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andrey at achievebalance dot com" Q[1]="'Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really? True effectiveness requires balance.'

- Stephen Covey" Q[2]="'The purpose of life is not happiness but worthiness.'

- Felix Adler
" Q[3]="'It is impossible to govern rightly without God and the Bible.'

- George Washington, Father of America, 1732-1799
" Q[4]="'Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people; it is wholly inadequate for any other.'

- John Adams, American President, 1735-1826" Q[5]="'If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.'

- T. S. Eliot" Q[6]="'The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.'

- Abraham Lincoln, American President, 1809-1865" Q[7]="'Strive not to be a success, strive instead to be of value.'

- Albert Einstein
" Q[8]="'The world is full of suffering, and the overcoming of it.'

- Helen Keller
" Q[9]="'We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.'

- Ruth Benedict
" Q[10]="'Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.'

- Aristotle, Greek philosopher, Plato's student, 384-322 B. C.
" Q[11]="'Whoever conceals their disease cannot expect to be cured.'

- Ethiopian proverb
" Q[12]="'I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.'

- Rollo May" Q[13]="'It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.'

- George Washington, Father of America, 1732-1799" Q[14]="'Think of me as a fellow-patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier, could give some advice.'

- C. S. Lewis, writer, professor" Q[15]="'Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.'

- Will Rogers" Q[16]="'There are things for which an uncompromising stand is worthwhile.'

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Anti-Nazi minister in Germany, 19xx-1945" Q[17]="'I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have.'

- Abraham Lincoln, American President, 1809-1865" Q[18]="'Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.'

- M. Scott Peck" Q[19]="'Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.'

- M. C. Richards" Q[20]="'A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.'

- Rita Mae Brown" Q[21]="'If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.'

- Jacques Cousteau, explorer" Q[22]="'The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.'

- Doug Larson" Q[23]="'Simply accept the fact that you are accepted.'

- Paul Tillich
" Q[24]="'What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.'

- Hugh Mulligan" Q[25]="'Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.'

- Stevie Wonder" Q[26]="'It is senseless to speak of optimism or pessimism. The only important thing to remember is that if one works well in a potato field, the potatoes will grow. If one works well among people, they will grow. That's reality. The rest is smoke.'
- Danilo Dolci" Q[27]="'Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.'

- Abraham Heschel" Q[28]="'There isn't enough darkness in all the world to snuff out the light of one single candle.'

- unknown" Q[29]="'Life is tough. Life is tougher if you're stupid.'

- John Wayne, actor
" Q[30]="'A person's life is what their thoughts make it.'

- Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor, 121-180
" Q[31]="'Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.'

- Oscar Wilde" Q[32]="'Men must be ruled by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants.'

- William Penn, Quaker Leader 1644-1718
" Q[33]="'God puts mentors in your path. They may not look like you, sound like you, or be what you expect. But they always know more than you.'

- Maria Shriver" Q[34]="'No one is more cheated than the selfish person.'

- Henry Ward Beecher, prominent anti-slavery leader, 1813-1887
" Q[35]="'May you hear, recognize, understand and respond to the voice of God when He talks to you.'

- anonymous" Q[36]="'To add a quote that has helped you through life and have it placed here... e-mail me at:

andrey at achievebalance dot com" Q[37]="'God doesn't call the equipped, He equips the called.'

- unknown
" Q[38]="'If they were going to hinder me with racism, I was going to overcome through the power of excellence.'

- General Chappie James, USAF" Q[39]="'When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.'

- Erasmus" Q[40]="'Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.'

- John F. Kennedy, American President" Q[41]="'There are those that hate you. But those that hate you do not win, unless you hate them. Then, you destroy yourself.'

- Richard M. Nixon, American President" Q[42]="'Become so possessed by the love of God, that people will be healed by walking into our presence. Not because of us, but because of Him.'

- Dr. Harold Rhodes" Q[43]="'Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.'

- Mahatama Gandhi
" Q[44]="'The freest person in the world is one with an open heart, a broken spirit, and a new direction in which to travel.'

- Gordon McDonald" Q[45]="'People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition.'

- Jean Vanier" Q[46]="'The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.'

- Charles Hadden Spurgeon" Q[47]="'There are three types of friends: those without which you can't live; those like medicine which you need occasionally; and those like an illness which you never want.'

