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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

~ Lao Tzu

Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.

~ Marlon Wayans

 This is my first blog so bear with me ! My spelling might be incorrect at times but you will be able to get the gist of what I am saying. First off I would like to say thank you to IIU for taking me by the hand and showing me what is possible when you follow what is being taught . I still need to complete a few things but slowly but surely it will be done. Please check back as I will always be updating my progress.!!

One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.

~ Alexander Chase

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

~ Samuel Johnson

Never let life's hardships disturb you ... no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.

~ Nichiren Daishonen

There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.

~ Logan Pearsall Smith

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

~ Andrew Jackson

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

~ Solomon Ibn Gabriol

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

~ Thomas Jefferson

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

~ Henry Ford

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.

~ Napoleon Hill

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

~ Samuel Smiles

Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.

~ J. Howes

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

~ James Freeman Clarke

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.

~ Johann Gottfried Von Herder

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

~ Philip Gilbert Hamilton

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson