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text[2] = "We choose our thoughts, but not very carefully.";
text[3] = "Don't advocate, investigate.";
text[4] = "Just because it feels good doesn't mean it's not hazardous to your health.";
text[5] = "We suffer for one of two reasons: we want what we don’t have, or we don’t want we do have.";
text[6] = "You better check yo self before you wreck yo self.";
text[7] = "Don’t know how? Make it up!";
text[8] = "Resistance is brutal.";
text[9] = "Hold your hurt in a very big space. Like the Milky Way.";
text[10] = "It’s like this and like that and like this and uh…";
text[11] = "Speak without offending, listen without defending.";
text[12] = "If you don't really like yourself at times, that's ok. But find a way to love yourself anyway.";
text[13] = "If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.";
text[14] = "If you absolutely must speak, wait 1 minute before doing so. You'll probably see or hear something new, and say something else.";
text[15] = "Why are you afraid to ask for what you need?";
text[16] = "Life’s catastrophes—big and small—break our hearts so they close. But meet your pain with compassion, and your heart will break wide open.";
text[17] = "The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is there’s no ground.";
text[18] = "Stand up. Stretch. Nice.";
text[19] = "Sit up straight, lifting the top of your head toward the sky. Let your shoulders drop. Ahhhhh.";
text[20] = "May you be safe from the dangers of the external world—and the internal one.";
text[21] = "May you be radiantly happy and deeply peaceful. You deserve it.";
text[22] = "May you live your life with ease. You’ve earned it.";
text[23] = "In this moment, you're perfect. Just the way you are.";
text[24] = "Try not to worry so much, you’re just wearing yourself out.";
text[25] = "Your anger hurts you more than anyone else. Let it go, for your own sake.";
text[26] = "Right here, right now, you are exactly where you need to be.";
text[27] = "Where you are is where you are needed. Get involved!";
text[28] = "Make someone’s day with your smile.";
text[29] = "See the bus driver, cashier and CEO for the complex, conflicted and gifted human beings they are.";
text[30] = "Sometimes nothing is the most important thing you can do.";
text[31] = "It’s never too late to say thank you.";
text[32] = "Feeling blue? Find something small to be grateful for.";
text[33] = "Notice how you are holding your pen, your posture, your facial expression. Can you relax it a bit?";
text[34] = "Change: can’t force it, can’t avoid it. Life gets easier when we can embrace it.";
text[35] = "Are you looking to someone or something else for happiness?";
text[36] = "You can’t make someone else happy. Make yourself happy.";
text[37] = "Instead of going out and looking for love, what about love as the place you come from? What happens if love is what you bring?";
text[38] = "Most people's problem is that they think their thoughts are true. Your life changes the moment you can accept that <i>they are not.</i>";
text[39] = "We each take our own steps, but we take this journey together.";
text[40] = "Your breath is your anchor to what is real.";
text[41] = "There is more power in the present moment than in the past or the future, if we'll only bother to access it.";
text[42] = "When in doubt, <i>pause</i>.";
text[43] = "It may be wiser to move forward with a questionable decision than to stay stuck looking for the “right” one.";
text[44] = "Make time to take care of yourself. Put it on the calendar.";
text[45] = "We are not meant to accumulate endlessly. People, things and ideas must come and go … this is how we grow.";
text[46] = "No matter how painful the loss, it always opens space for what will come next.";
text[47] = "A laugh is a compliment. Give them out freely.";
text[48] = "Everyone around you is hurting in his/her own particular way. Every. One.";
text[49] = "Wow. You’re divine.";
text[50] = "Wow. You’re divine.";
text[51] = "Regret is healthy, we can learn from it. Guilt, on the other hand, is just terribly unproductive.";
text[52] = "You are a new person every year, every morning, every moment.";
text[53] = "Why not say yes?";
text[54] = "Tell it how it is. Nothing more, nothing less.";
text[55] = "All those people, places and situations you struggle with? Those are your teachers, your temples and your testing grounds.";
text[56] = "It’s not a question of whether to follow your head or your heart—the question is: is either one seeing clearly?";
text[57] = "You grow by going inside. This is true whether you’re a person, a business or a nation.";
text[58] = "Nothing lasts forever. In fact, most things last only a short time.";
text[59] = "When you grieve, you're in touch with searing truth that may make others uncomfortable. This is a holy place; honor it, take your time.";
text[60] = "Look down at your hands, and reflect on all they have accomplished. Way to go!";
text[61] = "Get comfortable with uncertainty. At least it's reliable."
