"God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty."

Marshall, Peter on trials
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"Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars."

Tracy, Brian on growth
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"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity."

Winfrey, Oprah on luck   

"... by stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence."

Gelb, Michael J. on potential   

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure."

Twain, Mark on success
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"A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance."

Disraeli, Benjamin on destiny
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"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped."

Robbins, Anthony on decisions
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"One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it."

Proverb, French on destiny
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"Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays."

Kierkegaard, Søren on prayer
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"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."

Francis, Brendan on acceptance
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"Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error."

Eddy, Mary Baker on prayer   

"Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified."

Redfield, James on life   

"By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn."

Proverb, Latin on learning
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"There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion."

Colton, Charles Caleb on adversity
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"It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen."

Bristol, Claude M. on affirmation
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"Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted."

Collier, Robert on affirmation
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"Constant repetition carries conviction."

Collier, Robert on affirmation
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"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey."

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De on humankind
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"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

Churchill, Winston on difficulties
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"Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work."

Sawyer, Charles on hope
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"A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on learning
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny."

Robbins, Anthony on destiny
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"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

Sills, Beverly on effort
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"If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment."

Thoreau, Henry David on solitude   

"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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