To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come true. The specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning.
By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.
Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want--you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move.
Put your future in good hands. Your own.
Things must be felt with the heart.
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Education provides the fullest opportunities for fulfilling ourselves. It is the access to all that a person has yet to learn.
People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
I think that we are starting to get much more conscious about, you know, the importance of the spiritual path, and we are fulfilling it by paying attention to ourselves.
For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role.
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