Canada ranks 5th on 'happiness' survey - World - CBC News

Canada ranks 5th on 'happiness' survey - World - CBC News

Source: Case Western Reserve University

 
Newswise — Negative thinking is a red flag for clinical depression. Stopping such thoughts early on can save millions of people from mental illness, according research study from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University.

Jaclene Zauszniewski, the Kate Hanna Harvey Professor in Community Health Nursing and associate dean for doctoral education at the school, has developed a brief 8-item survey to help healthcare providers identify depressive thinking patterns that may lead to serious depression if not identified and addressed early.

Zauszniewski’s Depression Cognition Scale (DCS) asks individuals to respond to questions about helplessness, hopelessness, purposelessness, worthlessness, powerlessness, loneliness, emptiness and meaninglessness using a scale that ranges from “strongly agree” to “strongly disagree.”

“Clinicians need guidelines and measures to know when negative thinking has reached a tipping point and has begun to spiral into clinical depression,” she said.

The DCS has been used effectively to screen for more serious depressive symptoms in persons in the U.S. and around the world, but the researchers wanted to take it further and determine the point at which negative thinking establishes a pattern for the onset of clinical depression—even without other emotional expressions or body symptoms associated with depression.

In a study of 629 healthy adults from 42 states who responded to questions through the Internet survey, they found the answer. Participants ranged in age from 21 to 84 years, and 70 percent were women; women make up the majority depression sufferers. The majority of the participants were college educated and had incomes greater than $40,000.

For this study, the researchers compared DCS scores to the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), which is recognized as a “gold standard” measure for identifying clinically significant depressive symptoms. Their goal was to determine a cut score on the DCS that would represent the point at which individuals may benefit from learning ways to change negative thinking in order to prevent serious depression.

They found that a score of 7 on the DCS would be that point at which individuals should begin initiating strategies to change negative thoughts into positive ones. The findings also showed that at this cut score, the DCS accurately differentiated between persons with and without clinical depressive symptoms as determined by the CES-D.

Zauszniewski and Abir K. Bekhet, a researcher from Marquette University in Milwaukee, report their findings in Issue 34 of the Western Journal of Nursing Research article, “Screening Measure for Early Detection of Depressive Symptoms: The Depressive Cognition Scale.

Doctor's Day

A conversation could save a life: "Are you OK?" Day




Hugh Jackman shows his support for R U OK?Day, a national day of action in Australia that aims to prevent suicide by encouraging people to connect with colleagues, friends and loved ones and ask simply: "Are you OK?" This may help your medical colleagues too:

Doctors' Day in a high-risk profession: suicide rate of U.S. doctors is one per day

This quote serves as a good reminder how people with depression may have an altered perception of themselves. March 30 is also National Doctors' Day in the U.S. Other countries celebrate Doctors' Day on different dates.

More than a quarter of primary care doctors reported being "burnt out." The United States loses the equivalent of at least one entire medical school class (approximately 400 physicians) each year to suicide.

In other words, 300-400 doctors in the United States kill themselves every year, or roughly 1 per day. Male doctors have suicide rates 1.4 times that of the general population, while female doctors have twice the rate of depression and 2.3 times the suicide rate when compared with women who are not physicians.





References

Writer's Almanac. NPR, 2012.
High-risk profession: Suicide rate of U.S. doctors is one per day
Help for Today's Tense, Frustrated Doctors. Medscape, 2009.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/710904
Doctors have higher rates of suicide than the general population: 40% higher for male doctors, 130% for female doctors http://goo.gl/ckTm
R U OK? Day

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The Truth About Vitamins (2004)
Are vitamins doing us any good? Could they even be dangerous?

Every year we spend £300 million on vitamin supplements, but do they actually do us any good? Some believe they offer the promise of preventing or even curing some of the world's biggest killers, such as heart disease and cancer. Others claim that taking large doses of some vitamins may in certain cases be harmful. So what are the facts?

