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“Don’t focus on what you haven’t done. Rather, focus on the fact that what you ‘haven’t done’ is often the best indicator of what you should be doing.”

Life Opportunity Fear Chance Journey Possibility Future Living Privilege Driven Frightened Fearful Possibilities Moment Consumed Journey Of Life Frighten Next Moment

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“To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we’ve hemmed ourselves in by creating them in the first place.”

“Humility is the greatest shaper of souls and crafter of character, for it wipes away all the grandiose things that we spend so much of our lives pretending to be, so that we can spend all of our lives being the exceptional person that we were actually created to be.”

Soul Character Identity Humility Personality Living Humble Potential Pretending Possibilities Person Exceptional Souls Lives Pretend Grandiose

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“To intentionally pass on opportunity is to intentionally pass on living.”

Life Opportunity Fear Stupid Ignorance Living Stupidity Foolish Opportunities Foolishness Possibilities Bypass Miss Intentional Pass

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“Dreams must be chased, for if we wait for them to chase us we will live a life of waiting.”

Life Success Passion Waiting Dreams Achieve Failure Achievement Living Goals Objectives Live Opportunities Mission Possibilities Chasing Fail Wait Aspirations Chase Chased Stalled

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“Failure is only failure if you focus on what didn’t work rather than focusing on what could if you did it differently.”

Fear Positive Failure Negative Frightened Possibilities Fail

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“Because a door slammed shut, we assume that our dreams were slammed shut with it. Yet before we surrender to a closed door, it might be wise to take a moment and consider the fact that any dream is far too big not to have a couple of back doors.”

Loss Impossible Dreams Determination Disappointment Surrender Possibilities Failures Door Options

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“Not a day goes by that did not have a great opportunity packaged in it somewhere. And the question is, did the opportunity go by with the day?”

Hope Opportunity Change Day Possibilities Transform Packaged

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“Every single second of your life shows up possessing enough opportunity to transform every single second that will follow. So you might think about what you’re going to do with the ten of them that it took to read this.”

Life Different Time Opportunity Change Potential Possibilities Changes Second

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“If the heart of a man turns toward self he has turned away from all else. And what a pitiful life to have missed the grandness of ‘all else’ for the smallness of ‘oneself.”

World Life Heart Self Ego Selfish Possibilities Self Centered Heart Of Man

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“Our true selves accepted, cultivated, and unleashed is immense. But what is infinitely greater than all of these is the loss that will occur if none of these happen.”

Self Loss Ability Confidence Potential Immense Possibilities Abilities Unleash Cultivated

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“It’s not enough to watch the great people in our lives and wish ourselves to be like them. Rather, it’s realizing that we need to wish ourselves to be the best version of us. For then, we will be like the people we’ve been watching.”

Self Wish Growth Greatness Development Maturity Possibilities Self Actualization

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“If you dare to dig deep enough, you will find a side of yourself that will dramatically enhance all the sides of yourself.”

Self Ability Self Esteem Capability Possibilities Yourself Self Perception Dig Personal Resources

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“If we were to tally all of the potential that was never unleashed throughout the history of mankind, and if that tally was somehow held up in front of us, I would hope against all hope that it would horrify us to a point of such despair that we would be driven to insure that such a tragedy would never be given any shred of space anywhere in our own lives nor in the lives of any life that we might touch for the rest of our lives.”

Self Faith Lost Waste Potential Possibilities Abilities Wasted Squander Squandered

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“Accepting the fact that I don’t even remotely understand all that I can be might prove an insurmountable barrier to some. Yet, if I can accept that fact, the far greater barrier constructed of my suffocatingly limited understanding of myself would be removed. And without a doubt, the former might be difficult to deal with but the latter is certain to kill me.”

Self Understanding Insight Introspection Possibilities Talents Abilities Self Understanding Self Contemplation

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“You are greater than you can possibly imagine, if you would only free yourself up to imagine.”

