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I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.

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We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
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Control Ourselves Thinking Way
Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.
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Experience Kindness Place Thinking Yourself
Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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Blame Person Suffering Yourself
To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Ourselves Thinking Understand
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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Argument Past Suffering
A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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Believe Harm Thinking
When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
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Action Kind Reality Simplicity
Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
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Need Philosophy Time
The pain shows you what’s left to investigate.
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Investigate Pain Yourself
When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. ‘My husband doesn’t respect me.’ ‘I should be thinner.’ Those are stories. When there’s no story, there’s no suffering.
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Believe Ourselves Story Suffering Thinking
When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.
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Crazy Question Thinking World
The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.
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Best Finding Leadership People Way
The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
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Live Mindset Wisdom
When we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
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Answer Defend Justify Ourselves
We say to others only what we need to hear.
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Hear Need Talk
No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can.
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Disappoint Thinking Yourself
Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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Believe Life Suffering Yourself
The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
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Love Mindset Nature Oppose
Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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Gratitude Identify Story
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
If you think the cause of your problem is ‘out there,’ you’ll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.
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Problem Reason Solution Thinking
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
When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you’re mentally out of your business.
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Business Change Mental Thinking Yourself
No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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Control Let Go Myself People Thinking Understand
Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.
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Greatness Life Paper Question Stress Thinking
Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
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Give Up Yourself
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

I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.

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