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"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world." ~ Buddha
"Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually." ~ Eileen Caddy
"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass." ~ Paul J Meyer
"Everything you can imagine is real." ~ Pablo Picasso
"As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live." ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing and making." ~ Wendell Berry
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." ~ Henry Miller
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring." ~ Oscar Wilde
"The purpose of life is to increase the warm heart." ~ Dalai Lama
"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them." ~ John Updike
"The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose." ~ Richard Leider
"You are only wealthy if you have something that money cannot buy." ~ Garth Brooks
"Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just having money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things." ~ Eric Butterworth
"Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success." ~ Charles F. Kettering
"Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity." ~ Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
"Keep these concepts in mind: You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. .... Don't worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try." ~ Sherman Finesilver
"Trials, temptations, disappointments--all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before." ~ James Buckham
"Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances--it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." ~ Lucille Ball
"The world around you is deeply and madly in love with you." ~ Dan (delphizealot)
"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." ~ Arthur Rubinstein
"It is never too late to become what you might have been." ~ George Eliot
"Learn that eternity is now, the future is now. There is no past or present or future as separate periods of time--all is within the soul's embrace now. It is your reaction to the now which is your future. Never look into the future and anticipate this, that, or the other, for to do so is to live in fear. Live today with God, and your future can hold nothing but joy." ~ White Eagle
"When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly." ~ Edward Teller
"When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." ~ Lao Tzu
"Anyone in a state of seeking can never be happy. Only those who are constantly finding are fulfilled. And finding is not something that happens to us--it is something we do." ~ Alan Cohen
"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth." ~ Benjamin Disraeli
"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. ~ Martha Graham
"Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else. ~ Brian Tracy
"No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew." ~ Albert Einstein
"Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive and if you desire freedom you must give freedom." ~ Peace Pilgrim
"The reality of time exists only within us." ~ Chin-Ning Chu
"Only you can discover your gifts because only you know what you love." ~ Barbara Sher
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." ~ Arthur C. Clarke
"Until you get dissatisfied, you won't do anything to really move your life to another level. Dissatisfaction is a gem. If you're totally satisfied, you're going to get comfortable. And then your life begins to deteriorate." ~ Anthony Robbins
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." ~ Harvey Fierstein
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." ~ Mark Twain
"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." ~ Buddha
"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." ~ Joshua J. Marine
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." ~ Albert Einstein
"There is only one journey. Going inside yourself." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so." ~ William Shakespeare
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocreminds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." ~ Albert Einstein
"By accepting one's own shadow one gives unconditional love to all beings. " ~ Vilayat Inayat Khan
"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music. The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people." ~ Henry Miller
"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it." ~ Marcus Aurelius
"If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything." ~ Allyson Jones
"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself." ~ Mark Caine
"The future is simply infinite possibility waiting to happen. What it waits on is human imagination to crystallize its possibility." ~ Leland Kaiser
"Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts, both to those who love me and to those who do not love me." ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
"The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everybody should follow one path. Listen to your own truth." ~ Ram Dass
"We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic." ~ E. Merrill Root
"Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest to all of us." ~ Meister Eckhart
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." ~ Kahlil Gibran
"Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself. ~ Alan Alda
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." ~ Anais Nin
"Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life." ~ Leo Buscaglia
"It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all." ~ Emmet Fox
"To be nobody but myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day to make me the same as everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting." ~ E.E. Cummings
"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." ~ Coco Chanel
"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." ~ Epictetus
"Transformation is not about making ourselves better but about allowing ourselves to become who we truly are." ~ Amrit Desai
"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself." ~ Wayne Dyer
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." ~ Oscar Wilde
"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes time. Vision with action can change the world. A true leader must first see an idea as opportunity, then choose to act upon it." ~ Joel Barker
"Every challenge we face can be solved by a dream."
