Advice From Jerry Maguire's Mentor

"I LOVE getting up in the morning! I clap my hands and say THIS is going to be a great day!"

"Unless you love everybody, you can't sell anybody."

"Roll with the punches, tomorrow is another day."

"The key to this business is personal relationships."

"If this [points to heart] is empty, this [points to head] doesn’t matter."

"Hey... I don’t have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I have failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my life. I love my wife. And I wish you my kind of success." ~ Dicky Fox (a fictional character)

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Abuse

To abuse or harm someone is an act of choice or free will by the abuser. Abuse is never deserved. ~ Messages From The Masters
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Mental illness never robbed her of her humanity, rather, it provided spiritual strength.

Marie Balter, a woman who was misdiagnosed and kept in a state mental hospital for 20 years. Later she learned she had suffered from a form of depression and panic disorder, not schizophrenia. She has returned to the hospital as a full-time administrator after she earned a master's degree at Harvard.

''I wouldn't have grown one bit if I didn't learn to forgive,'' she said in a recent interview. ''If you don't forgive your parents or your children or yourself you don't get beyond that anger."

''Forgiving is a way of reaching out from a bad past and heading out to a more positive future.''

"Now, as I look back on my life, I can honestly say I wouldn't change it. The pain and suffering have brought me psychological understanding and spiritual strength. I still feel the pain when I reflect on those experiences, but while once they would throw me deeper and deeper into anxious despair, now they feed my desire to keep growing."

Marie Balter, a courageous soul.

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"Be who you are, and say what you feel, because those that mind don’t matter and those that matter don’t mind." ~ Dr. Seuss

When Things Don't Go Your Way

"When my grandchild­ren look back at their grandmothe­r and see that the winds didn't go her way (and they surely did not), she adjusted her sails." ~ Elizabeth Edwards
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Promises and Trust

"The reason I so rarely break promises to other people? It breaks trust. Without trust, there's no relationship."
~ Oprah

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Turning Your Life Around

"When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around." ~ Willie Nelson