Getting, Keeping and spreading a positive attitude

[Dan Auito]

I believe in your ability to help others as well as to help yourself, you can do real estate it is a totally achievable objective, reinforce your belief in yourself and others and succeed. I believe in YOU!

To succeed at anything, you need to have the right attitude, a POSITIVE one! If you tend to be negative, turn yourself around. Be positive!

Attitude -- not aptitude -- determines your altitude.
--Anonymous
A healthy attitude is contagious, but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
--Anonymous

A man can not be comfortable without his own approval.
--Mark Twain

A new attitude invariably creates a new result.
--Unknown

A positive attitude is a person's passport to a better tomorrow.
--Anonymous

A positive attitude is not a destination. It is a way of life.
--Unknown

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
--Norman Vincent Peale

Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life.
--Norman Cousins

A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life.
--Dr. Joyce Brothers

Big thinking precedes big achievement.
--Wilferd A. Peterson

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
--Marva Collins

Choose a self and stand by it.
--William James

Clear your mind of can't.
--Samuel Johnson

Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
--Roger Staubach

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.
--Mark Twain

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.
--Robert Schuller

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
--Betty Ford

Don't limit God's ability to do by your capacity to receive.
--Randall D. Worley

Everyone you meet knows something you don't know. Be willing to learn from them.
--Unknown

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

For with God all things are possible.
--Bible, Mark 10:27

Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will.
--Dr. Robert Anthony

Give me a lever long enough and a prop strong enough. I can single-handedly move the world.
--Archimedes

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't.
--Orison Swett Marden

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.
--Unknown

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.
--Norman Vincent Peale

I can do all things through Christ, which strengthens me.
--Bible, Phil 4:13

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you treat everything like a nail.
--Abraham Maslow

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
--Jonathan Winters

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
--Mary Kay Ash

Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.
--Rod Serling

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.
--Mike Todd

Little minds attain and are subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.
--Washington Irving

Maturity is not a matter of arteries, it's a matter of attitude.
--Randall D. Worley

Mind is all that counts. You can be whatever you make up your mind to be.
--Robert Collier

Motivation is not a matter of will-power, it is a matter of want-power.
--Paul Karasik

No man is ever whipped until he quits - in his own mind.
--Napoleon Hill

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
--James Russell Lowell

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
--Helen Keller

Others can stop you temporarily -- you are the only one who can do it permanently.
--Zig Ziglar

Positive attitudes create a chain reaction of positive thoughts.
--Unknown

Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.
--Unknown

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
--Dale Carnegie

Search for the seed of good in every adversity.
--Og Mandino

See the things you want as already yours... think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.
--Robert Collier

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.
--Unknown

Start every day with an inspiring thought.
--Anonymous

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
--William James

There are so many negatives in our society. To be on the cover of a magazine these days, you have to have been through drug rehab three times. What message is this giving to young people? But there are positives in our society. And I try to surround myself with good-natured, positive people.
--Mary Lou Retton

They can... because they think they can.
--Virgil

Think health, eat s[aringly, exercise regularly, walk a lot, and think positively about yourself.
--Norman Vincent Peale

View every problem as an opportunity...
--Joseph Sugarman

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it...
--Donald Curtis

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
--Francois La Rochefoucauld

When I started out, some women comics were jealous of other women comics, thinking, "If she gets "The Tonight Show," I can't." My philosophy always was, "If she did, I can too."
--Rosie O'Donnell

Winners lose more than losers. They win and lose more than losers, because they stay in the game.
--Terry Paulson

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
--Og Mandino

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing...
--Orison Swett Marden

You may give out, but never give up.
--Mary Crowley

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you, but as the attitude you bring to life.
--John Homer Miller

The way to help yourself as well as those you serve
http://www.changethis.com/14.PositiveAttitude
Thank you, for any help you can offer in the way of sending this helpful message across the globe. Thanks for being a part of it all :SM081: Dan

[Dan Auito]

Just in case you needed that extra helping! :SM082:

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
-Albert Camus


If you start to think the problem is ‘out there,’ stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
-Stephen Covey


You'll see it when you believe it.
- Wayne Dyer


A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
- Maya Angelou


The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
-James Branch Cabell

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
-Maya Angelou

The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind.
-Henry David Thoreau

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
-Colin Powell

Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.
-Dr. Joyce Brothers

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
-Norman Vincent Peale

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you…as by the attitude you bring to life.
-John Homer Mills

Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
-Art Linkletter

Positive belief at the start of a doubtful undertaking is often the one thing ensuring its success.
-William James

Enthusiasm is contagious. Be a carrier.
-Susan Rabin

Purpose, Passion and Desire are the fuels for your fire!
-Dan Auito :SM065:

[RosewoodTx]

Yeah!! http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_1_55.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxdm824BBUS)I hope you'll make this a sticky, Dan! I'm gonna go hunt up my favorites and add them. Maybe a positive thinking corner could or should replace the Lawn and Garden or at least add it to the Family's Rendezvous Area.


If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
--Jonathan Winters



I'm swimmin, Dan! I'm swimmin! [/url] [url="http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxdm824BBUS"]http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_1_58.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxdm824BBUS)

[Dan Auito]

I think those who need it will find it Lizzie. Hey! I have a raft you can use to keep yourself from getting wet! :clap:

[RosewoodTx]

Don't worry, I'll get over it. I don't expect to always get my way. Besides, your right! Those who need it will find it. There's that big 'law of attraction', right!

Thanks for the offer for the raft, but I've got a kayak in tow. It's a lot more fun when you hit the rapids than a raft. It's a two seater, though, cause sometimes I like the company and the extra paddle power.
Besides, I like the water till it gets too hot, too cold or too rough, then I like my boat and a good friend to help navigate and catch them fish. http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_13_11.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxdm824BBUS)

[Dan Auito]

Just in case your saying to yourself, I'll do it tomorrow, you might stop and think about that for a minute, here's what I mean.