Vitamin C, the most popular of them all
Nearly 40 years ago, one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century and double Nobel Prize winner, Linus Pauling, revolutionised the way people thought about vitamins. He claimed that by taking huge doses of vitamin C you could prevent or even cure the common cold.

He predicted that if everybody followed his advice, the common cold could even be eradicated. Many scientists dismissed his theory as quackery, but the public loved it and it helped launch a huge industry. But the latest evidence shows the great man was mistaken. Vitamin C can help you once have got a cold, but for most people it does nothing to prevent you from catching one in the first place.

Even if large doses of vitamin C do not prevent the common cold, some claim that it can still offer a more profound benefit. It is one of a group of vitamins called anti-oxidants that some believe can prevent illnesses such as cancer, Alzheimer's and heart disease.

Too much of a good thing?
In 2004, scientists in the United States claimed that people could be missing any of the potential benefits of taking one of the world's most popular anti-oxidant vitamin supplements, vitamin E, because their bodies might not be absorbing it. But our own investigation suggested that the American scientists' conclusion could be mistaken.

While most safety experts believe that vitamins C and E can be taken safely even in quite large doses, there is worrying evidence that one form of another common vitamin, vitamin A, could be linked to osteoporosis, a debilitating bone disease.

If the theory is right it means that a person's diet, or some supplements that they take every day to improve their health, could actually be slowly and silently weakening their bones

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AGAIN: All red meat is bad for you !!!

All red meat is bad for you, new study says - latimes.com

A long-term study finds that eating any amount and any type increases the risk of premature death.

Eating any amount and any type of red meat increases the risk of premature death, a new study says.


By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times
March 12, 2012


Eating red meat — any amount and any type — appears to significantly increase the risk of premature death, according to a long-range study that examined the eating habits and health of more than 110,000 adults for more than 20 years.

For instance, adding just one 3-ounce serving of unprocessed red meat — picture a piece of steak no bigger than a deck of cards — to one's daily diet was associated with a 13% greater chance of dying during the course of the study.
 
Even worse, adding an extra daily serving of processed red meat, such as a hot dog or two slices of bacon, was linked to a 20% higher risk of death during the study.

"Any red meat you eat contributes to the risk," said An Pan, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and lead author of the study, published online Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Crunching data from thousands of questionnaires that asked people how frequently they ate a variety of foods, the researchers also discovered that replacing red meat with other foods seemed to reduce mortality risk for study participants.

Eating a serving of nuts instead of beef or pork was associated with a 19% lower risk of dying during the study. The team said choosing poultry or whole grains as a substitute was linked with a 14% reduction in mortality risk; low-fat dairy or legumes, 10%; and fish, 7%.

Previous studies had associated red meat consumption with diabetes, heart disease and cancer, all of which can be fatal. Scientists aren't sure exactly what makes red meat so dangerous, but the suspects include the iron and saturated fat in beef, pork and lamb, the nitrates used to preserve them, and the chemicals created by high-temperature cooking.

The Harvard researchers hypothesized that eating red meat would also be linked to an overall risk of death from any cause, Pan said. And the results suggest they were right: Among the 37,698 men and 83,644 women who were tracked, as meat consumption increased, so did mortality risk.

In separate analyses of processed and unprocessed meats, the group found that both types appear to hasten death. Pan said that at the outset, he and his colleagues had thought it likely that only processed meat posed a health danger.

Carol Koprowski, a professor of preventive medicine at USC's Keck School of Medicine who wasn't involved in the research, cautioned that it can be hard to draw specific conclusions from a study like this because there can be a lot of error in the way diet information is recorded in food frequency questionnaires, which ask subjects to remember past meals in sometimes grueling detail.

But Pan said the bottom line was that there was no amount of red meat that's good for you.

"If you want to eat red meat, eat the unprocessed products, and reduce it to two or three servings a week," he said. "That would have a huge impact on public health."

