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Forget about your life situation and pay attention to your life. Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your life situation is mind-stuff. Your life is real." "Instead of asking 'what do I want from life?,' a more powerful question is, 'what does life want from me?'

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. You cannot eliminate habits that no longer serve you. You can only replace them with new habits that support your goals. Moment by moment, you need to live with awareness and structure the habits that you include or exclude in your days.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

Good ball players make good citizens.

Greatness is a lot of small things done well, stacked up on each other.

Happiness isn't a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.

He has not truly lived who has not lived for others, in sympathy and in harmony with his fellows.

Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.

If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heavy heart of one moment of sadness; if I can, how and then, prompt a happier view of human nature, and make my reader more in good humor with his fellow-beings and himself, surely, I shall not have written in vain.

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

I don't live in the present, I Am The Present.

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. Once you are crystal clear about the intended end result that you seek to produce, all the ways that it can become a done deal start to reveal themselves to you. There are many who have accomplished exactly what you want to achieve and could show you the way. You are not ready to ask them because you are not clear and you have not determined which questions need answers.

I don't stand back and judge - I do.

I'm pleased with my life, with the journey.

If the only way I can make myself look good is to criticize you, something is seriously wrong with me.

If you are relaxing and subconsciously thinking about your coming race, you are going to perform at just about 100 percent efficiency.

If you put your mind to something, if you give 100 percent, if you sacrifice, and if you dedicate yourself, anything is truly possible.

If you're going through difficult times today, hold steady. It will change soon. If you are experiencing smooth sailing and easy times now, brace yourself. It will change soon. The only thing you can be certain of is change.

I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get.

If life be long, I will be glad, Tthat I may long obey; If short, yet why should I be sad, To soar to endless day?

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells us also that if we wish to accomplish a particular thing then we need to increase our level of desire for that thing and to create or seek out the opportunities and right environment for it to happen without fail.

If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.

If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.

If you want something, go get it. Period.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. Worrying is not an action! In fact, it is action that alleviates concern and dissipates worries. Take more actions when you feel that worry is creeping in to steal your time. It need not be a huge action, any action in the direction you want to go will do.

Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth

In this complex world, the best way to survive is to be genuine.

It is possible to live happily in the here and now. So many conditions of happiness are available-more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

It doesn't really matter how fast you're going if you're heading in the wrong direction.

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.

I used everything you gave me.

I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived truth of the terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the rumble of panic underneath everything. Otherwise it is false. Whatever is achieved must be achieved with the full exercise of passion, of vision, of pain, of fear, and of sorrow. How do we know, that our part of the meaning of the universe might not be a rhythm in sorrow?

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

I want to live my life, not record it.

Just when I thought life was over you came into my life.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.

Life becomes religious whenever we make it so: when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.

Life is like an EKG. Without the ups and downs, you're not living.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Life is not a matter of milestones, but moments.

Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!