Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it and I am one of those people. I think back to not too long ago to who I was-resentful, wound tight with anger, a single hardened link in a long chain of ungrace learned from family and church. Now I am trying in my own small way to pipe the tune of grace. I do so because I know, more surely than I know anything that any pang of healing or forgiveness or goodness I have ever felt comes solely from the grace of God.
I long for the church of Christ to become a nourishing culture of that Grace. I sometime let my mind wander and imagine a world without any forgiveness. What would happen if every child bore grudges against his or her parent, and every family passed down feuds to future generations? I let my imagination run further, to a world in which every former colony harbours grudges against its former imperial power, and every race hates every race, and every tribe battles its rivals all if all of history’s grievance amass behind every contact of nation, race and tribe. I get depressed when I imagine such a scene because its seems so close to history as it now exist. As a Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt said, the only remedy for inevitability of history is forgiveness; otherwise, we remain trapped in the predicament of irreversibility. Not to forgive imprisons me in the past and locks out all potential for change. I thus yield control to another, my enemy and doom myself to suffer the consequence of the wrong.
We forgive not merely to fulfil some higher law of morality; we do it for ourselves. As Lewis Smedes points out “the first and often the only person to be healed by forgiveness is the person who does the forgiving. When we genuinely forgive we set a prisoner free and then discover that the prisoner we set free was us. More often than that not forgiveness is directly connected with grace, if one does not have grace it is impossible to separated the wrong from the doer. A friend of mine questions whether forgiveness of those who have not repented makes sense. This man daily sees the result of evil from child abuse, drugs, violence and prostitution “if I know something is wrong and forgive without addressing the wrong what am I doing? He asks “I am potentially enabling rather than freeing”. My opinion is that Justice has a good, righteous and rational kind of power. The power of grace is different: unworldly, transforming, supernatural. Grace is unmerited, undeserved favour that roll away burden of guilt. The New Testament shows a resurrected Jesus leading peter by the hand through a three-fold ritual of forgiveness, after all he did Jesus knew peter didn’t need to go through life as the one who betrayed the son of God.
Forgiveness breaks the cycle of blame and loosens the stranglehold of guilt, its accomplishes these two things through a remarkable linkage placing the forgiver on the same side as the party who did the wrong. Does grace apply to a helpless child who was abused? Is the message of grace relevant to man who was wrongly imprisoned twenty years for a crime he didn’t commit? It must be, or black South Africa, Yugoslavia will have no hope of living together. As so many abused children learn, without forgiveness we cannot free ourselves from the grip of the past, this same principle applies to all circumstance and it can only be done if you see like God sees, God loves us regardless of ourselves, nothing you do can separate us from his love, I have come to this one understanding that when we sin, we hurt ourselves but God in his infinite grace is always ever willing to forgive us.
There is one catch to grace that I must mention in the words of C.S.Lewis, “God gives where he finds empty hands”. A man whose hands are full of parcels can’t receive a gift; grace in other words must be received. Lewis explains that grace abusers stems from confusion of condoning and forgiving, to condone evil is simply to ignore it, to treat it as if it is good. But forgiveness needs to be accepted as well as offered if it is to be complete; and a person who admits no guilt can accept no forgiveness. There are two types of guilty people; the ones who acknowledge their wrong and the ones who expect the offended to understand their point of view. These two groups of people are converging in a scene recorded in John 8. The incident takes place in the temple court where Jesus is teaching, a group of Pharisees and teachers of the law interrupt this church service by dragging in a woman caught in adultery, adultery takes two, but the woman stands alone before Jesus. John makes its clear that the accusers have less interest in punishing a crime than in setting a trap for Jesus, and quite a clever trap it is. Moses’ law specifies death by stoning for adultery, yet Roman law forbids the Jews from carrying out execution; will Jesus obey Moses or Rome? All eyes fixed on Jesus at that moment Jesus does something unique he bends down and writes on the ground with his finger. John does not tell us what Jesus wrote on the ground. In his movie of the life of Jesus, Cecil B. Demille depicts him spelling out the names of various sins; adultery, murder, pride, greed, lust. Each time Jesus writes a word a few Pharisees file away. Thus in a brilliant stroke Jesus replaces the two assumed categories; self righteous and guilty (sinners who admit their sins and sinners who deny. Far more problematic were people like the Pharisees who denied or repressed guilt, they too needed hands empty for grace.
I sincerely believe those who find it hard to forgive others and move on are the ones who cannot forgive themselves when they do wrong. If a person believes in God’s grace they will forgive people and move on. As much as we sometimes try to over look this, but Grace is very vital if you want to work in love.
Jun
19th
Birth Position and Child Rearing
By Lady EnoI have observed that there are basic factors that affect behaviour in children. Factors ranging from race, background, environment, upbringing etc. affect behavioural difference in children and are contributing factor to how one child differs from another. A great psychologist Jean Piaget whose work I am particularly engrossed with, claimed he can mould any child’s behaviour regardless of these factor, thus suggesting that children are born empty vessels and that every child is a product their immediate environment.
The issue of nature versus nurture is still an ongoing empirical study in psychology, and I personally lean towards nurturing than I do nature; I believe that every child is capable of greatness, however a lot of external factors contribute to whether or not such child becomes great or a nuisance to society. I agree with 96% of Piaget’s theories on child development and its effect on adulthood, however I also believe that there are some unique characteristics that a child is born with, if not how can one explain a three year olds constructive thought pattern, some kids are just born smart; but this is not the aim of this writing, I will expand on that some other time.
I am currently researching an additional factor that may also contribute to behavioural difference in not only children but a progression into adulthood; the birth position of a child and how it can affect behavioural pattern. These patterns progress into adulthood and in most cases manifest in relationships, leadership skills and personal choices. This is why some men/ women in relationship tend to unconsciously resume the role of a nurturer, while others are only used to receiving and find it some worth difficult to give or understand others even though they expect others to understand them.
The birth position is a huge determiner of behaviour children cultivate, especially in societies where children are exposed to abuse or denied the privilege of being a child. In Africa for instance, some children cater for their parents at a very tender age, children at aged twelve are bread winners to the whole family by hawking on the streets. These kinds of children are vulnerable and tend to go about life attracting people to nurture. This has a huge impact in their behaviour and outlook on life, its affects their self-esteem, relationships, confident and level of trust.
In the movie “riding in car with boys” Drew Barrymore’s character had a son at the age of sixteen and had to put her dreams on hold because of the pregnancy, due to the circumstance she felt a kind of resentment towards her son mainly because of his father and the son somehow at a very tend age started parenting his mother. For emphasis sake the boy wanted to go to university outside their small town, being an only child he felt the need to be responsible for his mother; he had a girlfriend who could not understand his need to be everything for everyone. What really struck me was even as an adult he carried on this pattern and always tailored everything to suit everyone but himself, towards the end he confronted his mother wanting to know why she was his responsibility and how he didn’t even have a childhood due to it. By the way this is a true life story.
I have met people who cannot receive compliment, make bad choices because they do not see themselves as deserving anything good, they always feel the need to fix things and people, they take responsibility for the wrongs others do. I recently met a young man about my age whose girlfriend was cheating on him and he was really taking responsibility for her actions. Whenever I come across people like this, I am particularly interested in their family background, upbringing and most importantly birth position.
For instance a first child tends to assume the responsibility of nourishing others, the in between children are more relaxed, rebellious and somewhat nonchalant ; this maybe due to the fact that not much is expected of them so they are usually engrossed in themselves and sometimes come across as selfish.
In balancing out birth position in child rearing I believe parent should always consider what position the child is and if such child has siblings. Parent must understand that children receive love differently depending on how they are wired and their birth position in a family unit, single parenting, adoption and so forth. Parent should create a balance of responsibility between the child and the parent. There are chores parent should not enforce on children; if you cannot take care for a child don’t have any, or have more than you can cater for and expect one of your children to play mother to their siblings. I am in no way implying that children should not be responsible for their young ones but it should by no means become the reason for their existence.
In conclusion birth position is vital when considering how best to raise any child.
This is just my opinion for that may not agree with my view whatever works for you is fine. Consider this as food for thoughts.
Rebecca
May
30th
BIRTHDAY OASIS
By Lady EnoThere is something about birthdays that force people or at least me to re-evaluate my life and how far I have come, for some people this feeling comes during end or beginning of each year, I guess I am just different or plain weird. Birthdays are supposed to be times to celebrate and await special phone calls from special people, mine is usually different.
A typical May 27 for me is always one of these two things, either I indulge myself with work or something that pertains to other people in order not to even remember the occasion or I go into deep hibernation; taking stocking of the past year usually beating up myself for not improving on some things.
A perfect example of the former state of May 27 will be in 2006 when I completely forgot my birthday went to university and all my friends were acting weird; no one said anything so I didn’t remember. At the end of classes that day I wanted to go for a stroll somewhere in the heart of Oxford on my own doing what I usually do, but a friend of mine bless his heart found me at around 4pm and tricked me into following him somewhere because purposely met this girl online he needed to meet up that evening but couldn’t find his mobile so I had to go with him so he can use mine.
