Catalyst Quotes

“Reach High But Walk on the Earth”

“Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul.  Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. “     (Pamela Starr)

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“The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water; but to walk on the earth.”     (Chinese Proverb)

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“When you find your path, you must ignore fear.  You need to have the courage to risk mistakes.  But once you are on that road … run, run, run, and don’t stop ‘til you’ve reached its end.”     (José N. Harris)

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“Know who you are, and be it.  Know what you want, and go out and get it!”     (Carroll Bryant)

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“To think is easy.  To act is difficult.  To act as one thinks is the most difficult.”     (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)

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“Be”

“Opportunity is always knocking.  The problem is that most people have the self-doubt station in their heads turned up way too loud to hear it.”     (Brian Vaszily)

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

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“I would simply like to be forgiven and forgotten.  There is no need to remember me.  The need is to remember yourself!       (Rajneesh)

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Six Line Prayer

“Be still and know that I am God.

Be still and know that I am.

Be still and know.

Be still.

Be.

(Unknown Author)

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“I Can Do Anything”

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

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“The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”    (Lao Tzu)

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“Everything you’ll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.”    (Dan Millman)

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“I can do anything.  I can be anything.  No one ever told me I couldn’t.  No one ever expressed this idea that I was limited to any one thing, and so I think in terms of what’s possible, not impossible. 

 So yeah, I think anything is possible.  I know it because I have lived it.  I know it because I have seen it.  I have witnessed things the ancients would have called miracles, but they are not miracles.  They are products of someone’s dream, and they happened as the result of hard work.  Or they happened because, you k now, [stuff] happens.  As human beings, we are capable of creating a paradise, and making each other’s lives better by our own hands.  Yes, yes, yes … this is possible.”     (Whoopi Goldberg, The Little Big Book of Life, Edited by Natasha Fried & Lena Tabori)

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“Extract Your Uniqueness”

“When you life gets to be overwhelming, when you feel like too much of the world is depressing, there are two things you can do:  One, sit in your house and feel the doom and gloom and continue to watch the news, shaking your head in resignation and saying to yourself, ‘Oh no, my life sucks.  The world is ending, there’s nothing I can do.’  This is one way to go.  I personally, wouldn’t recommend it.

‘Well,’ you say, ‘what’s the other option?’

Here it is:  If you must watch the news, turn the sound off and imagine the news anchor people are telling you all about your day.  Make up happy events, adding your name into the report every third or fourth sentence.

Sing aloud with wild abandonment as you get dressed in the morning (any cheery song will do).

And most important, get yourself some daily affirmations.”       (Ellen DeGeneres)

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“Look back over your life.  What have you consistently done well?  What have you loved to do?  Stand at the intersection of your affections and successes and find your uniqueness.”

“Don’t worry about skills you don’t have.  Don’t covet strengths others do have.  Just extract your uniqueness.”     (Lucado, Max. “Life to the Max – A Max Lucado Digital Sampler.”  Thomas Nelson)

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“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes … but no plans.”     (Peter Drucker)

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“Failure – Good News and Bad News; I’m Possible”

“You are a fortunate person, indeed, if you can begin each day accepting the fact that during that day there will be ups and downs, good breaks and bad ones, disappointments, surprises, unexpected turns of events.”     (Roy Benjamin)

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“Many people think that failure is something to be avoided at all costs. There is good news and bad news to report on that. The good news is that failure can be avoided – by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. The bad news is that to achieve anything, you must accept risk, which brings with it the possibility for disappointment and failure.

If you have never experienced failure, you have never pushed the envelope or stretched hard enough and long enough to reach your maximum potential. You can never steal second base if you keep both feet on first. You will never experience the exhilaration of discovery without enduring the pain of an experimental dead-end.

Winston Churchill defined success as “going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” Failure may be an event in your life, but it is not who you are.     Failure is an opportunity to learn. “   (“Learning from Your Mistakes,” Delos Cosgrove)

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“Obstacles are necessary for success because … victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.”    (Og Mandino)

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“Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.”     (George Smith Patton, Jr.)

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“Nothing is impossible; the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!”     (Audrey Hepburn)

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“Climb Over the Wall; Losing is Winning”

“There’s a place some of us like to hang out; I call it the near side of the wall.  It’s the comfortable place where, instead of pushing our limits to more intense feeling, greater love, and larger life, we remain content with half best, with mediocrities in every area, with things that fill our days but not our souls.

Playing on the near side of the wall is at best a timid and at worst a cowardly position.  It ensures that our lives will be safe and small.

Being willing to climb over the wall, to scale it in spite of possible bruised hands and scraped knees, is like being willing to see if the baseball you threw over it ended up on a black-asphalt pavement or in a field of wild orange poppies.”      (365 Days of Love, Daphne Rose Kingma, Conari Press)

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“It’s not what you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you are not.”      (Denis Waitley)

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“What I am looking for is not out there … it’s in me.”      (Helen Keller)

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“That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games.  Losing, in a curious way, is winning.”      (Richard Bach)

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“Fragile or Tough?”

“It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are.  There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble balls; while the beat of the wings of a butterfly in the right place, we are told, can create a hurricane across an ocean.  Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way.  Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.”   (Fragile Things, Neil Gaiman)

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“There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody.  Contemplate the crowds of people who are striving might and main to become, not what Nature intended them to be – musicians, cooks, mechanics, carpenters, gardeners, inventors – but somebody:  to become successful, famous, powerful; to become something that will bring, not quiet and self-fulfillment, but self-glorification and self-expansion.”       (Tony deMello SJ)

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“The first step in handling anything is gaining the ability to face it.”     (L. Ron Hubbard)

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“A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.”      (Tony Robbins)

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“The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.”    (Brian Tracy)

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“Life – Hope – Dreams – Goals – Commitment”

“Adventure isn’t hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain.  Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day-to-day obstacles of life – facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, discovering our own unique potential.”     (John Amatt)

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“Where there is life, there is hope.  Where there are hopes, there are dreams.  Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals.  Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment.  The response to the challenges of life — purpose — is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.”  (Denis Waitley)

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“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”    (Truman Capote)

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“People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”  (Apple Computers)

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“Remember how far you’ve come, not just how far you have to go.  You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.”     (Rick Warren)

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“Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.”      (Stephen Covey)

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“Build Something Far Bigger Than Yourself”

“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass…  It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.”     (Vivian Greene)

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“One of the most amazing things that can happen is finding someone who sees everything you are and won’t let you be anything less.  They see the potential of you.  They see endless possibilities.  And through their eyes, you start to see yourself the same way as someone who matters.  As someone who can make a difference in the world. “     (So Much Closer, Susane Colosanti)

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“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”     (Napoleon Hill)

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“Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.”    (Ron Wild)

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“You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.”     (Seth Godin)

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