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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
It’s easy to assume people who show courage aren’t afraid–that they lack fear. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. There’s fear in all of us, and this quote, by Mark Twain, reminds us that fear is not necessarily absent in the midst of courage. It’s there. However, what…
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“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”
We all have that voice inside our head that says we can’t do something. And so we don’t do it, which only proves the voice in our head was right. This quote, by Vincent Van Gogh, is about silencing that voice the best way we can–by doing the thing it…
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“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”
Life is full of twists and turns, which can make it difficult to stay on course when you have a one-track mind. Having a one-track mind is like constantly going straight and never bending the wheel. This quote, by Helen Keller, reminds us that without making the turn–being willing to…
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“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
This quote, by Ameilia Earhart, reminds us that when we’re faced with something scary, the hardest part of it is usually deciding to face it. To act. So often, we avoid facing this decision altogether. Unfortunately, the longer we don’t decide to act, the further that action drifts away from…
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“To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.”
“Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier, and healthier life.”
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.
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“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
This quote, by James Baldwin, serves as a reminder that we cannot expect something to change if we’re not willing to face it. We may not be successful. “Not everything that is faced can be changed.” However, without endeavoring to make the change, nothing can be changed. Therefore, it’s much…
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“F-E-A-R has two meanings: ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is yours.”
“If you’re reading this… Congratulations, you’re alive. If that’s not something to smile about, then I don’t know what is.”
“Don’t focus on regrets; find your inspiration in what you can do now.”
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“Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later.”
Many authors start to write a chapter without knowing what it’s going to be called. They decide that later. The same can be said of life. We don’t know what each chapter of our life will become as we’re writing (i.e. living) it. We can only look back at the…
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“If you are unhappy with anything…Whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.”
“Don’t worry about the challenges. Get excited about the rewards of crushing them.”
“If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can’t buy.”
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“You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.”
In this anonymous quote, we’re reminded that with climbing, or taking action, we risk falling–i.e. failing. On the contrary, without climbing and without taking action we significantly reduce our chances of ever falling or failing. No one wants to get hurt. So it would seem living our life on the…
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“Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.”
Naturally, we’re sad when something ends–especially something we enjoyed. But as this quote by Jonathan Lockwood Huie reminds us, endings are one of the things that make new beginnings possible. We may not recognize what that new beginning is at first. Sometimes new beginnings are wrapped in disguise. It’s easy…
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“No exact recipe for today. Gather all available ingredients and whip yourself up something delicious.”
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
“Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.”
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“Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.”
This quote is by Mark Twain. It was later adapted by the American actor and humorist Will Rogers, who similarly stated that “Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due”. What both these quotes are saying is that worrying prematurely–when nothing has even happened yet–is a…
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“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–which is: Try to please everybody.”
“Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later.”
“Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder.”
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“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along’.”
This quote, by Eleanor Roosevelt, is simple. It’s about the strength, courage, and confidence we gain whenever we face our fears. Each time we face our fears, we are emboldened to face the next one because we aren’t the same person we were. Something in us changes, and we face…