text[62] = "Every time you pause to get present, your brain becomes less reactive and more creative. Science!";
text[63] = "Is it true? Is it kind? Is it helpful? Ok, then say it.";
text[64] = "Kindness is the most powerful and versatile tool there is. You can use it every day, in every situation, and your results will be astounding.";
text[65] = "Our thoughts become actions. Our actions become habits. Our habits become character. Be careful out there.";
text[66] = "If you don’t design your life, someone else will design it for you. And it could get ugly.";
text[67] = "Taking responsibility sounds like such a drag, but it actually makes life <i>so</i> much more livable.";
text[68] = "Put your hand on your heart. Breathe deeply. This is how it feels to be nice to yourself.";
text[69] = "You have amazing, original, world-changing ideas locked inside you. The trick is, you have to believe they're in there before you can get at them.";
text[70] = "Stop trying to make others happy.     1. It's impossible. 2. It's not your job. 3. It's getting in the way.";
text[71] = "When a task, talk or relationship gets complicated, ask yourself, “What does the simple version look like?” Aim for that.";
text[72] = "Ask questions.";
text[73] = "How to be happy: take something you love, and give it to someone you love.";
text[74] = "I’m grateful for your attention. Everyone else is too.";
text[75] = "Can you tell when you’re just being the person you think you’re supposed to be? (Hint: it’s bloody exhausting.)";
text[76] = "Question: How do the qualities you despise in others reflect your own fears and insecurities? Answer: Be nice.";
text[77] = "Just because you feel it, doesn't mean it's there.";
text[78] = "Creativity is the openness to play when everyone else wants to play it safe.";
text[79] = "What worries you, masters you.";
text[80] = "Be excellent to each other.";
text[81] = "Attention is the highest form of love.";
text[82] = "Recognize.";
text[83] = "Makin' your way in the world today takes everything you got. Takin’ a break from all your worries sure would help a lot.";
text[84] = "How to be happy: do the right thing."
text[85] = "If you could see your adversary's pain as clearly as you feel your own, you could stop fighting and hold each other."
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text[87] = "What you've done is less important than what you do now."
text[88] = "The past is fixed. The future is unknown. We are here. You are now."
text[89] = "Life isn't going to be easy. The best you can do is to live it with style and grace."
text[90] = "You are creative. The only questions are: what will you create and when?"
text[91] = "Creativity takes courage."
text[92] = "Let go."
text[93] = "Yes, you can."
text[94] = "Pain is temporary, but fixation can be forever."
text[95] = "Creativity takes courage."
text[96] = "Time can't heal all wounds if you won't keep the bandage clean. See things for how they really are, and the pain subsides."
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text[99] = "Who's in charge here? Are you sure you're the one making all your decisions?"
text[100] = "Imagine what you could do with your life if you truly believed that you already have everything you need."
text[101] = "Happiness is actually an extreme. Instead of pursuing happiness, be content with things being a-ok."
text[102] = "Should is a very very very bad word."
text[103] = "Find something you do poorly and do it anyway. Who cares? It's the doing that matters."
text[104] = "If you make room for the things that make you happy, you won't miss the things that don't."
text[105] = "The past isn't really the past if you don't leave it there."
text[106] = "We are always planting seeds with our thoughts, words and actions. Are you growing strawberries or cactus?"
text[107] = "No one determines your behavior but you, and you always have a choice."
text[108] = "Energy => more energy. Try it!"
text[109] = "Here's a tip: Getting somewhere or something else won't really make you any happier."
text[110] = "Stand in the place where you are."
text[111] = "Don't play your relationships like games. You'll lose."
text[112] = "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find you get what you need."
text[113] = "Know that you're breathing in. Know that you're breathing out."
text[114] = "You have to make room for your future. That means letting go of the past."
text[115] = "Don't worry. It isn't actually as important as it feels right now."
