Talk:Steve Maraboli

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 * If you believe you can, you might. If you know you can, you will.

Success is something you experience when you act accordingly. Success is not something you have, it’s something you do.


 * Change is in the air. This change reminds us that we are made and beautifully sculpted by the same power that orchestrates the change of season. Let this be the season you embrace and align yourself with this change.


 * Live Today! Do not allow your spirit to be softened or your happiness to be limited by a day you cannot have back or a day that does not yet exist.


 * God didn’t give fear a body. God gave love a body.


 * We can’t continuously be a society of well-wishers. We must take action to bring those wishes to fruition.


 * Our moral economy went bankrupt long before our financial one and must be made prosperous.


 * Never run from the truth. It is always there; it never changes — save your energy.


 * Sometimes you're drowning yourself in your own words.


 * Think of the patience God has had for you and let it resonate to others. If you want a more patient world, let patience be your motto.


 * Becoming clear on your intent and staying focused on your actions can break you free of any disempowering habit or situation.


 * Occasionally, our Lord releases a great thinker into this world. He carries the light for all that wish to bathe in it. He sings the unpopular truth and plants the seeds of the holy garden. His time is short, for the wicked move fast, but never the less, if even one seed flourishes, he has succeeded.


 * It is humanity to have two wolves. To deny the second wolf is to deny your humanity and to deny your humanity makes you as inauthentic as they come.


 * You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life!


 * A life of simplicity dissolves any barrier between you and God. It ensures abundance and bliss. Happiness, after all, is found in the simplest of things.
 * What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.

Embrace love and compassion with all your spirit. Understand that they never hurt or offend, they just heal and empower.
 * This moment is yours and yours alone! Take charge, seize this moment and allow it to propel you to the high levels of an empowered life. Allow upon this fertile moment to be planted the seeds of your happiness and success.


 * You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.
 * Give freely to the world these gifts of love and compassion. Do not concern yourself with how much you receive in return, just know in your heart it will be returned.


 * The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over.


 * Smile at strangers and you just might change a life.


 * Allow yourself to enjoy each happy moment in your life.


 * There’s nothing more beautiful than someone being themselves.


 * We need to learn and embrace patience. Patience is a holy key that will unlock the door to a more fulfilling life. Behind the blessed door of patience are found better parents, powerful teachers, great businessmen, wise masters, and a more compassionate world.


 * Don't be afraid of something unless you've experienced it before. If you're afraid of something and you do it anyway, it can only make you stronger.


 * Do what you think is right. Don't let people make the decision of right or wrong for you.


 * Stop believing and start knowing. Trust in you. Trust in truth.


 * Don't keep all your feelings sheltered - express them. Don’t EVER let life shut you up!


 * Keep your hopes high, even if you get knocked on your butt. Get up. Get up. Get up!


 * Even when you lose, there is a lesson to be gained.


 * True friendship is rare. Don't let a little dispute ruin a friendship.


 * Never compromise your values.
 * Spread your happiness to others and let them spread theirs to you.
 * What we instill in our children will be the foundation upon which they build their future.
 * Each day carries in the blessings of God and you have unlimited access to all it offers.


 * If you hang out with chickens, you’re going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you’re going to fly.


 * Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event. Looking at the same event with fresh eyes.


 * Stop giving your life away to other people.


 * Your body is a vehicle. Don’t get into the vehicle and start driving through life without knowing where the heck you’re going.


 * The problem that we have with a victim mentality is that we forget to see the blessings of the day. Because if this, our spirit is poisoned instead of nourished.


 * If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you’ve made, if they don’t realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.


 * Stop being a victim of your days and start being the creator and shaper of those same days.


 * The best way to succeed is to have a specific Intent, a clear Vision, a plan of Action, and the ability to maintain Clarity. Those are the Four Pillars of Success. It never fails!


 * You‘ve been given the innate power to shape your life.


 * We’re a society that creates super heroes who aren’t really super heroes. They are just people who live in alignment. You can choose to do the same.
 * Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. Most of the time when you’re afraid of something, you’re not seeing it clearly.


 * The people we consider successful in our society are all people that seize every moment.


