Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

-Carol Burnett

 Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.

-Lawrence Bixby
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 Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.

-Alfred Painter

SIMPLICITY

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
Novelist and poet

Simplicity allows the senses to rest from stimulation.

Gunilla Norris
Psychotherapist and writer

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 Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbons.

-Ann Ruth Schabader

-Eileen Caddy

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

-Mother Teresa
SELF-LIMITING BELIEFS

"Self pity is our worst enemy, and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in the world." -- Helen Keller

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 The conscious mind is the editor, and the unconscious mind is the writer.

-David Mamet

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

-Cher

 A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails

-Pioneer Girls Leaders' Handbook
We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying tothe world who we are.

~Fred Rogers

 Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

- Baruch Spinoza, "Ethics"

If you misunderstand your mind, you are an ordinary mortal; if you understand your mind, you are a sage.

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 "Happiness is not something ready made... It comes from your own
actions." -- Dalai Lama

"No matter what you are doing, keep the undercurrent of happiness.
Learn to be secretly happy within your heart in spite of all
circumstances." -- Paramahansa Yogananda

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You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself.

-Andrew Carnegie

Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbons.
-Ann Ruth Schabader

We don't always succeed in what we try - certainly not by the worlds standards - but I think you'll find it's the willingness to keep trying that matters most. ~ Fred Rogers