To realize
The value of ten years:
Ask a newly
Divorced couple.
To realize
The value of four years:
Ask a graduate.
To realize
The value of one year:
Ask a student who
Has failed a final exam.
To realize
The value of nine months:
Ask a mother who gave birth to a still born.
To realize
The value of one month:
Ask a mother
who has given birth to
A premature baby.
To realize
The value of one week:
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize
The value of one hour:
Ask the lovers who are waiting to
Meet.
To realize
The value of one minute:
Ask a person
Who has missed the train, bus or plane.
To realize
The value of one-second:
Ask a person
Who has survived an accident.
To realize
The value of one millisecond:
Ask the
person who has won a silver medal in the
Olympics.

Time waits
For no one. Treasure every moment you have.
You will treasure it even more when you can share it with someone special.
To realize the value of a friend:
Lose one.

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Let God into the little things of your life....

[Dan Auito]

Well you have a positive attitude, you know there is no time like the present so let's get you motivated to begin doing!

If people are coming to work excited . . . if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly . . . if they're having fun . . . if they're concentrating doing things, rather than preparing reports and going to meetings - then somewhere you have leaders.
--Robert Townsend
When he reached the New World, Cortez burned his ships. As a result his crew was well motivated.
--The Hunt For Red October

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
--Peter F. Drucker

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'Press on,' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race
--Calvin Coolidge

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?
--Mary Manin Morrissey author

Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back.There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.
--Elie Wiesel

They build too low who build beneath the skies
--an inscription on a building in Washington, D.C

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them.
--Henry David Thoreau

If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.
--Albert Schweitzer

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
--Unknown

If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.
--Nido Qubein

Kites rise highest against the wind -- not with it.
--Sir Winston Churchill

People prefer to follow those who help them, not those who intimidate them.
--C. Gene Wilkes

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
--Harriet Braiker

You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do!
--Bob Richards

I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best.
--Akeem Olajuwon

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
--Frank Outlaw

This is actually a paraphrase of a Buddhist teaching
called the "Dhammapada" which is attributed to the Buddha.
It reads:

The thought manifests as the word;
The word manifests as the deed;
The deed develops into habit;
And habit hardens into character;
So watch the thought and its ways with care,
And let it spring from love
Born out of concern for all beings....
As the shadow follows the body,
As we think, so we become.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
--John Wooden

Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves.
--Herman Cain

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
--Donald Laird

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.
--William Boetcker

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
--Unknown

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top ups.
--Peter Davies

No one does anything from a single motive.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
--Sir John Lubbock

Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!
--Max Schmelling

The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.
--Francie Larrieu Smith

I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.
--Howard Stern

This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.
--George Van Valkenburg

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
--Marquis De Vauvenargues

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
--Frank A. Clark

Do what your best at and do more of it.
--Dan Auito :SM135:

[Dan Auito]

Here's your outline! http://www.goalsmagic.com/goalsmagic.pdf :SM023:

Not sure :shocking: How about some further explanation http://www.mygoals.com/helpGoalsettingTips.html :thumbup:

[Aldo]

Nevermind. Watch for a survey on post lengths.

[Dan Auito]

I know as we age our attention spans begin to get less and less! :SM007:

[entrepentuer]

Dan,

I had my doubts but you ere even able to convince me. I have encouraged people that e-mail to your site. Hopefully the hits keep coming. and they get stronger after our chat. Have great evening.

entrepentuer

[Dan Auito]

It's people like YOU that actually make it all work. Thank YOU. :praise: :SM082:
How about just a little more motivation for good measure! http://www.elder-x.com/

[Dan Auito]

Attitude is everything!
Quotes Assembled by Howard E. Spiva

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
- Napoleon Hill

You can stay in the shallow end of the pool, or choose to go out into the ocean.
-Christopher Reeves

Don't let the start stop you from being successful. It's often the start that stops people.
- Howard Spiva

Visionary is a self-fulfilling prophet. Don't predict the future. Create it.
- Leland Kaiser

Walking the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only those who dare to fail greatly can achieve greatly.
- Robert F.Kennedy

Live out of your imagination, not your history.
- Stephen Covey

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas A. Edison 1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
- William James

You must be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas Gandhi

I am here to invent who I am and what my life is about.
-Howard Spiva

It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
- Vince Lombardi

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.
- Helen Keller

Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.
Thomas Szasz 1920-, American Psychiatrist

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
-Confucius BC 551-479

Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
- Harvey Mackay

Our life is what our thoughts make it.
-Marcus Aurelius Antonius

MAKE IT AN EXCELLENT DAY!!!
-Howard Spiva

You have brains is your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
-Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places You'll Go!)

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
-William Jennings Bryan

“There isn't a person anywhere who isn't capable of doing more that he thinks he can.”
-Henry Ford

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
-Norman Vincent Peale

If you want to know what people really want, ignore their words; watch what they do.
-Howard Spiva

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
-William James

"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."
-Picasso

ALL our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them.
-Walt Disney

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an art, but a habit.
-Aristotle

It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.
-Lance Armstrong, (run July 25, 2004 after Lance wins record-breaking #6)

"Never Settle for Less"
-Howard Spiva

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
-Dale Carnegie

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
-Frederick Wilcox

You can have anything you want -- if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
-Abraham Lincoln

Successful people believe in themselves, especially when others do not.
-Howard Spiva

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
-Thomas Watson, founder of IBM

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
-Tommy Lasorda

If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.
-Malcolm Forbes

Fall down seven times; stand up eight.
-Japanese Proverb

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
-George Bernard Shaw

Contrary to popular opinion, life does not get better by chance, life gets better by change. And, this change always takes place inside; it is the change of thought that creates the better life.
-Howard Spiva

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
-Theodore Roosevelt

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
-Socrates

Real courage is moving forward when the outcome is uncertain.
-Michael E. Angier

Ideas are worthless. Intentions have no power. Plans are nothing . . . unless they are followed with action. Do it now!
-Michael E. Angier

You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
-Zig Ziglar

It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
-W Somerset Maugham

If you are unwilling to suffer the pain of discipline, you will suffer the pain of low self-esteem. Choose your pain. One can be transformed into pleasure; the other cannot.
-Howard Spiva

"Impossible" is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

All that we are is a result of what we have thought.
-Abraham Lincoln

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
-Napoleon Hill

The smallest deed is far greater than the biggest intention.
-Kerry Randall

My simple formula for success:
Do not let what you do not have get in the way of using what you do have.
-Howard Spiva

We become what we think about all day long.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adventure is not outside; it is within.
-Howard Spiva

When I hear somebody sigh that "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"
-Sydney Harris

No matter your past, you have a spotless future.
-Howard Spiva

Never, never, never, never, never, never give up. -Winston Churchill

[Aldo]

I include inspiriational shots in my quarterly tenant newsletters. This thread has provided ammo for the next three hundred years.