 * It’s up to you today to start making healthy choices. Not choices that are just healthy for your body, but healthy for your mind.


 * The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that that situation is over, you cannot move forward.


 * A lot of the conflict you have in your life exists simply because you’re not living in alignment; you’re not being true to yourself.


 * Usually, we’re not true to our thoughts, we’re not true to what’s really deep inside, and that’s why we find ourselves unaligned and unhappy.


 * Free yourself from the limitations you placed upon yourself. There is no-thing holding you back.


 * You are where you are right now because of the actions you’ve taken, or maybe, the inaction you’ve taken.


 * Your actions must reflect your goals. Purpose-driven actions are going to be what brings you to where you want to be.


 * Interrupt your thoughts of "I should", with your action of doing.
 * Success is not about your techniques, it’s not solely about the wisdom or the knowledge you have, it’s about your mindset and your actions.


 * If you have a goal, write it down. If you do not write it down, you do not have a goal - you have a wish.


 * Don't question your ability. You were created to succeed and live a life of purpose. Don't you dare put a question-mark where God put a period!


 * If you would stop worrying about things you don’t control and release what God has put into you, you will change everything around you.


 * We need to say something with our actions. You can’t just sit there. Wishing well alone doesn’t make things happen.


 * If you look back on the times you've failed and the times that hurt the most, you'll recognize that your intent and your actions weren't in alignment. So you were saying a prayer nobody heard.


 * Jesus said "Give us THIS DAY our daily bread", knowing that you cannot fight today’s battles with yesterday’s bread. Knowing that you cannot fight today’s battles with the hope of tomorrow’s bread. Knowing that today you will be nourished by this daily bread, and it’s what you have to fight today’s battle.


 * You must have a positive self perception in order to transcend anything.


 * You were not put on this Earth to be stopped in your tracks.


 * The juice of yesterday has expired don’t drink it. It’s sure to slow you down and make you illl.


 * A broken heart bleeds tears.


 * If you can see the vision of your goal clearly, you can plan and map effectively, and navigate efficiently.
 * A lot of books in the self-help section of your bookstore really belong in the fiction section.


 * If you're not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you're not ready for that relationship.
 * Sometimes in the quest for enlightenment the only thing that gets lighter is your wallet.


 * A very small percentage of the people in this world will actually experience and live today. So many people will be stuck on another day, another time that traumatized them and caused them to spiritually stutter so they miss out on this day.


 * Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.


 * It's funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish.


 * Fear’s job is to enhance my preparedness, not stop my progress.


 * If the self-help books worked, it would be a shrinking industry not a growing one.


 * Learn from the past, but don’t live in the past.


 * Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity and fear of others. Never decide to do nothing just because you can only do little. Do what you can. You would be surprised at what "little" acts have done for our world.
 * There is a two part process, a heaven and an earth process. There's a process in your mind, a spiritual process and there is a process on earth, the human process. When those two look alike, you get what you want. When they don’t, you don’t.


 * Stop walking through the motions of a conditioned routine and start consciously taking action on your visualized intent.


 * Don't let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.


 * We are mathematical equations where your life is the sum of all choices you've made until now. The good news is you can change the equation so that you start making a difference in your life.

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 * If your salvation was dependent on your ability to read and understand scripture, Jesus would have been an


 * Don’t tell me about your god with your words. Show me about your god with your actions.


 * When love is at the base of something it is a masterpiece.


 * It is not our natural inclination to transcend our humanity.


 * When you're too religious, you tend to point your finger to judge instead of extending your hand to help.


 * Understanding the beauty of our humanity unlocks the power of our spirituality


 * For years, the self help industry has been telling you to pray, meditate, hope and visualize that the storm will pass...I'm here to remind you that you CAN dance in the rain.


 * In moments of prayer, people tend to pose as a critic and point out percieved flaws in God's art.


 * Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.

*Today I will take the opportunity to do unanticipated good.


 * The new day has greeted us with no rules except for the rules we placed with it, greet it with open arms and endless possibility.


 * Once you start recognizing the truth of your story, finish the story. It happened but your still here, you're still capable, powerful, you're not your circumstance. It happened and you made it through. You're still fully equipped with every single tool you need to fulfill your purpose.