Believe Self Belief Greater Imagine Dreams Self Esteem Goals Self Confidence Self Worth Self Respect Great Possibilities Aspirations Self Hatred Capabilities Self Assured

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“There is that gnawing feeling that we are far more than what we believe ourselves to be. Maybe it’s time to believe the gnawing.”

Believe Self Belief Self Esteem Identity Resources Intuition Self Confidence Potential Feeling Possibilities Intuitive Self Perception Gnawing

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“The only time that pain is not opportunity is when we won’t let it be. But even then, it is opportunity even though we have rendered it opportunity missed.”

Pain Opportunity Growth Learning Lessons Possibilities Maturation Missed

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“The misfortunes of yesterday hold the fortunes of tomorrow.”

Today Past Opportunity Learning Tomorrow Future Fortune Present Possibilities Misfortune

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“I don’t want to fear the mess that I’ve made of the past, nor fear the mess that I feel I’ll make of the future. What I want to do is to realize that I stand in a moment between both that is dictated by neither. Therefore, I have the power to heal from the former and change the latter.”

Past Opportunity Growth Learning Lessons Future Opportunities Present Possibilities

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“Without an ending there would be no beginning. And if I can’t imagine a life without beginnings, I can’t live without endings.”

Death Opportunity Vision Birth Possibilities Start Ending Stop Beginnings

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“This is the wonder of Christmas, that in the solitary form of an impoverished infant God has handed me everything that I could never create so that I can be everything that I could never be.”

God Jesus Wonder Birth Jesus Christ Christmas Possibilities Infant Create Holidays Impoverished

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“Of course life’s a battle. Would you have expected ‘anything’ that would have demanded less than your ‘everything’ so that you’ll never run the risk of being ‘nothing.”

Opportunity Growth Battle Possibilities Nothing Everything Demands

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“I don’t intend to be any less than what I can be, nor any more than who I should be.”

Purpose Growth Destiny Calling Potential Possibilities More Less

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“I choose not be what the world is. Rather, I choose to be what the world says I cannot be.”

God Christian Values Faith Jesus Ethics Determination Morals Possibilities Fortitude

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“A mighty oak doesn’t spend its life living inside of a seed, for if it did it would still be an oak, but it will never be mighty.”

Opportunity Ability Vision Destiny Tree Potential Possibilities Oak Seed Mighty

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“To even begin to embrace the magnitude of God’s vision, we must first embrace our vision as being nothing more than vision by definition.”

God Vision Destiny Impossible Dreams Calling Sight Blind Mission Blindness Possibilities Magnitude Visionary Vision Casting Sightless

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“A ‘new start’ is where I tediously reconstruct everything I’ve spent most of my life destroying. A ‘fresh start’ is where God hands me something I’ve haven’t had the chance to destroy. And while I am free to choose either one, the former is a life repurposed while the latter is a life reborn.”

God Christian Opportunity Salvation Redemption Possibilities Fresh Start Repurposed

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“Tomorrow is built upon today, so make certain that today is going to be a great yesterday.”

Today Grace Tomorrow Mercy Salvation Yesterday Redemption Opportunities Possibilities

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“Do you fear taking on the task of changing the world because a task of this magnitude as held against the puny totality of who you are suggests that such a task is ridiculous beyond imagination? Well, imagine God standing beside you and then what can you imagine?”

God Christian Jesus Transformation Salvation Redemption Possibilities Change The World

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“Loss is an invitation to a journey of unparalleled growth, yet we seldom RSVP the invitation.”

Pain Death Opportunity Fear Growth Loss Grief Vision Grieving Abandoned Possibilities Invitation Losses Invite

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“Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities.”

Death Growth Loss Grief Personal Growth Betrayal Personal Development Grieving Abandon Opportunities Betray Possibilities Invitations Abandonment Possible Door Invitation Losses

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“If I had any hand in it at all there’s a chance that it might be beautiful, but it simply cannot not be majestic.”

God Beautiful Ability Beauty Limits Possibilities Create Majesty Limitations Majestic Abilities Develop Shape Invent Liabilities

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“The extent to which you believe that you can do something never defines the extent to which you can actually do it.”