~ David Schwartz
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." ~ William James
"Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace." ~ Bhagavad Gita
"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. ~ Carl Jung
"Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself, and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise." ~ Marcus Aurelius
"If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world." ~ Chinese Proverb
"If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it." ~ Malcolm S. Forbes
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." ~ Albert Einstein
"Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional state that characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves to it." ~ Emily H. Sell
"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want." ~ Margaret Young
"Success is 99 percent failure." ~ Soichiro Honda
"The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort." ~ Confucius
"When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous." ~ Dr Wayne Dyer
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only dream but also believe." ~ Anatole France
"Worry is holding in your mind that which you don't want to happen. Remember: If you think it is and it isn't, it will become an is even though it isn't." ~ Author Unknown
"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit." ~ Napoleon Hill
"As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning." ~ Barbara Sher
"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are." ~ E. E. Cummings
"Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy." ~ Anthony Robbins
"The greatest failure is the failure to try." ~ William Arthur Ward
"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings." ~ William Blake
"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions." ~ Claude Levi-Strauss
"In a gentle way, you can shake the world." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
"Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all." ~ Benjamin Franklin
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." ~ Arthur C. Clarke
"The greatest problem you have is your greatest opportunity." ~ Michael Wickett
"Be bold with your dreams. Nurture the dreams that inspire you to go beyond your limits." ~ Author Unknown
"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." ~ Buddha
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world." ~ Buddha
"Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually." ~ Eileen Caddy
"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass." ~ Paul J Meyer
"Everything you can imagine is real." ~ Pablo Picasso
"As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live." ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing and making." ~ Wendell Berry
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." ~ Henry Miller
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring." ~ Oscar Wilde
"The purpose of life is to increase the warm heart." ~ Dalai Lama
"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them." ~ John Updike
"The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose." ~ Richard Leider
"You are only wealthy if you have something that money cannot buy." ~ Garth Brooks
"Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just having money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things." ~ Eric Butterworth
"Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success." ~ Charles F. Kettering
"Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity." ~ Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
"Keep these concepts in mind: You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. .... Don't worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try." ~ Sherman Finesilver
"Trials, temptations, disappointments--all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before." ~ James Buckham
"Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances--it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." ~ Lucille Ball
"The world around you is deeply and madly in love with you." ~ Dan (delphizealot)
"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." ~ Arthur Rubinstein
"It is never too late to become what you might have been." ~ George Eliot
"Learn that eternity is now, the future is now. There is no past or present or future as separate periods of time--all is within the soul's embrace now. It is your reaction to the now which is your future. Never look into the future and anticipate this, that, or the other, for to do so is to live in fear. Live today with God, and your future can hold nothing but joy." ~ White Eagle
"When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly." ~ Edward Teller
"When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." ~ Lao Tzu
"Anyone in a state of seeking can never be happy. Only those who are constantly finding are fulfilled. And finding is not something that happens to us--it is something we do." ~ Alan Cohen
"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth." ~ Benjamin Disraeli
"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. ~ Martha Graham
"Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else. ~ Brian Tracy
"No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew." ~ Albert Einstein
"Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive and if you desire freedom you must give freedom." ~ Peace Pilgrim
"The reality of time exists only within us." ~ Chin-Ning Chu
"Only you can discover your gifts because only you know what you love." ~ Barbara Sher
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." ~ Arthur C. Clarke
"Until you get dissatisfied, you won't do anything to really move your life to another level. Dissatisfaction is a gem. If you're totally satisfied, you're going to get comfortable. And then your life begins to deteriorate." ~ Anthony Robbins
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." ~ Harvey Fierstein
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." ~ Mark Twain
"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." ~ Buddha
"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." ~ Joshua J. Marine
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." ~ Albert Einstein
"There is only one journey. Going inside yourself." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so." ~ William Shakespeare
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocreminds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." ~ Albert Einstein
"By accepting one's own shadow one gives unconditional love to all beings. " ~ Vilayat Inayat Khan
"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music. The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people." ~ Henry Miller
"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it." ~ Marcus Aurelius
"If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything." ~ Allyson Jones
"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself." ~ Mark Caine
"The future is simply infinite possibility waiting to happen. What it waits on is human imagination to crystallize its possibility." ~ Leland Kaiser
"Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts, both to those who love me and to those who do not love me." ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
"The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everybody should follow one path. Listen to your own truth." ~ Ram Dass
"We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic." ~ E. Merrill Root
"Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest to all of us." ~ Meister Eckhart
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." ~ Kahlil Gibran
"Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself. ~ Alan Alda
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." ~ Anais Nin
"Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life." ~ Leo Buscaglia
"It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all." ~ Emmet Fox
"To be nobody but myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day to make me the same as everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting." ~ E.E. Cummings
"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." ~ Coco Chanel
"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." ~ Epictetus
"Transformation is not about making ourselves better but about allowing ourselves to become who we truly are." ~ Amrit Desai
"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself." ~ Wayne Dyer
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." ~ Oscar Wilde
"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes time. Vision with action can change the world. A true leader must first see an idea as opportunity, then choose to act upon it." ~ Joel Barker
"Every challenge we face can be solved by a dream."
~ David Schwartz
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." ~ William James
"Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace." ~ Bhagavad Gita
"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. ~ Carl Jung
"Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself, and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise." ~ Marcus Aurelius
"If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world." ~ Chinese Proverb
"If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it." ~ Malcolm S. Forbes
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." ~ Albert Einstein
"Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional state that characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves to it." ~ Emily H. Sell
"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want." ~ Margaret Young
"Success is 99 percent failure." ~ Soichiro Honda
"The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort." ~ Confucius
"When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous." ~ Dr Wayne Dyer
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only dream but also believe." ~ Anatole France
"Worry is holding in your mind that which you don't want to happen. Remember: If you think it is and it isn't, it will become an is even though it isn't." ~ Author Unknown
"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit." ~ Napoleon Hill
"As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning." ~ Barbara Sher
"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are." ~ E. E. Cummings
"Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy." ~ Anthony Robbins
"The greatest failure is the failure to try." ~ William Arthur Ward
"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings." ~ William Blake
"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions." ~ Claude Levi-Strauss
"In a gentle way, you can shake the world." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
"Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all." ~ Benjamin Franklin
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." ~ Arthur C. Clarke
"The greatest problem you have is your greatest opportunity." ~ Michael Wickett
"Be bold with your dreams. Nurture the dreams that inspire you to go beyond your limits." ~ Author Unknown
"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." ~ Buddha
