Lifestyle Motivational Quotes

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It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.
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Germany Kent
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Whenever I am in a difficult situation where there seems to be no way out, I think about all the times I have been in such situations and say to myself, "I did it before, so I can do it again.
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Idowu Koyenikan (Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability)
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Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.
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Criss Jami (Venus in Arms)
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Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.
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Rashedur Ryan Rahman
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If you are on social media, and you are not learning, not laughing, not being inspired or not networking, then you are using it wrong.
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Germany Kent
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Advice to my younger self: 1 Start where you are with what you have 2 Try not to hurt other people 3 Take more chances 4 If you fail, keep trying
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Germany Kent
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DETOX your mind, body, AND your contact list.
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SupaNova Slom (The Remedy: The Five-Week Power Plan to Detox Your System, Combat the Fat, and Rebuild Your Mind and Body)
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Any day above ground is a good day. Before you complain about anything, be thankful for your life and the things that are still going well.
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Germany Kent
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No one else knows exactly what the future holds for you, no one else knows what obstacles you've overcome to be where you are, so don't expect others to feel as passionate about your dreams as you do.
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Germany Kent
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If you can show people how to build castles, make sure you do not neglect building and nurturing your own.
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Suzy Kassem (Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem)
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Know what you want and reach out eagerly for it.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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What if there were health food stores on every corner in the hood, instead of liquor stores!?
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SupaNova Slom (The Remedy: The Five-Week Power Plan to Detox Your System, Combat the Fat, and Rebuild Your Mind and Body)
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Just like your body and lifestyle can be healthy or unhealthy, the same is true with your beliefs. Your beliefs can be your medicine or your poison.
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Steve Maraboli (Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience)
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Daily dance uplift the soul to spiritual realms.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Your VISION and your self-willingness is the MOST powerful elements to conquer your goal
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Rashedur Ryan Rahman
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When we reconnect with nature, we will be restore ourselves.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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When people support you when you have done something wrong. It doesnt mean you are right, but it means those people are promoting their hate , bad behavior or living their bad lives through you.
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D.J. Kyos
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It's my firm conclusion that human meaning comes from humans, not from a supernatural source. After we die, our hopes for an afterlife reside in the social networks that we influenced while we were alive. If we influence people in a positive way -- even if our social web is only as big as our nuclear family -- others will want to emulate us and pass on our ideas, manners, and lifestyle to future generations. This is more than enough motivation for me to do good things in my life and teach my children to do the same.
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Greg Graffin (Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God)
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Autumn is a momentum of the natures golden beauty…, so the same it’s time to find your momentum of life
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Rashedur Ryan Rahman
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A vibrant body, a radiant mind, a loving heart, and an honorable life.
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Stefan Emunds
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If you have life and good health, you have the greatest blessings.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Your traditional EDUCATION is not going to CHANGE your life but the life you are experiencing that can change you. Choose a POSITIVE life STYLE with positive ATTITUDE which could bring you a life with HAPPINESS and WISDOM
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Rashedur Ryan Rahman
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Your every positive action in your life will increase your self-esteem and this self-esteem will boost you for more positive action to take you on success
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Rashedur Ryan Rahman
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Positive mindset, positive lifestyle.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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How you think and create your inner world that you gonna become in your outer world. Your inner believe manifest you in the outside
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Rashedur Ryan Rahman
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Eat like you love your body.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Have an attitude of positive expectation.
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Germany Kent
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Exercise promotes positive self-image and good well-being.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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If your needs are little, you are rich enough.
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Fakeer Ishavardas
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When the expected occurred, never panic, by keep calming, you gain control over the situation.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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In all spheres of life, there are constraints. You have to develop your own strategy to overcome each constraint.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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When excellence becomes a habit, success becomes a lifestyle.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Changing a Habit is Never Difficult. Difficult is to Address Your Unwillingness to do it
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Vineet Raj Kapoor
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If you are not EXCITED enough at your present life its mean your future is not EXITING. Excitement will give you ENTHUSIASM and enthusiasm will give you a positive energetic LIFE STYLE which could give you a successful exiting life…
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Rashedur Ryan Rahman
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Never justify someones wrong action, without them apologizing first & admitting their wrongs. If you do. You are not making them better, but you are making them worse on the bad things they do.
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D.J. Kyos
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I dont celebrate any friendship that was build on hate, because we share the common enemy.