A majority of people in the study reported that they ate an average of at least one serving of meat per day.


Pan said that he eats one or two servings of red meat per week, and that he doesn't eat bacon or other processed meats.

Cancer researcher Lawrence H. Kushi of the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland said that groups putting together dietary guidelines were likely to pay attention to the findings in the study.

"There's a pretty strong supposition that eating red meat is important — that it should be part of a healthful diet," said Kushi, who was not involved in the study. "These data basically demonstrate that the less you eat, the better."

UC San Francisco researcher and vegetarian diet advocate Dr. Dean Ornish said he gleaned a hopeful message from the study.

"Something as simple as a meatless Monday can help," he said. "Even small changes can make a difference."

Additionally, Ornish said, "What's good for you is also good for the planet."

In an editorial that accompanied the study, Ornish wrote that a plant-based diet could help cut annual healthcare costs from chronic diseases in the U.S., which exceed $1 trillion. Shrinking the livestock industry could also reduce greenhouse gas emissions and halt the destruction of forests to create pastures, he wrote. 




Also
Graphic: Effect of red meat on mortality risk
Chew on this! Critics sink their teeth into red meat study
Test-tube meat burger is in the works
'Pink slime': Revolting beef additive or absolutely edible?
PETA goes nearly nude in Vernon meat protest
Opinion: Singing the blues about red meat

Noel Bairey Merz: The single biggest health threat women face - YouTube

Noel Bairey Merz: The single biggest health threat women face - YouTube: "http://youtu.be/1bnzVjOJ6NM"

Noel Bairey Merz: The single biggest health threat women face

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 Surprising, but true: More women now die of heart disease than men, yet cardiovascular research has long focused on men. Pioneering doctor C. Noel Bairey Merz shares what we know and don't know about women's heart health -- including the remarkably different symptoms women present during a heart attack (and why they're often missed).

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well

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Red Meat Consumption Increases Risk of Early Death | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network

Red Meat Consumption Increases Risk of Early Death | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network


Red Meat Consumption Increases Risk of Early Death


By Katherine Harmon | March 12, 2012








Steak image courtesy of iStockphoto/Kativ

Over the years, eating too many burgers, steaks pork chops or other red meat products has been linked to heart disease, diabetes and some cancers. In particular, processed red meat, such as bacon, hot dogs or bologna, has especially strong links to chronic diseases.

But the latest research brings even more dire news for hardcore carnivores. In addition to increasing the odds people will get sick, red meat—whether it is processed or not—can actually increase the risk of premature death overall, according to a study that was published online March 12 in Archives of Internal Medicine.

Researchers, led by An Pan of the Harvard School of Public Health, analyzed health and diet information from more than 121,000 U.S. men and women participating in two long-term health studies. Everyone in the group the researchers assessed had been free of both heart disease and cancer at the outset of the studies.

Over long-term follow-up, as long as 28 years in some cases, more than 13,900 people died—about 9,460 from cancer and almost 6,000 from cardiovascular disease. After adjusting for other factors, the researchers found each daily serving of red meat (beef, pork, lamb or a processed meat, such as bacon, bologna, hot dog, salami or sausage), increased the risk of a premature death by about 12 percent. Processed meat consumption in particular increased these odds even more than did unprocessed meats. And hot dogs and bacon seemed to be the most likely to lead to an early death.

If everyone in the study had limited themselves to 42 grams or less of red meat a day (considered to be about half a standard serving), more than 9,860 early diet-related deaths could have been prevented in the study alone, the researchers estimated.

So if that lamb and ham are off the table, along with all the all-too familiar beef, many people worry that they might not get enough protein with each meal. Fear not, say many health experts, there are plenty of other ways to put protein on your plate that don’t come with such high risks of chronic diseases. Chicken breasts actually have more grams of protein by weight than a piece of beef, and fish isn’t too far behind. The researchers also found that beans, nuts, low-fat dairy and whole grains made for healthful replacements for a red meat meal portion.

