Excerpts of Citations
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There is a great idea that you will encounter again and again on your quest: you are a living magnet, constantly drawing to you the things, the people, and the circumstances which are in accord wit...
~Eric Butterworth
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No man can receive the Holy Ghost without receiving revelations. The Holy Ghost is a revelator.
~Joseph Smith
from Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 328 -
The Holy Ghost is now in a state of probation which if he should perform in righteousness he may pass through the same or a similar course of things that the Son has.
~Joseph Smith
from The Words of Joseph Smith, p. 245; Sabbath address, Nauvoo, 27 August 1843. Reported by Franklin D. Richards. -
To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
~e.e. cummings
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
~Abraham Lincoln
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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
~Vernon Howard
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No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with l...
~Vernon Howard
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You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.
~Robert J. Sawyer
from "Calculating God", 2000 -
Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you...you do have a terminal illness: It's...
~Dan Millman
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Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith i...
~Eric Fromm
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One determined person can make a significant difference; a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
~Sonia Johnson
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Happiness is yours in the here and now. The painful states of anxiety and loneliness are abolished permanently. Financial affairs are not financial problem s. You are at ease with yourself. You are...
~Vernon Howard
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I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
~Mark Twain
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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
~Frank Lloyd Wright
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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
~Oscar Wilde
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In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamans call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.
~Carlos Castaneda