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"A vision of a desired future allows you to engage and identify immediately in your focus with an improved condition. It changes what you perceive and how you perform NOW. It's not about achieving something in time. It's rather about the quality of choices you are making in this moment - what you choose to perceive, feel, and do. It's about getting the most out of your experience."
"There is a direct relationship between joy and effort. The joy of success is in ratio to the amount of effort expended to achieve it"
"I don't believe in pessimism."
"In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world."
"We must have an expansionary vision, one that captures the imagination and diversity of the whole community, one which benefits a nation which has moved beyond the basics of literacy and numeracy and which wants to develop a learning culture."
"Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do."
"What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief."
"If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures."
"That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem."
"The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recession. We're seeing that the creation, we're seeing those numbers not only grow but shift toward the private sector and shift toward full-time employment and these are all signs that the recovery is taking some hold but we're not out of woods."
"In what I like to call the Great Asymmetry, every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by 10,000 acts of kindness, too often unnoted and invisible."
"Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything."
"Failing is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night."
"Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning - one that leads you toward becoming the fullest human being you can be."
"Your true passion should feel like breathing; it’s that natural."
"I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man."
"Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive."
"Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will."
"He liked to like people, therefore people liked him."
"The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do."
