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Positive Quotes to Inspire the Best in You
"The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for."
-Eckhart Tolle
"Again and again, the impossible problem is solved
when we see that the problem is only a tough decision
waiting to be made."
-- Robert H. Schuller
"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
"Humankind, to survive, must undergo a
massive and unprecedented change of heart,
an ordered and passionate spiritual revolution
that changes forever our relation to each other
and our relation to nature. "
-Andrew Harvey
"The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage."
-Thucydides (Greek historiana and author)
"Once the mind has been stretched by a new idea,
it will never again return to its original size."
...Oliver Wendell Holmes
Part of working on yourself is learning how to support another person in being the best they can be.
-Marianne Williamson
Magic happens when you have encountered the Divine. It is the life-altering Wexperience of connecting to the divinity that dwells within yourself and in the world.
-Phyllis Curott
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me learn from you, love you, savor you, bless you before you depart.
Let me not pass you by in a quest for some rare and perfect tomorrow."
-Mary Jean Irion
In the end, not that there really is an end, it's ALL going to be about how much you smiled, how much you laughed, and how much you enjoyed your life.
Anon.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
-Theodore Roosevelt
"When your sense of worth
exceeds your conditions,
conditions will shift to match your vision."
-- Alan Cohen
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
-Napoleon Hill
Appreciating what you already have, is how to get more of what you don't.
-Mike Dooley Notes from the Universe
The first peace,
which is the most important,
is that which comes
within the souls of people
when they realize their relationship,
their oneness with the universe and all its powers,
and when they realize
that at the center of the universe
dwells the Great Spirit,
and that this center is really everywhere,
it is within each of us."
-- Black Elk
One of the greatest paradoxes of your physical senses,
is that your eyes actually show you what you believe, not what you see.
- Mike Dooley
"We can never obtain peace in the world
if we neglect the inner world and
don't make peace with ourselves.
World peace must develop out of inner peace."
-- The Dalai Lama
I didn't get to where I am by thinking about it and dreaming about it. I got there by doing it.
~ Estee Lauder
It isn't what happens to us
that causes us to suffer;
it's what we say to ourselves
about what happens."
-- Pema Chodron
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
-Walter Elliott
"No one could make a greater mistake
than he who did nothing
because he could do only a little."
-- Edmund Burke
It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering
before they will relinquish resistance and accept -- before they will forgive."
-- Eckhart Tolle
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
-Albert Einstein
"When I am trusting
and being myself as fully as possible,
everything in my life reflects this
by falling into place easily,
often miraculously."
--Shakti Gawain
"Do you really want
to look back on your life
and see how wonderful
it could have been
had you not been afraid
to live it?"
--Caroline Myss
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.
-John Muir Natualist
Principle-centered leaders understand the metaphor of the bamboo tree. They know what it means to pay the price to prepare the ground, to plant the seed, and to fertilize and cultivate and water and weed, even when they can't see immediate results, because they have faith that ultimately they will reap the fruits in the harvest.
-Stephen Covey First Things First
Young souls get angry at others.
Old souls get angry at themselves.
But really wise souls have already turned the page.
-Mike Dooley
"Treat people as if they were
what they ought to be
and you help them to become
what they are capable of being."
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A scapegoat is nearly as welcome as a solution to the problem.
Anon-
If you succeed in helping others win, you win.
-William Hornsby
The strength of the pack is in the wolf; the strength of the wolf is in the pack.
-Rudyard Kipling
"To lead people, walk beside them ...
As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence.
The next best, the people honor and praise.
The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate.
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves"
-- Lao Tzu
GRATITUDE unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough . . . and more.
It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order,
Confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home,
A stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today,
And creates a vision for tomorrow."
-- M. Beattie
"They say God never gives you more than you can handle -- I just sometimes wish He didn't trust me so much."
Mother Theresa
"Who you are speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear a word you say."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"My understanding of the
fundamental laws of the universe
did not come out of the rational mind."
-- Albert Einsten
"How wrong is it for a woman to expect a man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."
Anais Nin
"People, when given a chance, smile, skip, and dance.
They create, play, and laugh. They care, share, and love. And the ones who don't, don't, haven't yet realized that chances are something you give yourself."
Mike Dooley
"Whoever cares to learn
will always find a teacher."
-- German Proverb
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today."
Chinese Proverb
"If your actions inspire others
to dream more, learn more,
do more and become more,
you are a leader."
