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  • #1
    Paulo Coelho
    “Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym

  • #2
    Molly Friedenfeld
    “Focus on faith and grow your roots strong and deep so no one can make you believe in something that is not good for your soul.”
    Molly Friedenfeld

  • #3
    Leo Babauta
    “Instead of focusing on how much you can accomplish, focus on how much you can absolutely love what you’re doing.”
    Leo Babauta

  • #4
    T.F. Hodge
    “To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles.”
    T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

  • #5
    David    Allen
    “You can do anything, but not everything.”
    David Allen

  • #6
    Warren Buffett
    “The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say “no” to almost everything.”
    Warren Buffett

  • #7
    Winifred Gallagher
    “Arguably the mos intriguing characteristic assessed by the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ), a widely used test developed by the University of Minnesota's eminent psychologist Auke Tellegen, is "absorption," which describes a particular style of focusing. If you get a high score in this trait, you're naturally inclined toward what he calls a "respondent" or "experiential" way of focusing.”
    Winifred Gallagher

  • #8
    Patañjali
    “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

  • #9
    bell hooks
    “Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world.”
    bell hooks, Killing Rage: Ending Racism

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #11
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #12
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #13
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #14
    Ovid
    “Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.”
    Ovid

  • #15
    Ovid
    “Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”
    "Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.”
    Ovid, Metamorphoses

  • #16
    Ovid
    “Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.”
    Ovid

  • #17
    Ovid
    “All things change; nothing perishes.”
    Ovid

  • #18
    bell hooks
    “Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.”
    Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

  • #19
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “All this is simply to say that all life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality; tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people cannot expect to live more than twenty or thirty years, no man can be totally healthy, even if he just got a clean bill of health from the finest clinic in America. Strangely enough, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #20
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be...
    This is the inter-related structure of reality.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation: Library Edition

  • #21
    Erma Bombeck
    “It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.”
    Erma Bombeck

  • #22
    Alexandre Dumas
    “There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
    " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
    Alexandre Dumas

  • #23
    Paulo Coelho
    “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #24
    “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
    Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

  • #25
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
    Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • #26
    William Faulkner
    “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    William Faulkner

  • #27
    Amy Tan
    “We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”
    Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

  • #28
    Pablo Neruda
    “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
    Pablo Neruda

  • #29
    Leonard Cohen
    “There is a crack in everything.
    That's how the light gets in.”
    Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968

  • #30
    Nelson Mandela
    “I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.”
    Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson Mandela



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