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• It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

• A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

• The task of a leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

• It is time for us all to cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.

• All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.

• Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.

• Stop complaining about what you're not getting, and start creating what you want.

• Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

• All that we have done comes as the result of a certain insistence that since we must work it is better to work intelligently and fore handedly; that the better we do our work the better off we shall be.

• A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

• When the lion is chasing the antelope, he doesn't look back. He has to eat.

• Take risks. Take chances. Don't be afraid. You gotta go into life brave.

• Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will and his personal responsibility.

• There's no substitute for hard work. If you work hard and prepare yourself, you might get beat, but you'll never lose.

• The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back.

• Smile, it enhances your face value.

• You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

• Don't just stand there, make it happen.

• We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

• Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

• Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

• I have learned to imagine an invisible sign around each person's neck that says, 'Make me feel important!'

• It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.

• The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

• The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

• You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream; you've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.

• Let every action aim solely at the common good.

• I work hard because I love my work.

• It is what we make of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

• Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it...

• Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.

• The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

• Well done is better than well said.

• Victory belongs to the most persevering.

• If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.

• Life isn't just about what you can have; it's about what you have to give.

• It is never too late to learn.

• I court exertion. I love work.

• Who works achieves and who sows reaps.

• The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.

• Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.

• Manner is personality - the outward manifestation of one's innate character and attitude toward life.

• You can either take action or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable.

• It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

• Just go out and make yourself useful.

• There ain't no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish something.

• A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

• The noblest search is the search for excellence.

• The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.

• Chance favors only the prepared mind.

• I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

• The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

• Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.

• Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

• If you're going to help a man, you want to know something about him,don't you?

• Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

• To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.

• Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

• A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

• You know what luck is? Luck is believing you're lucky, that's all.

• Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

• The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

• The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

• You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

• Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

• If I persist, if I continue to try, if I continue to charge forward, I will succeed.

• One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection.

• You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

• When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

• We are what we repeatedly do.

• You accomplish victory step by step, not by leaps and bounds.

• It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

• When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

• Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

• Life is action and passion.

• The time is always right to do what is right.

• To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.

• It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

• You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

• It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

• Find a need and fill it.

• If not now, when?

• Don't just stand there, make it happen.

• The harder I work the more I live.

• Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

• If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

• No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.

• Never let anyone tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

• Everything you can imagine is real.

• You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

• Never mistake motion for action.

• The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very very hard.

• Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

• Why not? Why not you? Why not now?

• Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

• I always believe I can beat the best, achieve the best. I always see myself in the top position.

• Never give in, never give in, never, never, never.

• You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you.

• We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears.

• To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield!

• You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

• If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.

• It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

• We tend to get what we expect.

• Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and action.

• Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself.

• Face the truth.

• If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

• Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

• Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.

• Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

• If it is possible, it is done; if impossible, it shall be done.

• People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their
  other talents.

• When I came to work, I didn't just come to work. I leaped to work.

• Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

• The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere.

• The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

• The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion.

• 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.

• Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

• Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

• Just don't give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think
  you can go wrong.

• The future doesn't just happen - it's shaped by decisions.

• A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.

• Go out and make yourself useful.

• We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

• Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.

• I feel very very responsible to my work.

• Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

• The time is always right to do what is right.

• You can't measure success if you have never failed.

• Service is the supreme commitment of life.

• If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

• Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiseling and scraping and polishing.

• Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

• Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

• In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.

• I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

• I often say I have the best job in the world, and I mean it.

• The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

• Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life.

• Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

• Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

• Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

• The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is.

• The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day.

• Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

• You don't just deal with adversity. You use it to propel you forward.

• I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

• Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

• I never give up, I never give in, and I don't take "no" for an answer.

• Little by little does the trick.

• Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

• Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

• The natural thing to do is to work - to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort.

• I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves.

• Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and action.

• If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.

• Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

• Get out there and take a risk.

