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  Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

  Melody Beattie

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• Making mistakes isn't enough to become great. You must also admit the mistake, and then learn how to turn that mistake into an advantage.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Mistake, Inspire

  Twitter post from Jul 29, 2013

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• All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

  John Dewey

  Teaching, Learning, Ideas

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• The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.

  Peter McWilliams

  Ambition, Comfort, Excuse

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• No matter how many possibilities turn into reality, an infinite number remain.

  Deepak Chopra

  Positivity, Reality, Numbers

  Deepak Chopra, Leonard Mlodinow (2011). “War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not”, p.44, Harmony

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• In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

  Scott Peterson

  Block, Choices, Stones

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• We know that in order for us to turn this around, it doesn't matter how many coaches they bring in here, assistants, weight trainers, whoever, we're the ones that are going to have turn it around. And I think just took that responsibility on ourselves.

  Kevin Garnett

  Basketball, Responsibility, Thinking

  Group interview, www.insidehoops.com. March 30, 2005.

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• Did you know that there are no straight lines in the universe? Life doesn't travel in perfectly straight lines. It moves more like a winding river. More often than not, you can only see to the next bend, and only when you reach that next turn can you see more.

  T. Harv Eker

  Life, Moving, Rivers

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• The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.

  Don Williams

  Journey, Two, Twists

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• I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Change, Success

  "Core Values: Apple Founder Steve Jobs". Interview with Brian Williams, www.nbclearn.com. May 25, 2006.

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• And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.

  John Ashbery

  Thinking, Pages, Starting

  John Ashbery (1981). “Shadow train: poems”, Viking Adult

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• God dwells in you, as you, and you don't have to 'do' anything to be God-realized or Self-realized,
  it is already your true and natural state.
  Just drop all seeking, turn your attention inward,
  and sacrifice your ego mind to the One Self radiating in the Heart of your very being.
  For this to be your own presently lived experience,
  Self-Inquiry Meditation is a direct and immediate way.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Heart, Sacrifice, Self

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• Nobody living can ever stop me. As I go walking my freedom highway. Nobody living can make me turn back. This land was made for you and me.

  Woody Guthrie

  Freedom, Hippie, Land

  Woody Guthrie (2012). “Every 100 Years - The Woody Guthrie Centennial Songbook: 100 Years - 100 Songs”, p.154, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them,and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols,breaking the hearts of their worshippers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, Memories, Flower

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  Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

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• Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

  Laozi

  Success, Weed, Dream

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• Quit worrying about how everything is going to turn out. Live one day at a time; better yet, make the most of this moment.

  Joel Osteen

  Worry, One Day, Quitting

  Joel Osteen (2009). “Hope for Today Bible”, p.733, Simon and Schuster

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• Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.

  Melody Beattie

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Fullness Of Life

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• It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms.

  Simone Weil

  Fall, Thinking, Doe

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.15, Routledge

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  Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

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• There is such a love, a love that creates value in what is loved. There is a love that turns rag dolls into priceless treasures. There is a love that fastens itself onto ragged little creatures, for reasons that no one could ever quite figure out, and makes them precious and valued beyond calculation. This is love beyond reason. This is the love of God.

  John Ortberg

  Rags, Dolls, Treasure

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• And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

  Douglas Coupland

  Life, Depression, Sadness

  Douglas Coupland (2010). “LIFE AFTER GOD”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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  Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

  Sam Ewing

  Motivational, Success, Attitude

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• And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

  Milan Kundera

  Happiness, Running, Time

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• Gratitude turns what we have into enough.

  Melody Beattie

  Thankful, Gratitude, Ungrateful People

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