It Could Happen

"Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself." A. H. Weiler

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"Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it./Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."

"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen." Ralph Waldo Emerson

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1. Find your talent.
2. Commit to it and make it shine.
3. Don't be afraid of risk. Or even failure, which if seen in its proper light, brings insight and opportunity.
4. Find courage by looking to something stronger and better than your puny vulnerable self.
5. No lusting after quick resolutions. Relax. Stay loose.
6. Get to know yourself; understand your needs and the specific conditions you favor.
7. Respect, too, your culture.
8. Then, finally, break free from the seductive pull of book learning and research and the million other preparatory steps that could delay for the entire span of a life and immerse yourself in the doing.

--Denise Shekerjian, from Uncommon Genius

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"If you want to know what you are here to do, look around you at the life you already have. It will tell you what to do next if you follow the deepest thing you feel inside. You may realize that, ultimately, your own true vocation has no outer form; that your dedication is to an inner life that is not concerned with the work you do. What matters, finally, is less what it looks like -- the presence or absence of a string of achievements -- than the pouring of your heart and soul into the longings and loves you have been given."

-- Roger Housden (from Ten Poems to Set You Free)

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"Everything takes form according to the consciousness that shaped it. If our self-image is small and restricted, or cold and inert, then what we produce will most likely be stillborn, like its maker. It is essential then, to know what is vital and alive inside us and shape our lives in its image." -- David Whyte

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"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
Mahatma Gandhi

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"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity."
-- Christopher Morley, American journalist, novelist, and poet

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