"God always takes the simplest way."

Einstein, Albert on simplicity
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"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment."

Rohn, Jim on pain
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"Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity."

Hazlitt, William on grace   

"If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery."

Einstein, Albert on instinct
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"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

Einstein, Albert on difficulties
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"I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas."

Einstein, Albert on endurance
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"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler."

Einstein, Albert on simplicity
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"When the solution is simple, God is answering."

Einstein, Albert on simplicity
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"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels."

Augustine, St. on humility
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"Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time."

Aurelius, Marcus on fate
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"Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer."

Colton, Charles Caleb on negotiation   

"The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on opportunity
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"Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us."

Selden, John on prayer   

"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."

Russell, Bertrand on doubt
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"You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on."

Heraclitus on change
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"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."

Basil, St. on results   

"Opportunities are often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be listening."

Unknown, Source on listening
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"Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity."

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on opportunity
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"Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on heroes and heroism
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"Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life."

Buscaglia, Leo on love
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"Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave."

Talmud, The on friends and friendship   

"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart."

Irving, Washington on love
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"Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate."

Chuang Tzu on control
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"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."

Winfrey, Oprah on friends and friendship
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"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

Winfrey, Oprah on excellence
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"The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way."

Alan, Robert on kindness
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"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going."

Nightingale, Earl on goals
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"I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. I want to push myself to the edge."

Norman, Greg on potential
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"If someone takes your coat, give him your cloak as well; if he makes you go a mile with him, go with him two. [Mathew]"

Bible on extra mile
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"The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day."

Mckain, Robert J. on action
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"All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement."

Ovid on change
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"You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires."

Collier, Robert on affirmation
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"Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed."

Schuller, Robert H. on ideas   

"Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something."

Madson, Andrew V. on belief
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"How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal, and you have to be willing to work for it."

Valvano, Jim on price   

"The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory."

Cicero, Marcus T. on ambition
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"Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything."

Browne, Harry on price