Belief Self Esteem Self Confidence Opportunities Possibilities Capabilities

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“One of the greatest plagues that besets our humanity is our inability to believe in the totality of who we are and the utter vastness of what we can achieve. And because of this crippling disbelief, we settle for the lesser lives that we were never built for. Yet despite the enormity of our skepticism, it is well within our reach to smash such a crippling disbelief for, in fact, that is the very thing that we were built to do.”

Purpose Faith Ability Self Esteem Calling Self Confidence Opportunities Possibilities

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“Pretending is the outcome of desperately wanting to achieve something, but forfeiting it to the whimsy of imagination because we lack the faith to believe that we could achieve it. And if we actually started to pretend that we could achieve it, in time maybe we wouldn’t have to pretend anymore.”

Belief Self Esteem Determination Self Confidence Potential Possibilities Confident Pretend

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“If something didn’t happen, it’s probably not that it couldn’t. Rather, it’s more that we chose not to believe that it could.”

Faith Self Esteem Confidence Determination Self Confidence Self Worth Opportunities Possibilities Fortitude

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“The real challenge is not what stands before us. Rather, it’s in believing what resides within us.”

Belief Challenges Self Esteem Obstacles Self Confidence Possibilities Challenge Believing Capabilities

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“You, yes you are the impossible waiting to happen. And the only reason that that sounds impossible to you is that you haven’t been daring enough to push the possible out to the point where it becomes what you once mistook for the impossible.”

Fear Change Impossible Dreams Self Esteem Transformation Goals Self Confidence Possibilities Possible

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“You are fully and magnificently equipped to stand up and change the world around you. And to simply sit down and tolerate the world around you is to squander who you are in the process of never being who you are.”

World Change Self Esteem Transformation Opportunities Magnificent Possibilities Self Fulfillment

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“What I wish to be falls short of what I’ve chosen to be, neither of which possesses the ability to sabotage what I can be.”

Choices Ability Determination Goals Possibilities Sabotage Aspirations

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“The minute that stands in front of me has plenty of room within it to birth a new start. And if that is so, the next sixty seconds could change everything.”

Choices Change Decisions Opportunities Possibilities Alter Minute

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“It is my desperate wish to walk in something bigger than myself simply because to walk in myself is to live a life of small circles and ever-tightening walls. I am dying to walk in something bigger than all of mankind combined because in walking with mankind I am repeatedly faced with the very same circles and exact same walls. I wish neither of these. Rather, I want to walk in God because in Him there are no circles, walls are unknown, and horizons are the theme of everything He does.”

God Christian Jesus Mankind Circles Possibilities Walls Horizons

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“The thing that maintains my confidence in my fellowman is realizing that the choices that they make might be a reflection of who they, but they are not a reflection of who they could be.”

Humanity Mankind Confidence Opportunities Potential Possibilities Maturation Fellowman

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“It’s not that mankind is failing. Rather, it’s that mankind has failed to understand that failure is most often a choice based on the belief that we cannot succeed.”

Success Achieve Mankind Failure Succeed Choice Possibilities False Failed

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“It is the aversion to fear that kills the greatest of dreams. And until the aversion to the death of our dreams outpaces the fears that kill them, what we could achieve will only be a dream.”

Fear Dreams Surrender Frightened Die Retreat Possibilities Kill Achievements

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“I can pen a thousand marvelous ideas. But if I refuse to do them or find myself too fearful to attempt them, I have created a thousand deaths that I didn’t need to die.”

Ideas Death Opportunity Dreams Fearful Die Stubborn Possibilities Visions

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“One of the most terrifying things I fear is not my potential, but how much regret I’ll die with should I never use it.”

Death Fear Ability Regret Waste Potential Fearful Die Possibilities Abilities Terrifying Wasted Apprehensive Squander Squandered

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“If we sacrifice the opportunity to sacrifice, what we have in fact sacrificed is the opportunity live.”

Opportunity Vision Dreams Sacrifice Live Possibilities Chances

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