"If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is."

Addison, Joseph on hope
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"Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances."

Adams, Bryan on thoughts and thinking
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"Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it."

Schuller, Robert H. on challenges
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"The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them."

Unknown, Source on achievement
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"Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary."

Pascal, Blaise on desire
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"It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason."

Pascal, Blaise on faith
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"The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife."

Angelis, Barbara De on marriage
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"We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."

Wilde, Oscar on experience
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"The totality of the Universe is within ones' mind..many go out of their minds seeking themselves..."

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"To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth."

Voltaire on death
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"Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win."

Waitley, Denis on desire
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"It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver."

La Fontaine, Jean De on deception
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"Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society."

Balzac, Honore De on fools and foolishness
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"Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into."

Dyer, Wayne on abundance
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"Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius."

Disraeli, Benjamin on desperation
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"A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance."

Disraeli, Benjamin on destiny
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"Despair is the conclusion of fools."

Disraeli, Benjamin on doubt
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"Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality."

Dyer, Wayne on abundance
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"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."

Dyer, Wayne on decisions
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"We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive."

Dyer, Wayne on divinity
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"If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is the quiet acceptance of what is."

Dyer, Wayne on enlightenment
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"The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character."

Covey, Stephen R. on ethics
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"In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day."

Covey, Stephen R. on decisions
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"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do."

Hubbard, Elbert on decisions
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"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are."

Epictetus on difficulties
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"All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain."

Epictetus on abstinence
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"But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?"

Thurber, James on death
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"The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions."

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"People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?"

Thích Nhat Hanh on negativity
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"To know is to control."

Reed, Scott on control
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"You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest."

Reed, Scott on giving
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"As long as you know what it is you desire, then by simply affirming that it is yours -- firmly and positively, with no ifs, buts, or maybes -- over and over again, from the minute you arise in the morning until the time you go to sleep at night, and as many times during the day as your work or activities permit, you will be drawn to those people, places, and events that will bring your desires to you."

Reed, Scott on affirmation
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"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."

Yeats, William Butler on language
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"Education is not the filling of the pail, but, the lighting of the fire."

Yeats, William Butler on motivation
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"Genius is sorrow's child."

Adams, John on genius
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"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

Angelou, Maya on defeat
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"The happiness of society is the end of government."

Adams, John on society
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"There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on motivation
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"Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner."

Brown, Les on motivation
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"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

Buscaglia, Leo on motivation
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