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"It takes as little as 1% of a population to create positive change, and I believe that if 100 million people underwent a personal transformation in the direction of peace, harmony, laughter, love, kindness, and joy...the world would be transformed."
"An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality."
"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it"
"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
"The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate."
"Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment."
"Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean."
"If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self."
"Who, being loved, is poor?"
"Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two."
"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."
"Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws."
"Children need models rather than critics."
"Don't bring negative to my door."
"Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!"
"To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom."
"There are many doors to goodness. (Saying) 'glory to God,' 'praise be to God,' 'there is no deity but God,' enjoining good, forbidding evil, removing harm from the road, listening to the deaf (until you understand them), leading the blind, guiding one to the object of his need, hurrying with the strength of one's legs to one in sorrow who is asking for help, and supporting the weak with the strength of one's arms - all of these are (forms of) charity prescribed for you."
"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe."
"What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them"
"Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals."
