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Whether or not we realize it each of us has a special gift inside us just waiting to surface!...We owe developing these gifts not only to ourselves, but those around us as well... The important thing here is not what your gift is as much as that you develop it so that you can share it with those around you and in the process further your own personal life!... Once we have identified our special talents it doesn't matter whether or not we find immediate success in them, what does matter is that we take a step each day towards our intended goal! |
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Josh Hinds |
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Inspiration a Day! mailing list |
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talents goals encourage gifts growth sharing success |
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Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline...too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with...something about yourself, your career, your spouse. |
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Dale Dauten |
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'Charming the brain may allow changes' by Dale Dauten (Arizona Republic 1/7/99) |
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love joy attitude gratitude change growth self-improvement New Year's resolutions relationships success excellence |
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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. |
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Stephen Covey |
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
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effectiveness relationship growth change paradigms character motives victory promises personality self-improvement |
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If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own. |
| Author: |
Stephen Covey |
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
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proactive circumstances creativity mission vision learning growth |
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Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure. |
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Stephen Covey |
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
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potential synergy creativity growth learning living values principles |
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One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. |
| Author: |
Morihei Ueshiba |
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The Art of Peace by Morihei Ueshiba |
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simplicity power status peace joy happiness life success growth heaven money |
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One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is. |
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Norman Vincent Peale |
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Positive Thinking Every Day by Norman Vincent Peale |
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life growth self-knowledge |
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In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it. |
| Author: |
Norman Vincent Peale |
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Positive Thinking Every Day by Norman Vincent Peale |
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circumstances difficulties value growth learning attitude |
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One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that. |
| Author: |
Norman Vincent Peale |
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Positive Thinking Every Day by Norman Vincent Peale |
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enthusiasm positive challenges difficulties problems solutions progress growth |
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I so love the Spanish proverb "God says, 'Choose what you will and pay for it,'" which stresses that life holds no easy answers, that conscious choices are often costly ones. We must live with and pay for their consequences. Understanding this, we learn what it means to be fully human. Furthermore, we can exploit every delay as a cycle of growth. |
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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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choice life living consequences growth
frustration personal responsibility mistakes answers wisdom delay patience learning |
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When flowing water...meets with obstacles on its path, a blockage in its journey, it pauses. It increases in volume and strength, filling up in front of the obstacle and eventually spilling past it...
Do not turn and run, for there is nowhere worthwhile for you to go. Do not attempt to push ahead into the danger...emulate the example of the water: Pause and build up your strength until the obstacle no longer represents a blockage. |
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from the I Ching |
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To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring |
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obstacles problems difficulties challenges growth patience perseverance |
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Many of us grow up with the idea that mistakes are bad, linking our self-esteem with continued success. We become afraid of making mistakes. So in order to achieve success, we tend to steer clear of areas that may lie outside the apparent realm of our natural talent. In this perverse equation, the secret of success becomes avoiding failure, leaving much of our potential untapped.
In order to reach our full potential to learn, we must accept and then transform anxiety and fear, relentlessly seeking accurate information on our performance. What used to be perceived as criticism now becomes a gift for constructive growth. |
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Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan |
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Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life by Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan |
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mistakes self-esteem success confidence talent resistance failure potential learning performance criticism growth |
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...the best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need.
In other words, the less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be...the key to faster learning--is to use appropriate effort...
