Catalyst Quotes

“It’s Your Choice – You Always Choose the Thoughts”

“I like to pretend that everything’s alright.  Because when everybody else thinks you’re fine, sometimes you forget for a while that you’re not.”   (Unknown Author)

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“Know that you can always choose the thoughts you allow in your mind, so make the effort to replace disempowering, weakening thoughts with those of a higher spiritual frequency.  It is your choice!”   (Dr. Wayne Dyer)

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“Are you scared?  Or are you not ready?  There is a difference.”   (Unique Quietness)

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“Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.”   (Brian Tracy)

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“You Matter.

When you love the work you do and the people you do it with, you matter.

When you are so gracious and generous and aware that you think of other people before yourself, you matter.

When you leave the world a better place than you found it, you matter.

When you continue to raise the bar on what you do and how you do it, you matter.

When you teach and forgive and teach more before you rush to judge and demean, you matter.

When you touch the people in your life through your actions (and your words), you matter.

When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.

When you see the world as it is, but insist on making it more like it could be, you matter.

When you inspire a Nobel Prize winner or a slum dweller, you matter.

When the room brightens when you walk in, you matter.

And when the legacy you leave behind lasts for hours, days or a lifetime, you matter.”   (Seth’s Blog, Seth Godin, June 2009)

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“Today is the Day”

“There is only one important point you must keep in your mind and let it be your guide.  No matter what people call you, you are just who you are.  Keep to this truth.  You must ask yourself how is it you want to live your life.  We live and we die, this is the truth that we can only face alone.  No one can help us, not even the Buddha.  So consider carefully, what prevents you from living the way you want to live your life?”   (Dalai Lama)

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“Stop.  Just stop it.  Today is the day.  The moment is this one.  Ignore the noise and people around you.  Ignore the phone.  Ignore black coffee.  Ignore the clock.  The time to start being the person you always wanted to be is right now.”   (I Wrote This For You:  The Pause)

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“If you want to be extraordinary, the first thing you have to do is stop being ordinary.”   (Monday Morning Mentoring, David Cottrell)

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“People need to be encouraged.  People need to be reminded of how wonderful they are.  People need to be believed in — told that they are brave and smart and capable of accomplishing all the dreams they dream and more.  Remind each other of this.”   (Stacey Jean Speer)

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“Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending.”   (Drake)

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“The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it’s really a different kind of life.”   (Buckminster Fuller)

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“You Are Pure Energy”

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”   (Norman Vincent Peale)

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“We are what we believe we are.”   (C.S. Lewis)

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“People do not decide to become extraordinary.  They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.”   (Edmund Hillary)

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“My motto is ‘Impossible Is Nothing.’

It’s like ‘If you set your mind to it, you can do anything.’”   (The Gazette)

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“You don’t learn to walk by following rules.  You learn by doing, and by falling over.”   (Richard Branson)

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“It is understandably human nature to see yourself as small.

Until you stop seeing yourself as just human.

Should be easy for you.

You are pure energy:  infinite, inexhaustible, and irresistible.   (signed)  The Universe”   (Notes from the Universe, Mike Dooley, April 15, 2013)

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“We Make Ourselves Strong”

“To survive today, you have to be able to walk on quicksand and dance with electrons.”   (Frank Ogden)

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“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, ‘Where have I gone wrong?’  Then a voice says to me, ‘This is going to take more than one night.”   (Charlie Brown)

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“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy.  I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate.  It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.”  (Leo Rosten)

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“The trick is in what one emphasizes.  We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong.  The amount of work is the same.”   (Carlos Castaneda)

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“Control your own destiny or someone else will.”   (Jack Welch)

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“Yeah, Just Do It”

“Ask yourself if what you’re doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.”   (Unknown Author)

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“Erase from your vocabulary the word ‘someday.’  Do not save things for ‘special occasions.’  Take into account the fact that every day is special. Every day is a gift that we must appreciate and be thankful for.  Wear your attractive clothes, wear your nice perfume, use your fine silverware and dishes, and drink from your expensive crystal glasses… just because. 

