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People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. -Unknown

"Excellence can be obtained if you: ...care more than others think is wise; ...risk more than others think is safe; ...dream more than others think is practical; ...expect more than others think is possible." - author unknown

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them." - George Bernard Shaw

"Don't ask about caste or riches but instead ask about conduct. Look at the flames of a fire. Where do they come from? From a piece of wood—and it doesn't matter what wood. In the same way, a wise person can come from wood of any sort. It is through firmness and restraint and a sense of truth that one becomes noble, not through caste." -Sutta Nipata

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." ~Les Brown

"Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there." ~author unknown

"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are but princesses that are waiting to see us act just once with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest essence, something helpless that needs our love." -Rainer Maria Rilke

"Stress is inner biofeedback, signaling you that frequencies are fighting within your system. The purpose of stress isn't to hurt you, but to let you know it's time to go back to the heart and start loving." ~Sara Paddison

"I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It's a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized." ~Stephen Covey

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." ~Rumi

Perhaps a human being does not die until he no longer sees anything but the past and the present moment. - Leo Baeck, "The Pharisees"

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude." ~Denis Waitley

What are you doing today that inspires you or motivates you or makes you feel genuinely GREAT?!?!?!

"Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries." -Corita Kent

We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same. -Carlos Castaneda

Your life isn’t just about you. The decisions you make and the things you do impact other people. Be aware of how you are connected to others and respect those connections.

I found the following article on DailyOm.com . If you have never been to that website you should go check it out. I subscribe to several of their newsletters and really enjoy them a lot. March 29, 2006 Keeping Conscious Staying Grounded In A Busy World 1. Live simply and live deliberately. By choosing not to get caught up in the details of this fast-paced world, you are doing your part to slow down the speed of life. You will also discover that you have more time to enjoy being alive. 2. Stay in touch with yourself. Soul searching, meditation, and journaling are just a few of the many activities you can take part in to stay aware and learn as much as you can about your emotions, reactions, likes, dislikes, dreams, and fears. Having a solid sense of self gives you a firm foundation for living in this world. 3. Support or teach others as often as you can. This can help you form connections with people while also giving you an opportunity to make the world a better place. 4. Consciously...

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not. -James Gordon, M.D

"It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest." -Greek saying

"Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, 'I'll do nothing until I can be sure'. Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who wont risk the ocean." ~Rumi