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Living the Choices

Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle, sick, considerate, funny, stupid, healthy, greedy, beautiful, lazy, responsive, foolish, sharing, pressured, intimate, hedonistic, industrious, manipulative, insightful, capricious, wise, selfish, kind or sacrificed.

Life does, however, require us to live with the consequences of our choices.

― Richard Bach, Running From Safety

Dreams and Aspirations

Do not part with your dreams or aspirations

for when they are gone

you will still exist,

but you have ceased to live.

- Henry David Thoreau

Life's Challenges

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you,
They're supposed to help you discover who you are.

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

Life as a Blank Canvas

I decided I'd treat this juncture in my life
as a blank canvas,
sketch an intention to achieve some good
and let life paint it in.

- Marc Barasch

Create Your Future

Every thought we think is creating our future.

- Louise Hay

Creating Your Future

The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths

offered by the present, but a place that is created--

created first in the mind and will,

created next in activity.

The future is not some place we are going to,

but one we are creating.

The paths are not to be found, but made,

and the activity of making them,

changes both the maker and the destination.

- John Schaar

Choose Your Attitude

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself:
I, not events, have the power to
make me happy or unhappy today.
I can choose which it shall be.
Yesterday is dead,
tomorrow hasn't arrived yet.
I have just one day, today,
and I'm going to be happy in it.

~ Groucho Marx

Live Fully

Live life fully while you're here.

Experience everything.

Take care of yourself and your friends.

Have fun, be crazy, be weird.

Go out and screw up!

You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process.

Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes;

find the cause of your problem and eliminate it.

Don't try to be perfect;

just be an excellent example of being human.”

- Anthony Robbins

Contemplate

All you have to do is contemplate a simple grain of sand,

and you will see in it all the marvels of creation.

Listen to your heart.

It knows all things,

because it came from the Soul of the World,

and it will one day return there.

- Paulo Coelho

Reap a Destiny

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow.
Sow an act, and you reap a habit.
Sow a habit and you reap a character.
Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

- James Allen

Mental Pathways

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth,
so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over
the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

- Henry David Thoreau

Be a Possibilitarian

Become a possibilitarian.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are,
raise your sights and see the possibilities --
always see them, for they're always there.

- Norman Vincent Peale

Limitations

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough,
they're yours!

- Richard Bach, Excerpt from Illusions, The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Picture Success

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind
a mental picture of yourself as
succeeding.
Hold this picture tenaciously.
Never permit it to fade.
Your mind will seek to develop the picture...
Do not build up obstacles
in your imagination.

- Norman Vincent Peale

Voyage Through Life

One ship sails east and another sails west

With the self-same winds that blow.

Tis the set of the sail and not the gale

Which determines the way they go.

As the winds of the sea are the ways of fate

As we voyage along through life,

Tis the act of the soul that determines the goal,

And not the calm or the strife.

-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

What Really Matters

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count.

It's the life in your years.

- Abraham Lincoln

Create your life

The life and love we create is the life and love we live.

- Leo Buscaglia