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“If Opportunity doesn’t Knock, Build a Door.”
Sometimes opportunities present themselves right at your feet, and all you have to do is take a small step forward. Better yet, the opportunities come knocking at your door, and you only have to invite them in. This is ideal. However, it’s not always the case. This quote, by Milton…
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“You can either experience the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The choice is yours.”
The word discipline doesn’t usually make you think of something enjoyable. Having discipline isn’t usually fun. Instead, it can actually be painful, especially when it requires some kind of sacrifice. However, painful discipline is necessary to achieve certain objectives. And the more difficult the objective, the greater the discipline required.…
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“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
More often than not, the dreams we have don’t happen over night. They take time. Sometimes they take A LOT of time, or they take time we don’t have much of. So then, we give up on the dream and abandon all the small steps we can be taking toward…
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“If the plan doesn’t work, change the plan, but never the goal.”
It’s common for us to have goals–aspirations for our lives. But the plans we execute to achieve these goals don’t always work out. Unfortunately, things not working out can be more common, or just as common, as when they do. But what is even more unfortunate is the temptation, when…
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“It’s only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed.”
There are so many stories of people going through “dark hours” only to discover a strength they never knew was there. These stories fill history books, novels, the Bible, and our own lives. Unfortunately, the fact that we would need to go through hard times (or dark hours) to know…
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“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear.”
This quote, by Thich Nhat Hanh, is quite appropriate in times of difficulty. Sometimes the present is not so great. There’re so many ways it could be better if we could make it so. However, circumstances that seem beyond our control make changing things even more challenging. In those moments,…
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Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
The world-famous inventor, Thomas Edison, is known for a few quotes about failure and perseverance. This quote is perhaps not as well known as the others; however, it’s just as powerful. What’s so unique about it is that it says negative results are actually wanted. At first glance, this contradicts…
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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
You have a dream or life goal that’s constantly being pushed off for later. Perhaps it’s to go somewhere, see something, or do something. But you just don’t feel ready to take the plunge. This quote, by Les Brown, reminds us that what typically prevents us from chasing our dreams…
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
This seems counterintuitive. It’s more natural to think that if an airplane takes off in the same direction as the wind, the wind will make it gain more speed and take off quicker. It’s natural to think that moving against the wind would create more resistance. Therefore, it would be…
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Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
This quote by Helen Keller (n. 1880) is very indicative of the kind of life she lived. Before the age of two, she became both blind and deaf. That could have been enough for her to give up on all the hopes and aspirations she had for her life. It…