Stephen Richards Quotes

Neglected dreams become regrets.
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If you want the Cinderella moments then you have to believe in magick.
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You will find your horizons expanding and your thought processes becoming more creative. That is true mind power!
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Laughter is the most powerful weapon against verbal attack anyone can have.
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Physically it is impossible for a bee to fly, but because it believes it can then it can.
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Positive thoughts and words will create a force inside you that communicates with the outside world and brings about profusion in all things around you.
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If you want to surpass the stages of doubt and secure better communication between your inner and outer body it is wise to surpass the challenge of the words ‘if only’.
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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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The makeup of your thoughts is exposed through your internal dialog.
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If you can’t win with words then show them a good example!
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Most people with new ideas are ridiculed … until they succeed!
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Turning images from within our minds into reality is a gift we are all born with.
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Overriding the old information in your mind with new information is easy, but to actually go further than just putting a veneer over your old mindset is the way forward.
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I have beaten people into the ground and the more they cry the more of a beating I gave them. If they don’t cry, I come off, if they cry then I will beat them and beat them and beat them.
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From spending ten years in hell and coming to this regime of kindness was a shock. It was so much of a shock, it was unbelievable. I was like an untamed animal, I couldn’t accept it and I just wouldn’t accept it.
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I dived out of the office and I was gone … hitting these fields like a mad March hare. This wasn’t Born Free, it was RUN FREE!
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All these do-gooders make it sound like you just have to repent and off you go to heaven, but what about all the atrocities the Catholic religion did to us? Who pays for that! They just took over our lives!!
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Religion to me was only something to be used and abused, as it had done nothing for me other than give me pain. Religion for me was a method used to gain an extra bottle of wine or a nice meal.
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With regards pedophilia I have always looked on it as that … pedophilia. I thought that one religion is no different to the other and I am now truthfully beginning to think that.
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This was a new buzz, better than anything I’d tried before. For the first time, I could fight back at others. I’d even fight with a parked car! I was totally kyboshed on these drugs, I didn’t care how many boys were standing outside the pub, I’d run over and fight the lot of them. Even though I came off second best, in my mind, I still walked away a winner. I showed them I wasn’t a little shit-bag that always got battered, not when I had the drugs in me.
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The rush I got from crime was better than that of glue, drink or hash. I loved playing cat and mouse with the local coppers. He Who Dares Wins, the SAS motto, was very applicable to my life then.
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Gazing out of the window, the gravel path roared as it was crushed into submission under the wheels of the car that was taking me towards a menacing looking medieval castle with two huge and terrifying turrets that seemingly reached out towards me. I imagined that I was the gravel and the wheels of the car were the social care system.
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If you could get anything at all off Santa, what would it be?’tI asked for a fire engine and sweets. Bunty exclaimed in delight, ‘Santa will get you that, but you and Scott will need to leave out a bowl of milk and some carrots for Rudolph.’t‘Who’s Rudolph?’ I asked.tBunty told me in confidence that Rudolph was Santa’s reindeer and that he helped pull all the children’s toys in the world over the snow. I couldn’t wait.tIn readiness for Rudolph, Scott, Martha, Bunty and I picked out four of the biggest carrots from a bag in the kitchen, which we then washed. We found a big bowl that we used to lick the cream out of, which we filled with milk. We put the bowl along with the carrots under the Christmas tree, with all the other children’s offerings. Then Bunty and Martha came in and washed us, put us to bed and read us a story, before kissing us good night. On their way out they said, ‘When you wake up, Santa will have been'.
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Leading up to Christmas, there was talk of Santa. But I’d never even heard of Santa. Bunty, one of the workers who I grew to love, tried to explain, ‘He brings little angels like you, presents.
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I was becoming a product of society, a hardened juvenile! Now I was becoming rebellious and hateful.
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No matter what tight corner I was in, I was capable of getting myself out of it … not God!
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Just as much as the media portray child sexual exploitation as being a 'hidden' crime, then that is no less of a case with child physical abuse.
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A lot of attention has been given over to the Catholic Churches sexual abuse of children in their care, but this attention seems to have been hijacked by the media and has overshadowed the many thousands of victims that endured physical abuse.
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You might think the Bangkok Hilton (the nickname of a fictional prison in Bangkok) was tough, well that was paradise compared to this place!
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From a young boy’s viewpoint this could not get any worse, especially when you were told that you belonged to the devil, and this bullying of me went on for a long time.
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This extraordinary tale of madness, leading up to Stephen being sectioned off to the lunatic asylum at Broadmoor, also reveals Stephen’s eventual fight to win his freedom from the asylum, which saw his legal team mount a successful challenge against the ‘criminally insane’ label that was keeping him in Broadmoor. Moyle’s legal team successfully argued that he was either a criminal or insane, he could not be both.
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Once the cons were in the cell, they’d pull razors or homemade daggers out and rob the YOs of their trainers, leather jackets or jewellery. You couldn’t placate them; it would be akin to expecting not to be bitten from a Rhodesian Ridgeback whilst petting it! Bar L was full of rough, colourful and out-of-control junkies who wouldn’t think twice about stabbing you or slashing you just to get what you had on your feet to pay for their next hit of smack.
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Be first: achieve every dream.
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Think big or die small!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I wished at that moment that the Wests had killed me, it would have been a merciful release from the hell that DC Smith was putting me through. This barrage of questions by DC Smith and his heavy-handedness into this inquiry and his bullying barrack-room interrogation style of interviewing had left me feeling shamed.
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If you cannot get a job then make a living for yourself.
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The first and most important step to being more creative is to believe you are a creative person!
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Always stay strong to your dream because when you lose sight of it then that is when your dream dies!
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Some people believe they are lucky, and in their belief, become so. Others believe that when good things come to them, it was mere chance, but are grateful, just the same. Either way, it is the expectation of those good things that sets the process of mind power in motion.
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Focus only on your successes and you will never know failure...
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My experience of what can happen and what actually happens is a world apart, so stop worrying!
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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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Ruling or judging others is considered to be a sentiment that resonates in very low frequencies.
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I was lifted from the darkness I endured into the person I am today.
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If you aspire to be a sparrow you will never be an eagle!
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One real meeting is much better than a thousand internet or social media words.
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Regardless of how far we have come, we are still looking for answers. While many are being answered, what we really want to know is how we can make our lives better.
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Sometimes your wish can become chaos ... be careful what you wish for!
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For that thought to be strong, however, it must be free of doubt, for doubt weakens the will, weakens the response of the universe, and slows the manifestation of desire.
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I’ve been an inmate in Broadmoor, Rampton and Ashworth. I was one of ‘them’. I was once Britain’s most unstable madman! This book is a complete one off! If you’re a nervous type of reader then don’t read it. You’ve been warned! You are now entering the world of insanity; please keep hold of your sanity until the book comes to a stop!
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Sometimes all it takes to change your life is to change your routine.
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If you have no friends, invent one!
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The last person to be hanged in Glasgow at the age of 31 was a beast by the name of Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel, he swung from the gallows in Barlinnie Prison on 11 July 1958.
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Some only learn the value of time when it’s too late!
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When good times turn out way bigger than you first expected, that's when you know you're on a roll!
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Putting yourself first means you will never be last!
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Daring also means to act, however, and if you are not willing to act, then you have already lost the game.
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Dyslexia is the affliction of a frozen genius.
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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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Dyslexia, for me, is rather like being a six-fingered typist on LSD!
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