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"Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go higher than you think." - Benjamin Disraeli

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" You cannot talk yourself out of what you behaved yourself into" Steven Covey (see image attached)

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"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate." -

Dr. Albert Schweitzer

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"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power." -- Lao-Tzu 

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"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them." 

- Dr. Denis Waitley 

Sourced by Patrick Berman

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"To Be A Great Champion You Must Believe You are The Best, If you are not, Pretend That You are"

Muhammad Ali ( see image attached)

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"When expectations trump EXECUTION, success in any endeavor remains elusive." fsm 

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"Do not place a value about what you are getting, the only value is in what you are becoming."

Jason N. Caras

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"Never tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon."

Gunnar Ársæll Ársælsson

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VITAMIN "F"

Why do we have a variety of friends are all so different in character? How do we get along with them all? 

Perhaps it is because each one helps to bring out a "different" part of us.

With one we are polite. We joke with another. We talk about serious matters with one. With another we laugh a lot. 

We may listen to one friend's problems. Then listen to another's advice.

Our friends are all like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. When completed, they form our own mosaic which is the most precious treasure life provides.  Friends seek first to understand each other, before seeking to be understood ( Steven Covey); Friends are those who support each other always whether the days are good or bad. 

Real Age doctors maintain that friends are good for our health. Dr. Oz calls them "Vitamin F" and counts the benefits of friends as essential to our well being. Research is purported to show that people in strong social circles have less risk of depression. If you enjoy Vitamin F constantly you feel vital, vibrant and perhaps even younger than your real age. The warmth of friendship stops stress and even in your most intense moments. 

"We should each of us commit to frequent contact with our friendships and realize that our interactions and shared experiences with our friends today will be the memories we carry with us in our tomorrows."  fsm 

They are among the most precious of gifts the universe offers.

" To have a friend you must first be a friend;

and, our friends are the family we make for ourselves" NJC   

The above  excepting certain quotes was sourced by Kenneth Kaufman, and has been edited and paraphrased in its presented manner by fsm

Note: The article at this link informs on two types of Vitamin F http://lindacrane.com/what-is-vitamin-f-there-are-two-types-of-vitamin-fs/

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"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity"

Martin Luther King Jr.

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"No one has ever been able to determine exactly what it takes to succeed , but there are characteristics which we know for certain contribute to success, regardless of a person's level of intelligence. The successful person "learns from experience" and has "drive from within". They "believe in themselves". They have "power with people". They have "character". They have a sense of direction; they know where they are going and they know they will get there. They have developed an inner confidence which is expressed openly in their behavior and they have a genuine concern for the well-being of others." – Bob Proctor 

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"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him/her." 

David Brinkley 

Sourced by Neil Cantor

 

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‎"So it is, life is actually made up of our choices. We are the sum total of them, and if we hold to an attitude of love and thanksgiving for all the good things within our grasp we may have what all ambitious people long for - success." - Delma Neeley 

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"Living is having and following a purpose. That's all. That's the formula of

life-have and follow a purpose. That's it. If you do it, you're living and

if you don't do it, you're not living. And that's all there is to it. I've

now given you the basic fundamental of existence and that really is it."

L. Ron Hubbard

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" I've continued to recognize the power people have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. 

I've learned that the resources we need to change our dreams into reality are within us merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright". 

Anthony Robbins 

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The Invitation

It doesn't interest me

what you do for a living.

I want to know

what you ache for

and if you dare to dream

of meeting your heart's longing.

It doesn't interest me

how old you are.

I want to know 

if you will risk 

looking like a fool

for love

for your dream

for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me

what planets are 

squaring your moon...

I want to know

if you have touched

the centre of your own sorrow

if you have been opened

by life's betrayals

or have become shrivelled and closed

from fear of further pain.

I want to know

if you can sit with pain

mine or your own

without moving to hide it

or fade it

or fix it.

I want to know

if you can be with joy

mine or your own

if you can dance with wildness

and let the ecstasy fill you 

to the tips of your fingers and toes

without cautioning us

to be careful

to be realistic

to remember the limitations

of being human.

It doesn't interest me

if the story you are telling me

is true.

I want to know if you can

disappoint another

to be true to yourself.

If you can bear

the accusation of betrayal

and not betray your own soul.

If you can be faithless

and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty

even when it is not pretty

every day.

And if you can source your own life

from its presence.

I want to know

if you can live with failure

yours and mine

and still stand at the edge of the lake

and shout to the silver of the full moon,

"Yes."

It doesn't interest me

to know where you live

or how much money you have.

I want to know if you can get up

after the night of grief and despair

weary and bruised to the bone

and do what needs to be done

to feed the children.

It doesn't interest me

who you know

or how you came to be here.

I want to know if you will stand

in the centre of the fire

with me

and not shrink back.

It doesn't interest me

where or what or with whom

you have studied.

I want to know 

what sustains you

from the inside

when all else falls away.

I want to know

if you can be alone 

with yourself

and if you truly like

the company you keep

in the empty moments.

by Oriah Mountain Dreamer

  

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"I am the life-force power of the universe. I am the life-force power of the 50 trillion beautiful molecular geniuses that make up my form, at one with all that is." 

(Dr.Jill Bolte Taylor) ( follow link below for video)

http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html 

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"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. 

You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. 

You realize that you control your own destiny."  Albert Ellis

 

Out of the night that covers me, 
Black as the pit from pole to pole, 
I thank whatever G-d may be, 
For my unconquerable soul. 

In the fell clutch of circumstance, 
I have not cried nor winced aloud, 
Under the bludgeoning of chance, 
My head is bloody but unbowed. 

Beyond this place of wrath and tears 
Looms but the horror of the shade, 
And yet the menace of the years 
Finds and shall find me unafraid. 

It matters not how straight the gate, 
How charged with punishments the scroll, 
I am the captain of my fate, 
I am the master of my soul. 
William Earnest Henley, 1875

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  " All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: 

but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. " 

 T. E. Lawrence 

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‎"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by

smiles, not tears."

John Lennon 

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