Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
We must concentrate not merely on
the negative expulsion of war
but the positive affirmation of peace.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass
Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts,
cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy.
- Ernest Holmes
Never do anything that taints your mind.
Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations
that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality.
Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture
the good qualities you want to have.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
When you are alone you are not alone,
you are simply lonely -
and there is a tremendous difference
between loneliness and aloneness.
When you are lonely you are thinking of the other,
you are missing the other.
Loneliness is a negative state.
You are feeling that it would have been
better if the other were there -
your friend, your wife, your mother,
your beloved, your husband.
It would have been good if the other
were there, but the other is not.
Loneliness is absence of the other.
Aloneness is the presence of oneself.
Aloneness is very positive.
It is a presence, overflowing presence.
You are so full of presence
that you can fill the whole universe
with your presence and there is no need for anybody.
- Osho
We may not always be aware of it, but we all create
and repeat affirmations constantly.
The problem is, we typically don't pay attention
to exactly what those affirmations are saying.
Often we go through the day giving ourselves
all sorts of contradictory, or even negative messages.
We may project confidence to the world around us,
while our inner dialogue says...
I hope this works.
I am so nervous about this.
I hope I don't blow it.
Affirmations are self fulfilling prophecies.
If we say, This is never going to work
... then chances are excellent it never will.
- John Assaraf
Yesterday is like a dung heap;
you can complain about the smell,
or you can use it to fertilize tomorrow's garden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I'm saving that rocker for the day
when I feel as old as I really am.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose to soar. Choose to fly your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Choose to be as a young child -
fully awake, eager for the next experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Dumbo! C'mon, fly! Open them ears!
The magic feather was just a gag!
You can fly! Honest, you can!
- Timothy Q. Mouse in the movie Dumbo
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
Today, I Dance Lightly With Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every tomorrow has two handles.
We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy;
dash the last trace of your self-consciousness;
and cavort your most uninhibited play.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
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