everything You Need

“Everything you need

comes to you in perfect time,

space and sequence.”

Louise Hay

Because You Think You Are

‎"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it,

for that determines our success or failure.

The way you think about a fact may defeat you

before you ever do anything about it.

You are overcome by the fact because you think you are."

Norman Vincent Peale

The Teacher

"The teacher

who is indeed wise

does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom

but rather leads you to the threshold

of your mind."

Khalil Gibran

“Your mind is the tool

your consciousness uses to scan

the contrast of the life around you;

it is the place where you make choices

about all you see,

whilst creating your very

own path forward adding unto all

that is with your unique take

through your perspective.

This means you count and

are important to all that share

this world and all others with you.

Do not waste another moment in

negative contemplation without some

sort of idea for seeking solution;

resolution will never be born

out of negative contemplation.

Reach for a better feeling

and use your mind with its ability

to imagine your future self.”

Paul Smit

Personal Power

“Each of us is born with

a certain amount of personal power

that we rebuild every day.”

don Miguel Ruiz

Generosity

“When we’re able to be generous with others,

we’re better able to be generous with ourselves.”

Cheryl Richardson

Love and Believe

“People who love and believe in you

do not need to be convinced,

and people who do not love or believe in you

are not worth trying to convince.”

Alan Cohen

Success in Life

‎"Success in life is a matter not so much of talent

as of concentration and perseverance."

C.W. Wendte

Miracles

“Miracles seldom occur in the lives of those

who do not consider them possible. “

Neale Donald Walsch

The Creator You Are

“Your awareness of the whole consciousness

is what makes you the very creator that you are.”

Paul Smit

Integrity

“Living with integrity means that

what you feel and know on the inside

matches what you say and do on the outside.

Integrity is alignment.”

Jonathan Ellerby

Taking Yourself Seriously

"If it isn't easy to laugh and be amused by your own mistakes and foibles,

you may be taking yourself a bit too seriously."

Bruce Brown

Opinions and Mistakes

“He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.”
Tryon Edwards

Circumstances

‎"We can let circumstances rule us,

or we can take charge

and rule our lives from within."

Earl Nightingale

Opportunity Comes Disguised

‎"Opportunity often comes disguised

in the form of misfortune,

or temporary defeat."

Napoleon Hill

Limits to Possibilities

“The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow

are the buts you use today.”

Les Brown

Know What Your Values Are

“It's not hard to make decisions

when you know what your values are.”

Roy Disney

A Man Should Do His Best

‎"It has always been my belief

that a man should do his best,

regardless of how much he receives for his services,

or the number of people he may be serving

or the class of people served."

Napoleon Hill

Riding a Bicycle

“Life is like riding a Bicycle...

To keep your balance,

you must keep moving on!”

Albert Einstein

Encased in Armour

‎"Each of us is encased in an armour which we soon,

out of familiarity, cease to notice.

There are only moments which penetrate it

and stir the soul to sensibility."

Martin Buber

Gratitude

“To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant,

to enact gratitude is generous and noble,

but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.”

Johannes A. Gaertner

What We Need to Learn

‎"I trust so much in the power of the heart and the soul;

I know that the answer to what we need

to do next is in our own hearts.

All we have to do is listen,

then take that one step further and trust what we hear.

We will be taught what we need to learn."

Melody Beattie

Winning

“Winning is never whining.

Winning is coming in fourth, exhausted but excited,

because you came in fifth last time.

Winning is being glad you're you.

Winning is a feeling, there is no ceiling.

Winning is beginning, and by beginning,

the game is half won.

Winning is all in the attitude!”

Denis Waitley

A Little Bit of Good

"Do your little bit of good where you are;

it's those little bits of good that overwhelm the world!"

Desmond Tutu

A Lot of Courage

"It takes a lot of courage

to show your dreams to someone else."

Erma Bombeck

‎"Prosperity Consciousness

‎"Prosperity consciousness is the awareness that

all of us have something of value to offer,

and we all deserve to get paid

for what we provide to others."