On getting there, they had a surprise party for me. I have to say that is still on record as the most memorable day in my life. But I was very dumb to have fallen for that, I guess I am still as naïve today.
I have been thinking about birthday resolutions, I reckon it is a great idea to have resolution during birthdays than any other occasion in the course of a year. As I grow older today, I want to add some things to my list and take some off. I kind of feel lame to be thinking this at this time of the year but hey, its my life. I have been taking stocks of late and I decided there is some good habits I want to develop and bad ones I need to kick to the curb. So here is my list of things I would like to do more of and things I will like to do less of.
(1) Do something for my health everyday. It may be walking, sit-ups, yoga whatever just something for my body each day. As a good friend of mine said recently “ our bodies are the one thing that goes everywhere with us, so we should make taking care of them # one.
(2) Spiritual self-care. Feeding the spirit so it can sustain the mind and body throughout the day. It can be listening to a message, audio bible, and motivational teachings, reading the bible and daily personal devotion a must.
(3) Doing something for the mind. Everyday. It can be reading a chapter of a book a day, playing family feud, read a newspaper, anything that makes me think or adds to my understanding of the world. Reading psychology journals and blogs do not count.
(4) Taking care of me first. It can be saying no, or caring for myself enough to not be around those that constantly put me down.
(5) Constantly reminding myself that I have no control over other people’s choices and actions.
(6) Having me time during the day; time to just gaze into space with my mind not working on overtime.
(7) Watch more TV.
(8) Start cooking again.
(9) Be less in love with Human science and how the mind works.
Things I will like to do less of:
(1) Spending too much time reading psychology journals, Roosh’s blogs and scouting for a good blogs on wordpress.com.
(2) Reading over books I have read more than twice already; I mean this is sick.
(3) Lend my books out more; I find it really difficult to give out my books, I always feel people will not return them or look after well.
(4) Visit Perezhilton.com less.
(5) Leave my University research papers alone; I mean I am done with Psychology degree, get over it Rebecca
(6) Eat less junk food. I am growing older; I need to pay more attention to what I allow in.
(7) Stop obsessing with body weights; its about time.
May
27th
Not wanting what you wanted
By Lady Eno
I love reading other people's blogs/writings. I came across this blog I really like and it is by a personal friend of mine. Hope you like it as much as i do. Cheers.
So there are a lot of things about drug use that confuse me. But what confuses me most are how people do coke/ecstasy/meth/whatever to get high but don’t think about the crash into depression that comes after. The crash is as much a part of the experience as the high, but nobody ever says “I am going to get high and then get depressed.” People just talk about the high part.
So there are a lot of things about drug use that confuse me. But what confuses me most are how people do coke/ecstasy/meth/whatever to get high but don’t think about the crash into depression that comes after. The crash is as much a part of the experience as the high, but nobody ever says “I am going to get high and then get depressed.” People just talk about the high part.
Actually, drugs are not the point of this post. I bring them up because I have noticed a similar phenomenon when it comes to relationships. There is a lot of wanting to get high but ignoring what comes after. More specifically, I have been noticing lately that people desire mates with certain qualities, but never think that there may be a downside to those very same desired qualities.
There are quite a few examples of this. My favorite example of late is when women seek a professionally successful (and therefore wealthy) man for a husband and then express great frustration when he is too busy to spend quality time with the family. Did you read the recent news articles about Goldman Sachs year-end bonuses? Those guys don’t get anywhere in an I-Bank like Goldman by leaving at 5:00PM every night to be home for the family dinner. Want a man with a chance to make partner in a top law firm? Those guys don’t make partner by insisting on time off for PTA meetings. The vast majority of jobs that pay big money also expect you to bust your ass in exchange for all that wealth. Why doesn’t it occur to women that the hot shot MBA who is going to buy them that fabulous Georgetown townhouse isn’t going to have extra time for his son’s little league games?
Men have their own issues with not wanting what they thought they wanted. We know men tend to be attracted to youthful women. I think if you took a survey of men and asked what the ideal age for a wife would be (and you promised you would never reveal their answers any women), I am sure most would say age 18 is perfect. That is, as long as she turned 18 within the last month. But what’s funny is that men who successfully land a young hottie then become driven to near madness from her immaturity. I have been guilty of this myself. In the past few years I have dated some women in their early 20’s and then complained to friends about xyz ridiculous! stupid! childish! thing they did. The usual response from guys is usually something like, “Put that bitch in her place yo!”. The usual response from women is usually something like, “What did you expect, you idiot??” With hindsight, the ladies have a point. Guys, if you like ‘em young, go for it, but don’t expect a college girl to show sound and prudent judgment in dealing with you. Expect an impulsive kid raised in an age of instant gratification who was spoiled rotten by excessively indulgent parents.
I could go on and on. Ladies, you want an assertive alpha male with a strong backbone, right? Funny how that alpha male transforms into a macho jerk when he disagrees with you and stubbornly refuses to back down. Fellas, you want that club hottie who wears fashionable sexy clothes? Funny how she transforms into an untrustworthy slut when she flirts with all the club players who hit on her. Ladies, do you like metrosexuals? Funny how they don’t seem so endearing when they insist on different choice of dinner flatware. Ok, instead you want a man’s man who knows how to change a tire just like your dad could? Funny how he think spending all weekend watching football games on TV is a way to spend quality time at home (wearing tapered leg jeans with white sneakers, no less).
I think people would be a lot happier in their relationships if they learned to accept that with every desired quality comes a downside to the very same quality. I am not saying those downsides are a party, but nobody should be surprised when they appear.
Chaco.
May
22nd
Extract from my Journal; Dialogue between the three Tribes
By Lady EnoMay 18, 2008
Extract from my Journal; Dialogue between the three Tribes
Perception is king when it comes to life, what is achieved, and how far success is attained.
Everyone, who looks at the world, tends to perceive differently
A small percentage sees opportunities more than Observe trouble.
Some wait and see where life takes them while others distract themselves with the happenings in the lives of others.
To create happy success one has to choose to filter information and perceive what can aid them to destination good life.
The world is full of perception of three kinds; the haves, the have not
And the averages. Don’t get it twisted wealth is more than just money and money is not happiness, but its plays a huge role.
On the District line traveling from Upton Park to Ealing Broadway, the following conversation took place between these three, each representing their own tribe. And by the way, I was not preying into other people’s conversation; it all took place in my head, while waiting for the overly delayed district line to take me to my home at Chiswick Park.
I hate when the freaking Beckham’s splash their wealth around said the average, David is changing latest cars like its running out of fashion, I mean does he even care about global warming? Posh on the other hand encourages this wasteful expensive lifestyle, first she never repeats any pair of shoes, the money that woman spends on handbags can build orphanages across Haiti and poor South American countries.
This bloody people are just vain and do not care that, there are people in this country who will never know what it feels like to not have Barclaycard chasing them each month for payment. I have run out of my six months interest free credit with all lenders in the UK.
I am just happy with having enough money to pay my bills, travel, feed, and shop, go to the pub every other weekend and give five pounds a month to my favorite charity. My goodness, why will such terrible people have so much luck with money?
A young man engrossed in his reading chipped in saying, I do not mean to interrupt you Sir, but is your hatred for the Beckhams because they are rich or because you think they do not deserve it. Said the have
I do not hate anyone said the average, I am curious as to why people like that have good luck with money, I mean this south London boy has too much money than he knows what to do with. With your suit looking like that you will not understand, after all I saw you join this train from embankment which suggests to me that you work in one of those blue chip company at either embankment, the city, or canary wharf. So what do you do?
Replied the have, I do not believe in luck and I am a senior financial analyst for a company called Goldman Sachs. Basically, I advise companies and very wealthy individuals on what investment poll will double if possible triple their capital. Put simply, I make the wealthy guys money.
And how much do you earn yourself? The average asked
I earn enough to get by, or let’s just say I earn enough for the value I bring to my daily work activities, although I won’t mind a pay raise anytime soon. Said the Have
What arrogance is this kid displaying; I mean he has enough egos for ten men, how can anyone be this proud. Wait till life clips your wings, then you will know that some people are born lucky and if you don’t stop all this obsession with wealth, your luck will soon depart from you. (He said in his heart) Then he voiced out, as for me I am just happy serving my God and going to heaven, after all, the bible says blessed are the poor. How old are you young man?
You rich people are all the same the average mumbles, never satisfied.
I will be twenty seven in September he said. But Sir, with all due respect, I believe that if you want to be rich, or at least live the kind of life you secretly admire, education is paramount. By education I mean asides a university degree, educating your self about money and how it is made, studying the lives and habits of those who have it. These days all these information is only a click away or in books laying around on shelves in bookstores like Water stones, you can go in there and read their books for free in your spare time. About your bible quotes, I believe people tend to misunderstand the bible and make God look bad, poor, and mean. I know God differently.
It’s amazing that at your age you are rich. So where is your Bentley? and why are you on public transport struggling space with us common folks? The average asked.
Trust me; I am still on my way to my destination wealth. Sir, Sometime I feel too tired to drive and every once in awhile I like commuting on public transport, asides the fact that I enjoy it and it’s easier to get to work, the train and bus is my first car. After all, Tony Blair took the train on the day of his grand exist from Downing Street.
