Life Instruction

"Instructions for Life"

1. Give people more than they expect
2. Memorise your favourite poem
3. Don´t believe all you hear, spend all you have
or sleep all you want
4. When you say you´re sorry, look the person in
the eye
5. Be engaged at least 6 months before you get
married
6. In disagreements, fight fairly no name calling
7. Never laugh at anyone´s dreams. People who
don´t have dreams don´t have much
8. Love deeply and passionately. You might get
hurt but its the only way to live life completely
9. Believe in love at first sight
10. Don´t judge people by their relatives
11. Talk slowly but think quickly
12. Remember that great love and great
achievements involve great risk
13. Say "bless you" when you hear someone
sneeze
14. When you lose, don´t lose the lesson
15. Remember the three R´s. Respect for self,
respect for others, responsibility for all your actions
16. Don´t let a little dispute injure a great friendship
17. Smile when you pick up the phone
18. Marry someone you love to talk to. As you get
older their conversational skills will be as important
as any other
19. Spend some time alone
20. Open your arms to change, but don´t let go of
your values
21. Remember that silence is sometimes the best
answer
22. Read more books and watch less television
23. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get
older and you think back, you´ll get to enjoy it a
second time
24. Trust in God but lock your car
25. Read between the lines
26. Share your knowledge, it´s a way to achieve
immortality
27. Be gentle with the earth
28. Meditate. There´s immeasurable power in it
29. Never interrupt when you are being flattered
30. Mind your own business
31. Don´t trust a man/woman who doesn´t close
his/her eyes when they kiss
32. Once a year go somewhere you have never
been before
33. Remember that not getting what you want is
sometimes a stroke of luck
34. Learn the rules then break some
35. Judge your success by what you had to give
up to achieve it
36. Approach love and cooking with reckless
abandon

My Faves #2

SOME LITTLE GEMS FOR YOU!

KINDNESS AND COURAGE.

Life is mostly froth and bubble
Two things stand like stone;
Kindness in another´s trouble;
Courage in your own.

Adam Lindsay Gordon.

ON THE OFFICE WALL.

It is easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows along like a song,
But the man worthwhile
Is the man who can smile,
When everything goes dead wrong.
When the whole blamed world seems gone to pot,
And business on the bum,
A lifted chin and a two-cent grin
Help some, my boy, help some!

Mistakes

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make
anything."
--Bishop W. C. Magee

Concentration

"What you concentrate on largely determines the quality and quantity of the results that you get and the success that you enjoy."
-- Brian Tracy


"When every physical and mental resource is focused, oneís power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously."
-- Norman Vincent Peale


"Every great human achievement is preceded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort." -- Brian Tracy


"It´s the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles." -- Claude M. Bristol


"The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there. When you work, work. When you play, play. Donít mix the two." -- Jim Rohn

Failure

Don´t fear failure:

"Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all
over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished
a purpose--not the one you began with perhaps, but one you´ll
be glad to remember."
--Anne Sullivan

"Good people are good because they´ve come to wisdom through
failure."
--William Saroyan

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve
greatly."
--Robert F. Kennedy



"Happiness is the only thing one should ever be resigned to."
--Alfred Capus

Take the time.

Take Some Time

Take some time to smell the flowers
As you walk the paths of life.
Take some time to ease the tensions
From the challenges and the strife.

Take some time to hear the birds sing
As they usher in the dawn.
Though the day be just emerging,
Too soon it will be gone.

Take some time to watch a sunrise,
Now and then a sunset too.
Just be sure that seeking pleasure
Isn´t all you ever do.

Take some time to count your blessings,
Though you feel they´re not that great.
You will find they´re more abundant
Than you thought, at any rate.

Take some time to banish hatred
When and where you can.
Just detest man´s evil ways
And not your fellow man.

Take some time to love your children
Every moment you are free.
The benefits exceedeth
A university degree.

Take some time to love your neighbor
And even more important still,
Take some time to love yourself
Or not many others will.

And if you don´t like that image
Of yourself that others see,
Take some time to make some changes,
Be the best that you can be.

Take some time to help another
Who you think might need a hand.
You will find the satisfaction
Leaves you feeling sort of grand.

Take some time to live by virtue
In the best way that is known,
And respect the rights of others
As equal to your own.

