1. A Thought for Today Archive - previous months' quotes
2. "Unlimited Power" - excerpts from Anthony Robbins
3. "Awaken the Giant Within" - excerpts from Anthony Robbins
4. "Men Like Women Who Like Themselves" - excerpts from a book I need to read over and over and over and over....
5. Love
6. Opportunites (or as some people call them "Problems")
7. Fear
8. Potpourri

• "Everyone needs recognition for his accomplishments, but few people make the need known quite as clearly as the little boy who said to his father: "Let's play darts. I'll throw and you say 'Wonderful!'" The Best of Bits and Pieces
• "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." - W.J. Bryant
• "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty" - Sir Winston Churchill
• "The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises." - Leo Buscaglia
• "Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'" - Brian Tracy {American Trainer, Speaker, Author & Businessman}
• "The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands." - Robert M. Pirsig
• "One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem,see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words." -Goethe
• "What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible." - Roethke, Theodore
• "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's." - Olin Miller
• “Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, it may alight upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
• “When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt it!” - Henry J. Kaiser
• "A loser is always looking for reasons why things don’t work, a winner is always looking for solutions." Anonymous
• "Let us be the people who can take the time to stop and appreciate the beauty of a rose, and still think on the world level." - Dr. H.J.H. Moon
• "Get someone else to blow your horn. The sound carries twice as far!" - Sense & Nonsense
• “Patience with others is love. Patience with self is hope. Patience with God is faith.”- Adel Bestravos
• “Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.” - Marcus Antonius
• "A step in the wrong direction us better than staying on the spot all your life." -Maxwell Maltz
• "Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written." - Charles A. Stoddard
• “Procrastination is the thief of time.” - Edward Young
• "You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. . . . Don't worry about failure. . . . Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try." - Sherman Finesilver, US District Court Judge
• “Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower. “ - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
• "Failure is an event, never a person." - William D. Brown
• "The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them." - Antoine de Saint Exupery
• "Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade." - James Bennis
• “The only lack or limitation is in your own mind. “ - NH. Moos
• "There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen." - Wayne Dyer
• "You can't get ahead while getting even." - Dick Armey
• "Of that which you see, believe only a little. Of that which you are told, nothing."- Spanish Proverb
• “The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” - Scott Hamilton
• "A person wrapped up in himself makes a very small package." -- Denzel Washington
• “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.” -Aldous Huxley
• “Even in the most hopeless of situations, the best course is to remain focused on the positive, on what you can do, on the difference you can make. Why would you possibly want to do anything else?” - Ralph Marston
• “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. “ - Carl Bard
• “It is not what happens to you , but how you react to it that matters. “- Epictetus
• “A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition." - William Arthur Ward
• "It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy.... “ - Charles H. Spurgeon
• “The achievement you desire will grow more distant, the longer you wait. Opportunity will fade quickly if you fail to act. Your life is full of possibility. What are you going to do about it?” - Ralph Marston
• “Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire! “ - Reggie Leach
• "Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough." - Robert Heller
• "Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.' - Plato
• "What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens." - Thaddeus Golas
• "Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast -- you also miss the sense of where you are going and why." - EddieCantor
• "What value do you have to impart to others? Answer that question, and it will lead you to wherever you want to go. Who can you help? What can you do to make a difference?" - Ralph Marston
• "One minute from now, your worst problems can be behind you, instead of in front of you. Just one step changes your momentum, and starts you in whatever direction you truly want to go." - Ralph Marston
• "Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor." - Paul Hawken.
• “Don't confuse being rich with living a rich life. Being financially rich is a worthy goal, but living a rich life should be our primary mission.“ - Michael Angier
• “Ideas without action are worthless.” - Harvey Mackay
• “Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.” - Margaret Young “Achievement comes from taking action. To take action, you must first make an active decision to do so. Don't let the fear of making the wrong decision prevent you from making any decision at all.” - Ralph Marston
• "A good sermon leaves you wondering how the preacher knew all about you."- Unknown
• "Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree along time ago.” - Warren Buffett
• "The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas." - Linus Pauling T
• "The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities, and to make the most of one's resources." - Vauvenargues
• “You are willing. You are able. You will do what needs to be done. You can be driven, disciplined and committed. Just connect your actions with your true desires.” - Ralph Marston
• "The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said." - Unknown
• "To get maximum results from your efforts, plunge into the most difficult challenges first. You'll stand out from the crowd as an effective problem solver." - Ralph Marston
• "Well the trouble with being a good sport is that you have to lose to prove it." - Unknown
• "The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• "When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty." - Norm Crosby
• "You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him." - Leo Aikman
• "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." - R L Stevenson
• "A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it." - Bob Hope
• "The more you know the less you need to say." - Jim Rohn
• "When you doubt yourself you doubt everyone else as well. What is thought to be fear of others is really distrust of self..." - Anon
• "That which you persist in doing becomes easy to do - not that the nature of the thing has changed, but your power and ability to do has increased." - H. J. Grant
• "Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up." - Reverend Jesse Jackson
• ""I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill Cosby"
• "What WAS the best thing before sliced bread?"
• "If we would read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each man's life a sorrow and a suffering enough to disarm all hostility." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• "There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity."- Nathaniel Branden
• "Make the best of what you have and stop worrying about how you got it. Accept that what's done is done. Put your energy and effort where they can make a difference, and they will." - Ralph Marston
• "No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him." - W. A. Nance
• "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden
• "One good analogy is worth three hours discussion." - James T. Mccay
• "Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use." -Earl Nightingale
• "A little bit more persistence can make a big, big difference. The longer you persevere, the more likely is your success. Each challenge you meet serves to solidify your achievement." - Ralph Marston
• "A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition." - William Arthur Ward
• "The nearest way to glory -- a shortcut, as it were -- is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be." - Socrates
• "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." - Plutarch
• "He liked to like people, therefore people liked him." - Mark Twain
• "In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high." - Henry David Thoreau
• "Even the smallest amount of extra effort will set you apart. Even the smallest added value can make the difference between being number one and just being the same as all the rest." - Ralph Marston
• “Until further notice, celebrate everything." - Unknown
• "Focus on substance instead of triviality, on possibilities instead of condemnation. Act like a winner. Rise above the squabbling and put your energy to use making a real difference." - Ralph Marston
• "Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who'll never find out." - Frank A. Clark
• "Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. " - Norman Vincent Peale
• "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt

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• Success is the ongoing process of striving to become more.
• The road to success is always under construction. It is a progressive course, not an end to be reached.
• You shape your perceptions, or someone shapes them for you. You do what you want to do, or you respond to someone else's plan for you.
• How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life - it is your interpretation of what is happening.
• Nothing has any meaning in life except the meaning we give it.
• Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we will be.
• The more we believe we can accomplish something, the more we're usually willing to invest in its achievement.
• The only people without problems are those in cemeteries.
• If it's possible for others in the world, it's possible for you.
• What a person believes, what he thinks is possible or impossible, to a great extent determines what he can or cannot do.
• Your experience of the event isn't precisely what happened but rather a personalized, internal representation.
• We must daily weed our garden.
• Whenever you believe something is true, you literally go into a state of its being true.
• People who are unhappy and who live "broken lives" have often been without the results they deserve for so long that they no longer believe they can produce the results they want.
• If you try something and do not get the output you want, it's simply feedback.
• You can spend all your time studying the roots, or you can learn to pick the fruit.
• Knowing your outcome is the first key to reaching it.
• Making an assumption is the mark of a lazy communicator.

• Anytime you want to make a change, the first thing you must do is raise your standards.
• If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it easy to slip into behaviours and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.
• We must commit to learning from our mistakes, rather than beating ourselves up, or we're destined to make the same mistakes again in the future.
• A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
• If we want to have an intimate relationship, then we have to overcome our fears of rejection and vulnerability.
• We must make sure that we live our lives in the present and respond to things that are real, not to our fears of what once was or what might someday be.
• Carpe Diem! Seize the day!
• The past does not equal the future.
• Quality always costs less
• Remember, nothing in life has any meaning, except the meaning you give it.
• You've heard the old adage "Someday you'll look back at this and laugh." If that is true, why not look back and laugh now? Why wait?
• Be careful what you ask for - whatever you look for you will find.
• Think of how ridiculous it is to work yourself into a frenzy, when you have the choice of feeling good.

"Men Like Women Who Like Themselves"
- excerpts from a book that I would recommend ten times higher than that piece of %#$@ called "The Rules"

• A real relationship is a process of getting ro know someone and letting yourself be known ... moving slowly and carefully. You wouldn't start a novel at page 100.
• Whether you are using a modem to connect to the net, or dialing on your phone, a phone call is just a phone call is just a phone call ...
• "Phone chemistry" doesn't always translate into real chemistry.
• The most impressive people are those who do not try to impress anybody.
• If he seems to be too good to be true, he probably is.
• Men like women who don't botch their own PR. First thing you do is give him a resume of your physical shortcomings? Don't think so!
• Notice his biceps but prefer his brain.
• To the average man, premature disclosure implies that you are either out to lunch or out of control.
• A bad self-concept is a self-fulfilling prophecy; it leads to bad behavious. We do not improve by telling ourselves that we are rotten. Our actions are a reflection of who and what we think we are.
• Too many guys, even good guys, don't appreciate women who are ready to hand themselves over, no questions asked.
• Men wonder about women who get too interested too soon.
• The more you want to race forward, the more you need to slow down.
• Too much intensity too soon is too much for most men to handle.
• When women are at their neediest, they are most likely to attract a shark.
• If you are trying to sell yourself, you are selling yourself short.
• Good guys scare even faster than bad guys.
• Men appreciate a woman who knows the difference between the guys she's with right now and the guy who stood her up in high school.
• If you're a little bit jealous, a man can feel flattered. If you're excessively jealous, he may think its time to call the witness protection program.
• Men like women they can't take advantage of.
• If you need to do something with strings attached, go fly a kite.
• Men like women who aren't buried in their past.
• The smartest woman doesn't look in the rearview mirror when she knows it's time to move on.
• Men like women who don't put up with their garbage.
• If you don't know how to listen, you don't know how to communicate.

• Love does not keep a ledger of the sins and failures of others.
• You can NEVER hug too much.
• Silent company is often more healing than words of advice.
• If you care, it shows.
• Love your enemies in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.
• You have to love yourself, before you can expect anyone else to.

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• To him who is in fear, everything rustles.
• Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
• We fear the thing we want the most.
• If you are afraid to lose something you have, at some point in your life you will lose it.

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• Sometimes silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.
• After all is said and done, more has been said than done.
• Do or do not. There is no try.
• Look at people thru the tines of a fork and pretend they are in jail.
• Honesty in little things is not a little thing.
• The time to commit is now. And now. And now. And now ...
• The sun will set without any assistance.
• Little strokes fell great oaks.
• We can all learn something from the parrot who is content to repeat something without trying to make a good story out of it.
• Blessed is he who always smiles for the world never knows what he is up to.
• If you prepare for old age, old age will come sooner.
• Some people will believe anything if it is whispered to them.
• No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.

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