From where you are (by Ralph Marston)

No matter how far you've fallen behind, you can choose at any point to start moving forward. Even though nothing else may be going your way, you can decide to get your thoughts and actions going your way.

Success is a function of your direction and persistence, not your starting point. When you're ready to start making a positive difference in your own life and in the lives of others, any starting point will do just fine.

You are where you are, so accept and embrace the situation. Then find some valuable and useful aspect of it that you can utilize to get yourself going.

From where you are, you can move in any direction you choose. From where you are, you can eventually reach any destination you are committed to reaching.

It will happen not because of where you've already been or what others have told you. It will happen when you decide to make it happen.

Now is when you can make that decision, and take control of your future. From where you are, with your passion to make it happen, anything is possible.

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Don’t ever forget that you are special (by Jacqueline Schiff)

Don't ever forget that you are unique. Be your best self and not an imitation of someone else.

Find your strength and use them in a positive way. Don't listen to those who ridicule the choices you make.

Travel the road that you have chosen and don't look back with regret. You have to take chances to make your dreams happen.

Remember that there is plenty of time to travel another road - and still another - in your journey through life.

Take the time to find the route that is right for you. You will learn something valuable from every trip you take, so don't be afraid to make mistakes.

Tell yourself that you're okay just the way you are. Make friends who respect your true self.

Take the time to be alone, too, so you can know just how terrific your own company can be.

Remember that being alone doesn't always mean being lonely; it can be a beautiful experience of finding your creativity, your heartfelt feelings, and the calm and quiet peace deep inside you.

Don't ever forget that you are special and you have within you the ability to make your dreams come true.

If we did nothing but imagine & feel the lovely, the world’s reform would be accomplished (by Neville)

Recently I asked a very successful business man his formula for success. He laughed and said. "I guess it's just because I can't conceive of failure.

It's more a feeling than anything else." This gentleman's statement coincides with my belief and experiments.

You can think about something forever and never see it in your world, but once you feel its reality, you are bound to encounter it. The intensity of your feeling determines the time of its arrival.

Feelings are far too often regarded as effects and not causes, but feeling is not only the result of life's conditions, it is its creator. We say we are happy because we are well, not realizing that the process also works in the reverse direction. We are well because we are happy. To be joyful for another is to bless ourselves, as well as him.

To be angry with another is to punish ourselves for a seeming fault of his. The distressed mind stays at home, though the body travels, while the happy mind travels, though the body remains at home.

Feeling is the secret of successful prayer. Feel yourself into the situation of your answered prayer by living and acting upon your conviction. Feeling gradually unfolds the soul's hidden capacities. It is the ferment without which no creation is possible.

All forms of creative imagination imply elements of feeling. All emotional dispositions, however, may influence the creative imagination. Feeling has no finality. It is an acquisition, increasing in proportion to receptivity, which has not and never will have finality.

An idea which is only an idea, produces nothing and does nothing. It acts only when it is accompanied by effective feeling. Somewhere within your soul there is a mood which, when found, means wealth, health and happiness to you.

The impulse to create a desire may produce happiness, but if the desire's fulfillment is not felt, results are uncertain. When the joy of feeling is sure, however, the words of Proverbs take on new meaning as: "A merry heart does good like a medicine, while a broken spirit dries the bones."

Start now to watch your feelings and reactions to the day's events. Guard your feelings when praying, for prayer is the true creative state. Dignity indicates that man hears the greater music of life and moves to the tempo of its deeper meaning. If we did nothing but imagine and feel the lovely, the world's reform would be accomplished.

Make it meaningful (by Ralph Marston)

When you focus persistently enough, whatever you focus upon achieving will happen. So how exactly do you achieve such a persistent focus?

When you feel your focus beginning to soften, remember why you chose it in the first place. Remember not only with your mind, but also with your body, your heart, and your spirit.

The skill of achievement is primarily a matter of reminding yourself, again and again, why you must. It's not really that difficult to do, yet you must be the one who determines and delivers what works best for you.

Of course if you are to keep reminding yourself of why, that reason why must be authentic. It must also be positive, meaningful, compelling and significant.

If you're not persistently following your dream, that dream is not big enough. Expand on that dream until it is big enough and exciting enough to keep your focus continually aligned and unwavering.

Make it meaningful, and the focus will be there. Make it meaningful, and it will happen.

There is a path before you now (by LoA)

Life's circumstances are not always what you might wish them to be.The pattern of life does not necessarily go as you plan. Beyond any understanding , you may at times be led in different directions that you never imagined, dreamed or designed. Yet if you have never put any effort into choosing a path, or tried to carry out your dream , then perhaps you would have no direction at all.

Rather than wondering about or questioning the direction your life has taken , accept the fact that there is a path before you now. Shake off the ''why's'' and ''what if's'', and rid yourself of confusion. Whatever was - is in the past. Whatever is - is what's important. The past is a brief reflection. The future is yet to be realized. Today is here.

Walk your path one step at a time - with courage , faith , and determination. Keep your head up , and cast your dreams to the stars. Soon your steps will become firm and your footing will be solid again. A path that you never imagined will become the most comfortable direction you could have ever hoped to follow.

Keep your belief in yourself and walk into your new journey. You will find it magnificent , spectacular , and beyond your wildest imaginings.