Great Thought All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. Buddha *** "The Journey of a Thousand Miles begins with One Step" *** "Leap and the net will appear" *** Turn your face toward the sun & shadow fall behind you *** Lord, give me the courage to change the thing which can and ought to be changed, the serenity to accept the things which cannot be changed, and wisdom to know the difference *** There is never a wrong time to do the right thing *** Not to go on forever repeating what man has already done is our work, but to arrive at new realizations and undreamed-of masteries. Time and soul and world are given us for our field, vision and hope and creative imagination stand for our prompters, will and thought and labor are our all-effective instruments.

Great Thought Aurobindo *** Strength is life; weakness is death *** All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hand before our eyes and cry that it is dark. We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state. We reap what we sow we are the maker of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise. There is no help for you outside of yourself; You are the creator of your universe. Like a silkworm, You have built a cocoon around yourself. Burst your cocoon And come out as the beautiful butterfly, as the free soul. Then alone you will see the truth. In one word, this ideal is that you are divine. God sits in the temple of every human body. Swami Vivekananda *** Be strong! Dont talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death. If it is strength,

Great Thought go down into hell and get hold of it! There is salvation only for the brave. Swami Vivekananda *** I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear Nelson Mandela *** Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. . . . We ask ourselves; who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? You are a child of God . . . .Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. . . . . . . .We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. . . . . . . .As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. --Nelson Mandela ***
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If you think you are good enough; You have just started your decline. *** I know the path: it is straight & narrow. It is the edge of sword. I rejoice to walk on it. I weep when I sleep. Gods word is : He who strives never perishes. I have implicit faith in that promise. Though, therefore, from my weakness I fail thousand times, I shall not lose faith Mahatma Gandhi *** Wherever You are is Entry Point SANT KABIR *** Whatever we do, we must remember our aim at every moment. If your dream is to fly with eagles, do not waste your time in swimming with ducks Barack Obama *** If the victory is certain then even coward can fight. But the real brave is one who still dares to fight when the defeat is certain Adolf Hitler ***
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Great Thought The fragrance always remains on the hand that gives the rose. Mahatma Gandhi *** When there is no turning back, we should concern ourselves only with the best way of going forward. Paulo Coelho *** Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to over look the greatness of little things in others. -The Book of tea *** There are only two mistakes one can make on the way of truth; not going all the way & starting. Buddha *** People laugh at me because I am different. But I laugh at them because they all are the same Swami Vivekananda *** A Ship is always safe at the shore but that is not what it is built for. Albert Einstein
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Great Thought *** If you cant fly, RUN If you cant run, WALK If you cant walk ,CRAWL But whatever you do ''KEEP MOVING TOWARDS UR GOAL "King Martin Luther" *** My Efforts may fail, but I shall never fail to put my efforts. My efforts are doors to my destiny Barak Obama *** "Everything comes to us that belong to us, if we create the capacity to receive it." RABINDRANATH TAGORE *** "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we have been waiting for. WE are the change that we seek Barack Obama *** Be the change you wish to see in the world Mahatma Gandhi ***
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Great Thought If the Path is beautiful, ask where it leads... but if the destination is beautiful; don't ask how the path is. Keep Going.... *** More we sweat in peace, less we bleed in war *** The one who sees the invisible, feels the intangible, can do the impossible. *** Stand Up, be Bold, be Strong, take the whole responsibility on your own shoulder and know that you are the creator of your own destiny Swami Vivekananda *** The caliber of person is not how well he prepares for everything to go right, but how he stands up and moves on after everything has gone wrong. *** Be bold when you lose and be calm when you win. Life is a finger print. Cant be duplicated, make the best of it Leo Tolstoy. *** If it is impossible to attain perfection here and now, there is no proof that we can attain perfection in any other life.
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Great Thought There is no more benumbing error than to mistake a stage for the goal or to linger too long in a resting-place. Aurobindo *** The greater the destruction, the freer the chances of creation; but the destruction is often long, slow and oppressive, the creation tardy in its coming or interrupted in its triumph. The night returns again and again and the day lingers or seems even to have been a false dawning. Despair not therefore, but watch and work. Those who hope violently, despair swiftly: neither hope nor fear, but be sure of God's purpose and thy will to accomplish. Aurobindo ***

All would change if man could once consent to be spiritualized; but his nature mental and vital and physical is rebellious to the higher law. He loves his imperfections. Aurobindo *** Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of values. -Albert Einstein ***

