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Stress: Everybody knows what it is, no one knows what it is.
The nonspecific response of the body to any demand put upon it.
Stress is the spice of life. - Hans Selye
That confusion created when one's mind overrides the body's desire
to choke the living shit out of some asshole who desperately needs it. - Author
Unknown
If you don't know where you're going any road will
take you there and it doesn't matter how long it takes. - Author Unknown
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one
thing I know: The only ones among you who will be truly happy are those who
will have sought and found how to serve. - Albert Schweitzer
A journey of a thousand miles begins with but a
single step. - Chinese proverb
The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
Anonymous
Happiness, wealth, and success are the by-products
of goal-setting; they cannot be the goal themselves. - John Condry
You've got to think about 'big things' while you're
doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. -
Alvin Toffler
You can eat an elphant
if you do it
one
bite
at
a
time.
- Robert Riley
In the long run, men only hit what they aim at. -
Henry David Thoreau
The difference between great people and everyone
else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is
created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next.
The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just
existing. - Michael Gerber Think & Grow Rich
Just remember, 100% of the shots you don't take,
don't go in. - Wayne Gretzky
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. -
General Douglas MacArthur
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not
smart enough to know they were impossible. - Doug Larson
The thing always happens that you really belive in; and the belief
in a thing makes it happen. - Frank Lloyd Wright
Self love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as
self-neglecting. - William Shakespear
Until I accept my faults I will most certainly
doubt my virtues. - Hugh Prather
Stop being humble, you are not that great. - Golda Meir
Man's self-concept is enhanced when he takes
responsibility for himself. - William C. Shutz
I care not what others think of what I do, but I
care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!
- Theodore Roosevelt
You're good enough, you're smart enough and gosh darn it people like
you. - Stuart Smalley
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. - Mark Twain
The happiest moments of my life have been the few
which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. - Thomas Jefferson
People are as happy as they make up their minds to
be. - Abe Lincoln
I've have had many troubles in my life but the worst
of them never came. - James A. Garfield
The Constitution of America only guarantees the
pursuit of happiness--- you have to catch up with it yourself.
Fortunately, happiness is something that depends not on position but on
disposition, and life is what you make it.- Gill Robb Wilson
The Arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence
upon the health of a town than the arrival of twenty asses laden with drugs. -
Thomas Sydenham, Seventeenth-Century Physician
Jack Handey: "Deep Thoughts"
When written in
Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One
represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. - John F. Kennedy
LEMONS/LEMONAIDE
Cripple him, and you have a Sir Walter Scott. Lock him in a prison
cell, and you have a John Bunyan. Bury him in the snows of Valley Forge, and
you have a George Washington. Raise him in abject poverty and you have an
Abraham Lincoln. Srike him down with infantile paralysis, and he becomes
Franklin Roosevelt. Burn him so severely that the doctors say he'll never walk
again, and you have a Glenn Cunningham -- who set the world's one mile record
in 1934. Deafen him and you have a Ludwig van Beethoven. Have him or her born
black in a society filled with racial discrimination, and you have a Booker T.
Washington, a Marian Anderson, a George Washington Carver. Call him a slow
learner, "retarded," and write him off as uneducable, and you have an
Albert Einstein. As one man summed it up: Life is about 20% in what happens to
us and 80% in the way we respond to the events. - Ted Engstrom
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our
faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is
strength undefeatable. - Helen Keller
Obstacles cannot crush me, every obstacle yields to stern resolve. -
Leonardo da Vinci
He who limps still walks. - Stanislaw Lec
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn
how to do it. - Pablo Picasso
When all else is lost, the future still remains. -
Christian Bovee
Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test
first, and the lesson afterward. - Anonymous
The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles ...
are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach
self-reliance. - William Matthews
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what
you can do with what there is. - Ernest Hemingway
It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him
realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls. - Unknown
The only cure for grief is action. - George Henry Lewis
Anyone can become angry---that is easy.? But to be angry with the
right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose,
and in the right way---this is not easy. - Aristotle
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities, and
an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. - Harry Truman
Holing on to anger is like holding on to a hot coal with the intent
of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. - Buddha
Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it. - Hans Selye
"Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
Since you can not do this very little thing, why do you worry about the
rest?" - Luke 12:25-26
Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. -
Samuel Goldwyn
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more
important than any other one thing. - Abraham Lincoln
The most vital aspect of winning is mental attitude. - Phil Mahre, 3
time World Cup, Olympic Gold Medalist
Excellence is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more
I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson
Success has a price tag on it, and the tag reads courage,
determination, discipline, risk taking, perseverance, and consistency --- doing
the right things for the right reasons and not just when we feel like it. -
James M. Meston
My formula for success? Rise early, work late, strike oil. - John
Paul Getty
Failure isn't failing at the project at hand. Failure is giving up
on yourself. - Donna deVerona
I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work. -
Ben Franklin
The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it. -
Roger Babson
Life is not a matter of having good cards, but of playing a poor
hand well. - Robert Louis Stevenson
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem
so wonderful after all. - Michelangelo
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. - Vince Lombardi
Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is. - Catfish Hunter
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you
come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away
because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a
glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen. - Leonardo Da
Vinci
Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure
rate. - Thomas Watson, Sr.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes
nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who
knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his
boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are
few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The
man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. - Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Rule 1. Don't sweat the small stuff.
Rule 2. It's all small stuff.
Rule 3. If you can't fight or flee, then flow.
If you don't mind, it don't matter - Author Unknown
Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts,
and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet
body and a calm mind. - Buddha
Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the
ultimate result of your life. - Grenville Kleiser
What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. -
Thaddeus Golas
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor
Roosevelt
He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be
able to change reality. - Anwar Sadat
Day by day in every way I am getting better and better. - Emile CouŽ
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. - Confucius
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the
pessimist always run to blow it out? - Michel De Saint-Pierre
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. - Proverbs 23:7 of the
bible
The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell
ourselves that that is the way it is. - Carlos Castaneda
If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that
gives it charm. - Cicero
Its not what you think you are - but what you think, you are. -
Author Unknown
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell,
and a hell of Heaven." -John Milton
I'm an old man and I've had many troubles, most of which never
happened. - Mark Twain
When it rains, I let it. - 113 year old man in response to a
question about the secret of his longevity
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from
imagination than from reality. - Marcus Annaeus Seneca
People see the world not as it is, but as they are. - Al Lee
The
greatest weapon against stress is
our ability to choose one thought over another. -William James
No one dies from working too hard. But when people don't get any
recognition in their work, the stress of that lack of control can kill them. -
Barrie S. Greiff
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today.
Let us begin. - Mother Teresa
It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not
stop. - Confucius
The only difference between a diamond and a lump of coal is that the
diamond had a little more pressure put on it. - Anonymous
What isn't tried won't work. - Claude McDonald
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistance. Talent
will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will
not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistance and determination
alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and
always will solve the problems of the human race. - Calvin Coolidge
I wasted time, and now time doth waste me. - Richard II
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings
happy death. - Leonardo Da Vinci
Time management' is really a misnomer - the challenge is not to
manage time, but to manage ourselves.
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to
schedule your priorities. - Stephen Covey: author of The 7 Habits of Highly
Effective People
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. - Ralph
Waldo Emerson
You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin
Live always, my friend, as if there is world enough and time. -
Meyer Friedman
The best way to get something done is to begin. - Anonymous
Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast
duck to drop in. - Confucius
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