“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” - Maxwell Maltz
 
How is your relationship with yourself, leading you toward a significant life  ?

“The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.” - Aristotle 
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How does your soul reflect your temper?
 

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.” - George Bernard Shaw 
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What are you doing to find or make your circumstances?

“Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.” - Claude Bissell 
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What more can you pour into making your life better?

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” - Pablo Picasso
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What have you been procrastinating doing in your life?

The Hedgehogs
 
 It was the coldest winter ever. Many animals died because of the cold.
The hedgehogs, realizing the situation, decided to group together to keep warm. This way they covered and protected themselves; but the quills of each one wounded their closest companions.
After a while, they decided to distance themselves one from the other and they began to die, alone and frozen. So, they had to make a choice: either accept the quills of their companions or disappear from the Earth.
Wisely, they decided to go back to being together. They learned to live with the little wounds caused by the close relationship with their companions in order to receive the heat that came from the others. This way they were able to survive.
The best relationship is not the one that brings together perfect people, but when each individual learns to live with the imperfections of others and can admire the other person's good qualities.
 
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“Life does not owe you anything because life has already given you everything.” - Ralph Marston
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What has life given you that causes you to be grateful? 

“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” - Scott Hamilton
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How is your life being disabled by your attitude? 

“Speak less than you know. Have more than you show.” - William Shakespeare
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How do you show less than you know?
 

“Success hugs you in private. Failure slaps you in public. That’s life.” - Buddha
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How does the world view your success and failure?
 

“Education is the process by which the individual relates himself to the universe, gives himself citizenship in the changing world, shares the race’s mind, and enfranchises his soul.” - Dr. John H. Finley
 
How does learning play a part in your everyday life?
 

“The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.” - Edward C. Simmons
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How are you ensuring that you do things exactly right?

“You don’t inspire your teammates by showing them how amazing you are. You inspire them by showing them how amazing they are.” - Robin Benincasa
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How are you inspiring others to be amazing?