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You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

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We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
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Age Awareness Maturity
I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.
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Creation Love Mindset Word World
Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
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Children Interpretation Listening Oneself
My life is a contribution.
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Contribution Life Myself
We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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Attachment Ourselves Story
When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
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Influence Pain Please Reason Result
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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Argument Past Suffering
Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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Distribution Equality Wisdom
We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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Realize Suffering Unknown
I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God’s.
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Business Finding Kind Universe Yourself
When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.
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Fall Mindset Open Place
Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
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Children Lying Mindset Open Partner People Realize Tolerance
I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn’t caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there’s a thought that isn’t true for us.
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Comfortable Experience Stress Thinking True Yourself
Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
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Past Reality Thinking Yourself
You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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Effect Story Yourself
The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
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Destruction Ego Job Kill
Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.
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Call Clear Fear Happiness Live Mindset Phone
Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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Gratitude Identify Story
It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it’s helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, “You’re caught in the dream.”
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Compassionate Dreams Easy Feeling Remember Yourself
Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.
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Exception Live Situation Terrible Thinking Yourself
I’m most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.
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Act Hear Human Inspirational Kindness Myself Small
The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.
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Live Peace Person Teaching True
You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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Notice Politics Vote Yourself
Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don’t want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.
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Children Freedom Friendship Parents Point Time Yourself
You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.
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Anxiety Experience Simplicity Yourself
No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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Angry Human Story
Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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Control Live Need Present Yourself

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