Take some time to just appreciate
The fact that you are here,
And to know that Higher Power
And to trust It without fear.

If you do these things with diligence
You will eventually be glad.
If you don´t attempt to do them
You may one day wish you had.

Although this no doubt could impose
Upon your time for seeking wealth,
There should be little question
That it could improve your health.

And though you might not be as wealthy
Nor drive so fine a car,
You´ll find you will be richer
In other ways by far.

Expectation

"Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful."
-- Norman Vincent Peale

"You begin by always expecting good things to happen." -- Tom Hopkins

It is funny about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it." -- W. Somerset Maugham

"Whether you think you can or think you can´t, you´re right." -- Henry Ford

Business Creed

I know that I have the ability to achieve my definite purpose in life; therefore, I demand of myself massive, immediate, intelligent, persistent, and consistent action towards its attainment. I here and now promise to render such action.
I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth, integrity and incredible value; therefore, I will engage in no transaction that does not benefit all whom it affects.
I succeed by attracting to myself the forces that are in harmony with my vision, and the partnership and cooperation of other people. I will induce others to serve me because of my willingness to serve others.
I eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, cynicism, anger, and competition by developing true love for myself and all humanity. I know that there is an unlimited supply of goodness in my universe and that a negative attitude towards others can never bring me success. I compel others to believe in me, because I believe in them and in myself.
This is my creed and my quest. To never stop climbing to the top, to always keep growing and moving forward, to always scale endless peaks of possibility and to fulfill my destiny. I KNOW that my spirit´s sole purpose is for fuller expansion and expression -- that I am dying if not growing. Therefore, I learn, grow, and expand my comfort zone each and every day.
I believe in, and commit to progressive advancement, growth and improvement (P.A.G.I.).
I AM the power. I AM the magic. I AM unstoppable. I AM a winner. I promise to always be true to myself, because I AM a child of the creator and a master of my universe. I AM responsible for making a positive difference in the world and to the quality of life in it.

Doing well

"We only do well the things we like doing." --Colette
"In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope." --Dr. Bernie Siegel
"Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty." --Dr. Martha Friedman


If you possibly can, stay out of debt: "Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt." --Henrik Ibsen
"Be not made a beggar by banqueting on borrowing." --Bible, Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus 18:13
"Who goeth a borrowing / Goeth a sorrowing." --Thomas Tusser


"The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it." --George C. Scott
"Faith and doubt both are needed, not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve." --Lillian Smith
"To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice." --Confucius

Keep your cool: "When anger spreads through the breast, guard thy tongue from barking idly." --Sappho
"Thar ain´t no sense / In gittin´ riled." --Bret Harte
"It usually takes two people to make one of them angry." --Laurence Peter

Change

"What one has to do usually can be done." --Eleanor Roosevelt

"How to succeed: try hard enough. "How to fail: Try too hard." --Malcolm Forbes

"What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed." --Thomas Fuller

Don´t fear change: "If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change." --Guiseppi di Lampedusa

"It´s the most unhappy people who most fear change." --Mignon McLaughlin

"What we need is a flexible plan for an everchanging world." --Jerry Brown

Potential

"The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good." -- Brian Tracy


"A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."-- William Shedd


"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." -- George Bernard Shaw


"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."-- Helen Keller

Positive change

"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."
--Ellen Glasgow

"God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into
its nest."
--J.G. Holland

"I think in terms of the day´s resolutions, not the year´s."
--Henry Moore

"What else are we gonna live by if not dreams?"
--Jill Robinson

"I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one
advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and
endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with
a success unexpected in common hours."
--Henry David Thoreau

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there
are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn
one into the other."
--Douglas Everett

Criticism

"When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance... Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer." -- Denis Waitley


"When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams." -- Les Brown


"If I had listened to the critics I´d have died drunk in the gutter."
-- Chekov


"If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. If you continue complaining, it wonít be long before they haul you out to a financial desert and there let you choke on the dust of your own regret." -- Jim Rohn

