You are a success when you feel good about what you are doing.

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
- Thomas J. Watson

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
- Warren Buffett

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford

You are a success when you feel good about what you are doing.

Further reading: How to be Successful in Business

Finding Balance in Life

How to Save Money while Living Well

Quotes about Success in Life

Positive Attitude

Never Give Up Quotes

Life Changing Quotes



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Make your life the very best it can be.

Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

 Trust yourself, then you will know how to live. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

 No one can give you better advice than yourself. - Cicero 

 It is your life. In the symphony of your life, you are the star. You write the melody and the lyrics. You are the soloist and the conductor. You are merely a bit player in other people's lives, but in your own life, you are the star. Make your life the very best it can be. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

 Further reading: How to Build Self Esteem 

  How to Not Care What People Think 

  How to Feel Good About Yourself

Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.

We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- Proverbs 23:7

To have a friendship with God, all I really have to do is have a friendship with my Self.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.

Further reading: How to Find Yourself

How to Get Motivated

The Secret of Happiness

Insightful Quotes

Meaningful Quotes

Quotes that Make You Think

Thoughtful Quotes

Words of Encouragement

You're standing on the threshold of success. - Dumbo movie

You're standing on the threshold of success. Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy. - Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo 

 Dumbo! C'mon, fly! Open them ears! The magic feather was just a gag! You can fly! Honest, you can! - Timothy Q. Mouse in the movie Dumbo 

 If you can dream it, you can do it. - Walt Disney 

 Sometimes, like Dumbo, we need a "magic feather" to remind us of how powerful we are. Placing attention on a ceremony or symbol can be a useful "ladder" in helping us to reach the power that has always been within us. 

 Further reading: Stop Worry By Using the Qigong Release Exercise

Inspirational Quotes - Spur for Inquiry 

  Daily Journaling - How to Begin a Rewarding Journaling Practice 

  Affirmations of an Inspired Life - Young-Adult Version

We are all one. Send your love into the world.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels.
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa

In your brother is The Light.
See him as sinless, and there can be no fear in you.
- A Course In Miracles

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson

We are all one. Send your love into the world.

Further reading: What is Love?

Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing - a Parable

Appreciate the Unexpected

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.

Spiritual Quotes

Quotes about Unity

Quotes about Smiling

Uplifting Quotes and Sayings

Play to win, but be cheerful in defeat

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

It's one of life's great paradoxes ...

Accepting with gratitude whatever life throws at us is critical to happiness.

Yet without a goal and commitment, life lose much of its value.

The best we can do in the face of this paradox is to play to win, but be cheerful in defeat, and be ready to play again.

Further reading: Maybe So, Maybe Not

How to Deal with Rejection

Failure? Never

Intention versus Expectation (Demand)

Quotes about Strong Women

Cheer Up Quotes

Caring Quotes

Simply do your best - don Miguel Angel Ruiz

Simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Angel Ruiz

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry,
and one who has any faith in God should be
ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
- Mohandas Gandhi

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin

Your best is ALWAYS good enough. After you have truly done your best, release your attachment to the outcome.

Further reading: How to Live a Stress-Free Life

How to Stop Worrying

How to be Successful

Don Miguel Ruiz: The Four Agreements - The Wisdom of the Ages in Four Sound-Bites

Gratitude for Friends

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
~ Anaïs Nin

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When was the last time you told those closest to you how grateful you are for their friendship?

Further reading: How to Stay Positive

What To Do When Your Whole World Is Falling Apart?

Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.

Questions To Ask Yourself Before Offering Helpful Advice

Our loved ones

Friendship Quotes

Deep Quotes

Being Strong

To leave the world a bit better ... - Ralph Waldo Emerson

To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Always do the best you can, and everything else will take care of itself.
Focus your energies on doing what you can, rather than worrying about what you can't.

