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To a very
large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves.
As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences
of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs
about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep
level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous
systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act,
speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief
systems. - Jeremy W. Hayward
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You are the
person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are
the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger
behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be
contented to stay where you are. - Edgar A. Guest
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It doesn't
matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it
before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your
first attempt at it. - Wally Amos
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We have only
to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears,
the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little,
we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and
then take us in its more than human arms. - Pierre Teilhard De
Chardin
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The world we
see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not
working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change
our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and
dissolve the fear in our minds. - Gerald G. Jampolsky
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Remind
yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are.
Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a
super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And
success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks
who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never - yes,
never - sell yourself short. - David J. Schwartz
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The
brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their
fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their
worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his
brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each.
But the deserts of every brother are not the same. - Aldous Huxley
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The path of
least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It
requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a
belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so
identified with an idea that it is literally a "pet" notion and we rise
to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different. -
John Dewey
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The way to
activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the
results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast
human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped. All too often
people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their
choices are ineffective. 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 compromise. - Robert Fritz
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Watch what
you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never
forget that I told you - don't do it. Say no. That can of beer that
somebody wants you to try, don't do it. Don't you ever do it. That drug
that someone might want you to use, don't touch it. Stay away from it.
It can destroy you. - Gordon B. Hinckley
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Any person
who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose ... begins to
realize that he is the one that is doing the choosing and that friends,
although they mean well, cannot do his choosing for him, nor can his
relatives. Consequently, he develops real self-confidence based upon his
own ability, upon his own action, and upon his own initiative. - J.
Martin Kohe
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There is no
shame in finding someone else to be attractive, or good company. Even if
they don't like you, there is still no shame. If you happen to be fond
of someone, and they're not fond of you, it's OK.. You don't have to
wait and see if they'll love you back. You can announce it.. Joy in life
comes from expressing ourselves, in taking risks and jumping in.
Everyone is not going to like you. But you can like who you like. -
Andrew Matthews
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We cannot
tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can
decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and
that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life
and make it a thing of worth and beauty - that is the test of living.
- Joseph Fort Newton
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You are now
at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important
decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have
you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who
are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision
consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully. - Anthony Robbins
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That guy just
cut right in front of me. But I'm not going to let it bother me. No. I'm
on my way to work and I decided it doesn't matter who wants to cut in
front of my lane today. I'm not going to let it bother me one bit. Once
I get to work, find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump
ahead of me and take it, I'm going to let them. - Oprah Winfrey
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Circumstances
may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.
Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and
adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity
when it occurs. - Mario Andretti
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A society in
which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from
their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign
language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital
fibbers, fakers and fantasizers. - Beatrix Campbell
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Parents are
often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the
glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when
raking leaves. - Marcelene Cox
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Don't throw
away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great
moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you
to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial
confrontations. - Dr. James C. Dobson
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In great
countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the
parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children
are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them
children. - John Ruskin
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It needs
courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and
have to hand them back to life - to God. As the old saying puts it:
"What I gave I have." We have to love them and lose them. - Alfred
Torrie
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If we do not
rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives, to seek
the kinds of growth that we find individually fulfilling, then we can
have no security: we will live in a world of sham, in which our selves
are determined by the will of others, in which we will be constantly
buffeted and increasingly isolated by the changes round us. - Nena
O'Neil
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There are
four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world.
We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how
we look, what we say, and how we say it. - Dale Carnegie
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I've noticed
two things about men who get big salaries. They are almost invariably
men who, in conversation or in conference, are adaptable. They quickly
get the other fellow's view. They are more eager to do this than to
express their own ideas. Also, they state their own point of view
convincingly. - John Hallock
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People talk
about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a
certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if
you're nice to the second housemaid. - Henry James
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Do not assume
that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple
and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much
sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it
otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words. -
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Anybody can
become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and
to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and
in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
- Aristotle
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Multitudes of
people, drifting aimlessly to and fro without a set purpose, deny
themselves such fulfillment of their capacities, and the satisfying
happiness which attends it. They are not wicked, they are only shallow.
They are not mean or vicious; they simply are empty - shake them and
they would rattle like gourds. They lack range, depth, and conviction.
Without purpose their lives ultimately wander into the morass of
dissatisfaction. As we harness our abilities to a steady purpose and
undertake the long pull toward its accomplishment, rich compensations
reward us. A sense of purpose simplifies life and therefore concentrates
our abilities; and concentration adds power. - Kenneth Hildebrand
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When a child
can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from
repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from
the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in
their heart. - Horace Mann
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To be a Sufi
is to cease from taking trouble; and there is no greater trouble for
thee than thine own self, for when thou art occupied with thyself, thou
remainest away from God. - Abu Sa'id
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There are
some things you don't have to know how it works, only that it works.
While some people are studying the roots, others are picking the fruit.
It just depends on which end of this you want to get in on. - Jim
Rohn