My Faves

A few more gems
If I don´t quote source it is because I have lost it a long time ago!!!
words that make me whell!
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The rain is a very sad lady.
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If I expose my nakedness,
as a person to you-
Do not make me
feel shame!
*
Live by your own standards,
other people´s will kill you.
*
As you try to live your life,
remember others are trying to livew theirs!
*
Just before their periods,
women behave the way men do all the time!
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What is a hero?
Primarily one who has conquered his fears
Henry Miller
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I can help you to accept
and open yourself
mostly by accepting and revealing
myself to you
*
The greatest kindness
I have to offer you
is always: the truth
*
The behavior of the human being
is always unpredictable.
simply because
it
is
free!*
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Emotional Poignancy

Your slightest look
easily will unclose me
though I have closed
myself as fingers,
you open
always
petal by petal
myself as spring
opens,
(Touching skillfully,
mysteriously )
her first rose.
E.E.Cummings
*
Most of us feel that
others will not tolerate
such emotional honesty in communication
We would rather defend our dishonesty
on the grounds that it
might hurt others;
and having rationalized our
phoniness into nobility
we settle for the superficial.
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The fully human person is in deep and meaningful contact with the world outside of him.
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The games we play always follow the programme
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"sorry, bbut theat is the way I am.....I was like this in the beginning, am now, ever more shall be". A handy motto and delusion to have around you,
If you don´t want to grow up!
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Within each of us lies the power of our consent.
To health and to sickness, to riches and to poverty,
To freedom and to slavery
It is we who rule these things,
and not another.
*

You teach best
what you most need to learn
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You are led through your lifetime
by the inner learning creature,
the playful spiritual being
that is your real self
*

Don´t turn away from possible futures
before you´re certain
you don´t have anything to learn from them

Courage

"I´m not going to limit myself just because people won´t
accept the fact that I can do something else."
--Dolly Parton

"We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the
calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires
courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness."
--Maxwell Maltz

"No one is more likely to make a mistake than the man who
acts only on reflection."
--Luc de Clapiers, Marquis Vauvenargues


Take your hunches seriously:

"Trust your hunches. They´re usually based on facts filed
away just below the conscious level."
--Dr. Joyce Brothers

"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."
--Anon.

Desire

"The less of routine, the more of life."
A. B. Alcott

"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the
undertaker will be sorry."
--Mark Twain

"Lord grant that I may always desire more than I can
accomplish."
--Michelangelo

Be hopeful especially when things look grim:

"If you can´t change your fate, change your attitude."
--Amy Tan

"And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope."
--Job, 11:18

"No hope, no action."
--Peter Levi

Circumstances

"Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it."
--Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Inches make a champion."
--Vince Lombardi

"You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the
terms of equality."
--Woodrow Wilson

Don´t use "circumstances" as a reason not to act:

"Circumstances - what are circumstances? I make
circumstances."
--Napoleon Bonaparte

"We will either find a way, or make one."
--Hannibal

"You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to
make it happen the way you want to take it."
--German proverb

Do it

"A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It
has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become
porcelain."
--Mildred W. Struven

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I
am, then I can change."
--Carl Rogers

"I´ll not listen to reason. Reason is always what someone
else has got to say."
--Elizabeth C. Gaskell

Happiness within

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." -- Og Mandino


"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation."
-- Brian Tracy


"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
-- Norman MacEwan

Happiness

HAPPINESS

"Happiness isn´t something you experience: it´s
something you remember."
-- Oscar Levant, entertainer and wit

"The love of life is necessary to the vigorous
prosecution of any undertaking."
-- Samuel Johnson, writer

"Happiness [is] prosperity combined with virtue."
-- Aristotle

"The greatest happiness that you can have is
knowing that you do not necessarily require
happiness."
-- William Saroyan, novelist

"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious
pursuit of happiness; it is generally the
by-product of other activities."
-- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), Vedanta for the
Western World, 1945

"There is only one happiness in life, to love and
be loved."
-- George Sand (1804-1876)

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction
that we are loved.
-- Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French author

"Life is not easy. I paint the memory of
happiness."
-- Anvar Saifoutdinov, artist

"The secret of happiness is to find a congenial
monotony."
-- Sean O´Casey, playwright, NY Times, 24 April 1982

Fear/Criticism

Take criticism in your stride - otherwise you´ll trip and
fall flat on your face:
"To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
--Elbert Hubbard

"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It
fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It
calls attention to an unhealthy state of things."
--Winston Churchill

"The most destructive element in the human mind is fear.
Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders
hostility; hostility engenders fear-a disastrous circle."
--Dorothy Thompson

