"Happiness is a butterfly which pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future." - Alice Walker

"If you blame others for something that happens in your life, then you must wait until they change in order to get better." - Wayne Dyer

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"You can see as far as your vision permits." - Unknown

"To bring yourself love and happiness, do what you can to bring them to others." - Unknown
 

"Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind." -Alice Meynell
 

"You must begin to think of yourself as the person you want to be." - David Viscott

"Pure and simple, balance is happiness." - Dr. Frederick Lenz

"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing when to tip ourselves over and let the good stuff out." - Ray Bradbury

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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear- not absence of fear." - Samuel Clemens

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all the other goods." - Aristotle 384 BC-322 BC

"Men are born to succeed, not fail." - Henry David Thoreau

"Generosity is giving more than you can; pride is taking less than you need." - Kahlil Gibran

"There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval." - George Santayana

"There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only scarcity of resolve to make it happen." - Wayne Dyer

"If you listen to what others say about you, they own you." -Unknown

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins. Not through strength, but by perseverance." -H. Jackson Browne

"Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future." -Alan Cohen

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -Aristotle

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"Happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool." -John M. Good

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." -Henry David Thoreau

"To thine own self be true." -W. Shakespeare

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” -Howard Thurman

"How are we human beings to progress without testing our limits or going beyond what is known? I must prefer risk over stalemate. Why am I supposed to be afraid of the dark? People die from hunger, from cold, from injury and illness, but what peril is there in the sun going down? It is an interior darkness, the darkness of mind, that is deadly, not the dark of the night." -Tori Murden McClure

"Cast safety aside, make risk your target, and become triumphant!" -Jack Sabat

"The best journeys answer questions that in the begining you didn't even think to ask." -Unknown

"Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance." -Brian Tracy

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

"It is better to be kind than right." - Wayne Dyer

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"Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress." -Epictetus

"There is more to life than increasing it's speed." -Mahatma Gandhi

"I dream my painting, then I paint my dream." - Vincent Van Gogh

"Keep your mind on a higher image rather than a lower concern." - Philip Nacola

"Laughter is instant sunshine." - G. Brian Benson

"The way we communicate with others and ourselves, ultimately determines the quality of our lives." - Tony Robbins

"The future depends on what we do in the present." -Mahatma Gandhi

"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

"To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all; but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and blessing." - Abraham Lincoln

"Of all the attitudes that we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is by far the most life-changing." - Zig Ziglar

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"As you always have, you're going to find, yet again and forevermore, that the hard and difficult stuff only ever seemed hard and difficult before you began it." - Unknown

"It's easier traveling the road of life when I don't have so much to carry on my back." - Silas Weir Mitchell

"If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody." - Chinese Proverb

"One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"I'm an old man who has known many a great problems, most of which never happened." -Mark Twain

"If it feels right in your heart, it is right." - G. Brian Benson

"To see and listen to the wicked, is already the beginning of wickedness." - Confucious

"Fighting any adverse condition only increases it's power over you." - Wayne Dyer

"You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny." - Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV

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"If you worry too much about the way things are supposed to be, your a lot more likely to end up following the crowd." - Jim Lewis

"Where there are friends, there is wealth." - Titus Muccius Plautus

"Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure." -Rainer Maria Rilke

"The more you find good in another, the more you will find good in yourself." -unknown

"The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created-created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not someplace we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination." -John Schaar

"You are your freedom." -Jean Paul Sartre

"The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse." -Jules Renard

"Music is the shorthand of emotion." -Leo Tolstoy

"When I put myself out there, I always return with something new." -Jeff Johnson

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." -Einstein

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"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable." -Helen Keller

"A mind at war with itself, remembers not eternal gentleness." -Unknown

"Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado." -Menander 342 BC-292 BC

"Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life." - Bertolt Brecht

"Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier." -Baltasar Gracian Y Morales 1601-1658

"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends." - John Churton Collins

"All animals except men know that the ulitimate of life is to enjoy it." - Samuel Butler

"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action." - John Dewey 1859-1952

"They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts." - Sir Philip Sidney

