Catalyst Quotes

“Do You Know Where You’re Going?”

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one least traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”    (Robert Frost) 

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“For a small reward a man will hurry away on a long journey, while for eternal life many will hardly take a single step.”    (Thomas à Kempis)

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“It is strange that though all must tread the path of life, so few know whither they are going!  We wander from cradle to the tomb, yet know not our true destination which is not the tomb but rather the discovery of our “Super-Self.”     (Pierre Schmidt)

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“Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated.  You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.”    (David L. George)

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“The first step is what counts:  First beginnings are hardest to make and as small and inconspicuous as they are potent in influence, but once they are made, it is easy to add to the rest.”     (Aristotle)

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“As long as you are outside the door, a good portion of the journey is behind you.”    (Scandinavian saying)

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“At the beginning of the spiritual path, we are like children whose only real knowledge of themselves is a reflection cast in a mirror.”     (Rick Fields)

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“Act the Part; You Become the Part”

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“If today were your last, would you do what you’re doing? Or would you love more, give more, forgive more? Then do so! Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. Love like there’s no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.” (Max Lucado)

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“As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we’ve been given.” (Mary Lou Retton)

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“If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don’t do it, and it won’t happen.” (Joe DiMaggio)

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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” (Maya Angelou)

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“It doesn’t matter how many people say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it’s important to realize that whatever you’re doing, it’s your first attempt at it.” (Wally “Famous” Amos)

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“Act the part and you will become the part.” (William James)

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“What you will allow is what will continue.” (Unknown Author)

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“What We Are Capable of Doing”

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“Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.  What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind.”       (Henry Miller)

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“There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point.  What do you do then?  Take a broom and clean someone’s house.  That says enough.”      (Mother Theresa)

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“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”      (Gandhi)

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“He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it.”    (Bessie A. Stanley)

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“Running, Experience, Persistence and Doing”

“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.  It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed.  Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up.  It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve.  It doesn’t matter whether you’re a lion or a gazelle – when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.”    (Unknown Author)

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“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced”    (Kierkegaard)

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“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.”     (Eckhart Tolle)

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“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.  Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.  Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.  Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.  Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.  The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. ”    (Calvin Coolidge)

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“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”   (Bagehot)

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“Change and Learning”

“Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn’t original sin.  He’s born with the tragedy that he has to grow up.  A lot of people don’t have the courage to do that.” (Helen Hayes)

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“Life is a series of choices and nobody can stop you from making your choices.  People punish themselves by making wrong choices.  Constantly, enlightenment is being offered to them, but they refuse to accept it.  Therefore, people are being taught by problems that are set before them, since they refuse to make right choices voluntarily.”    (Peace Pilgrim)

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“Three things make people want to change.  One is that they hurt sufficiently.  They have beat their heads against the same wall so long that they decide they have had enough.  Another thing that makes people want to change is a slow type of despair called ennui, or boredom.  A third thing that makes people want to change is the sudden discovery that they can.”    (Thomas Harris)

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“The moment you start moving in the direction of accomplishment, you will find that life will accommodate you.”     (Jack Addington)

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 “I am still learning.”    

(Michelangelo’s motto)

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“Energy Follows Thought. Start / Stop”

“Success is not to be gained by a blind and slavish following of anyone’s rules or advice, our own any more than any other person’s.  There is no royal road to success – no patent process by which the unsuccessful are to be magically transformed … Rules and advice may greatly assist – and they undoubtedly do this – but the real work must be accomplished by the individual.  He must carve out his own destiny.”     (William W. Atkinson)

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“It’s the START that STOPS most people.”     (Bits & Pieces, Vol. T, # 23)

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“Energy follows thought.  You actually become what you think.”    (Lynne Namka)

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“Of all the known forms of energy, thought is the most subtle, the irresistible force.  It has always been operating; but, as far as the great masses of the people are concerned, it has been operating blindly, or, rather, they have been blind to its mighty power, except in the cases of a few here and there.”    (Ralph W. Trine)

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“People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.”     (Elbert Hubbard)

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“Settle For Less or Be Remarkable”

“How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?”   (Seth Godin, Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas)

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“As long as you are defining what you like and what you don’t like, you are allowing your mind to create triggers that open and close you.  Let go of that.  Dare to be different.  Enjoy all of life.”    (The Untethered Soul, the journey beyond yourself by Michael Singer, New Harbinger Publications)

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“When you set down the path to create art, whatever sort of art it is, understand that the path is neither short not easy.  That means you must determine if the route is worth the effort.  If it’s not, dream bigger.”     (Seth Godin, Linchpin:  Are You Indispensable?)  

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“There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth.   Not going all the way, and not starting.”    (Siddhartha Gautama)

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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”    (George Eliot)

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“Weight of a Snowflake; Transform the Ordinary into Extraordinary”

“Not too long ago in a place not too far away, a field mouse asked a wise old owl what is the weight of a snowflake.  “Why nothing more than nothing,” answered the owl.

The mouse went on to tell the owl about the time he was resting on a branch in a fir tree, counting each snowflake until the number was exactly 3 million, 471 thousand, 952.  Then with the settling of the very next flake—crack.  The branch suddenly snapped, tumbling mouse and snow to the ground. “Humph …Such was the weight of nothing,” said the mouse.

So the next time you think your contributions, your acts of charity, your works for justice, your gifts of love, and your talents are nothing, or that they are small in comparison to those of others, remember that when one is added to another, and then to another and so forth, great things can happen from nothing.  In the same way, what seems to be ordinary can be transformed into something extraordinary with just a little extra nothing.

Your mission is to create great things once again out of nothingness, to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.”     (Fresh Packet of Sower’s Seeds, # 70, Brian Cavanaugh)

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“Spiritual growth is about the point at which you start to feel your energy change.  For instance, somebody says something and you start to feel the energy get a little strange inside.  You will actually start to feel a tightening. That is your cue that it’s time to grow.  It’s not time to defend yourself, because you don’t want the part of you that you would be defending.  If you don’t want it, let it go.”     (The Untethered Soul, the journey beyond yourself by Michael Singer, New Harbinger Publications)

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“People don’t believe what you tell them.

They rarely believe what you show them.

They often believe what their friends tell them.

They always believe what they tell themselves.”       (Seth Godin)    

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“Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement.”      (Wilfred A. Peterson)

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