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Life’s magnificent bargain
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Don’t shy away from life’s challenges. Those challenges are precisely where you will find new richness.

The more difficult something is to accomplish or acquire, the greater value it has. The more trouble you must endure and the more resources you must expend, the more you will treasure the results.

Difficult times are the times when you grow strong. Challenging efforts are the ones that force you to become more capable.

By its very nature, adventure is not easy. And you certainly deserve a life of adventure.

So accept the challenges and agree to the terms of life’s magnificent bargain. Go to the trouble, put up with the inconveniences, deal with the difficulties, and claim your greatest rewards.

Even life’s worst moments provide you the opportunity to give your best. Take that opportunity every time.

— Ralph Marston

Start anew
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It’s always too late to start over. But it’s never too late to start anew.

You can’t undo what’s already been done. Yet there’s so much more you can do going forward.

Be real, be honest, be completely upfront with yourself. Embrace your mistakes, embrace your desires, embrace what you really, truly love and value.

Let yourself feel what you’ve always wanted to feel. Find a way to say all the things you’ve ever wanted to say.

Just because time has passed doesn’t mean anything meaningful has been lost. You are still very much you, and you are able, right now, to live that reality.

Whatever opportunities you’ve lost have made way for the opportunity that is now. And that makes this moment the most valuable and meaningful opportunity ever.

— Ralph Marston

Those who win
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You don’t win by trying to win. You win by doing something useful, valuable, helpful.

You don’t win by being popular. You win by being good.

You don’t win by putting others down. You win by lifting up as many people as you can.

You don’t win by saying you care. You win by putting your care into effective action.

You don’t win by controlling others. You win by exercising positive, purposeful control over yourself.

All the world benefits from those who win. Be a real winner, again and again, and make life better for everyone.

— Ralph Marston

Live in the power of love
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Don’t let your love be limited by your life. Don’t let it be limited by your fear, or by discomfort, or by desire, or by time.

Let love be as big as it can be, as big as it is. Let it go far beyond any place you would ever consider bringing it or sending it.

Find the courage, the faith, the humility to let love overwhelm you. Grow in strength by going where love pushes you to go.

Seek not to confine love in any plan or person or object or idea. Allow your love to be everywhere, and it will fill voids you never knew were there.

Learn from love. Live what you learn, give all you are, love more, learn more, live more.

Live in the power of love. And experience the best of all that is.

— Ralph Marston