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We Can Choose To Function At A Lower Level Of Awareness And Simply Exist, Caring For Our Possessions, Eating, Drinking, Sleeping And Managing In The World As Pawns Of The Elements, Or We Can Soar To New And Higher Levels Of Awareness Allowing Ourselves To Transcend Our Environment And Literally Create A World Of Our Own - A World Of Real Magic.
-Wayne Dyer
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Wayne Dyer
We Can Choose To Function At A Lower Level Of Awareness And Simply Exist, Caring For Our Possessions, Eating, Drinking, Sleeping And Managing In The World As Pawns Of The Elements, Or We Can Soar To New And Higher Levels Of Awareness Allowing Ourselves To Transcend Our Environment And Literally Create A World Of Our Own - A World Of Real Magic.
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Every Thought You Have Affects Everything In Your Body.
Body
Your Body
Take Some Time To Be Silent And Repeat The Sound Of God As An Inner Mantra. Meditation Allows You To Make Conscious Contact With Your Source And Achieve Success In Every Area. If A Problem Arises, Then Go Within, Get Very Quiet About It And Find The Answers Inside Of You
Meditation
Sound
Answers
There's Only One Boss In Your Life . . . And That's You! The Person Looking Back In The Mirror At You Is The One You Have To Answer To Every Day.
Motivational
Mirrors
Boss
You Do Not Fail In Life, You Only Produce Results, And You Have The Right To Learn And Grow From Any Results That You Produce.
Personal Growth
Failing
Results
Your Children Are Not Your Children, They Come Through You, But They Are Life Itself, Wanting To Express Itself.
Children
Parenting
Parenthood
Happiness Is Something That You Are, And It Comes From The Way You Think.
Happiness
Thinking
Way
The Highest Form Of Ignorance Is When You Reject Something You Don't Know Anything About.
Karma
Clever
Ignorance
I Try To Stop Myself From Getting Frustrated. I'm Not A Hundred Percent Successful, But I'm A Thousand Times Better Than I Used To Be. Anyone Who's Angry, Nasty Or Rude Is Really Offering A Plea To Be Loved. I Play A Game With Myself, Trying To Convert Them From What I Call Low-energy Emotions That Drain Us - Frustration, Irritation, Anger And Impatience - Into High-energy Emotions That Sustain Us - Love, Caring, Kindness.
Kindness
Successful
Caring
The Child In You, Like All Children, Loves To Laugh, To Be Around People Who Can Laugh At Themselves And Life. Children Instinctively Know That The More Laughter We Have In Our Lives, The Better.
Laughter
Children
People
You Never Need To Defend Yourself Or Your Desires To Anyone, As Those Inner Feelings Are Spirit Speaking To You. Those Thoughts Are Sacred, So Don't Ever Let Anyone Trample On Them.
Feelings
Desire
Needs
There Is Nothing Your Highest Self Wants More Than Peace.
Self
Want
Highest
Be In A State Of Gratitude For Everything That Shows Up In Your Life. Be Thankful For The Storms As Well As The Smooth Sailing. What Is The Lesson Or Gift In What You Are Experiencing Right Now? Find Your Joy Not In What's Missing In Your Life But In How You Can Serve.
Gratitude
Smooth Sailing
Being Thankful
Always Had The Thought I Could Attract Abundance. When I Wrote The Book Your Erroneous Zones Back In The '70s, I Absolutely Knew The Book Was Going To Do Well, But It Wasn't A Goal At All. I Just Went Out There And Started Doing Something I Really Loved.
Book
Goal
Abundance
Being Infinitely Patient Means Having An Absolute Knowing That You're In Vibrational Harmony With The All-creating Force That Intended You Here. You Know That Everything Will Happen At Just The Right Time, At Just The Right Place, With Just The Right People.
Mean
Creating
Knowing
Have Faith That God Won't Send You Anything You're Incapable Of Handling. You Can Decide That The Word Fear Is An Acronym For... False Evidence Appearing Real.
Faith
Real
Acronyms
There Are No Justified Resentments.
Resentment
Justified
I Say No To Doubt And Yes To Life!
Doubt
Affirmation
Positive Affirmations
Send Out Judgment And Low Energy And That Is What You'll Attract Back. Remember, When You Judge Another, You Do Not Define Them, You Define Yourself As Someone Who Needs To Judge. The Same Applies To Judgments Directed At You.
Judging
Energy
Needs
I Have Found That The More I Get My Ego Out Of A Picture And The More I Think About How Can I Serve Other People Instead Of Always Thinking About Me, The More Miracles Show Up.
Thinking
People
Miracle
We Become What We Think About All Day Long. The Qustion Is, "what Do You Think About?"
Famous Inspirational
Thinking
Long
Peace Can Be A Lens Through Which You See The World. Be It. Live It. Radiate It Out. Peace Is An Inside Job.
Life
Jobs
Lenses
One Of The Most Responsible Things You Can Do As An Adult Is To Become More Of A Child.
Happiness
Children
Joy
I Think The Most Common Meme Is That It's Too Difficult To Change. It's Too Risky To Change. My Nature Doesn't Allow Me To Change.
Thinking
Common
Difficult
The Part Of You That Is Real, That Is Authentic, Was Never Born And Never Dies. It Is Infinite. See Yourself As An Infinite Being.
Real
Infinite
Born
Research At The Subatomic Quantum Level Reveals An Invisible Connection Between All Particles And All Members Of A Given Species. This Oneness Is Being Demonstrated In Remarkable Scientific Discoveries. The Findings Show That Physical Distance, What We Think Of As Empty Space, Does Not Preclude A Connection By Invisible Forces. Obviously There Exist Invisible Connections Between Our Thoughts And Our Actions. We Do Not Deny This, Even Though The Connection Is Impervious To Our Senses.
