"You can't turn back the clock but you can wind it up again."
-- Bonne Prudden

"if the truth sets me free, what do lies do?"
-- dAAve, on his Higher Powered blog.

"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone."
-- Audrey Hepburn

"You can’t escape from life, you escape into it".
-- Kitty Carlisle Hart, 1910-2007, (as she often quoted her husband Moss Hart).

"Two small jumps are sometimes better than one big leap."
-- Fortune cookie

"Passion is a clear sign that your intuition is working and you’re following its guidance. You’ll notice a feeling of excitement and enthusiasm flowing through you when you’re doing something you truly love. So many people say to me, 'I don’t know what I’m passionate about.' Try to remember when you were a child and what you were passionate about then. Seek out what makes you excited. If that passion can help you and be shared by others, then it’s all worth it".
-- John Holland

"... And last week, down in Washington, D.C., was the big annual Easter Egg Hunt held on the White House lawn. And no surprise here, it was disclosed today that the $87 billion egg-coloring contract went to Halliburton."
-- David Letterman, (paraphrased).

"Tiny bubbles/in the wine/make me happy/make me feel fine."
-- Don Ho, 1930-2007

"Each day comes bearing its own gifts... Untie the ribbons."
-- Ruth Ann Schubacker

"Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be". 
-- Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007 

"We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us". 
-- Tagore

"Is it time to let something go? Time to release it to the universe and know and trust that it will be taken care of? You have to make room for energy, intuitive guidance, and abundance to flow through you. This week ask yourself, “what’s in my life that I no longer need?” By releasing and letting go, you’re opening yourself up to your own higher consciousness, and by doing so, you’re making room for more of what is in your highest good."
-- John Holland

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
-- Bertrand Russell

"The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds."
-- Tryon Edwards

"the moment I let go of it was the moment
I got more than I could handle
the moment I jumped off of it
was the moment I touched down..."
-- alanis morrisette

"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again."
-- Joseph Campbell 

"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough."
-- Frank Crane 

"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.  What you'll discover will be wonderful.  What you'll discover is yourself".
-- Alan Alda

"What did I do in the first 100 days? I think the answer is I got ready for the next 1,000."
-- Mayor Michael Bloomberg

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
-- L.L.C., on the board at Giorgio's Grill this morning.

"If you had one goal, and that was to feel good, you would never again need to hear another word from anyone. You would live successfully and happily and in a way of fulfilling your life's purpose ever after".
-- Abraham-Hicks

"I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top".
-- An English Professor

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
--Dorothy Parker

"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something".
-- Wilson Mizner

"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."
-- Helen Keller

"A walking meditation is a beneficial alternative when sitting meditations are getting too repetitive. With each step, begin to count from one to ten. Then count from ten down to one, and start again from one up to ten. As you walk and count, keep your focus on the sole of each foot as it hits the ground. What's happening as you count one, two, three, four, and so on to your steps is that you're bringing your awareness and focus back to the powerful present."
-- John Holland

"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom".
-Anaïs Nin

"You are never a loser until you quit trying."
-- Mike Ditka, on the chalkboard at Giorgio's Grill this morning.

"Never face reality unless your reality is just the way you want it to be".
-- Abraham-Hicks

"We'll drive you happy."
-- Advertising slogan on a Panorama bus.

"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take -- choose the bolder."
-- William Joseph Slim

"Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them."
-- John Henry Cardinal Newman

"Without self-knowledge, we cannot go beyond the mind".
-- J. Krishnamurti

"Try to think positively today and repel any negative thoughts. Try not to judge yourself or others . . . which may be harder than you imagine. However, by doing so, you’ll change your reality, because thoughts are made up of positive and negative energy, and this directly affects your life. When you think a thought, your aura will magnify it with energy and put it out to the universe. By monitoring your thoughts, you’ll have conscious control over your future".
-- John Holland

"Whatever you're thinking about is literally like planning a future event.

When you're worrying, you are planning.

When you're appreciating you are planning...

What are you planning?"

-- Abraham, abraham-hicks.com

"Each day, silently repeat these three principles that are the foundation of self-referral. Notice over time how your perspective changes as you unpeel the layers of your true self.

