Common sense needs to be more common.
PHIL MCGRAWWe all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we’re capable of.
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You can’t change other people or (some) conditions; you can change only your reactions to them.
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You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.
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If you ever get started on the right path to change, there is one important precondition you have to meet. You must rid yourself of that gnawing and overpowering sense of urgency and panic that always seems to appear on the scene.
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The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don’t want to do.
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I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer them keeping in mind that you are writing your children’s future with your answers.
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You create the results in life that you believe you deserve.
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We teach people how to treat us.
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I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me.
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If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don’t carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.
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You wouldn’t worry so much about what other people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.
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Forgiveness of those who have transgressed against you, or those you love, is not about them; it is about you. It is a gift to yourself.
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If you need a miracle, be a miracle.
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Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?
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At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you’re comfortable with it.
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Awareness without action is worthless.
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We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we’re capable of.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit
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Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.
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I would rather be healthy alone, then sick with someone else.
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First, you’re going to have to stop using food for anything other than nutrition. You cannot continue to use food to celebrate, or as a companion, or for entertainment, or comfort. You cannot medicate yourself, your mood, or pain with food.
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Isn’t it amazing how easily you can cheat yourself out of the right choices by convincing yourself that you deserve the wrong ones? It’s highly illogical when you think about it. You deserve a better life, you deserve better health, and you deserve to lose weight.
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The truth doesn’t have versions, it just is.
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Smugglin’ that by me? That’s like tryin’ to smuggle sunrise past a rooster.
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The most you get is what you ask for.
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All begins with you surrounding yourself with the right people—the good and authentic people—and unsurrounding yourself with the wrong people. And we both know there are plenty of wrong people in this world.
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I didn’t just come in on a load of turnips!
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