"Problems are good, not bad. Welcome them and become the solution. When you have solved enough problems, people will thank you."
-Mark Victor Hansen
Infinite money and mind
"Infinite money is available to a mind that is ready, willing, able, qualified and gives itself permission to earn and accept it."
-Mark Victor Hansen
How to solve other's
What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
- Miller, Olin
Rich inside
"This is an absolute law: You've got to be rich inside to become and remain rich outside. Become rich inside and your mental equivalent will manifest in your experience."
-Mark Victor Hansen
Perspective Perceptions
"The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place."
~ Roger Birkman
Invest in ignorance
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
- Saul Bellow
Love & Hate
"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love. For love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."
– Nelson Mandela
Action cancels fear
"Action eradicates fear. No matter what you fear, positive, self-affirming action can diminish or completely cancel that which you are fearful of."
-Mark Victor Hansen
See your B'spots
We cannot overcome what we do not see.
The ability to see our BLINDSPOTS is the gateway to greatness!
The ability to see our BLINDSPOTS is the gateway to greatness!
The Invitation
Below is a famous poetic prose, written by the story-teller Oriah Mountain Dreamer. Her words prompt us to open our minds and hearts, to reflect, to question, to dream, to rise...
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"The Invitation"
By Oriah Mountain Dreamer
It doesn't interest me
what you do for a living.
I want to know
what you ache for
and if you dare to dream
of meeting your heart's longing.
It doesn't interest me
how old you are.
I want to know
if you will risk
looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn't interest me
what planets are
squaring your moon...
I want to know
if you have touched
the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened
by life's betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain.
I want to know
if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.
I want to know
if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you
to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us
to be careful
to be realistic
to remember the limitations
of being human.
It doesn't interest me
if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear
the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.
I want to know
if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
"Yes."
It doesn't interest me
to know where you live
or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.
It doesn't interest me
who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the centre of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.
It doesn't interest me
where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know
what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.
I want to know
if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like
the company you keep
in the empty moments.
Source: http://www.oriahmountaindreamer.com/
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Adding more Goals
"Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be realized all at once."
-Mark Victor Hansen
Mirror for revealing
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
- Samuel Butler
Believing and achieving
"If you keep believing what you've been believing, then you'll keep achieving what you've been achieving."
-Mark Victor Hansen
Contributions...
"You and I aren't remembered for what we acquire but for what we contribute."
-Mark Victor Hansen
Overcoming problems
"You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems."
-Mark Victor Hansen
Impossible to any other
"Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Liberate from fear
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
– Marianne Williamson
Present & past
"Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past."
~ Bernice Abott
2 people in every picture
"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer."
~Ansel Adams
Art of observation
"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."
~ Elliott Erwitt
Mementos
"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt."
~ Susan Sontag
Focus & silence
"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."
~Ansel Adams
Photo day Quote
"The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much."
~ Annie Leibovitz
Persistence and resistance
"Continued persistence overcomes almost all resistance."
-Mark Victor Hansen
World photography Day
"The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much."
~ Annie Leibovitz
Photos: Past & Future
"Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future."
~ W Eugene Smith
Encourage people
How to encourage people to feel powerful:
1. Include them.2. Give authority to make decisions.3. Notice strengths.4. Affirm AND challenge.5. Connect people with purpose.
Terrible affliction
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would indeed be a terrible affliction.
-Jean de La Bruyere, essayist and moralist (16 Aug 1645-1696)
Life according to Zen
Life, according to Zen, should be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in water.
- D.T. Suzuki
Never to returns
"If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, "there goes another day of my life, never to return," you will become time conscious."
~ A. B. Zu Tavern
Part of your growth
Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come."
-Og Mandino
Victory & Good will
"If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will."
-Dale Carnegie
Stepping stones to...
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."
-Dale Carnegie
Giving power over...
"When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness." -Dale Carnegie
Giving Power
"When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness." -Dale Carnegie
Stepping Stones
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."
-Dale Carnegie
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