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Quotes of the Week | Grow Through Life

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.
Sid Caesar

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Richard Bach

We see things not as they are, but as we are.
H. M. Tomlinson

Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Japanese Proverb

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Jimmy Johnson

When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?
Sydney Harris

Don’t go through life, grow through life.
Eric Butterworth

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Elbert Hubbard

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Oprah Winfrey

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.
Dennis P. Kimbro

Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you’re still trying, keep it up! You’re right on track.
Matthew Keith Groves

An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Prescott

The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.
Zig Ziglar

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Napoleon Hill

Quotes of the Week | Embrace It

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When we are no longer able to change a situation,
we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor Frankl

Change is inevitable. Progress is optional.
Tony Robbins.

Be smart enough to hold on, be brave enough to let go. Sometimes, we need to hold onto faith while letting go of the outcome. Open your hand and hold your dreams gently, don’t try to grab them.
Anonymous

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Carl Jung.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
Unknown.

I may not have gone where I intended to go,
but I think I’ve ended up where I needed to be.
Douglas Adams.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Anonymous

People will hate you, rate you, shake you, and break you.
But how strong you stand is what makes you.
Unknown.

You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Zig Ziglar

Quotes of the Week | Let’s Grow

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Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.
Doug Firebaugh

Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
A. Bronson Alcott

If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison

A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere.
La Rochefoucauld

Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and good things will be yours.
Swedish Proverb

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
Miguel de Cervantes

Quotes of the Week | Pursuit of Happiness

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When in doubt, choose Love.
– Anonymous

Your task is not to seek love, but to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
– Rumi

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host.
But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
– Maya Angelou

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
– Rumi

Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.
– Anonymous

The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty really are in ourselves.
– Kahlil Gibran

Find the guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or stay awake just to watch you sleep. The one who turns to his friends and says, “thats her”.
– Anonymous

Quotes of the Week | Just for Laughs

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”I haven’t failed.
I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
– Thomas Edison

”It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.”
– Howard Ruff

”The quickest way to double your money is to
fold it over and put it back in your pocket.”
– Will Rogers

”When you come to the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

”Age is an issue of mind over matter.
If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
– Mark Twain

“If you want to test your memory,
try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.”
– E. Joseph Cossman

”Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”
– Henry Ford

”If you keep saying things are going to be bad,
you have a chance of being a prophet.”
– Isaac B. Singer

”A mind is like a parachute,
it doesn’t work if it isn’t open.”
– Frank Zappa

“If you want to make your dreams come true,
the first thing you have to do is wake up.”
– J.M. Power

“Luck is a dividend of sweat.
The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”
– Ray Kroc

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last.
Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”
– Zig Ziglar

“The elevator to success is out of order.
You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.”
– Joe Girard

“I don’t know the key to success
but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
– Bill Cosby

Quotes of the Week | Words to Live By

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The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
– Marcel Pagnol

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.
– Will Rogers

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
– Anonymous

You are not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations,
nor should you feel the world must live up to yours.
– F Perl

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
– Harvey Fierstein

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
– John Wooden

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love,
and let it come in.
– Morrie Schwartz

Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you.
But if you turn your attention to other things, It comes and sits softly on your shoulder.
– Henry David Thoreau

It’s impossible” said pride.
“It’s risky” said experience.
“It’s pointless” said reason.
“Give it a try” whispered the heart.
– Anonymous

Your task is not to seek love, but to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
– Rumi

Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.
-Anonymous

Quotes of the Week | Love

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Every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says,
‘Make me feel important.’ If you can do that, you’ll be a success not only in business,
but in life as well.

-Mary Kay Ash

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.
Without them humanity cannot survive.
-Dalai Lama

Love will find a way.
Indifference will find an excuse.

-Ukrainian proverb

Video of the Week: Beautifully Imperfect

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People’s little imperfections is what makes them uniquely beautiful.  I love how this short video conveys this message.  It’s a great reminder for us this week, to accept and embrace people’s imperfections in the light of the big picture.  Have a Beautiful Imperfect week.

Quotes of the Week: Be Who You Were Born To Be

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 Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
– Steve Jobs

 Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.  We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?  Actually, who are you not to be?  You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.  We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.  It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.  And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.  As we are liberated from our own fear;our presence automatically liberates others.
-Marianne Williiamson

Be who you were born to be. Accept, embrace and love who you are; your personality, your looks, your voice and all the quirks that make you you. Know you’re ‘enough’, you don’t need to add, change or push. There’s no one in the world like you, so proudly shine your light because the world needs you today, and everyday.
-Susie Lee