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Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones.

Hans Selye

Stress is not necessarily something bad it all depends on how you take it. The stress of exhilarating, creative successful work is beneficial, while that of failure, humiliation or infection is detrimental.
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Bad Creativity Failure Infection Necessary Stress
Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
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Kill Ourselves Reaction Stress
Even after the greatest defeats, the depressing thought of being a failure is best combated by taking stock of all your past achievements.
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Achievement Defeat Failure Greatness Past Yourself
The healthiest of all human emotions is gratitude.
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Emotion Gratitude Health Human
Who would enjoy a life of no runs, no hits, no errors?
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Enjoyment Errors Life Mistake
Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones.
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Conscious Erase Oneself Pleasant
If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions .
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Contribution Focus Life Live
Stress, in addition to being itself, was also the cause of itself, and the result of itself.
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Being Reason Result Stress
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
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Approval Thirst
My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained and unprejudiced mind.
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Advice Beginning Career Mindset Person Prejudice Young
Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.
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Old Organism Play Scars Stress Survive
Complete freedom from stress is death.
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Complete Death Freedom One Liner Stress
Stress is the spice of life.
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Life Spice Stress
To remain healthy a man must have some goal, some purpose in life that he can respect and be proud to work for.
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Goal Health Proud Purpose Respect Work
Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body’s resistance.
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Ability Body Dangerous Man Resistance
Gratitude conserves the vital energies of a person more than any other attitude tested.
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Attitude Energy Gratitude Person Test

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