WORKBOOK 1.0
Appendix / Words
Meditation Prompt | Motivational Quotes |
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1 / Patience | “The strongest of all warriors are these two—time and patience.” —Leo Tolstoy |
2 / Beauty | “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” —Confucius |
3 / Courage | “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” —Winston Churchill |
4 / Adventure | “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson |
5 / Efficiency | “We shall need a substantially new way of thinking If humanity is to survive.” —Albert Einstein |
6 / Spontaneity | “How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!” —Jane Austen |
7 / Honesty | “A lie stands on one leg, truth on two. Honesty is the best policy.” —Benjamin Franklin |
8 / Release | “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.” —Frank Herbert |
9 / Obedience | “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” —Pablo Picasso |
10 / Truth | “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” —Albert Einstein |
11 / Education | “Education is the movement from darkness to light.” —Allan Bloom |
12 / Openness | “Honesty, transparency and openness bring peace of mind.” —Dalai Lama |
13 / Trust | “He who does not trust enough will not be trusted.” —Lao Tzu |
14 / Responsible | “Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.” —George Washington |
15 / Delight | “Everything in moderation . . . including moderation.” —Julia Child |
16 / Loyalty | “If by my life or death I can protect you, I will.” —J.R.R. Tolkien |
17 / Power | “Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.” —Walt Whitman |
18 / Enthusiasm | “You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.” —Colette |
19 / Forgive | “To err is human, to forgive, divine.” —Alexander Pope |
20 / Purpose | “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” —John Muir |
21 / Simplicity | “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” —Confucius |
22 / Faith | “All the world is made of faith, trust, and pixie dust.” —J.M. Barrie |
23 / Integrity | “Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson |
24 / Purification | “Solitude is the place of purification.” —Martin Buber |
25 / Inspiration | “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” —Vincent Van Gogh |
26 / Peace | “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” —Buddha |
27 / Freedom | “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” —Robert Frost |
28 / Play | “Life itself is the proper binge.” —Julia Child |
29 / Harmony | “With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.” —William Wordsworth |
30 / Balance | “Let Food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” —Hippocrates |
31 / Light | “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” —Aristotle |
32 / Transform | “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” —Buckminster Fuller |
33 / Synthesis | “A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.” —Buckminster Fuller |
34 / Grace | “You are so weak. Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.” —Rumi |
35 / Communication | “Music is the universal language of mankind.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
36 / Willingness | “You need the willingness to fail all the time.” —John Backus |
37 / Birth | “My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.” —William Blake |
38 / Expectancy | “I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.” —Anais Nin |
39 / Understanding | “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” —Albert Einstein |
40 / Surrender | “The greatness of a man’s power is the measure of his surrender.” —William Booth |
41 / Flexibility | “Develop flexibility and you will be firm; cultivate yielding and you will be strong.” —Liezi |
42 / Tenderness | “The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands.” —Carolyn Forché |
43 / Strength | “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.” —Mahatma Gandhi |
44 / Clarity | “Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.” —Oscar Wilde |
45 / Journey | “Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” —Albert Camus |
46 / Solitude | “Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.” —Marcel Proust |
47 / Flow | “Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.” —Norman Maclean |
48 / Nurture | “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” —Carl Jung |
49 / Abundance | “Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.” —Epicurus |
50 / Hope | “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” —Desmond Tutu |
51 / Acceptance | “Happiness can exist only in acceptance.” —George Orwell |
52 / Laughter | “The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.” —Mark Twain |
53 / Tolerance | “The highest result of education is tolerance.” —Helen Keller |
54 / Content | “He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.” —Socrates |
55 / Warmth | “What good is the warmth of summer without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” —John Steinbeck |
56 / Reflection | “May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” —Nelson Mandela |
WORKBOOK 2.0
Appendix / Words
Meditation Prompt | Motivational Quotes |
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1 / Searching | “You’re gonna be happy,’ said life, ‘but first I’ll make you strong.” —Chavela Vargas |
2 / Love Affair | “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” —William Shakespeare |
3 / Indecision | “Having made the decision, do not revise it unless some new fact comes to your knowledge. Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.” —Bertrand Russell |
4 / Family | “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” —Richard Bach |
5 / Restless | “…and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still.” —Hermann Hesse |
6 / Peacemaker | “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.” —Aristotle |
7 / Spiritual Love | “The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning.” —Marilyn Ferguson |
8 / Emotional Power | “The best things in life make you sweaty.” —Edgar Allan Poe |
9 / Connection | “I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.” —Walt Whitman |
10 / Social Success | “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.” —Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
11 / Winter | “Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.” —Sinclair Lewis |
12 / Spring | “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” —Percy Bysshe Shelley |
13 / Summer | “In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” —Albert Camus |
14 / Autumn | “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” —L.M. Montgomery |
15 / Mother | “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” —Honoré De Balzac |
16 / Father | “A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.” —Frank A. Clark |
17 / Knowledge | “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” —Benjamin Franklin |
18 / Conversation | “Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.” —Hermann Hesse |
19 / Writer | “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” —Ernest Hemingway |
20 / Satisfaction | “Nothing is worth more than this day.” —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
21 / Monkey Mind | “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.” —Bertrand Russell |
22 / Higher Purpose | “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” —Friedrich Nietzsche |
23 / Manifest Spirit | “All art forms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.” —Bertolt Brecht |
24 / Challenge | “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” —Samuel Beckett |
25 / Giver | “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” —Charles Dickens |
26 / Learn | “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.” —Franz Kafka |
27 / Create | “You don’t make art out of good intentions.” —Gustave Flaubert |
28 / Intuition | “The only real valuable thing is intuition.” —Albert Einstein |
29 / Guru | “The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.” —Anton Chekhov |
30 / Money | “The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.” —Andrew Carnegie |
31 / Success | “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” —Henry Ford |
32 / Undecided | “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” —Charles Dickens |
33 / Hard Work | “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” —Sigmund Freud |
34 / Sales | “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.” —Edgar Allan Poe |
35 / Order | “Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.” —Thomas Mann |
36 / Ideas | “If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.” —Henry Ford |
37 / Great Heights | “Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.” —Andrew Carnegie |
38 / Generous | “Generosity is giving more than you can.” —Khalil Gibran |
39 / Blessed | “I am rooted, but I flow.” —Virginia Woolf |
40 / Instincts | “Man is what he believes.” —Anton Chekhov |
41 / Innovative | “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” —André Gide |
42 / Leader | “The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.” —Fyodor Dostoevsky |
43 / Ambition | “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” —Thomas Edison |
44 / Friendship | “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” —Jim Morrison |
45 / Artist | “The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” —Friedrich Nietzche |
46 / Passionate | “We must act out passion before we can feel it.” —Jean-Paul Sartre |
47 / Wanderer | “My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.” —Marcel Proust |
48 / Path | “It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.” —Ram Dass |
49 / Emerge | “Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.” —Helen Keller |
50 / Wonder | “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” —Gustave Flaubert |
51 / Youth | “Youth is wasted on the young.” —George Bernard Shaw |
52 / Aging | “I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.” —Virginia Woolf |
53 / Student | “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” —Alexander Graham Bell |
54 / Apprentice | “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
55 / Initiation | “Shut your eyes and see.” —James Joyce |
56 / Master | “Inspiration is God making contact with itself.” —Ram Dass |