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    “Would you be happier with more control over what happens in your life or more control over your response to what happens?  How could you gain more such control?” ~ Gregory Stock, The Book of Questions

      “If you were to die this evening with no opportunity to communicate with anyone, what would you most regret not having told someone?  What good might come out of telling them now?” ~ Gregory Stock, The Book of Questions

        “Imagine there is a bank account that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to used during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course? Each of us has such a bank, its name is time. Every morning, it credits you 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off at a lost, whatever of this you failed to invest to a good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no over draft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day’s deposits, the loss is yours. There is no drawing against ‘tomorrow.’ You must live in the present on today’s deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness, and success. The clock is running. Make the most of today.” ~ Marc Levy

          “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” ~ Zen Poetry

            “Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there’s anywhere to hide.” ~ Pema Chödrön

              “Suffering persists because we nourish the feelings that cause it.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

                “The man, the art, the work: it is all one.” ~ Eugen Herrigel

                  “If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” ~ Jack Kornfield

                    “In seeking to escape from the suffering ourselves why should we inflict it upon others?” ~ Surangama Sutra

                      “To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find Nirvana.” ~ Shunryu Suzuki

                        “Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.” ~ Matthieu Ricard

                          “Only he who has the courage to write the word ‘end’ can find the strength to write the word ‘beginning.'” ~ Zen Proverb

                            “If you can see yourself doing something, you can do it.  If you can’t see yourself doing something, usually you can’t achieve it.” ~ SEAL, Living With A SEAL

                              “If you don’t challenge yourself, you don’t know yourself.” ~ SEAL, Living With A SEAL

                                “You can be fit without being healthy, but you can’t be healthy without being fit.  Meaning… you can be in great shape on the outside, but if you don’t eat great and don’t take care of your insides, you aren’t necessarily healthy.  History shows us there were plenty of athletes who were in great shape but suddenly died of a heart attack.  Balance is key.” ~ Jesse Itzler, Living With A SEAL

                                  “[My wife] likes to think of money as a big magnifying glass.  If you are a good person before you had money… then money makes you an even better person.  If you were a charitable person before you had money… then money makes you even more charitable.  But if you were an asshole before you had money… well then, money makes you an even bigger asshole.” ~ Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL

                                    “I like my feet to be the first footprints in the sand.” ~ Kevin Garnett

                                      “Most of my successes in life have come from learning how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable.” ~ Jesse Itzler, Living With A SEAL

                                        “It does not matter how long you live.  It only matters that you love it while you’re here.” ~ Ellen Gilchrist, Acts of God

                                          “To be alive becomes the fundamental luck each ordinary, compromising day manages to bury.” ~ Ellen Gilchrist, Acts of God