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go on a seven-day news fast. Vow not to read even one negative story in the newspaper or watch even one negative news report on television for the next week.
“We first make our habits and then our habits make us,”
The only ones among you who will be happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.”
Volunteering affords you the chance to help others and pay back the debt owed to those who have helped you.
the law of attraction says that we attract into our life that which we focus on,
the time to live life greatly is not tomorrow but today.”
Stop complaining and start living.
you cannot have all that you want if you remain the person you are. To get more from life, you need to be more in life.
“Read every day something no one else is reading. Think every day something no one else is thinking. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”
Often, we perceive in others the weaknesses we most need to address within ourselves. Stop blaming and condemning. Accept complete responsibility for the way things are and resolve to work on changing yourself before seeking to change others.
The past is gone, the future is but a figment, so this day is really all you can own. Invest it wisely.
“We see the world, not as it is but as we are.”
In handling any problem, we must have the courage to assume a measure of responsibility for whatever situation we are in and then realize that we also have the capacity to use the setback to our advantage.
Life’s greatest setbacks always reveal life’s biggest blessings.
If we don’t act on life and take action to make things happen, it will act on us and give us results we might not want.
you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot do both.
Sure he looked a little silly. But who cares what others think when you know that what you are doing is the right thing to do.
the more you are as a person, the less you need to prove yourself to others.
“fake it till you make it.” In other words, you can pretend to be the kind of person you wish to be.
Too many of us die at twenty and are buried at eighty.
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
Remember, it is never too late to become the person you have always wanted to be.
Be creative about your personal decompression time and treat it as a chance to renew and recharge so you are the person your family wants you to be when you greet them.
A great quote contains a wealth of wisdom in a single line.”
“I never did a day’s work in my life: it was all fun.”
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his life and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him, he is always doing both.
happiness is not a place you reach but a state you create.
the purpose of life is a life of purpose.
