
What you seek is seeking you.
- Topic: Affirmation, Choice, Decision, Desire, Destiny, Goals, Purpose
- Location: Yellowstone National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.
› Rumi
One drop of your kindness makes the ocean sweet.
› Rumi
Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.
› Rumi
Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.
› Rumi
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Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
› Ayn Rand
Affirmation is an internal positive statement that supports an external outcome.
› Jeffrey Benjamin
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
› Plutarch
Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.
› Plato
The heart's earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled.
› Mohandas Gandhi
My own art is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside all rules and demands of society.
› Emile Zola
Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
› Mark 11:24
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
› James Baldwin
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
› Dale Carnegie
Fundamentally, there are only to ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion — the technique of the army and the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation — the technique of the marketplace.
› Milton Friedman
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
› Jim Rohn
More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.
› Cicero
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.
› Niccolo Machiavelli
Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.
› James Allen
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
› Voltaire
I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
› F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
› T. S. Eliot
You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.
› Robert Kiyosaki
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.
› Aristotle
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
› Robert Collier
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
› Virginia Woolf
No matter who you are or what your position you must keeping fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.
› George Allen
There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
› G. K Chesterton
Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.
› Plato
Desire is the essence of a man.
› Benedict Spinoza
The generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
› Franklin Roosevelt
It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.
› Tony Robbins
I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.
› Stephen Hawking
Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.
› Marcus Aurelius
When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
› Lao-tzu
There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
› Johann Friedrich Schiller
One love, one heart, one destiny.
› Bob Marley
Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature; it is our future that lays down the law of our today.
› Friedrich Nietzsche
This is the thing that I was born to do.
› Samuel Daniel
Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
› John F. Kennedy
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.
› Og Mandino
A very little key will open a very heavy door.
› Charles Dickens
Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.
› Mark Twain
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
› Thomas Aquinas
Have regular hours for work & play; make each day both useful & pleasant and prove you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
› Louisa May Alcott
The way you habitually think will determine your destiny.
› Jeffrey Benjamin
Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.
› Will Rogers
A winner never taught me how to quit.
› Jeffrey Benjamin
The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
› Isaac Newton
What we do now echoes in eternity.
› Marcus Aurelius
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
› Albert Einstein
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
› Carl Jung
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
› Maya Angelou
Keep your mind off the things you don’t want by keeping it on the things you do want.
› W. Clement Stone
This is the law: The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.
› John Steinbeck