Most importantly Public transport is also a means of cutting cost; congestion charges and fuel. Sometimes I go way pass my budget and I have to make up for it in other ways like this.
You are a rich possibly single young man, and with a monthly salary most people don’t earn in ten months and fat annual bonuses, what business do you have with cutting of cost? Asked the have not
Just because I have money to spend does not mean I should not spend wisely. I have a lot of financial responsibilities; several shares and investments here and there, pension funds, charity donations, personal savings, compassionate saving; which I use to help people around me who are financially challenged and saving to start my own media printing business which is going to be huge. And my luxury savings; for world exploring travels, adventure, and social life, I work and play hard.
Furthermore, most rich people are not big spenders said the have; they shop for needs and not wants, quality not quantity, most importantly they live on a budget. By the way I got that from this book (he shows them the book) the latest Donald trump’s book I am reading at the moment.
Sirs, money has laws, to get money you have to understand its principles, it is a coward, and it is less likely to go to those who do not understand it, and cannot take care of it. When well taken care of, money appreciates in value with time. I often compare money to a good woman who knows what she wants.
Contrary to popular believe, wealthy people give, as much as you will want to disprove this if you don’t give, wealth will not be attracted to you. Sir I am a Christian too and I want to be super wealthy, I don’t know about you, but I can praise God better when I am able to pay all my bills and still have monies left to enjoy life.
My stop is next Sirs in conclusion; everything is dependant on how we view the world and what is perceived everyone maybe look at the same object but we all see different things. Perception is streamlined by personal beliefs and understanding thus, making education relevant in how we perceive. Educate and nourish your perception of wealth and wealthy people. Have a great rest of your day Sirs.
I observed a lot of characteristics that separates these three tribes.
Time: Tribe have, tends to place a high value on their time thus, engage in productive past times in their spare time. Time spent in commuting can be use to read a book, or listen to audio books for self improvement. Time is the single must precious factor, its waits for no-one; it is actually the only thing that everyone has an equal.
Respectful: A good percentage of tribe have, are respectful and know how to handle people who may come across as rude. Psychologist call this emotional intelligence; being aware of people and deciding on how to handle their excesses.
Responsible: They are aware that it is their responsibility to make their own lives what they want it to be. They are not dependant on society or other people they take the blame for their own mess. There is a really simple secret to overcoming seeing others as obstacles in your life and that’s realizing that everything you do or do not do is your responsibility.
Education: Tribe have, place a high value on continual education. They understand that which separates them from other tribes is knowledge so they invest a great deal in both formal and informal education and self improvement.
Budget: This is one of the main characteristic of tribe have. It is the only way for anyone who is or plans to be wealthy. To create and keep wealth, one cannot afford not to have and religiously follow a budget. Ok I read this in Donald Trump’s latest book.
Quality Shopping: For tribe have, shopping means quality more than quantity, that’s not to say they do not love a good bargain or await those annual Debenham and Harrods sales. Tribe have, will rather buy one good pair of jean and wear it for three years than buy cheap quality which will wear out after its third visit to the washing machine. Also they are not constantly shopping for the latest trend even though they can afford to, they employ wisdom in their spending habits because they understand that the reason 10% of the world enjoys 90% of the world’s wealth is that the first are creators, while the latter are consumers. The have not and the average are compulsive consumers, while the haves are the creators of the goods and services.
I still wonder why one individual feels the need to have an iPhone, newest digital camera, a cam-coder, latest Nokia, an Ipod and a blackberry phone, when all these gadgets have similar functions.
They need to pause and think how apple still manages to gross profits in billions despite the current global economic state.
Giving and Saving: The haves give wisely and save. They have specific savings for specific purposes. A good percentage of them genuinely want to make a difference in people’s life. Money will leave where it is not well taken care of. Trust me this is how the likes of Mike Tyson went bankrupt.
Are positive and expectant: Tribe haves are positive vibrant and always expectant of goodness. They are fast to learn from mistakes there is no room for self pity in clan haves. They are aware of their weakness and strength and constantly seeking ways to channel their strength on weakness.
Discipline: My definition for this word is simply being willing to do what is required even if you don’t feel up to it. Tribe haves thrive on this ten letter word. According to the laws of Rebecca, the most important factor for measuring a person who is successful or going to be is seen in their level of discipline.
Commitment: Without commitment there is hesitancy to withdraw. This is a relative of discipline that is equally relevant to what is achieved and how.
Planning: A plan is merely an arrangement on how to achieve desired goals. Bearing in mind that you cannot afford to be married to your plan, if it’s not working change it. For example, if you want to drive from west to central London, you can pass through short cuts or a straight route depending on what you hope to achieve and how. If there is too much traffic going through one way change to another way, as long as you get to central London and on time.
In course of achieving anything great I find planning is indispensable, but I also find that plans are utterly worthless when it is not applied in perspective. Tribe haves are aware that plans must be flexible.
Want more and Think Creatively Big: To the haves, thinking big is a part of their existence; they understand the power of creative thought pattern. Psychologists believe that the mind has two sides to thought processing; the thinker and the prover, the thinker initiates the thought and the prover goes to work to prove that which is constantly brooded upon. To the haves there is always new grounds to break, and it is not an indication that they are not satisfied, it just shows they are progressive and forward looking. It is in their DNA. I am sure there are things Bill Gates still hopes to accomplish.
Choice: For all three tribes happiness is a choice. It all depends on what makes you happy, being ok with your choices good or bad, wallowing in regret and self pity or being content with such things as you have.
Purpose: Lastly Tribe haves, live for something greater than themselves. People who lead meaningful lives don’t find that meaning in possession or position; they find it in carrying out personal commitment to ideals bigger than themselves and their own needs.
19/05/2008
Rebecca
Extract from my Journal; Dialogue between the three Tribes
Perception is king when it comes to life, what is achieved, and how far success is attained.
Everyone, who looks at the world, tends to perceive differently
A small percentage sees opportunities more than Observe trouble.
Some wait and see where life takes them while others distract themselves with the happenings in the lives of others.
To create happy success one has to choose to filter information and perceive what can aid them to destination good life.
The world is full of perception of three kinds; the haves, the have not
And the averages. Don’t get it twisted wealth is more than just money and money is not happiness, but its plays a huge role.
On the District line traveling from Upton Park to Ealing Broadway, the following conversation took place between these three, each representing their own tribe. And by the way, I was not preying into other people’s conversation; it all took place in my head, while waiting for the overly delayed district line to take me to my home at Chiswick Park.
I hate when the freaking Beckham’s splash their wealth around said the average, David is changing latest cars like its running out of fashion, I mean does he even care about global warming? Posh on the other hand encourages this wasteful expensive lifestyle, first she never repeats any pair of shoes, the money that woman spends on handbags can build orphanages across Haiti and poor South American countries.
This bloody people are just vain and do not care that, there are people in this country who will never know what it feels like to not have Barclaycard chasing them each month for payment. I have run out of my six months interest free credit with all lenders in the UK.
I am just happy with having enough money to pay my bills, travel, feed, and shop, go to the pub every other weekend and give five pounds a month to my favorite charity. My goodness, why will such terrible people have so much luck with money?
A young man engrossed in his reading chipped in saying, I do not mean to interrupt you Sir, but is your hatred for the Beckhams because they are rich or because you think they do not deserve it. Said the have
I do not hate anyone said the average, I am curious as to why people like that have good luck with money, I mean this south London boy has too much money than he knows what to do with. With your suit looking like that you will not understand, after all I saw you join this train from embankment which suggests to me that you work in one of those blue chip company at either embankment, the city, or canary wharf. So what do you do?
Replied the have, I do not believe in luck and I am a senior financial analyst for a company called Goldman Sachs. Basically, I advise companies and very wealthy individuals on what investment poll will double if possible triple their capital. Put simply, I make the wealthy guys money.
And how much do you earn yourself? The average asked
I earn enough to get by, or let’s just say I earn enough for the value I bring to my daily work activities, although I won’t mind a pay raise anytime soon. Said the Have
What arrogance is this kid displaying; I mean he has enough egos for ten men, how can anyone be this proud. Wait till life clips your wings, then you will know that some people are born lucky and if you don’t stop all this obsession with wealth, your luck will soon depart from you. (He said in his heart) Then he voiced out, as for me I am just happy serving my God and going to heaven, after all, the bible says blessed are the poor. How old are you young man?
You rich people are all the same the average mumbles, never satisfied.
I will be twenty seven in September he said. But Sir, with all due respect, I believe that if you want to be rich, or at least live the kind of life you secretly admire, education is paramount. By education I mean asides a university degree, educating your self about money and how it is made, studying the lives and habits of those who have it. These days all these information is only a click away or in books laying around on shelves in bookstores like Water stones, you can go in there and read their books for free in your spare time. About your bible quotes, I believe people tend to misunderstand the bible and make God look bad, poor, and mean. I know God differently.
It’s amazing that at your age you are rich. So where is your Bentley? and why are you on public transport struggling space with us common folks? The average asked.
