Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
~ Stephen R. Covey
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Whatever the Mind of Man can Conceive and Believe it can Achieve.
~ Dale Carnegie
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There can be no friendship without confidence,
and no confidence without integrity.
~ Samuel Johnson
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Things which matter most
must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
~ Goethe
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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
~Duke Ellington
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Sometimes when I consider what tremendous
consequences come from little things....
I am tempted to think....
there are no little things.
~ Bruce Barton
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: If there's any reaction, both are transformed.
~ C.G. Jung
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An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so.
~ Shakti Gawain
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.
~Claude M. Bristol
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During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.
~ Fritjof Capra, Physicist
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Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
~ Shakti Gawain
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Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
~ Eddie Cantor
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I shut my eyes in order to see.
~ Paul Gauguin
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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
~ Theodore Roethke
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We need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.
~ Shakti Gawain
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Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
~ Claudia Black
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Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
~ Sophocles
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We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.... Take a risk a day - one small or bold stroke that will make you feel great once you have done it.
~ Susan Jeffers
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What doesn't kill me makes me stronger.
~ Albert Camus
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Life treats you as you show up for it. Most of life requires just showing up, so make your appearance with conviction and see where it takes you. It's only then the doors of synchronicity will open for you.
~ David Turner
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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.
~ Les Brown
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In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
~ Albert Einstein
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The life which is not examined is not worth living.
~ Plato
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
~ Jalal Ud-Din Rumi
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It don't mean a thing if it don't have that swing.
~ Duke Ellington
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Truly, it is the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
~ Meister Eckhart
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Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
~ J. Krishnamurti
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Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.
~ Brenda Ueland
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He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.
~ Lao-Tzu
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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
~ Somerset Maugham
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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
~ Keshavan Nair
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Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
~ Claude Bernard
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What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
~ Eugène Delacroix
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We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.
~ Shakti Gawain
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
~ Anaïs Nin
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You are lost the instant you know what the result will be.
~Juan Gris
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A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places.
~ Paul Gardner
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
~ Albert Einstein
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
~André Gide
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Money will come when you are doing the right thing.
~Mike Phillips
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Depression is the grieving of a death of a relationship, belief or opportunity. Yet remember, death is the fertilizer of life.
~ David Turner
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.
~ Piero Ferrucci
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Desire, ask, believe, receive.
~ Stella Terrill Mann
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Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.
~ Paul Hawken
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Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.
~ Louis Pasteur
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Surround yourself with people who respect and treat you well.
~ Claudia Black
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