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  1. Forgiveness is a scalpel which removes the scars from the past. Maxwell Maltz
  2. Within you, there is a Real Self, waiting to be released. The greatest discovery of your generation is… Maxwell Maltz
  3. We act, or fail to act, not because of will as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination. Maxwell Maltz
  4. The man without imagination has no wings. Maxwell Maltz
  5. Self-image is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self-image and you change the… Maxwell Maltz
  6. If you make a mistake, correct it, learn from it, and forget it. Don't carry it forward as emotional baggage. Maxwell Maltz
  7. You will see what you want to see, and you will hear what you want to hear. Maxwell Maltz
  8. A goal is a dream with action. Without action, dreams are just dreams. Maxwell Maltz
  9. The body cannot tell the difference between an experience that is real and one that is vividly imagined. Maxwell Maltz
  10. We are constantly creating ourselves. We can change our self-image at will, and that change will… Maxwell Maltz
  11. Try the new. There is no improvement without change. Maxwell Maltz
  12. Crisis can be a wonderful opportunity to act creatively rather than to fall apart. Maxwell Maltz
  13. Do not take yourself too seriously. Take your work seriously, but yourself not at all. Maxwell Maltz
  14. When we believe we can, we marshal forces, talents, and abilities which would otherwise lie dormant. Maxwell Maltz
  15. If the picture we hold in our minds is one of failure, then we will indeed fail. If we picture success, we… Maxwell Maltz
  16. Create your future from your future, not your past. Werner Erhard
  17. Once you take a stand, your stand becomes the place from which life occurs. Werner Erhard
  18. If you don't have what you want, you must want something more than what you want. Werner Erhard
  19. The truth believed is a lie. If you go around believing the truth, you are lying. Werner Erhard
  20. Life is empty and meaningless, and it is empty and meaningless that it is empty and meaningless. Werner Erhard
  21. We are not our story. Until we get that, our story keeps running us. Werner Erhard
  22. The job of getting to the truth is the job of getting past your story. Werner Erhard
  23. Be willing to be unreasonable about what is possible. Werner Erhard
  24. Transformation is not a question of becoming different from what you are. It is becoming yourself. Werner Erhard
  25. Integrity is honoring your word as yourself. Werner Erhard
  26. Responsibility begins with the willingness to be cause in the matter of one's life. Werner Erhard
  27. What you resist persists. What you give space to dissolves. Werner Erhard
  28. You and I want our lives to matter. We want our lives to make a real difference, to be of genuine consequence. Werner Erhard
  29. Stop making sense and start making a difference. Werner Erhard
  30. Commitment is not a feeling. Commitment is what you do when you are free, anytime, anywhere, no matter the… Werner Erhard
  31. When you give your word, the universe rearranges itself to make it possible. Werner Erhard
  32. If you don't see it your way, you don't see at all. Werner Erhard
  33. The thing is, it isn't the way it is. It is the way you say it is. Werner Erhard
  34. Authenticity is being yourself in the presence of others. Werner Erhard
  35. Possibility is generated in language. It does not exist until somebody speaks it. Werner Erhard
  36. If you don't have a vision of the future, the past will run your life. Werner Erhard
  37. Two things bring transformation. The breakdown of what was, and the willingness to be present for what arises. Werner Erhard
  38. Stand for something. Or you will stand for anything. Werner Erhard
  39. Get clear that you are not your circumstances. You are who you are inside, regardless of what happens… Werner Erhard
  40. Most of life is about handling what's already there. Transformation is about making the new possible. Werner Erhard
  41. When you are at one with what you have, you have everything. Werner Erhard
  42. Stop trying to fix yourself. Start being yourself. Werner Erhard
  43. What we say is what we get. Speak as if your word were the cause of the future. Werner Erhard
  44. The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your communication. Werner Erhard
  45. The world is far more alive than we have been taught. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  46. The most important thing is not what we know, but what we are willing to feel. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  47. Plants are intelligent. They communicate, they remember, they choose. The fact that we have not been… Stephen Harrod Buhner
  48. The Earth is a living being, and we are inside her body. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  49. When we open the doors of perception, the world is rich beyond imagining. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  50. Healing begins when we remember that we are part of something larger than ourselves. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  51. The heart has its own intelligence, and it speaks in a language older than thought. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  52. To pay attention is the deepest form of devotion. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  53. Every plant has a story to tell. The work is learning how to listen. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  54. The wild world is talking to us all the time. Most of us have forgotten how to listen. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  55. Beauty is a doorway. It is the language the living world uses to speak to us. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  56. When we walk in the woods, the woods are walking through us. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  57. Reductionism is a useful tool. It is a terrible worldview. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  58. The world is alive and aware of itself, and we are part of how it knows itself. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  59. Sacred is not somewhere else. Sacred is what is in front of you, if you can see. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  60. The body is wiser than the mind. Trust what it tells you, even when you cannot explain it. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  61. Plants have been the great teachers of the human species. They taught us how to think, how to feel, how to… Stephen Harrod Buhner