Trust me; I am still on my way to my destination wealth. Sir, Sometime I feel too tired to drive and every once in awhile I like commuting on public transport, asides the fact that I enjoy it and it’s easier to get to work, the train and bus is my first car. After all, Tony Blair took the train on the day of his grand exist from Downing Street.
Most importantly Public transport is also a means of cutting cost; congestion charges and fuel. Sometimes I go way pass my budget and I have to make up for it in other ways like this.
You are a rich possibly single young man, and with a monthly salary most people don’t earn in ten months and fat annual bonuses, what business do you have with cutting of cost? Asked the have not
Just because I have money to spend does not mean I should not spend wisely. I have a lot of financial responsibilities; several shares and investments here and there, pension funds, charity donations, personal savings, compassionate saving; which I use to help people around me who are financially challenged and saving to start my own media printing business which is going to be huge. And my luxury savings; for world exploring travels, adventure, and social life, I work and play hard.
Furthermore, most rich people are not big spenders said the have; they shop for needs and not wants, quality not quantity, most importantly they live on a budget. By the way I got that from this book (he shows them the book) the latest Donald trump’s book I am reading at the moment.
Sirs, money has laws, to get money you have to understand its principles, it is a coward, and it is less likely to go to those who do not understand it, and cannot take care of it. When well taken care of, money appreciates in value with time. I often compare money to a good woman who knows what she wants.
Contrary to popular believe, wealthy people give, as much as you will want to disprove this if you don’t give, wealth will not be attracted to you. Sir I am a Christian too and I want to be super wealthy, I don’t know about you, but I can praise God better when I am able to pay all my bills and still have monies left to enjoy life.
My stop is next Sirs in conclusion; everything is dependant on how we view the world and what is perceived everyone maybe look at the same object but we all see different things. Perception is streamlined by personal beliefs and understanding thus, making education relevant in how we perceive. Educate and nourish your perception of wealth and wealthy people. Have a great rest of your day Sirs.
I observed a lot of characteristics that separates these three tribes.
Time: Tribe have, tends to place a high value on their time thus, engage in productive past times in their spare time. Time spent in commuting can be use to read a book, or listen to audio books for self improvement. Time is the single must precious factor, its waits for no-one; it is actually the only thing that everyone has an equal.
Respectful: A good percentage of tribe have, are respectful and know how to handle people who may come across as rude. Psychologist call this emotional intelligence; being aware of people and deciding on how to handle their excesses.
Responsible: They are aware that it is their responsibility to make their own lives what they want it to be. They are not dependant on society or other people they take the blame for their own mess. There is a really simple secret to overcoming seeing others as obstacles in your life and that’s realizing that everything you do or do not do is your responsibility.
Education: Tribe have, place a high value on continual education. They understand that which separates them from other tribes is knowledge so they invest a great deal in both formal and informal education and self improvement.
Budget: This is one of the main characteristic of tribe have. It is the only way for anyone who is or plans to be wealthy. To create and keep wealth, one cannot afford not to have and religiously follow a budget. Ok I read this in Donald Trump’s latest book.
Quality Shopping: For tribe have, shopping means quality more than quantity, that’s not to say they do not love a good bargain or await those annual Debenham and Harrods sales. Tribe have, will rather buy one good pair of jean and wear it for three years than buy cheap quality which will wear out after its third visit to the washing machine. Also they are not constantly shopping for the latest trend even though they can afford to, they employ wisdom in their spending habits because they understand that the reason 10% of the world enjoys 90% of the world’s wealth is that the first are creators, while the latter are consumers. The have not and the average are compulsive consumers, while the haves are the creators of the goods and services.
I still wonder why one individual feels the need to have an iPhone, newest digital camera, a cam-coder, latest Nokia, an Ipod and a blackberry phone, when all these gadgets have similar functions.
They need to pause and think how apple still manages to gross profits in billions despite the current global economic state.
Giving and Saving: The haves give wisely and save. They have specific savings for specific purposes. A good percentage of them genuinely want to make a difference in people’s life. Money will leave where it is not well taken care of. Trust me this is how the likes of Mike Tyson went bankrupt.
Are positive and expectant: Tribe haves are positive vibrant and always expectant of goodness. They are fast to learn from mistakes there is no room for self pity in clan haves. They are aware of their weakness and strength and constantly seeking ways to channel their strength on weakness.
Discipline: My definition for this word is simply being willing to do what is required even if you don’t feel up to it. Tribe haves thrive on this ten letter word. According to the laws of Rebecca, the most important factor for measuring a person who is successful or going to be is seen in their level of discipline.
Commitment: Without commitment there is hesitancy to withdraw. This is a relative of discipline that is equally relevant to what is achieved and how.
Planning: A plan is merely an arrangement on how to achieve desired goals. Bearing in mind that you cannot afford to be married to your plan, if it’s not working change it. For example, if you want to drive from west to central London, you can pass through short cuts or a straight route depending on what you hope to achieve and how. If there is too much traffic going through one way change to another way, as long as you get to central London and on time.
In course of achieving anything great I find planning is indispensable, but I also find that plans are utterly worthless when it is not applied in perspective. Tribe haves are aware that plans must be flexible.
Want more and Think Creatively Big: To the haves, thinking big is a part of their existence; they understand the power of creative thought pattern. Psychologists believe that the mind has two sides to thought processing; the thinker and the prover, the thinker initiates the thought and the prover goes to work to prove that which is constantly brooded upon. To the haves there is always new grounds to break, and it is not an indication that they are not satisfied, it just shows they are progressive and forward looking. It is in their DNA. I am sure there are things Bill Gates still hopes to accomplish.
Choice: For all three tribes happiness is a choice. It all depends on what makes you happy, being ok with your choices good or bad, wallowing in regret and self pity or being content with such things as you have.
Purpose: Lastly Tribe haves, live for something greater than themselves. People who lead meaningful lives don’t find that meaning in possession or position; they find it in carrying out personal commitment to ideals bigger than themselves and their own needs.
19/05/2008
Rebecca
May
14th
Creating with Passion
By Lady Eno
“There is only one success; to be able to spend your life in your own way”
Christopher Morley, where the Blues Begin
Have you ever had a thought that begins with something like, why isn’t there a store for ……….. , a service that caters to………….. , or the likes? If a need occurs to you, chances are others are experiencing it. Voids that you perceive in the consumer landscape may be the seed of an idea for business.
The secret is out. Anyone who has a passion, a brain and uses it has what it takes to start and build their own business empire. Attributes like creativity, resourcefulness, courage, persistence, an instinct for what people what, optimism and the ability to work long and hard and learn from mistakes seems to be all that is required of any budding entrepreneur. Just because you do not think you possess all these traits does not mean you shouldn’t start your own business. It may mean you will need to find a way around your weaknesses; perhaps set goals to work on them. The important thing is being intone with your passion, recognising your strengths and weaknesses so you can develop strategies to either capitalise on or overcome them.
When one can combine a passion with an ability to see and seize an opportunity where others might not, coupled with a desire to running your own show, impossibility truly becomes nothing. There are only two questions you have to ask yourself, the first one is, what am I passionate about? The second is what stops me from developing this passion? If what is lacking is information go get it, Michael Neil once said, the answer to all your questions lays on the internet, development books and biographies. Yes indeed, there is nothing new under the sun.
When I say passion, I do not mean what you think you can have; I mean what you really want, that thing which gives you butterflies just thinking about it, that thing which you would rather be doing than your nine to five or whatever you do. I mean that which whenever you think about brings that aliveness inside. The point is, it is easier to get what you want than what you think you can have. What are you passionate about?
Creating a successful business empire all sterns from passion itself, if there is something that you are passionate about there is a reason for that, in the context of following your inspiration, if it is really inspiring to you, something great will come out of it. In the real world this will work, just ask yourself what will I want to be doing today?
We all have a little bit of the entrepreneur in us, but some people show this even early in their childhood, going beyond the usual lemonade stands and girl Scout cookie sales.
Here is a story of Janine Hilly a thirty –five year old successful business owner, who has built her business empire around her passion. From a very early age Janine loved creating things sewing with pieces of clothe, Janine would make pillow cases and sew designs on them at age twelve, she went to university studied medicine to make her parents happy, but her passion was still a huge driving force in her life, she made and designed pillow cases for friends and families on special occasions until, one day she finally decided to live her life the inspiring way, waking each day to do what she loved doing. Today she is one of the most sort after interior design in New York, her client list includes ex US President Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, President Obama, to name a few.
Chances are that if there is something you genuinely enjoy offering, there are people out there who would love to receive it. The trick is finding those people. That in a nutshell, is marketing, more on that next time.
Rebecca aka. Lady Enor
May
3rd
Heart songs
By Lady EnoA heart's song does not have to be a song, or a peom its could just be a thought, feelings, or even writing about Love,world peace, or whatever your heart is singing. My heart songs is never a clarified piece nor does it make sense to othersbut it is just the songs in my heart this morning.
The journey of self-recovery is always long distance for everyone, In my case, there are just somethings i fail to recognise Everyone is not like me, as sensitive or even as loyal,will stick up for me, respect others feelings, aware of others feelings go out of their way to please others, lie for others and even raise to their defense.
