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Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny,
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My friend, love is a verb. Love--the feeling--is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her.
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
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It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.
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To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle.
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Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.
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Samuel Johnson observed: "The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove."
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The Three Lives We all lead three lives: our public life, our private life, and our deep inner life. Our public life takes place in a community setting, where we interact with others. Our private life is away from the public--we may be alone, with a friend, or with family members. But our deep inner life is our most significant life. It is where our heart is. It's where we have the capacity to explore our own motives, to examine our own tho..
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Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny," the maxim goes."
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Iak vidznachila Eleonora Ruzvel't: "Bez vashoyi zgodi nikhto ne mozhe vas obraziti". A za slovami G'andi, "u nas ne mozhut' vidibrati samopovagu, iakshcho mi sami yiyi ne viddamo". Nash dobrovil'nii dozvil, nasha zgoda na te, shcho z nami vidbuvaiet'sia, zavdaie nam nabagato bil'shogo boliu, nizh vlasne podiyi."
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It's easy to say "no!" when there's a deeper "yes!" burning inside." --
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if you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself,
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The thing I learned is that you don't invent your mission, you detect it. You uncover it, as it were.
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It is our willing permission, our consent to what happens to us, that hurts us far more than what happens to us in the first place.
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In the words of both Peter Drucker and Warren Bennis, "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."
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Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our happiness.
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Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
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Did you ever consider how ridiculous it would be to try to cram on a farm--to forget to plant in the spring, play all summer and then cram in the fall to bring in the harvest? The farm is a natural system. The price must be paid and the process followed. You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.
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At one seminar where I was speaking on the concept of proactivity, a man came up and said, "Stephen, I like what you're saying. But every situation is so different. Look at my marriage. I'm really worried. My wife and I just don't have the same feelings for each other we used to have. I guess I just don't love her anymore and she doesn't love me. What can I do?" "The feeling isn't there anymore?" I asked. "That's right," he reaffirmed. "And..
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always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.
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Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
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Sincere apologies make deposits; repeated apologies interpreted as insincere make withdrawals. And the quality of the relationship reflects it.
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It becomes obvious that if we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms. In the words of Thoreau, "For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root." We can only achieve quantum improvements in our lives as we quit hacking at the leaves of a..
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How Many People on Their Deathbed Wish They'd Spent More Time at the Office?
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We often get into ruts, on treadmills, caught up in patterns and habits that aren't useful. We don't stop to ask, what can I learn from this week that will keep next week from essentially being a repeat of the same?
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The Character Ethic taught that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.
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The work will come again, but childhood won't.
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In fact, "grow or die" is the moral imperative of all existence."
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Few of us can do great things, but all of us can do small things with great love. MOTHER TERESA
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The children of blame are cynicism and hopelessness.
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I am the creative force of my life.
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love is a verb. Reactive people make it a feeling. They're driven by feelings.
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Whatever you can do, or dream, begin it! For boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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life is a mission and not a career,
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in relationships, the little things are the big things.
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. HENRY DAVID THOREAU
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Associated with Habit 6: Synergize is the endowment of creativity--the creation of something. How? By yourself? No, through two respectful minds communicating, producing solutions that are far better than what either proposed originally. Most negotiation is positional bargaining and results at best in compromise. But when you get into synergistic communication, you leave position. You understand basic underlying needs and interests and find..
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The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them. Self-denial is an essential element in overcoming all three temptations. "One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to duty, is worth all the mere good thoughts, warm feelings, passionate prayers, in which idle men indulge themselves," said John Henry Newman. "The worst education which teaches self-denial is better than the best which teaches everything else ..
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