And for folks worried about getting enough iron, excess iron from diet has actually been linked to heart attacks and fatal heart disease as well as possibly to cancer, the researchers noted.

Getting to a healthful level of red meat consumption in the U.S. might be an uphill battle. Only about 9.6 percent of the women and 22.8 percent of the men in the studies fell in the low-risk category (of a half-serving-or-less per day) for red-meat consumption.

But contrary to popular thinking, a good diet is as much about what you put in to your mouth as what you omit.

The study found that trading out a serving of red meat for fish or poultry didn’t just negate the red meat risk; rather, it actually improved people’s odds of living longer. Replacing a serving of red meat each day with fish reduced premature mortality risk by 7 percent; for poultry, the reduction was twice that: 14 percent.

Veggies are even better. “Plant-based foods are rich in phytochemicals, bioflavonoids and other substances that are protective,” wrote whole-food diet advocate Dean Ornish in a related essay also published online Monday in Archives of Internal Medicine. “So substituting healthier foods for red meat provides a double benefit to our health.”

Ornish noted that the focus for a healthful diet should be on high-quality over high-quantity: “smaller portions of good foods are more satisfying than larger portions of junk foods.” In addition, he highlights current research-based suggestions for the healthiest diet:
Little to no red meat; instead obtain protein from poultry, fish, legumes, nuts or other products
Plenty of good, whole-food carbohydrates, such as whole grains, beans, fruits and vegetables
Little processed or refined carbohydrates, such as white flour, sugar or corn syrup
Some good fats, such as omega three fatty acids that are in flax and fish oils
Little bad fats, such as hydrogenated, saturated or trans fats

Another benefit to cutting red meat consumption: dialing back out-of-control medical costs, Ornish noted. Avoiding chronic diseases linked to excess red meat consumption could decrease medical spending by billions of dollars.


About the Author: Katherine Harmon is an associate editor for Scientific American covering health, medicine and life sciences. Follow on Twitter @katherineharmon.

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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. - Albert Einstein


The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it: --Plutarch


Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
- Lao Tzu


The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself. - Giovanni Ruffini


Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. 
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


The only thing stopping you bringing Heaven to earth is your imagination & your willingness to Love all as God does.

Do not look behind you. Do not regret mistakes, but be thankful for every experience: White Eagle



Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself: 
--Robert Collier



To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God: Meister Eckhart


Make the most of the best and the least of the worst. - Robert Louis Stevenson


Do more than believe:- practice. - William Arthur Ward


The people who matter will recognise who you are. - Alan Cohen



You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong. - Warren Buffett



Love flowers after the spring time of self acceptance, after the winter that takes away the overgrown thoughts of the past.


Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us. - William James

Turn your back on pain & misery & embrace love as a way of life, the only miracle cure.
-- Dalai Lama ‏
HHDL during the Jataka Tales teaching held at the Main Tibetan Temple in Dharamsala, India, on March


Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts & in every living being: 
-- Swami Vivekananda



Our duty as men is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. - Teilhard de Chardin


The are no shortcuts to a happy relationship, the only way is through the heart of friendship.


We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated: Maya Angelou




Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. - Henry David Thoreau


Everyday, give yourself a good mental shampoo. - Dr. Sara Jordan


Know well what leads you forward & what hold you back, & choose the path that leads to wisdom:
-- Buddha


You can do it if you believe you can! - Napoleon Hill


Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. - Peter Drucker

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. - Charles F. Kettering

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant. - Anthony J. DAngelo


He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West


Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true:
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson



Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. - Edward Eggleston


Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect:.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson





Open your arms to change, but dont let go of your values. - Dalai Lama


Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself:
-- Hermann Hesse



He that does good to another does good also to himself: -- Seneca


We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration & survival: Winston Churchill


The more adept we are in cultivating altruism, the happier we will be and the better the atmosphere we will create around us.