Distance
Thinking
Discovery
The Biggest Questions That Always Have Perplexed Me Are "where Do I Come From?" And "where Am I Going?"
Perplexed
No One Knows Enough To Be A Pessimist
Spiritual
Philosophical
Enough
When You Say Yes To Life, You Attract Divine Guidance. When You're Inspired, You're Collaborating With Fate. Everything Starts Working For You.
Fate
Inspired
Guidance
The Moment Is All There Is Now. All There Is Is Now. That's What God Is, Too. God Is Only Now.
Moments
Goal Setting Is Fine If You Want To Be The Warrior Archetype. These People Are Setting Goals Constantly And Trying To Get Someplace Else. They Say, "if You Don't Know Where You Are Going, Then You Won't Know When You Get There." When You Get To A Higher Level Of Consciousness, Though, When You Get Into A Spiritual Approach To Life, You Are Not Trying To Get Someplace Else, Because You Never Can Get It Done. You Never Are Going To Get There. Instead, What You Want To Do Is Get To A Place Where You Are At Peace. You Are Connected To God.
Spiritual
Warrior
Goal
Enjoy The Moment, Because That Is All You Have. You Never Are Going To Arrive Someplace Else. You Are In A Constant State Of Living In This Moment, And That Is The Only Arrival There Is. In Fact, You Will Arrive When You Stop Trying To Get Someplace Else.
Trying
Facts
Moments
Judgements Prevent Us From Seeing The Good That Lies Beyond Appearances.
Lying
Judging
Racism
When Your Inner Mantra Becomes 'how May I Serve?' Rather Than 'what Am I Going To Get?' And 'who Do I Need To Defeat?,' You Start To See The Unfolding Of God In Everything And Everyone Around You And You Shift Into Higher Consciousness.
Needs
May
Consciousness
An Infinity Of Forest Lies Dormant Within The Dreams On One Acorn.
Inspirational
Dream
Lying
You've Been Provided With A Perfect Body To House Your Soul For A Few Brief Moments In Eternity. So Regardless Of Its Size, Shape, Color, Or Any Imagined Infirmities, You Can Honor The Temple That Houses You By Eating Healthfully, Exercising, Listening To Your Body's Needs, And Treating It With Dignity And Love.
Exercise
Color
Perfect
If You Choose To Lead Your Life Just Like Everyone Else, Then What Exactly Is It That You Have To Offer?
Exactly Is
Offers
You Choose
The Purpose Of Life Is To Be Happy. I Don't Think It's Any More Complicated Than That. It's Also Important Not To Interfere With Anybody Else's Right To Do The Same. We Just Need To Practice That. It's The Golden Rule.
Thinking
Practice
Important
Relationships Based On Obligation Lack Dignity.
Love
Relationship
Inspiring
Choosing To Be Kind Is Also A Choice To Make The Power Of Intention Active In Your Life. The Beneficial Effects Of Kindness On The Immune System And The Increased Production Of Serotonin Have Been Proven. Conversely, Unkindness Weakens The Body And Puts Us Into A State Of Dissonance. So Extend Acts Of Kindness; Ask For Nothing In Return.
Kindness
Choices
Be Kind
See The Genius In Everyone You Encounter. Just As The Mountain Cannot Crack A Nut Though It Can Carry A Forest On Its Back, So Too Does Every Living Creature Have Its Own Perfection Built Into It.
Inspiration
Nuts
Perfection
Attitude Is Everything, So Pick A Good One
Attitude
Attitude Is Everything
Picks
If You Say To The Universe Again And Again, "how May I Serve? How May I Serve? How May I Serve?" And You Live A Life Of Constancy Reflecting That Principle, The Universe Will Respond Back, "how May I Serve You?"
Universe
Remain Faithful To The Light... Remember, The Sun Is Shining Behind The Clouds.
Faith
Clouds
Light
Too Often We Jump To The Conclusion That Something Is Impossible Simply Because We Cannot See The Solution. No One Knows Enough To Be A Pessimist.
Optimistic
Impossible
Enough
Change Your Inner Thoughts To The Higher Frequencies Of Love, Harmony, Kindness, Peace, And Joy, And You'll Attract More Of The Same.
Kindness
Joy
Harmony
Everything That You Want To Create Is Already There. Your Job Is To Connect Yourself To It.
Jobs
Want
...thinking From The End Causes Me To Behave As If All That I'd Like To Create Is Already Here. My Credo Is: Imagine Myself To Be And I Shall Be, And It's An Image That I Keep With Me At All Times.
Creativity
Thinking
Imagination
How People Treat You Is Their Karma; How You React Is Yours. Maxim For Life: You Get Treated In Life The Way You Teach People To Treat You. If You Change The Way You Look At Things, The Things You Look At Change. When You Judge Another, You Do Not Define Them, You Define Yourself.
Karma
People
Judging
If You Want To Feel Connected To Your Own Purpose, Know This For Certain: Your Purpose Will Only Be Found In Service To Others, And In Being Connected To The Something Far Greater Than Your Mind/body/ego.
Ego
Mind
Purpose
The Words I Am Are Your Sacred Identification As God- Your Highest Self. Take Care How You Use This Terms Because Saying Anything After I Am That's Incongruent With God Is Really Taking The Lord's Name In Vain!
Self
Names
Use
Everything You Do Is Based On The Choices You Make. It's Not Your Parents, Your Past Relationships, Your Job, The Economy, The Weather, An Argument Or Your Age That Is To Blame. You And Only You Are Responsible For Every Decision And Choice You Make. Period.
Jobs
Past
Weather
Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