* I'm totally independent of the good or bad opinions of others.
* I'm beneath no one. I'm superior to no one. All beings are my equal.
* I'm fearless in the face of any and all challenges."

-- Deepak Chopra

"Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top".
-- Virginia Woolf

"... When you try to hold your desire down, it keeps coming up...Your cork will always float unless you are holding it down."
-- Abraham, as related by Esther Hicks.

"My mother never saw the irony of calling me a son of a bitch."
-- Richard Jeni, 1957-2007

"You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience".
-- Stanislaw J. Lec

"The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing".
-- Henry S. Haskins

"Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens".
-- Nick Diamos

"You'll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind."
-- Irish Proverb, on the board at Giorgio's Grill this week.

"If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong."
-- Charles Kettering 

"Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
-- Franklin P. Jones 

"It is fun to be in the same decade with you".
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"If you can't get in the front door, just head into the back door."
-- Eddie Cantor, as quoted by his grandson Brian Gari, on Broadway Beat.

"I don't understand why people are against gay marriage. Their main argument is that it's tearing away at our social fabric. You really think gays would do anything to harm fabric?"
-- David Hodorowski, as quoted in Time Out New York, this week.

"Aim high. There is little virtue in easy victory."
-- Sir Edmund Hillary, on the board at Giorgio's this morning.

"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."
-- Alfred Hitchcock 

"There is no use worrying about things over which you have no control, and if you have control, you can do something about them instead of worrying."
-- Stanley C. Allyn

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
-- Beverly Sills

"You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true."
-- Fortune Cookie

It's not your work to make anything happen. It's your work to dream it and let it happen. Law of Attraction will make it happen. In your joy, you create something, and then you maintain your vibrational harmony with it, and the Universe must find a way to bring it about. That's the promise of Law of Attraction.
-- Abraham, Abraham-Hicks.

"Avert misunderstanding by calm, poise, and balance."
-- Fortune Cookie

"I say a quick prayer, check my zipper and make my entrance."
-- John Mahoney, actor on his preshow ritual for Prelude to a Kiss,
currently in revival on Broadway.

"only as far as we seek can we go, only as much as we dream can we be."
-- anonymous

"Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that
counts."
-- George Tilton

"When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears".
-- Anthony Robbins