Peggy McColl

No Sense of Humour

“Our subconscious minds have no sense of humour,

play no jokes

and cannot tell the difference between

reality and an imagined thought or image.

What we continually think about

eventually will manifest in our lives.”

Robert Collier

Hard Times

“Hard times require furious dancing.”
Alice Walker

Firm Foundation

“A successful man is one who can

lay a firm foundation

with the bricks

others have thrown at him.”

David Brinkley

Creativity

“Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvellous.”

Bill Moyers

Never Give Up

"Never give up on your dream...

perseverance is all important.

If you don't have the desire

and the belief in yourself to keep trying

after you've been told you should quit,

you'll never make it."

Tawni O'Dell

Inside Job

"Success and fulfilment is an inside job!..

Consider investing in yourself regularly.

When you invest in yourself,

you're the only one responsible for your return on investment

and believe me it can be huge!"

Bob Proctor

Fatal Blunder

"There is no more fatal blunder than

he who consumes the greater part of his life

getting his living."

Henry David Thoreau

Emancipate Yourself

"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,

for none other than ourselves can free our minds."

Bob Marley

Age

“Age amplifies both your qualities and your shortcomings -- your qualities so they can shine, and your shortcomings so they can be healed.”

Alan Cohen

Think and Do

‘The range of what we think and do

is limited by what we fail to notice."

R. D. Laing

The Idea of Difficulty

“It is because there are limitations within any perspective

that the idea of difficulty exists.

So instead of claiming what is desired,

a reason is often placed for why you are not worthy enough

to receive the very thing you desire

or what stands between you and a desire. “

Paul Smit

Fear of Rejection

“It is not rejection itself that people fear,

it is the possible consequences of rejection.

Preparing to accept those consequences

and viewing rejection as a learning experience

that will bring you closer to success,

will not only help you to conquer the fear of rejection,

but help you to appreciate rejection itself.”

Bo Bennett

Gratitude

“Gratitude makes sense of our past,

brings peace for today,

and creates a vision for tomorrow.”

Melody Beattie

The More Peace There Is

‎"Ultimately, we have just one moral duty:

to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves,

more and more peace,

and to reflect it towards others.

And the more peace there is in us,

the more peace will be in our troubled world."

Etty Hillesum

As You Perceive It

“The world is as you perceive it to be.

For me, clarity is a word for beauty.

It’s what I am.

And when I’m clear, I see only beauty.

Nothing else is possible.”

Byron Katie

Doing What You Want

“Begin doing what you want to do now.

We have only this moment,

sparkling like a star in our hand,

and melting like a snowflake.”

Marie Beyon Rae

Be True to Yourself

"Above all, be true to yourself,

and if you cannot put your heart in it,

take yourself out of it."
Hardy D. Jackson

Make It Inspiring

“Your Life is your message to the world.

Make it Inspiring.”

Lorrin L. Lee

A Process of Accumulation

‎"Life is a process of accumulation.

We either accumulate the debt or the value,

the regret or the equity."

Jim Rohn

The Librarian

‎"Attitude is the librarian of our past,

the speaker of our present,

and the prophet of our future."

John Maxwell

The First Step

“Any thought telling you "it can't be done"

is only as convincing as

you're willing to be held captive by its lie.

Getting started

with whatever it may be

is as simple as remembering that

there's nothing in the universe

that can stop you from taking the first step.”

Guy Finley

When the Limo Breaks Down

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,

but what you want is

someone who will take the bus with you

when the limo breaks down.”

Oprah Winfrey

Looking at the Lack in Your Life

“If you keep looking at the lack in your life,

you will be guaranteed to continually be wanting.

If you keep your eye on what it is you want,

then it will be yours the moment you habituate

a way of staying focused on the very thing you want,

for it is that focus of attention that causes

the vibration within you

and when you are focused on the lack

you are vibrating and attracting that to you.”

Paul Smit

“Laughter isn’t only the best medicine,

but also the first line of healing.

Being amused doesn’t mean laughing things off,

being sarcastic, or denying what’s happening.

