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Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat never take yourself too seriously.

Og Mandino

True security lies not in the things one has, but in the things one can do without.
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Deep Oneself Security True
Each problem has a positive side.
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Hard Time Perspective Problem
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
I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools.
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Failure Fools Hope Impossible Myself Quit Word
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
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
Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all.
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Inspirational Start Wasted Time
I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.
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Failure Myself Persistence Success
I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; Yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.
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Challenge Endurance Happiness Heart Myself
I have been given eyes to see and a mind to think, and now I know a great secret of life, for I perceive, at last, that all my problems, discouragements , and heartaches are, in truth, great opportunities in disguise.
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Eyes Greatness Heart Broken Life Myself Opportunity Problem Secret Thinking Truth
With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break loose, to achieve even a small part of the dreams we once cherished.
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Achievement Break Dream Goal Strategy
Action will destroy your procrastination.
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Action Destroy Inspirational One Liner
You will move in the direction you are facing.
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Direction Inspirational Yourself
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
You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.
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Achievement Dream Goal Time 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
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
I am not a human being, I am a human becoming.
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Growth Human Myself
Realize how good you really are.
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Goodness One Liner Self Love Worth Yourself
Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
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Career Defeat Importance Necessary Struggle Success
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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Determination Enough Failure Myself Strong Success
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
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Best Plant Result Yourself
You can’t conquer reality by running away from it.
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Inspirational Reality Run Yourself
The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.
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Children Greatness Happiness Leaving Memories
A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.
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Gift Myself Power Smile
So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.
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Breathe Greatness Myself Principle Win
I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success.
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Act Action Mindset Myself Necessary Success Word

Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat never take yourself too seriously.

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