“If a man is crossing a river and an empty boat collides with his skiff, even though he be a bad-tempered man he will not become very angry. But if he sees a man in the boat, he will shout at him to steer clear. If the shout is not heard, he will shout again, [...]
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“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
— Helen Keller
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I remember times when I WANTED to feel sorry for myself. When I defended my self-pity … telling myself that I deserved to [...]
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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
– Nadia Boulanger
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Good CHOICEs are a critical ingredient to a great life (and bad choices ruin lives that could have been so good).
Nothing wonderful gets created without LOVE.
True success is never achieved without PASSION.
What choices will you be making in the near future?
If we each [...]
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“… the goal is not to “get rid of” any part of this mechanism (the internal “mechanism” that energizes humans to achieve success). The goal is to redirect and reprogram it so that it achieves what WE choose — not the choices made FOR us by parents, teachers and society when we were too young [...]
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“We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.”—John Webster
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I’ve known many caged birds. Often even they had convinced themselves that they were singing. But there always came a time when they realized they were crying. I can temporarily convince myself, or put up a front that convinces others, that I “feel” just about any [...]
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“I don’t know what’s out there beyond those hills, but if you ride yonder head up, eyes steady and heart open, I think one day you’ll find that You’re the hero you’ve been lookin’ for!”
— Wylie Burp to Fievel (Fievel Goes West)
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I hope my kids let this rattle around in their heads for a long [...]
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“What makes a happy marriage? It is a question which all men and women ask one another…. The answer is to be found, I think, in the mutual discovery, by two who marry, of the deepest need of the other’s personality, and the satisfaction of that need.”
— Pearl S. Buck
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Each of us spends all [...]
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“I’ve looked in all the places you aren’t, I just can’t find the place you are. I wish you were here to tell me where you are. I only know that you are where I am not. I need you to come here and find me; ’cause without you I’m totally lost.”
–Winnie the Pooh
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*L* … [...]
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“Our concern must be to live while we’re alive … to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.”
— Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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Living by the “shoulda’s” and the “oughta’s”— definitely one of the three greatest reasons for unhappiness [...]
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“Often our inner struggles come from our tendency to jump on-board someone else’s problem, … then later, you feel stressed or resentful that you are behind schedule and that everyone seems to be making demands on you. Remembering that you don’t have to catch the ball is a very effective way to reduce the stress [...]
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