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Pessimism is a very easy way out when you're considering what life really is, because pessimism is a short view of life...If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of man or the future of the world. |
| Author: |
Robertson Davies, novelist |
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Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi |
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pessimism optimism life living attitude future |
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The measure of our future success and happiness will not be the quality of the cards we are dealt by unseen hands, but the poise and wisdom with which we play them.``
Choose to play each hand to the best of your ability without wasting the time or energy it takes to complain about either the cards or the dealer or the often unfair rules of the game.``
Play both the winning and the losing hands as best you can, then fold the cards and ante up for the next deal! |
| Author: |
Joe Klock |
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Like Klockwork: The Whimsy, Wit, and (sometime) Wisdom of a Key Largo Curmudgeon by Joe Klock |
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success future happiness life poise wisdom complaints time energy rules attitude perseverance |
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...gradual change is usually more fruitful in the long run than is forced, ultra-aggressive upheaval. Undertaken wisely, steady transitions cultivate authenticity, groundedness, and virtues--like patience, compassion (for self and others), and perseverance. All these qualities improve your probability of success when, ultimately, you do figure out how to actualize your personal vision. |
| Author: |
Marsha Sinetar |
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To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring |
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change progress future vision authenticity virtues patience compassion perseverance success actualization |
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The point of power is always in the present. |
| Author: |
Louise L. Hay |
| Source: |
Body, Mind and Spirit |
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power past present future |
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There are many find things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of some less fortunate fellow traveler. Today you can make your life...significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with it as you will. |
| Author: |
Grenville Kleiser |
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Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (Editor) |
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intentions action today life circumstances present past future time appreciation sympathy generosity appreciation forgiveness self-sacrifice giving sharing talents gifts abilities |
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. |
| Author: |
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1)
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``Oliver Wendell Holmes (2) |
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(1) The Artist's Way by Julie Cameron``(2) Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to |
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past future fear strength courage |
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We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly in to the future; but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today. |
| Author: |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Source: |
The Book of Positive Quotations |
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past present future time |
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If a man carefully examines his thoughts, he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. |
| Author: |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Source: |
The Book of Positive Quotations |
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thoughts future perspective life living goal dream vision balance |
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He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. |
| Author: |
Horace |
| Source: |
The Book of Positive Quotations |
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life living present future procrastination joy happiness fulfillment |
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Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. |
| Author: |
Horace |
| Source: |
The Book of Positive Quotations |
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future present joy fulfillment life living acceptance worry |
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Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow. |
| Author: |
Horace |
| Source: |
The Book of Positive Quotations |
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joy living present future fulfillment happiness action |
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He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine; he will not, however, render ineffectual things which have already taken place. |
| Author: |
Horace |
| Source: |
The Book of Positive Quotations |
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present future past time self-confidence self-awareness action opportunity change |
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Sometimes we become locked into a short-term pattern of reacting to immediate needs and missing the long-term benefits of positioning ourselves to deal with more important life issues and priorities. |
| Author: |
Eric Allenbaugh |
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Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career! by Eric Allenbaugh |
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choice responsibility reaction long-term future priorities planning balance vision |
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Now that we know we can't change the past we can realize that at this very moment we have the wonderful opportunity to begin anew! If you want something there is simply no better time than right now to pursue it! |
| Author: |
Josh Hinds |
| Source: |
Inspiration a Day! mailing list |
| Keywords: |
opportunity past future vision goal growth change success |
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One of these days is none of these days. |
| Author: |
H.G. Bohn |
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Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days by Alexandra Stoddard |
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procrastination time future present character habits planning |
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Character is destiny. |
| Author: |
Heraclitus |
| Source: |
Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days by Alexandra Stoddard |
| Keywords: |
character success integrity decisions future |
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Wisdom will never let us stand with any man on unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy or intimacy to come. But whence and when: Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. |
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life wisdom relationships friendships tolerance sympathy authenticity time life present future |
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The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation. |
| Author: |
Samuel Johnson |
| Source: |
The Book of Positive Quotations |
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present desire imagination vision goal joy happiness memories memory future |
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Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. |
| Author: |
Samuel Johnson |
| Source: |
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations |
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senses self-control focus past present future dignity |
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What's gone and what's past help
Should be past grief. |
| Author: |
William Shakespeare (The Winter's Tale) |
| Source: |
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations |
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past grief depression attitude focus present future |
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Past and to come seem best; things present worst. |
| Author: |
William Shakespeare (King Henry IV) |
| Source: |
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations |
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past present future circumstances |
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This is the precious present, regardless of what yesterday was like, regardless of what tomorrow may bring. When your inner eyes open, you can find immense beauty hidden within the inconsequential details of daily life. When your inner ears open, you can hear the subtle, lovely music of the universe everywhere you go. When the heart of your heart opens, you can take deep pleasure in the company of the people around you--family, friends, acquaintances, or strangers--including those whose characters are less than perfect, just as your character is less than perfect. When you are open to the beauty, mystery, and grandeur of ordinary existence, you "get it" that it always has been beautiful, mysterious, and grand and always will be.
This is the precious present. |
| Author: |
Timothy Ray Miller |
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How to Want What You Have: Discovering the Magic and Grandeur of Ordinary Existence by Timothy Ray Miller |
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present now today yesterday past tomorrow future awareness appreciation beauty routine love joy relationships family friends perfection acceptance mystery grandeur |
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Our hope in God pulls us into the future. Hope allows us to affirm the reality of the abundant life that is ours in Christ. Hope allows us to stand with those in pain and to hold them until they are able to feel the love of God for themselves again. Hope allows us to work to bring God's reign upon the earth even when we see no results. Our hope begins and ends in God, the source of all hope. |
| Author: |
Mary Lou Redding |
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100 Meditations on Hope: Selected from the Upper Room Daily Devotional Guide |
| Keywords: |
hope God future vision Christ pain ministry |
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Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on. |
| Author: |
Norman Vincent Peale |
| Source: |
Have a Great Day by Norman Vincent Peale |
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past present future focus |
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Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization...Without it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility. |
| Author: |
Bill Moyers |
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A World of Ideas: Conversations with Thoughtful Men and Women about American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping our Future by Bill Moyers |
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sharing giving teaching education knowledge imagination leadership civilization society community meaning |
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The main reason I seek the ideas of others is for help--the diagnosis and treatment of my own isolation and the enlargement of my understanding. |
| Author: |
Bill Moyers |
| Source: |
A World of Ideas: Conversations with Thoughtful Men and Women about American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping our Future by Bill Moyers |
| Keywords: |
ideas sharing teaching wisdom learning growth understanding isolation |
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future. |
| Author: |
Andre Gide |
| Source: |
The Book of Positive Quotations |
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happiness focus now present joy happy past future |
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... be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. |
| Author: |
Ranier Maria Rilke |
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Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach |
| Keywords: |
mystery discovery self-discovery self-awareness growth self-improvement learning experiencing questions control issues future acceptance faith |
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A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future. |
| Author: |
Albert Einstein |
| Source: |
The Quotable Einstein collected and edited by Alice Calaprice |
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happiness joy fulfillment perspective future present enjoyment now |
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I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough. |
| Author: |
Albert Einstein |
| Source: |
The Quotable Einstein collected and edited by Alice Calaprice |
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future stress anxiety worry balance |
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The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there. |
| Author: |
L.P. Hartley |
| Source: |
The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley |
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history past future change growth focus |
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only where it is already disappearing. |
| Author: |
R.D. Laing |
| Source: |
Body, Mind and Spirit |
| Keywords: |
present history future vision society change |
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It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis. |
| Author: |
Margaret Bonnano |
| Source: |
1911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said by Robert Byrne |
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attitude focus balance expectations pressure present future happiness enjoyment |
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Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period or other, when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other: it is our own. |
| Author: |
Charles Caleb Cotton |
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Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (Editor) |
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future happiness joy too busy balance priorities |
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If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time--not tomorrow, nor next year, nor in some future life after we have died. The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year. Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life. Today should always be our most wonderful day. |
| Author: |
Thomas Dreier |
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Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (Editor) |
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balance priorities work life meaning purpose happiness future present now |
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To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. |
| Author: |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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Power Quotes by Daniel B. Baker |
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nature natural resources future environmental stewardship wilderness preservation |
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When people don't have an objective, there's much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting. |
| Author: |
Barbara Tuchman |
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A World of Ideas: Conversations with Thoughtful Men and Women about American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping our Future by Bill Moyers |
| Keywords: |
meaning objective mission purpose |
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We have lost a sense of respect for serious, honest conduct. If we are moved merely by greed, and there's no longer any respect for decent or honest government, than we will suffer the results. |
| Author: |
Barbara Tuchman |
| Source: |
A World of Ideas: Conversations with Thoughtful Men and Women about American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping our Future by Bill Moyers |
| Keywords: |
honesty integrity character government public trust |
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The hero must have some form of higher purpose in life. |
| Author: |
Barbara Tuchman |
| Source: |
A World of Ideas: Conversations with Thoughtful Men and Women about American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping our Future by Bill Moyers |
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heroism courage character set an example mentor |
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You can't go on believing in Santa Claus and have the results be positive. |
| Author: |
Barbara Tuchman |
| Source: |
A World of Ideas: Conversations with Thoughtful Men and Women about American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping our Future by Bill Moyers |
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reality get real fantasy pie in the sky |
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From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness. |
| Author: |
Abraham Maslow |
| Source: |
Thoughts on Leadership: A Treasury of Quotations compiled by William D. Hitt |
| Keywords: |
personal growth self-improvement potential vision dreams goals mission future |
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...conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference. |
| Author: |
Ronald Heifetz |
| Source: |
The Leader of the Future by William C. Taylor. Fast Company Magazine, June 1999 |
| Keywords: |
talents skill differences tolerance acceptance racism bigotry conflict problem-solving growth change creativity teamwork success learning education |
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The potential for changing the future can lie only in the present. |
| Author: |
Gillian Butler, Ph.D. and Tony Hope, M.D. |
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Managing Your Mind: The Mental Fitness Guide by Gillian Butler, Ph.D. and Tony Hope, M.D. |
| Keywords: |
change future present self-improvement
goals vision |
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Maturity is achieved with a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings, but avoids tragic adult sins; when he postpones immediate pleasures for the sake of long-term values... Our generation must be inspired to search for that maturity which will manifest itself in the qualities of tenacity, dependability, co-operativeness and the inner drive to work and sacrifice for a nobler future of mankind. |
| Author: |
Joshua L. Liebman |
| Source: |
The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life |
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maturity guilty delayed gratification perseverance reliable cooperative work future vision perspective |
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It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule. |
| Author: |
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King |
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quoted in People of the Lie : The Hope for Healing Human Evil by M. Scott Peck |
| Keywords: |
evil social responsibility future generations |
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Most of us simply lack the imagination to envision the full scope of potential change in our lives. We are too invested in the present to consider the possibility of a threatening -- or even a promising -- future. |
| Author: |
[uncredited] |
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"Where are you on the Web?" Fast company, October 1999 |
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vision imagination change growth future |
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It is never too late to be what you might have been. |
| Author: |
George Eliot |
| Source: |
The Thinker's Way: 8 Steps to a Richer Life by John Chaffee, Ph.D. |
| Keywords: |
purpose goal fulfillment aging regret future choices regrets change self-improvement personal growth |
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life. |
| Author: |
Charles Dederich |
| Source: |
Cassell Companion to Quotations by Nigel Rees |
| Keywords: |
future present past growth opportunity renewal |
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Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism. |
| Author: |
G. K. Chesterton |
| Source: |
The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations compiled by J. M. Cohen
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circumstances difficulties problems attitude adversity hope future |
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Keep hope alive. |
| Author: |
Jesse Jackson |
| Source: |
Power Quotes compiled by by Daniel B. Baker |
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hope faith believe dream vision future |
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One of the signs of maturity is a healthy respect for reality -- a respect that manifests itself in the level of one's aspirations and in the accuracy of one's assessment of the difficulties which separate the facts of today from the bright hopes of tomorrow. |
| Author: |
Robert H. Davies |
| Source: |
The Book of Positive Quotations compiled by John Cook |
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hope future present difficulties problems challenges adversity vision dreams goals |
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Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is too muddled? You are
the one who must grow up. |
| Author: |
Dag Hammarskjold |
| Source: |
The Book of Positive Quotations compiled by John Cook |
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vision dreams future hope |
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I never think of what I am proud about. I never look back, except to find out about mistakes. Because mistakes are hard to remember and to draw conclusions from. But I only see danger in thinking back about things you are proud of. When people ask me if I am proud of something, I just shrug and hope to get away as soon as possible. I should explain that my way is to look ahead, all my pleasant thoughts are about the future. It has been that way since I was twenty years old. I start every day fresh. |
| Author: |
Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann |
| Source: |
Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi |
| Keywords: |
future pride past |
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The real enemies of life are the 'oughts' and 'ifs.' They pull us backwards into the unalterable
past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful or painful. |
| Author: |
Henri Nouwen |
| Source: |
"Living in the Present Tense" by Paula Rinehart, Discipleship Journal , Jan/Feb 1999. |
| Keywords: |
regret worry present past future life living |
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