Catalyst Quotes

“Make Your Heartbeat Match the Beat of the Universe”

“Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, ‘What’s in it for me?’”   (Peter De Vries)

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“Let me tell you something you already know.  The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows.  It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it.  You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit.  It’s about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward.  That’s how winning is done!  Now if you know what you’re worth then go out and get what you’re worth.  But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody!  Cowards do that and that ain’t you!  You’re better than that!”    (Rocky Balboa movie, 2006)

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“The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.”   (C. JoyBell C.)

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“A Note From the Universe –

Do you know how to give folks what they most, most, most want from you without even asking them what it is?

In all regards, just be yourself.

That’s what they were after when they manifested you into their lives.     Whoa!

   (signed)  The Universe”    (Mike Dooley, Notes from the Universe, June 12, 2013)

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“Until you commit, nothing happens, but when you do commit, the entire universe rallies to your aid.”   (Daniel Acuff)

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“’The goal of life,’ says the mythology scholar Joseph Campbell, ‘is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe.’”    (Philip T. Sudo)

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“I’ll Give You Some Free Advice”

“’Witches are naturally nosy,’ said Miss Tick, standing up.  ‘Well, I must go.  I hope we shall meet again.  I will give you some free advice, though.’

‘Will it cost me anything?’

‘What?  I just said it was free!’ said Miss Tick.

‘Yes, but my father said that free advice often turns out to be expensive.’ said Tiffany.

Miss Tick sniffed. ‘You could say this advice is priceless,’ she said, ‘Are you listening?’

‘Yes,’ said Tiffany.

‘Good.  Now … if you trust in yourself…’

‘Yes?’

‘… and believe in your dreams …’

‘Yes?’

‘… and follow your star …’ Miss Tick went on,

‘Yes?’

“… you’ll still be beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy. Goodbye.”    (Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men)

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“Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision.  You gone have to ask yourself, ‘Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?’”    (Kathryn Stockett, The Help)

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“Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself.  We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem.  We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.”   (Iyana Vanzant)

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“Struggle is the food from which change is made, and the best time to make the most of a struggle is when it’s right in front of your face.

Now, I know that might sound a bit simplistic. But, too often we’re led to believe that struggling is a bad thing, or that we struggle because we’re doing something wrong.

I disagree. I look at struggle as an opportunity to grow. True struggle happens when you can sense what is not working for you and you’re willing to take the appropriate action to correct the situation. Those who accomplish change are willing to engage the struggle.”   (Danny Dreyer)

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“Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.”   (Beatrix Potter)

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“Make Your Soul Grow”

“Study the heart and the mind of man, and begin with your own.  Meditation and reflection must lay the foundation of that knowledge, but experience and practice must, and alone can, complete it.”   (Lord Chesterfield, Letter to his son, June 6, 1751)

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“It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.  It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.  It is the one who won’t be taken who cannot seem to give.  And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.”   (Bette Midler)

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“I see all this potential, and I see squandering.   …damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars.  Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy s**t we don’t need.  We’re the middle children of history, man.  No purpose or place.  We have no Great War.  No Great Depression.  Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives.  We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars.  But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact.  And we’re very, very pissed off.”   (Chuck Palahniuk)

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“There’s a lot of fear connected with the inner journey because it penetrates our illusions.  Taking the inner journey will lead you into some very shadow places.  You’re going to learn things about yourself that you’ll wish you didn’t know.  There are monsters in there – monsters that you can’t control – but trying to keep them hidden will only give them greater power.”    (Parker Palmer, ‘Leader to Leader’)

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“The words ‘I am …’ are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to.  The thing you’re claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.”    (A. L. Kitselman)

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“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow.  So do it.”   (Kurt Vonnegut)

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“Make Life Less Difficult for Each Other”

“Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves – or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.”   (Ayn Rand)

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“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.   As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.  One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”   (Audrey Hepburn)

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“Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.”   (Wendeln Van Draanen)

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“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”   (Kurt Vonnegut)

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“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”   (George Eliot)

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“Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”   (Jacqueline Schiff)

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“Kindness is Everything in Life”

“We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are.  Sane or insane.  Saints or sex addicts.  Heroes or victims.  Letting history tell us how good or bad we are.  Letting our past decide our future.  Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it’s our job to invent something better.”    (Chuck Palahniuk, Choke)

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“Wisdom traditions both East and West speak of a deeper level of the mind.  This is your true self, and when you access it, your thoughts change.  Once thoughts change, then speech changes, and finally action.  Life consists of thinking, speaking, and acting; therefore, finding your true self creates a total transformation.”   (Deepak Chopra, Choosing Your True Self: The Breakthrough)

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“People who give, are given to.  People who care, are cared for.

And people who love … age slower, run faster, jump higher, eat healthier, tend to live in cottages, are as happy with friends as they are alone, climb more trees, skip when they could walk, kiss when they could talk, take the odd Friday off, experience faster manifestations, and are really popular with animals.

Love, baby.    (Signed) The Universe”    (Mike Dooley, Notes From the Universe)

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“Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.”   (Isaac Bashevis Singer)

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“Kindness in words creates confidence.  Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.  Kindness in giving creates love.”   (Lao Tzu)

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“Live simply that others might simply live.”    (Elizabeth Seaton)

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“Focus on One Thing”

“We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.”   (Konrad Adenauer)

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“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small.  A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”   (Lao Tzu)

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“We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met.  But sometimes expectations sell us short.  Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected.  You got to wonder why we cling to our expectations, because the expected is just what keeps us steady.  Standing.  Still, the unexpected is just the beginning; the unexpected is what changes our lives.”   (Grey’s Anatomy)

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“So, I’m going out there.  And I’m going to do the best I can.  People are going to get in my way.  Things are going to bring me down.  But I’m going to keep going.  I’m going to reach as far as I can, for everything I’ve ever wanted.  And I’m not giving up.  Because that’s what you do when your dreams are more important that your fears.  You go out there and ignore the odds.  You focus on one thing – that your dreams come true.”   (K. Boulden)

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“Courage is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding.”   (Dorothy Thompson)

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