Caroline Adams Miller Quotes
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Your life is a sacred journey. It is about change, growth, discovery, movement, transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible, stretching your soul, learning to see clearly and deeply, listening to your intuition, taking courageous challenges at every step along the way. You are on the path... exactly where you are meant to be right now... And from here, you can only go forward, shaping your life story into a magnificent tale of triumph, of healing, of courage, of beauty, of wisdom, of power, of dignity, and of love.
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I wanted to get better, and I knew it was the hardest thing I would ever do in my life, bar nothing..
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Nobody did get better in the 1970's and 80's. All we knew was that people died… There was a collective silence and hopelessness around this disorder.
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All success in life is preceded by being happy first – not vice versa.
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When you look at turning points in history… at people who stand at the intersection of history, I noticed that you always find people with grit. They have passion. They have persistence. They have a big goal, and they refuse to allow other people or forces around them to derail them.
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Being in nature actually evokes awe in people. And it's a chemical reaction.
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Do hard things, and ask yourself ‘why not?' instead of ‘why?
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Authentic grit has humility.
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Mediocre goals create mediocre feelings about who we are.
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People are more likely to accomplish their goals and be great if they have a role model.
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People who have grit – they hate doing hard work. They hate it as much as we do. But, the thing is, they find a way to do it.
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Findings from thirty years of research on life satisfaction show that happiness requires having clear-cut goals in life that give us a sense of purpose and direction. When we make progress toward satisfying our most cherished needs, goals, and wishes in the sixteen areas of life that contribute to contentment, we create well-being. Our research also shows that when we make progress toward attaining goals in one area of life, we raise our overall life satisfaction in other areas because of the potent “spillover” effect.
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When you set hard goals, you're more likely to flourish as a human being… But to accomplish those hard goals, you need grit.
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The problem is, we have a generation that can't focus.