A passionately lived life is not always comfortable. Going for it involves being open to all of life - the joys, the sorrows, the mundane as well and the magic, the splendid victories, the most abject defeats. You might even stop closing your eyes during the scary parts of the movie.

Nicholas Lore

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It takes committed, high energy, full-tilt boogie participation t... by Nicholas Lore

It takes committed, high energy, full-tilt boogie participation to have the kind of life you want.

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It takes courage to be the author of your life. by Nicholas Lore

It takes courage to be the author of your life.

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If you make the wrong decision, you make the wrong decision. That's all there is to it. There are few guarantees in life. One of them is that you will make lots of mistakes The worst thing you can do is wimp out and spend your life in suspended animation refusing to make a choice because it may not be a perfect one.

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Make your Vocation into Vacation and you will not have to work a... by Nicholas Lore

Make your Vocation into Vacation and you will not have to work a single day.

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The secret to perseverance is a simple one: have a bigger commitment to getting the job done than to attempting to control your inner feelings and sensations.

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The secret of creating anything new in your life consists of creating new commitments and then holding the tiller to your new course until it becomes established as a behavior.

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Steps are what you take when you think you have forever. by Nicholas Lore

Steps are what you take when you think you have forever.

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How can someone say they're successful if they're not happy doing... by Nicholas Lore

How can someone say they're successful if they're not happy doing their work?

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Since you may never discover the truth, invent it. by Nicholas Lore

Since you may never discover the truth, invent it.

The way to "find" the perfect career is to give up the notion that you will ever find it, stumble across it, or that it will somehow magically find you, and to get to work designing it.

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Go for vitality, not comfort. by Nicholas Lore

Go for vitality, not comfort.

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Everyone else on the planet, from the lowest amoebae to the great blue whale, expresses all their component elements in a perfect dance with the world around them. Only human beings have unfulfilled lives.

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Everyone has options. They are a fixed set of predetermined scenarios, points of view, perceived limitations that already reside in your data bank. If you depend on your options to formulate your future, that future will be no more than a rearrangement of your past. Then he says, “Possibilities are completely different. When you ask ‘what is possible?’ you must stretch your imagination out of the confines of the familiar. To live a life beyond the mediocre, ask not ‘what are my options?’ but ‘What is possible?’

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Just because you have long legs doesn't mean you'll be happy as a... by Nicholas Lore

Just because you have long legs doesn't mean you'll be happy as a Rockette.

Possibilities are completely different. When you ask 'what is possible?' you must stretch your imagination out of the confines of the familiar. To live a life beyond the mediocre, ask not 'what are my options?' but 'What is possible?'

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True independence means being free from the domination of your own internal automatic behaviors, not doing what you feel like when the urge strikes.

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The ability to feel fear and keep moving forward distinguishes th... by Nicholas Lore

The ability to feel fear and keep moving forward distinguishes the living from the merely breathing.

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