 * The second you say the word WHEN the rest doesn't matter. Whatever follows is the lie you tell yourself.
 * In your own life it's important to know how spectacular you are.


 * The process of discovering your fearless self is of refinement, not adding. The best way to reconnect with your freedom is to look at the rules you have that govern your freedom.


 * Because we didn't come with a users manual there are no rules on the roles we give fear. Fear has the role we give it. We are able to empower or poison ourselves to whatever degree we want. This is the beauty of our design.
 * The time has come to harness the blessed power within us and to use it to transcend from our current existence into a more empowered reality


 * I will be generous with my love today. I will sprinkle compliments and uplifting words everywhere I go. I will do this knowing that my words are like seeds and when they fall on fertile soil, a reflection of those seeds will grow into something greater


 * This universe is balanced. God made it that way. There is always plenty to be worried and sad about, but there is equally plenty to be happy and at peace with. The choice is yours


 * If you have to ask if you’ve done enough, you haven’t. Each day brings with it the opportunity to do more than you did yesterday


 * You have been blessed with immeasurable power to make positive changes in your life


 * Although goals are important, having a plan of action is vital to the success of those goals. Having a goal with no plan of action is like wanting to travel to a new destination without having a map


 * Are you going to allow the world around you to change while you remain stagnant? Make this the time you throw away old habits that have hindered your happiness and success and finally allow your greatest self to flourish


 * A grateful mindset can set you free from the prison of disempowerment and the shackles of misery


 * You will always define events in a manner which will validate your agreement with reality


 * If you can transcend from the dark rut of disempowered thinking to the bright light of an empowered agreement with reality, you will see opportunities not barriers. You will see the finish line, not the hurdles


 * What do you think will be more effective when it comes to succeeding, believing you can or KNOWING you will? Let today be the last day you took timid steps of belief and start taking confident steps of purpose-driven knowing!


 * It is important that when we make a resolution, or establish a goal, that we take the ACTION necessary to accomplish that goal


 * You cannot continue on the same path and arrive at a different destination. Make the choice to have your actions reflect your goals


 * Shake things up. Do something different. Take planned, calculated steps towards a new goal, or a new you. It’s the only way to ensure that you won’t get the same results in your life


 * Action is the universal language of success


 * Harness the power of today. Seize the blessings of today! Make something happen, enhance your life, make someone laugh, help a friend, love, love, love!


 * Intent without dedicated action is simply not enough. Action without a clear intent is a waste. It is when these two powerful forces are aligned that the energy of the universe conspires in your favor


 * When you establish a destination by defining what you want, then take physical action by making choices that move you towards that destination, the possibility for success is limitless and arrival at the destination is inevitable


 * At every given moment we are absolutely perfect for what is required for our journey


 * If you don’t know exactly where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?


 * Stop just cheering for others who are living their visions. Commit yourself to your own success and follow the steps required to achieve it


 * The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday


 * Love and compassion are the mother and father of a smile. We need to create more smiles in our world today. Smiles, after all, pave the way to a happy world


 * It’s time to care; it’s time to take responsibility; it’s time to lead; it’s time for a change; it’s time to be true to our greatest self; it’s time to stop blaming others


 * A life of happiness, peace, and love is all within our grasp


 * Like a gift, beautifully wrapped at the foot of your bed each morning, today asks that you open it and enjoy everything inside. Exhaust yourself with all it has to offer!


 * Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Instead, shake things up today! Live through today. Don’t just exist through it - LIVE through it!


 * We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future


 * The road to success is always under construction


 * Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature


 * The future is greatly different than your life now, the actions that you take must also be greatly different. You cannot do the same thing and get something different

'Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back. You can’t "should’ve" done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!


 * You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable

The purpose of empowerment is to urge you towards freedom, to help each of you to break free of all limitations. It is that freedom that will give you eternal happiness and finally connect you with the unconditional realization of TRUTH


 * You gotta be in the NOW to create and experience the WOW!


 * Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.


 * Don't be one of those who don't want others to be empowered. Share information. Try to make the next person, smarter.