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  Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

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• You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

  C. S. Lewis

  Trying, Knows, Can Do

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Collected Letters Volume One: Family Letters 1905–1931”, p.67, HarperCollins UK

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  The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Christian, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.64, HarperCollins UK

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• Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love Is, Self, Form

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from May 19, 2012

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• Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Thinking, Old Love

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jan 01, 2013

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• Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.

  Byron Katie

  Believe, Suffering, Happens

  Twitter post from Sep 23, 2013

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• Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.

  Dale Carnegie

  Men, People, Actions Speak Louder Than Words

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• The Universe is either expressing a miracle or is pregnant with the next one.

  Marianne Williamson

  Miracle, Next, Pregnant

  Twitter post from Oct 15, 2014

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• The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.

  Gail Sheehy

  Unique, Age, Appreciated

  Gail Sheehy (2011). “New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time”, p.428, Ballantine Books

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• One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.

  Dale Carnegie

  Winning, People, Becoming

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Trust, Freedom

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• Imagine the most outrageously positive possibility for your life, claim it, and consider it done.

  Marianne Williamson

  Done, Imagine, Possibility

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jan 23, 2012

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• Think of everything you've ever experienced that was painful; that's the meaning of Good Friday. Think of all the ways that love ultimately healed your heart; that's the meaning of Easter.

  Marianne Williamson

  Friday, Easter, Heart

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 06, 2012

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• The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

  Marianne Williamson

  Running, Sex, Women

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.90, Ballantine Books

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• There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

  Mark Twain

  Taken, Acres, Bloodshed

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• Claim the possibility of a miraculous shift toward global transformation, allow the thought to move through you like a wave of energy, then emerge ready for the task of doing your part to make it happen.

  Marianne Williamson

  Moving, Energy, Tasks

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jan 12, 2013

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• Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.

  Marianne Williamson

  Silence, Soul, Sabbath

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jan 20, 2013

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• Charisma is a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects.

  Marianne Williamson

  People, Energy, Sparkle

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Happiness, Happy

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.88, Random House

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• There is no path to Happiness. Happiness is the path. There is no path to Love. Love is the path. There is no path to Peace. Peace is the path.

  Dan Millman

  Love, Happiness, Peace

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• The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Inspirational, Maturity, Focus

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• Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are.

  Marianne Williamson

  Beautiful, Smart, Humility

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Aug 31, 2013

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• Think bigger. Forget limits. Embrace the idea of endless possibility.... It will change you.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Ideas, Limits

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Oct 09, 2010

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• If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fire, Hands, Water

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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