One from the old Aldoid: If you want to achieve your goals for today, start yesterday.

Rosewood, glad to see you again. I envy your ability to take long vacations. lol

[Bernie (FL)]

Aldo I think the Rosewood post was almost a year ago.

I thought the same as you did until I went back and looked at the date.

:oops:

[Aldo]

I knew that (teehee). Guess I wasn't paying attention to the dates, but I did have an opportunity to show appreciation for the fodder for my tenant newsletters which I wish to promote to buy-and-hold investors. My newsletters have proved to be one of the best resident-retention tools I've ever used.

[Dan Auito]

Hey sport, you think those tenant newsletters would make good Blog material?:SM122:

[northernwoods]

I knew i was gonna like this place! :) It's taken me awhile to get all the way to here but what do i find? Some of the best encouraging words i've ever seen assembled! Planning on sending a link to Magic Bullets to my eldest in FL. He's watched me dabble in real estate for a few years and is "almost" ready to start himself...might be he IS ready and just doesn't know it yet!

Thanks ya'll!

becki

[Dan Auito]

Pleasure to have you with us Becki!:SM040: :SM128: :SM023: Now where exactly is your wonderful offspring located here in the Sunshine state?

I'm here in Inverness if I can be of any service. Dan

[RosewoodTx]

I include inspiriational shots in my quarterly tenant newsletters. This thread has provided ammo for the next three hundred years.

One from the old Aldoid: If you want to achieve your goals for today, start yesterday.

Rosewood, glad to see you again. I envy your ability to take long vacations. lol
:SM103: Well, It hasn't exactly been a vacation Aldo. :grin:
That's great that you put out a tenant newsletter and toss in some inspiration.
That makes you and inspiration in my eyes Also. :SM049:

[RosewoodTx]

"Despite the cautions just raised, there is abundant reason to believe that optimism – big, little, and in between – is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling."
Christopher Peterson, American Psychologist, January 2000:51


"An optimist is the human personification of spring."
Susan J. Bissonette

"People ask me, 'Are you an Optimist?' I say 'I hope so!'"
Bill Bailey on his Part Troll stand-up tour


"The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come."
Peter Ustinov

" 'Optimist' is a word which here refers to a person...who thinks pleasant thoughts about nearly everything. For instance, if an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say, in a pleasant and hopeful voice, 'Well, this isn't too bad. I don't have my arm anymore, but at least nobody will ever ask me if I am right-handed or left-handed,' but most of us would say something more along the lines of 'Aaaaah! My arm! My arm!' " Lemony Snicket, The Miserable Mill

"Optimism is an intellectual choice."
Diana Schneider

Well that was quite cathartic. :smiley:

ca·thar·tic adj.
Inducing catharsis; purgative.
n.
An agent for purging the bowels, especially a laxative.

[Late Latin catharticus, from Greek kathartikos, from kathairein, to purge. See catharsis

[RosewoodTx]

Are you trying to say I'm full of it? GMAO I couldn't agree with you more. :grin:
I would say that #2 & # 4 are actually what I meant, as you well know. :p

catharsis
(medicine) Purging of the digestive system
A figurative cleansing of the emotions, especially pity and fear
A release of emotional tension after an overwhelming experience that restores the spirit
(psychology) A therapeutic technique to relieve tension

[Aldo]

:newbie: Elizabeth, I'm glad to see you here and posting again. Call me psycho, I mean psychic, but I somehow thought the resurgence of this nearly-forgotten thread might bring you back into the fold. Welcome back!!! Methinks you've been lurking for longer than you care to admit and that's okay. You're back and that's what counts.

Dan, I very strongly believe in the value of tenant newsletters and willingly share them with no copyright claims. I don't do blogs, so I'm not sure of how I'd get one in there without losing the formatting - I think blogs are text-based and my newsletter isn't.

I can pervert, I mean convert, it to .jpg or .pdf format, if necessary, and offer it by whatever means you prefer. The truth be told, I'll print and snail mail a copy to any fambly (sic, Kaos) member who provides a mailing address.

[RosewoodTx]

:newbie: Elizabeth, I'm glad to see you here and posting again. Call me psycho, I mean psychic, but I somehow thought the resurgence of this nearly-forgotten thread might bring you back into the fold. Welcome back!!! Methinks you've been lurking for longer than you care to admit and that's okay. You're back and that's what counts.Thanks Aldo. Yes, I have been a lurker. :whistling
Dan has dropped me a few kind notes now and then, but dropped me quite a few this past week. :D
A big thanks to you too Dannyboy. :SM065:

[Dan Auito]

Luurrrkkkkeeeeerrrrrr GRRRRRR:cussing: :mat: :SM077: Say it isn't so! You of all people confessing to be a lurker. No lurking allowed! LOL

[SPIVALAW]

A person's a person no matter how small.
Dr. Seuss

[RosewoodTx]

Luurrrkkkkeeeeerrrrrr GRRRRRR Say it isn't so! You of all people confessing to be a lurker. No lurking allowed! LOL
:SM126: :icon_roll Did I say lurking? I'm sure I meant burping, lol.:SM089: hehehehe :grin:

"A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships." ~Helen Keller

"The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat." ~ Merlin Olsen

Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them. ~ William James

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~ John Ruskin

[Aldo]

"The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat." ~ Merlin Olsen

Great quote, but you misspelled Dan's name.

