SWITCH FOR a Bigger Self. You may have that childhood dream of living in an isolate paradise where everything is abundant & comfortable. But it does not help you grow. You need to envision yourself as being capable of taking risks, solving problems & dealing well with even the most unlikable persons you could imagine.

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This is the simplest rule for greatness and comfort: Do your best and pray for the rest.

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Let's begin today, and say this everyday.

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Savor the now, secure the next.

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The greatest self help is to seek help from the Greatest.

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Addiction is good if you are addicted to what is good.

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Life is a drama - you need a role to play and a foe to slay.

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SWITCH OFF Biased Thinking Over-optimism & over-pessimism won't serve you the best. Just balance both. Be optimistic to have the energy to continue your journey, & be pessimistic to avoid possible downfalls.

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SWITCH TO B.O.L.D Goals. Don't stick too much to S.M.A.R.T goals because it ignores changes, insults your potential, and kills your passion & creativity. Instead, aim for B.O.L.D (Big, Optimistic, Liberating, Dramatic) goals.

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SWITCH FROM the Busy Life. Stop acting like everybody's hero. It will just waste your precious time & energy and make them irresponsible. Instead, just follow your Path and do only the tasks w/c you can do best and w/c can make the most impact to yourself & to the world.

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SWITCH ON Bullet-speed Learning & Acting! Learn from a lot of people who have already reached where you want to be right now - from their own stories of struggles, mistakes & failures. Having learned, immediately ACT! It's the non-negotiable ingredient to self-growth.

Arjun Escabarte

Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!

Eddie Marsan

Faith in the king comes easily in lovely times but be faithful now and endure pale lover.

Rumi

I just feel like there hasn't been enough time away from all this other stuff and into this new world or sort of big world that it hasn't worn off yet.

Mike Lowry

A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.

Florence Nightingale

My dad is Mexican, and he grew up as a normal chauvinistic Mexican, and he expected my mom to do everything for him.

Xochi Birch

Most companies don't have a good mechanism to give the CEO real, honest feedback.

Scott Weiss

It is a very overpowering realization that the Earth is so small. It affected me.

Kalpana Chawla

Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It's like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart.

Steven Van Zandt

Waiting is not mere empty hoping. It has the inner certainty of reaching the goal.

I Ching

Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I'm swimming, sometimes I'm not sure which one it is.

Demetri Martin

In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

I never started in boxing to be a British champion or a world champion. There are loads of world champions in Britain, and if you mention them to someone out there on the street, nobody knows who they are.

Tyson Fury

I grew up in the large house and the larger garden of my parents in Altenberg. They were supremely tolerant of my inordinate love for animals.

Konrad Lorenz

Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together.

Henry Paulson

A man never apologizes for the fact that he has to work. He might say, 'Hey, I am so sorry my hours were long today,' but he'd never feel he has to explain the very fact that he has a career. Once I stopped apologizing, I noticed both my kids also stopped complaining and asking me 'why' I worked.

Raney Aronson-Rath

When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.

Brennan Manning

When I started counting my blessings my whole life turned around.

Willie Nelson

The library is like a candy store where everything is free.

Jamie Ford

Impact is more important than method.

Tony Andruzzi

And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they've gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.

Eric Massa

Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We've done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it's much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it's not only easier to use but more efficient.

Steve Jobs

A man's measure is his will.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

I don't think there'd be a Tina Fey now if I hadn't tried to look good in the beginning.

Joan Rivers

The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.

Beth Henley