100 Quotes from The Secret

1. We all work with one infinite power
2. The Secret is the Law of Attraction (LOA)
3. Whatever is going on in your mind is what you are attracting
4. We are like magnets - like attract like. You become AND attract what you think
5. Every thought has a frequency. Thoughts send out a magnetic energy
6. People think about what they don't want and attract more of the same
7. Thought = creation. If these thoughts are attached to powerful emotions (good or bad) that speeds the creation
8. You attract your dominant thoughts
9. Those who speak most of illness have illness, those who speak most of prosperity have it..etc..
10. It's not "wishful" thinking.
11. You can't have a universe without the mind entering into it
12. Choose your thoughts carefully .. you are a masterpiece of your life
13. It's OK that thoughts don't manifest into reality immediately (if we saw a picture of an elephant and it instantly appeared, that would be too soon)
14. EVERYTHING in your life you have attracted .. accept that fact .. it's true.
15. Your thoughts cause your feelings
16. We don't need to complicate all the "reasons" behind our emotions. It's much simpler than that. Two categories .. good feelings, bad feelings.
17. Thoughts that bring about good feelings mean you are on the right track. Thoughts that bring about bad feelings means you are not on the right track.
18. Whatever it is you are feeling is a perfect reflection of what is in the process of becoming
19. You get exactly what you are FEELING
20. Happy feelings will attract more happy circumstances
21. You can begin feeling whatever you want (even if it's not there).. the universe will correspond to the nature of your song
22. What you focus on with your thought and feeling is what you attract into your experience
23. What you think and what you feel and what actually manifests is ALWAYS a match - no exception
24. Shift your awareness
25. "You create your own universe as you go along" Winston Churchill
26. It's important to feel good
27. You can change your emotion immediately .. by thinking of something joyful, or singing a song, or remembering a happy experience
28. When you get the hang of this, before you know it you will KNOW you are the creator
29. Life can and should be phenomenal .. and it will be when you consciously apply the Law of Attraction
30. Universe will re-arrange itself accordingly
31. Start by using this sentence for all of your wants: "I'm so happy and grateful now that.... "
32. You don't need to know HOW the universe is going to rearrange itself
33. LOA is simply figuring out for yourself what will generate the positive feelings of having it NOW
34. You might get an inspired thought or idea to help you move towards what you want faster
35. The universe likes SPEED. Don't delay, don't second-guess, don't doubt..
36. When the opportunity or impulse is there .. ACT
37. You will attract everything you require - money, people, connections.. PAY ATTENTION to what's being set in front of you
38. You can start with nothing .. and out of nothing or no way - a WAY will be provided.
39. HOW LONG??? No rules on time .. the more aligned you are with positive feelings the quicker things happen
40. Size is nothing to the universe (unlimited abundance if that's what you wish) We make the rules on size and time
41. No rules according to the universe .. you provide the feelings of having it now and the universe will respond
42. Most people offer the majority of their thought in response to what they are observing (bills in the mail, being late, having bad
luck...etc..)
43. You have to find a different approach to what is through a different vantage point
44. "All that we are is a result of what we have thought" - Buddha
45. What can you do right now to turn your life around?? Gratitude
46. Gratitude will bring more into our lives immediately
47. What we think about and THANK about is what we bring about
48. What are the things you are grateful for?? Feel the gratitude..
focus on what you have right now that you are grateful for
49. Play the picture in your mind - focus on the end result
50. VISUALIZE!!! Rehearse your future
51. VISUALIZE!!! See it, feel it! This is where action begins
52. Feel the joy .. feel the happiness
53. An affirmative thought is 100 times more powerful than a negative one
54. "What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists." Alexander Graham Bell
55. Our job is not to worry about the "How". The "How" will show up out of the commitment and belief in the "what"
56. The How’s are the domain of the universe. It always knows the quickest, fastest, most harmonious way between you and your dream
57. If you turn it over to the universe, you will be surprised and dazzled by what is delivered .. this is where magic and miracles happen
58. Turn it over to the universe daily.. but it should never be a chore.
59. Feel exhilarated by the whole process .. high, happy, in tune
60. The only difference between people who are really living this way is they have habituated ways of being.
61. They remember to do it all the time
62. Create a Vision Board .. pictures of what you want to attract ..
every day look at it and get into the feeling state of already having acquired these wants
63. "Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions." Albert Einstein
64. Decide what you want .. believe you can have it, believe you deserve it, believe it's possible for you
65. Close your eyes and visualize having what you already want - and the feeling of having it already.
66. Focus on being grateful for what you have already .. enjoy it!!
Then release into the universe. The universe will manifest it.
67. "Whatever the mind of man can conceive, it can achieve" W.
Clement Stone
68. Set a goal so big that if you achieved it, it would blow your mind.
69. When you have an inspired thought, you must trust it and act on it.
70. How can you become more prosperous?? INTEND IT!!
71. 'Checks are coming in the mail regularly'... or change your bank statement to whatever balance you want in there... and get behind the feeling of having it.
72. Life is meant to be abundant in ALL areas...
73. Go for the sense of inner joy and peace then all outside things appear
74. We are the creators of our universe
75. Relationships: Treat yourself the way you want to be treated by others .. love yourself and you will be loved
76. Healthy respect for yourself
77. For those you work with or interact with regularly .. get a notebook and write down positive aspects of each of those people.
78. Write down the things you like most about them (don't expect change from them). Law of attraction will not put you in the same space together if you frequencies don't match
79. When you realize your potential to feel good, you will ask no one to be different in order for you to feel good.
80. You will free yourself from the cumbersome impossibilities of needing to control the world, your friends, your mate, your children....
81. You are the only one that creates your reality
82. No one else can think or feel for you .. its YOU .. ONLY YOU.
83. Health: thank the universe for your own healing. Laugh, stress free happiness will keep you healthy.
84. Immune system will heal itself
85. Parts of our bodies are replace every day, every week..etc...
Within a few years we have a brand new body
86. See yourself living in a new body. Hopeful = recovery. Happy = happier biochemistry. Stress degrades the body.
87. Remove stress from the body and the body regenerates itself. You can heal yourself
88. Learn to become still .. and take your attention away from what you don't want, and place your attention on what you wish to experience
89. When the voice and vision on the inside become more profound and clear than the opinions on the outside, then you have mastered your life
90. You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.
91. And allow the world as others choose to see it, exist as well
92. People think that if everyone knows the power of the LOA there won't be enough to go around .. This is a lie that's been ingrained in us and makes so many greedy.
93. The truth is there is more than enough love, creative ideas, power, joy, happiness to go around.
94. All of this abundance begins to shine through a mind that is aware of it's own infinite nature. There's enough for everyone. See it.
Believe it. it will show up for you.
95. So let the variety of your reality thrill you as you choose all the things you want.. get behind the good feelings of all your wants.
96. Write your script. When you see things you don't want, don't think about them, write about them, talk about them, push against them, or join groups that focus on the don't wants... remove your attention from don't wants.. and place them on do wants
97. We are mass energy. Everything is energy. EVERYTHING.
98. Don't define yourself by your body .. it's the infinite being that's connected to everything in the universe.
99. One energy field. Our bodies have distracted us from our energy.
We are the infinite field of unfolding possibilities. The creative force.
100. Are your thoughts worthy of you? If not - NOW is the time to change them. You can begin right were you are right now. Nothing matters but this moment and what you are focusing your attention on.

