'I am, therefore I'll think.' --- Ayn Rand

welcome to the Front Porch. What a guest list!!

Some of the famous and some of the obscure provide you a powerful, succinct tapestry designed to give you an owner's manual for your mind and your life---this is a keeper to be read time and time again!

Originally assembled in the "Pinnacle Living Learning System" pub circa 2002.
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"Some men seem to attract success, power, wealth, attainment, with very little conscious effort; others conquer with great difficulty; still other fail altogether to reach their ambitions, desires and ideals. Why is this so?

"Why should some men realize their ambitions easily, others with difficulty, and still others not at all?

"The cause cannot be physical, else the most perfect men, physically, would be the most successful.

"The difference, therefore, must be mental---must be in the mind; hence mind must be the creative force, must constitute the sole difference, between men. It is mind, therefore, which overcomes environment and every other obstacle in the path of men."

**** Charles F. Haanel, THE MASTER KEY


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"Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes OTHER THAN HIS OWN STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS. All that befalls a man---all that comes from him---happens as a result of his state of consciousness. A man's consciousness is all that he thinks and desires and loves, all that he believes is true and consents to. That is why a change of consciousness is necessary before you can change your outer world."

**** Neville, THE POWER OF AWARENESS


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"You can bring into your life more power, more wealth, more health, more happiness, and more joy by learning to contact and release the power of your subconscious mind.

"You need not acquire this power; you already possess it. But, you want to learn how to use it; you want to understand it so that you can apply it in all departments of your life."

**** Dr. Joseph Murphy, THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND


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"Today, the single greatest source of wealth is (located) between your ears. Today, wealth is contained in brainpower, not brute power."

**** Brian Tracy


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"That choice---the dedication to one's highest potential---is made by accepting the fact that the noblest act you have ever performed is the act of your mind in the process of grasping that that two and two make four...Accept the irrevocable fact that your life depends on your mind...the choice is...to declare 'I am, therefore I'll think.' "

**** Ayn Rand, ATLAS SHRUGGED


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"I do not know what I appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a prettier shell or smoother pebble than ordinary while the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.
**** Sir Isaac Newton


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"An uneaxamined life is not worth living." ****Socrates
"An unplanned life is not worth examining." ****Aristotle
"What you think you would seem to be, be really." ****Benjamin Franklin


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"A self is an idea that awareness is availing itself for the purpose of experiencing certain other ideas. It's the bubble you view other bubbles from." **** Harry Palmer

"You can create the energy to turn your dreams into reality, by knowing what to say when you talk to yourself." **** Shad Helmstetter

"As a man thinketh, so will he be." ****The Holy Bible


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"A lot of folks have developed the 'after' theory of happiness. According to the 'after' line of reasoning, happiness comes after---after your workload gets lighter. After you get out of some difficulty. After you finish school or get promoted.

"But like tomorrow, 'after' never comes.

"Happiness, if we are to experience it, must come 'now' and from things which make up 'now.' To state it more precisely, happiness---and sadness--are manufactured. Your psychic machinery makes happiness or sadness. If you want to be happy you must decide boldly and frankly, 'I choose to be happy right now.' Again, condition your psyche. Prove to yourself you are happy and you are."
**** David J. Schwartz, THE MAGIC OF SELF DIRECTION


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"No bird soars too high, if he soars on his own wings." **** William Blake

"Every man is the painter and sculptor of his own life." **** St. John Chrysostom

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
****Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice." **** William James

"The truth will set you free." **** John 8:32

"The great end of life is not knowledge but action." **** Thomas Henry Huxley

"Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
**** Thomas Edison


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"You see, each of us shapes his own life. And the shapes of them are, and will be, determined by our attitude, the attitude we hold most of the day! Sounds simple, doesn't it? But it's not quite that easy. For most of us, learning this new habit takes time. But once it's mastered, your daily life will become as different as it it to walk out of the dark, into the clear, bright light of day." **** Earl Nightingale, LEAD THE FIELD


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"Hear Reason, or she'll make you feel her." **** Benjamin Franklin

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"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it."
**** Mary Engelbreit

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"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability." ****Henry F. Banks

"Most do not fully see this truth, that life is difficult. Instead they moan, more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not and that somehow has been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, or even their species, and not upon others. I know this moaning because I have done my share. Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them? Do we want to teach our children to solve them?" **** M. Scott Peck, THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED


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"Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion. Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. Plough deep while Sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and keep." **** Benjamin Franklin

"Cleanse your mind of all weird and superstitious beliefs about money. Do not ever regard money as evil or filthy. If you do, you cause it to take wings and fly away from you. Remember that you lose what you condemn. You cannot attract what you criticize." **** Dr. Jodeph Murphy, THE POWER OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND


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"Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future. You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity, and the sour sound of whining will certainly frighten away any opportunity for success. Never again. There is a better way." **** Og Mandino, A BETTER WAY TO LIVE


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"To find happiness you must know how your unique emotional nature responds to things. You must observe and take seriously your own emotional reactions. For if you attempt to fit your emotions to a preconceived standard, you lose touch with yourself and blind yourself to the most important part of yourself---to what would make you happy.

"If you do that, there's no reason to be surprised if doing the 'good' things doesn't produce great joy for you. Life will be relatively tastelss, gray, and boring if you deny the very emotions that are telling you what makes life joyous and exciting...if you refuse to recognize emotions, you're acting at cross-purposes with yourself. You're denying you." ****Harry Bowne, HOW I LEARNED TO FIND FREEDOM IN AN UNFREE WORLD


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"I read somewhere that the sun's getting hotter every year, " said Tom, genially. "It seems that pretty soon the earth's going to fall into the sun---or wait a minute---it's just the opposite---the sun's getting colder ever year."
****F. Scott Fitzgerald, THE GREAT GATSBY

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"Life is sweet. But you could spend a long time reading, going to the movies and watching TV and not hear this mentioned...Right now, at the end of the Second Millenium, is the best moment of all time, and, right here in the United States, is the best place to be at that moment. And do I hark to the sounds of glee echoing against purple mountains' majesty and rolling across the fruited plains? No, I hear America whining, crybaby to the world...A colossus that stood astride the earth now lies on the floor pounding its fists and kicking its feet, transformed into a fussy pants and a sputter-budget...Everybody wants to save the earth. Nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes." P. J. O'Rourke, ALL THE TROUBLE IN THE WORLD

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"Truth is not a half-way place." **** Robert LeFevre

"Tim was so learned, he could name a horse in nine languages. So ignorant, he bought a cow to ride on."
****Benjamin Franklin

"He that resolves to mend hereafter,resolves not to mend now." **** Benjamin Franklin

"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves, otherwise we harden." **** Goethe

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost." **** Thomas Watson

"Fall seven times. Stand up eight." **** Japanese Proverb


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