"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning
that does the work."
--Mark Twain

"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best
therapist."
--Gail Sheehy

Change #2

CHANGE

"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity
we know our friends."
-- John Churton Collins, 1848-1908

"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures
and tolerates your successes."
-- Doug Larson

"Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning;
enemy, never."
--Victor Hugo, 1802-1885

"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he
advances through life, he will soon find himself
left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship
in constant repair."
-- Samuel Johnson, Life of Samuel Johnson(James
Boswell 1791) 1755

"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way
to have a friend is to be a friend."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, 1841

"Among true and real friends, all is common; and
were ignorance and envy and superstition banished
from the world, all mankind would be friends."
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), "Essay on
Christianity," 1817

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy
conscience: this is the ideal life."
-- Mark Twain

"My best friend is the one who brings out the
best in me."
-- Henry Ford

"The friend who holds your hand and says the
wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one
who stays away."
-- Barbara Kingsolver (1955 - ) High Tide in Tucson:
Essays from Now or Never, 1996

"Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes."
-- unknown



"Consistency is the last refuge of the
unimaginative." -- Oscar Wilde

"Time is neutral and does not change things. With
courage and initiative, leaders change things."
-- Jesse Jackson

"Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting
if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if
he misses the first section of a revolving door."
-- Simeon Strunsky

"I thought I could change the world. It took me
a hundred years to figure out I can´t change the
world. I can only change Bessie. And honey, that
ain´t easy either."
--Bessie Delany

"It is a secret, both in nature and state, that it
is safer to change many things at once."
-- Francis Bacon, "Of Regiment of Health,"
Essays, 1625

"Change is the progress by which the future
invades our lives."
-- Alvin Toffler, introduction to Future Shock,
1970

"Change is constant."
-- Benjamin Disraeli, Speech, Edinburgh,
Scotland, 29 October 1867

"A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally
indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that
which is good."
-- John Foster Dulles (1888-1959)

"Not everything that is faced can be changed,
but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
-- James Baldwin

Integrity

"The virtue of man ought to be measured, not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his everyday conduct." -- Blaise Pascal

"Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside."
-- Brian Tracy

"The ´Inside-Out´ approach to personal and self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The Inside-Out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves."
-- Stephen Covey

"The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity." -- Zig Ziglar

Be happy

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson



"Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." -- Og Mandino



"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation."
-- Brian Tracy



"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
-- Norman MacEwan

SUCCESS "Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals."
-- Jim Rohn

"Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have."-- Zig Ziglar

"To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you." -- Tony Dorsett

"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ´What´s in it for
me?´"-- Brian Tracy

Temptation

AVOID THE TEMPTATION to get rich quick.
Everybody wants everything instantly - instant rice, instant pudding, instant success - served in pablum form. My father was from Germany, and he said, "Always take time to be an apprentice and learn the whole job." I did this . . . and it worked!

AVOID THE TEMPTATION to take shortcuts.
Taking shortcuts cutting corners is a character flaw. You will be building on sand, and it will surely collapse. It always has. It always will. AVOID THE TEMPTATION to believe that "The grass is greener on the other side of the fence." We need to stay focused on where we are now, what we are doing now, our present opportunity, our present job, our present activity. We need to be able to make our present responsibilities work, whatever price we have to pay.

AVOID THE TEMPTATION to quit too soon.
History books, story books, and movies are filled with illustrations and parables of people who quit "three feet too soon digging for gold." Just one more try to complete an invention; just one more call to make a sale.

COLLECTIVELY WHAT DO ALL THESE TEMPTATIONS CAUSE?

They cause you to . . .
1. Lose sight of your goals,
2. Develop a lack of confidence, and
3. Suffer from an eroding self-esteem.

HOW DO YOU AVOID THIS?
1. Commit to a singleness of purpose.
2. Set and put into writing specific and clearly defined goals.
3. Outline exact action steps you must take to achieve your goals.
4. Repeat daily affirmations to support your goals.
5. Form a support group of your spouse, friends, associates, and work partners.
6. Create an accountability factor.