How wise is he, who has learned to discriminate, between what to say and what to leave unsaid:

-- White Eagle

Quotes 10

More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny."
— Anthony Robbins

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."
— Dale Carnegie

"The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping."
— Dale Carnegie

"All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust."
— Dale Carnegie

"Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date."
— Dale Carnegie

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."
— Dale Carnegie

"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."
— Dale Carnegie

"It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about."
— Dale Carnegie

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
— Dale Carnegie

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
— Dale Carnegie

"You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology."
— Deepak Chopra

"There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle."
— Deepak Chopra

"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."
— Napoleon Hill

"The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun."
— Napoleon Hill

"Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true."
— Napoleon Hill

"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."
— Napoleon Hill

"Do not wait; the time will never be ''just right.'' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."
— Napoleon Hill

"Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have."
— Zig Ziglar

"A goal properly set is halfway reached."
— Zig Ziglar

"It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through."
— Zig Ziglar

"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."
— Zig Ziglar

"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."
— Zig Ziglar

"You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations."
— Zig Ziglar

"If you want to reach a goal, you must "see the reaching" in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal."
— Zig Ziglar

"Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther."
— Zig Ziglar

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"There are never enough I Love You's."
— Lenny Bruce

"Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre."
— Chet Atkins

"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves."
— Dale Carnegie

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
— Warren Buffett

"If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."
— Dale Carnegie

"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."
— Warren Buffett

"Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed. "
— Dale Carnegie

"To work is to feel alive."
— Tony Bennett

"Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by."
— Lou Holtz

"A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals."
— Larry Bird

"It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test."
— Lou Holtz

"A goal is a dream with a deadline."
— Napoleon Hill

"I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end."
— Larry Bird

"All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea."
— Napoleon Hill

"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
— John Cage

"How committed are you? There is a remarkable difference between a commitment of 99% and 100%."
— Vic Conant

"If you’ve had wonderful family relationships, you will be able to call yourself a true success in life no matter what else you’ve achieved."
— Vic Conant

"Self-managing is Job One. Have a vision and a mission. Surround yourself with talented people. Rely on effective coaching, not managing of employees."
— Tom Gegax

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do."
— Dale Carnegie

"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."
— Dale Carnegie

"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space."
— Johnny Cash

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
— Marie Curie

"Power is dangerous unless you have humility."
— Richard J. Daley

"Do not fear mistakes. There are none."
— Miles Davis

"Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art."
— Claude Debussy

"A champion is someone who gets up when he can't."
— Jack Dempsey

"Peace is a conscious choice."
— John Denver

"Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you."
— Princess Diana

"Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back."
— Princess Diana

"I am realistic - I expect miracles. "
— Wayne Dyer

"Conflict cannot survive without your participation."
— Wayne Dyer

"A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail."
— John Foster Dulles

"I had a mother who taught me there is no such thing as failure. It is just a temporary postponement of success."
— Buddy Ebsen

"Reject hatred without hating."
— Mary Baker Eddy

"Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree."
— Marian Wright Edelman

"No person has the right to rain on your dreams."
— Marian Wright Edelman

"If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelet."
— Anthony Eden

"Be courageous! Have faith! Go Forward!"
— Thomas A. Edison

"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."
— Duke Ellington

"Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant."
— Epictetus

"No great thing is created suddenly. "
— Epictetus

"You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea."
— Medgar Evers

"Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas."
— Harvey S. Firestone

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."
— Ella Fitzgerald

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self-observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving. A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation-to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe."
— Jon Kabat-Zinn

"The only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or emotion, or respond to an event, or grow, or heal, is this moment, because this is the only moment any of us ever gets. You’re only here now; you’re only alive in this moment."
— Jon Kabat-Zinn

"We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become."
— David R. Hawkins

"Simple kindness to one's self and all that lives is the most powerful transformational force of all."
— David R. Hawkins