How do I deal, relate, befriend such folks? Oh I want to be more like others, but I feel this will be loosing my true self just to protect myself and prove a point. I am still processing what my actions should be about this heart songs, untill then my heart is still singing.
Rebecca aka. Lady Eno
The journey of self-recovery is always long distance for everyone, In my case, there are just somethings i fail to recognise Everyone is not like me, as sensitive or even as loyal,will stick up for me, respect others feelings, aware of others feelings go out of their way to please others, lie for others and even raise to their defense.
How do I deal, relate, befriend such folks? Oh I want to be more like others, but I feel this will be loosing my true self just to protect myself and prove a point. I am still processing what my actions should be about this heart songs, untill then my heart is still singing.
Rebecca aka. Lady Eno
Apr
28th
Extract from a recent conquest
By Lady EnoThe four things i cannot live without goes in this manner; water; everyone needs it, my laptop, a good self improvement book. i loveeeeeeeeee reading, and me-time ; where i just blank out and think, processing whatever.
I have just completed a book called 'the million dollar habit' by Brian Tracy and i wanna share with you guys, this is a book i think everyone should read. I apologise if it sounds like am trying to convert you to reading. I cannot help it, I love reading. so here enjoy, and if its not your thing ignore it.
The Parable of the Talents is the primary reason for wealth or poverty throughout history.
Reasons for Rich or Poor
Why do some people retire rich and most people retire poor? This subject has fascinated philosophers, thinkers, mystics and teachers throughout the ages. There have been so many cases of hundreds or thousands and even millions of men and women who have started with nothing and become financially independent that people are naturally curious to know why it happened and what are the common rules or principles that others can apply to become wealthy as well.
Why People Become Rich
One illustration of this key principle is called the parable of the talents. In the Bible, it says, "To him that hath, shall more be given, and he shall have abundance. But from him that hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken away."
Accumulation Leads to More Accumulation
What does it mean? In the modern world, we say "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer." The fact is that people who accumulate money tend to accumulate more and more. People who don’t accumulate money seem to lose even that little bit of money which they have. Why should this happen? The great success principle, the single idea that explains human destiny is simple. It says that, "you become what you think about, most of the time."
Control Your Thoughts
And whatever you dwell upon, grows in your reality. You create your entire world by the things you choose to think about and how you choose to think about them.
It just so happens that wealthy, successful people fill their minds with thoughts, words, pictures and images of wealth, affluence, success, productivity and solutions to problems in the marketplace, most of the time. These thoughts trigger the reticular activating cortex, the part of the brain that makes you more alert and sensitive to things that you have decided are important to you.
Activate Your Reticular Cortex
For example, if you decide to invest in a mutual fund, you will start to see news and information about mutual funds everywhere. Mentions in newspapers and magazines will jump out at you. These notices have always been there but now you have sensitized your brain to pick them up and draw them to your attention with far greater frequency and vividness. This is the function and power of your reticular cortex.
Avoid Poverty Thinking
On the other hand, what do poor people think about most of the time? Unfortunately, poor people fill their minds with thoughts of scarcity, lack, poverty, being unable to afford things. They are always thinking and talking about how little money they have, how much things cost and how they wish things could be better financially. What they think about most of the time is how little money they have.
Think Like Wealthy People Think
Wealthy people from an early age think about how much they have, how much they want and all the different things they can do to acquire and earn the money and things they desire.
Find Out How Rich People Think
Here’s a rule for you. If you want to become successful, find out what failures do and don’t do it. If you want to be wealthy, find out what poor people think about, and avoid thinking in those ways. Instead, find out how wealthy people think. Find out what they read. Find out how they spend their time. Study their lives, read their stories and autobiographies and listen to their words when they are interviewed and on tape. The more you find out what financially successful people think and talk about most of the time, and do the same things, the more rapidly you will enjoy the same rewards that they do.
Action Exercises
Here are two things you can do to put this parable of the talents into action:
First, make a decision today that from now on you will think and talk only about the financial success that you desire. At the same time, you will refuse to talk about or dwell upon your financial problems.
Second, instead of saying, "I can’t afford it," instead ask the question, "How can I afford it?" When you think of something that you want or need that you don’t have the money for at the time, the only question you ask is, "How?" How can you get it? What can you do to achieve it? What are your options? How can you get from where you are to where you want to go? This type of attitude will change
Brian Tracy is Chairman and CEO of Brian Tracy International, a company specializing in the training and development of individuals and organizations.
Brian's goal is to help you achieve your personal and business goals faster and easier than you ever imagined.
Brian Tracy has consulted for more than 1,000 companies and addressed more than 4,000,000 people in 4,000 talks and seminars throughout the US, Canada and 40 other countries worldwide. As a Keynote speaker and seminar leader, he addresses more than 250,000 people each year.
He has studied, researched, written and spoken for 30 years in the fields of economics, history, business, philosophy and psychology. He is the top selling author of over 45 books that have been translated into dozens of languages.
You can learn more about Brian by reading his blog or visiting his website.
Apr
27th
Belsize Park
By Lady EnoPains is good sometimes, its magnitude bitter
Its brings along close relatives fear and anxiety
Such was the experience of the northern park
From the unset, Belsize park was promising
This park blossomed with hopes and aspirations
Its uttered words that livens living soul
If black could be made white with words
Belsize would make history.
Belsize how I loved it, possibly still do
But like it is said love is never enough
Whoever spoke these words must
Have been aware of Belsize Park
And it’s unstably nature, till this day
Its intentions remain a mystery
Belsize had a special spark about it
It was the perfect park to unwind
Like the sun that shines in spring time
Belsize was more so beautiful
But fear which came after the experience
Was unbearable, fear griped me
Each time I approached this northern park.
I kept passing through Belsize to over my fears
In the end, belsize was conquered.
Rebecca aka. Lady Eno
Apr
27th
Favourite Quotes
By Lady Eno-
Achievement Quotes:
“It is hard to fail but is worse to have not tried to succeed.
In this life we get nothing save by effort."
~Theordore Roosevelt~"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it."
~William A. Ward~"Our greatest battles are that with our own minds."
~Jameson Frank~"The value of achievement lies in the achieving."
~Albert Einstein quotes~"In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements."
~Mao Tse-Tung~"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~"Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible,
and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
~St. Francis of Assisi~Action Quotes:
"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot;
but make it hot by striking."
~William B. Sprague~"The best way to get something done is to begin."
~Anonymous~"The path to success is to take massive, determined action."
~Anthony Robbins quotes~"It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop."
~Confucius~"I'm a great believer in luck,
and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
~Thomas Jefferson~"Yesterday is gone.
Tomorrow has not yet come.
We have only today.
Let us begin."
~Mother Teresa quotes~"Success usuallly comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
~Henry David Thoreau~"Nothing happens until something moves."
~Albert Einstein~"Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps.
But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap;
you cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps."
~David LLoyd George~"The only cure for grief is action."
~George Henry Lewis~"You see, in life, lots of people know what to do,
but few people actually do what they know.
Knowing is not enough! You must take action."
~Anthony Robbins quotes~"Success often comes to those who dare to act.
It seldom goes to the timid
who are ever afraid of the consequences."
~Jawaharlal Nehru~Adversity Quotes:
"There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it."
~Buddha~"Men succeed when they realize that their failures
are the preparation for their victories."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~"A successful man is one who can build a firm foundation
with the bricks that others throw at him."
~David Brinkley~"We are more often frightened than hurt;
and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."
~Marcus Annaeus Seneca~"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves
as the sole cause of all our adversities."
~Sophocles~"Adversity enhances this tale we call life."
~Ever Garrison~"The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles
than in growing with them.
~Bernard M. Baruch~"He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity
with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected
by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes~"Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds."
~Albert Einstein"Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that you too can become great."
~Mark Twain~Anger Quotes:
"In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves."
~Buddha quotes~"If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."
~Chinese Proverb~"For every minute you remain angry,
you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~"Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt
only gives you tense muscles and a headache.
Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and lightness in your life."
~Joan Lunden~"To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves."
~Alexander Pope~"Anger makes you smaller,
while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were."
~Cherie Carter-Scott~Attitude Quotes:
"The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy."
~H. H. the Dalai Lama~"To fly, we have to have resistance."
~Maya Lin~"The greatest discovery of any generation is that a
human being can alter his life by altering his attitude."
~William James~"A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition."
~William Arthur Ward~"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances,
but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."
~Hugh Downs quotes~"An optimist is the human personification of spring."
~Susan J. Bissonette~"The greatest discovery of our generation is that
human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be."
~William James~"Nothing is interesting if you're not interested."
~Helen MacInness~"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can."
~Richard Bach~"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to
succeed is more important than any other one thing."
~Abraham Lincoln quotes~"The greatest part of our happiness depends
on our dispositions, not our circumstances."
~Martha Washington~"The most significant change in a person's life
is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions."
~William Johnson~"Work is either fun or drudgery.
It depends on your attitude. I like fun."
~Colleen C. Barrett~"People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them."
