Top 100 Stephen Richards Author Quotes
#1. Blaming other people inevitably makes us blame ourselves because if we are pointing the finger at someone, practically, we are pointing it at ourselves as well.
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#2. Stop being a slave to your past and you become the master of your future.
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#3. When you make up your mind to forgive, your happiness will almost automatically follow.
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#4. All the resentment that lies in your heart is simply causing damage to you mostly.
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#5. Magic moments are the currency of life ... manage them well and you will be wealthy ...
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#8. If you truly want to help the poor, first become rich yourself.
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#9. Sometimes your wish can become chaos ... be careful what you wish for!
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#10. When you forgive, it does not mean that you have submitted, it simply means that you have made a choice to stop bearing any grudge.
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#11. We wander along the world along many paths and maybe without knowing it we are walking now along one path towards success!
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#12. It does not matter if you are asking for health, for happiness, for financial wealth, or for all three. It doesn't matter if you have no idea how this will come to you. Neither does it matter if you have no reason to expect it to.
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#13. As human beings, we are custom made to be happy. Why then would we want to change the order of things by not being happy?
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#14. Most people with new ideas are ridiculed ... until they succeed!
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#15. Physically it is impossible for a bee to fly, but because it believes it can then it can.
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#16. When you keep a strong image of what you want in your mind, and possess the conviction that it is yours by right, you send out powerful vibrations to the farthest reaches of the universe.
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#17. The word 'believe' is an important factor in you securing your success.
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#18. My experience of what can happen and what actually happens is a world apart, so stop worrying!
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#19. Do the forgiveness and carry on going forward. Leave the worrying to the other person. Eat what is on your plate and leave the rest to them.
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#20. When you use positive words it naturally has a very dynamic effect on the energy present around you.
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#21. The riot screws did not stop there, they dragged him down the corridor where ten other nameless screws repeatedly coshed him over the head and face and body. Dingus by now was totally out cold, he had received the equivalent injuries of someone who was involved in a car crash.
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#22. Always stay strong to your dream because when you lose sight of it then that is when your dream dies!
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#23. When you love someone's everything with your everything then you truly are in love.
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#24. No one was expecting the six-man team of elite SAS officers to storm the prison, but that is exactly what they did do. Hurling stun grenade and tear gas canisters, they entered the jail through a skylight before freeing the terrified prison warder.
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#25. Simply put, mind power is placing a request, or a wish, if you will, and trusting that somehow it will come to be.
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#26. When you believe in yourself with a passion then success can be spontaneous.
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#27. The most basic method one can use to let go of the past is by looking at it as a learning experience.
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#28. Due to the need to co-exist with these inhuman and inconsiderate people, we will obviously be disturbed by their acts; something which if we look at closely actually means that we too could be affecting some other people negatively every once in a while.
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#29. Overly playing the role of the victim can debar you from accepting responsibility for your actions and emotions.
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#31. An undisciplined mind is a wasted one, which will be reflected in the life of the one who possesses such a mind.
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#32. If you believe that that the one opportunity you missed is the last one you'll ever get, then that is exactly what will happen: no more opportunities ever.
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#34. Forgiveness is not simply a single act, it is a full process.
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#35. I was a normal person, living in a rough area with a foreign mother, I endured it and came out of the other side to help hundreds of thousands of people worldwide to change their lives just like I had mine.
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#37. Over the years you have been subjected to a great deal of mind propaganda which has resulted in you reaching the ceiling of maximum potential by virtue of your current limited mindset.
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#38. You are not, though, forgiving so as to let others off with things. You are forgiving so that you can empower yourself to get over it and become strong.
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#39. The world is full of victims; don't add to the growing culture of "I've a story to tell", well not unless it's a story to help others overcome situations or as a warning.
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#40. The idea of forgiveness is a journey that requires patience. If the journey of forgiveness is well travelled, there is a chance that we are bound to change in a very helpful way.
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#41. Learn to forgive others so that you can release yourself from being held captive by the very negative thoughts around you.
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#42. When you're scared, when you close your eyes ... just know there is nothing left to fear!
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#43. We are often so convinced that we are so hurt and in pain, so much so that we opt not to forgive. Yet, as a consequence, that is what will make you weak!
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#45. If you have given up something many times over then you are strong-willed in having done it so many times over!
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#46. Pain can cause us to learn no end of lessons, but without resolution there can be no healing!
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#47. Over the next sixteen years, I would grow close to the ringleaders of the infamous Peterhead Prison Riot and hostage-taking incidents would loom large in my life.
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#48. Places of learning are full to brimming, but those with a real thirst for knowledge are few. Remain true to yourself and never stop learning ...
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#49. By understanding the basic impediments to forgiveness, the repercussions of failing to forgive and the fruits of forgiveness, this will lead you gently to the shoreline of a distinct new and more powerful YOU.
