tansali paparazzi

How many times have you gotten out of a relationship and been like
"damn what was i doing with such a looser....i really took shit from him." or
"Wow this gurl has sucked me dry i should have listened... and she might have actually cheated on me like my friend said"

Do you know that when you are sooo close to a situation you are blind.
whatever he explains to you is right.
whatever she says you should do out of love is right.
Any excuse is a good excuse...i mean there is love right? <3

you need to step away from the situation for a while and see if what you see is the same thing you saw before...

We tend to complain about the things we dont have when we have everything we actually need.
In our quest for higher things and intense luxury we loose our true personality.
If someone took half of what you already own away....u will be broken
But then that will take you at least 5 steps away from the situation to appreciate the things you presently have...

you need to step away from the situation body and mind not just phisically to apreciate or c the wrong part of something....

LADIES>..i always have to drop aline for you guys.... Dont sit ther and take trash from a guy out of love...in every situation ask yourself.."Would someone who loved me want this for me for my good?"..."would someone who cared actually do this just cause they could say sorry? "

(ps+ i write in a rush so slide over the errors.)

xoxo

The 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

 

Have you ever asked yourself what your greatest fears were?

 

As a kid my greatest fear was darkness, Oh my ……..…darkness used to give me the creeps; I used to have these scary and clueless imaginations that would really melt me down, the other thing I was afraid of as a kid was to be left alone and probably the idea of waking up and finding myself all alone in the house would really scare me.  I would wake up in a hurry and rush outside without even changing into some decent clothing and funny enough up to now when asked what was terrorizing me, I can’t answer that.  Lately have been questioning myself on what my greatest fears are and this weekend I decided to sit down and analyze them, surprisingly enough I realized that I have quite a number.   One of my greatest fear is commitment, believe it or not am afraid of commitment and for these reasons I have ended up breaking some wonderful hearts. Another fear that I have but I didn't realize till this weekend is the thought of having my own kids, I mean I love kids and almost everything about them there tenderness, sweetness, and the fact that they are just sweet, but as I was analyzing my fears I realized that I was afraid of having kids because of the idea that their entire life will depend on me.  The other fact that I raised is what if I decided to have them then later on I become a total failure as a mother. But those were what ifs.

 

The fear that kept me thinking for a while was one that I somehow manage to fight my fears then later on decide to settle down only to realize that the guy I have decided to settle down with is a professional heartbreaker …ouch that would hurt but do you know what would hurt most the fact that I have been left alone nursing my heartbreaks and probably by then I have like four kids, and with this statement another fear arose which is single parenting, not cool.

The other greatest fear that I have is death.  Dying without achieving any of my set goals/objectives, leave alone the set goals but the thought of death itself scares me, the idea of totally being out of touch with the living quite devastating, the thought of being lowered six fit under …alone very sad.

I asked one of my friends what her greatest fear was and she told me the thought of dying alone which is definitely true am also afraid of dying alone even though am so afraid of commitment.

The other greatest fear I have is………………….to be continued

As much as lies can really get us out of trouble, the lies we create at times put us even into more trouble than we usually estimated.  I hate lies and as much as I sometimes use lies to stay out of trouble I don't justify the use of lies.

It all begins with one small one and they sure do accumulate and by the time we realize we are totally full of them and without knowing we become Professionally, Qualified , Experiennced liars since every time we tell a lie we justify it to make us feel better.

I remember in highschool I told a big lie once, I was suspended from school and I seriously cried I had never been suspended from school, reason not important ... so I wondered how I was going to approach my mum and tell her that I had been suspended,  I sat down at the bus stop for a while thinking of what to say, and miraculously an idea clicked my mind.  I reached home and I looked at my mum on her face and I told her that the whole class had been suspended because of plotting a strike which was obviously a lie.  My mum being my mum she did not waste time, the following day so early in the morning she went to school, she asked me to accompany her but I refused with the excuse that we were not allowed to step anywhere near the school compound.  To cut the long story short one way or another my mum found out that I was only among the ten girls who had been sent home, I have never been embarrassed in my life, I received the lecture of a life time and for this cause it took me a whole decade to gain my mums trust again, and at times even when am not lying she just has to be sure....

So people honesty is the best policy.

