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The quality you put in
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Know where you want to go. Start where you are.

Understand what is necessary. Make use of what you have.

Invest the time as it comes your way. Persist until you reach your objective.

Learn from every consequence. Improve with every effort.

Success is not a foregone conclusion. Yet it is well within your reach.

Life is largely a matter of what you do with it, moment upon moment, day after day. The quality you’re willing to put in determines the quality you’re able to experience.

— Ralph Marston

Are you, can you, will you?
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Life has something important to tell you. Are you listening?

Today contains valuable opportunities, some of which will never exist again. Are you prepared to act on them?

Wonder and beauty surround you. Are you attuned to them, and open to being inspired?

Problems, obstacles, and challenges constantly arise. Can you appreciate and embrace their value?

People are impossible to fully understand. Can you love them for who they are?

There’s so much to learn, to experience, to work through, to give. Will you?

— Ralph Marston

From the heart
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Speak from the heart, and even when your facts are not completely accurate, you’ll speak the truth. Live from the heart, and no matter what kind of world you encounter, you’ll find your way forward.

In your heart is wisdom you cannot fully articulate but you wouldn’t ever want to be without. In your heart are constant reminders of who you are and all you care about.

Your mind is superb at figuring out how to get there. It’s your heart, however, that knows where to go.

As the years go on, memories become faded and confused. Yet what has reached into your heart remains undiminished by the passage of time.

Watch life with your eyes, and see with your heart. Listen with your ears, and understand with your heart.

Fashion your moments from the perspective of your richest, most enduring treasures. Live life from the heart.

— Ralph Marston

What you find
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How do you find the best job, the best partner, a good home, a good community? How do you find good customers, clients, employees, suppliers?

How do you find people who are honest, competent, and intelligent? How do you find friends who are truthful, loyal, and sincere?

How do you find all the many people, places, and things in life that enable you to make a good life? You find them by virtue of the way you live.

What you find is what you are. Live each day with honesty, conduct every interaction with honesty, and you find honesty.

Invest time and effort to build your competence, and others with competence are attracted to you. Place great value on respect, integrity, and peacefulness, and you’ll be surrounded by those qualities in abundance.

What you find is driven by the way you are, most genuinely, most consistently. Take good care of your innermost truth, because it is faithfully echoed throughout your world.

— Ralph Marston