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People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists.
If you were arrested for being kind to yourself..would there be enough evidence to convict you?
For now realize that you can change anything you want, but you can't change everything you want.
If we're not enjoying what we've got...and even if we do get 'more,' we won't enjoy that, either.
Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".
This is how it happens. We get the Dream, but we don't get to dictate every step toward the dream.
The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.
Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.
If we learned all we needed to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.
The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.
Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.
The simple solution for disappointment depression Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.
Nausea is an unsolved problem of medicine and marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science.
Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
You can have anything in life you really want - but you can't have everything in life you really want. Decide.
Although a lot can be learned from adversity, most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy.
Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.
To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.
All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human consciousness.
Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.
The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.
If you're not playing a big enough game, you'll screw up the game you're playing just to give yourself something to do.
Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life.
No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it.
When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.
You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.
Running from fear only strengthens fear-you are demonstrating that fear has power over you. Fear must be faced and gone through.
One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways
One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.
Pain (any pain-emotional, physical, mental) has a message. Once we get the pains message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.
..Because when medical marijuana is fully accepted for what it is, we will see a phenomenon that makes Viagra's phenomenon seem limp.
Write 10 times: 'Fear is my friend. Fear is the energy to do my best in a new situation.' You don't have to believe it; just write it.
Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.
Don't accept the limitations of other people who claim things are 'unchangeable'. If it's written in stone, bring your hammer and chisel.
The most recent studies both behavioral and biological, indicate one's sexual orientation is genetic — something determined at conception.
For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting it into a chair and not moving from the chair for a set period of time.
Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked.
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master the old rule, you are then the master-and masters get to change things.
The amount of power freed by telling yourself you no longer choose to put energy into something can be remarkable. Be prepared for extra energy.
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
Positive thoughts: joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness, have positive results: enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love.
Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.
The ongoing successful treatment of my depression is the single most important positive step I have taken in my life, hence my enthusiasm for the subject.
Send the light of your own loving ahead of you. When you get there, the loving will have prepared a place for you. Be kind, gentle, and enjoy the journey.
There is no answer to any of these questions. It's a matter of time and timing, of seas and seasons, of breathing in and breathing out. It's a matter of balance.
The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.
When we realize one Dream, sometimes a deeper Dream reveals itself. At other times a parallel Dream appears. The one that scares the hell out of you is probably it.