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“The present moment has always been available to spiritual seekers, but as long as you are seeking you are not available to the present moment. “Seeking” implies that you are looking to the future for some answer, or for some achievement, spiritual or otherwise. Everybody is in the seeking mode, seeking to add something to who they are, whether it be money, relationships, possessions, knowledge, status.. or spiritual attainment”
Eckhart Tolle
“There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.”
William James
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ”
Confucius
“If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.”
Lao Tzu
“Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
Harry S. Truman
“Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.”
Hans Christian Andersen
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
Winston Churchill
“No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”
Napoleon Hill
“History doesn't crawl; it leaps.”
— Nassim Taleb
“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”
Voltaire
“No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”
Alan Watts
“The world is full of kings, but only one is yours to follow.”
— Jack Hyles
“It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.”
— Edouard Manet
“Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.”
William James
“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve. ”
Charlie Chaplin
“We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn
“I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.”
T. S. Eliot
“Enthusiasm makes up for a host of deficiencies.”
Barack Obama
“Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.”
Arnold H. Glasow
“We can choose to look at whatever we want. We can look at what's wrong in our life or we can look at what's right.”
Sonia Ricotti
“A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.”
Zig Ziglar

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