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D.J. Kyos
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You must make time daily to care for your mental, physical, spiritual and emotional health.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Never look back. The past is done. The future is a blank canvas. Work on creating a masterpiece. Only you have the power to make your painting beautiful.
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Suzy Kassem (Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem)
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CONFIDENCE is not showing off your VANITY, it’s about to be HUMBLED and KIND to others what are you truly SKILLED and PROFESSIONAL about…
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Rashedur Ryan Rahman
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Relax and rejuvenate your sacred-spirit.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Every sacred soul has a sacred body.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Give yourself a great self-respect to know who you are then your confidence will shine on you
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Rashedur Ryan Rahman
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Positive words are well spring of hope and healing.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Destiny reveals itself only when there is truth and action.
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Suzy Kassem (Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem)
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It shouldn't take a life-changing event for you to change your life.
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Shaun Hick
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Don't, but if at all, then, lie to the whole damn world - never to your own damn, silly stupid self.
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Fakeer Ishavardas
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Age is only a number. Keep an active life.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Seasons change and people's minds change. Every person's stance in life is fragile and is prone to shifting based on where their future is.
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Maria Karvouni
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It's tough to get out of one's inherited imbecilic culture, and a thus inherited or endowed lunatic belief system. A freethinker must overcome every deadened system. Especially one's own.
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Fakeer Ishavardas
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Energy drinks like Red Bull may give you wings for the moment, but in time it takes away your basic physical and mental wellness and leads to disastrous psychiatric and physiological conditions.
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Abhijit Naskar (Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost)
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The problem is that you THINK that you have to be motivated to do something, instead of just doing it and then having it done. Tip: The willingness to do things comes with action. Don’t wait until you feel like going to the gym and exercising. Start exercising right away and there’s a huge possibility that you’ll feel the desire to continue.
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Ian Tuhovsky (Zen: Beginner's Guide: Happy, Peaceful and Focused Lifestyle for Everyone (Buddhism, Meditation, Mindfulness, Success) (Down-to-Earth Spirituality for Everyday People))
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Everyone has bad habits. It is your good habits that build you.
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Arian Adeli Koodehi
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It takes no time to give up on good things and habits, but to keep doing them without breaking consistency takes a long time to build that rare, great lifestyle.
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Harsh Suthar
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Love yourself. Care for your body. You are God’s image.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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A healthy body is a platform for flourishing a healthy mind.
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Pawan Mishra
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REJECTION is kind of your negative ILLUSION which has no value but it’s give you a CLUE to go for next level of your ACTION.
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Rashedur Ryan Rahman
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Selling is a sacred trust between buyer and seller.
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Richie Norton
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Blind-believers and staunch atheists have the same god - namely, a self-deluded, one's own shadow's bot.
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Fakeer Ishavardas
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Live joyfully this life. Once gone, who knows if we ever get it back. Atheists think we do not. Mystics say you will. Either way, chill.
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Fakeer Ishavardas
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Live boldly. Or be an oldie. Your call. As for me, well, I may have at times lived good, or even badly. But never ever not boldly.
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Fakeer Ishavardas
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The limitations in life do not necessary limit you.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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when you become addict in to MATERIAL things in life then the TRUE natural life start to run away from you, YES! it's can give you certain pleasure in the society but in the same time it will sabotage your true HAPPINESS of life which we could have simply with GRATITUDE and FORGIVENESS
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Rashedur Ryan Rahman
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The only way of life satisfying the need of all times must be motivated by incentives and rewards – materially, morally and spiritually because motivation for work is produced by incentives and rewards only, an aspect built into the fundamental specification of human nature itself. Any prescription not recognising this important aspect of life is bound to fail in the life-styles of human beings.
