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One day, through my prayers, an overwhelming amount of love started flowing into me, filling up the dark hole that threatened to consume me. I suddenly realized that what I was feeling was the love of the Earth, the love of Creation. Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in its power to give us life anyway. And that's true love.

Julia Butterfly Hill
Source: The Legacy of Luna
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Imagination gives the man the ability to poject himself through time and space and rise above all limitations.

Charles Fillmore
Source: Dynamic Laws of Prosperity by Catherine Ponder
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Arthur Schopenhauer : German philosopher
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
 
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Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter - if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?

Ralph Waldo Emerson : American transcendentalist philosopher, essayist & lecturer
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
 
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Never underestimate the ability of one person to change things.

Apollia's Mom
 
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It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.

Henry David Thoreau : American philosopher & naturalist, writer of Walden
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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On one of his journeys Diogenes was captured by pirates, who sold him as a slave to Xeniades of Corinth.  When his owner asked him what he could do, he answered, “Govern men.”

Diogenes (c. 412 - 323)
Source: Will Durant, Story of Civilization Book II
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The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, personal and family history, belief systems, and often political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

Eckhart Tolle : Gaia Child
Eckhart Tolle
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I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.

Julia Cameron : Gaia Child
Julia Cameron
 
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What you lack in one department, you make up for it in another

Liam Williams
Source: Liam Williams
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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift : Irish satirist, dean of St. Patrick’s cathedral in Dublin
Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
Source: Thoughts on Various Subjects (1711)
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Life beats down and crushes our souls and theatre reminds us that we have one. At least the type of theatre that I'm interested in; that is, theatre that moves an audience. You have the opportunity to literally impact the lives of people if they work on material that has integrity. But today, most actors simply want to be famous. Well, being an actor was never supposed to be about fame and money. Being an actor is a religious calling because you've been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity. Think about that on the way to your soap opera audition.

Sanford Meisner
 
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The two most important things about people on a revolutionary team are their ability and passion. Their educational level or work experience is meaningless--most of the engineers who did ground-breaking work of the Macintosh design didn't even graduate from college.

Guy Kawasaki : Gaia Child
Guy Kawasaki
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There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

Richard David Bach : American author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach (1936 - )
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Joy is an attitude; it is the presence of love - for self and others. It comes from a feeling of inner peace, the ability to give and receive, and appreciation of the self and others. It is a state of gratitude and compassion, a feeling of connection to your higher self.

Sanaya Roman
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The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

Thomas Alva Edison : American inventor & industrialist
Thomas Edison (1847 - 1931)
 
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I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Everyone has bad breaks, but everyone also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
 
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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Norman Vincent Peale : American pastor, author of The Power of Positive Thinking in 1952
Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
 
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Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

John Wooden (1910 - )
 
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Henry David Thoreau : American philosopher & naturalist, writer of Walden
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
 
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)
 
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For whatever reason, God has blessed me with the ability, put me in a position to make these leaps and bounds. I'm fulfilling my part of the bargain, which is to give back and be a positive influence on others.

Denzel Washington (1954 - )
 
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It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.

Confucius : Chinese philosopher, founder of Confucianism
Confucius (c. 551 - c. 479 BC)
Source: The Analects
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The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Confucius : Chinese philosopher, founder of Confucianism
Confucius (c. 551 - c. 479 BC)
 
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With people with only modest ability, modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Arthur Schopenhauer : German philosopher
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
 
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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Zig Ziglar : American master sales trainer, author, motivating speaker
Zig Ziglar (1926 - )
 
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Zig Ziglar : American master sales trainer, author, motivating speaker
Zig Ziglar (1926 - )
 
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You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

Zig Ziglar : American master sales trainer, author, motivating speaker
Zig Ziglar (1926 - )
 
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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Brian Tracy : sales trainer
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Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy : sales trainer
Brian Tracy
 
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