• All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

• Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

• Go at life every day with passion and enthusiasm… and when challenges arrive, simply do not give up.

• Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

• The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.

• Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

• Just go out there and do what you have to do.

• We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads… our actions run as causes and return to us as results.

• No Constitution can guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

• There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

• Champions are made from something deep inside - a desire, a dream, and a vision.

• Begin each day as if it were on purpose.

• Not all horses were born equal. A few were born to win.

• Work is love made visible.

• I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.

• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

• This is your wake-up call...go to work.

• You accomplish victory step by step, not by leaps and bounds.

• This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

• Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

• I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

• The only foundation of real business is service.

• Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

• After one has discovered what he is called for, he should set out to do it with all of the power that he has in his system.

• I felt that I could make a difference. That's the best reason to go into business.

• Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

• Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

• The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

• Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.

• I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.

• You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

• You are in charge of your own attitude - whatever others do or circumstances you face. The only person you can control is yourself.

• I only want people around me who can do the impossible.

• Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history.

• Don't find fault, find a remedy.

• Great labor overcomes everything.

• You're never a loser until you quit trying.

• Confidence is contagious.

• Courage is being scared to death, and saddling up anyway.

• I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.

• One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

• To play it safe is not to play.

• Failure is impossible.

• Do or do not. There is no try.

• Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

• High expectations are the key to everything.

• Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

• We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

• In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

• Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

• Perseverance is the secret of success. Procrastination is the secret of failure.

• It is never too late to be what you might have been.

• Business is the most powerful force in society.

• Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

• When you say 'I will' with conviction, magic begins to happen.

• What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

• You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

• They can because they think they can.

• This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

• Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

• Ability is of little account without opportunity.

• Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

• A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

• Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

• Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

• We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

• Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

• What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

• I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

• To Progress in life, start completing in-complete work.

• Life is wasted on the living.

• Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

• Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

• The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

• I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainty that just to be alive is a grand thing.

• Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learnt to walk.

• Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

• We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

• A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and Honest people are screwed first.

• Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
  The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. If you cannot keep Secret with you , do not expect that other will keep it. ! It will destroy you.

• There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no Friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

• Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

• As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

• Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

• The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

• A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

• Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

• Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

• The world stands upon three things: upon the law, upon worship, and upon showing kindness.

• Action is eloquence.

• Precision brings effectiveness.

• Hold the roots and keep the wings.

• Vision is a mission.

• Work is worship.

• Peace is the language of the soul.

• Faith is the aroma of the soul.

• Love is the essence of the soul.

• Purity is the nature of the soul.

• Silence is an art.

• Freedom starts from within.

• Cheerfulness is a treasure.

• Smile for miles.

• Sharing is caring.

• Dance with joy.

• Creativity is the spice of life.

• Wisdom is the treasure of life.

• Wisdom is an inner reservoir.

• Pray for all.

• Pray for peace.

• Prayer is dignity of soul.

• Co-operation is a good-will.

• Be the master of the self.

• Everything is possible.

• Nothing is impossible.

• Impossible says I M possible.

• Patience brings power.

• Be concise, clear and positive.

• Think positive.

• Be positive.

• Don't worry.

• Today is made for you.

• Have commitment and get accomplishment.

• Pick up virtue from everyone.

• Be your own true friend.

• Be the friend of all.

• Just relax.

• Just do it now.

• Just do it.

• Goals are like magnets.

• Design today and gain forever.

• Let go and lets go together.

• There is no other alternative of hard work.

• Make gratitude your attitude.

• Keep smiling.

• Check your intentions.

• Check your motives.

• Have motivations.

• Create your own success story.

• Be the master of your success story.

• Concentration is the key to success.

• Determination assures success.

• Smile brings success.

• Sincerity brings success.

• Goals attract success.

• Your good-will attracts success.

• Success is my birth- right.

• Success is disguised behind hard work.

• Create a difference for success.

• You can win.

• Defeat laziness and be the winner.

• Have a winning smile.

