“The greatest weapon you have, and the one that will see you through anything, is a settled determination that you will achieve your dream.”
Source: All You Have Is Now: How Your Approach to the World Determines Your Destiny
“Goals need to build like a fire. It starts as a flame consuming all you put into it and burns hotter and hotter the more you work at it.”
Source: All You Have Is Now: How Your Approach to the World Determines Your Destiny
“I believe that each of our lives has a purpose. You have something to do that is unique to you.”
Source: All You Have Is Now: How Your Approach to the World Determines Your Destiny
“The greatest power in the world is choice.”
Source: All You Have Is Now: How Your Approach to the World Determines Your Destiny
“Belief in yourself comes from a positive attitude that sees life as worth living and that you have a wonderful part to play in it.”
Source: All You Have Is Now: How Your Approach to the World Determines Your Destiny
“Determination knows that you can do what it takes, even if that is hard or frightening, in order to achieve the goal you seek.”
Source: All You Have Is Now: How Your Approach to the World Determines Your Destiny
“I keep remembering one of my Guru's teachings about happiness. She says that people universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you're fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don't you will eat away your innate contentment. It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“Success-minded people know that the greatest enemy to today's success is yesterday's success.”
Source: All You Have Is Now: How Your Approach to the World Determines Your Destiny
“Do not allow your thoughts of what was to steal what can be.”
Source: All You Have Is Now: How Your Approach to the World Determines Your Destiny
“Vhat ozzer abilities do you haf?" ter Borcht snapped, which his assistant waited, pen in hand.
Gazzy thought. "I have X-ray vision," he said. He peered at ter Borcht's chest, then blinked and looked alarmed.
Ter Borcht was startled for a second, but then he frowned. "Don't write dat down," he told his assistant in irritation. The assistant froze in midsentence.
"You. Do you haf any qualities dat distinguish you in any way?"
Nudge chewed on a fingernail. "You mean, like, besides the WINGS?" She shook her shoulders gently, and her beautiful fawn-colored wings unfolded a bit.
His face flushed, and I felt like cheering. "Yes," he said stiffly. "Besides de vings."
"Hmm. Besides de vings." Nudge tapped one finger against her chin. "Um..." Her face brightened. "I once ate nine Snickers bars in one sitting. Without barfing. That was a record!"
"Hardly a special talent," ter Borcht said witheringly.
Nudge was offended. "Yeah? Let's see YOU do it."
...
"I vill now eat nine Snickers bars," Gazzy said in a perfect, creepy imitation of ter Borcht's voice, "visout bahfing."
Iggy rubbed his forehead with one hand. "Well, I have a highly developed sense of irony."
Ter Borcht tsked. "You are a liability to your group. I assume you alvays hold on to someone's shirt, yes? Following dem closely?"
"Only when I'm trying to steal their dessert"
...Fang pretended to think, gazing up at the ceiling. "Besides my fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica."
"I vill now destroy de Snickuhs bahrs!" Gazzy barked.”