Favorite Inspirational Quotes

“Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours.” Ralph Waldo Emerson-Sounds a bit like a threat, doesn’t it? “Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it.” What you focus on you get. I’ve journaled about that theme many times. You see it in such books as “As a Man Thinketh” and in the movie, “The Secret”, with the emphasis on…

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“The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one’s work seriously and taking one’s self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.” Margaret Foley-I am of two minds about the “…the first is imperative…” part of this quote. First off, I think it depends upon whether one’s work is a job you fell into and whether your work is your calling. Now I’m not saying that if you have…

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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” R. Buckminster Fuller-In order to change my present reality, I probably can’t do that in my present state. It’s that present state that got me to this reality. No matter how much I rail about the perceived wrongs and things I don’t like, they aren’t going to change if I stay the same, if the model I work from stays the same. They won’t change if I don’t create…

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