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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.

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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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Arise Control Neglect Power Suffering Try
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Beginning Clear Freedom Happiness Principle Understand
Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Explanation Express Philosophy
You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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Concern Creation Giving Motivational Watch Work
No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Finding Healing Inspirational Person Yourself
He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Greedy Happiness Human Nature Life
Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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Breathe Conservation Eat God Preference Thinking
You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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Attention Choose Expose Giving Self Love Yourself
We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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Avoid Body Pralysis Soul Trouble
We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Event Judgement Life Live Suffering
We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Believe Confidence Faith Inspirational Time
Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Abandonment Break Up Let Go Togetherness Worth
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Difficult Motivational Pilot Reputation Skill Storm
In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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Goals Influence Lie Life Please Purpose
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Appearance Done Goodness Inspirational Man Sake
If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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Defeat Fear Gain Seek Truth Victory

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