"The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on adversity
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"Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!"

Mandino, Og on thoughts and thinking
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"Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously."

Mandino, Og on laughter
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"Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces."

Mandino, Og on control
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"... if we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin."

Turgenev, Ivan on procrastination
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"We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them."

Seneca on procrastination
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"Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph."

Selassie, Haile on procrastination
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"When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall."

Unknown, Source on failure
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"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."

Bradbury, Ray on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did."

Steffens, Lincoln on risk   

"To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can."

Mandino, Og on courage
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"I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future."

Sandburg, Carl on past   

"Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried."

Tyger, Frank on courage
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"Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read."

Unknown, Source on books - reading
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"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."

Rohn, Jim on happiness
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"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future."

Schuller, Robert H. on hope
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"The future is... black."

Baldwin, James on the future
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"People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past."

Kundera, Milan on the future
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"Love is just an excuse. "

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"Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you."

Ziglar, Zig on criticism
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"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world
Are the ones who do."

Apple Computer on genius
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"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure."

Churchill, Winston on courage
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"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

Russell, Bertrand on time
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"Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away."

Proverb, French on time
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"Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life."

Lakein, Alan on time
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"When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free."

Marcia, Wieder on time   

"Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit."

Seller, Peter on appreciation
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"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time."

Kettering, Charles F. on peace
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"You can have it all. You just can't have it all at one time."

Winfrey, Oprah on possibilities
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"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."

Schlessinger, Dr. Laura on attitude
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"I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line."

Charles, Ray on money
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"As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time."

Waitley, Denis on perseverance
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"The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him."

Proverb, Chinese on enemies
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"The end is never as satisfying as the journey. To have achieved everything but to have done so without integrity and excitement is to have achieved nothing."

Unknown, Source on ending
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"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on present
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"False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on friends and friendship
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"Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on friends and friendship
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"A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely"

Brown, Pam on friends and friendship
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"Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings."

Bruyere, Jean De La on friends and friendship
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"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend."

Camus, Albert on friends and friendship
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