Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - August 22, 2025
Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.
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Dr. Karl Menninger (1893 - 1990)  
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
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Brenda Ueland  
Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.
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Shakti Gawain  
When someone wants to lose weight, they will do whatever it takes. They can’t do it for anyone else but themselves. It has to be for them alone. Without that understanding, they will fail.
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Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012  

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