Greater effort can exacerbate faulty patterns of action. Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation. Learning something new often requires us to unlearn something old. |
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Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan |
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Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life by Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan |
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results success effort learning success habits growth unlearning |
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A common pitfall on the path of excellence is an overemphasis on comparing our progress with others. While competition can be a tremendous tool for stretching ourselves to new heights, too often it causes a lack of perspective. This loss of perspective can often be traced to the following cycle: losing becomes associated with failure, and failure with the loss of self-esteem. |
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Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan |
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Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life by Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan |
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excellence growth learning competition comparisons stretching perspective failure self-esteem |
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What is wrong with our world is that love is in short supply. |
| Author: |
Christopher Bryant |
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Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spritual Growth by Eileen Campbell |
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love friendship |
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The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love. |
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Margaret Atwood |
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Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth by Eileen Campbell |
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love |
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Should you shield the valleys from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their canyons. |
| Author: |
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross |
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Body, Mind and Spirit |
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difficulties problems challenges obstacles character growth |
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Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself. |
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Terence |
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Body, Mind and Spirit |
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learning life growth self-knowledge models observation |
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The butterfly becomes only when it's entirely ready. |
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Chinese proverb |
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Body, Mind and Spirit |
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growth patience change progress |
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All things pass...Patience attains all it strives for. |
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St. Theresa of Avila |
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Body, Mind and Spirit |
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patience growth circumstances plateaus vision goals |
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All experience is an arch to build on. |
| Author: |
Henry Brooks Adams |
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Body, Mind and Spirit |
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experience life growth learning change |
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Practice is the best instruction of them all. |
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Publilius Syrus |
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Body, Mind and Spirit |
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practice repetition growth learning education |
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The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed--it is a process of elimination. |
| Author: |
Elbert Hubbard |
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The Book of Positive Quotations compiled by John Cook |
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change growth |
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Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal. |
| Author: |
Elbert Hubbard |
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The Book of Positive Quotations compiled by John Cook |
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goal vision mission progress growth action priorities thought |
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It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty thoughts to earnest, active effort, and good results will inevitably follow. The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today. |
| Author: |
Grenville Kleiser |
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The Forbes Book of Business Quotations |
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intentions action success aspiration growth goal vision mission effort work |
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Let your desire for the truth transcend all minor considerations. Ignorance is invariably confident. The man of knowledge learns to realize his own needs. Be honest and severe in your self-appraisal. Learn the art of learning and you are well on your way. True greatness is reflective, not assertive. |
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truth self-knowledge self-confidence self-esteem meditation growth learning |
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Don't water your weeds. |
| Author: |
Harvey Mackay |
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Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column |
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growth priorities change bad habits self-improvement |
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Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are--they depend not upond these, but on the direction in which you are tending. |
| Author: |
Samuel Butler |
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The Forbes Book of Business Quotations |
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happiness joy misery sadness attitude growth progress vision |
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Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often. |
| Author: |
Samuel Butler |
| Source: |
The Forbes Book of Business Quotations |
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life feelings instinct growth learning |
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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. |
| Author: |
Julie Cameron |
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The Artist's Way by Julie Cameron |
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idea self-image growth progress |
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Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny. |
| Author: |
Paul Tillich |
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The Artist's Way by Julie Cameron |
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destiny self-determination growth vision mission |
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Why should we use all our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money. |
| Author: |
Brenda Ueland |
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The Artist's Way by Julie Cameron |
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creativity joy generosity compassion materialism growth expression |
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To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. |
| Author: |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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The Book of Positive Quotations |
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life perspective meaning joy purpose wisdom success growth |
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I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all. |
| Author: |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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The Book of Positive Quotations |
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speech change honesty authenticity growth flexibility opinions |
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With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do...Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today. |
| Author: |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Source: |
The Book of Positive Quotations |
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speech truth honesty integrity change flexibility growth |
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We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. |
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Horace |
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The Book of Positive Quotations |
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self-nurture patience change growth perfectionism |
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When coasting in our comfort zones, we don't grow. We continue to do more of the same...Maintaining a comfort zone can, paradoxically, lead to discomfort in the long run. If by being comfortable we avoid important life issues, internal tension accumulates...Eventually, as both internal and external pressures for change persist, the "comfort zone" ceases to serve us. |
| 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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comfort growth change rut decisions life |
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Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault. Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state and is ultimately rough on our own self-esteem. |
| 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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blame responsibility accountability choice rut self-esteem mistakes failure problems growth learning |
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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 |
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Inspiration a Day! mailing list |
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opportunity past future vision goal growth change success |
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You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output -- how much you produce -- not in terms of the quality of your life experiences...To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution. |
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Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., from the essay "Windows of the Soul" |
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Handbook for the Soul edited by Benjamin Shield |
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self-nurture life soul work happiness balance self-esteem growth change |
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There is always a better way. |
| Author: |
Thomas Edison |
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Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days by Alexandra Stoddard |
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growth change progress self-improvement success opportunity creativity |
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. |
| Author: |
Sir Richard Steele |
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Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days by Alexandra Stoddard |
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mind education learning wisdom self-improvement growth |
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Knowledge is the food of the soul. |
| Author: |
Plato |
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Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days by Alexandra Stoddard |
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knowledge learning education wisdom soul self-improvement self-nurture growth spirituality growth change |
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