-- Rhonda Byrne

"If you examine your history, you cannot help but repeat it! Law of Attraction says it is so: "Whatever I am looking at, I am including in my vibration."
-- Abraham-Hicks

"A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times".
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"With so much information in this world vying for your attention, intuition can be easily missed. Synchronicities and coincidences are clear signs that intuition is knocking on your door. Have you heard the same phrase or saying from more than one person today? Do the same numbers keep showing up in your life? Has someone mentioned the same person you were just thinking of? If so, these are all signs for you to – Pause, Be Open, and Pay Attention. There could very well be a message, or a lesson there meant especially for you. There are no accidents in this intelligent universe!"
-- John Holland

"I want great relationships. I so enjoy nice, clever, funny, energetic, stimulating people and I love knowing that this planet is abundant with them. I have met so many interesting people, and I love the discovery of fascinating characteristics in the people I meet. It seems the more I enjoy people, the more people whom I enjoy come into my experience. I love this time of spectacular co-creation."
-- Abraham, The Law of Attraction by Hicks, p. 70.

"We can look at the world through a narrow lens and see the ground or open the shutter wide and see the stars."
-- Evelyn Loeb, on the chalkboard at Giorgio's Grill this morning.

"If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows".
-- Paul Eldridg

"Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn."
-- Fortune Cookie

"Desire creates the power."
-- Raymond Holliwell

"While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness."
-- Gilda Radner

"Your future is as boundless as the lofty heaven."
-- Fortune Cookie

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
-- Anonymous, on the chalkboard at Giorgio's Grill today.

"Obstacles are those frightening things that become visible when we take our eyes off our goals".
-- Henry Ford

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things".
-- Peter Drucker

"What would be possible for you if you started asking more powerful questions and began to step outside the status quo that perpetuates the endless cycle of pain?

What if you replaced...

resisting what is

denying what is

beating yourself up

making it wrong

making yourself wrong

making other people wrong

and the mantra 'It shouldn't be like this'

...with the transformative experience of acceptance?

Acceptance isn't a passive position."

-- Debbie Ford

"The more you give, the more you will receive, because you will keep the abundance of the universe circulating in your life. In fact, anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given. That which doesn't multiply through giving is neither worth giving nor worth receiving".
-- Deepak Chopra

"Humankind cannot stand very much reality".
-- TS Eliot

"Character is the cornerstone of success."
-- Fortune Cookie

"Our duty is not to see through one another, but to see one another through."
-- Leonard Sweet, on the chalkboard at Giorgio's this morning.

"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power."
-- Alan Cohen

"Character development is the true aim of education."
-- Fortune Cookie

"Find something to feel good about and get out of the way, and allow the cells to receive what they've been asking for. That is the key to healing".
-- Abraham

"There are years that ask questions, and years that answer".
-- Zora Neale Hurston

"Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life itself reveals again and again the opposite; that letting go is the path to real freedom".
-- Sogyai Rinpoche

"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."
-- Walter Lippmann

"I like spending money. I don't like money in the bank. I like
moments."
-- Vic Muniz, in today's New York Times. "Not Ready to Wind Down, by
David Colman.

