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    “Outside influences are not responsible for where you are mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally, or financially.  You have chosen the pathway to your present destination.  The responsibility for your situation is yours.” ~ Andy Andrews, The Traveler’s Gift

      “We are all in situations of our own choosing.  Our thinking creates a pathway to success or failure.  By disclaiming responsibility for our present, we crush the prospect of an incredible future that might have been ours.” ~ Andy Andrews, The Traveler’s Gift

        “For centuries, dreams have been used to communicate instruction and direction to people of purpose – great men and women.  God used dreams to prepare Joseph for his future as a leader of nations.  He gave battle plans to Gideon in a dream.  Joan of Arc, Jacob, George Washington, Marie Curie, and the apostle Paul were all guided by their dreams.”

        Andy Andrews, The Traveler’s Gift

            “All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means – for example, wealth and status – with that life itself.  This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life.  The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it.” ~ Epictetus

              “Regardless of what is going on around you, make the best of what is in your power, and take the rest as it occurs.” ~ Epictetus

                “When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses.  Instead of feeling a persistent current of low-level shame, you move forward by using the creative possibilities of this moment, your current situation.” ~ Epictetus, The Art of Living

                  “The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.” ~ Alfred Montapert

                    “Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.” ~ David Bly

                      “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” ~ Reinhold Niebuhr

                        “The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.” ~ Pierre de Coubertin, Founder of Modern Olympic Games