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The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own.

Orison Swett Marden

Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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Build Destroy Pessimist
You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
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Attitude World Yourself
Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
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Goodness Greatness Life Machine
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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Greatness Hope Medicine Tomorrow
Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.
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Brain Local Thinking Trouble Worry
Opportunities? They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
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Discover Eyes Lying Opportunity Power
Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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Believe Heart Yourself
Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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Imagination Inspirational Limitation Ourselves Possible Reality Thinking
The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.
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Act Beginning Greatness Habit Repeat Thinking Time
This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?
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Lost Man Material Test Yourself
Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door.
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Charm Greatness Poverty Struggle Time
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
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Failure Himself Measurement
The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Best Breathe High Plane Purity
Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.
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Happiness Quiet Reality Recognition Simplicity World
Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
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Chance Education Greatness Preparation Profit Yourself
We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
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Ourselves Thinking Vision

The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own.

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