[RosewoodTx]

"The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat." ~ Merlin Olsen

Great quote, but you misspelled Dan's name.
Yeah, I thought about you guys when I found that one. :SM009:

Yeah! What Aldo said!

[eldorado]

I still soar like an eagle-even though I'm surrounded by turkeys!:icon_verw

Hi Lizzie! :SM072:

[Debbie]

Hi Lizzie! :SM072:

Ahh, shall their flirtations in public continues......:whistling

[Dan Auito]

Oh Come now Deb. These two have been at it for what seems like years now :icon_buss They truly bring life and spice to the forum so you be nice.:SM082:

[Debbie]

Oh Come now Deb. These two have been at it for what seems like years now :icon_buss They truly bring life and spice to the forum so you be nice.

Dan,
Believe me when I say this-I've thoroughly enjoyed Liz and Claude's public affections.:SM014: It was not a complaint by any means so hopefully no one else thought I was being sarcastic. :icon_buss
Heck, I've enjoyed flirting publicly with Aldo, SlumlordMike, etc. :SM082:

[Dan Auito]

Hey maybe we can start a dating service around here. Sort of like that Don Knotts looking guy from match.com? We'll all have to attend the wedding down in Texas to see Claude get taken to the cleaners! LOL:SM051::icon_knab :SM122:

[eldorado]

Hey maybe we can start a dating service around here. Sort of like that Don Knotts looking guy from match.com? We'll all have to attend the wedding down in Texas to see Claude get taken to the cleaners! LOL :SM122:
ROFLMAO :SM050:
3rd Time's a charm!!! :SM001:

hey! we met here!

[RosewoodTx]

Dan,
Believe me when I say this-I've thoroughly enjoyed Liz and Claude's public affections. It was not a complaint by any means so hopefully no one else thought I was being sarcastic.
Heck, I've enjoyed flirting publicly with Aldo, SlumlordMike, etc. :SM016: Deb, I didn't think for one minute it was a complaint. I'm certainly glad to know you're a flirt as well. :thumbsup:
Yep, I met Claude here and proceeded to whoop up on him. :biggrin:

[Aldo]

Heck, I've enjoyed flirting publicly with Aldo, SlumlordMike, etc.

That's it! My life ends as I've come to know it. All this time I thought .........nevermind. I'm destroyed and I guess it doesn't matter any more.

BUT, you just wait! I'm telling my mom about you. Then you're realy gonna get it!

[Debbie]

Heck, I've enjoyed flirting publicly with Aldo, SlumlordMike, etc.

That's it! My life ends as I've come to know it. All this time I thought .........nevermind. I'm destroyed and I guess it doesn't matter any more.

BUT, you just wait! I'm telling my mom about you. Then you're realy gonna get it!
LOL. Don't be silly, Aldo....You're forgettin' sumthin'....SlumlordMike may be my honey-pie, Howard is my cutie-pie, but you Aldo? My lover-boy! :kiss:

[Debbie]

:SM016: Deb, I didn't think for one minute it was a complaint. I'm certainly glad to know you're a flirt as well. :thumbsup:
Yep, I met Claude here and proceeded to whoop up on him. :biggrin:

Maybe it's Claude who should whoop up on you 41 times since you've just celebrated your birthday. Happy belated birthday, Elizabeth :SM081:

[eldorado]

I already gave her :birthday: spanking:SM140::kidding:
:icon_knab

[RosewoodTx]

OK, so back on topic. :D

"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."
Maya Angelou


I love that she said that! :SM023: She also said...

"Don't bring negative to my door."

"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."

[SPIVALAW]

"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."
~ Helen Keller

[SPIVALAW]

"Aye, fight and you may die, run, and you'll live...at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade all of that from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!"
William Wallace

[Aldo]

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
~John Maxwell

[SPIVALAW]

Planning gives you power over your future.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Make it a great day!
Howard

[SPIVALAW]

Don’t take yourself so seriously, laugh in the face of adversity, and regardless of your fear of change, always take bold strategic action. Once you do that—you can accomplish amazing things with your personal and professional life.

[Aldo]

Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself.
~Author unknown

[Debbie]

I don't make those stupid mistakes. I learned the lessons from watching other people's stupid mistakes.

Author: Debbie (at age 14)

[dabbayoo]

If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.
--Nido Qubein

Nice. Thats rei to the T

[SPIVALAW]

"Twenty years from now you will be more disapointed by the things that you do than by the ones you did do. So throwoff the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor, Catch the tradewind in your sails. Explore, dream and discover." Mark Twain

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller

“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.” - Helen Keller

“The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car… a teaspoon instead of a steam shove. They expect little and as a result they get little.” – Ben Sweetland

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they life in the gray twilight that knows not victory not defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt


Don't wait. The time will never be just right. - Napoleon Hill

Don't let the start stop you from being successful. It's often the start that stops people. - Howard Spiva

Visionary is a self-fulfilling prophet. Don't predict the future. Create it. - Leland Kaiser

"Walking the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. " - Karl Wallenda

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen Covey

[Aldo]

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

[SPIVALAW]

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
-ZZ


I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
-Groucho Marx

I don't want to make the wrong mistake.
-Yogi Berra

"Pearls do not lie on the seashore. If you desire one, you must dive for it." Oriental proverb.

**********************************************
If: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

is represented as: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

Then:
K N O W L E D G E 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5=96%
H A R D W O R K 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11=98%
But,
A T T I T U D E 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5=100%

So, it looks like hard work and knowledge will get you close, but ATTITUDE is what gets you there!

[SPIVALAW]

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old. ~Frank Lloyd Wright

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it should give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. ~R. Palmer

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. ~Henry David Thoreau

Do not resent growing old. Many are denied the privilege. ~unknown

[SPIVALAW]

The problem with the Rat Race is, even if you win, you're still a rat." -Lilly Tomlin.

