Catalyst Quotes

“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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“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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