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- The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
- So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
- Christopher Reeve, From speech at Democratic National Convention, August 1996
- Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.
- David Hume (1711 - 1776)
- Let us, then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
- Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
- Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do.
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
- Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do.
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
- Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
- If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
- To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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