Live every day to the fullest and savor every minute of it.”   (Rodolfo Costa)

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“Of course you chose your life.  Your time and place of birth.  Your parents. Your leanings and inclinations.  Hair color.  Height.  Your savoir-faire.  So that now, on a stage of your own design, you’d have all you need to become all you want.  Wow!   (signed)  The Universe.   (Notes from The Universe, Mike Dooley, 6.29.15)

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“Yeah, just do it.  Even though you did not achieve what you dreamt of, you won’t lose anything.  You’ll be gaining something great by just doing it. Having your dreams come true comes second.  Take the first move, work for your dream.”   (Aoi-The GazettE)

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“My only regret is that

I didn’t tell enough people

to fuck off.”   (My 92 year old grandma, via lipstickbabe)

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“The Beginning of Wisdom”

“Do you know what’s better than waking up to a 6 AM alarm clock, dashing through the house for work, and then suddenly realizing it’s the weekend and you can go back to bed?

Having so much fun, with so many friends, laughing so hard, spending, dining, being merry, and suddenly realizing that this time, you’re not just visualizing.

Happens every day.

I meant to add that this happens every day especially for those who visualize.   (signed)   The Universe”   (Notes from the Universe, Mike Dooley, July 3, 2015)

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“Every action, thought, and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect.  If we participate in the cause, it is not possible for us not to participate in the effect.  In this most profound way, we are held responsible for our every action, thought and feeling, which is to say, for our every intention.  … 

Feel you intentions in your heart.  Feel not what your mind tells you, but what your heart tells you.”   (‘Thoughts from the Seat of Soul, Meditations for Souls in Process’, Gary Zukav)

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“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”   (Socrates)

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“There is nothing instructive in a wise saying.  It does not impart to you a skill; it does not provide you new information.  It is education in the purest sense – a drawing out of what has been latent in your understanding.  Your pleasure in the saying does not come from having learned something but from having something you knew elucidated and confirmed.  What we call wisdom is the expression of what we already know in our hearts.”   (Round Up the Usual Subjects, Thoughts on Just About Everything by Robert Brault)

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“The Biggest Cause of Excellence is the Story We Tell Ourselves”

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.  Let us move forward with strong and active faith.”   (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

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“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.”   (William Arthur Ward)

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“One of the critical decisions of every career:

‘Well, there’s plenty more to do, I’ll do the least I can here and then move on to the next one.’

vs.

‘I only get to do this one, once.  So I’ll do it as though it’s the last chance I’ll ever have to do this work, to please this customer, to ring this bell.’

As little as possible.  Or as much.  The system might push you to become mediocre, but that very same system rewards excellence.  The perception that the minimum is viable is built deep into our notion of productivity, but it turns out that the maximum is valuable indeed. The biggest cause of excellence is the story we tell ourselves about our work. 

It’s a choice, a commitment and a lifelong practice.”   (Seth Godin, Seth’s Blog, June 17, 2015)

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“What is success?  It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace.”   (Paulo Coelho)

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“Sure, I used to believe in accidents, coincidences, and chance… until one memorable day, when I stared out at the world from your very eyes, listened to it with your very ears, felt it with your very heart, all while thinking your very thoughts, and all at once I realized:   You had become everything I’d ever dreamed you’d be.   Nice going,   (signed)   The Universe.”   (Notes from The Universe, Mike Dooley, June 12, 2015)

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“Who Am I?”

“There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone.  There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike.  You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.”   (Joseph Campbell)

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“The year you were born marks only your entry into the world.  Other years where you prove your worth, they are the ones worth celebrating.”   (Jarod Kintz)

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“In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.”   (David Blaine)

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“Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are.”   (Shannon L. Alder)

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“Life is a valuable and unique opportunity

to discover who you are.

But it seems as soon as you near

answering that age-old question,

something unexpected always happens

to alter your course.

And who it is you thought you were

suddenly changes.

Then comes the frustrating realization

that no matter how long life endures,

no matter how many experiences

are muddled through in this existence,

you may never really be able

to answer the question…..

Who am I? 

Because the answer, like the seasons,

constantly, subtly, inevitably changes.

And who it is you are today,

is not the same person you will be tomorrow.”   (Richelle E. Goodrich, Eena, The Dawn and Rescue)

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