Great Thought We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but habit. Aristotle *** More we sweat in peace, less we bleed in war *** The one who sees the invisible, feels the intangible, can do the impossible. *** In a day, when you don't come across any problems; you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong way Swami Vivekananda *** You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be in your own hand Nelson Mandela *** When you want success as badly as you wanted the air, then you will get it. "Socrates" ***

Great Thought You may not be able to change the whole world, but you can change your part of the world *** "Most of the people refuse to understand the secret code for success, which is very simple and that is JUST TRY ONE MORE TIME Thomas Alva Edison *** The most determinative sentence, which should always be followed in life "The race is not over, because I have not won yet." *** "The world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it" Helen Keller *** The key to happiness is not that you never get angry, upset, frustrated, irritated or depressed. It is how fast you decide to get out of it. *** " I am thankful to all those who said NO, it's because of them I did it myself Albert Einstein
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Great Thought *** Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there Will Rogers *** If you put your consciousness in contact with the highest consciousness within reach, you can be absolutely sure that in that case it is the best that can happen to you. (The Mother - Power of Right Attitude) *** A little lamp can do which the big sun cannot do. It gives light when it is night. No one is Superior by size, but by purpose. *** "The human being is naturally egoistic and ego-centered - all he does, thinks, feels has the stamp of the ego on it and it cannot be otherwise until he learns to make not the ego but the Divine the centre of his existence and thinks, acts, feels only for the Divine or until he enters into the higher or divine consciousness or the divine consciousness into him - for in the divine consciousness there is no ego" *** Sri Aurobindo (SABCL Vol 24, page 1371) ***

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Great Thought "The true sense of Niraya (Hell) is that particular kind of atmosphere which one creates around oneself when one acts in contradiction, not with outer moral rules or social principles, but with the inner law of one's being, the particular truth of each one which ought to govern all the movements of our consciousness and all the acts of our body. *** The inner law, the truth of the being is the divine Presence in every human being, which should be the master and guide of our life. " The Mother in a comment to the Dhammapada *** When it rains all birds fly for shelter. but eagle avoids the rain by flying above the clouds. Problem is common for all but ATTITUDE makes the difference. *** Fences cannot stop those who want to fly *** If you dont stand for something, youll fall for anything. *** Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

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Great Thought -SWAMI VIVEKANANDA *** A huge rock broken on 100th attempt doesn't mean that the rock broke due to the force of that particular stroke. All those earlier 99 attempts have their own contributions towards the 100th attempt, thus the rock broke. *** The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep. Robert Frost *** People will always throw stones in your way, it depends on you what you build from it, A wall around yourself or A bridge to your true dream. *** We spend our days waiting for the ideal path to appear in front of us but we forget that paths are made by walking not by waiting. So keep going. *** The secret of success in the life of a man is to be ready for the opportunity when it comes. Benjamin Disraeli ***
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Great Thought If you are in the right, you do not have to get angry, If you are in the wrong you cannot afford to be angry. So do not get angry anyway. *** One tree makes one lakh match sticks but one matchstick can burn one lakh trees. i.e one negative thought can burn all positive thoughts so keep thinking positive. *** Knowing is not enough, we must aply. Willing is not enough , we must do. *** To be a star you have to shine your own and not to afraid of Darkness. In fact in dark star shine more. *** Do what you can, with what you have, where you are Theodore Roosevelt. *** Do not curse the darkness, light a candle instead. *** The important thing in life is not the victory but the contest; the essential thing is not to win but to fight well. The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes
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Great Thought Marcel Pronst *** Power is not that when you punish somebody with your strength... Power shows when you have all the reasons to punish someone and you pardon him. *** Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Henry Ford *** A champion is someone who gets up when he can't Jack Dempsey *** Sticking to your values will not always make the road easy, but it will make you a stronger person for having travelled the tougher route. *** "You just can't beat the person who never gives up." Babe Ruth *** Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
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Great Thought Winston Churchill *** Defeat is not when you fall down. Its when you Refuse to Get up *** Improvement should always start with ' I ' *** Whenever you share the goodness from your heart, you always end up winning. Because life is an echo, it gives you back whatever you have given. *** Smile is cheapest medicine to heal anyone's wound, so keep smiling. *** There will be plenty of time to sleep when you will dead. Life is for living, so Wake up & PERFORM Benjamin Franklin *** Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. Mother Teresa ***
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Great Thought Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given. Mother Teresa *** Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home. Mother Teresa *** We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. Mother Teresa *** An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. Martin Luther King, Jr. *** A right delayed is a right denied. -Martin Luther King, Jr. *** A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
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Great Thought Martin Luther King, Jr. *** No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. Pythagoras *** Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny--he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally--you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you. -Osho *** You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. -Rwandan Proverb *** Why run around sprinkling holy water? There's an ocean inside you, and when you're ready you'll drink. -Kabir *** You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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Great Thought -Hermann Hesse *** We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life, is when men are afraid of the Light. -Plato

