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“Expectation + Action = Creation of your life experiences.” – Jennice Vilhauer
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“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly.” – Marcus Aurelius
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“There are two types of victims in the world. The weak collapse under internal or external pressure, and the strong attack. Both allow external circumstances to control their feelings and reactions. The mature alternative is to establish healthy boundaries, take full responsibility for ones own life, and accept the necessity of negotiating with others toward win-win outcomes.” – Shaun Roundy
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“If you are depressed and anxious, you are not a machine with malfunctioning parts. You are a human being with unmet needs. The only real way out of our epidemic of despair is for all of us, together, to begin to meet those human needs – for deep connection, to the things that really matter in life.” – Johann Hari
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“The Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert talk about the two ‘hungers.’ There is the Great Hunger and there is the Little Hunger. The Little Hunger wants food for the belly; but the Great Hunger, the greatest hunger of all, is the hunger for meaning… There is ultimately only one thing that makes human beings deeply and profoundly bitter, and that is to have thrust upon them a life without meaning. There is nothing wrong in searching for happiness. But of far more comfort to the soul is something greater than happiness or unhappiness, and that is meaning. Because meaning transfigures all. Once what you are doing has for you meaning, it is irrelevant whether you’re happy or unhappy. You are content – you are not alone in your Spirit – you belong.” – Laurens van der Post
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“The Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert talk about the two ‘hungers.’ There is the Great Hunger and there is the Little Hunger. The Little Hunger wants food for the belly; but the Great Hunger, the greatest hunger of all, is the hunger for meaning… There is ultimately only one thing that makes human beings deeply and profoundly bitter, and that is to have thrust upon them a life without meaning. There is nothing wrong in searching for happiness. But of far more comfort to the soul is something greater than happiness or unhappiness, and that is meaning. Because meaning transfigures all. Once what you are doing has for you meaning, it is irrelevant whether you’re happy or unhappy. You are content – you are not alone in your Spirit – you belong.” – Laurens van der Post
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“The best parts of life are hiding in plain sight, embrace the ordinary.” – Katherine Schafler
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“You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway to the future, but all there will ever be is what’s happening here.” – Jim Carrey
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“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful, than a life spent doing nothing.” – George Bernard Shaw
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“He who binds to himself a joy/ Does the winged life destroy/ But he who kisses the joy as it flies/ Lives in eternity’s sun rise” – William Blake
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“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” — Kurt Vonnegut
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“Most people give away their happiness the minute someone does something different than what they wanted them to do. Most people, when someone doesn’t do what they said they were going to do, then they’re pissed off. That’s part of life! I’m not going to sit around and suffer. Suffering is when you’re constantly measuring what people did or didn’t do, or what *you* did or didn’t do, and if you really want to take your life to the next level, you’ve got to focus on what you’re here to give instead of what you’re here to get. It’s that simple.” – Tony Robbins
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“If you want to have a great relationship, the first thing you have to do is commit to a life of living in a beautiful state.” – Tony Robbins
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“If you surround yourself with clowns, don’t be surprised if your life becomes a circus.” – Unknown
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“If you surround yourself with clowns, don’t be surprised if your life becomes a circus.” – Unknown
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“Evil people often don’t realize that they’re evil. They don’t recognize what “evil” means. They justify selfish actions as reasonable, and don’t notice or care that they hurt others unnecessarily. A degree of darkness exists in every life, every mind, every heart. Our job is to love, accept, forgive, support, celebrate, delight, and shine so brilliantly that others learn to distinguish the darkness from light.” – Shaun Roundy
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“Believe in the opportunities that lie ahead. I am reminded of what Abraham Lincoln said when he sat on the sidelines for a long time, losing election after election and struggling to make a professional contribution. He said simply, ‘I will prepare, and perhaps my chance will come.’ He lived long enough to learn what everyone learns—that chance always favors the prepared life.” – Howard Hunter
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“Your two core fears are: 1. The fear of failure (the fear you won’t be good enough) and 2. The fear of loss (the fear your life won’t be good enough). The fear of failure is about feeling insulted, unloved, unvalued, unappreciated or unwanted. The fear of loss is a fear that you won’t have what you need, want or deserve, so you feel mistreated, cheated, robbed, short-changed or taken from at some level.”- Kim Giles
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“We plan, prepare, and perform positively, then something else happens. We get to start over. That’s life. Being surprised and starting over. It isn’t what we thought it should be, or would be- so we get to think again.” – Paul Jenkins
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“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.”- Joseph Campbell
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“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.” – Melody Beattie
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“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.” – Melody Beattie
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“Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.” ― William Martin,
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“Life is kinder to those who love themselves, because love attracts love and light, and repels and dispels darkness.” – Shaun Roundy
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“Sacredness is, in a sense, a feeling – but a feeling that goes to the very heart of life. It is the feeling of recognition directed toward what is great and high enough to give our small lives meaning, to put our personal journeys in a greater perspective. It is the feeling of reverence. What we call the sacred is ultimately a universe of meaning against which we measure our personal efforts, our personal lives, to see whether they, too, have meaning.” – Robert A. Johnson
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“Life is showering its gifts upon us at this very moment. There is a force of love and light that is streaming, rushing, pouring toward us from all angles at all times. All we have to do is to let it in.” – Alan Cohen
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“People like to say that everything’s ‘perfect,’ and you look around and see that life is anything but that! But just as a weight bench is perfect for strengthening muscles but too uncomfortable for sleeping or sitting back and watching TV, life provides the resistance you need to learn and grow. You didn’t come here to sit back, relax and feel happy all the time; you came here to grow, and the way to grow is to bravely face the problems before you and improve yourself in the process. Life’s imperfections provide perfect opportunities to build your spiritual muscles.” – Shaun Roundy
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“The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one’s life.” – C.S. Lewis
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“To pierce through the illusion of separateness, to realize that which lies beyond duality—that is a goal worthy of a lifetime.” – Unknown
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“‘Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.’” – Betty Smith
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“If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” – Oprah Winfrey
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“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.” – Charles Swindoll
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“In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person’s development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.” – Rollo May
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
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“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
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“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene
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“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine
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“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.” – Tony Robbins
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“No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.” – Agnes DeMille
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“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance” – Oscar Wilde
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