Steve Maraboli: Life, the Truth, and Being FreeA Better Today Publishing After over a decade of captivating audiences and readers world-wide, Steve Maraboli re-releases this "Steve 101" style book which is sure to ignite that fire within. The select pieces included in this book span over a decade of Steve's words. Some pieces have been individually published around the world in more than 20 languages. This is a must-read celebration of the empowered mind. |
When you do what you love, the seemingly impossible becomes simply challenging, the laborious becomes purposeful resistance, the difficult loses its edge and is trampled by your progress.
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I've learned that empowered thinking is a choice - a state of mind. It's the ability to enjoy a rose with no mind of the thorn. It's the ability to celebrate a life even though it has passed. It's seeing the flowers even during a rainstorm.
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Sometimes the prison of fear is so powerful there's no need to lock the cell doors. Your fear creates a willingness to self-imprison.
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When you're ready to make the change and you don't feel that you have the strength, know that you are connected with the same strength that moves the world; you just have to stop turning your back on it and connect with it.
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A wrong turn doesn`t end the journey. If you feel lost, just look at your map and get back on the road. The map will always lead you in the right direction.
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It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime. We should all smile more often.
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How would your life change if your actions did all the talking and all you used your mouth for was to say please and thank you?
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Identify the things and people that make you feel unhappy and eliminate them from your life. Nothing good can come from them.
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Listen to what others have to say. When you speak, you're only repeating things you already know. When you listen you learn.
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Love has no limitations. It cannot be measured. It has no boundaries. Although many have tried, love is indefinable.
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Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose.
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Have a goal, a destination and a clear map. If you don't know where you are going any road will take you there.
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The true dynamic of a successful friendship and relationship is when the respect is mutual and reciprocal.
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We will get true and lasting change as soon as we make helping people a way of life instead of a business.
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I'm not saying it's wrong to plan for the future. I'm warning not to make today a victim of those plans.
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