text[116] = "Pay closest attention to what is simple, sweet and clear."
text[117] = "It's important to be grateful for what you have, but it's more important to be open to what you will have."
text[118] = "Remember: The ship is safe in the harbour, but that's not what a ship is for."
text[119] = "The world tries to tell us what’s important, what we should be doing & how. But we already know the answers, & we know the world is wrong."
text[120] = "Choose to ask questions rather than make assumptions, and your life will be a fantastic adventure."
text[121] = "Don't mind us. We're all just waiting for you to deliver on your brilliance."
text[122] = "If we are all worms, try to be a glow worm."
text[123] = "Why worry when you can do something about it? And if you can't do anything about it, why worry?"
text[124] = "You hold more potential, more promise, than anyone knows about - including yourself. Time to show us all."
text[125] = "Examine the thought you're thinking right now. Is it absolutely, positively and objectively true?"
text[126] = "Every moment - including this one - is a choice. What will you do? How will you do it? Who is it for?"
text[127] = "Why are you afraid?"
text[128] = "Thank you for being here. (Pass it on.)"
text[129] = "Dread, denial and procrastination use up all your energy. Action renews it."
text[130] = "Go outside and move around."
text[131] = "When was the last time you looked up at the stars?"
text[132] = "Now is the time to love yourself. You're as perfect as you're ever going to be."
text[133] = "When people disappoint you, that's a signal that you have something to teach them."
text[134] = "Patience is always appropriate."
text[135] = "The people you love need to know it."
text[136] = "One day you'll miss this."
text[137] = "Living simply means making decisions that don't require infinitely more decisions."
text[138] = "No more fear of fear."
text[139] = "Let go of the outcome, so you can live in the process of creating it."
text[140] = "Awareness isn't enough. Bring compassion to what you see and character to what you do about it."
text[141] = "Taking care of others is part of taking care of yourself."
text[142] = "I think, therefore I am ... suffering."
text[143] = "How often are you on autopilot, telling the same story from memory, even as your audience changes? Even as the truth changes?"
text[144] = "True leadership is analytical and intuitive, open and decisive, invested in the group and interested in the individual."
text[145] = "When you're fully participating in your life, you have less work, more play and all the time in the world."
text[146] = "Relax, you're not here to solve the world's problems. But if you're open to opportunity, you'll find your own unique way to help."
text[147] = "Do all you can, with what you have, in the time you have, in the place where you are."
text[148] = "Take care that as you condemn ignorance and hatred you are not fanning those very flames in yourself."
text[149] = "All people know about you is what your actions tell them."
text[150] = "Stop the hate. Delegate."
text[151] = "Intention is the currency of the universe. Spend yours wisely."
text[152] = "Everybody is somebody's VIP."
text[153] = "Sound surrounds us constantly & our brilliant brains filter out whatever's unnecessary. But do they get it right?"
text[154] = "Listen wisely, hear all."
text[155] = "Being honest about what's real makes fear irrelevant."
text[156] = "Your body is a gift. Your age is a concept. Your mind cannot be trusted."
text[157] = "If you can't improve upon the silence, simply be part of it."
text[158] = "The surest way to change others is to change yourself."
text[159] = "If it takes up space in the home, it takes up space in the heart."
text[160] = "Your feelings work hard to convince you that all your thoughts are real and true."
text[161] = "Anything is possible when you are open to possibility."
text[162] = "Enough. These few words are enough. If not these words, this breath. If not this breath, this sitting here."
text[163] = "Too often, when we're focused on getting what we want, we lose touch with who we are." 
text[164] = "intention > ambition"
text[165] = "Relax, it's not even really about you."


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footnotes[91] = "Henri Matisse, and <a href=\"http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1293&bih=760&q=henri+matisse+art&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=g3&aql=&oq=\">he would know.</a>";
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footnotes[101] = "thanks to Billy Joel, who would also like to recommend <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au74rR9lIYQ\">a bottle of rosé instead</a>.";
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footnotes[141] = "Geshe Thupten Jinpa";
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footnotes[162] = "The poet David Whyte. <a href=\"http://www.bemindful.org/poems.htm#Anchor-20418\">Read the rest here</a>.";
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