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Mohammed Ali Muhiyaddin (A Comparative Study of the Religions of Today)
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Here’s the stark truth about the person who is right for you: They want the same lifestyle that you do. How do I know this? Because that is, by definition, what makes them right for you. To be with someone whose eyes light up when yours do, whose heart races when your blood also pounds, who is enticed and inspired by the same forces that drive you forward, is a gift many of us never truly get to experience. Because we settle. We settle for the person we love over the person who could push us – to be bigger, stronger, greater versions of ourselves. We tell ourselves that love is enough. That it conquers everything. But we forget that love shouldn’t be the thing that conquers our lives – we should be. And we should do it deliberately, triumphantly, by the side of somebody who shares all of our joys and successes. So how do we meet such a person? That’s simple – we do more of what we love. We give ourselves up to uncertainty, to searching, to pursuing what we want out of life without the certainty of having someone beside us while we do it. We throw ourselves wholeheartedly into the things that we love and we consequently attract the people who love what we love. Who value what we prioritize. Who appreciate all that we are. We throw ourselves into the heart of possibility instead of staying comfortably settled inside of certainty. Because we owe it to ourselves to do so. We owe it to ourselves to live the greatest life that we’re capable of living, even if that means that we have to be alone for a very long time. At the end of the day, love is wonderful but it isn’t enough to make up for an entire lifetime of compromising your core values. You don’t want to spend forever gazing into somebody’s eyes expecting to find all of the answers you need inside of them. Wait for the person who is gazing outward in the same direction as you are. It’s going to make all of the difference in the world
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Heidi Priebe
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But if lifestyle ads work by the third-person effect, then there will be some products for which it makes good business sense to target a wider audience, one that includes both buyers and non-buyers.32 One reason to target non-buyers is to create envy. As Miller argues, this is the case for many luxury products. β€œMost BMW ads,” he says, β€œare not really aimed so much at potential BMW buyers as they are at potential BMW coveters.”33 When BMW advertises during popular TV shows or in mass-circulation magazines, only a small fraction of the audience can actually afford a BMW. But the goal is to reinforce for non-buyers the idea that BMW is a luxury brand.
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Kevin Simler (The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life)
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What was it that motivated you to tidy in the first place? What do you hope to gain through tidying? Before you start getting rid of things, take the time to think this through carefully. This means visualizing the ideal lifestyle you dream of.
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Marie Kondō (The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (Magic Cleaning #1))
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People undergo several sequential steps in maturing from infancy including childhood, adolescences, young adulthood, middle age, and old age. Each stage presents distinct challenges that require a person to amend how they think and act. The motive for seeking significant change in a person’s manner of perceiving the world and behaving vary. Alteration of person’s mindset can commence with a growing sense of awareness that a person is dissatisfied with an aspect of his or her life, which cause a person consciously to consider amending their lifestyle.
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Kilroy J. Oldster (Dead Toad Scrolls)
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Don’t get angry or frustrated if those around you choose a different lifestyle than your own. Again, people make different choices, and everyone is on a different journey. Stop judging others, and you will see that others will stop judging you. I had to learn this the hard way.
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Marta Tuchowska (Motivation in 7 Simple Steps: Get Excited, Stay Motivated, Achieve Any Goal and Create an Incredible Lifestyle!)
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We came to life to leave a mark, either a wrong or right! So what route is your lifestyle taking?
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Unarine Ramaru
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The only way to keep a friend is let go his stupid faults, and keep his silly love for you, with a bushel full of salt.
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Fakeer Ishavardas
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A man, ladies, is not only attracted and retained by your sensuality or charm, he is also guarded (from cheating) and motivated (to succeed) by it too.
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Lebo Grand (Sensual Lifestyle)
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There is only one thing you can do on earth. Be yourself. Hopefully being good, and not a hood. So, be you! Everyone else is taken, grandstanding with their own silly self.
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Fakeer Ishavardas
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Most people just do not give a crap. Especially about you. It is not because you're crap. Mostly it is so because they are. So, you're better than them. Yeah! Now, give a crap!
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Fakeer Ishavardas
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Love yourself, and you'll never be without a loved one.
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Fakeer Ishavardas
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Humans are mental. You be gentle.
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Fakeer Ishavardas
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If you have influence on other people. Dont be influenced by their hate, money, jealousy, anger and popularity .
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D.J. Kyos
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Promise yourself to achieve lifestyle you’ve always dreamt of… and dare to achieve it!
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Sahara Sanders (INDIGO DIARIES: A Series of Novels)
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Little people make tall claims. As being this-that avatar or messiah. Some even say they're God. Well, if they are, I'm their grand-pop.
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Fakeer Ishavardas
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Some people make money . Some make plans, while others make lies.
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D.J. Kyos
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Maintaining a healthy mindset is a way of living.
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Germany Kent
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All the material wealth cannot be substituted for the spiritual, physical, emotion and mental well-being.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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Be the person you would want to be friends with.
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Fakeer Ishavardas
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Have faith in 'What Is'. You will get your due, good or not so good, to your liking or not, but in time, as it is meant to be.
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Fakeer Ishavardas
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O Lord saves us from overworking! Grant us grace to rest awhile.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Motivation may be what starts you off, but it's habit that keeps you going back for more.
