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15) Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
~Eckhart Tolle
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14) Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that insures the successful outcome of our venture.
~William James
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13) Be brave, and rise superior to your sorrows, and maintain a spirit that cannot be broken.
~Ovid
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12) Some of life's greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
~Ezra Taft Benson
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11) The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
~Marcus Aurelius
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10) Love, not fear, must be our guide.
~Rosa Parks
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9) Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
~Basil King
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8) I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
~Anne Frank
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7) Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.
~J.R.R. Tolkien
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6) If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.
~Rumi
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5) Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
~Helen Keller
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4) If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
~Henry David Thoreau
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3) Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift—there is nothing small about it.
~Florence Nightingale
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2) He is wise who does not grieve for the things he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
~Epictetus
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1) And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
~Grandma Moses
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Honorable Mentions
whatever it is needful for us to bear.
Seneca
the music that stirs in your heart.
If you remain true to them,
your world will at last be built.
James Allen
learned that within me there
lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
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work on in despair.
Edmund Burke
Have courage for the great sorrows of
life and patience for the small ones;
and when you have laboriously
accomplished your daily task, go
to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor Hugo
agreeably lodged, perfectly easy
in my circumstances. I am
contented with my situation and
happy because I think myself so.
Alain Le Sage
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in this world cannot be seen or even
heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
The world is so full of a number of things,
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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that's not what ships were built for.
John Shedd
A musician must make his music, an
artist must paint, a poet must write if he
is to ultimately be at peace with himself.
Abraham Maslow
accomplished by men who have kept
their ability to dream great dreams.
Walter Bowie
Let us go singing as far as we go:
the road will be less tedious.
Virgil
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
that a simple smile can do.
Mother Teresa
No pessimist ever discovered the
secrets of the stars, or sailed to
an uncharted land, or opened a
new heaven to the human spirit.
Helen Keller
All that a man achieves, and all that
he fails to achieve, is the direct
result of his own thoughts.
James Allen
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Nothing can add more power to your
life than concentrating all your
energies on a limited set of targets.
Nido Qubein
Virgil
Seize the day,
put no trust in the morrow.
Horace
Every thought that you send out is
a vibration which never perishes.
It goes on vibrating every particle of
the universe; and if your thoughts are
noble, holy, and forcible, they set in
vibration every sympathetic mind.
Swami Sivananda
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The way always opens
for the determined soul.
The man of faith and courage.
Orison Swett Marden
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
Old time is still a flying
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick
first move himself.
Socrates
Whatever you can do, or dream
you can, begin it. Boldness has
genius, power, and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
mold, fashion, and create your destiny;
for as a man thinketh, so is he.
James Allen
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If your reasons are big enough, your
belief solid enough, and your desire
intense enough, nothing can stop you.
Brian Tracy
or lost in the mind.
Joan of Arc
Blessed is he
who has found his work.
Thomas Carlyle
the heights of greatness.
Seneca
How oft the darkest hour of ill
breaks brightest into dawn.
Euripides
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Plant the seeds of expectation in your mind;
cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement.
Believe in yourself as being capable of
overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.
Norman Vincent Peale
accidental but must certainly be willed.
Vincent Van Gough
Immense power is acquired by assuring
yourself in your secret reveries that
you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie
Concentrate all your thoughts on the great
desire in your life. This concentration must
be continuous, unceasing—every minute;
every hour; every day; every week.
Charles E. Popplestone
of an equal or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill
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we envisage.
Claude M. Bristol
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Cherish your visions, your ideals,
the music that stirs in your heart.
If you remain true to them,
your world will at last be built.
James Allen
and repeated, charged with
emotion, become your reality.
Earl Nightingale
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting
talents, which in prosperous circumstances
would have lain dormant.
Homer
Every human mind is a great slumbering
power until awakened by a keen desire
and a definite resolution to do.
Edgar F. Roberts
secretly harbors; that which it loves,
and also that which it fears.
James Allen
The creator has not given you
a longing to do that which
you have no ability to do.
Orison Swett Marden
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"Let me light my lamp," says the star,
"and never debate if it will help to
remove the darkness."
Rabindranath Tagore
what you want and why you want it, the
better your chances will be acquiring it.
Fred Jandt
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Dorothea Brande
Deep within man dwell those slumbering
powers; powers that would astonish him,
that he never dreamed of possessing;
forces that would revolutionize his life
if aroused and put into action.
Orison Swett Marden
oneself, then providence moves too.
W. H. Murray
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The self-image we harbor is the key to
the success or failure of our most
cherished plans and aspirations.
Maxwell Maltz
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