Further reading: Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life

Later is Never

Boldly Sail the Storms of Life

Courage Doesn't Always Roar by Mary Anne Radmacher

Relationship Quotes

Moving On Quotes

Encouraging Quotes

Amazing Quotes

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every thought we think is creating our future.
- Louise L. Hay

Well-being is making its way to you at all times.
If you will relax and find a way to allow it,
it will be your experience.
- Abraham (Esther Hicks)

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor

Your world really does change when you combine the Power of Gratitude with the Power of Intention (sometimes called the Law of Attraction, or just Positive Thinking).

Further reading: How To Be Happy In Life - The 9 Paths To Happiness

Unanswered Prayers

Open Mind - Open Heart: A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect

Does the Law of Attraction Really Work?

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else. - George Savile

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile

Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush.
Don't race around.
Sure and steady gets you there every time.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams

Patience, persistence, and perseverance. A little more each day, a little better each day.

Further reading: Go With the Flow

Life Lessons I Learned From My Cat

Love is Patient, Love is Kind

Hurry?

New Beginning

Never too old

Be Thankful. Be Content.

The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.
- Neale Donald Walsch

He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey

Be Thankful. Be Content.

Further reading: Zero-Based Gratitude

Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

Celebrating Rainbows and Butterflies - the Small Miracles of Our Life

Quotes about Life

Quotes to Live By

Sayings about Life

Make today matter

Don't Wait! Start on your dreams, your impulses,
your longings, your special occasions today.
Because this is your moment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous

Make today matter.

Further reading: This Above All, to Thine Own Self Be True - 5 Ways to Apply William Shakespeare's Advice Today

How To Be Happy Today And Prepare For Tomorrow

How to be Successful in Business

Amazing Quotes to Live By

Aging with Grace

Living in the Now

Living Life to the Fullest

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. - Dale Carnegie

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie

Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
- Albert Schweitzer

Working at a job you hate is unlikely to bring you either happiness or success. Do what you love. You are far more likely to gain success - recognition and financial reward - if you are working at something that inspires and excites you. And, whether wealth follows or not, you will be happy.

Read my article Create Success in Your Career.

Further reading: How to Move On and Let Go

How to Not Care What People Think

How to Stay Positive

Life Changing Quotes

Life Lessons

Life Purpose

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. - Steve Jobs

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
- Anonymous

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- jlh

Make a list labeled, "Things that make me happy." Make another list called, "Things I spend my time doing." Compare the lists. If the lists don't align well, what changes can you make in your life?

Further reading: Time Flies

How to Get Motivated

How to Save Money while Living Well

Life Balance

Life is Beautiful

Change Quotes

Happiness Quotes

Laugh with Life

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby

Let today be a day to dance lightly with life.

Further reading: Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now

12 Life Lessons I Learned From My Cat

What I Know - What I Don't Know

Stop Anger Before it Stops You - 7 Secrets

Busy? Why?

Beware the barrenness of a busy life
- Socrates

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Whenever you feel you must hurry, ask yourself whether the busy-ness is fulfilling your purpose in life.

Further reading: Finding Balance in Life

Conscious Breathing to Relieve Stress

What is Meditation?

Positive Affirmations to Relieve Stress



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E. F. Schumacher: Our faith gives us knowledge of something better

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher

What we speak becomes the house we live in.
- Hafiz

What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell

Allow yourself to become all you ever dreamed of being.

Further reading: How to Be Yourself

How to Think Positive

Today is your day to paint life in bold colors - jlh

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Stop holding on to the past

What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare

My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond

Stop holding on to the past.

Release your regrets about whatever you may have done or failed to do that turned out poorly.

Forgive others for whatever they may have done or failed to do that cause you harm.

Declare today to be a new beginning. 

Let go of the past and move on with creating a joyful new future for yourself.

Further reading: How to Deal with Rejection

How to Move On and Let Go

A ceremony for releasing your troubles

Renewal and Rebirth - The Great Cycle

Beyond the Grief of Divorce - 7 Steps Toward New Beginnings

Have gratitude for the simple gifts of life

He who is contented is rich.
- Lao Tzu

At the center of your being you have the answer;
you know who you are and you know what you want.
- Lao Tzu

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

Have gratitude for the simple gifts of life.

