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The Little Book of BIG Inspiration is designed to encourage, uplift, and

most of all inspire you to reach higher levels of personal and professional

success. Each of the messages contained within the book has been

carefully hand-selected. It is our hope that you’ll enjoy the messages and

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Live Inspired,

Michelle Sedas

Host of The Power of Inspiration Newsletter

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Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind

to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.

~Gillian Anderson

Life is all about timing …

the unreachable becomes reachable,

the unavailable become available,

the unattainable … attainable.

Have the patience, wait it out.

It’s all about timing.

~Stacey Charter

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

~Richard Wagner

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment

before starting to improve the world.

~Anne Frank

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

~John Powell

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Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change

your life forever.

~Keri Russell

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire

good actions in others.

~Plato

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

~Chinese Proverb

It is from numberless diverse acts of

courage and belief

that human history is shaped.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal,

or acts to improve the lot of others,

or strikes out against injustice,

he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

~Robert F. Kennedy

To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope,

and blow the coals into a useful flame;

to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action,

this, though not easy, is the work of divine man.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less

traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

~Robert Frost

It’s important to give it all you have

while you have the chance.

~Shania Twain

Unless commitment is made,

there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.

~Peter F. Drucker

The way you get meaning into your life is to

devote yourself to loving others,

devote yourself to your community around you,

and devote yourself to creating something

that gives you purpose and meaning.

~Mitch Albom

How far that little candle throws his beams!

So shines a good deed in a weary world.

~William Shakespeare

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Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely

detectable ways it can change someone else’s life forever.

~Margaret Cho

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have

is not permanent.

~Mignon McLaughlin

Choose to see beyond life’s storms because it is only after

the rain that you will find your rainbow.

~Michelle Sedas

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small

ones surround us every day.

~Sally Koch

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

~John D. Rockefeller

It’s not the way the wind blows, it’s how you set your sails.

~Unknown

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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person

you want to be.

~Henry David Thoreau

Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to.

But be respected … that is essential.

~Anna Gould

Only as high as I reach can I grow,

only as far as I seek can I go,

only as deep as I look can I see,

only as much as I dream can I be.

~Karen Ravn

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s

going to know whether you did it or not.

~Oprah Winfrey

There is little difference in people, but that little difference

makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The

big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

~W. Clement Stone

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Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.

~Christopher Reeve

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small

things brought together.

~Vincent van Gogh

My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall

be no man’s doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear

any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze.

My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key

to my destiny.

~Elaine Maxwell

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles,

they toughen and make strong.

~Norman Vincent Peale

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly,

but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying

anyway.

~Mary Kay Ash

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Never give up for that is just the place and time that

the tide will turn.

~Harriet Beecher Stowe

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

~G. K. Chesterton

Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can be

bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and

build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

~Charles “Tremendous” Jones

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

~John Lubbock

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our

dispositions, not our circumstances.

~Martha Washington

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what

you can do.

~Coach John Wooden

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The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur

when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or

unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our

discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start

searching for different ways or truer answers.

~M. Scott Peck

Chaos is a friend of mine.

~Bob Dylan

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in

moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands

at times of challenge and controversy.

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Accept the challenges so that you may feel the

exhilaration of victory.

~General George S. Patton

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress

Into a positive one.

~Hans Selye

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An optimist is the human personification of spring.

~Susan J. Bissonette

I’ve seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary

people living ordinary lives.

~Tracy Chapman

I expect to pass through this life but once. Therefore, if there

be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do for

another human being, let me do it now, for I shall not pass

this way again.

~William Penn

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

~Albert Schweitzer

Strength does not come from physical capacity.

It comes from an indomitable will.

~Mahatma Ghandi

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Remember that with each sunrise comes new opportunities. Yesterday is history. Today offers a clean slate upon which

to record your life … and your legacy.

~Eric Harvey

Feel the glory in the opportunity to walk in your own

shoes, for no one else can do that as well as you can. Be

thankful for this day, for another one is not promised to you.

~Debra Coleman

Living Inspired is born in the awareness that this is it!

We have one chance at life. And the wonderful gift we are given every morning is the choice of how we are going to

live that moment, that day.

~Sally Cofer-Lindberg

As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice

within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when

to go forth into the unknown.

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings

because it has a song.

~Maya Angelou

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Lift your head when you go outside and remember that if

you can feel the sun on your face or the rain gets you wet or

you are cold, then you are alive …

and that’s a great feeling!

~Sherrie Carroll

Inspiration is all around us. The stories, the lives, the insights

that transform ordinary moments into extraordinary success

happen every day.

~Christopher Novak

Rejoicing in each and every moment, regardless of what it is,

is a positive and invigorating aspect of our human ability to

nourish our spiritual being.

~Sister Catherine D. M. Yaskiw

We hear so much about living a life of purpose, which is all

well and good. But if your purpose is all about you and your

self-centered focus, then that purpose is less than ideal.

If your purpose is about a life of service to those around you,

then that’s inspired living.

~Richard Hamilton

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Passion is contagious and when you have the courage to

share your passion for life with those around you it can inspire

others to find the path to their dreams.

~Michele DeVille

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing

a better world.

~Faye Wattleton

For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use

being anything else.

~Winston Churchill

Surround yourself, your life, your job, your ideas,

your free time, your sleep time with the things you love.

Leave no room for anything else. Be thankful for all of it!

The rest will take care of itself.

~Pat Holley

I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.

~Louisa May Alcott

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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.

Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

~Helen Keller

We all have someone or something that inspires us;

something that spurs us on to reach for our dreams

and goals.

~Doreen Novotny

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy,

for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding

to one’s liberty.

~Henri Frederic Amiel

If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived?

Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it

become you and you will find great things happen for you,

to you, and because of you.

~T. Alan Armstrong

Kindness is the language the deaf can hear and

the blind can see.

~Mark Twain

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