Evelyn Brooks > Evelyn's Quotes

“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
― Joseph Campbell

“You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
― Rumi

“If we make a conscious decision not to be victims of the past and go about creating new lives for ourselves, we are supported by this Power within, and new, happier experiences begin to unfold.”
― Louise L. Hay, The Power Is Within You

“Merely showing a picture of a tree to an accountant in an office block has a small but measurable effect in reducing his or her blood pressure. Actually moving about among trees soothes us far more deeply.”
― Benjamin Mee, We Bought a Zoo

“The globally acclaimed author of Fully Human, Fully Alive: A New Life through a New Vision, John Powell, estimates that an average person taps only 10 percent of his potential, sees only 10 percent of the beauty that is all around him, hears only 10 percent of its music and poetry, smells only 10 percent of its fragrance, and tastes only 10 percent of the deliciousness of being alive.”
― Jack Canfield, Coaching for Breakthrough Success: Proven Techniques for Making Impossible Dreams Possible DIGITAL AUDIO

“there was more to life than being comfortable and living one day after another, quietly, unadventurously, almost like waiting for death.”
― Victoria Holt, India Fan

“If you don’t pay more now for a pair of shoes than you used to spend on a car, your prosperity consciousness needs work. —RANDY GAGE, 101 KEYS TO YOUR PROSPERITY, WWW.MYPROSPERITYSECRETS.COM”
― Joe Vitale, The Attractor Factor: 5 Easy Steps for Creating Wealth (or Anything Else) From the Inside Out

“As with any game, once you’re in the game of life, you should play to win.”
― Deepak Chopra, Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New You

“The only path by which another person can upset you is through your own thought.”
― Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

“Studies have shown that empathy is a vital life skill that helps determine our success even more than a high IQ does.”
― Kim Russo, The Happy Medium: Life Lessons from the Other Side

“Maybe there’s a more ominous phrase in the English language than “We need to talk.” Perhaps “Michael Corleone says hello.” Or maybe “I’m afraid the test results are back.” But right now what Laurie just said is enough to send spasms of panic through my gut.”
― David Rosenfelt, Sudden Death

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“You are never given a dream from within your soul that you don’t also have the power to achieve.” Evelyn Brooks”
― Evelyn Roberts Brooks, You Were Born to Triumph: Activate Your Magnificence