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Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them as you make the effort.

Og Mandino

My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more.
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Change End Life Mistake Myself Personality
Never, in all of the seventy billion humans who have walked this planet since the beginning of time has there been anyone exactly like you.
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Beginning Human Self Love Walk Worth Yourself
Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
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Blessing Break Confidence Courage Life Music Play Smile Strength Sun Value Yourself
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.
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Growth Myself Purpose
Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.
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Best Difficult Effort Remember Yourself
Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
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Character Company Listen
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.
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Accomplishment Effort Failure Live Power Result Strong Weakness
I will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force.
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Force Greatness Love Myself Weapon
Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.
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Darkness Direction Failure Hide Moments Peace Satisfaction Success Time
I will laugh at the world! Never will I allow myself to become so important, so wise, so dignified, so powerful, that I forget how to laugh at myself and my world. And so long as I can Laugh never will I be poor.
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Forget Important Laugh Myself Poor Powerful Wisdom World
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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Attitude Character Learning Student
Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future.
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Attitude Future Gift God Life Moments Pain Planning Poison
Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.
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Character Control Deep Force Himself Strong Thinking Weakness
So long as I can laugh, never will I be poor.
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Laugh Myself Poor
I will laugh at the world. And most of all, I will laugh at myself for man is most comical when he takes himself too seriously.
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Laugh Man Myself Serious World
Use wisely your power of choice.
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Choice Power Wisdom Yourself

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