#304 Facial Charm

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. ~ Lauren Bacall

- What do your facial features reveal about your life?
- Do we need to show a perpetual smile or what are the options?
- OK, it's time to feel proud. What about your life is wonderful?

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#303 End of your rope

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

- When have you felt recently that you are at the end of your rope?
- How can, do you maintain resolve to carry on?
- What are the tiny silver linings in your life which provide that glimmer of hope?

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#302 Existence and Opportunity

You are born with two things: existence and opportunity, and these are the raw materials out of which you can make a successful life. ~ Charles Templeton

- How do you cultivate and enrich your existence?
- What are several of your strengths and interests?
- How can you use these gifts to take advantage of opportunities which come along?

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#301 Fairness

Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you. ~ Alan Alda

- How much does your own self interest interfere with your fairness to others?
- Exactly what does it mean to be fair?
- How do you get people to be fair with you?

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#300 Are you a hero?

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. ~ John Barth

- How are you progressing with your life story?
- How can (do) you overcome the many challenges surrounding your life?
- What are the distinguishing qualities of you as hero?

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#299 Finding Contentment

Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps. ~ Chinese proverb

- How can too much wealth bring unhappiness?
- How difficult is it for you to simplify your life with fewer expectations?
- When have you felt release and contentment?

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#298 A Fighter

They underestimated me, because I am a fighter and not a quitter. ~ Peter Mandelson

- Are you more a fighter or a quitter?
- How does one build a resolve to be a fighter?
- What is the difference between a bad fighter and a good fighter?

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#297 Discontent

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

- How often are you plagued with discontent?
- What do you fret over?
- How can you become more self-reliant with purpose and will?

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#296 Failure

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

- How does this quote surprise you?
- Part of life seems to be acceptance of what comes, both good and bad. How good are you with acceptance?
- The quote also implies that we continue to strive and confront challenges even though we might fail. Where can you show some daring?

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#295 Sorrow

It is wrong to sorrow without ceasing. ~ Homer

- Reflect on several major times of sorrow.
- How quickly did you want to carry on with your life?
- How does one best deal with grief?

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#294 Optimism vs. Pessimism

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning. ~ Carl Sandburg

- Are you more an optimistic or pessimistic person?
- Where lies reason to be optimistic in the morning?
- What about life provides you with some pessimism?
- How does one cultivate an optimistic life?

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#293 Striving

It is better to wear out than to rust out. ~ Richard Cumberland

- In what area(s) are you using your talents well?
- Where do you think you could extend yourself more?
- How can you motivate someone around you to 'bump it up a couple of notches?'

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#292 Suffering

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights. ~ Victor Hugo

- How much have you suffered?
- What does Hugo mean by suffering "on the heights?"
- Why is exalted suffering a good thing?

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#291 Fortune

Fortune takes nothing away but what she also gave. ~ Roman proverb

- To what extent do you believe in good luck and fortune?
- Why might it be more desirable not to think too much about fortune?
- In the end what should you count on? What is important?

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#290 Inexpressible

In truth, all things are inexpressible, empty, calm, and pure. ~ Nagarjuna

- How often do you want to express what you think is true?
- Think about truth as inexpressible where there is calmness and purity.
- What is the nature of truth?

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#289 Know your nature

A person who knows his own nature will know heaven. ~ Mencius

- How well do you know yourself?
- How can truly knowing yourself make you more content about life?
- Identify several specific qualities about yourself which are important to cultivate.

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#288 Going beyond

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. ~ Confucius

- Does this quote counter prevailing opinion of doing more than what is expected?
- How often do you fall short?
- How can you achieve a proper balance in all your efforts?

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#287 Being human

There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, when we must accept the condition of being human. ~ Jean Anouilh

- What are we reluctant to accept about being human?
- What are the criterion of being human?
- How might this acceptance be an enrichment for our lives?

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#286 Hard times

Can anybody remember when times were not hard, and money was not scarce? ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

- What do you consider hard about your life?
- How challenged are you with your finances?
- What is Emerson suggesting here about the human condition?

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#285 Winning

It is best to win without fighting. ~ Sun Tzu

- How can one avoid the fight?
- What are the conditions necessary to win?
- How can you win more in your associations without the fight?

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#284 Happiness

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous. ~ Thucydides

- How free are you?
- What conditions may restrict you?
- How can a little courage enable you to enjoy more freedom?
- Do you fully agree with the quotation?

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#283 Complexity

I prefer complexity to certainty, cheerful mysteries to sullen facts. ~ Claude T. Bissell

- Why is complexity more desirable than certainty?
- Cheerful mysteries to sullen facts?
- How can you strive to cultivate more complexity and mystery to your life?

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#282 Life's tragedies

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. ~ Oscar Wilde

- What are several things you desperately want but have not received?
- Think about several things you really wanted and then received.
- Why is acquiring something you wished for a tragedy?
- How does one lessen tragedy in one's life?

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#281 Money

Money doesn't talk, it swears. ~ Bob Dylan

- How can one see money as a dirty word?
- How has money twisted and distorted the beauty of life?
- What can you do to devalue the importance of money in your life?

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#280 Nonviolence

For me, nonviolence is not a mere philosophical principle. It rules my life. It is the rule and breath of my life. It is a matter not of the intellect but of the heart. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

- To what extent is the principle of nonviolence important to you?
- How can you enrich the concept in your daily life and perspectives?
- How can you cultivate nonviolence in your heart?

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#279 Knowing oneself

Life is a constant challenge to know oneself. ~ Osho

- How well do you know yourself?
- How is this process a life long process and challenge?
- What key understandings have you reached about yourself?

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#278 The greatest happiness

My greatest happiness consists precisely in doing nothing whatsoever that is calculated to obtain happiness. ~ Chuang-tzu

- How is this quote paradoxical?
- Think about all the schemes which promise happiness.
- Think about the happiness in nothing.

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#277 Thin ice

In skating over thin ice, our safety is our speed. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

- What aspects of your life do you consider fragile?
- How can Emerson's metaphor help you to gain some strength?

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#276 Dare mighty things

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

- How cautious, reticent are you in living out your life?
- When did you try something daring but failed?
- How can you resolve to be a little more bold in meeting life's challenges?

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#275 No doubt

Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt. ~ John Henry Newman

- What difficulties do have in your life at this time?
- To what extent do you doubt your actions?
- How can you resolve to carry forward with reasonable optimism and trust?

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#274 Hope

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate. ~ G.K. Chesterton

- To what extent do you see desperation in your life?
- What enables you to stay positive?
- What several hopes seem worthy to have?

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