Catalyst Quotes

“Press On”

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“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves… Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them.  And the point is, to live everything.  Live the questions now. Perhaps, then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.     (Rainer Maria Rilke)

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“I think and think for months and years.  Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false.  The hundredth time I am right.”     (Albert Einstein)

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“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping stone in the pathway of the strong.”     (Thomas Carlyle)

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“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.  Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”     (Jacob August Riis)

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“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins – not through strength but by perseverance.”     (H. Jackson Brown)

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“The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by often falling.”     (Lucretius)

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“Press on!  A better fate awaits you.”

(Victor Hugo)

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“Do or Do Not”

“Life is a challenge; meet it.”     (Mother Theresa)

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“Nothing happens unless first we dream.”     (Carl Sandburg)

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 “Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.”     (William Bennett)

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 “In every difficult situation is potential value.  Believe this; then begin looking for it.”     (Norman Vincent Peale)

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 “It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”     (Sir Edmund Hillary)

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 “Do or do not.   There is no try.”     (Yoda)

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“Change – A Soft Little Sadness”

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“When faced with the choice between changing and proving there’s no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.”   (John K. Galbraith)

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“The direction of change to seek is not in our four dimensions:  it is getting deeper into what we are, where you are, like turning up the volume on the amplifier.”     (Thaddeus Golas)

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“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.”   (Johann von Goethe)

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“Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.”    (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)

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“Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.”   (Alice Walker)

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“Change always invites us into a soft little sadness.  We are sad about losing what we must let go of and scared of what will arrive in its place. 

Change is mystery past our control.  Fear makes us see it as loss, but love allows us to see it as possibility – the birth of the new, which aside from the presence of love, we would be too afraid to envision for ourselves.

Today, allow yourself to embrace the changes in your life.  Savor the mystery; open to the surprise; remember that change is benefaction of love.”     (365 Days of Love, Daphne Rose Kingma, Conari Press)

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“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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