It’s appreciating the humour and playfulness of life.”

Michael J Tamura

Be Yourself

"Be yourself.

If you water yourself down to please people

or to fit in or to not offend anyone,

you lose the power,

the passion,

the freedom

and the joy

of being uniquely you.

It's much easier to love yourself

when you are being yourself."

Dan Coppersmith

Commitment

‎"Until one is committed, there is a hesitancy,

the chance to draw back,

always ineffectiveness concerning

all acts of initiation and creation.

There is one elementary truth,

the ignorance of which

kills countless ideas and splendid plans;

that the moment one definitely commits oneself

then providence moves too.

All sorts of things occur to help one

that would never otherwise have occurred.

A whole stream of decisions issues from the decision."

Goethe

Dance

‎"Dance like no one is watching,

love like you'll never be hurt,

sing like no one is listening,

and live like it's heaven on earth."

William Purkey

You are Bigger

“Always know in your heart that

you are far bigger

than anything

that could ever happen to you.”

Dan Zadra

Focus on Your Desire

‎"Focus more on your desire than on your doubt,

and the dream will take care of itself.

You may be surprised at how easily this happens.

Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires,

unless you make them so."

Marcia Wieder

Creativity

“Creativity is inventing, experimenting,

growing, taking risks, breaking rules,

making mistakes, and having fun.”

Mary Lou Cook

The Ying and Yang of the Universe

“There are two ways to look at virtually anything.

One is the violent way,

and one is the peaceful way.

It's the ying and yang of the universe.”

Dr Wayne Dyer

Pessimist, Optimist and Leader

“The pessimist complains about the wind.

The optimist expects it to change.

The leader adjusts the sails.”

John Maxwell

Ingratitude - a Serious sin

“We can lift ourselves and others as well,

when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought

and cultivate within our hearts an attitude of gratitude.

If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins,

then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues.”

Keith Harding

Sabotage

“The more you try to please everybody,

the less you’ll be able to benefit anybody.

If you worry constantly about what others will think,

you’ll sabotage your greatest accomplishments before they even get started.”

Ralph Marston

Criticism

“Refuse to criticize yourself,

or anyone else,

for not living up to your expectations.”

Guy Finley

Get Started Now

“There will always be challenges,

obstacles and less than perfect conditions.

So what?

Get started now. ”

Mark Victor Hansen

Transformation

‎"There is nothing in a caterpillar

that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."

Richard Buckminster Fuller

Discovery in Challenges

"Challenges make you discover things

about yourself that you never really knew.

They're what make the instrument stretch -

what make you go beyond the norm."

Cicely Tyson.

One Difficult Moment

“Take one difficult moment

and use it as a place to start all over

instead of as a time to sink into self-pity.”

Guy Finley

Kind Words

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak,

but their echoes are truly endless.”

Mother Teresa

Be Content

‎"Be content with what you have;

rejoice in the way things are.

When you realize there is nothing lacking,

the whole world belongs to you."

Lao Tzu

Believe In Yourself

‎"Believe in yourself

and there will come a day

when others will have no choice

but to believe with you."

Oscar Wilde

Tissue Paper Thin

‎"Many of our fears are tissue paper thin,

and a single courageous step

would carry us clear through them."

Brendan Behan

Boredom and Curiosity

“The cure for boredom is curiosity.

There is no cure for curiosity.”

Dorothy Parker

Communication

“The more elaborate our means of communication,

the less we communicate.”

Joseph Priestley

Perfection

‎"The gem cannot be polished without friction,

nor man perfected without trials."

Confucius

Direction

‎"Any fool can make things bigger,

more complex,

and more violent.

It takes a touch of genius -

and a lot of courage,

to move in the opposite direction."

Albert Einstein

Thanksgiving

“Not what we say about our blessings,

but how we use them,

is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”

W. T. Purkiser

Prosperity

‎"If you're prosperous in soul,

you'll be prosperous in whole."

Mark Victor Hansen

Opposite Values

‎"Life is the coexistence of all opposite values.

