The Subconscious Mind

"The subconscious mind makes no distinction between constructive and destructive thought impulses. It works with the material we feed it, through our thought impulses. The sub-conscious mind will translate into reality a thought driven by fear, just as readily as it will translate into reality a thought driven by courage or faith." - Napoleon Hill, Think & Grow Rich, p. 58

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The desire to give

Your life’s work, the work you love, is what awakens within you when you are reminded by your compassion, your desire to give.  It will not come to you by focusing a desire to be better than others, by thinking about how you will survive, or by wishing everything in your life were easy.  It will come when you hear the call of your innate compassion for all of humankind. - Lawrence G. Boldt

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Am I going to be happy today?

"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it." - Groucho Marx

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Happiness - here and now

"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so." - Robert G. Ingersoll

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the Art of Living

The Master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play…he hardly knows which is which.  He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing.  To him he is always doing both - A Zen Buddhist text

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There's one sad truth in life I've found

There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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TODAY IS YOUR DAY!

“Congratulations!”

Today is your day.

You’re off to Great Places!

You’re off and away!

You have brains in your head.

You have feet in your shoes.

You can steer yourself

any direction you choose.

So be sure when you step

step with care and great tact

and remember that Life’s

                    a great balancing ACT!”

 Dr. Seuss

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Habits

Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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This is the true joy in life

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.  ~George Bernard Shaw

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