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Getting up early is a gift you give to yourself.
Few disciplines have the power to transform your life as does the habit of early rising.
Don’t rehearse the activities of your day while you are lying in bed trying to get to sleep.
Don’t eat after 8 P.M.
Don’t watch t...
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Life change takes time, effort and patience.
See Your Troubles as Blessings
“Who would agree with me that we learn the most from our most difficult experiences?”
Once and for all, come to realize that pain is a teacher and failure is the highway to success.
… have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present, you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.
Most Imortant line.
William James, the father of modern psychology, observed, “We don’t laugh because we are happy. We are happy because we laugh.”
Remember that on the other side of fear lies freedom.
To live your life to the fullest, start taking more risks and doing the things you fear. Get good at being uncomfortable and stop walking the path of least resistance.
“you cannot get to third base with one foot on second.”
“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
Theodore Roosevelt in the study where I write: It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the triumphs of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his
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Bring Out the Magic in Your Mind.
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“When you send your money out, remember always to bless it. Ask it to bless everybody that it touches, and command it to go out and feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and command it to come back to you a million-fold.
How to spend
timeless truth says, “The hand that gives is the hand that gathers.”
‘Focus on the Worthy,’
Confucius put it this way, “The person who chases two rabbits catches neither,”
“So long as you live, keep learning how to live,” noted the Roman philosopher Seneca.
Geat Quote
And the person you will be five years from now will come down to two primary influences: the people you associate with and the books you read.
Mother Teresa once said, “There are no great acts. There are only small acts done with great love.”
Great Quote helping others.
Emerson said so eloquently, “Without the rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.”
Winston Churchill, who once said, “It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two, nothing can be done, so it’s no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled.”
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it,” observed David Starr Jordan.
The sign of deep moral authority appears in the individual who consistently does what he ought to be doing rather than what he feels like doing.
make you into the person you know in your heart you can be.
The smallest of actions is always better than the boldest of intentions.
The greatest gift you can give to your children is the gift of your time.
The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.”
The real value of setting and achieving goals lies not in the rewards you receive but in the person you become as a result of reaching your goals.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, observed, “The reward for a thing well done, is to have done it.”
becoming aware of a weakness, that is, paying attention to it, also attracts more solutions into one’s life.
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man and Life’s Greatest Lesson.
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“Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
novelist Paul Bowles once wrote: … because we don’t know [when we will die], we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well.
Great quote about Life
“Anyone can become angry — that’s easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not easy,” taught Aristotle.
Keep your cool
“Three Gate Test.”
Are these words truthful?
Are these words necessary?
Are these wor...
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awareness is the first step to change,
“He who asks may be a fool for five minutes. He who doesn’t is a fool for a lifetime,”
Chinese Proverb
The more you ask, the more you get,
“Every arrow that hits the bull’s eye is the result of one hundred misses.”
flex your “asking muscles” by asking for a better table at your favorite restaurant, for a free second scoop at your local ice cream shop or for a complimentary upgrade on your next airline flight.