Joy and sorrow,

pleasure and pain,

up and down,

hot and cold,

here and there,

light and darkness,

birth and death.

All experience is by contrast,

and one would be meaningless without the other."

Deepak Chopra

Ultimate Freedom

‎"Our ultimate freedom

is the right and power to decide

how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us."

Stephen Covey

In The Middle of Feeling

“Right in the middle of feeling

as though the weight

of the whole world is on your shoulders,

look around for something else

that you might carry.”

Guy Finley

The Common Sense of Your Heart

‎"Remember the phrase,

'The real teacher is within you.'

Very simply,

that teacher is to be found in

the common sense of your own heart."

Sara Paddison

Nothing Can Make You a Victim

“Nothing and no one can make us a victim.

We do it to ourselves when we allow

external circumstances to hold power over us.

Although we have no control over what happens to us,

we always have a choice in how we respond.

We hold our power when

we accept complete responsibility for our thoughts,

feelings and actions.”

Patrice Robson

Express Gratitude

“As we express our gratitude,

we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words,

but to live by them.”

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Give Thanks

"I give thanks for my permanent happiness, my permanent health,

my permanent wealth, my permanent love.”

Florence Scovel Shinn

Feeling Gratitude

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

William Ward

Obstacle and Opportunity

“What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity?

Our attitude toward it.

Every opportunity has a difficulty,

and every difficulty has an opportunity!”

J. Sidlow Baxter

Only You

‎"Only you can hold yourself back,

only you can stand in your own way.

Only you can help yourself."

Mikhail Strabo

Accept Everything

“Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything.

You are you and that is the beginning and the end -

no apologies, no regrets.”

Henry Kissinger

Mistakes of Others

‎"Learn all you can from the mistakes of others.

You won't have time to make them all yourself."

Alfred Sheinwold

Every Change

"Every change is a challenge to become who we really are."

Marianne Williamson

How You Think About A Problem

“How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself.

So always think positively.”

Norman Vincent Peale

Think Positively and Masterfully

“If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.”

Swami Vivekananda

Excellence

“Excellence is not a skill.

It is an attitude.”

Ralph Marston

Face Up to Change

‎"Not everything that is faced can be changed,

but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

James Baldwin

How Big a Man?

“The size of your accomplishments,

the quality of your achievement,

will depend very largely on

how big a man you see in yourself,

what sort of image you get of your possible self,

yourself at your best.”

Orison Swett Marden

Perseverance and Obstinacy

“The difference between perseverance and obstinacy

is that one often comes from a strong will,

and the other from a strong won't.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Hard Work

‎"Hard work spotlights the character of people:

some turn up their sleeves,

some turn up their noses,

and some don't turn up at all!"

Sam Ewing

Trust Yourself

“Trust yourself.

Create the kind of self

that you will be happy to live with all your life.

Make the most of yourself

by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility

into flames of achievement.”

Golda Meir

Go With the Flow

‎"Do not struggle.

Go with the flow of things,

and you will find yourself at one

with the mysterious unity of the universe."

Chuang Tzu

Untie the Ribbons

“Each day comes bearing its own gifts.

Untie the ribbons.”

Ruth Ann Schabacker

Comfort and Luxury

‎"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life,

when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."

Charles Kingsley

A Single Footstep

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

Henry David Thoreau

Doubt

"If doubt is challenging you and you do not act, doubts will grow.

Challenge the doubts with action and you will grow.

Doubt and action are incompatible."

John Kanary

In The End

"In the end,

we will remember not the words of our enemies,

but the silence of our friends"

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Stress

“Stress is the tax you pay for not taking

complete responsibility for your life.”

Dr. Barnet Meltzer

Dream and Hope

‎"It is difficult to say what is impossible,

for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today

and the reality of tomorrow."

Robert H. Goddard

Everything in Life

"You can have everything in life that you want

if you will just help enough other people

to get what they want.”

Zig Ziglar

Life and Imagination

“Whatever you create in your life

you must first create in your imagination.”