"Everything you see happening is the consequence of that which you are."
— David R. Hawkins

"Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us."
— Stuart Wilde

"Knowledge is power. The more knowledge, expertise, and connections you have, the easier it is for you to make a profit at the game of your choice."
— Stuart Wilde

"Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow"
— Robert Kiyosaki

"The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most"
— Robert Kiyosaki

"Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on."
— Maxwell Maltz

"Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving."
— Maxwell Maltz

"Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act."
— Maxwell Maltz

"The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world."
— Marianne Williamson

"We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present."
— Marianne Williamson

"The only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or emotion, or respond to an event, or grow, or heal, is this moment, because this is the only moment any of us ever gets. You’re only here now; you’re only alive in this moment."
— Marianne Williamson

"Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided."
— Anthony Robbins

"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."
— Anthony Robbins

"There's always a way - if you're committed."
— Anthony Robbins

"More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny."
— Anthony Robbins

quotes 8

"Dreams are the wanderings of the spirit though all nine heavens and all nine earths."
— Lu Yen

"Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin."
— Saadi

"Chase your passion, not your pension."
— Denis Waitley

"I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."
— Saint Francis of Assisi

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you."
— Denis Waitley

"Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach your destiny."
— Carl Schurz

"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit."
— Robert Shaffer

"Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods."
— Denis Waitley

"The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles."
— William Penn

"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions."
— John A. Simone Jr

"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic."
— Jean Sibelius

"Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed."
— George Bernard Shaw

"I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best."
— Townes Van Zandt

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare

"Without deviation progress is not possible."
— Frank Zappa

"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other."
— Donald G. Smith

"Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially."
— David Bach

"Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes."
— Zig Ziglar

"Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit."
— Andrei Sakharov

"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."
— Carl Sandburg

"The more I study the wealthy.. in an effort to learn how to help more people around the world become one of them.. I’m stunned by how many people are actually not rich."
— David Bach

"Most people have to talk so they won't hear."
— May Sarton

"A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

"The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers."
— Brian Tracy

"Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects."
— Sima Qian

"Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have."
— Brian Tracy

"All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary."
— Sally Ride

"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself."
— Wayne Dyer

"Don't let other people tell you what you want."
— Pat Riley

"Only the insecure strive for security."
— Wayne Dyer

"A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend to act on. But you can't have a goal you don't intend to act on."
— Tom Morris

"A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided."
— Tony Robbins

"In imagination, there's no limitation."
— Mark Victor Hansen

"Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are."
— Maxwell Maltz

"When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it."
— Mark Victor Hansen

"For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination."
— Maxwell Maltz

"Whatever you're ready for is ready for you."
— Mark Victor Hansen

"If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone."
— Maxwell Maltz

"The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. "
— Deepak Chopra

"Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward."
— Maxwell Maltz

"Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become."
— Maxwell Maltz

"The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years. "
— Deepak Chopra

"To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior."
— Maxwell Maltz

"Be smart, be intelligent and be informed."
— Tony Alessandra

"A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do."
— Marilyn Manson

"If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search."
— Sir John Templeton

"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind."
— Bob Marley

"The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today."
— Les Brown

"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."
— Isaac Newton

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."
— Les Brown

"We build too many walls and not enough bridges."
— Isaac Newton

"Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality."
— Les Brown

"Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps."
— Saul Bellow

"The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing. "
— Michael E. Gerber

"All of us need to grow continuously in our lives."
— Les Brown

"Honor your commitments with integrity."
— Les Brown

"Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers."
— Anthony Robbins

"If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams."
— Les Brown

"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown."
— Denis Waitley

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
— Les Brown

"A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come. "
— Denis Waitley

"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
— Les Brown

"All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence. "
— Denis Waitley

"We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams."
— Les Brown

"Don't be a blueprint. Be an original."-- Roy Acuff