~Epictetus~"A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person
lives in a hostile world; everyone you meet is your mirror."
~Ken Keyes, Jr.~Beliefs Quotes:
"People become really quite remarkable when
they start thinking that they can do things.
When they believe in themselves they
have the first secret of success."
~Norman Vincent Peale quotes~"Within you is the power to do things you never dreamed possible.
This power becomes available to you just as soon
as you change your beliefs"
~Dr Maxwell Maltz~"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it
-even if I have said it
-unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
~Buddha quotes~"Within you is the power to do things you never dreamed possible.
This power becomes available to you just as soon as you change your beliefs"
~Dr Maxwell Maltz~"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder
than one closed by belief."
~Gerry Spence~"The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen."
~Frank Lloyd Wright~"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire,
sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon
must inevitably come to pass!"
~Paul J. Meyer~"Seeing is not believing; believing is seeing.
You see things not as they are, but as you are."
~Eric Butterworth~"One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests."
~John Stuart Mill~"People see the world not as it is, but as they are."
~Al Lee~"The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because
we tell ourselves that that is the way it is."
~Carlos Castaneda quotes~Cause & Effect Quotes:
"The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same."
~Carlos Castaneda~"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute,
day by day, in all the small uncaring moments."
~Stephen Vincent Benet~"The present contains nothing more than the past,
and what is found in the effect is already in the cause."
~Henri Louis Bergson~"Every action of our lives touches on some chord
that will vibrate in eternity."
~Edwin Hubbel Chapin~“Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances.
Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes~"Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe,
so no thought or action is without its effects,
present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt."
~Norman Cousins~"He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little;
He who would achieve high must sacrifice much;
He who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly."
~James Allen~Change Quotes:
"Don't be deceived into thinking that by
changing the external, the internal will be
changed. It works the other way around; the
path that needs changing is the one in your mind."
~Susan Jeffers~"Vision without action is merely a dream.
Action without vision just passes the time.
Vision with action can change the world."
~Joel Barker~"We can not become what we need to
by remaining what we are."
~Oprah Winfrey quotes~"A mind that has been stretched
will never return to it's original dimension."
~Albert Einstein quotes~"Only I can change my life.
No one can do it for me."
~Carol Burnett~"Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself."
~Leo Tolstoy~"Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open."
~Lord Thomas Dewar~"Change your thoughts and you can change the world."
~Norman Vincent Peale~"If we don’t change, we don’t grow.
If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living."
~Gail Sheehy, author~"One of the most difficult things is not to
change society - but to change yourself."
~Nelson Mandela~"It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change."
~Charles Darwin~"They say that time changes things,
but you actually have to change them yourself."
~Andy Warhol quotes~"It takes a strong fish to swim against the current.
Even a dead one can float with it."
~John Crowe~"You cannot expect to achieve new goals
or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change."
~Les Brown~"Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection
to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only
asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to
correct some faults of the first."
~Benjamin Franklin~“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning,
but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
~Maria Robinson~Courage Quotes:
"Fortune favors the brave."
~Publius Terence~"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."
~George S. Patton~"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day,
a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic
waiting somewhere behind the morning."
~John Boyton Priestley~"Life is most froth and bubble, but two things stand like a stone; kindness in another's trouble and courage in your own."
~Lady Diana Spencer~"Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have."
~Norman Vincent Peale~"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."
~Nicholas Murray Butler~"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage."
~Lao-Tzu~"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
~Winston Churchill~"Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the
opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which
you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."
~Orison Swett Marden~"Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds."
~Albert Einstein~Ego Quotes:
"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people."
~Lucille S. Harper~"The authentic self is the best part of a human being. It's the part of you that already cares, that is already passionate about evolution. When your authentic self miraculously awakens and becomes stronger than your ego, then you will truly begin to make a difference in this world. You will literally enter into a partnership with the creative principle."
~Andrew Cohen~"With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward
to become the sole divinity."
~Dorothee Sölle~"The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism."
~Harold Geneen~“The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion,
and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out
the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.”
~Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama~“Give up all bad qualities in you, banish the ego and
develop the spirit of surrender. You will then experience Bliss.”
~Sri Sathya Sai Baba~“I - Want – Peace, I is ego, Want is desire;
Remove ego and desire and you have peace.”
~Sri Sathya Sai Baba~"Most people are so stuck in their egos that everything revolves around me, me, and more me. But if you want to be rich in the truest sense of the word, it can’t only be about you. It has to include adding value to other people’s lives."
~T. Harv Eker quotes~"The egoism which enters into our theories does not
affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism
is satisfied, the more robust is our belief."
~George Eliot~“If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego
and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the
need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge.
Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time.
It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up.”
~Deepak Chopra quotes~"Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking,
gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western
society in particular, is out of control. It believes it
is real and tries hard to maintain its supremacy. Negative
states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and
jealousy, are products of the ego."
~Eckhart Tolle quotes~"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others."
~Cyril Connolly~"The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science
and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster.
Evolve or die: that is our only choice now."
~Eckhart Tolle~"The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman
accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it
is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being."
~Eckhart Tolle~"The great corrupter of public man is the ego.... Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem."
~Dean Acheson~Failure Quotes:
"The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better
than those who try to do nothing and succeed."
~Lloyd Jones~"If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate."
~Thomas Watson, Sr.~"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of
preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
~Colin Powell~"What is defeat?
Nothing but education;
nothing but the first step to something better."
~Wendell Phillips~"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve;
The fear of failure."
~Paulo Coelho, Brazilian writer~"A man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed;
for it is a sign that he tried to surpass himself."
~Georges Clemenceau, French politician and journalist~"Success is never ending, failure is never final."
~Dr. Robert Schuller~"Failure isn't failing at the project at hand.
Failure is giving up on yourself."
~Donna deVerona~"Most great people have attained their greatest success
just one step beyond their greatest failure."
~Napoleon Hill, author~Faith Quotes:
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean;
if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
~Mahatma Gandhi~"Faith is taking the first step even if you don't see the whole staircase."
~Martin Luther King quotes~"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the
good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."
~William Shakespeare quotes~"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it
with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith."
~Henry Ward Beecher~"I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I
still believe that people are really good at heart."
~Anne Frank~"Non-violence is the article of faith."
~Mahatma Gandhi~"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."
~Kahlil Gibran~"The only thing that stands between a man and what
he wants from life is often merely the will to try
it and the faith to believe that it is possible."
~Richard M. DeVos~"Faith has to do with things that are not seen
and hope with things that are not at hand."
~Saint Thomas Aquinas~"If you think you can win, you can win.
Faith is necessary to victory."
~William Hazlitt~"Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve."
~Lillian Smith~"Faith consists in believing when it is
beyond the power of reason to believe."
~Voltaire~"In faith there is enough light for those who want
to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."
~Blaise Pascal~Fear Quotes:
"We wouldn't worry nearly as much about what others
thought of us if we recognize how seldom they do."
~Paulo Coelho~"Never fear shadows. They simply mean that
there's a light shining somewhere nearby."
~Ruth Rendell~“You block your dream when you allow your fear
to grow bigger than your faith.”
~Mary Manin Morrissey~"Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed."
~Michael Pritchard~"No passion so effectually robs the mind
of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."
~Edmund Burke~"You will either step forward into growth
or you will step back into safety."
~Abraham Maslow~"Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope,
rather than out of your fears."
~Stedman Graham, educator~"Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do
is a projection of their own reality, their own dream.
When you are immune to the opinions of others,
you won't be the victim of needless suffering.
~Don Miguel Ruiz, author of The Four Agreements~"In order to succeed, your desire for success
should be greater than your fear of failure."
~Bill Cosby~"Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins,
one must assuredly limit one's fear,
thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit."
~Marvin Gaye~Focus and Attention Quotes:
"Obstacles are those frightful things you can see
when you take your eyes off your goal."
~Henry Ford~"We live in a flash of light;
evening comes and it is night forever.
It's only a flash and we waste it.
We waste it with our anxiety, our worries,
our concerns, our burdens."
~Anthony De Mello~"Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses,
thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused
internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind."
~Buddha~"Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point,
then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except
what you do now in this instant of time.
From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different
person, filled with love and understanding, ready with
an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive
in every thought and deed."
~Eileen Caddy~"I don't care how much power, brilliance, or energy
you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a
specific target, and hold it there, you're never going
to accomplish as much as your ability warrants."
~Zig Ziglar~Forgiveness Quotes:
"The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attitude of the strong."
~Mahatma Gandhi~"The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart;
far more damaging to yourself than to them."
~Lawana Blackwell, American author~"The noblest revenge is to forgive."
~Thomas Fuller, English author~"Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves
can we accept others as they are
because we don't feel threatened
by anything about them which is better than us."
~Stephen Covey~"By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy;
By forgiving, he is superior."
~Francis Bacon, English philosopher~"Holding on to anger is like holding on to a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned."
~Buddha~"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."
~Josh Billings, American humorist~"When you hold resentment toward another, you are
bound to that person or condition by an emotional link
that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only
way to dissolve that link and get free."
~Catherine Ponder~"To forgive is to set a prisoner free
and discover that the prisoner was you."
~Lewis B. Smedes~Friendship Quotes:
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."
~Woodrow Wilson~"True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited,
but in adversity they come without invitation."
~Theophrastus~ Greek philosopher"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."
~Kahlil Gibran quotes~"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and be my friend."
~Albert Camus~"A true friend is someone who is there for you
when he'd rather be anywhere else."
~Len Wein~"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes~"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."
~Albert Schweitzer~"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."
~Mencius~"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy
between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying
to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words."
~Buddha quotes~"The more I traveled, the more I realized that
fear makes strangers of people who should be friends."
~Shirley MacLaine~"Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."
~Aristotle~"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."
~William Blake~"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends.
That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first.
When you learn to live for others, they will live for you."
~Paramahansa Yogananda~"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."
~John Leonard~"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."
~Edward W. Howe~"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~"A friend is one who knows you, and loves you just the same."
~Elbert Hubbard~"True friends are like stars; you can only
recognize them when it's dark around you."
~Bob Marley~"True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."
~Charles Caleb Colton~"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes~"A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is
certain for those who are friends."
~Richard Bach~"You cannot be friends upon any other terms
than upon the terms of equality."
~Woodrow Wilson~"Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small
it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time,
like having a friend takes time."
~Georgia O'Keeffe~"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared
than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind."
~Buddha~Goals Quotes:
"Begin with the end in mind."
~Dr. Stephen Covey~"To solve a problem or reach a goal,
you don’t need to know all the answers in advance.
But, you must have a clear idea of the problem
or the goal you want to reach."
~W. Clement Stone~"Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us;
they are essential to really keep us alive."
~Robert H. Schuller~"Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.
You either have no goal that is important enough to you,
or you are not using your talents and efforts
in a striving toward an important goal.
~Maxwell Maltz~"There is one quality that one must possess to win,
and that is definiteness of purpose,
the knowledge of what one wants,
and a burning desire to possess it."
~Napoleon Hill~"The secret to productive goal setting
is in establishing clearly defined goals,
writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day
with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them."
~Denis Waitley~"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
~Kahlil Gibran, mystic, painter and poet~Gratitude Quotes:
"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all the other virtues."
~Marcus Tullius Cicero~"Two kinds of gratitude: the sudden kind we feel for
what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give."
~Edwin Arlington Robinson~"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy;
they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
~Marcel Proust~"I wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day."
~Kahlil Gibran~"He who is not contented with what he has,
would not be contented with what he would like to have."
~Socrates~"Gratitude is the heart’s memory."
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher~"Drop the question what tomorrow will bring,
and count as profit every day fate allows you."
~Quintus Horatius Flaccus~"If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled.
If your happiness depends on money,
you will never be happy with yourself.
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you."
~Lao-Tzu, Chinese philosopher~"Now is no time to think of what you do not have.
Think of what you can do with what there is."
~Ernest Hemingway~"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute
with love, grace and gratitude."
~Denis Waitley~"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~Happiness Quotes:
"Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued,
is always just beyond your reach;
but which, if you will sit down quietly, may light upon you."
~Nathaniel Hawthorne~"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared."
~Buddha~"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy
you must have somebody to divide it with."
~Mark Twain, American writer~"While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate,
it is not possible to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love."
~Bo Bennett, American author~"People are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
~Abe Lincoln~"Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
~Albert Schweitzer~"In about the same degree as you are helpful you will be happy."
~Carl Reilland~Humility Quotes:
"Let's honor our mistakes by allowing them
to teach us. Let's consider our failings to be gifts,
and share them humbly with others."
~Molly Gordon~"It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others."
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer~"I'm nothing special. I'm just an ordinary monk."
~14th Dalai Lama~"There is a great man who makes every man feel small.
But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great."
~Gilbert Keith Chesterton~"Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare
our minds for all the possible changes of life."
~George Arliss~"People take different roads seeking fulfillment
and happiness. Just because they're not on your road
doesn't mean that they've gotten lost."
~H. Jackson Brown Jr.~"A man should never be ashamed to own that he
has been in the wrong, which is but saying that
he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
~Alexander Pope~"What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous
thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity
for the closest possible intimacy with God."
~Monica Baldwin~Imagination Quotes:
"Imagination is more important than knowledge.
For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand,
imagination points to all we might yet discover and create."
~Albert Einstein~"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world."
~Blaise Pascal~"To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all."
~Anatole France~"The man who has no imagination has no wings."
~Muhammad Ali~"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
~Dr. Stephen Covey~"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."
~John Lennon~"The world is but a canvas to the imagination."
~Henry David Thoreau~"Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable
before you decide what's possible."
~Brian Tracy~"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were.
But without it we go nowhere."
~Carl Sagan~"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers."
~Orison Swett Marden~"You see things; and you say, "Why?"
But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
~George Bernard Shaw~"Nothing happens unless first we dream."
~Carl Sandburg~Intuition Quotes:
"Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message."
~Malcolm Muggeridge~"Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new
information society precisely because there is so much data.”
~John Naisbitt~“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind
is a faithful servant. We have created a society that
honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
~Albert Einstein~“A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.”
~Jawaharlal Nehru~“It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning
wondering what my Intuition will toss up to me, like gifts
from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.”
~Dr. Jonas Salk~"Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer."
~Robert Graves~"Creativity comes from trust.
Trust your instincts.
And never hope more than you work."
~Rita Mae Brown~Law of Attraction Quotes:
"Let a person radically alter his thoughts,
and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation
it will effect in the material conditions of his life."
~James Allen~"Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor,
play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between
reality and an imagined thought or image.
What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives."
~Robert Collier~“I will see it when I believe it.”
~Wayne Dyer~“Whatever you create in your life
you must first create in your imagination.”
~Tycho Photiou~"As we increasingly master our perceptions, beliefs, and thought/feeling patterns, we magnetically attract that which we most desire."
~Luanne Oakes~"The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors;
that which it loves, and also that which it fears."
~James Allen~Leadership Quotes:
"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
~Peter F. Drucker~"Do not go where the path may lead,
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~"Life is like a dogsled team.
If you ain't the lead dog,
the scenery never changes."
~Lewis Grizzard~"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."
~James Crook~"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do
and let them surprise you with their results."
~George S. Patton~Letting Go/Releasing Quotes:
"The farther behind I leave the past,
the closer I am to forging my own character."
~Isabelle Eberhardt~"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up
on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."
~Anna Quindlen~"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."
~James Dean~"You can only lose what you cling to."
~Buddha~"Ask yourself this question:
"Will this matter a year from now?"
~Richard Carlson Ph.D~"Celebrate whatever arises in consciousness
without clinging to anything."
~Hale Dwoskin~"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
~Booker T. Washington~"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them;
but do not let them master you.
Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
~Helen Keller~Love Quotes:
"Smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is -
and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other."
~Mother Teresa~"People need loving the most when they deserve it the least."
~Louise Hay~"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
~Mother Teresa~"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."
~Stendhal~"Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit."
~Khalil Gibran~"True love does not come by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
~Jason Jordan, American singer-songwriter~"To love another person is to see the face of God."
~Victor Hugo~"Love cures people - both the ones who give it
and the ones who receive it."
~Karl Menninger~"We look forward to the time when the power of love
will replace the love of power.
Then will our world know the blessings of peace."
~William Gladstone, former British prime minister~"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend."
~Martin Luther King~"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love;
this is the eternal rule."
~Buddha~"You will find as you look back upon your life that the
moments when you have truly lived are the moments when
you have done things in the spirit of love."
~Henry Drummond~"By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time,
but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever."
~Lao Tzu~"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”
~Martin Luther King~"Treasure the love you receive above all.
It will survive long after your good health has vanished."
~Og Mandino,author~"The only thing we never get enough of is love;
and the only thing we never give enough of is love.
~Henry Miller~"A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps
friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."
~Saint Basil the Great~Meditation Quotes:
"To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly;
to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self."
~Hamilton Wright Mabie~"Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance.
Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back,
and choose the path that leads to wisdom."
~Buddha~"All of man’s problems stem from his inability to sit quietly with himself."
~Pascal~"When you go into the space of nothingness, everything becomes known."
~Buddha~"It is only in the depths of silence that the voice of God can be heard."
~Sai Baba~"Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation,
for when you come back to your work your judgment will be
surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears
smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a
lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen."
~Leonardo Da Vinci~Motivation Quotes:
"Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light
that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly."
~Dr. Stephen Covey~"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what
they get for it, but what they become by it."
~John Ruskin~"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."
~Marcus Aurelius~"To accomplish great things, we must not only plan, but also believe."
~Jacques Anatole Thibault~"People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily."
~Zig Ziglar~"If you're not giving the world the best you have,
what world are you saving it for?"
~Kent Keith~Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward;
they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~Opportunity Quotes:
"Opportunity is missed by most people because
it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
~Thomas Edison~"The cave you most fear to enter contains the greatest treasure."
~Joseph Campbell~"When one door of happiness closes, another opens,
but often we look so long at the closed door that we
do not see the one that has been opened for us."
