21 Suggestions For Success

Posted on Mar 2, 2011 in Personal Development, Quotes, Reality Checks, Relationships | 1 comment

21 Suggestions for Success
by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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  • Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery.
  • Work at something you enjoy and that’s worthy of your time and talent.
  • Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
  • Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.
  • Be forgiving of yourself and others.
  • Be generous.
  • Have a grateful heart.
  • Persistence, persistence, persistence.
  • Discipline yourself to save money on even the most modest salary.
  • Treat everyone you meet like you want to be treated.
  • Commit yourself to constant improvement.
  • Commit yourself to quality.
  • Understand that happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.
  • Be loyal.
  • Be honest.
  • Be a self-starter.
  • Be decisive even if it means you’ll sometimes be wrong.
  • Stop blaming others. Take responsibility for every area of your life.
  • Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you’ll regret the things you didn’t do more than the ones you did.
  • Take good care of those you love.
  • Don’t do anything that wouldn’t make your Mom proud.

 

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Relationship Quotes

Posted on Feb 9, 2011 in Quotes, Relationships | 0 comments

CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 08: Oprah Winfrey...

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Sometimes the best way to say something is the way someone more literary than you has said it. In that vein, here are some relationship quotes of note:
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”
“Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same.” -Flavia Weedn
“The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that’s why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they’ve really done is they’ve shifted their relationship with time.”
“Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
“Well, it seems to me that the best relationships – the ones that last – are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is… suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with”
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
~ Aristotle
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.”
~ Helen Keller
“Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl – no superior alternative has yet been found.”
~ Winston Churchill
“It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.”
~ Kahlin Gibran
“To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person.”
“Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.”
“You can’t stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it’s the best thing in the world. When you’re in a relationship and it’s good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.”
“Our greatest joy-and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.”
“Love doesn’t just sit there like a stone; it has to be made – like bread, remade all the time, made new.”
“Once the trust goes out of a relationship, it’s really no fun lying to ‘em anymore.”
~ Norm from Cheers
There is a broad collection of relationship quotes for you.
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The Intelligence Quandry

Posted on Oct 29, 2010 in Personal Development, Quotes | 1 comment

F Scott Fitzgerald

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“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” F. Scott Fitzgerald

In my opinion this means being able to look at things in every way possible and be able to have two different ideas of a topic in mind and be able to keep yourself neutral while also being able to tolerate both being right and wrong. This is what judges have the ability to do when they are forced to make a decision, they look at a particular issue from multiple viewpoints prior to rendering a judgment. In life you never can tell where a person came from or what the have been through.

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Quotes of Power

Posted on Oct 12, 2010 in Personal Development, Quotes | 0 comments

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These are the quotes that I have found to get me through tough times. They come from a wide variety of places and have true power in their meaning when applied in ones life.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. – John Quincy Adams

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain. – Kahlil Gibran

Everyday do something that wil inch you closer to a better tomorrow. – Doug Firebaugh

Thinking that got us to where we are now is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be. Einstein

Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events and small minds discuss people. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. – Brian Tracy

You will never “find” time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. -Charles Bruxton

Change and growth take place when a person has risked themselves and dares to become involved with experimenting with their lives. – Herbert Otto

Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions – Einstein

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