- Solomon Ben Gabriel" Q[48]="'The worst thing in your life may contain seeds of the best. When you see crisis as an opportunity, your life becomes not easier, but more satisfying.'

- Joel Kogel" Q[49]="'In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves ... self-discipline with all of them came first.'

- Harry S. Truman" Q[50]="'The Church exists for no other purpose but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time.'
- C. S. Lewis" Q[51]="'Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives.'
- Henry Nouwen" Q[52]="'Being human is difficult. Becoming human is a lifelong process. To be truly human is a gift.'

- Abraham Heschel" Q[53]="'What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.'

- Ralph Waldo Emerson" Q[54]="'Self-realization is not a matter of withdrawal from a corrupt world or narcissistic contemplation of oneself. An individual becomes a person by enjoying the world and contributing to it.'

- Francine Klagsbrun" Q[55]="'When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick.'

- Bill Lemley" Q[56]="'Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men.'

- Carlos Castaneda" Q[57]="'Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.'

- Sophocles
" Q[58]="'This above all, to refuse to be a victim. Unless I can do that, I can do nothing.'

- Margaret Atwood" Q[59]="'Oh, that one could learn to learn in time.'

- Enrique Solari
" Q[60]="'Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over.'

- F. Scott Fitzgerald" Q[61]="'If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.'

- Isaac Bashevis Singer" Q[62]="'Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.'

- Herbert Otto" Q[63]="'One of the main reasons wealth makes people unhappy is that it gives them too much control over what they experience. They try to translate their own fantasies into reality instead of tasting what reality itself has to offer.'
- Philip Slater" Q[64]="'The most important function of art and science is to awaken the cosmic religious feeling and keep it alive.'

- Albert Einstein" Q[65]="'Oh Lord, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your Hand would be with me, that I may not cause pain.'

- Jabez (1 Chronicles 4:10 NKJV)" Q[66]="'The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.'

- Herbert Spencer" Q[67]="'The decree is gone forth, and it cannot be recalled, that a more equal liberty than has prevailed in other parts of the earth must be established in America.'

- John Adams writing to Patrick Henry" Q[68]="'Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.'

- Thomas Pain" Q[69]="'1 cross + 3 nails = 4 given.'

- unknown
" Q[70]="'If in your heart you make a manger for His birth, the God will once again become a child on earth.'

- Angelus Silesius" Q[71]="'You cannot help suffering; it is a true and needful training for the soul that dares to be true to God.'

- Oswald Chambers" Q[72]="'Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.'

- Italian proverb" Q[73]="'An individual becomes a person by enjoying the world and contributing to it.'

- Francine Klagsburn" Q[74]="'There is no life without pain, just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.'

- Rita Mae Brown" Q[75]="'If you can't fight, and you can't flee, flow.'

- Robert Eliot
" Q[76]="'Almost anything you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.'

- Mohandas Gandhi" Q[77]="'One can not always be a hero, but one can always be a man.'

- Goethe
" Q[78]="'Procrastination is the thief of time.'

- Edward Young
" Q[79]="'If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe.'

- Carl Sagan" Q[80]="'When people are loving, brave, truthful, charitable, God is present.'

- Harold Kushner
" Q[81]="'The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.'

- Victor Frankl
" Q[82]="'Thou art everywhere, but I worship you here; Thou art without form, but I worship you in these forms; Thou needest no praise, yet I offer you these prayers and salutations.'

- Hindu prayer" Q[83]="'Self-knowledge and self-improvement are very difficult for most people. It usually needs great courage and long struggle.'

- Abraham Maslow" Q[84]="'Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.'

- Richard J. Foster" Q[85]="'For the trouble is that we are self-centered, and no effort of the self can remove the self from the centre of its own endeavor.'

- William Temple" Q[86]="'There are two equally dangerous extremes: to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.'

- Pascal" Q[87]="'It is not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.'

- Leo F. Buscaglia, 1924-1998" Q[88]="'All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost.'

- J.R.R. Tolkien
" Q[89]="'I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.'

- Martin Luther King, Jr. When receiving the Nobel Peace Prize" Q[90]="'The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.'

- Thomas Jefferson" Q[91]="'Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.'

- John Quincy Adams" Q[92]="'Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.'

- Carl Bard" Q[93]="'It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts.'

- Ella Fitzgerald, Jazz Singer," Q[94]="'I attribute my success to this -- I never gave or took any excuse.'