Tycho Photiou

Perseverance and Confidence

‎"We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

Marie Curie

Faults

‎"Human faults are like garden weeds.

They grow without cultivation

and soon take over the place if they aren’t thinned out."

Napoleon Hill

Curiosity and Imagination

Treasure your curiosity and nurture your imagination.

Have confidence in yourself.

Do not let others put limits on you.

Dare to imagine the unimaginable.

Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson

Times of Change

“In times of change, learners inherit the earth,

while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped

to deal with a world that no longer exists.”

Eric Hoffer

Opportunity

‎"If you wait for opportunities to occur,

you will be one of the crowd."

Edward de Bono

Live and Learn

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

Learn as if you were to live forever.”

Mahatma Gandhi

The Past Cannot be Changed

‎"The past is over and done and cannot be changed.

This is the only moment we can experience."

Louise Hay

Roots of True Achievement

“The roots of true achievement

lie in the will to become the best that you can become.”

Harold Taylor

Where Your Future Lies

“Nobody gets to live life backward.

Look ahead, that is where your future lies.”

Ann Landers

Di It Now

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now.

The conditions are always impossible.”

Doris Lessing

Love is an Element

“Love is an element, which though physically unseen, is as real as air or water. It is an active, living, moving force. It moves in waves and currents like those of the ocean.”
Prentice Mulford

Supreme Power

“There is a supreme power and ruling force, which pervades and rules the boundless Universe.
You are a part of this power.”
Prentice Mulford

Where You Are

“People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be –

whether they will admit that or not.”
Earl Nightingale

Closer to a Better Tomorrow

“Everyday do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.”
Doug Firebaugh

Faith

“Faith is taking the first step when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Origin in the Mind

“Everything has it’s origin in the mind, and that which you seek outwardly, you already possess. No one can think a thought in the future. Your thoughts of a thing constitutes it’s origin.”
Genevieve Behrend

Unique Essence and Spirit

“You have a unique essence and spirit that no one else has.
Your contribution in this world is priceless and beyond measure.”
Hemal Radia

Superior to Circumstance

“All things splendid have been achieved by those who dared believe that

something inside them was superior to circumstance.”

Bruce Barton

No One Else to Blame

"We are each responsible for our own lives, which we create with our thoughts, words and deeds. When things go wrong, we have no one to blame but ourselves. No one else can fix our problems for us; we must fix them ourselves, not by concentration on the problems, but by focusing on the solutions."

Anne Child

Money

“Thoughts about money dominate our culture and they can be pleasant or disturbing. Money cannot make you happy, but it can get rid of many things that make you unhappy. Money will always be an important part of your life, whether you like it or not. Money determines, in most instances, the quality of your life because money allows you freedom. You can either suffer the miseries of financial problems, or you can use your power as a Deliberate Creator to solve these problems.”
Dr. Robert Anthony

Full of Life

“Find that which is full of life, vibrant and joyful;

it is there you will realize happiness.”

Kenneth D Foster

Responsibility and Happiness

“We are each responsible for the feelings we experience, the goals we achieve, the actions we take. Happiness does not depend on anything outside of ourselves, it is a self - determined proposition. We can easily change our thinking, we can learn to see things differently. When we have a problem we focus on fixing it & changing the way we think about it.”
Annie Ashdown

The Best You Can Imagine

“Your entire life is what you have imagined it to be. Everything you have or don’t have, every situation and circumstance of your life is what you have imagined it to be. The problem is that many people imagine the worst! They’re turning the most wonderful tool against themselves. Instead of imagining the best, many people are in fear and imagine all the things that can go wrong. And as surely as they keep imagining and feeling those things, they happen. Whatever you give, you receive. Feel and imagine the best and the highest you can in every area of your life, because the best you can imagine is a “piece of cake” for the force of love!”

Rhonda Byrne

In Memory of Steve Jobs

“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
Steve Jobs

Make Space

"Once we begin to learn to accept the goodness of the Universe,

we naturally want to share it as well,

realizing that as we give out of our energy,

we make space for more to flow into us."

