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added quotes 11/12/09

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“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”
— Louisa May Alcott

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"People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within."
- Ramona L. Anderson

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“You may encounter many defeats,
but you must not be defeated.
In fact,
it may be necessary to encounter the defeats,
so you can know who you are,
what you can rise from,
how you can still come out of it.”
-- Maya Angelou

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"One isn't necessarily born with courage,
but one is born with potential."
- Maya Angelou

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"My favorite thing is to go where I have never gone."
- Diane Arbus

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"We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence therefore is not an act, but a habit."
-Aristotle

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"Success is not in what you have, but who you are."
- Bo Bennett

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"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware."
- Martin Buber

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"When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality."
-Dom Helder Camara

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"Patience is the art of hoping."
-Luc de Clapier

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"Change is inevitable, growth is intentional."
- Glenda Cloud

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"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
- Marie Curie

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"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."
--Frederick Douglas

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“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
- Albert Einstein

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"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not;
remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
- Epicurus

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"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life."
- Fredrico Fellini

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"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."
- Ferdinand Foch

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"One person with passion is better than 40 people merely interested."
- E.M. Forster

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"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
- Anatole France

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"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence,
but it comes from within.
It is there all the time."
- Anna Freud

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"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable,
you disconnect yourself from what you truly want,
and all that is left is a compromise."
-- Robert Fritz

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"Live a balance life. Learn some and think some, and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some."
- Robert Fulghum

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"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory."
- Ghandi

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"Be the change that you want to see in the world"

- Ghandi

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"Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling.
Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living."
- Haim Ginott

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"There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. I begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over -- and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value."
-- Ellen Goodman

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The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
-Dee Hock

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"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."
- Victor Hugo

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

- Steve Jobs

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"A man's errors are his portals of discovery."
- James Joyce

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The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
~ Carl Jung

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"True Being has to be born in us, not by demolishing what we are,
but by transforming ourselves into what we truly ARE."
- Swami Amar Jyoti

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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.

- Jack Kerouac

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"We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth."
- John F. Kennedy

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"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power,
but for the passionate sense of the potential,
for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible."
- Soren Kierkegaard

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“Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
- Doris Lessing

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"The struggle is to synchronize the potential being with the actual being, to make a fruitful liaison between the man of yesterday and the man of tomorrow."
- Henry Miller

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"One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."
- Henry Miller

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"When you see the value of continued growth, the circumstances
around you become stepping stones."
-Clyde M. Narrimore

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"All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are."
- Pablo Neruda

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"Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely."

-The Land Before Time

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Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
-
 Og Mandino

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The key to change...is to let go of fear.
- Paul Martinelli

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"from far away it looks perfect
but up close are the imperfections
thats where the beauty is"
-barry mcgee

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"One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."
- Henry Miller

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"Believing in yourself is not just for you; it's for every person who has touched your life in a significant way and for every person your life will touch the same way five minutes from now, or five centuries from now.
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- Jaye Miller

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“Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.”
- Earl Nightingale

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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

- Earl Nightingale

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"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it.
This is a kind of death."
- Anais Nin

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"Though your destination is not yet clear
You can trust the promise of this opening;
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
That is at one with your life's desire.

Awaken your spirit to adventure;
Hold nothing back, learn to find ease and risk;
Soon you will be home in a new rhythm,
For your soul senses the world that awaits you"
- John O'Donohue

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"Imagine that the key to happiness is following your own intuition instead of other people's opinions and advice."
- Alex Ostrowski

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"I am the circumstance."
- Octavio Paz

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“First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times. ”
- Norman Vincent Peale

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"One lives in the hope of becoming a memory."
Antonio Porchia

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"To fly
we must dance
with our longest shadows
in the brightest sunlight."
— Louise Rader

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“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.”
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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"Do not let your fire go out,
spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite,
the not-yet
and the not-at-all.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserve and have never been able to reach.
The world you desire can be won.
It exists . . .
it is real . . .
it is possible . . .
it's yours."

- Ayn Rand

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“Once you choose hope, anything's possible.”
- Christopher Reeve

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"We all need time to be alone; to think, to dream, to wonder."
- Billie Roark

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"The pain of discipline weighs ounces whereas the pain of regret weighs tons."
- Jim Rohn

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“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
- Carl Sagan

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"Be who you are and be that well."
-Saint Francis de Sales

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Though we can't always see it at the time, 
if we look upon events with some perspective, 
we see things always happen for our best interests. 
We are always being guided in a way 
better than we know ourselves.

- Swami Satchidananda

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"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it."
- Albert Schweitzer

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“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”
- Anne Sexton

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“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul”
- George Bernard Shaw

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"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."
- George Bernard Shaw

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"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief."
- Gerry Spence

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"I embrace emerging experience.
I participate in discovery.
I am a butterfly.
I am not a butterfly collector."
- William Stafford

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"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."
- Freya Madeline Stark

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"Ideas are like rabbits.
You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
- John Steinbeck

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"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen
and thinking what nobody has thought."
-- Albert Von Szent-Gyorgyi

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"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
- Howard Thurman

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"If you want to be happy ... be."
-Leo Tolstoy

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“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
- Harriet Tubman

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"Be Content with what you have;
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you."
- Lao Tzu

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"A good traveler has no fixed plan, and is not intent on arriving."
- Lao Tzu

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"If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled."
- Lao Tzu

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"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."
- Lao-tzu

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"You don't stop playing because you are old; you grow old because you stop playing. "
- Unknown

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This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind... let it be something good.
- Unknown

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"Are you living the life you dream or dreaming to live?"
- Unknown

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"Every Cell in my body vibrates with energy and health.
Loving myself heals my life.
I nourish my mind, body and soul.
I choose love, joy and freedom, open my heart and allow wonderful things to flow into my life.
I prosper wherever I turn and I know that I deserve prosperity of all kinds.
The more grateful I am, the more reasons I find to be grateful."
- Unknown

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"Instead of waiting for the light at the end of the tunnel,
sometimes you just have to go down there and light it yourself."
- Unknown

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"The best way for your dreams to come true is to wake up."
- Paul Valery

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"I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create."
- Vincent Van Gogh

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“Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
—Voltaire

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"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves;
otherwise we harden."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The point of life is not to get anywhere—it is to notice that you are, and have always been, already there. You are always and forever in the moment of pure creation. The point of life therefore is to create— who and what you are, and then to experience that.

- Neale Donald Walsch

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We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. 

- Thornton Wilder

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"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work"
- Oprah Winfrey

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"Defeat is not the worst of failures.
Not to have tried is the true failure."
-George E. Woodberry

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
-George E. Woodberry

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“To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.”
-George E. Woodberry-

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"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."
- John Wooden

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"We can do more than imagine, we can create"
- Dan Zadra

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"If you can walk, you can dance, if you can talk, you can sing"
- Zimbabawean proverb

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"I'm not very concerned with beauty or perfection... All I care about is life, struggle, intensity."
- Emile Zola

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"If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud."
- Emile Zola