Memory Spots : November 2018

Make a difference

"If not enough people doubt you, you're not making a difference."

-Seth Godin

Real mistake

"A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying."

-B.F. Skinner

"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."
-Kahlil Gibran, poet, and artist (1883-1931)

Patriotism & Nationalism

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

-Charles de Gaulle, French president (1890-1970)

Life is for

Life is for the making.
Life is for the taking.
Life is beckoning you forward.
What will you create your life to be?

Love all

The best theology is probably no theology; just love one another.

-Charles Schulz, cartoonist (26 Nov 1922-2000)

Self worth

Tired of people being condescending and belittling you? No one can make you small. They can try, but they won't succeed. You are a mighty oak that is firmly rooted in your own self worth and confidence.

Starting something

"The only thing worse than starting something and failing...is not starting something."

-Seth Godin

Our potential

"Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential."

-Shawn Achor

Settling for less

"How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?"

-Seth Godin

How strong

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice."
- Bob Marley

Doing the right things...

"Being productive and being busy are not necessarily the same thing. Doing things won't create your success; doing the right things will."

-Jeff Olson

For better

"Letting go of inner resistance, you often find circumstances change for the better."
- Eckhart Tolle

Thoughts & actions

I always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

- John Locke

Dare Nothing

"He who dares nothing need hope for nothing."

– Anonymous

Fear of not following...

"Regret is what you should fear the most. If something is going to keep you awake at night, let it be the fear of not following your dream."

-Chris Guillebeau

Create your asset

"In the long-term, security comes from an asset you create or acquire, not a position in someone else's asset."

-Chris Guillebeau

You will know

Stop thinking... Start doing.

Think less... Do more.

Do the thing... And you will know the way.

-Hal Elrod

N O W

"The number one cause of unfulfilled potential is never deciding that NOW matters more than any other time in your life."

-Hal Elrod

A form of

Patience is also a form of action.

-Auguste Rodin, sculptor (12 Nov 1840-1917)

Be YOU

Be YOU. Seems obvious but so often we are in constant pursuit of being someone else that we forget that who we are is absolutely AWESOME!

Do it

"Mindfulness isn't difficult. We just need to remember to do it."

- Sharon Salzberg

Be who you are

"Give up being perfect for being authentic. Be who you are. Love who you are. Others will too."

-Hal Elrod

Gets better by

"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change."

- Jim Rohn

Lighten the...

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."

- Charles Dickens

Everyone is blessed

"When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed."
- Maya Angelou

Action & Thought

"Clarity comes from action, not thought."

-Marie Forleo

Passion is to...

"The secret to finding your passion is to bring it to everything you do. (Yes, even doing the laundry!)"

-Marie Forleo

Believe it

"Whatever your mind can conceive and believe it can achieve"

To love and be

"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved."

- George Sand

Laughter is to...

"As soap is to the body, so laughter is to the soul."

- Jewish Proverb

Great inventions?

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

-J.B.S. Haldane, scientist (5 Nov 1892-1964)

Key to Success

"The key to SUCCESS is to START before you're ready"

-Marie Forleo

Will miss learnings

"If you could avoid all your mistakes, you'd miss everything you learned from them."

-Marie Forleo

Set boundaries

"Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it."
- Anna Taylor

Lighten the...

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."

- Charles Dickens

Hurting the planet...

"If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet."

-Steven Pressfield

Silent gratitude

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

- Gertrude Stein

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