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#50. Albert Einstein's equation, E=MC2, is considered to be a theory. Despite being one, we have been able to use it to produce the energy we need to power our cities, as well as the bombs to destroy the same.
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#51. The purpose of forgiveness is not to make sure that someone ends up changing into what you expect them to be, as this is dominance. The purpose is actually to make your own life better, more worthy and less stressful. Forgiveness reduces the hold that the wrongdoer has over you and empowers you.
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#52. Cooking is great, but the meal that has been prepared for you with love is the best.
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#53. Take what is good from the past
and carve a new path.
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#54. Live it already, write about it from the point of view of already having it, and be so happy and grateful at its impending arrival.
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#57. A person who won't do it has no advantage over someone who can't do it.
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#58. The twisted thing about doing what you're good at is that you aren't really good at it until you do it over and over and over again.
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#59. Your life you are living now is a creation of your mind, but if you search deep down you will discover the capacity to create an even better life ... try it!
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#60. The only thing that will make us remain glued to being the victim is our failure to handle the emotions that we go through and the pain that overcomes us.
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#61. If you can't win with words then show them a good example!
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#62. If you want more than what most have, then you must do far more than what it is they do.
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#63. If your goals don't inspire you then why should you expect to achieve them?
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#64. Thought and passion = successful manifesting of wishes ...
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#65. Dare to share and in doing so you multiply your results without even trying ...
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#67. Aberdeenshire's Peterhead jail housed the hardest, badest, meanest motherfucker prisoners in the Scottish prison system. So no one was surprised when the pressure pot jail finally erupted in to violence that has not been seen or equalled since.
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#68. If there ever was someone who had a control over you, someone who could cause you the greatest pain, someone who could ignore your most necessary requirements and someone for whom forgiveness were truly difficult to render, that person is none other than YOU.
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#69. The moment we see beyond our personal desires to be felt sympathy for, that is the time we can actually start the journey to that final destination of true forgiveness.
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#71. If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all.
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#72. Thirteen years have past since 1993, and I still have not seen one single book, documentary or anything to the biggest epidemic in Scottish, British prison history. I would go as far and say, no other prison in the world had fourteen men catching the HIV virus at the same time.
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#73. Understand that you and you alone create your own opportunities, whether they come to you in the form of a lottery ticket, or a promotion, you brought that into your life.
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#75. It is not always possible to do away with negative thinking, but with persistence and practice, one can gain mastery over them so that they do not take the upper hand.
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#76. When you forgive, you are freed from some of the feelings of disapproval and it can contribute to lessening your negative thoughts.
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#77. You know, in a society where children just about have to seek parental permission to sit on Santa's knee, the word 'paedophile' should send more shivers up your spine than the word 'druggie'.
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#78. The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.
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#79. The image you currently have of yourself is as high as you can go ...
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#80. Laughter is the most powerful weapon against verbal attack anyone can have.
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#81. Mind power is my art ... ... so bring the canvas of your mind closer and I will create a masterpiece.
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#82. Before you can give anyone a hand up, first you must get yourself up there to do so ...
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#83. Forgiveness does carry with it numerous obstacles and one may well be surprised why many people find it a very difficult hurdle to jump over.
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#84. Increase your vision of achievement simply by raising your goals ...
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#85. Once upon a time when I knew nothing I wanted fame and fortune. Now I know how little I know, I just want to be ...
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#86. The idea of always wanting to be the victim in circumstances where you have been offended is a common human trait. Each person wants to be viewed as the aggrieved party.
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#87. Every desire to modify in your life begins with the intention to do so.
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#88. Distancing yourself from some painful event is probably the ignition for the process of forgiveness.
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#89. The minute we put aside our self-righteousness and move away from being the aggrieved, then we are on a healing process.
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#90. You are born, you live and then you die. But when you forgive you are free to live again!
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#91. Assuming you are still lost in thought about when exactly you should forgive someone, well the time is NOW.
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#92. In the process of forgiveness, you can only control your own actions and decisions.
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#94. Whatever you desire, it comes from the universe, and whatever you manifest, be it situations, the right partner, friend, or spouse, the right pet, anything at all, IS the universe, for the universe IS everything.
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#95. Do not allow yourself to be pulled into the role of embracing victimship as some sort of badge of honor to wear or flash around at any opportunity.
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#96. The riot screws didn't give a monkey's about the state he was in, no sir. They dragged him by his hair in to the first cell that was opened, where he was stripped and beaten.
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#97. When you do not see the beauty in the things around you, nothing will be adequate to you.
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#98. The pain you have gone through will give you the strength of character to come through it all, so long as you learn from what you have suffered then it was not suffering at all.
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#99. You are more than just flesh and bones; you are unlimited energy and power.
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