"Getting outside of the box can not only be fun, it is sometimes necessary for our survival. That is what survival training is all about. It disrupts our inner programming, the mentality of going through life on 'auto-pilot' so that we can readily see bright new possibilities heading our way."
Gail Pursell Elliott
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"It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in so doing, you bring everything to the realm of possibility."
Albert Einstein
"If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul."
Rabbi Harold Kushner
"All I'm saying is that to liberate the potential of your mind, body and soul, you must first expand your imagination. You see, things are always created twice: first in the workshop of the mind and then, and only then, in reality. I call this process 'blueprinting' because anything you create in your outer world began as a simple blueprint in your inner world."
Robin Sharma from The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
"Let a person rejoice when he is confronted with obstacles, for it means that he has reached the end of some particular line of indifference or folly, and is now called upon to summon up all his energy and intelligence in order to extricate himself, and to find a better way; that the powers within him are crying out for greater freedom, for enlarged exercise and scope."
James Allen
"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
Albert Einstein
"Touch passion when it comes your way. It's rare enough as it is. Don't walk away when it calls you by name."
J. Michael Straczynski
"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story."
John Barth
"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."
Joseph Campbell
"When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside, and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside."
Marianne Williamson
"In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways."
Edith Wharton
"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be."
Patanjali
"It's the action, not the fruit of the action that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there will be any fruit. But that does not mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no results."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The day came when the risk it took to remain closed in a bud became more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
Anais Nin
"Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you."
Herbert Gasser
"Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding."
Harvey Mackay
"To become acquainted with who lives inside of me, to love and understand my parts, make them grow and assist them to greater harmony with all my other parts is on-going work."
Virginia Satir
"Our thoughts determine our carriage, our facial expression, our conversation... for what we are outwardly comes as a result of what we think habitually."
Claude Bristol
"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."
Logan Pearsall Smith
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."
Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead
"It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover."
Henri Poincare
"Everyone needs something to aim for. You can call it a challenge, or you can call it a goal. It is what makes us human. It was challenges that took us from being cavemen to reaching for the stars."
Richard Branson
"Everyday, in every way, I am getting better and better."
Emile Coue
"Happiness is not an accident. Nor is it something you wish for. Happiness is something you design."
Jim Rohn
"Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze."
Barbara Sher
"Don't let what you are being get in the way of what you might become."
Harry Palmer
"Calmness is the cradle of power."
Josiah Gilbert Holland
"The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials."
Confucius
"Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her. But once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game."
Voltaire
"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Whatever you believe you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic within it."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Don't spend most of your time on the voices that don't count. Tune out the shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones."
Jim Rohn
"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 subconscious 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
"No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning."
Barbara De Angelis
"Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful. The seeds of godlike power are in us still. Gods are we, Bards, Saints, Heroes... if we will."
Matthew Arnold
"Personality development is the process of building and maintaining high levels of self-esteem. You can change your performance by changing the way you think about yourself in that area."
Brian Tracy
"You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself."
Jane Seymour
"If you don't set your goals based upon your mission statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the wrong building."
Stephen Covey
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."
Buddha
"If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page."
Mark Houlahan
"Frequently reinforce ideas that are productive and profitable."
Patricia Fripp
"We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive is what it is all about."
Joseph Campbell
"The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove."
Samuel Johnson
"Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like the weather."
John Champlin Gardner Jr.
"The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve."
Brian Tracy
"Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day."
Deepak Chopra
"Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary."
Margaret Cousins
"Why belief is a miracle worker is something that cannot be satisfactorily explained; but have no doubt about it, there's genuine magic in believing."
Claude Bristol
"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive."
Joseph Campbell
"Leadership can be found in the most unusual and unexpected places... like in your daily routine when you live your life... amazing."
Doug Firebaugh