• Prefer to win.

• Character is your identity.

• Character is your dignity.

• Character is your personality.

• Reflect inner joy.

• Reflect peace of mind.

• Knowledge is power.

• Accumulate knowledge and grow wisdom.

• Be the solution.

• Create an interest for a inevitable tasks.

• Begin your day with a smile.

• Begin your day with a prayer.

• Begin your day with a determined thought.

• Begin your day with a pure thought.

• Keep learning and keep growing.

• Life is a journey.

• Responsibility earns mastery.

• Have value for all values.

• Sky is the limit.

• Make a difference.

• Choose happiness.

• Speak soft, sweet and less.

• Create inner space through meditation.

• Explore inner reservoir through meditation.

• Reflect inner beauty through meditation.

• Meditate for world peace.

• Meditate for best wishes towards all.

• Now or never.

• Seek and get.

• Give and get.

• Share and multiply.

• Every problem will change you.

• Just wait and hoe for the best.

• Hold the flag of hope.

• Pray it down and pray it up.

• Accept change and enjoy success.

• Every day new avenues of success open for you.

• New horizon of success is waiting for you.

• Choose to succeed.

• Believe in yourself.

• keep the faith.

• Believe and you will achieve.

• Don't trust the clouds-trust the sunshine.

• Don't set your compass by the flash of lightening-set in the stars.

• Trust the sun-don't trust the shadows.

• Believe in your dreams don't believe in your despairing thoughts.

• Have faith in your faith and doubt your doubts.

• Trust in your hopes never trust in your hurts.

• Decision-making is easy if there are no contradictions in your value system.

• Lord, give me the guidance to know when to hold on and when to let go.

• Lord give me the guidance and the grace to make the right decision with dignity.

• Attack your problem with courage and your possibility with enthusiasm.

• Adjust your mind to changing times.

• Always add up your strength.

• You are stronger than you think you are.

• Accept the fact that you can be successful somewhere, somehow, someway anyway.

• Affirm that you can do it.

• Positive words provoke positive results.

• Positive words inspire positive emotions.

• The words you choose will change your mood for better or worse.

• You and only you can shape your personality.

• I deserve to succeed as much as anyone else.

• Commit yourself to a dream.

• When you are inspired with a dream, God has hit the ball into your court.

• A giving attitude is the secret to successful living.

• Every beginner is a winner!

• Junk the junk food of your mind.

• You may not be able to control everything that happens to you, but you can control how you will react.

• Knock out all kinds of forecasts of gloom and doom.

• Knock out discouragement.

• Persevere: don't give up.

• Look at what you have left, never at what you've lost.

• Quit complaining.

• The me I see… is the me Ill be!

• There is no substitute for work.

• Beginning is half done!

• Brownouts do not have to be burnouts.

• There will never be another now Ill make the most of today.

• There will never be another me Ill make the most of myself.

• Dont kill the dream execute it!

• You wont win if you dont begin!

• Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

• Todays decisions are tomorrows realities.

• Gods delays are  not Gods denials.

• You can choose what your problem will do to you.

• Every problem holds positive possibilities.

• Every problem has a limited life span.

• Never let a problem become an excuse.

• Put your problem in proper perspective.

• Every living human being has problems.

• If its going to be, its up to me!

• Its impossible to fail totally if you dare to try.

• When youve exhausted all possibilities, remember this: You havent!

• Tough time never last, but tough people do!

• Do surrender leadership to FAITH.

• Do you think you are terrific? You are!

• If God is for us, who can be against us?

• Quality questions create a quality life.

• Masterpieces take time.

• Repetition is the mother of skill.

• Raise your standards.

• Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he’ll eat forever.

• The noblest charity is to prevent a man from accepting charity; and the best alms are to show and to enable a man to dispense with alms.

• Practising charity without compassion is as inconceivable . As realising Truth without clarity of mind.

• Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.

• The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

• Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

• True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense.

• The Primordial Power is ever at play. She is creating, preserving, and destroying in play, as it were... The Divine Mother wants to continue playing with Her created beings.

• No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

• We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.

• The blue of the sky, the brown of the tiles, and the blue of the glass had a purpose; they belonged together, they played with one another, they were in good spirits; and it felt good to see them that way, to be a spectator of their games, to feel permeated by the same morning glow and the same sense of well-being that they were enjoying.

• No one shall cause another pain or injury; All mankind shall live in peace together, Under a shield of administrative benevolence.

• In this world may obedience triumph over disobedience, May peace triumph over discord, May generosity triumph over niggardliness, May love triumph over contempt, May the true-spoken word triumph over the false-spoken word, May truth triumph over falsehood.
  Seek the simple, embrace primitively; Reduce the self, lessen the desires.

• The human race’s prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenseless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenseless against ourselves.

• You are God's special gift to the world. You are a bright and shining star. When you look into your eyes in the mirror each morning, tell yourself, I am hope. I am joy. I am free. I am happy. I am love. More important, I am me.

• You have within you the ability to create all that you desire to be, to have, and to experience. You are the power. You have the power. You are powerful.

• Since you will always be with you, because you are so very important to you, you must know how to take care of yourself, how to honor yourself, and how to affirm yourself. My prayer is that you realize the world is waiting for you to bring forth all that you are, in the way only you can.

• Just be who you are. You lack nothing. You connect the heavens to the earth in a most sacred way. Your body is the temple. Your heart is the key.

• Always celebrate the joy that lies within the temple of your heart.

• When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?

• When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

• When it's all over, it's not who you were. It's whether you made a difference.

• When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

• When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.

• When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing -- then we truly live life.

• When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.

• When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

• When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.

• When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

• Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

• Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

• In our life there is a single color, as on an artist`s palette, which provides the
  meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

• People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

• Change has long been a fearful thing for human beings ... and at the same time, it is our most Divine opportunity. Clinging to the banks of the river may seem safe and more secure, but life's possibilities are truly engaged only when we trust, release and become part of The Flow of the Universe.

• Life is mostly froth and bubble, two things stand like stone: kindness in another's trouble, courage in your own.

• Idle words, tentatively tossed, often reinforce the status quo that we are trying to change with affirmations. I've learned from many personal experiences that KNOWINGNESS can be achieved when we relinquish control and trust in the Goodness of the Universe.

• To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life.

• Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?

• Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

• Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

• It is raining still... Maybe it is not one of those showers that is here one minute and gone the next, as I had so boldly assumed. Maybe none of them are. After all, life in itself is a chain of rainy days. But there are times when not all of us have umbrellas to walk under. Those are the times when we need people who are willing to lend their umbrellas to a wet stranger on a rainy day. I think I'll go for a walk with my umbrella.

• Life is the sum of your choices.

• Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever...

• Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.

• The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.

• Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

• It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

• For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

• Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.

• The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds, and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.

• Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don't miss it.

• Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

• Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.

• Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.

• A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

• Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion.

• Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

• All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

• We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived."

• Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy. 3. Don’t complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder; they helped to get you higher. 4. If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.

• A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

• Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

• We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is awaiting us.... The old skin has to be shed before the new one is to come.

• As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.

• Change starts when someone sees the next step.

• Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.

• That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

• Change is the end result of all true learning.

• Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Conditions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed.

• Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it.

• Judgmentalism assumes that you have the right to change someone else. Well, you don't. You only have the right to choose how you will change and behave. Trust others to make their own choices. Put the accountability for another's actions where it belongs, on the other person's shoulders.

• People are very open-minded about new things — as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

• I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown; and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far.

• In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change — breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.

• It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.

• There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

• Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.

• If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got.

• The art of living does not consist of preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

• If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.

• I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.

• Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.

• The most powerful thing you can do