Shakti Gawain

We Get to Choose

"With everything that has happened to us,

we can either feel sorry for ourselves

or treat what has happened to us as a gift.

Everything is either an opportunity to grow

or an obstacle to keep us from growing.

We get to choose."

Dr. Wayne Dyer

Unsuccessful and Successful People

“Unsuccessful people think "either/or"; Successful people think "both."
You can be kind, generous, loving, spiritual, balanced,

do work you love, AND be really, really rich!”
T Harv Ecke

Limited by Your Dreams

“What you want to do, and what you can do,

is limited only by what you can dream.”

Mike Melville

Willingness to be Afraid

"Courage is the willingness to be afraid

and yet act anyway."

Robert Anthony

Weak People

“People too weak to follow their own dreams

will always find a way to discourage yours.”

Steven Goggin

World Habit

“The world has the habit of making room for the man

whose actions show that he knows where he is going.”

Napoleon Hill

Own The Wholeness

"As you recognise that you already own the wholeness you seek,

and no one outside you can give you more than you already are,

dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams

exposed to the morning sun."

Alan Cohen

Follow Your Bliss

"Follow your bliss

and the Universe will open doors for you

where there were only walls."

Joseph Campbell

On A Pedestal

"When you place a person on a pedestal,

it is giving away your power and saying

you are not good enough."

Merciana Howard

Stand Up For An Ideal

"Each time a man stands up for an ideal,

or acts to improve the lot of others,

or strikes out against injustice,

he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope,

and crossing each other

from a million different centres of energy and daring,

those ripples build a current,

which can sweep down the mightiest walls of

oppression and resistance."

Robert Kennedy

Self-discovery

"After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery.

It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe.

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."

Sophia Loren

Passion Is Energy

"Passion is energy.

Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you."

Oprah Winfrey

Postponement

"While we are postponing, life speeds by."

Seneca

Give Birth

“You give birth to that on which you fix your mind.”

Antoine de Saint Exupery

Keeping Busy

“If you keep yourself so busy by living up to an image of yourself

you will forget who you really are.”

Annie Ashdown

Born to Win

“You were born to win,

but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”

Zig Ziglar

Self Discipline

“Self discipline begins when there is no-one watching.”

Jim Rohn

Significant Problems

“The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”

Albert Einstein

Focus On The Journey

“Focus on the journey, not the destination.

Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.”

Greg Anderson

Gossips

Remember if people talk behind your back,

it only means you’re two steps ahead!”

Fannie Flag

Failure or Stepping Stone

"One has to remember that every failure can be a

stepping stone to something better."

Col. Harland Sanders

Tranquility Within

“When we are unable to find tranquillity within ourselves,

it is useless to seek it elsewhere.”

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Hand On Your Heart

"Put your hand on your heart

and think about people who have brought you love and joy.

You will feel incredible peace."

Loretta LaRoche

Do What You Have To Do

"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly."

Thomas H. Huxley

Honourable Mistakes

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable,

but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

George Bernard Shaw

Deeply Loved

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,

while loving someone deeply gives you courage"

Lao Tzu

Change the World

"Maybe you can't change the whole world,

but if you have love in your heart

you can make small differences every day,

which really does change the world,

one life at a time."

Kristina Koncz

Joy in Work

"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-

excellence!

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."

Pearl Buck

Look Through Each Other's Eyes

"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?"
Henry David Thoreau

Gathered Together Like a Fist

"My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist.

Drive is considered aggressive today;

I knew it then as purpose."

Bette Davis

Victim

"Don't become a victim of yourself.

Forget about the thief waiting in the alley;

what about the thief in your mind?"

Jim Rohn

Inner Peace

"Inner Peace is not about sitting in quiet 24 seven,

it's not about going to the mountains,

the ocean, or anywhere you think you can get away from it all.

As your connection to your essence deepens -

your perception of life changes.

You're playing a new note....

one that resonates with the flow of

life... peace... stillness... love"

--- Marlise Karlin

Everyday Life

"Everyday life is our spiritual practice -

all the little moments of our daily life,

how we live, and how we treat ourselves and each other.