Further reading: Go With the Flow - Six Ways to Live a Happier Life

What If Every Day Were Your Day - Celebrate Whimsey Today

What I Know - What I Don't Know

How to Overcome Frequent Insomnia

Meaningful Quotes about Life

Amazing Quotes to Live By

Belief, Persistence, and Purpose are keys to success.

Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right. - Henry Ford 

 Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. - Henry Ford 

 Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. - Henry Ford 

 Belief, Persistence, and Purpose are keys to success. 

 Further reading: How to Stay Positive 

  How to Find Yourself 

  How to Get Motivated

Whatever you can imagine, you can accomplish.

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir 

 Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. - Pope John XXIII 

 Imagine - John Lennon 

 Imagine whatever most speaks to your heart. Whatever you can imagine, you can accomplish. 

 Further reading: Later is Never 

  Mary Anne Radmacher: Dare to dream of your great success 

  Why I Choose to Believe that Others are Never the Cause of My Unhappiness 

  Appreciate the Unexpected 

  What's in a Name?

Today I will be the master of my emotions. - Og Mandino

If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino

Further reading: Choose to live life joyfully

How to Get Motivated

How to Keep Your New Years Resolutions

The Secret of Happiness

Depression Quotes

Cheerful Quotes



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Be yourself. Honor yourself.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons are writ small in the margin.
- jlh

This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

Be yourself. Honor yourself. Live your own life with courage and enthusiasm.

Daily affirmation: I live with enthusiasm, and give thanks for my life.

Further reading: 12 Life Lessons I Learned From My Cat

What is Love?

How to Sleep Better

How to Save Money while Living Well

Your world IS as you believe it is.

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

Success is a state of mind.
If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Your world IS as you believe it is. If you believe your world is a scary place, you are right. If you believe your world is loving and supportive, you are also right. You make your world with your attitude toward it.

Further reading: How to Stay Positive

How to Stop Worrying

The Secret of Happiness

Your belief will make it so.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
- Martha Beck

Your belief will make it so.

Further reading: The Nature of Belief

Attitude is Everything

Unanswered Prayers

Renewal and Rebirth - The Great Cycle

See the Good in Life

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

 - Anaïs Nin

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

When one door of happiness closes, another opens,
but often we look so long at the closed door
that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller

It is so easy to become preoccupied with what is wrong and just take for granted all that is wonderful with life. Take time today to think about all you have to be grateful for. See the good in life.

Further reading: How to Stop Worrying

How to Live Without Anxiety or Worry

How to Deal with Anger - How to Deal with Fear

Uplifting Quotes

Your attitude determines the quality of your life

Attitude is Everything.
- Charles Swindoll

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene

Whatever happens to you, your attitude determines the quality of your life.

Further reading: How To Be Happy In Life

How to Stay Positive

How to Keep a Positive Attitude Around Negative People

Ralph Waldo Emerson: When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars.

When It’s Darkest, Men See the Stars. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

 Only when life is difficult, are we challenged to become our greatest selves. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie 

 Further reading: How to Find Yourself 

  Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life

Don't Wait!

Don't Wait!
Start on your dreams, your impulses,
your longings, your special occasions today.
Because this is your moment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Saying

If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey

Today is the right day to do what you have long wanted to do.

See Questions for Mary Anne Radmacher and her answers.

Further reading: The Paradox Of Living In The Moment - How To Be Happy Today And Prepare For Tomorrow

What If Every Day Were Your Day - Celebrate Whimsey Today

What I Know - What I Don't Know

Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now

Living In The Now



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Positive Quotes about Life

Quotes to Live By

Regret Quotes

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. - Harper Lee

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford

Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world, we are all one.
- jlh

Color of skin, languages, religions, and traditions are all part of the magnificence of humanity. Honor diversity.

Further reading: Perspective on Tradition: An Open Mind

Joy Blooms Where Minds and Hearts are Open

The Nature of Belief

Question your questions

Acceptance Makes a Great Relationship Even Better