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."People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success."
--Norman Vincent Peale

2."What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason."
--Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

3."If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."
--Samuel Johnson

4."Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want."
--Margaret Young

5."Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune."
--William James

6."It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."
--Erma Bombeck

7."The ideals which have always shown before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty and truth."
--Albert Einstein