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What this country needs is more people to inspire others with confidence, and fewer people to discourage any initiative in the right direction more to get into the thick of things, fewer to sit on the sidelines, merely finding fault more to point out what's right with the world, and fewer to keep harping on what's wrong with it and more who are interested in lighting candles, and fewer who blow them out.

 - Father James Keller

This may sound so spam-ish but this really helps me. I created an account at quoteland.com some time last year and I began receiving quotes since. At first, I did not pay attention since it's makulit and all but when I began posting weekly quotes on the office board, I realized that they really are an inspirational tool for every day living. Help yourself.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd."

- Anon.

"Top 10 Creative Rules of Thumb:

1. The best way to get great ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

2. Create ideas that are 15 minutes ahead of their time…not light years ahead.

3. Always look for a second right answer.

4. If at first you don't succeed, take a break.

5. Write down your ideas before you forget them.

6. If everyone says you are wrong, you're one step ahead. If everyone laughs at you, you're two steps ahead.

7. The answer to your problem "pre-exists." You need to ask the right question to reveal the answer.

8. When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.

9. Never solve a problem from its original perspective.

10. Visualize your problem as solved before solving it."

- Charles Chic Thompson

How do I change?  

- Og Mandino, "“The Greatest Salesman in the World”"

You know a dream is like a river, ever changing as it flows.

- Garth Brooks, "song "The River" co-written with Victoria Shaw"

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent…
Be what Nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

- Sydney Smith, "The Way To Succeed, W M Thayer, (Page 211)", 1902

"We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine: ' Imagine a man who sets out on a voyage equipped with a pair of spectacles that magnify things to an extraordinary degree. A hair on his hand, a spot on the tablecloth, the shifting fold of a coat, all will attract his attention; at this rate, he will not go far, he will spend his day taking six steps and will never get out of his room .' We have to get out of this room."

- Robert Francis Kennedy

"Maturity knows no age.  It is a concept that can only become a reality when one completely reliquishes their childhood tendencies and fully embraces the ideals valued by those already matured."

- Andy Mastay, "(quotation submitted to Quoteland.com)"

"Recognition is the greatest motivator."

- Gerard C. Eakedale

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."

- William Blake

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, a spark that creates extraordinary results.

- Anon.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, " I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along ." . . .  You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.

- Anon.

"In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort."

- Sydney Smith

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy if anything can.

- Thomas Merton

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking processes attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect reality; it is the map we use for organizing our life.

- Erich Fromm, "To Have or to Be?", 1979

"You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself."

- Harry Firestone

"We are all cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."

- Ray Bradbury

Every lesson is a widening and deepening of consciousness. It is a stretching of the mind beyond its conceptual limits and a stretching of the heart beyond its emotional boundaries. It is a bringing of unconscious material into consciousness, a healing of past wounds, and a discovery of new faith and trust.

- Paul Ferinni