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-The Insight Associates weblog, called Insightful Life, has postings on making life easier and more fulfilling at insightfullife.blogspot.com.

- Panther Counseling offers fee-only, sliding scale counseling services in waynesville and Whittier, NC. See their website at panthercounseling.com.

-Workplace Solutions provides services to improve productivity, safety and wellness of organizations and employees. Click on wncemployees.com.

-Click on MyAddiction.com for information related to substance abuse and treatment.

-OnHealth.com has numerous articles of every aspect of health. Click here for a great article on managing your stress by simplifying your life.

-AddictionSearch.com has information related to most every possible addiction and their treatments. Very extensive collection located at addictionsearch.com.

-WebMD.com has a Health & Balance section with stress-reduction and mental health articles; numerous links to health-related topics. Sign up for the Emotional Wellness Newsletter in lower right section of the page. See www.webmd.com/balance/default.htm.

-A vast amount of information related to mental health disorders from athealth.com is available at www.athealth.com/Consumer/disorders/disorders.html.

-A full selection of articles from athealth.com including "Key Steps to Success in Counseling" by Noah Kersey, Ph.D., are available at www.athealth.com/Consumer/farticles/.

-The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) website has a wealth of information ranging from wellness to social issues at helpstartshere.org.

-The Surgeon General's Report Fact Sheet on Native American Mental Health is at mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/cre/fact4.asp.

-A great Provider resource for medical and behavioral health issues and research is The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) located at www.ahrq.gov/news/factix.htm.

-The Mental Health Association in North Carolina, Inc. has articles on numerous wellness topics at mha-nc.org/mhinformation.htm.

-The National Mental Health Services Center of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration also has a wide range of information at mentalhealth.samhsa.gov.

-The North Carolina Early Intervention program provides services to children with special needs and their families for ages birth to 3 years. See ncei.org.

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The best way to predict the future, is to create it.
- Unknown

Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. - Doris Lessing

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Sow respect and reap friendship, plant kindness and gather love.
- Unknown

The final forming of a person's character lies in his own hands.
- Anne Frank

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are those who lose their cool and are too proud to say, 'I'm sorry".
- Rev. Robert H. Shuller

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
- Jim Rohn

All glory comes from daring to begin.
- Eugene F. Ware

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought is one's mind.
- Robert Collier

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann von Goethe

Of all the attitudes we can aquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.
- Zig Zigler

The people who get on in this world are those people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they don't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.
- William Shakespeare

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.
- Henry David Thoreau

What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.
- Alexander Graham Bell

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are truly a wise man.
- Euripides

Fear is the little darkroom where negatives are developed.
- Robert Pritchard

Study the past if you would define the future.
- Confucious

If it is to be, it is up to me.
- Unknown

Become the change you want to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Change can't be prevented, only guided.
- David Brin

The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.
- Robert Frost

Nature does nothing uselessly.
- Aristotle

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
- Unknown

I dreamed a thousand new paths; I woke and walked my old one.
- Chinese Proverb

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
- Marcus Aurelius

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
- Dr. David M. Burns

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
- Marilyn Ferguson

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
- Cecil B. DeMille

Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.
- H.G. Wells

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
- Robert Heinlein

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
- Clare Booth Luce

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path.

You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
- Sir Winston Churchill

In life we don’t get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.
- Farrah Gray

Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted ocean, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must walk consciously part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
- John Dewey

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
- Frank Tibolt

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
- William Wirt

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
- Mahatma Gandhi

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
- Bertrand Russell

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
- John F. Kennedy

We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
- Shakti Gawain

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
- Jack London

A man would do nothing, if he waited until he could do it so well that no one at all would find fault with what he has done.
- Cardinal Newman

Nurture great thoughts for you cannot go higher than your thoughts.
- Benjamin Disraeli

To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.
- Michael Hanson

The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
- Abbe' D'Allanival

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
- Leo Buscaglia

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
- Hal Borland

Everything that is possible to be believed is an image of the truth.
- William Blake

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
- Frank Herbert

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
- W. Somerset Maugham

So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.
- Oprah Winfrey

It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
- Philip Adams

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius

Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.
- Anna Lappe

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein

No matter what accomplishment you make, somebody helps you.
- Wilma Randolph

In youth we learn; in age we understand.
- Marie Ebner Eschenbach

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.
- David Viscott

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
- Andre Gide

We are all in the process of becoming.
- Sigmund Freud

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
- Jawaharlal Nehru

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
- Robert Fritz

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall

Do or do not! There is no 'try'.
- Yoda

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
- Denis Watley

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
- Marcel Proust

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
- Frances Moore Lappe

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.
- Frances Moore Lappe

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
- William James

No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.
- Buddha

We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
- Maxwell Maltz

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
- Confucius

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.
- Barbara Hall

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Anais Nin

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.
- James Gordon, M.D

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- Mahatma Gandhi

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision.
- Lord Falkland

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
- Walter Pater

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