Never wrestle a pig. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.


MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!!!
howard

[Debbie]

The problem with the Rat Race is, even if you win, you're still a rat." -Lilly Tomlin. Oh, so very, very true!

Never wrestle a pig. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
Nah, ah! No way! Pigs likes to be clean. Who's the author? I oughta straighten him/her out!


MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!!!
howard

Have a great day too, Howard!

[Dan Auito]

Howard you are a wellspring of positive energy and I for one appreciate your great attitude.

[SPIVALAW]

"If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month -- get married.
If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.
-- Chinese proverb

[SPIVALAW]

Howard you are a wellspring of positive energy and I for one appreciate your great attitude.


THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[smidgen]

Boy, this thread really is helping me through a really tough time. I got more bad news yesterday and it is going to delay me another 6 months. The worst part is it is because it is a mistake that I made. So I have no one else to blame but me. I cried a little yesterday (because I was pissed at myself) but now I am bound and determined to fight harder. My partner told me that even though that there is another delay the value of the property will always go higher and higher (I never thought of that? that made my eyes twinkle) so there is a bright side!

Dan, you are so right! I was a little blue (for another reason) this morning so when I came onto the site I saw this section and started to read! It is wonderful!

Thanks So Much!

[Aldo]

The pessimist complains about the wind.
The optimist expects it to change.
The leader adjusts the sails.
- John Maxwell

[smidgen]

I am a person that wants to flow with the ebbs of the tide and sometimes I am good at it but other times I am a little stiff and demanding (or so my husband says?) I just believe in my heart of hearts that my actions need to speak louder than my words and I like to do things privately. I have such a long haul to go to my goal I feel that I can't celebrate yet with anything.

I know with different things that are going on in my life I am going to visit this thread often, because it just makes me feel good inside!

Thanks Again!:praise: :SM120:

[Aldo]

I have such a long haul to go to my goal I feel that I can't celebrate yet with anything.
Smidgen, I'm sorry, but you are wronger than wrong. You have a dream and you have a long range goal. There are many, many steps to climb before you achieve them and every step you climb is a reason to celebrate because each step brings you closer to where you want to be.

My advice? Listen to hubby. Regular folks cling to the branch. You're not 'regular folks' so, if you want to get the fruit, you have to go out on a limb.

[smidgen]

You have made a great point! I am trying to go out on a limb and listening to my hubby about RE. Also I am keeping my ears open to my partner who says it will all work out and I will smell like a rose (like I always try to do.) I am working on cash flow more and more each day so I can be ready for next year. I am also ready two great books: "Residential Land Developer" second Edition, by: R. Dodge Woodson, "The Tax-Free Loophole", by: Jack Cummings. Right now a lot of the information is greek to me but it will become more clearer as I study and ask questions.

I know so many people on this site have ebooks but my printer is down so I can't print it out . Anyway I am a "mangler" when it comes to books I love to write all over the margins, fold corners, put post-its over the good parts, you know a "mangler". I when I am into a RE book I just eat it all up and get to the meat of ideas.

Anyway, thanks for the seeds of wisdom!

[Bernie (FL)]

Don't worry about printing out the Ebooks now. Do as I do and save them and burn them to a CD, label them and when you are ready to print them out they will be there.

[SPIVALAW]

"We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act."
~ Swami Vivekananda

[smidgen]

Take a positive step towards your goals each day! Talk less and act more!

Swami Smidgen (no, I am not a Swami I am just mess'n with y'all)

[smidgen]

Boy, another bump in the long road to success! My spirits are down today.... I feel that I just didn't do enough homework and it bit me in the butt. I learned my lesson, now I know I need to do more homework if I want to get anywhere in the RE game. Thank-god for this site and the positive section here or I would be in tears. I will be better in a few.

[Dan Auito]

Hang in Smidgy. We're here with you and know how you feel. It's just not all fun and games but we try to lighten the load.

Click and listen my dear! http://www.inspirationline.com:80/EZINE/15JAN2007.htm

[SPIVALAW]

To Mom:

“The poem that wasn’t too late”

There are some things that I should say,
Yes now, not some sad and too late day.

The way I’ve chosen to speak at this time,
It’s not a song, a story, but in a rhyme.

You’ve always been there when I need you,
I hope I also can be half as true.

Your love has come not in spurts but a continuous flow,
The caring, kindness and love always seem to grow.

No words can express how strongly I feel,
To me this little poem is a great big deal!

Not many people have experience through all we’ve been,
Through it all you’re still my very best friend.

Many have said you spoiled me rotten,
It’s true, I wore silk when others wore cotton.

You gave me things so I wouldn’t be blue,
But they were in addition to love not in lieu.

I guess most importantly I mean to say,
I love you mom, now, tomorrow and everyday.

I’m glad before it’s way too late,
I told you mom I think you’re great!

HOWARD

[Debbie]

That's beautiful Howard.

I sincerely hope it is still not too late?

[Dan Auito]

With your permission Howard I'd like to send that to my Mom!!!! It does express a great deal of true feelings! I didn't get silk but I wouldn't have worn that any way! LOL

[smidgen]

My mom and dad did the best that they could even if I had thrift store clothes when I was younger! Now that I am on my own I cherish that my Mamma never made us feel poor because she made sure we always had enough!

Howard, those insights are wonderful!

[SPIVALAW]

Anyone may use it anyway you choose.
Change "mom" to "dad"
Reword.or keep the same.
Just make good use.

Your friend
Howard

[ThreeRiversREI]

(Wasn't sure if I should start a new thread, or just add to this one. Guess which I finally picked? :tongue: )

A simple friend, when visiting, acts like a guest.
A real friend opens your refrigerator and helps himself (and doesn't feel even the least bit weird shutting your 'beer/Pepsi drawer' with her foot!)

A simple friend has never seen you cry.
A real friend has shoulders soggy from your tears..

