I hope you are well and that these quotes will help you in your search for more prosperity and happiness. It is my pleasure each week to bring some of that to you and those you keep close.

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1. "Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be."
--Clementine Paddleford

2. "Living itself is a risky business. If we spent half as much time learning how to take risks as we spend avoiding them, we wouldn't have nearly so much to fear in life."
--E. Paul Torrance

3. "All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible."
--Orison Swett Marden

4. "Without continuous personal development you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are, meets the person you could have been."
--Eli Cohen

5. "No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy."
--Thomas Fuller

6. "The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that the warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse."
--Carlos Castaneda

7. "It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them."
--George Eliot