Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
VERNON HOWARDAn obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.
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You must never fear anything at all.
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Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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To change what you get you must change who you are.
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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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You have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is!
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If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
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Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.
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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
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The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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