Catalyst Quotes

“Every Day is the Best Day”

“Look to this day.  In it lie all the realities and verities of existence, the bliss of growth, the splendor of action, the glory of power.  For yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision.  But today, well-lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.”     (Sanskrit Proverb)

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“Telling ourselves ‘I deserve’ something rarely allows us to truly receive it, for at our core we all know we are imperfect beings and the ‘I deserve it’ school of thought will rarely fool our sensitive psyches.

On the contrary, it is through gratitude, by saying thank you, that we discover our deservingness.  For in saying thank you we experience ourselves as having received something, and in the receiving we are given a sense of our value.

Saying thank you is the beginning of discovering your own deservingness.”     (365 Days of Love, Daphne Kingma, Conari Press)

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“Be soft in your practice.

Think of the method as a fine silvery steam, not a raging waterfall.

Follow the stream, have faith in its course.

It will go its own way, meandering here, trickling there.

It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices.

Just follow it.  Never let it out of your sight.

It will take you.”      (Sheng-Yen)

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“Write in your heart that every day is the best day of the year.”   (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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“You’ll Move Mountains”

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”      (Confucius)

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“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.  I hope someday you’ll join us.  And the world will live as one.”     (John Lennon)

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“There are only two ways to live your life.  One is as though nothing is a miracle.  The other is as though everything is a miracle.”     (Albert Einstein)

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”    (Oscar Wilde)

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“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts:  we need books, time and silence.  ‘Thou shalt not’ is soon forgotten, but ‘Once upon a time last forever.’”    (Philip Pullman)

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“So be sure when you step,

Step with care and great tact.

And remember that life’s A Great Balancing Act.

And will you succeed?  Yes!  You will, indeed!  (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed)

Kid, you’ll move mountains.”     (Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You’ll Go!)

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“Because You Are Alive, Everything is Possible”

“Each day we wake in the morning with a thought in our minds.  This thought, whatever it may be, sets the tone for the rest of the day.  This is not always a good thing as we may wake up in a rush for work or school, with a hangover, feeling depressed or generally in a state of confusion.  Therefore it is a good idea to learn how to create an original thought to begin each day, and to make the day a perfect expression of your original thought.”    (The Tibetan Art of Positive Thinking)

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“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own.  No apologies or excuses.  No one to lean on, rely on, or blame.  The gift is yours.  It is an amazing journey, and you alone are responsible for the quality of it.  This is the day your life really begins.”    (Bob Moawad)

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“Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.”     (T. S. Eliot)

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“Because you are alive, everything is possible.”     (Thich Nhat Hanh)

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“Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”    (Henry David Thoreau)

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“If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never dream of.  There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”     (Fred Rogers)

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“Stop Day-Dreaming; Forget Wishing”

“How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I’m committed to?”     (Tony Robbins)

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“You’re in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows — and has always known — that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival.”     (Tony Robbins)

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“Whether you believe you can do a thing or whether you believe you cannot, you are right both times.”     (Henry Ford)

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“Believe in poverty and you will be poor.  Believe in wealth and you will be rich.  Believe in love and you will have love.  Believe in health and you will be healthy.”     (Napoleon Hill)

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“Where is the law that says all things are not possible?  No such law exists.  Everything is possible to one who understands that limits created by humans can be dispensed with.”     (David Manners)

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“Whatsoever things you desire, believe and you shall have them.”     (Jesus)

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“Cease today to merely hope.  Stop day-dreaming.  Forget about wishing, and remember to formulate the consciousness which corresponds with what you truly desire in life.”     (Frank Richelieu)

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“Are You Using All Your Strength?”

“The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.”     (Stephen Nachmanovitch)

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“A little boy was having difficulty lifting a heavy stone.  His father came along just then.  Noting the boy’s failure, he asked, ‘Are you using all your strength?’

‘Yes, I am,’ the little boy said impatiently.

‘No, you are not,’ the father answered.  ‘I am right here just waiting, and you haven’t asked me to help you.’     (Author Unknown)

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“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”     (Anaïs Nin)

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“If you play it safe in life you’ve decided that you don’t want to grow anymore.”     (Shirley Mount Hufstedler)

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“Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds.  Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.”     José Ortega y Gasset)

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“The miracle is this, the more we share, the more we have.”     (Leonard Nimoy)

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“Those People”

“At a recent seminar, a woman who helps run a community college stood up to ask a question.

When those that we’ve chosen to teach and lead write off people because of what they look like or where they live or who their parents are, it’s a tragedy. Worse, we often write people off merely because they’ve been brainwashed into thinking that they have no ability to do more than they’ve been assigned. Well, if we brainwashed them into setting limits, I know we can teach them to ignore those limits.” (Seth Godin)

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“A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes”

“We create our own reality.  The blessing (or problem) with this is that when one creates one’s own reality, one must live it!  Are you living a blessing or is it a curse?”     (Gary R. Ryan)

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 “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.”     (Kurt Cobain)

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 “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”     (Lao Tzu)

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“A mathematical formula for happiness:  Reality divided by Expectations.  There were two ways to be happy:  improve your reality or lower your expectations.”     (Nineteen Minutes, Jodi Picoult)

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 “Love one another and you will be happy.  It’s as simple and as difficult as that.”    (Michael Leunig)

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 “A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you’re fast asleep.”     (“Cinderella,” Walt Disney Company)

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