A simple friend doesn't know your parents' first names.
A real friend has their phone numbers in his address book.

A simple friend brings a bottle of wine to your party.
A real friend comes early to help you cook and stays late to help you clean

A simple friend hates it when you call after they've gone to bed.
A real friend asks you why you took so long to call.

A simple friend seeks to talk with you about your problems.
A real friend seeks to help you with your problems.

A simple friend wonders about your romantic history.
A real friend could blackmail you with it.

A simple friend thinks the friendship is over when you have an argument.
A real friend calls you after you had a fight.

A simple friend expects you to always be there for them.
A real friend expects to always be there for you!

A simple friend reads this e-mail and deletes it.
A real friend passes it on and sends it back to you!

Pass this on to anyone you care about......if you get it back you have no beginning, no end. It keeps us together, like our Circle of Friends.

Today I pass this on to you. Pass it on to someone who is a friend to you..

When you are down to nothing ... God is up to something

[Dan Auito]

Self-improvement article bank: http://www.foreclosures.com/www/forecast/authors.asp?authors=Great%2BThinkers

P.S.
Please pass this along: http://www.changethis.com/14.PositiveAttitude

[Debbie]

(Wasn't sure if I should start a new thread, or just add to this one. Guess which I finally picked? :tongue: )

A simple friend, when visiting, acts like a guest.
A real friend opens your refrigerator and helps himself (and doesn't feel even the least bit weird shutting your 'beer/Pepsi drawer' with her foot!)

A simple friend has never seen you cry.
A real friend has shoulders soggy from your tears..

A simple friend doesn't know your parents' first names.
A real friend has their phone numbers in his address book.

A simple friend brings a bottle of wine to your party.
A real friend comes early to help you cook and stays late to help you clean

A simple friend hates it when you call after they've gone to bed.
A real friend asks you why you took so long to call.

A simple friend seeks to talk with you about your problems.
A real friend seeks to help you with your problems.

A simple friend wonders about your romantic history.
A real friend could blackmail you with it.

A simple friend thinks the friendship is over when you have an argument.
A real friend calls you after you had a fight.

A simple friend expects you to always be there for them.
A real friend expects to always be there for you!

A simple friend reads this e-mail and deletes it.
A real friend passes it on and sends it back to you!

Pass this on to anyone you care about......if you get it back you have no beginning, no end. It keeps us together, like our Circle of Friends.

Today I pass this on to you. Pass it on to someone who is a friend to you..

When you are down to nothing ... God is up to something

This is the first I've seen this----somehow I missed it when you posted this.

I love this poem!!!!

[Dan Auito]

http://www.staymotivated.info/70quotes_inspirationline.pdf

[SPIVALAW]

Dan these are great!!!

I love quotes.

Dan, You do a great job on here.
You can quote me on that.

[Dan Auito]

Dan these are great!!!

I love quotes.

Dan, You do a great job on here.
You can quote me on that. By Howard, Heh Heh Heh

[SPIVALAW]

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
- Mark Twain

[Dan Auito]

"Purpose, Passion and Desire cannot be acquired or Achieved by Deceit" By Me! :SM127:

[SPIVALAW]

At 211 degrees, water is hot.

At 212 degrees, it boils.

And with boiling water, comes steam.

And with steam, you can power a train.

One degree.

Applying one extra degree of temperature to water means the difference between something that is simply very hot and something that generates enough force to power a machine - a beautifully uncomplicated metaphor that ideally should feed our every endeavor - consistently pushing us to make the extra effort in every task, action and effort we undertake. Two-twelve serves as a forceful drill sergeant with its motivating and focused message while adhering to a scientific law - a natural law. It reminds us that seemingly small things can make tremendous differences. So simple is the analogy, that you can stop reading right now, walk away with the opening thought firmly planted in your mind and benefit from it for the rest of your life.

Two-twelve.
It’s this dramatic - three numbers joined together to form one, crystallizing a message that absolutely assures life altering positive results for those who choose to apply it.

212
How many opportunities have you missed because you were not aware of the possibilities that would occur if you applied a small amount of effort beyond what you normally do?
Now you’re aware of “212 - the extra degree”. No longer will you be able to do only what is required of you and only what is expected of you. Because with awareness comes responsibility - to yourself and to others. And, again…
You are now aware.

Inches make a champion.
Vince Lombardi Hall of Fame football coach 1913 - 1970

And let us not be weary in well doing; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Galatians 6:9

Many of life’s failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison American inventor 1847 - 1941

At 33 degrees,
water falling from the sky on a Saturday is a rainy day.

At 32 degrees,
children are building snowmen, riding sleighs and promising their parents that they’re warm enough to stay outside five minutes longer.

Professional golf tournaments are comprised of four rounds (games) of 18 holes played over a four-day period (72 holes total).
There are four major tournaments each year - The U.S. Open, The British Open, The PGA Championship and The Masters. The average margin of victory between 1980 and 2004 (25 years) in all tournaments combined was less than three strokes - less than a one stroke difference per day.
From 2000 through 2004 (5 years), the winner across all tournaments took home an average of 76% more in prize dollars than the second place finisher (before endorsement and other dollars).

