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"Gratitude is made from two words: great and attitude. If you have a great attitude, you have gratitude."
(inspirational quote from page 108)
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"Your parents may spend the rest of your inheritance, but your genes are yours for keeps."
(inspirational quote from page 7)
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| "Every face you meet is a mirror. Shine a smile on someone else's face, and see how your smile reflects back at you. Bask in the glow of your own smile reflected in the joy you bring to others."
(inspirational quote from page 223)
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"I was not brought up saying thank you. I still have difficulty. In my head I know I want to, in my heart I know I should, but in my mouth it just doesn't always come forth."
(inspirational quote from page 109)
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| "Most people tend to ask the question, "Why me?" if they run into a stroke of bad luck or if things go wrong. The only logical answer is, "Why not me?" Without that answer, we may be tempted to assume everything is our fault. "If only I had..." or "If only I hadn't..." or "I am so clumsy/foolish/mean ... pick-your-self-demeaning-adjective."
But the simple truth is: "Why not me?"
(inspirational quote from page 138)
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"POP QUIZ: You're enjoying a relaxing honeymoon on a Florida beach, when a pelican flies into you. How do you react?
- Shake your fist and shout, "Watch where you're flying!"
- Pull out a semi-automatic rifle and start a new trend: pelican rage.
- Report the incident to the FAA and demand pelican regulations.
- Figure this is one tale none of your friends will ever top."
(inspirational quote from page 11)
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"Like hamburgers on the grill, teenage girls feel the heat and the pressure to squeeze every last ounce of fat from their bodies. If Claudia Schiffer can look so thin, so must they. If Naomi Campbell can be that slender, they can too. Why not?"
(inspirational quote from page 75)
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"Believe it or not, more people are afraid of speaking in front of an audience than of dying. In my speaking seminars, I interpret this for participants: "At a funeral, people would rather be in the casket than delivering the eulogy."
(inspirational quote from page 157)
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| "Killing time is not a victimless crime. Time for each of us is finite, and when we kill time, we also kill dreams, opportunities, maybe even life itself."
(inspirational quote from page 175)
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"If you try to fit a size 14 reality into size 4 expectations, you're bound to be disappointed. That's the law of physiques."
(inspirational quote from page 75)
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"Like a wildfire on the open prairie, venting anger can send it blazing out of control."
(inspirational quote from page 122)
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"You can make the past better than it was going to be."
(inspirational quote from page 176)
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| "You can define success as impressing yourself: that you are happy, that you stand by your values, that you feel fulfilled, that you love. Or you can define success as impressing others: that you have fame, status, money, toys, or even the appearance of a happy family."
(inspirational quote from pages 24 - 25)
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"Far too often, we sit around waiting for our ship to come in, for Prince Charming to ride up, for the lottery's Big Yahoo. Another day passes, and we wait some more. Another day passes. One more day passes. And as each day passes, another tomorrow fades into yesterday."
(inspirational quote from page 92)
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"The unknown could be Noah's arc, teeming with life, packed with excitement. Or it could be a Trojan horse, stuffed with hungry saber-toothed tigers lying in ambush. Why choose to fear? We could just as easily choose to cheer."
(inspirational quote from page 165)
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"Fax, e-mail, voice-mail, pager, in-box, photocopier, meetings, conferences, reports, cell phones -- STOP! Imagine if Shakespeare or Freud or Mozart or Jefferson had all our modern time-saving gizmos. They never would have accomplished anything."
(inspirational quote from page 186)
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| "Mouth-to-mouth recrimination is no better for our bodies than for our spirits."
(inspirational quote from page 120)
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"Decide whether your life is abuzz with joy or infested with mosquitoes."
(inspirational quote from page 108)
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| "When you drive along the road and see the blacktop right in front of you, do you ever notice how many cracks and potholes appear? But look ahead several yards, and the surface looks smooth? ... Put in perspective, all those irritants, all those daily wrinkles, all the potholes and cracks along our path disappear when we look farther down the road."
(inspirational quote from page 152)
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"Why not seize the day? What could stop us? Whatifism, that's what. What if she slaps my face? What if I fall? What if my mind goes blank? It's standing room only for whatifisms. ... The farmer grows green beans, pole beans, wax beans, even fava beans. The fearer grows couldov beans. When we stock up on what ifs, we end up with could've beens."
(inspirational quote from page 155)
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| "Unlike income, happiness is tax-free."
(inspirational quote from page 21)
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"We live in a click-and-vent society,"
(inspirational quote from page 126)
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| "They replay the videos of their weddings, not their divorces. Why replay painful memories in the cinema of your mind? Reruns of joy -- repeat. Reruns of pain -- delete."
(inspirational quote from page 144)
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"We could force all knife makers to design blunt knives, and tool companies to make soft hammers, and auto makers to build very, very, very slow cars. Then we might be safe."
(inspirational quote from page 48)
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| "If you hang out in bars, you meet the kind of people who, well, hang out in bars. After a while, that gets almost as fulfilling as taking a census of the worms in the garden. Actually, helping keep a dark, loud, smoky place from looking empty, night after night, hoping that somebody worthwhile will bring meaning to your life, is downright depressing."
(inspirational quote from page 234)
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"A consumer advocate is a lobbyist with no expense account."
(inspirational quote from page 114)
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| "If the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, the Stairway to Heaven is built from good deeds come true."
(inspirational quote from page 230)
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