- Florence Nightingale, English nurse and reformer," Q[95]="'Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.'

- Proverb
" Q[96]="'You may have a fresh start any moment you choose. Failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.'

- Mary Pickford" Q[97]="'Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.'

- Henry J. Kaiser
" Q[98]="'Mankind's greatest gift, also the greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.'

- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Psychiatrist pioneering in the study of grief," Q[99]="'If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.'

- Turkish proverb
" Q[100]="'Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.'

- Benjamin Franklin
" Q[101]="'In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.'

- Thomas Jefferson" Q[102]="'Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.'

- Goethe
" Q[103]="'What is hateful to you, do not to your fellowman. That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary.'

- The Talmud" Q[104]="'Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, get a puppy.'

- Barbara Walters, TV Journalist," Q[105]="'The way you see people is the way you treat them. And the way you treat them is what they become.'

- Goethe" Q[106]="'You must be the change you wish to see in the world.'

- Gandhi
" Q[107]="'Even God cannot change the past.'

- Agathon
" Q[108]="'Sometimes the best helping hand you can give is a good, firm push.'

- Joann Thomas
" Q[109]="'A year from now you'll wish you had started today.'

- Karen Lamb
" Q[110]="'When it comes time to die, sing your death song like a hero going home.'

- Tecumseh Shawnee Chief" Q[111]="'Knowing is not enough; We must Apply. Willing is not enough; We must Do.'

- Goethe
" Q[112]="'Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.'

- Native American Proverb" Q[113]="'We are called upon not to be successful but to be faithful.'

- Mother Teresa, when receiving the Nobel Peace Prize" Q[114]="'I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what He likes. However imperfect we are, He writes beautifully.'

- Mother Teresa" Q[115]="'The essence of sin is a shift from God-centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self, not an affirming of self.'

- Henry Blackaby" Q[116]="'The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart'

- Helen Keller" Q[117]="'No matter who you are, we're creatures of habit. The better your habits are, the better they will be in pressure situations.'

- Wayne Gretzky" Q[118]="'I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ.'

- Apostle Paul (Philemon v6, NIV)" Q[119]="'In calm waters, every ship has a good captain.'

- Swedish Proverb
" Q[120]="'Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.'

- Henry Ford
" Q[121]="'If your dreams don't scare you, they aren't big enough'

- Lowell Lundstrum
" Q[122]="'Trust the Process'

- Many a CREDO or Insight Retreat Team Member and graduate
" Q[123]="'Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.'

- Jawaharlal Nehru, first prime minister of India" Q[124]="'The Bible is like a lion; it does not need to be defended; just let it loose and it will defend itself.'

- Martin Luther
" Q[125]="'For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.'

- Jesus (John 3:16, NASB)" Q[126]="'All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.'

- Gandalf the Grey
" Q[127]="'Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.'

- Ann Landers" Q[128]="'No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.'

- Albert Einstein" Q[129]="'Most people . . . can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it obliges them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.'
- Tolstoy" Q[130]="'I have learned that to ignore the facts does not change the facts.'

- Andy Rooney
" Q[131]="'Those who never retract their opinions, love themselves more than they love truth.'

- Joseph Joubert
" Q[132]="'We can not guarantee success, we can strive to deserve it.'

- George Washington
" Q[133]="'To marry a woman for her beauty is like buying a house for its paint.'

- unknown
" Q[134]="'We have staked the whole future of American Civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments.'
- James Madison, known as the father of the U. S. Constitution." Q[135]="'In every place where you find the imprints of man's feet, there am I.'

- The Talmud
" Q[136]="'The unexamined life is not worth living.'

- Socrates

" Q[137]="'So much has been given me, I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.'

- Helen Keller
" Q[138]="'A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.'

- Winston Churchill" Q[139]="'We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.'

- Winston Churchill
" Q[140]="'Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.'

- Betrand Russel, famous athiest
" Q[141]="'We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.'

- Anais Nin
" Q[142]="'If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you'll be at rest!'

- Corrie Ten Boom, Nazi Death Camp sufferer" Q[143]="'Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.'

- Aldous Huxley, author
" Q[144]="'If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.'

- John Bunyan, author" Q[145]="'Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic.'

- Vance Havner
" Q[146]="'The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.'

- William James, Psychologist
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