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Meditation Prompt  Motivational Quotes
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

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Appendix / Words

Meditation Prompt Motivational Quotes
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