~Helen Keller~"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings,
so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."
~Socrates~"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes,
but in having new eyes."
~Marcel Proust~"Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity minded.
They feed opportunities and starve problems."
~Dr. Stephen Covey~"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?"
~Brian Tracy~Patience Quotes:
"To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first."
~Shakespeare~"Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
~Mahatma Gandhi~"All great achievements require time."
~Maya Angelou~"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
~John Quincy Adams~"Constant dripping hollows out a stone."
~Lucretius~Peace Quotes:
"The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center.
So does a person."
~Norman Vincent Peale~"When you find peace within yourself, you become the
kind of person who can live at peace with others."
~Mildred Norman Ryder~ American peace activist"If you want to make peace, you don't talk
to your friends. You talk to your enemies."
~Moshe Dayan (1915-1981)~"You can't separate peace from freedom because
no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."
~Malcolm X~"Peace cannot be kept by force.
It can only be achieved by understanding."
~Albert Einstein~"Five enemies of peace inhabit us - avarice, ambition,
envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished,
we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace."
~Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374)~"Peace-making is a healing process and it
begins with me, but it does not end there."
~Gene Knudsen Hoffman~"We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace
the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace."
~William Gladstone~Persistence Quotes:
"Perseverance is a great element of success.
If you only knock long enough at the gate,
you are sure to wake up somebody."
~Henri Wadsworth Longfellow~"Success is the sum of small efforts,
repeated day in and day out."
~Robert Collier~"You just can't beat the person who never gives up."
~Babe Ruth~"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on
after others have let go."
~William Feather~"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength, but through persistence."
~Buddha~"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding
success because they don’t know when to quit.
Most men succeed because they are determined to."
~George Allen~"Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact
that he uses his head and keeps pecking away
until he finishes the job he starts."
~Coleman Cox~"Persistent people begin their success
where others end in failure."
~Edward Eggleston~"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up."
~Thomas Edison~"Motivation is like food for the brain.
You cannot get enough in one sitting.
It needs continual and regular top ups."
~Peter Davies~"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
~Winston Churchill~"I do not think there is any other quality so essential
to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance.
It overcomes almost everything, even nature."
~John D. Rockefeller~Personal Power Quotes:
"Most of the important things in the world have been
accomplished by people who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
~Dale Carnegie~"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage."
~Lao-Tzu~"The action required to sustain human life
is primarily intellectual, everything man needs has to be
discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.
~Ayn Rand~"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair,
but manifestations of strength and resolutions."
~Kahlil Gibran~"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you,
not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."
~Buddha~"Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears."
~Brian Tracy~"The bamboo which bends is stronger than the oak which resists."
~Japanese proverb~Relationship Quotes:
"Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight."
~Phyllis Diller, Actress/Comedian"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being.
His heart withers if it does not answer another heart.
His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes
of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration."
~Pearl S. Buck, American author~"If men would consider not so much where they differ,
as wherein they agree,
there would be far less uncharitableness
and angry feeling in the world."
~Joseph Addison, English writer and politician~"One of the best ways to educate our hearts is to look at our interaction with other people, because our relationships with others are fundamentally a reflection of our relationship with ourselves."
~Dr. Stephen Covey~Self Control Quotes:
"If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self."
~Napoleon Hill~“First we make our habits, then our habits make us.”
~Charles C. Noble~"With practice and focus, you can extend yourself far more than you ever believed possible. It's not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."
~Edmund Hillary~“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
~Benjamin Franklin~Self Discovery Quotes:
"People travel to wonder at the height of mountains,
at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers,
at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of
the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering."
~St. Augustine~"Be careful - the darkness you see in another's heart might just be a reflection of that which is in your own heart"
~Teachings of the Temple~"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief."
~Gerry Spence~"The unexamined life is not worth living."
~Socrates~"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power."
~Lao-Tzu, Chinese philosopher~"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence,
but it comes from within. It is there all the time."
~Anna Freud, Austrian psychologist~"What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~"He who has an opinion of his own,
but depends on the opinion and tastes of others, is a slave."
~Friedrich G. Klopstock, German poet~"A person's main task in life is to give birth to oneself."
~Erich Fromm~"You can live a lifetime and at the end of it,
know more about other people than you know about yourself."
~Beryl Markham~Self Improvement Quotes:
"Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others."
~Harriet Goldhor Lerner~"Excellence is not a destination;
it is a continuous journey that never ends."
~Brian Tracy""The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice."
~George Eliot~"Formal Education will make you a living.
Self education will make you a fortune."
~Jim Rohn~"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the
first victory they won was over themselves ...
self-discipline with all of them came first."
~Harry S. Truman~"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."
~Marcus Aurelius~Spirituality Quotes:
"He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye."
~Buddha~"It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are
— not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within —
that you can begin to take control."
~Oprah Winfrey~"Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of existence. But rightly understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being."
~David Steindl-Rast~"Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit;
and wise are they who obey its signals.
If it does not always tell us what to do,
it always cautions us what not to do."
~Lydia M. Child~"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute
with love, grace and gratitude."
~Denis Waitley~"The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men."
~Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.~Success Quotes:
"Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it."
~Winston Churchill~"The most vital aspect of winning is mental attitude."
~Phil Mahre, Olympic Gold Medalist~"I am always doing that which I can not do,
in order that I may learn how to do it."
~Pablo Picasso~"It’s choice – not chance – that determines your destiny."
~Jean Nidetch, founder of Weight Watchers International, Inc.~"Contentment is natural wealth.
Luxury is artificial poverty."
~Socrates, Greek philosopher~"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible."
~Doug Larson~"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss,
you will land among the stars."
~Les Brown~"You are what you repeatedly do.
Excellence is not an event – it is a habit."
~Aristotle~"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."
~Donald Kendall~"Many of the things you can count, don't count.
Many of the things you can't count, really count."
~Albert Einstein quotes~"The discipline of writing something down
is the first step toward making it happen."
~Lee Iacocca~"That some achieve great success is proof to all
that others can achieve it as well."
~Abraham Lincoln quotes~Thinking and Thoughts Quotes:
“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday,
and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow.
Our life is the creation of our mind.”
~Buddha~"We are what we think.
All that we are arises within our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.”
~Gautam Buddha~"It's not what you are that holds you back;
it's what you think you are not."
~Denis Waitley~"The thoughts we choose to think
are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives."
~Louise Hay, author~"Every good thought you think is contributing its share
to the ultimate result of your life."
~Grenville Kleiser~"He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought
will never be able to change reality."
~Anwar Sadat~"Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so."
~Jacopo Sanna Zaro~"Our greatest battles are that with our own minds."
~Jameson Frank~"The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another."
~William James~"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions,
desires, and fears is more than a king."
~John Milton~"There is only one way by which you an achieve prosperity.
It is to take charge of your mind."
~Eric Butterworth~Time and the Power of Now Quotes:
"We must use time wisely and forever realize that
the time is always ripe to do right."
~Nelson Mandela~"You can't have a better tomorrow if
you are thinking about yesterday all the time."
~Charles Franklin Kettering~"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well used brings happy death."
~Leonardo Da Vinci~"Each morning we are born again.
What we do today is what matters most."
~Buddha~"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles... but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."
~Buddha~"You may delay, but time will not."
~Benjamin Franklin~"Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now."
~Denis Waitley~"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."
~Napoleon Hill~"Do you love life?
Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of."
~Benjamin Franklin~"The past always looks better than it was;
it's only pleasant because it isn't here."
~Finley Peter Dunne~Truth & Honesty Quotes:
"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth,
but by washing away from it all that is not gold."
~Leo Tolstoy~"Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are - or as we are conditioned to see it."
~Dr. Stephen Covey~"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche~"It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies."
~Arthur Calwell~"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
~Oscar Wilde~"To belive in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."
~Mahatma Gandhi~"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
~Thomas Jefferson~"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time,
but it's not going to go away."
~Elvis Presley~"Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain;
the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time."
~Chilon, Greek philosopher~"Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth."
~Ruth McKenney~Visualization Quotes:
"Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced."
~John Keats~"Having a vision for your life allows you
to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears."
~Stedman Graham~"Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it.
Make your mental blue print, and begin to build."
~Robert Collier~"Ordinary people believe only in the possible.
Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable,
but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible,
they begin to see it as possible."
~Cherie Carter-Scott~"I've discovered that numerous peak performers use
the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization.
They mentally run through important events before they happen."
~Charles Garfield~"The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer.
He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it
he sees exactly how to make it happen."
~Robert L. Schwartz~Word Power Quotes:
"Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill."
~Buddha~"Words have the power to both destroy and heal.
When words are both true and kind,
they can change our world."
~Buddha~"Value your words. Each one may be the last."
~Stanislaw J. Lec~"They may forget what you said,
but they will never forget how you made them feel."
~Carl Frederick Buechner~"Sincere words or affirmations repeated understandingly,
feelingly, and willingly are sure to move the Omnipresent Cosmic
Vibratory Force to render aid in your difficulty.
~Paramahansa Yogananda~"I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm."
~Calvin Coolidge~
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