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; It is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -Seneca *** To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance, and to release the fragrance of that inner attainment for the guidance of others, by expressing in the world of forms- truth, love, purity and beauty - this is the sole game which has any intrinsic and absolute worth. All other happenings, incidents and attainments can, in themselves, have no lasting importance. -Meher Baba *** You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. -Gilbert Keith Chesterton ***

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Great Thought Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role. -Paramahansa Yogananda *** When you know that you are eternal you can play your true role in time. When you know you are divine you can become completely human. When you know you are one with God you are free to become absolutely yourself ... -Mother Meera *** Be a lamp unto your self. Be your own confidence. Hold to the truth within yourself as to the only Truth. -Buddha *** The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. -Black Elk, Oglala Sioux *** It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

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Great Thought -Ursula Le Guin *** Truth does not become error just because nobody believes it. Gandhi *** Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all. -Helen Keller *** I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. -Anna Freud *** The unexamined life is not worth living. -Socrates *** We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. -don Juan Matus *** Our own heart, and not others opinions of us, forms our true honor. -

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Great Thought -Friedrich von Schiller *** The ego will not go with laughter or caresses. It must be chased in sorrow and drowned in tears. -Persian saying *** It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. -Marcus Aurelius *** I want to cultivate the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown. -Kathe Kollwitz *** Sound when stretched is music. Movement when stretched is dance. Mind when stretched is meditation. Life when stretched is celebration. -Ravi Shankar *** The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. -Lao Tzu
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Great Thought *** Yesterday you were thinking about today because then it was tomorrow; now it is today and you are thinking about tomorrow, and when the tomorrow comes, it will become today-- because anything that exists, exists here and now, it cannot exist otherwise. -Osho *** How do I know about the world? By what is within me. -Lao Tzu *** Man cannot discover new oceans until he has courage to lose sight of the shore. -unknown *** The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being. -Immanuel Kant *** There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is. -Albert Einstein

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Great Thought *** Sometimes it is not necessary the problem to solve. Change the angle of vision and the problem dissolves. -John C Lehman ***

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr *** You are not a soul, you are not a mind, you are not a body. You are the controller of all three. -Yogi Bhajan *** It is still up to you to choose to join with truth or with illusion. But remember that to choose one is to let go of the other. -A Course in Miracles *** When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes. -John A. Shedd ***
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Great Thought You see things; and you say Why? ; But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?' George Bernard Shaw *** Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9% of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself, And there isn't one. -Wei Wu Wei *** The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think. -Aristotle *** The Awakening is no other than Consciousness becoming acquainted with itself. -DT Suzuki *** You can gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt *** When we think we're separate, we lose power. Whenever I say 'my,' I have lost power. Power is not my power . . . It is only gain
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Great Thought able as a part of the larger whole. Then you communicate with the rest of yourself -- which may be a tree. You, reciprocally, are moved by the universe. Whenever you shut down connectedness, you get depressed . . . It's fearful to know we're connected to everything in the universe, because then we're responsible. -Glenda Taylor *** Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. -Vincent Van Gogh *** Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. -Jimi Hendrix *** The world we have created is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. -Albert Einstein *** Joy is not in things. It is in us. -Richard Wagner ***