Quotes, or quotations, are powerful tools in communication, encapsulating ideas, emotions, and wisdom in concise expressions. They serve various purposes across different contexts, from academic writing to everyday conversation.

1. Defining Quotes

A quote is a repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts. It can be a direct replication of words spoken or written by another individual, often used to support arguments, provide evidence, or convey profound insights.


2. The Importance of Quotes

2.1. Enhancing Credibility

Incorporating quotes from authoritative sources can bolster the credibility of your work. By referencing experts or primary sources, you demonstrate thorough research and a solid foundation for your arguments.


2.2. Providing Evidence

Quotes serve as concrete evidence to support claims. In academic and professional writing, they validate points made, offering readers a basis to trust the information presented.


2.3. Conveying Emotions and Perspectives

Quotes can encapsulate emotions and perspectives succinctly. They allow writers to express complex feelings or viewpoints through the words of others, often more eloquently than paraphrasing.


3. Types of Quotes

3.1. Direct Quotes

Direct quotes involve copying the exact words from a source, enclosed in quotation marks. They are used when the original wording is significant or particularly well-expressed.


3.2. Indirect Quotes (Paraphrasing)

Indirect quotes restate the original message in your own words. While not enclosed in quotation marks, they still require proper attribution to the original source.


3.3. Block Quotes

Block quotes are lengthy direct quotations, formatted as a separate block of text. They are typically used for quotes exceeding a certain length, varying by citation style. For instance, in APA style, quotes longer than 40 words are formatted as block quotes.



4. Proper Usage of Quotes


4.1. Contextual Relevance

Ensure that the quote you choose is relevant to the topic and adds value to your content. Avoid inserting quotes solely for decorative purposes.


4.2. Integration into Your Writing

Seamlessly integrate quotes into your writing. Introduce them appropriately and follow up with analysis or commentary to connect them to your main points.


4.3. Attribution and Citation

Always attribute quotes to their original authors and provide proper citations according to the required style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).


5. Common Mistakes to Avoid


5.1. Overusing Quotes

Relying too heavily on quotes can overshadow your voice. Use them sparingly to support your arguments, not replace them.


5.2. Lack of Analysis

Presenting a quote without analysis or explanation can leave readers questioning its relevance. Always follow up with your interpretation or discussion.


5.3. Misquoting or Taking Out of Context

Ensure that quotes are accurate and not taken out of context, as this can mislead readers and undermine your credibility.



6. Quotes in Different Contexts


6.1. Academic Writing

In academic writing, quotes are used to support arguments, provide evidence, and engage with existing literature. Proper citation is crucial to avoid plagiarism.


6.2. Journalism

Journalists use quotes to provide firsthand accounts, add authenticity, and present multiple perspectives within a story.


6.3. Literature and Creative Writing

In literature, quotes can be used to convey character voices, themes, and stylistic elements. They enrich narratives and provide depth to storytelling.



7. Punctuation and Formatting


Understanding the correct punctuation and formatting of quotes is essential:


Quotation Marks: Always enclose direct quotes within quotation marks.


Punctuation Placement: In American English, periods and commas are placed inside quotation marks, while colons and semicolons are placed outside.


Block Quotes: For longer quotes, format them as block quotes without quotation marks, and indent the entire block.



8. Ethical Considerations


Ethical use of quotes involves accurate representation, proper attribution, and respect for intellectual property. Misuse can lead to plagiarism, which carries serious academic and professional consequences.

9. Tools for Managing Quotes


Utilize tools like citation generators and plagiarism checkers to manage quotes effectively. These tools help ensure proper formatting and originality in your writing.



Conclusion


Quotes are invaluable in enriching content, providing evidence, and conveying complex ideas succinctly. When used appropriately, they enhance the quality and credibility of your writing. Always ensure relevance, proper integration, and ethical usage to maximize their impact.


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