Catalyst Quotes

“Living”

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”     (Eleanor Roosevelt)

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“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”     (e. e. cummings)

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“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”    (Plato)

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“Life is too important to be taken seriously.”     (Oscar Wilde)

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“From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive.”     (Wilbur the Pig, Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White)

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“May you live all the days of your life.”     (Jonathan Swift)

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“I Expect Miracles”

“The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.”     (Les Brown)

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“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.”     (Bob Marley)

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“The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next.  The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing. ”     (Michael E. Gerber)

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“Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.”     (Dale Carnegie)

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“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.  Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.  Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”     (Pope John XXIII)

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“I am realistic – I expect miracles.”     (Wayne Dyer)

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“Beliefs Have Power”

“There are in fact four very different stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth … the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge.”     (Roger Bacon)

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“We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.”     (Marian Wright Edelman)

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“The worst thing that one can do is not try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized and never knowing.”     (David Viscott)

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“All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.”    (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

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“Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others.  But the creator is the man who disagrees.  Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current.  But the creator is the man who goes against the current.  Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together.  But the creator is the man who stands alone.”     (Ayn Rand)

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“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.  Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.”       (Anthony Robbins)

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“Make the Most of It”

“The world is perfect.  It’s a mess.  It has always been a mess.  We are not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.”    (Joseph Campbell)

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“What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?  This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.”   (Thomas Merton)

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“Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing.  If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing.  You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one.  It is your choice.”     (Osho)

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“The next time you feel lonely, disconnected or unappreciated, consider that unlike many other maladies, this one hits everyone.  And unlike other challenges, this one is easily overcome by realizing that you can cure the problem by connecting, appreciating and leading.

The minute we realize that the person sitting next to us needs us (and our tribe, our forward motion and the value we create), we’re able to extinguish their aloneness as well as ours.

When you shine a light, both of you can see better.”      (Seth Godin)

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“When you are in the final days of your life, what will you want?  Will you hug that college degree in the walnut frame?  Will you ask to be carried to the garage so you can sit in your car?  Will you find comfort in rereading your financial statement?  Of course not.  What will matter then will be people.  If relationships will matter most then, shouldn’t they matter most now?”    (Max Lucado)

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“This bright, new day … complete with 24 hours of opportunities, choices, and attitudes … a perfectly matched set of 1440 minutes.  This unique gift, this one day, cannot be exchanged, replaced or refunded. Handle with care.  Make the most of it.  There is only one to a customer.”     (Author Unknown)

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“Throw Your Heart Over the Wall”

“Warning:  Be careful what you spend your day touching because it will shape your mind, your body and your heart.”    (Sam Keen)

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“He came to a wall so high he feared his tiny horse could not carry him over; but the fairy king said to him, ‘Throw your heart over the wall, then follow it!’  So [the mortal] rode fearlessly at the wall, with his heart already bravely past it, and went safely over it.”     (Laura Ingalls Wilder)

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“We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans.  And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dreams was our fate.”    (Ben Okri)

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“Every day, either you live by priorities or you live by pressures.  There is no other option.  Either you decide what is important in your life, or you let other people decide what is important in your life.”    (Rick Warren)

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“Dreams are really the thoughts that you have hidden in your heart.  When you start a brand new day, let your heart show you the way and make a dream or two come true.” (‘Land of Make Believe’ by Chuck Mangione)

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“Most of the things we think of today as hard, practical and even indispensable were once merely dreams.”    (Carroll)

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“Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”    (Langston Hughes)

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