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Great Thought Whenever you want to produce something, do not depend upon the outside source:go deep and seek the Infinite Source. -Paramahansa Yogananda *** Pain is illusion; joy, reality. Pain is but sleep; joy is awakening. Pain is deception; joy alone is truth. And so again we make the only choice that ever can be made; we choose between illusions and truth, or pain and joy, or hell and Heaven. -A Course In Miracles *** All serious daring starts from within. -Eudora Welty *** The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves a wise man. -Buddha *** People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun's out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light within.
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Great Thought -Elizabeth Kubler-Ross *** The Lotus flower blooms most beautifully from the deepest & thickest mud. *** Drop The Idea Of Becoming Someone, Because You Are Already A Masterpiece. You Cannot Be Improved. You Have Only To Come To It, To Know It, To Realize It... *** Never underestimate whats inside You, that makes you special. *** If u can solve your problem then what is the need of worrying? If u can't solve it then what is the use of worrying? Think on it twice *** Memorable line: It's not important to go to heaven after we leave.. But, It's important to create heaven before we leave!! *** All power is with you, you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak. Stand up and express the divinity within you
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"Patience and Politeness are not a Person's Weakness. They are the Reflection of Persons Inner Strength." *** - If U Want to Walk FAST, Walk ALONE.. But, If U Want to Walk FAR, Walk TOGETHER Ratan Tata's Lecture on "Building A Successful Life" *** In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true. Buddha *** The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. Buddha *** To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to

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Great Thought him. Buddha *** When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear. Buddha *** Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering - an image of death. Buddha *** You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. Buddha *** This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom. Rabindranath Tagore *** Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it. Rabindranath Tagore

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Great Thought *** Those who own much have much to fear Rabindranath Tagore *** The canal loves to think that rivers exist solely to supply it with water. *** Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. *** Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. *** Never do anything that taints your mind. Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality. Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture the good qualities you want to have. *** Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable. They little know what radical change are possible through prayer. Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses, to be used by Thee, O infinite creator, in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through me. I

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Great Thought know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult or too menial when offered to Thee in loving service. *** Courage in adversity, patience in prosperity, eloquence in assembly, heroism at arms, delight in fame, devotion to scripture all are in the nature of noble men. *** He who sees that the Lord of all is ever the same in all that is -immortal in the field of mortality -- he sees the truth. And when a man sees that the God in himself is the same God in all that is, he hurts not himself by hurting others. Then he goes, indeed, to the highest path. Bhagavad Gita 13.27-28 (Hinduism Today, Feb. 1996) *** A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion. Sai Baba *** Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world. Sai Baba

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Great Thought *** Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions. Sai Baba *** Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy. Sai Baba *** Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use. Sai Baba *** What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past. Sai Baba ***
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it! Sai Baba

Make the best of the rest of your life *** There are three types of people: Those who make things happen; Those who watch things happen; and Those who wonder what happened *** Sometimes a good feeling from within is worth much more than an expensive beauty treatment... MOTHER TERESA *** Its the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho ***

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Great Thought Champions arent made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them a desire, a dream, a vision. *** It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. Antoine de Sainte Exupery *** The appearances of things change according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves. Kahlil Gibran *** Everyday, God gives us the sun and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything Paulo Coelho *** Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose. Tom Krause ***
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Great Thought In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. Albert Schweitzer *** I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. Anais Nin

And in the end, its not the years in your life that count. Its the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln *** The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best, know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt ***

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Great Thought We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. Nelson Mandela *** However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them? I do not believe in a fate that falls on people however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Believe nothing, O monks, merely because you have been told it . . . or because it is traditional, or because you yourself have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings--that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide. *** You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
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Great Thought --Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. --Knowledge is Power --Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith in God. This is the secret of greatness. if you have faith in three hundred and thirty million of your mythological gods, and in all the gods which foreigner have introduced into your midst, and still have no faith in yourselves, there is no salvation for you. Have faith in yourselves and stand upon that faith and be strong. Swami Vivekanand *** Doing is very good, but that comes from thinking. Fill the brain, therefore with the high thoughts, highest ideas: place them day and night before you: and out of that will come great work Swami Vivekananda *** Arise, Awake and stop not still the Goal is reached. Swami Vivekananda
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Great Thought *** What we want is progress, development, realization. No theory ever made men higher. No amount of boos can help us to become purer. The only power is the realization and that lies in ourselves and comes from thinking. Swami Vivekananda. *** When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited. Ramakrishna *** Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you. Ramakrishna *** If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you. Ramakrishna *** The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best, know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the
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Great Thought worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt *** Its never too late to be what you might have been. George Elliot *** The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Martin Luther King, Jr *** Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. Democritus *** The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Gandhi
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Great Thought *** Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone. Cyrus A. Bartol *** For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson *** Don't Let the Past Shape Your Future *** Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow. Mary Anne Radmacher ***

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