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    Neville Goddard
    “Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change.”
    ― Neville Goddard, Your Faith is Your Fortune
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    Neville Goddard
    “You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to believe it is the only reason you do not see it.”
    ― Neville Goddard
    tags: reason, refusal, see-it, want-to-be
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    “If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.”
    ― Shantideva
    tags: buddha, problem, solve, stress, worry
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    Satchidananda
    “We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil. Serenity is contagious. If we smile at someone, he or she will smile back. And a smile costs nothing. We should plague everyone with joy. If we are to die in a minute, why not die happily, laughing? (136-137)”
    ― Sri S. Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: believe, believe-in-yourself, confidence, empowerment, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-quotes, limitations, limits, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, potential, spiritual-growth, spirituality, talents
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: abilities, capability, confidence, optimism, possibility, skills, strength
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    “Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
    ― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein
    tags: confidence, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, life, life-philosophy, optimism, power-of-words
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    Carlos Castaneda
    “We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
    ― Carlos Castaneda
    tags: confidence, inspirational
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: achievement, believe-in-yourself, brave, courage, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, talent
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    George Carlin
    “The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: funny, humanity, humor
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Let everything happen to you
    Beauty and terror
    Just keep going
    No feeling is final”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: enjoy-life, fearlessness, live-in-the-moment
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    Rita Mae Brown
    “I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.”
    ― Rita Mae Brown
    tags: carpe-diem, enjoy-life, hedonism, life, pleasure
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    Walter Farley
    “I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?' I've been writing about a subject I love as long as I can remember--horses and the people associated with them, anyplace, anywhere, anytime. I couldn't be happier knowing that young people are reading my books. But even more important to me is that I've enjoyed so much the writing of them.”
    ― Walter Farley, The Black Stallion
    tags: author-quotes, authors, be-yourself, enjoy-life, follow-your-dreams, inspirational, life, life-lessons, passion, writers, writers-on-writing, writing
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals Of Ralph Waldo Emerson, With Annotations - 1841-1844
    tags: life, risk-taking, timidity
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    Danny Wallace
    “...maybe sometimes it's riskier not to take a risk. Sometimes all you're guaranteeing is that things will stay the same.”
    ― Danny Wallace, Yes Man
    tags: risk-taking
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is not the length of life, but the depth.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: common-sense, mistakes, paradox, timidity, wisdom
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: confidence, timidity
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt, Strenuous Life
    tags: decisiveness, fear, inaction, just-do-it, risk, timidity, wisdom
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    Erica Jong
    “And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”
    ― Erica Jong
    tags: paradox, timidity
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    Giacomo Casanova
    “one who makes no mistakes makes nothing”
    ― Giacomo Casanova
    tags: mistakes, timidity
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    Iveta Cherneva
    “Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary.”
    ― Iveta Cherneva
    tags: history, leadership, risk-taking, timidity
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    Lord Byron
    “A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.”
    ― George Gordon Byron
    tags: mind, scratch, timidity, wound
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “You had once asked me if I was afraid of death.

    I said I was afraid of not living.

    I don’t want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back, to withdraw, to keep the best in reserve, both overvalues the self, and undervalues what the self is.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook
    tags: death, life, self, selfishness, timidity
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    “Live life to it's fullest or it may seem like you died young.”
    ― James Wattersmith
    tags: dying-young, enjoy-life, live-life
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
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    Susan Sontag
    “All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
    ― Susan Sontag
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
    tags: happiness, man, trouble
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: change, fear-of-change
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    C.G. Jung
    “The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”
    ― C.G. Jung
    tags: self-acceptance, self-esteem, self-love
    1441 likes



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