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Ripe with potential
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Enjoy beauty anywhere you can experience it. Take inspiration wherever you encounter it.

Embrace meaningful challenge when you come across it. Give love as you have the opportunity to offer it.

The moments always coming your way are ripe with potential. Keep your regrets to a bare minimum by seeing and fulfilling as much of that potential as you can.

When you have the chance to satisfy your curiosity, do so. Ask questions, seek answers, admit what you don’t know, and set about to learn it.

Appreciate the unique value of each person who comes into your life. Rather than wishing for people to be or to act exactly how you want, rejoice in the distinctive treasure of the way they actually are.

The magnificent potential of life exists for you, right here, right now. Live it as it comes, and live it well.

— Ralph Marston

Power of transformation
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Even when the world feels like it’s falling apart, you can marvel at its beauty and wonder. Even when chaos and tumult are all around, you can carry peace in your heart.

From that potential for peace and beauty come hope and positive possibility. Again and again, such hope arises to do its magnificent work.

In the midst of utter confusion and disarray, you can construct a small sanctuary of order. Little by little, you can build upon that order to create reliable structure, meaning, and opportunity.

In even the most futile situation, you are capable of acting with grace, integrity, love, and joy. It’s an astonishing power you can exercise every day.

When you do, it makes a difference, for you, for those around you, for your world. Nothing is more fulfilling, nothing is more deeply desirable than that.

Whatever the time, whatever the circumstance, you harbor within you the power of transformation. Every time you make good use of it you add your own special richness to life.

— Ralph Marston

Increase your strength
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Think clear, purposeful thoughts, and grow in strength. Take effective, persistent actions and grow in strength.

Strength is built over time. That makes every stretch of time an opportunity for increasing your strength.

Through your encounters with others, you can build strength. In dealing with problems, you become stronger.

The stronger you become, on the inside and outwardly, the more valuable options you have. Strength enables you to give genuine goodness in great measure to life.

Physically, mentally, financially, socially, spiritually, and in every domain of life, strength empowers. Look each day for steps you can follow to gain strength and take those opportunities.

No matter where you start, you can always grow in strength. Continue to increase your strength, and with that strength keep adding new value to all of life.

— Ralph Marston

It all comes back
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The most profound joy is in giving joy. The most inescapable pain is to cause pain.

Your actions affect your own life in the manner and to the cumulative degree they affect others. That can be a beautiful experience or a terrible, unbearable one, depending on the nature of those actions.

Offer to the world whatever you seek to obtain. Amplify the goodness accessible to you by sharing it far beyond you.

Be mindful of the very real and enduring connection between you and all of life. Wherever else your behavior is directed, it is surely directed also at you.

Make wise and beneficial use of the connectedness that is always present in life. Act as if anything that flows out from you flows back in even greater measure, for that is certainly the case.

Send out love, courage, joy, meaning. It all comes back to you.

— Ralph Marston