Deepak Chopra, MD, author
The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.
Dobie Gillis
I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.
Don Marquis
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
Dwight D Eisenhower
Pessimism never won any battle.
General Douglas MacArthur
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
General Douglas MacArthur
I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
E E Cummings
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E Cummings
Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God will find six crumbs. Stooping by the coffin lid waiting for something to rise as the something always did. Imagine His surprise, bellowing above the general noise, "Where is Effie? She was dead." Back to God in a tiny voice: "My name's Maybe." The first crumb said. The number two crumb picked up the song. "Might, I'm called. I've done no wrong." Cried the third crumb, "I am Should. Here's our little brother Could and my big sister Would. Don't punish us for we've been good." And the last crumb, with some shame, whispered unto God, "My name is Must and with the others, we've been Effie, who isn't alive and never was. Cross the threshold have no dread. Lift the sheet back in this way. Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread."
Earl Nightingale - 1989
The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
Earl Nightingale - 1989
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Earl Nightingale - 1989
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Edith Armstrong
I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal-and soon they'll forget my number.
Edward Gibbon
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book.
Elizabeth Taylor
It's not the having, it's the getting.
Ezra Pound
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Frank Clark
We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who don't.
Fred Allen
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but as a group decide nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
When you get through all the phony tinsel of Hollywood, you find the genuine tinsel underneath.
Fred Allen
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
Friedrich Neitzche
What does not destroy me, makes me strong. [Or, What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.]
Fritz Reiner
Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance.
Hans Solo THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
Never tell me the odds.
Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick 1878-1969, protestant minister
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.