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#1

“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.”
― Elizabeth Edwards

tags: acceptance, change, growth, reality, resilience

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#2

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why

5824 likes

#3

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: helping-others, make-a-difference, purpose, purpose-of-life

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#4

“A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Twenty-Four Conversations with Borges: Interviews by Roberto Alifano 1981-1983

tags: art, purpose, raw-materia, writing

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#5

“Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.”
― Shannon Alder

tags: achievements, charity, commencement-speech, death, death-and-dying, dying, epitaph, eulogy, funerals, goals, gravestone, hearts, kindness, legacy, life, life-lessons, life-missions, life-purpose, purpose, speeches, stories, story, tombstones, tribute

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#6

“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

tags: action, community, daring, loneliness, purpose, youth

1037 likes

#7

“Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

tags: accountability, authenticity, belonging, courage, creativity, empathy, joy, love, meaning, purpose, spirituality, vulnerability

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#8

“Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational, life-lessons, purpose

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#9

“A Man Said to the Universe

A man said to the universe:
“Sir, I exist!”
“However,” replied the universe,
“The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.”
― Stephen Crane, War Is Kind and Other Poems

tags: existence, meaning, poetry, purpose, universe

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#10

“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

tags: growth, journey, purpose

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#11

“Free yourself from the complexities and drama of your life. Simplify. Look within. Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: blessings, drama, empowerment, gratitude, inspirational, life, motivational, purpose, simplify

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#12

“Smith observed that society can function purely on utilitarian grounds or on the basis of gratitude, but he clearly believed that societies of gratitude were more attractive in large part because they provide an important emotional resource for promoting social stability.”
― Christopher Peterson, Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification

tags: gratitude, society

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#13

“Jaynes (1976) suggested that task persistence is a uniquely human strength. With some exceptions, most animals do not persist at any given task longer than 20 minutes before moving on to the next task.”
― Christopher Peterson, Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification

tags: human-nature, persistence, strength

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#14

“Surround yourself with like-minded people who support you on the road to success.”
― Shirley George Frazier, Marketing Strategies for the Home-Based Business: Solutions You Can Use Today

tags: business-marketing, small-business

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#15

“...when women gain control over spending, less family money is devoted to instant gratification and more for education and starting small businesses.”
― Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

tags: finances, money, small-business, women

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#16

“Decision making and problem solving are not the same. To solve a problem, one needs to find a solution. To make a decision, one needs to make a choice.”
― Michael J. Marx, Ethics & Risk Management for Christian Coaches

tags: coaching, coaching-best-practices, coaching-best-standards, coaching-quotes, decision-making, decision-making-quote, ethics, small-business

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#17

“Mom & pop stores are not about something small; they are about something big. Ninety percent of all U.S. businesses are family owned or controlled. They are important not only for the food, drink, clothing, and tools they sell us, but also for providing us with intellectual stimulation, social interaction, and connection to our communities. We must have mom & pop stores because we are social animals. We crave to be part of the marketplace. ”
― Robert Spector, The Mom & Pop Store: How the Unsung Heroes of the American Economy Are Surviving and Thriving

tags: economic-development, entrepreneurship, small-business

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#18

“It is not your job to prove your value to anyone. It is your job to find the people that already value what you do.”
― Jeffrey Shaw, The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success

tags: business, change, customers, entrepreneurship, inspiration, leadership, marketing, mindset, motivation, small-business

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#19

“The beginning of change doesn’t come from motivation and dangling carrots. It begins with being clear about what you want to get away from.”
― Jeffrey Shaw, The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success

tags: business, change, customers, entrepreneurship, inspiration, leadership, marketing, mindset, motivation, small-business

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#20

“Most people set intentions wrong. The right way to set intentions is to be clear on what you want to go FROM and what you want to go TO.”
― Jeffrey Shaw, The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success

tags: business, change, customers, entrepreneurship, inspiration, leadership, marketing, mindset, motivation, small-business

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#21

“We stretch ourselves when the impact we want to make and the life we want to create is bigger than the fear and challenges.”
― Jeffrey Shaw, The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success

tags: business, change, customers, entrepreneurship, inspiration, leadership, marketing, mindset, motivation, small-business

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#22

“We are doing business in the empowerment age. It is our job to empower our customers to choose us. The moment you tell them to choose you, they will back up. The moment you tell someone to trust you, they won’t.”
― Jeffrey Shaw, The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success

tags: business, change, customers, entrepreneurship, inspiration, leadership, marketing, mindset, motivation, small-business

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#23

“Strive to be bored is a contradictory statement for most entrepreneurs. But we have to strive to be bored to make space for more if we want to grow our business.”
― Jeffrey Shaw, The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success

tags: business, change, customers, entrepreneurship, inspiration, leadership, marketing, mindset, motivation, small-business

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#24

“We used to build businesses with all effort and hard work. Today, we create businesses by paying attention to what the market wants and co-creating with those we serve.”
― Jeffrey Shaw, The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success

tags: business, change, customers, entrepreneurship, inspiration, leadership, marketing, mindset, motivation, small-business

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#25

“Build systems for the business to come, not the business you have.”
― Jeffrey Shaw, The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success

tags: business, change, customers, entrepreneurship, inspiration, leadership, marketing, mindset, motivation, small-business

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#26

“The biggest risk is not in what you build. It is in not supporting what you build.”
― Jeffrey Shaw, The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success

tags: business, change, customers, entrepreneurship, inspiration, leadership, marketing, mindset, motivation, small-business

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#27

“To create success in your business, you have to protect your capacity to serve others by learning to work efficiently and effectively.”
― Jeffrey Shaw, The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success

tags: business, change, customers, entrepreneurship, inspiration, leadership, marketing, mindset, motivation, small-business

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#28

“Your success is limited by your personal development- what you think you’re capable of, what you think you deserve, and the mindsets that hold you back.”
― Jeffrey Shaw, The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success

tags: business, change, customers, entrepreneurship, inspiration, leadership, marketing, mindset, motivation, small-business

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#29

“The self-employed need business strategies that are relationship-based, not transactional, authentic to who you are, and right-sized for small business.”
― Jeffrey Shaw, The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success

tags: business, change, customers, entrepreneurship, inspiration, leadership, marketing, mindset, motivation, small-business

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#30

“Listen, not to answer, but to understand.”
― Matthew Pollard, The Introvert's Edge: How the Quiet and Shy Can Outsell Anyone

tags: entrepreneur, introvert, introvert-quotes, introverts, sales, sales-tips, sales-training, small-business

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