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Miya Yamanouchi (Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women)
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Begin to live, love, laugh, kiss, smile, hug…!
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Your body is a sacred-temple of God.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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I don't believe in the word " incurable " I believe to find a cure we need to deconstruct the cause.
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Nikki Rowe
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Setting a goal is like to set your destination point in your life GPS which could take you to your desire position as you dreamed about...
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Rashedur Ryan Rahman
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May the might power of the Holy Spirit renew our thoughts and attitudes.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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What is spreading today is repressive kleptocracy, led by rulers motivated by greed rather than by the deranged idealism of Hitler or Stalin or Mao. Such rulers rely less on terror and more on rule twisting, the manipulation of information, and the co-option of elites. Their goal is self-enrichment; the corrosion of the rule of law is the necessary means. As a shrewd local observer explained to me on a visit to Hungary in early 2016, β€œThe main benefit of controlling a modern bureaucratic state is not the power to persecute the innocent. It is the power to protect the guilty.” No president in history has burned more public money to sustain his personal lifestyle than Donald Trump. Three-quarters of the way through his first year in office, President Trump was on track to spend more on travel in one year of his presidency than Barack Obama in eightβ€”even though Trump only rarely ventured west of the Mississippi or across any ocean.
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David Frum (Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic)
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Who's cooking your food anyway? What strange beasts lurk behind the kitchen doors? You see the chef: he's the guy without the hat, with the clipboard under his arm, maybe his name stitched in Tuscan blue on his starched white chef's coat next to those cotton Chinese buttons. But who's actually cooking your food? Are they young, ambitious culinary school grads, putting in their time on the line until they get their shot at the Big Job? Probably not. If the chef is anything like me, the cooks are a dysfunctional, mercenary lot, fringe-dwellers motivated by money, the peculiar lifestyle of cooking and grim pride. They're probably not even American.
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Anthony Bourdain (Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly)
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Wetiko is a parasitic spirit or thought-form. It is highly destructive and is motivated by greed, selfishness and excessive consumption. It infects people like a virus, literally possessing them. Once it has taken hold of someone, it deludes them into thinking that consuming the life-force and energy of others for self-aggrandisement or profit is a natural and admirable way to live, and steers them into living a predatory and parasitic lifestyle; essentially, cannibalising other people and the planet.
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Paul Francis (The Shamanic Journey: A Practical Guide to Therapeutic Shamanism)
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Your thoughts become your attitudes, which become your actions, which become your behavior, which become your habits, which become your lifestyle, and inevitably determine your outcomes. Utilize this circular truth by using positive thoughts to create positive outcomes. It is a choice you get to make every day. Choose wisely.
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Susan C. Young (The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact(The Art of First Impressions for Positive Impact, #5))
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Darkness seems to have prevailed and has taken the forefront. This country as in the 'cooperation' of The United States of America has never been about the true higher-good of the people. Know and remember this. Cling to your faith. Roll your spiritual sleeves up and get to work. Use your energy wisely. Transmute all anger, panic and fear into light and empowerment. Don't use what fuels them; all lower-energy. Mourn as you need to. Console who you need toβ€”and then go get into the spiritual and energetic arena. There's plenty work for us to do; within and without. Let's each focus on becoming 'The President of Our Own Life. Cultivate your mind. Pursue your purpose. Shine your light. Elevate pastβ€”and rejectβ€”any culture of low vibrational energy and ratchetness. Don't take fear, defeat or angerβ€”on or in. The system is doing what they've been created to do. Are you? Am I? Are weβ€”collectively? Let's get to work. No more drifting through life without your higher-self in complete control of your mind. Awakenβ€”fully. Activateβ€”now. Put your frustrations or concerns into your work. Don't lose sight. There is stillβ€”a higher plan. Let's ride this 4 year energetic-wave like the spiritual gangsters that we are. This will all be the past soon. Let's get to work and stay dedicated, consistent and diligent. Again, this will all be the past soon. We have preparing and work to do. Toxic energy is so not a game. Toxic energy and low vibrations are being collectively acted out on the world stage. Covertly operating through the unconscious weak spots and blind spots in the human psyche; making people oblivious to their own madness, causing and influencing them to act against–their–own–best–interests and higher-good, as if under a spell and unconsciously possessed. This means that they are actually nourishing the lower vibrational energy with their