Pains 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

 

1. Every problem you have is spiritual.
>
> 2. In every romance movie, someone must die.
>
> 3. It is possible to hit a person without actually touching
> them!
>
> 4. Anyone who gets hit by a car dies immediately.
>
> 5. Poisoned food always tastes better.
>
> 6. The best way to make money is by visiting a
> 'Babalawo' / joining a
> cult / sleeping with rich men.
>
> 7. One of a pair of twins (identical or not) is born evil.
>
> 8. There is never an end to your suffering, except death!
>
> 9. With a pastor ... all things are possible.
>
> 10. A movie can be titled anything... such as:
>
> *The boy is mine,
> * Face me, I face you
> *Two rats,
> *Spanner,
> *Calculator,
> *Igala,
> *Ijele,
> *Igodo,
> *Igudu
> *Shigidi
>
> 11. A movie has not been made if at least one actor/actress
> has not-
> 'shelled', twisted his/her lips to speak wrong
> phonetics'.
>
>
> 12. You are in love... you want to take your girl out, the
> best place
> you take her to is...
>
> *Mr. Biggs/Tantalizers: where you'll most probably see
> an ex while
> feeding each other.
> *The beach: where it is imperative that you ride a donkey
> and carry her
> playfully.
> *Or the best: take her to buy some new ugly clothes.
>
> 13. An Igbo movie has been made if:
>
> * You visit a Dibia (Babalawo)
> * A fleet of cars is shown off at regular intervals for a
> total of half
>   of the movie time.
> * Kanayo 'O' Kanayo is in the movie. Pete Edochie
> is there too!
> * To get rich it is mandatory you join a cult
>
>
> 14. Gun shots and knock-outs sound the same!
>
>
> 15. Sometimes the title has absolutely nothing to do with
> the movie and
> other times, once you read the title and see the poster you
> know it
> all!!! (Also the soundtrack gives you a headache because it
> just
> narrates the whole story repeatedly - so much for suspense
> and
> intrigue!)
>
>
> 16. A love story has not been produced if it does not have
> one or two of
> the following actresses-
>
> * Stella Damascus
> * Stephanie Okereke
> * Genevieve Nnaji
> * Omotola Jalade
> * Rita Dominic
>
> 17. The police are extremely 'efficient' unlike
> their counterparts in
> real life.
>
> 18. An actress can wear the same hairdo for more than a
> year and even in
> longer flashbacks.
>
> 19. It is permissible to wear very dark shades at night!
>
> 20. When you are shot in the chest, it really doesn't
> matter; your head
> will be bandaged! Same for your legs!
>
> 21. When advertising a movie, you really should shout
> because... people
> are deaf?
>
> 22. When you are extremely poor, you will still be able to
> afford-a
> beautiful house, very good furniture, T.V., nice clothes,
> but you won't
> be able to send your kids to school.
>
>
>
> 23. Most especially in Yoruba movies, your gateman must be
> inefficient
> and comical. He MUST dress like a freak, be rude to all
> your visitors
> and never mind his business.
>
> 24. the bad guy always dies or gets caught by none other
> than the
> police- LOL!!!!
>
> 25. At the end of a three hour movie you'll be reminded
> that THIS IS
> JUST THE BEGINNING...WATCH OUT FOR PART 2!
>
> 26. An actor must also sweat profusely when crying.
>
> 27. An actor announces his death as he slowly dies-
> "You killed me" "I'm
> dying" "I'm dead" 
>
>  28. In a case where a person is on his death bed, he/she
> must cough
> till they die.
>
>  29. Every ghost must wear a white cloth and have powdered
> unevenly
> distributed on their face.
>
> 
>
> 30. No matter the type of movie...TO GOD BE THE GLORY...
>

1. 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~

   
   

    

    

Learn How to Love Yourself

Do you know how to love yourself?

“To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I'.”
~Ayn Rand

Rand touches on a point that is worth exploring. You have to know and love YOU before even trying to love anyone else.

Have you heard yourself saying any of these things?

“I’m never going to find someone.”
“I can’t believe this happened… again.”
“I don’t want to just be friends, I want a girl/boyfriend.”
“I’m sick of playing games. I just want people to be real.”
“Maybe I need to focus on my career right now… love can wait.”

It’s as if you have tried EVERYTHING to find that one person that loves you, and no matter what you do, you can't find love.

Well, here's a little secret about attraction:

Learning how to love yourself is

If you don't love YOU, you can't love anyone else. Period.

What does loving yourself mean?

BEING AWARE - Knowing who you are, how you act, what you believe, and why you think certain ways. Knowing your boundaries, strengths and weaknesses.

BEING VALUABLE - Recognizing your own worth and the validity of your opinions. Providing value to others because you tap into your individual talents.