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
-- John Wooden, the quote on the chalkboard at Giorgio's, this weekend.

"When you talk about what you want and why you want it, there's usually less resistance within you than when you talk about what you want and how you're going to get it. When you pose questions you don't have answers for, like how, where, when, who, it sets up a contradictory vibration that slows everything down".
-- Abraham

"Everything works out in the end. If it hasn't worked out, it's not the end".
-- Anonymous

"The past has flown away. The coming month and year do not exist. Ours only is the present's tiny point."
-- Mahmud Shabistari

"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line".
-- Oscar Levant

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do".
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it".
-- Bernard Bailey

"The Optimist's Creed:

Promise Yourself:

• To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
• To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.
• To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.
• To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.
• To think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best.
• To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
• To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
• To wear a cheeful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.
• To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have not time to criticize others.
• To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble."

-- Anonymous

"Don't wait for success, start ahead without it."
-- Fortune Cookie

"Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart."
-- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.

"This is your year! This is the year when you can take positive control of your mind, make peace with your past, and heal that amazing heart of yours more deeply than ever...

After spending a beautiful week celebrating with friends and loved ones and sharing our New Year's dreams, goals, and plans, I became acutely aware of how we often breed discontentment by wanting this, wishing for that, and desiring things to be different than they are. Although we're conditioned to believe that our checklist of desires is absolutely necessary in order to get what we want, we're often generating dissatisfaction and regret by focusing on what's missing rather than acknowledging and appreciating what we already have.

How many years have you been wishing and wanting your body, your relationships, your career, your future, or your life to be different? How many precious moments would you say you threw away last year wanting something to be different than it was? I must admit, I threw away a few too many myself.

But, my friends, discontentment is a trap that you can escape by seeing it for exactly what it is: a primary addiction and dis-ease of the ego. Here are just a few of the warning signs to help you to identify when you're in its grips:

-One of your relatives or friends calls you on the phone and, even though there were ten things that went great that day, you tell them about the one thing that went wrong.

-You're beating yourself up for not having what you want or not getting where you thought you should be at this point.

-Something opens up for you or comes your way, but it's not enough.

-In order to create what you want, you find yourself racing around, trying to figure things out, manipulating, controlling, scheming, and grasping for any tool or technique that will MAKE IT HAPPEN.

-Your attention is on the past.

-You're no longer at ease and in the flow.

Are you ready to step off the ego's treadmill where the more you want things to be different, the more they remain the same?

The key to freedom is satisfaction. Think of a time when you've felt at ease, peaceful, and "just fine". When accompanied by genuine and heartfelt gratitude, appreciation, and acceptance of what is, satisfaction is an essential key to encoding your consciousness with contentment.

It's a profound paradox, but when you honestly acknowledge and accept that this may be as good as it's going to get, unexpected miracles can occur for you. In those moments when you're with God, you have everything. And beyond any attempts to MAKE things happen, things just open up.

My prayer for you as you start this brand new year is that you choose God's will rather than your own will (more on this next week) and that you are filled with the satisfaction, fulfillment, and contentment that are the natural state of your divine self - right here and right now.

Just imagine what will be possible for you from this state of consciousness. It's not that you won't have desires and go after them this year, but you can do it from outside the ego's never-enough paradigm. You won't be ruining this moment for one that may never come. And this momentous internal shift will result in external shifts (and manifestations) that will make your old list of wants pale in comparison!

Take Action Now!

To nurture the mental and emotional state of contentment, ask yourself the following questions each morning for the next 28 days:

What would I need to do today to feel content with my life?

Who would I be?

How would I act?

What boundaries would I set?

What thoughts would I think?"

-- Debbie Ford

"In the new year, I will live one day at a time. I will make each day one of preparation for better things ahead. I will not dwell on the past or the future, only on the present. I will bury every fear of the future, all thoughts of unkindness and bitterness, all my dislikes, my resentments, my sense of failure, my disappointments in others and in myself, my gloom and my despondency. I will leave all these things buried and go forward, in this new year, into a new life."
-- Scott W., Attitude to Gratitude.

"When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him."
-- Thomas Szasz

"New Year's Day is every man's birthday".
-- Charles Lamb