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Life itself cannot give you joy
Unless you really will it.
Life just gives you time and space
Its up to you to fill it.

-- Chinese Proverb

"In order to land your dream life, you need to make a conscious effort to visualize it happening. However, keeping your eye on the prize takes practice. It's all about getting rid of misconceptions about yourself, giving up emotional baggage, and putting a new belief system into place."
-- Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

"Life moves in one direction only - and each day we are faced with an actual set of circumstances, not with what might have been, not with what we might have done, but with what is, and with where we are now- and from this point we must proceed; not from where we were, not from where we wish we were - but from where we are."
-- Richard L. Evans

"Live out loud! Live life to it's fullest. Don't just laugh out loud, but cry out loud as well. Take all those wonderful feelings you have and let them out, they are the key to making your dreams come true. You need to know your feelings, so they can lead you down the path you were meant to follow. Max it all out when it comes to living your life, meet your end, exhausted, but happy with the knowledge you lived your life to the fullest."
-- Edward W. Smith, Sixty Seconds To Success

The adventure of life is to learn.
The purpose of life is to grow.
The nature of life is to change.
The challenge of life is to overcome.
The essence of life is to care.
The opportunity of life is to serve.
The secret of life is to dare.
The spice of life is to befriend.
The beauty of life is to give."
-- William Arthur Ward, in Quote Magazine

"Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it."
-- Ellen Glasgow (1874-1945) Novelist

"One of the secrets of life is to make stepping-stones out of stumbling blocks."
--Jack Penn

"Our mission in life is to better the lives of others. In doing so, our life is made better."
-- ©Rick Beneteau

"Perhaps people should spend more time making a life instead of just making a living."
-- John Harricharan, award-winning author of The Power Pause

"The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the Unabridged Dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing factory."
-- Edwin Conklin

"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half asleep even when they are busy doing things they think are important. This is the product of chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to lov­ing others, de­vote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."
-- Morrie Schwartz, Educator

"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist." -- Gail Sheehy (1937-), American writer and lecturer

"Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know."
--James Baldwin (1924-1987)

"We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us ... how we can take it, what we can do with it ... and that is what really counts in the end."
-- Joseph Fort Newton

"We learn the lessons in life we are to learn two ways: either through obedience to natural laws or through suffering the consequences of not observing those laws ... None of us consciously create the suffering we experience."
-- Karol Truman, Feelings Buried Alive Never Die, 1998

"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."
-– Joseph Campbell

"We struggle to find life outside ourselves, unaware that the life we are seeking is within."
-- Kahil Gibran

"When life deals you a losing hand, don't look to what you have lost, look to what you have to gain."
-- Author Unknown

"You are a piece of the puzzle of someone else's life. You may never know where you fit, but others will fill the holes in their lives with pieces of you."
-- Bonnie Arbon

"All of the animals except for man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it."
-- Samuel Butler

"Nine requisites for contented living:
Health enough to make work a pleasure.
Wealth enough to support your needs.
Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them.
Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them.
Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished.
Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor.
Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others.
Faith enough to make real the things of God.
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

"We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic."
-- E. Merrill Root (1895-1973, American Writer)

"Yesterday is already a dream, and tomorrow is only vision; but today, well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope."
-- From Salutation (the Sanskrit)

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."
-- Dale Carnegie

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."
-- William James (1842-1910), American psychologist and philosopher

"The biggest mistake people make in life is not making a living at doing what they most enjoy."
--Malcolm S. Forbes

"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever."
-- Isak Dinesen (1885-1962), Danish author

"The first step to a great life is to fill your life with a positive faith that will help you through anything. The second is to begin where you are."
-- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

"The first step to a great life is to fill your life with a positive faith that will help you through anything. The second is to begin where you are."
-- Norman Vincent Peale