A small spark can start a great fire.
- Topic: Action, Motivation, Possibility
- Location: Glacier National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire.
Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. . . If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.
Man is a mental being, and to know this is the first step on the road to freedom, for as long as you believe yourself to be primarily physical, you will remain in bondage, that is to say, to your own habits of thought, for there is no other bondage.
If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.
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Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.
The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.
Man is a universe in little.
Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.
Impossible is just an opinion.
The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