The Masters averages (up to 2004)
Margin of victory in strokes (1980 - 2004) 2.4
Strokes per day 0.6
First place prize dollars (2000 - 2004) $1,018,000

Second place prize dollars (2000 - 2004) $611,280
Additional prize dollars for first place 67%
Playoffs necessary to crown winner
after 72 holes (1980 - 2004) 5 (20%)

[Dan Auito]

After reading all that How about sitting back and watching some inspiration instead! http://inspiringthots.net/

[Dan Auito]

The 101 Greatest Quotes of All Time
by Carl Hutton (http://javascript<b></b>:openWindow('http://www.carlhuttononline.com/blog/cmd=view_user/username=carlhutton', 'info', 450, 600);) on Sun 23 Jul 2006 08:31 PM CDT | Permanent Link (http://www.carlhuttononline.com/blog/_archives/2006/7/23/2155054.html) | Cosmos (http://technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.carlhuttononline. com%2Fblog%2F_archives%2F2006%2F7%2F23%2F2155054.h tml)
Mankind is evolving. We have created language, sailed to new worlds, conquered frontiers, learned to fly, walked on the moon, split the atom, hurled data through space, and replicated life in a petry dish. If the material world is your measuring stick we have become supermen.
However, analyze man with a spiritual eye and he seems to have devolved. We are not at peace with our brothers. We are not even at peace with ourselves. We diminish natural wonders for the sake of short term profit. We move from discrimination to hatred to genocide in a few easy steps. We learn right from wrong from “Big Brother”. What is wrong today can become right tomorrow and we accept it as if it were always that way. We love those who love us and persecute those who hate us. We spend our lives chasing pleasure like a dog lunging for his tail.
I believe the solutions to our spiritual problems have been presented to us by masters throughout history. We can conquer the spiritual world by looking backward. Great teachers of the past have given us the secrets to life. I have taken samples of these inspiring words and organised them in categories with brief comments. With these “101 greatest quotes of all time” I send you wisdom, love, and understanding.
Many of life's mysteries come with a simple truth wrapped in an enigma. One such example is giving. Everything in the material world is temporary. The greatest treasures will all end up as dust. The only things in life that you can take with you to the grave are the things you gave away. Giving creates an energy that ripples through the universe for an eternity. Here are seven quotes that teach us about giving.
1. “It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. “You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” Dale Carnegie
3. “Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.” James M. Barrie
4. “To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” Leo Buscaglia
6. “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson
7. “You make a living by what you get but you make a life by what you give.” Winston Churchill
Perhaps the one basic ingredient required for a succesful life is a positive attitude. We cannot always control our environment. We can control our perceptions about our environment. Positive thinking is much more then just putting on a happy face. Optimistic people attract help and resources into their life. Pessimists repel those who may be in a position to help them. Here are twelve quotes about the power of positive thinking.
8. “Some people complain that God put thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses on thorns.” Anonymous
9. “Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” St. Francis of Assisi
10. "And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." Roald Dahl
11. “The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.” Wayne Dyer
12. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” Helen Keller
13. “Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.” Tom Blandi
14. “An inexhaustible good nature is on of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.” Washington Irving
15. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step.” Confucius
16. “There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieves the second.” Logan Pearsall Smith
17. “Our doubts are our traitors.” William Shakespeare
18. “Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
19. “Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
Sing, and the hills will answer;
Sigh, it is lost on the air.
The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care.” Ella Wheeler Wilcox

True enlightenment is never found by following the herd. Every great discovery began with a challenge to authority. The explosive power of truth cannot be fully experienced until we are willing to question everything. Here are ten quotes about thinking independently.
20. “Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them; things are forbidden to them that every honorable man will do any day of the year and other things are allowed to them that are generally despised. Each person must stand on his own feet.” Herman Hesse
21. “Men grind and grind in the mill of truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning anecdote, all flock to their aid.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
22. “Do not believe in authority or teachers or elders. But after careful observation and analysis, when it agrees with reason and it will benefit one and all, then accept it and live by it.” Buddha
23. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost
24. “Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...” John Lennon
25. “Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. “Discovery consists in seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
27. “God has no religion.” Mahatma Gandhi
28. “Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are 'patches of godlight' in the woods of experience.” C.S. Lewis
29. “A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.” Marcel Proust
Contention and struggles are universally woven in the tapestry of human experience. The wealthy and the poor alike all experience trials. Those who view these experiences as lessons find themselves growing while those who view them as pure misfortune find themselves stuck in continual suffering. Here are ten quotes about the lessons of life.
30. “Good judgement comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgement.” Will Rogers

31. “If the world were so organised that everything had to be fair, no living creature could survive for a day. The birds would be forbidden to eat worms, and everyone's self interest would have to be served.” Wayne Dyer
32. “The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy." Helen Hayes
33. “To accuse others for one's misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows one's education is complete.” Epictetus
34. “A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.” James Joyce
35. “I havn't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” Thomas Edison
36. “No men living are more worthy to be trusted then those who toil up from poverty- none less inclined to take or touch aught which they have not honestly earned.” Abraham Lincoln

