Catalyst Quotes

“The Questions are Complicated; the Answers are Simple”

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”     (Dr. Seuss)

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“To love means loving the unlovable.  To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable.  Faith means believing the unbelievable.  Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”   (G. K. Chesterton)

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“No one’s life should be rooted in fear.  We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are.”   (Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy)

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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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“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”     (Khalil Gibran)

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“I will not play tug o’ war.  I’d rather play hug o’ war.  Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.”   (Shel Silverstein)

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“Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.”   (St. Francis of Assisi)

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“But That Was Life. Nobody Got a Guided Tour”

“We insist on being Someone, with a capital S.  We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior.  We waste precious time exaggerating or romanticizing or belittling ourselves with a complacent surety that yes, that’s who we are.  We mistake the openness of our being — the inherent wonder and surprise of each moment — for a solid, irrefutable self.  Because of this misunderstanding, we suffer.”   (Pema Chodron)

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“But that was life:  Nobody got a guided tour to their own theme park.  You had to hop on the rides as they presented themselves, never knowing whether you would like the one you were in line for… or if the bastard was going to make you throw up your corn dog and your cotton candy all over the place.”   (J. R. Ward, Crave)

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“You don’t need to change the world; you need to change yourself.”   (Miguel Ruiz)

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“To each there comes, in their lifetime, a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents.  What a tragedy if that end finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.”   (Winston Churchill)

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“How do we forgive ourselves for all of the things we did not become?”   (David ‘Doc’ Luben, 14 Lines from Love Letters or Suicide Notes)

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“You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward.”   (Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom)

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“Impossible is Nothing”

“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”   (Walt Disney)

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“Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future.”   (James Bertrand)

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“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it.

Impossible is not a fact.  It’s an opinion.

Impossible is not a declaration.  It’s a dare.

Impossible is potential.  Impossible is temporary.

Impossible is nothing.”   (Muhammed Ali)

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“Two hundred years ago, we had great-great-greats who lived in the dark, without much in the way of healthcare, commerce or opportunity.

Today, we complain that the MRI was chilly, or that the wi-fi on the transatlantic plane wasn’t fast enough or that there’s nothing new going on at the mall.

It’s human nature to recalibrate.  But maybe it’s worth fighting that off, for an hour or even a day.

The world around us is uneven, unfair and yes, absolutely, over-the-top amazing.

Boring is an attitude, not the truth.

Possibility is where you decide it is.”   (Seth Godin, Seth’s Blog, 12.19.15)

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“Clear your mind of can’t.”   (Samuel Johnson)

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“If not you … then who?”   (Marianne Williamson)

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“You Needn’t Worry”

“When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.   (A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner)

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“Sometimes, I sit alone under the stars and think of the galaxies inside my heart, and truly wonder if anyone will ever want to make sense of all that I am.”   (Christopher Poindexter)

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“You needn’t worry.  There is time.  You have all the time in the world.  You preceded time and you will exist beyond it.  Age is irrelevant; more meaningless than a number.  Forever, you have FOREVER.  There is no dream you now have that you will not manifest.  There is no challenge you now face that you will not crush and dispose of.  There is no point in spending one more second of your awesome, amazing life, thinking anything to the contrary.  It’s good to be, huh?

(signed)   The Universe   (Notes from the Universe, Mike Dooley, 5.4.16)

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“When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly.”   (O. R. Melling, The Summer King)

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“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”   (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

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“Choose Big and Be Happy”

“It’s so tempting to look at your present life situation, at whom you’re with, at where you work, at what you have and have not, and think to yourself, ‘This was obviously meant to be… I’m here for a reason.’  And to a degree, you’d be right.  But you are where you are because of the thoughts you used to (and may still) think, and so you are where you are to learn that this is how life works — NOT because it was meant to be.

Don’t give away your power to vague or mysterious logic.  Tomorrow is a blank slate in terms of people, work, and play, because it, too, will be of your making.  You will again have that sense that it was meant to be, no matter who or what you’ve drawn into your life.  Nothing is meant to be except for your freedom to choose and your power to create. 

Choose big and be happy.   Signed    The Universe”    (Notes from the Universe, Mike Dooley, 4.19.16)

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“If you’re not where you want to be in life, keep going.  Treat yourself like you’re the closest friend you’ve got.  Celebrate the magnificent creature that you are.  Don’t let anyone mess with you and your dreams, least of all yourself.

Your life is happening right now.  Do not snooze and lose.  Love yourself, while you still have a chance.”   (You are a Badass, How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life, Jen Sincero)

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“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness.   Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.”   (William H. Murray, explorer)

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Awake That Giant Within You

“There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.”   (Erich Fromm)

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“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.”   (Jordan Belfort)

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“Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake.  We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources.  Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits.  He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.”   (William James)

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“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”   (Henry David Thoreau)

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“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.  Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.  Try to be better than yourself.”   (William Faulkner)

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“There is a giant asleep within every man.  When that giant awakes, miracles happen.”   (Frederick Faust)

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“Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda”

“All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.”   (Sean O’Casey)

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

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“Live life fully while you’re here.  Experience everything.  Take care of yourself and your friends.  Have fun, be crazy, be weird.  Go out and screw up!  You’re going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process.  Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it.  Don’t try to be perfect, just be an excellent example of being human.”   (Anthony Robbins)

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“All The Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas

Layin’ In The Sun,

Talkin’ ‘Bout The Things

They Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda Done…

But All Those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas

All Ran Away And Hid

From One Little Did.”   (Shel Silverstein)

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“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”   (Wayne W. Dyer)

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“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”   (Aristotle)

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“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”  (Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich)

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“The Threshold of Your Own Mind”

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”   (William James)

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“Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”   (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince)

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“You do not write your life with words … You write it with actions.  What you think is not important.  It is only important what you do.”   (Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls)

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“No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.

If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.”    (Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet)

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“The more you struggle to live, the less you live.  Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing.  Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure …. you are above everything distressing.”   (Baruch Spinoza)

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“There’s only one day at a time here, then it’s tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.”   (Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Vol. 1)

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“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

(And now) Here’s Tom with the Weather.”   (Bill Hicks)

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