-- John Quincy Adams
'It's not what you don't know that hurts you. It's what you do know that ain't so.'
--Will Rogers
"The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve."
-- Albert Schweitzer
"I have only one superstition: I touch all the bases after I hit a home run."
Babe Ruth
"Stress is an ignorant state.
It believes that everything is an emergency."
-- Natalie Goldberg, Wild Mind
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
John Wooden
"To do something, however small,
to make others happier and better,
is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope,
which can inspire a human being."
-- John Lubbock
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney
Only those who risk going too far, can possibly find out how far one can go.
TS Eliot
"All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.
Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth."
--Napoleon Hill
Internal and external are ultimately one. When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently. Love and compassion arise, and they affect the world.
Eckhart Tolle
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Leo Buscaglia
"When one door of happiness closes,
another opens,
but often we look so long at the closed door
that we do not see the one
that has been opened for us."
-- Helen Keller
"Nothing should be prized more highly
than the value of each day."
-- Johann von Goethe
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.
Mario Andretti
Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.
- Konrad von Gesner
"Only those who will risk going too far
can possibly find out how far one can go."
-- T.S. Eliot
"No problem can be solved from the
same level of consciousness that created it."
-- Albert Einstein
"The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do
The hard part is doing it."
-- H. Norman Schwarzkopf
"The quality of a leader is reflected
in the standards they set for themselves."
-- Ray Kroc
Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they are yours.
Richard Bach
The greatest gift a parent can give a child, is the ability to become independently happy.
And the greatest gift a child can give a parent is exercising that ability.
Mike Dooley "Notes from the Universe"
The whole life of man is but a point of time. Let us enjoy it.
Plutarch 46 AD-120 AD
"God admires us not for what we do but for how much love we put into what we do. Together let us build a chain of love around the world."
Sister Teresa
"All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer( 1788-1860)
"In times of change the learners will inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."
Eric Hoffer
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
Robert Fritz
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Half of this game is ninety per cent mental.
Yogi Berra
Think what you know to think, say what you know to say, and do what you know to do and mountains will be the least that are moved.
Mike Dooly
The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Things which matter most, must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.
Goethe
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out" Decca Record Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
"Whether you think you can or that you can't, you are usually right."
Henry Ford
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them"
Albert Einstein
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have"
Thomas Jefferson
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863)
Let the status symbols you seek most, be self-made adventures that excite you at dawn, challenge you by day, and surprise you by night.
Mike Dooley
Your work is to create the new heaven and the new earth. Therefore do not dwell on the troubles and tribulations, on the disease and suffering, on the wars and strife in the world.
Do not allow yourself to become involved in it, for if you do, you will become part of the disease not the cure.
As you raise your consciousness, you become immunized against the trouble in the world, and you can live and work with it all about you and yet it will not be able to affect or touch you in any way.
A doctor or nurse has to be immunized to be able to work freely with highly infectious diseases, and there must be no fear in them.
Let there be no fear in you as you watch the situation in the world become worse. Never despair.
Simply hold on in faith, let your mind be stayed on Me, and know that all is very, very well."
Source- "Opening Doors Within" by Eileen Caddy
"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is within you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."
Helen Hayes
Do you ever wonder that if every "job" was seen as an adventure in creativity, an opportunity to change the world, and a means through which to discover one's power... and if every task was seen as a present to unwrap containing unknown rewards, who would have time to work?
Mike Dooley "Notes from the Universe"
Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation-these are the great values of life. We can't prove them, or explain them yet they are the most stable things in tour lives.
-Jesse Herman Holmes
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein
"When Opportunity came, it appeared in a different direction than he had expected. that is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has the sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it is disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many people fail to recognize opportunity."
Napoleon Hill Think and Grow Rich
When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.
Anna Quindlen A short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible.
Deepak Chopra, M.D.
A world of abundance surrounds you, if only you will step up and claim it. Make life happen through you rather than letting it happen to you. It will make all the difference in the world. -- Ralph Marston
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Decide what your highest priorities are, and have the courage and independent willpower to say no- pleasantly, smilingly, and unapologetically- to the things that are less important to you.
Stephen R. Covey
Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you....Madeline Bridges
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles...by the ears, by the heels or any other way you can manage it. It′s the healthiest thing a body can do.
Mark Twain
..Sparrow, your message is clear; it is not too late for my singing. &a
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