We advance on our path not by great giant strides,

but rather by small patient steps that lead to strength,

joy and wisdom.

Growth takes time,

but one day you wake up and gasp with delight

at how much you have grown and how far you have come!"

--- Angela Paul

Nothing to Say

"Be still when you have nothing to say;

when genuine passion moves you,

say what you've got to say,

and say it hot."

--- D.H. Lawrence

What Constitutes True Happiness?

"Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.

It is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

--- Helen Keller

Strange Beauty of the World

"I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering;

surely the strange beauty if the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!"

--- Louise Bogan

Joy in Little Victories

"I've grown to realise the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the persute of pleasure."

--- Lawana Blackwell

Perfection

"If the door of perfection were cleansed,

everything would appear as it is -

Infinite."

--- William Blake

Circumstances

"We do not struggle with circumstances.

We hold onto beliefs that create circumstances."

--- Ernest Holmes

Your Own Path

"The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your won path means that you ar on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that."

--- Eartha Kitt

Old Minds

"Old minds are like old horses;

you must exercise them

if you wish to keep them in working order."

--- John Adams

Setting a Goal

"To accomplish anything in life,

it helps if you have some idea of what you want

as a result of your actions.

That's called setting a goal.

The whole purpose of setting goals is to plan your life

rather than take life as it comes."

--- Tom Hopkins

Power to Create

"Don't ever give up because dreams don't have deadlines.

You have the power to create the life of your dreams through

intention, action, passion and persistence!"

--- Mark Victor Hansen

Outnumbered

"There is only one you...

Don't you dare change just because you're

outnumbered!

--- Charles Swindoll

Vision Fulfillment

"A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision

comes from passion,

not position."

--- John Maxwell

Horizon

"We all live under the same sky,

but we don't all have the same horizon."

--- Konrad Adenaur

A Laugh

“A laugh is a smile that bursts.”

--- Mary H. Waldrip

A Happy Life

“Very little is needed to make a happy life;

it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

--- Marcus Aurelius

Perpetual Emotion Engine

"Gratitude is a perpetual emotion engine."

--- Bruce Brown

Hope and Expectation

“When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation,

it sometimes floats forth and opens.”

--- Anne Lamott

Reality

“The world of reality has its limits;

the world of imagination is boundless.”

--- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Wildest Dreams

“Even the wildest dreams have to start somewhere.

Allow yourself the time and space to let your mind wander

and your imagination fly.”

--- Oprah Winfrey

A Space Between

“There is a space between

man's imagination and man's attainment

that may only be traversed by his longing”

--- Kahlil Gibran

Fantasy

"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living,

it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.

Which is what I do,

and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."

--- Theodore Geisel

Procrastination

"Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow

what should have been done the day before yesterday."

--- Napoleon Hill

Dignity

"One's dignity may be assaulted,

vandalized and cruelly mocked,

but it cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. "

--- Michael J. Fox

Do Not Wait

"Do not wait;

the time will never be 'just right.'

Start where you stand,

and work with whatever tools

you may have at your command,

and better tools will be found

as you go along."

--- Napoleon Hill

Mindless Wishing

"Stop the mindless wishing that things would or should be different.

Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy

in explaining why we don't have what we want,

we can start to pursue other ways to get it."

--- Greg Anderson

Feel The Inner Glow

"Every person you interact with should feel the inner glow

that comes from being appreciated,

particularly for the ways in which they express their creativity.

A core theme, which strengthens the flow of the power of intention,

is wanting for others as much as you intend for yourself."

--- Dr. Wayne Dyer

Make A Mistake

"When you make a mistake,

there are only three things

you should ever do about it:

admit it,

learn from it,

and do not repeat it."

--- Paul "Bear" Bryant

Get Up Every Morning

"You've got to get up every morning with determination

if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction."

--- George Horace Lorimer

One Day At A Time

"One day at a time - this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone: and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering."
--- Ida Scott Taylor