Inspirational

"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."
--Ellen Glasgow

"God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into
its nest."
--J.G. Holland

"I think in terms of the day´s resolutions, not the year´s."
--Henry Moore

"What else are we gonna live by if not dreams?"
--Jill Robinson

"I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one
advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and
endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with
a success unexpected in common hours."
--Henry David Thoreau

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there
are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn
one into the other."
--Douglas Everett

Success #2

"Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised."
-- Denis Waitley


"I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through." -- Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker


"Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go."
-- Brian Tracy


"Never begin the day until it is finished on paper." -- Jim Rohn

Change

"It´s easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting." -- Millard Fuller (founder of Habitat for Humanity)


"You are what you think about all day long." -- Dr. Robert Schuller


"What the mind of a man can conceive and believe the mind of a man can achieve." -- Napoleon Hill


"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."
-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt


"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." -- James Allen

Positive Mistakes

"I made a mistake today. I made a mistake yesterday. I
think it´s ... very important to ignore the negative."
--Jerry Rubin

"Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success.
What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing
persistence."
--Lisa M. Amos

"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of
enthusiasm."
--Winston Churchill

Desire

LOVE

"The desire of the man is for the woman, but the
desire of the woman is for the desire of the
man."
-- Germaine de Stael

"Love is like quicksilver in the hand.
Leave the fingers open and it stays.
Clutch it and it darts away."
-- Dorothy Parker

"Love lodged in a woman´s breast is but a guest."
-- Sir Henry Wotton

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like
a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The
consciousness of loving and being loved brings a
warmth and richness to life that nothing else can
bring."
-- Oscar Wilde

"Nobody dies from lack of sex. It´s lack of love
we die from."
-- Margaret Atwood

"Today we may seek for romance and fail to find
it: unsought, it lies in wait for us at the most
prosaic corners of life´s highway."
-- Dr. Petrie, in The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu by Sax
Rohmer, writer

"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it
can ever end."
-- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) Henrietta Temple
(1837)

"Love is the word used to label the sexual
excitment of the young, the habituation of the
middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the
old."
-- John Ciardi, American poet, educator, critic
(1916-1986)

"I love you, and because I love you, I would
sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth
than adore me for telling you lies."
-- Pietro Aretino (1492-1556)

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly
desired."
-- Robert Frost

"Today I begin to understand what love must be,
if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel
the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are
incomplete like a book in two volumes of which
the first has been lost. That is what I imagine
love to be: incompleteness in absence."
-- Goncourt

"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of
the wise."
-- Samuel Johnson

Teamwork

TEAMWORK

"Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success." -- Stephen Covey

"You cannot succeed by yourself. It´s hard to find a rich hermit." -- Jim Rohn

"Light is the task where many share the toil."
-- Homer

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." -- Helen Keller

Science

"Looking to the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots representing towns and villages on a map. Why, I ask myself, shouldn´t the shining dots of the sky be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?" -- Vincent Van Gogh



"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination." -- John Dewey



"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." -- Albert Einstein



"It´s kind of fun to do the impossible." -- Walt Disney

Instinct

Take your hunches seriously:

"Trust your hunches. They´re usually based on facts filed
away just below the conscious level."
--Dr. Joyce Brothers

"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."
--Anon.

"You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a
knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the
instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson


"I´m not going to limit myself just because people won´t
accept the fact that I can do something else."
--Dolly Parton

"We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the
calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires
courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness."
--Maxwell Maltz

"No one is more likely to make a mistake than the man who
acts only on reflection."
--Luc de Clapiers, Marquis Vauvenargues

Success #1

"Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals."
-- Jim Rohn


"Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have."
-- Zig Ziglar


"To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you." -- Tony Dorsett


"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ëWhat´s in it for
me?í" -- Brian Tracy

Just do it

"I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people
being afraid to go straight at things."
--William J. Locke

Facing life

"Facing it - always facing it - that´s the way to get through. Face it!" --Joseph Conrad

"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck." --Katharine Hepburn

"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy." --Howard W. Newton

In order to get, give: "Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you." --Madeline Bridges

"There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world." --Oscar Hammerstein II

"The love you take / Is equal to the love you make." --John Lennon & Paul McCartney

Risk

"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of
others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for
you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."
--Katherine Mansfield

"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. "
--Sophia Loren

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no
recipe for living that fits all cases."
--C. G. Jung


Solve your problems systematically:

"To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is
necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect."
--Robert M. Hutchins

