Thoughts 30APR2013

Improvement begin with "I" : Arnold H Glasgow

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Every artist was first an amateur : Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment : Anthony Robbins

Thoughts 29APR2013

It doesn't matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go - Bob Proctor

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The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you seek - Celestine Chua

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Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart - Steve Jobs

Thoughts 18APR2013

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness : Chinese Proverb

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I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate : George Burns

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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away : Maya Angelou

Thoughts 17APR2013

Don't aspire to make a living. Aspire to make a difference : Denzel Washington

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I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it : Serena Williams

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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action : Benjamin Disraeli

Thoughts 16APR2013

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by : Will Rogers

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This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something : Elizabeth Gilbert

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I wish the whole world could see what I see. Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are : Felix Baumgartner

Thoughts 15APR2013

Life is like ... a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use : Charles M Schulz

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Life is like ... an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep : Carl Sandburg

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Life is like ... a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can : Danny Kaye

Thoughts 12APR2013

Lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at you - David Brinkley

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I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours - Henry David Thoreau

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One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one's reach, until it becomes present. Remembering the past and giving thought to the future are important, but only to the extent that they help one deal with the present - S N Goenka

Thoughts 11APR2013

Don't go round saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first : Mark Twain

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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time : T S Eliot

Thoughts 10APR2013

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it - Marcel Proust

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And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years - Abraham Lincoln

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success - Napoleon Hill

Thoughts 09APR2013

Your goals are the road maps that guide and show you what is possible for your life - Les Brown

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The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach - Benjamin Mays

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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life - Greg Anderson

Thoughts 08APR2013

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings - C D Jackson

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Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best - Andrew Carnegie

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Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty - Albert Einstein

Thoughts 05APR2013

Never let your memories be greater than your dreams - Doug Ivester

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The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score - Bill Copeland

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History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries - are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses - John Eliot

Thoughts 04APR2013

The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself - Deepak Chopra

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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time - Sam Walton

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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel - Maya Angelou

Thoughts 03APR2013

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination - Carl Rogers

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Everything around us is made up of energy. To attract positive things in your life, start by giving off positive energy - Celestine Chua

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To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable - Helen Keller

Thoughts 02APR2013

At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable - Christopher Reeve

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed - Storm Jameson