lifestyle, choices, energy and habits, which is unconsciously giving the lower-energy the very power and fuel it needsβ€”for repeating and recreating endless drama, suffering and destruction, in more and more amplified forms on a national and world stage. So what do we do? We take away its autonomy and power over us while at the same time empowering ourselves. By recognizing how this energetic/spiritual virus or parasite of the mindβ€”operates through our unawareness is the beginning of the cure. Knowledge is power. Applied knowledge isβ€”freedom. Our shared future will be decided primarily by the changes that take place in the psyche of humanity, starting with each of usβ€” vibrationally. In closing and most importantly, the greatest protection against becoming affected or possessed by this lower-energy is to be in touch with our higher vibrational-self. We have to call our energy and power back. Being in touch with our higher-self and true nature acts as a sacred amulet, shielding and protecting us from the attempted effects. We defeat evil not by fighting against it (in which case, by playing its game, we’ve already lost) but by getting in touch with the part of us that is invulnerable to its effectsβ€” our higher vibrational-self. Will this defeat and destroy us? Or will it awaken us more and more? Everything depends upon our recognizing what is being revealed to us and our stepping out of the unconscious influence of low vibrational/negative/toxic/evil/distraction energy (or whatever name you relate to it as) that is and has been seeking power over each of our lives energetically and/or spiritually, and step into our wholeness, our personal power, our higher self and vibrate higher and higher daily. Stay woke my friendsβ€”let's get to work.
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Lalah Delia
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Humans are not made for sitting at a desk all day. We have been evolving for millions of years to hunt animals through dense forest and vast plains. To walk huge distances in search of water. To spend hours searching for edible fruit to bring home to our families. The sedentary lifestyle many of us lead these days is no more than a by-product of the last few centuries.
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Alexander Zenon
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This serves as a great reminder that regardless of our actions, we must first bring our hearts before God and ask him to test our motives. We will be never experience true community just because people give up their resources for others. But when people give up their resources because the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ has penetrated their lives, they are overwhelmed by the grace that leads to a lifestyle of generous giving.
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Randy Frazee (The Connecting Church)
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And this is apparently not without merit. Because in our countries for some time now a great hurricane of subversion has arisen, pushed forward by I do not know what vicious demonsβ€”and doubtless in accord with the life-style that we have made our own, unfortunately. This hurricane tries to reverse our traditional order of values, to throw out all that we put forward as being unselfish, gracious and open to the world, open to things and to others, all that is active in dilating our minds and our hearts. It wants to replace it by the single, brutal, arithmetic, and inhuman motivation of profit. Henceforth, all that counts, all that is to be considered and preserved, is what brings profit. The truly ideal aspects of knowledge will not be more valuable than those of interest rates and of financial laws. The only sciences that are to be encouraged are those that teach us how to exploit the earth and the people. Besides that, everything is useless.
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Jean BottΓ©ro (Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods)
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The key trait of a Sperm Pirate is that she is not driven by desperation. Escaping poverty or hardship is not her motive. She usually has a good education and access to the same opportunities as the man she tries to trap. However, she understands that it is more efficient to enjoy a lavish lifestyle through the sweat of another’s labour. But the Sperm Pirate is acutely aware that the infatuation of a hormonal man has a brief shelf life. This poor collateral must be cashed in before it expires. A pregnancy is the best way to convert this volatile resource into a stable asset. Babies are reliable insurance policies. They create legal obligations for financial support, even when the sweet milk of passion turns sour.
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Taona Dumisani Chiveneko (The Hangman's Replacement: Sprout of Disruption)
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But whether people cultivate an exterior meant to signal their politics, or they cultivate, instead, a strait-laced appearance that does not signal their politics, their self-presentation is deliberate. It is meant to reinforce who they are (who they consider themselves to be). People tell themselves, strenuously, that they believe in this or that political position, whether it is to do with wealth distribution or climate policy or the rights of animals. They commit to some plan, whether it is to stop old-growth logging, or protest nuclear power, or block a shipping port in order to bring capitalism, or at least logistics, to its knees. But the deeper motivation for their rhetoricβ€”the values they promote, the lifestyle they have chosen, the look they presentβ€”is to shore up their own identity. It is natural to attempt to reinforce identity, given how fragile people are underneath these identities they present to the world as β€œthemselves.” Their stridencies are fragile, while their need to protect their ego, and what forms that ego, is strong.
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Rachel Kushner (Creation Lake)