"Courage and perserverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air." - John Quincy Adams

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"Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are." - Chinese Proverb

"God is a sphere whose center is everywhere, and whose circumference is nowhere." - Trismegistus

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin

"Fear, resistance and struggle is all in your head. Your heart is the part with the courage and wisdom. Live from there. Act from there." - Rhonda Hess

"All the advice you ever gave your partner, is for you to hear." - Byron Katie

"No man is happy who does not think himself so." -Publilius Syrus

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." -Mahatma Gandhi

"It is your mind that creates this world." - The Buddha

"We must always change, renew and rejuvinate ourselves; otherwise we harden." - Johann Von Goethe

"Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be." - Karen Rayn

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"We don't stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw

"Worry is like a rocking chair- it gives you something to do but won't get you anywhere." - Unknown

"Vision without action is a daydream." -Paul Rodriguez

"We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle

The greatest danger for most of us is not that we aim too high and we miss it, but we aim too low and reach it. - Michelangelo

"Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold. The feeling of happiness dwells in the soul." -Democritus

"Be yourself to free yourself!" -G. Brian Benson

"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." -Maya Angelou

"If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now." —Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"Don't be afraid to step out of your comfort zone. Chances are you are going to land quite comfortably with both feet on the ground ready to take that next step." -G. Brian Benson

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"The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue." -Antisthenes

"Only those willing to risk going too far can find out how far they can go." -T.S. Eliot

"They may not remember your name, but they will ALWAYS remember the way you made them feel!" - Unknown

"Sometimes you gotta create the things you want to be a part of." - Unknown

"Do in your heart what you believe to be right - for you will be criticised anyway."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"I am an irresistible magnet to all things that belong to me by divine right."
-Florence Scovel Shinn

"If I have the belief that I can do it, I will surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning." - Mahatma Gandhi

“There are two great days in a person's life ... the day we are born, and the day we discover why.” -William Barclay

"The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers, but, above all, the world needs dreamers who are doers." -Sarah Breathnach

"Expectations are premature resentments." -Unknown

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"Serenity is active. It is a gentle and firm participation with trust. Serenity is the relaxation into our cells of who we are and a quiet celebration of that relaxation." -Anne Wilson Schaef

"All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone." - Blaise Pascal.

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” -Anais Nin

"If we knew everything, there would be no question. Curiosity thrives at the edge of our being. Today I will pause in appreciation of the mysteries awaiting my awareness." - Eli Jenkins

"We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present." - Marianne Williamson

"One cannot alter a condition with the same mind set that created it in the first place." - Albert Einstein

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” ~Dr. Seuss

"Your ultimate calling is a call to return to the place from which you originated." - Wayne Dyer

"Practice moderation in all things except love." - Gary Zukav

"The remedy for suffering is not to inflict more suffering." - Gary Zukav

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"The life that is your calling has no fear in it. Whether you create that life or not is for you to decide. You do not have to choose harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life in your daily struggles, but they are required if you want your new life. You do not have to listen to the wisdom and compassion that are coming into your consciousness but you won't be able to create your new life if you don't. Which will you choose? Your new life or your fears?" - Gary Zukav

"Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you." - Wayne Dyer

"Creation reveals it's secrets by and by." - Jackson Browne

"Life is a wonderful administration of the heart, the mind and the soul. By listening to your heart and visualizing with your mind, you can come into alignment with your soul." - G. Brian Benson

“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.” Mark Twain

"Banish the word struggle from your attitude and your vocabulary.
Do all that you do in a sacred manner and in celebration.
Pray and sing and dance and love.
For these things do not consume and they do not pollute.
Indeed they nourish." - The Hopi Elder

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." - Joseph Campbell

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein

"How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty?
It felt the encouragement of light against its being, otherwise ...we all remain 
too frightened." - Hafiz

"The undertaking of a new action brings new strengths" - Unknown

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"The full measure of our personal happiness is dictated by how much we offer of ourselves in helping others." - G. Brian Benson

"Your love for yourself is the bedrock that your entire foundation stands upon."
- G. Brian Benson

