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It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning
wondering what my intuition
will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea.
I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.
- Jonas Salk
I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares.
I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
- Jonas Salk
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely.
You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
- Henry David Thoreau
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no doubt that life can be a bumpy ride.
But so were those roller coasters you loved as a kid.
Savor the adventure.
Find excitement in the uncertainty and the constant change.
Even let a touch of fear add spice to your life -
as you did on that roller coaster.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
I wake up to profound perspective that allows me to
celebrate the choices of my moments, of my life.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There are as many pillows of illusion
as flakes in a snow-storm.
We wake from one dream into another dream.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Praying is important when you wake up
at two o'clock in the morning
feeling sick from eating something dumb the day before.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi (Persian poet 1207-1273)
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear
to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
- Sylvester Stallone
Oh, come on, Shrek, wake up and smell the pheromones!
- the movie Shrek (2001)
It was like being in the eye of a hurricane.
You'd wake up in a concert and think,
Wow, how did I get here?
- John Lennon
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
Circumstances don't defeat you -
you defeat yourself when you give up.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I won't give up 'til goats sing and walruses fly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
- Dave Barry
For every minute you remain angry,
you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
Never give up.
- Anonymous
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down.
Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan
If I choose to bless another person,
I will always end up feeling more blessed.
- Marianne Williamson
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
May the road rise up to meet you,
may the wind be ever at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face
and the rain fall softly on your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
- Irish Blessing
It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget,"
is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.
Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -
torn in two, and burned up,
so that it never can be shown against one.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy,
if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you,
if the simple things in nature have a message you understand,
Rejoice, for your soul is alive.
- Eleanora Duse
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