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People aren’t interested in you. They’re interested in themselves.

Dale Carnegie

If you want others to like you, if you want to develop real friendships, if you want to help others at the same time as you help yourself, keep this principle in mind: Become genuinely interested in other people.
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Development Help Interest Mindset People Principle
It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
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Happiness Thinking Yourself
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .
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Deep Happiness Person Praise Seek
Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.
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Action Ignorance Ourselves Trouble
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
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Future Past Remember Worry Yourself
Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.
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Listening Talk Time
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
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Argument Avoid Best Way
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
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Believe Bored Death Heart Life Live Work Yourself
Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.
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Improvement Profit Try Yourself
Try honest to see things from the other person’s point of view.
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Honesty Person Point See Try View
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
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Existence Fear Make Up Mindset Yourself
Let’s never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let’s do as General Eisenhower does: let’s never waste a minute thinking about people we don’t like.
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Enemy Hurt Ourselves Time Try Wasted Time
When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.
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Blood Enemy Hate Ourselves Power Sleep
Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.
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Ability Criticism Encouragement
An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.
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Action Management Planning Save Time Yourself
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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Friendship Interest People Yourself

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