37. “One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.” James Russell Lowell
38. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” Carl Jung
39. “Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.” Albert Einstein
When mankind learns to solve their disagreements without violence the leap taken will be no less monumental then discovering the wheel or fire. Cavemen become savants when they learn the secrets of nonviolence. Here are seven quotes teaching about these secrets.
40. “If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
41. “We must remember that hatred is like acid. It does more damage to the vessel in which it is stored than to the object on which it is poured.” Ann Landers
42. The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them a new self respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage that they did not know they had. Finally it reaches the opponent and so stirs his conscience that reconciliation becomes a reality.” Martin Luther King Jr.
43. “When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.” Will Rogers
44. “You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbors and hate your enemy' But I tell you love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you." Matthew 5:43
45. “You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.” Booker T. Washington
46. "A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other in order that the people may require a leader." Plato
The voice of inspiration often comes in the form of a whisper. Perhaps this is why we often miss it. Our lives are filled with noise. The human mind is like a lake. The surface may be filled with waves and disturbances but allow yourself to drift to the floor and a magical stillness pervades. Here are seven quotes about the mysterious power of silence.
47. “All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.”
Blaise Pascal
48. “It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them.... Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say. Thomas Merton
49. “Silence is the true friend that never betrays.” Confucius
50. “The good and the wise live quiet lives.” Euripides
51. “Learn to be silent, let your quite mind listen and absorb.” Pythagoras
52. “Silence is the only voice of our God.” Herman Melville
53. “A moment of silence is the highest honor we can extend.” Wayne Dyer
Those who dream of excellence often achieve it. Those who expect little of themselves rarely make a difference in the world. A fundamental secret to success is that you really can do anything you set your mind to. Here are seven quotes about aiming high.
54. “The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” Michelangelo
55. “To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong risk of being progressively diminished by the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by the restlessness engendered by material progress. The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability; because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him. But this power needs solitude to develop freely; the more one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply.” Charles Baudelaire
56. “The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” Walter Bagehot
57. “It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” William Somerset Maugham
58. “Somebody is always doing something that somebody else said couldn't be done.”
Evan Esar
59. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed, its the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Meade
60. “Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” Mark Twain
I often reflect back to an experience I had in highschool which has served as a hint to spiritual secrets. I had a football coach who taught me the importance of visualization in athletic performance. I had read accounts from several world class athletes who used variations of this technique to improve their performance. I began visualizing the results I wanted to achieve on the football field each evening before a game. In this attempt I was experiencing a frustrating road block. I would close my eyes and picture myself running a pass route and then receiving a perfect pass and breaking into the open. Then I would sprint towards the endzone as yard markers whizzed by in the background. However, I seemed unable to picture myself crossing the endzone. In my mind I would simply keep running past an infinite number of yard markers without reaching the goal line. Eventually I would fall asleep to this image. One day I went through the same routine broke into the open and within seconds crossed the endzone and spiked the ball in triumph. I recall thinking to myself, “how odd, I have never been able to visualize that before.” Then the game came. I was a below average football player at best. However, on this day the ball seemed to have eyes. I recovered two fumbles which seemed to jump into my hands. One of these I returned for a touchdown without being touched. On another accasion I sprinted down the field to cover a punt reaching the endzone just as the ball arrived. I lept into the endzone and knocked the ball out where it was downed by a teammate on the one yard line. We won the game 14 to 8 that day due largely to several key plays that I made. One week later I went into my visualization routine before a game. The endzone was once again alluding me. I spent the remainder of the season attempting to visualize a touchdown without success. My dreams matched my performance as I never again scored a touchdown or recovered a fumble. I filed this experience away in my memory bank. Throughout my life I have conjured this image up while reading about meditation and visualization. I have become convinced that there is an inexplicable connection between our abstract thoughts and real occurences in the concrete world. Though this may sound like hocus pocus to those who have not developed their spiritual awareness, many great thinkers throughout history have reported on the connection between our thoughts and real events. Here are twenty three quotes about the power of visualization.
61. “There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.” William James
62. “All things are possible to him that believeth.” Mark 9:23
63. “You become what you think about.” Earl Nightingale
64. “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” Albert Einstein
65. “Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners.” William Shakespeare
66. “Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all come.” Michelangelo
67. “The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it it possible.” Richard M. DeVos
68. “It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.” George Gissing
69. “Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so make it so?” He replied, “All poets believe that it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removed mountains.”
William Blake
70. “A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.” Frank Capra
71. “Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.” William James
72. “To believe your own thoughts, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
73. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” Henry David Thoreau
74. “It gives me a deep comforting sense that things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.” Helen Keller
75. “Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours.” Robert Anthony
76. “The first step to becoming is to will it.” Mother Teresa
77. “There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take posession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire.” Andrew Carnegie
78. “What if you slept? And what it, In your sleep you dreamed? And what if, In your dream, You went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand?” Samuel Taylor Coleridge
79. “Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, “This is the real me,” and when you have found that attitude, follow it.” William James
80. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.” Napoleon Hill
81. “Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret - curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.” Walt Disney
82. “You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may use it the moment you learn to control your thoughts.” Napoleon Hill
83. “Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart folows the oxen that draw it. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.” Buddah

One of the greatest road blocks to spiritual enlightenment is possessing an individualistic world view. This is an easy trap for westerners to fall into. Our culture teaches us that we are separate individuals with the singular goal of winning in the competition that is life. Our separateness is an illusion. There is a central force in the universe that exists everywhere and in everyone. Understanding and nurturing this connection is the first step to living a spiritual life. It is the reason religous traditions teach us to love our enemies and give to the less fortunate. Here are eight quotes about the connection between everyone and everything.
84. “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” Albert Einstein
85. “To honor and respect means to think of the land and the water and plants and animals who live here as having a right equal to our own to be here. We are not the supreme and all-knowing beings, living at the top of the pinnacle of evolution, but in fact we are members of the sacred hoop of life, along with the trees and rocks, the coyotes, and the eagles and fish and toads, that each fulfills its purpose. They each perform their given task in the sacred hoop, and we have one, too.” Wolf Song
86. “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” John Donne
87. “Everything in nature contains all the powers of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
88. “Whenever we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” John Muir
89. “Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.” Richard Feynman
90. “The air is precious to the red man, for all things share the same breath. The animals, the trees, the man. Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench. Chief Seattle
91. “Truth is one; sages call it by various names,
It is the one sun which reflects in all ponds,
It is the one water which slakes the thrist of all,
It is the one air which sustains all life,
It is the one fire which shines in all houses,
Colors of the cows may be different, but milk is white,
Flowers and bees may be different, but honey is the same,
Systems of faith may be different but God is one,
As the rain dropping from the sky wends its way toward the ocean,
So the prayers offered in all faiths reach the one God, who is supreme.”
Rig-Veda (Hindu Scriptures)

All of the quotes heretofore mentioned cannot be grasped by humans until we have been redeemed by love. Here are nine quotes extolling the power of love.
92. ” Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud, doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.” I Corinthians 13:4-8
93. “Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tide and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.” Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
94. “For this purpose we have been created: to love and to be loved." Mother Teresa
95. “Love is omnipresent in nature as motive and reward. Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
96. “Better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, then always to walk in armor.”
Margaret Fuller
97. “I want to love first, and live incidentally.” Zelda Fitzgerald
98. “Love means not ever having to say your sorry.” Erich Segal
99. “If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.” I Corinthians 13:1-3
100. “The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit and the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care and let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.” Buddha
I would like to complete my collection of quotes with a poem that teaches us about all the spiritual truths previously mentioned. If the meaning of life can be summed up in a few words this is it.
101. “If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch - and - toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them; “Hold on!”
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!”
Rudyard Kipling