"A problem well stated is a problem half solved."
--Charles Kettering

Conquering

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small
steps."
--Henry Ford

"Little drops of water, little grains of sand/Make the mighty
ocean, and the pleasant land."
--Julia Carney

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of
small things brought together."
--Vincent van Gogh

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up
with the rain."
--Dolly Parton

"Start by doing what´s necessary, then what´s possible and
suddenly you are doing the impossible."
--Saint Francis of Assisi

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."
--Moliere

Chances

You have to start somewhere - and you DO have to start!:

"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that
it shall never have a beginning."
--John Henry Cardinal Newman

"Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes; work
never begun."
--Christina Rossetti

"Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind."
--Bulgarian proverb


"What a man can imagine he may one day achieve."
--Nancy Hale

"It is never right to compromise with dishonesty."
--Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

"The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones."
--Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Positive Quotes

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Deal with change

We are living in an exciting age of unprecedented change. Today´s accelerated rate of change presents us with unique challenges and opportunities. When change brings success, keep your ego from getting out of hand. When the change is negative, use your sense of humor to get through it. Once you learn to handle change, you can take your skills, talents, and abilities and help others change. Let´s look at four ways to enhance your mastery of change.

No. 1 Don´t Fight It.
The natural tendency is to protect what you know and value, what has become familiar and comfortable. Unfortunately the world will change with or without you. So you must adapt again and again. You make your life so much more complicated when you fight the change. You cause yourself stress and can actually become ill. Remember the old Serenity Prayer: God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.

No. 2 You Don´t Have to Like the Change.
No one ever said you have to like the changes you are experiencing. However, you do have to understand them so you can progress. Study, explore, and read everything you can about the current matters that affect your perception and handling of change. Life is not always about "liking". It is about doing the best you can, with what you you´ve got and getting on with it--right now!

No. 3 Know What to Defend Against Change.
There are some things we should resist changing because change does not always translate into better. Change for the sake of change alone can destroy valuable situations, assets, and relationships. Many values deserved to be defended. Ask yourself what you will change and what you will defend.

No. 4 Have a Sense of Humor.
Humor can give you a momentary "emotional vacation." A sense of humor can conquer pretense, and diffused anger and hostility.

Fun

"Work hard at several projects. That way, no matter what is
going wrong, something will be going right."
-- Donna Hanover

"If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good
dinner out of it, at least."
--Herman Melville (in Moby Dick)

"I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism,
religion, intellectualism, and much more, only to find that
truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right."
--Chick Corea

Know yourself

"To know oneself, one should assert oneself."
--Albert Camus

"Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen."
--Marge Piercy

"Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom."
--Scottish proverb


Don´t give in to despair:

Strive to be in a position to do it your way:

"I don´t want to be a passenger in my own life."
--Diane Ackerman

"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings."
--William Blake

Think Big

"Looking to the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots representing towns and villages on a map. Why, I ask myself, shouldn´t the shining dots of the sky be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?"
-- Vincent Van Gogh

"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."
-- John Dewey

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
-- Albert Einstein

"It´s kind of fun to do the impossible."
--Walt Disney

I believe in you

I want to tell you that I believe in you;
I believe in your mind
And all the dreams, intelligence,
And determination within you.
You can accomplish anything.
You have so much open to you.
So, please, don´t give up on what you want
From life or from yourself.
Please don´t put away the dreams
Inside of you.
You have the power to make them real.
You have the power to make yourself
Exactly what you want to be.
Believe in yourself the way I do
And nothing will be beyond your reach.
Author Unknown

Where to start?

"One of the best places to start to turn your life around is by doing whatever appears on your mental ´I should´ list." -- Jim Rohn



"If you go as far as you can see, you will then see enough to go even farther." -- John Wooden



"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly."
-- Robert Schuller


"All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small." -- Lao-Tzu

Patience

Patience!!:

"Patience is a bitter plant, but it has sweet fruit."
--German proverb

"Time deals gently only with those who take it gently."
--Anatole France

"Who longest waits most surely wins."
--Helen Hunt Jackson



"We shall never have friends if we expect to find them
without fault."
--Thomas Fuller

"I am responsible for my own well-being, my own happiness.
The choices and decisions I make regarding my life directly
influences the quality of my days."
--Kathleen Andrus