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Nancy E. Wigal, Owner, Search Engine Academy Washington DC

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Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”

– Martha Beck

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

– Bob Dylan

A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”

– Chinese Proverb

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

– Nelson Mandela

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”

– Frederic Nietzsche

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”

– Thomas Dunn

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”

– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.

– Avenida Margarita

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”

– Douglas Coupland

Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.

– Carl von Clausewitz, On War

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

– Jack Kerouac

A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

– James Madison

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”

– President Calvin Coolidge

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”

– Thomas Wolfe

Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
 The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”

– Sonia Croquette

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”

– Voltaire

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”

– Lisa Earle McLeod

The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”

– Arundhati Roy

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”

– Henry David Thoreau

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”

– Steve Jobs

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”

– John F. Kennedy

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

– Helen Keller

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
 Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”

– Ella Fitzgerald

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”

– Thomas Edison

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”

– Norwegian proverb