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    Soar!: Follow Your Dreams
    Soar!: Follow Your Dreams
    Soar!: Follow Your Dreams
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    Soar!: Follow Your Dreams

    By June Cotner

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    Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. - Henry David Thoreau

    Soar! is a thoughtful collection of inspirational quotes and original prose that combine to deliver a meaningful gift book for graduates. Chapters about choices, dreams, perseverance, inspiration, success, and more offer the right words at the right time for anyone heading down a new path.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrews McMeel Publishing
    Release dateMar 25, 2014
    ISBN9781449451783
    Soar!: Follow Your Dreams
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    June Cotner

    June Cotner is the author of the celebrated Graces, Bedside Prayers, Get Well Wishes, Animal Blessings and Family Celebrations. She lives with her husband, two wayward dogs, and two stray cats in Poulsbo, Washington, just outside of Seattle.

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      If you can dream it,

      You can do it.

      Walt Disney

      Dedicated to dreamers everywhere.

      May we all be inspired and

      create highways to our dreams!

      contents

      Letter to Readers

      Thanks

      one

      NEW DIRECTIONS

      Confucius

      Commencement Emily Ruth Hazel

      The Call Arlene Gay Levine

      Your Calling Oprah Winfrey

      New Directions Sherri Waas Shunfenthal

      Wings Emily Ruth Hazel

      Find Yourself Maureen Tolman Flannery

      Explore

      James van Praagh, Dr. Joyce Brothers

      Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., George Bernard Shaw

      Waiting for You Anne Calodich Fone

      New Experiences Ahead Susan Koefod

      Destination Joan Noëldechen

      Destiny Susan Rogers Norton

      Go Forth The Buddha

      two

      CHOICES

      Spencer Johnson

      Feathers Virginia Barrett

      Opportunities

      Bob Moawad, Ken Hakuta,

      Dave Thomas, Demosthenes

      Ars Longa, Vita Brevis Charles Ghigna

      Passion

      Rumi, Parker J. Palmer,

      John C. Maxwell, Michael Nolan

      Our Foundation The Buddha

      Our Attitude Author unknown

      Be Yourself

      Oscar Wilde, Ralph Waldo Emerson,

      Allen Ginsberg, John Mason

      Choose Wisely

      Nido Qubein, Eleanor Roosevelt,

      Dr. Bernie S. Siegel, Anna Quindlen

      Discover Author unknown

      three

      DREAMS

      Harriet Tubman

      Believe in Something Corrine De Winter

      Believe

      Barbara Bush, Wally Famous Amos,

      Mahatma Gandhi, Steve Maraboli

      Now Author unknown

      Dream Big

      George Bernard Shaw, Pamela Vaull Starr,

      James Allen, Les Brown

      Transformation Barb Mayer

      Albert Einstein on Imagination Albert Einstein

      Passages Barb Mayer

      Tag Your Dreams Jacqueline Jules

      Sanctuary Paula Timpson

      Dreams into Action

      Sarah Ban Breathnach, Peter MacDonald,

      Richard Bach, Liesl Vazquez, John Ruskin,

      Henry Chester, Robert Brault

      Artists J. Stone

      Your Vision

      Dorothy Fadiman, Robert Collier,

      Harriet Tubman, Barbara Sher

      A Great Purpose Patanjali

      Your Future

      Abraham Lincoln, Arthur C. Clarke,

      Eleanor Roosevelt, Simone Weil

      Philosophy Joan Stephen

      A Blessing for Your Dreams Maryanne Hannan

      Your Imagination Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

      Goals

      Napoleon Hill, Henry Ford,

      Jim Rohn, Celine Dion

      four

      PERSEVERANCE

      Vincent van Gogh

      Don’t Quit Author unknown

      Thoughts on Perseverance

      Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Jim Henson,

      Thomas A. Edison, John C. Maxwell

      Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln

      Begin Again Mary Maude Daniels

      The Courage to Succeed Ferdinand Magellan

      Courage

      Mary Manin Morrissey, Erica Jong,

      W. Clement Stone, Winston Churchill

      The Gift of Optimism

      Winston Churchill, Helen Keller,

      Thomas A. Edison, Chérie Carter-Scott

      Learn to Love the Wild Places Susan Landon

      Keep Trying

      H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Sarah C. Blakeley,

      Aung San Suu Kyi, Napoleon Hill, Ella Fitzgerald

      Success Marianne Williamson

      five

      EXCELLENCE

      Harold Taylor

      The Highest of Arts Henry David Thoreau

      Wisdom Corrine De Winter

      Build Something That Endures Epictetus

      Thoughts on Excellence

      Aristotle, Jack Johnson,

      Alfred A. Montapert, Jim Tressel

      Be the Change

      Mahatma Gandhi, Robert F. Kennedy,

      Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King, Jr.,

      Mahatma Gandhi, Jimmy Carter, Marian Wright Edelman

      Your Thoughts The Buddha

      Your Power

      Albert Schweitzer, Gary Zukav,

      Anne Frank, Lee Iacocca

      My Hope Theresa Mary Grass

      Good Advice

      Pablo Picasso, Peter F. Drucker,

      Andrew Carnegie, Chris Guillebeau

      six

      REFLECTIONS

      Mary Oliver

      A Piece of Parchment Martha K. Baker

      Florence Nightingale Martha K. Baker

      Success

      Bill Cosby, John C. Maxwell,

      Winston Churchill, Truman Capote

      A Lifelong Career Sally Clark

      Divine Guidance Phyllis K. Collier

      Think About It

      Benjamin Franklin, Chris Guillebeau,

      Thomas Crum, Eckhart Tolle

      Say Yes to What You Love Candy Paull

      Live Full

      Henry David Thoreau, Henry Drummond, Dale Carnegie

      Making Life Worthwhile George Eliot

      Perspective

      Henry David Thoreau, Johann Wolfgang von

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