"What is faith worth, if it is not translated into action?" - Mohandas Gandhi

"Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, / But climb."
- Edna St. Vincent Millay

"I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving:  To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it-but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. - Oliver Wendall Holmes

"The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into actions." - Germaine de Stael

"Know ye not, each thing we prize / Does from small beginnings rise? - Mary Ann Lamb

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." - Elbert Hubbard

"The ancestor of every action is a thought." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Give me excitement, give me love, give me uncertainty.... give me the life unknown." - G. Brian Benson

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"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." - Helen Keller

"Why not go out on a limb? That's were the fruit is." - Will Rogers

"As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness." - Henry David Thoreau

“Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.” - Marianne Williamson

You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. - Anonymous

"Each and every one of us has greatness inside of us and it is our true nature. When we tap into our inner-greatness we live life to it's fullest, we honor our guidance and intuition, and we live out our goals and dreams. Wake up each morning to your true self!" - G. Brian Benson

"I raised you to be a thoroughbred. When thoroughbreds run, they wear blinders to keep their eyes focused straight ahead with no distractions, no other horses. They hear the crowd, but they don’t listen. They just run their own race. That’s what you have to do. Don’t listen to anyone comparing you to me or to anyone else. You just run your own race" - Danny Thomas to daughter Marlo Thomas.

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." - John Wayne

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” - Patanjali

“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” - Carl Jung

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“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” -Unknown

"If you want something you've never had, you've got to do something you've never done." - Unknown

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Walt Emerson

"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill Cosby

"The secret to life is to enjoy the present while envisioning a beautiful future." - Teresa Adams

"Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort." - Peter McWilliams

“We don't receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us OR SPARE US.” -Marcel Proust

“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.” -- Bruce Barton

"A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book." - Irish Proverb

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‎"Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."- Albert Einstein

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do." - Helen Keller

"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 of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost". - Martha Graham

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” –Mahatma Gandhi

"Suffering is like a pile of rocks. You can choose to carry the load, throw them at someone, just let it lay there, or you can build an altar." - Chad Arnold

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"Sometimes love tiptoes into the room and softly whispers hello." - Katrina Mayer

"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear."
- Bertrand Russell

"We are all doomed to perfection ... so let's relax and enjoy the ride!!" - Ronna Herman

"The secret of change is to focus all our energies, not on fighting the old, but building the new". - Ronna Herman

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"You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you" - Paramahansa Yogananda 

‎"Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly. Life is nothing but a dream, and if you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art" - Don Miguel Ruiz

"Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.” – Albert Einstein

"Only from the heart can you touch the sky" - Rumi

"The Light you spread todaywill Light your way tomorrow". - Ronna Herman

‎"Life is a process of becoming. A combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death." - Anais Nin

"Ignorance is voluntary misfortune." - Nicholas Lang

"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

"You can measure the impeccability of your word by your level of self-love. How much you love yourself and how you feel about yourself are directly proportionate to the quality and integrity of your word. When you are impeccable with your word, you feel good; you feel happy and at peace. Right now I am planting that seed in your mind" - Don Miguel Ruiz

‎"The mind attracts whatever is familiar to itself. The frightened mind attracts frightening experiences. A confused mind attracts more confusion. The abundant mind attracts more abundance... Become familiar with Abundance!" - John Ramsey

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"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." - Arthur Rubinstein

"It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will." - Jiddu Krishnamurti 

"Love is a choice you make from moment to moment." - Barbara De Angelis

"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea." - Buddha

"I have come to believe that love happens when you want it to. It is an intention, rather than a serendipitous occurrence. Only when one is open to receive and absorb love, can it occur." - Joan Anderson

"Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!" - Kabir

"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties." - Erich Fromm

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads." - Erica Jong

"There is a voice inside of you-That whispers all day long-I feel that this is right for me-I know that this is wrong. No teacher, preacher, parent, friend-Or wise man can decide-What's right for you-Just listen to-The voice that speaks inside." - Shel Silverstein.

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers

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"My motto was to always keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging." - Hank Aaron