  62. There is a deep intelligence in the natural world that we have only begun to understand. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  63. Imagination is not a luxury. It is how we touch what is real. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  64. The Earth dreams us as much as we dream the Earth. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  65. The medicine of the wild is the medicine of remembering who you are. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  66. Words are spells. They shape the world we live in. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  67. When you stop trying to control nature, you discover that nature has been holding you all along. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  68. What is real is not what can be measured. What is real is what can be felt. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  69. The wild is not somewhere out there. The wild is inside you, waiting to be remembered. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  70. Healing is not a return to what was. It is a movement toward what is becoming. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  71. The deepest knowledge does not come from study. It comes from being still long enough to hear. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  72. Every place on Earth has a soul. Every river, every mountain, every grove. We are not alone here. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  73. To love the Earth is to be loved by it. The relationship goes both ways. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  74. We do not own the land. We belong to it. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  75. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald
  76. I hope she'll be a fool — that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. F. Scott Fitzgerald
  77. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the… F. Scott Fitzgerald
  78. And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, I had that familiar… F. Scott Fitzgerald
  79. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want… Jane Austen
  80. I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! Jane Austen
  81. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. Jane Austen
  82. There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. Jane Austen
  83. The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. Jane Austen
  84. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience, or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope. Jane Austen
  85. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb… Harper Lee
  86. Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin… Harper Lee
  87. Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. Harper Lee
  88. People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for. Harper Lee
  89. Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. George Orwell
  90. Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become… George Orwell
  91. Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. George Orwell
  92. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell
  93. Little by little, one travels far. J.R.R. Tolkien
  94. Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. J.R.R. Tolkien
  95. It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish. J.R.R. Tolkien
  96. I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil. J.R.R. Tolkien
  97. Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. C.S. Lewis
  98. Courage, dear heart. C.S. Lewis
  99. There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. C.S. Lewis
  100. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens
  101. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done. Charles Dickens
  102. No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. Charles Dickens
  103. I have been bent and broken, but, I hope, into a better shape. Charles Dickens
  104. Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which… Charles Dickens
  105. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy
  106. All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy
  107. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. Leo Tolstoy
  108. Spring is the time of plans and projects. Leo Tolstoy
  109. The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. Fyodor Dostoevsky
  110. Above all, don't lie to yourself. Fyodor Dostoevsky
  111. To love someone means to see them as God intended them. Fyodor Dostoevsky
  112. Beauty will save the world. Fyodor Dostoevsky
  113. But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. Ernest Hemingway
  114. Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is. Ernest Hemingway
  115. Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. Mark Twain
  116. You are your best thing. Toni Morrison
  117. If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. Toni Morrison
  118. She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me… Toni Morrison
  119. Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. Toni Morrison
  120. At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. Toni Morrison

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