BEING YOUR OWN BEST FRIEND - Liking, respecting, and trusting yourself. Treating yourself well. Taking care of your needs.

BEING ASSERTIVE - Confidently expressing your unique "I" in the world. Being proactive rather than reactive and staying true to yourself.

BEING COMMITTED - Acting in accordance with your personal development or spiritual growth. Making "growth" your number one priority.

BEING SELFISH (or SELF-MINDFUL) - Respecting yourself and not tolerating disrespect from others. Neither sacrificing yourself to others, nor letting others sacrifice themselves to you.

BEING RESPONSIBLE - Knowing that you are ultimately responsible for all outcomes in your life, positive and negative, and that you alone make the choices which create your experience.

BEING HAPPY ALONE - Enjoying your own company and using solitude for nourishment to reboot your energy. That way you can share love without getting depleted.

The most important person in your life is you. The person who you love the most in the world should be you! Why not? Who better than you?

"YOU" are the one person you have to spend every waking moment of your life with.

"YOU" are the only person who will be there for you when no one else is.

"YOU" are all you have no matter what.

When you first love yourself, you will give yourself what you need. You will become highly attractive to others because you are coming to them out of wholeness, not out of a repulsive neediness. You will be able to have fulfilling relationships, and you will have no problem ending relationships which don't serve your growth.

The concept is simple, though it isn't easy to learn how to love yourself. It's going to take some hard work. Are you ready for it?

By becoming self-mindful, taking it step-by-step, and developing self-confidence, you can increase your overall happiness in love and life.

All you have to do is FIRST LOVE YOU and everything else will fall into place.

This site is all about Love, Dating, Relationships, Attraction, and Seduction... and how "Loving yourself first" is the key to healthy relating.

Check the links on the Navigation Bar (top left) to find out more about relationships, personal growth, and how to love yourself. Be sure to subscribe to the First Love You BLOG (top link on nav bar).

Thanks for visiting and happy relating~

 

the foundation of any love relationship.

 My opinions are sanctuary where my truth and reality lives
when opinions differs, can conventional truths be managed?
can openmindedness smear personal value?
in a world of revolution, neutral opinions, overly freedom of speech and thoughts, opinions are easily framed by society.
maybe it is just me, most times my truths is in
opposition with so called conventional opinions.

Am I the master of my  own ability?
can I create my world with my thoughts and followed
through actions? is conventional wisdom definite?
am i disillusioned? relying on my abilities
does destiny/ lucky play a huge part?
Is patience and kindness learned?
Can Love be unconditional, really?

The one who said, i rather be lucky than good,
was he reasonably? what does being good bring?
Do we all have ulterior motives?
Is why always more vital than what?
Are we all inclined to selfishness?
Will nature always override nuture?
Yes or no to my incisve questions
It is all about  my own choices.


Rebecca aka. Lady Eno

Here is the second istallment like I promised -

6. I used to suck my tongue till I was 17 years old ( yeah yeah..I know). My sisters Ngozi and Lulu used to tease me about it so much but it was a hard habit to break. I don't do it anymore and I actually now get irritated with adults who do it. I still can't remember how I stopped but glad I did.

7. Watching movies is my favourite past time. I have seen sooooo many of them in my lifetime. I love horror films and thrillers the most. I just love to turn off the lights and scare myself silly watching movies. Of course, this does not mean I don't enjoy other genres. Right now, I am digging tv series like Lost, 24, Desparate Housewives, Heroes, Smallville, and One Tree Hill.

8. I often get into a mood after shooting a film. I get irritated by things that normally would not irritate me. Didn't understand it earlier in my career but now I have learnt how to deal with it. I guess it is my way of getting out of character. It takes me a a couple of days to get over it depending on how long we shot. It took longer for films like Izu Ojukwu's Distance Between and White Waters, and also for Desperate Bilionaires because I had live maggots crawling all over me in that movie (naaaaasty).

9. My first film was MY GUY though my second one SOUL THAT SINNETH was released before it. I had a starring role in My guy alongside the great comedians Basorge Tariah and Ali Baba. My biggest challenge was keeping a straight face. I kept laughing and the director kept cutting. It was also hard not looking into the camera coming from the world of stage. I will forever be grateful to Basorge for casting me in that film.

10. I left Nollywood for a few years when it didn't seem like anything was working out. While in England, I actually paid to go to some art school. In 2003, I came back to Nigeria for a short holiday, and that was it. My siblings kept calling from England to ask when I was coming back but I was doing one job after the other. One year later, I realized I was never going back to live in England.

Bless
Rita Dominic