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If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.

Vernon Howard

What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
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Always Break Mind Through Trying
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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Inspirational Strength Strong
Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.
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Completed Examine Naturally Refuse
You have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is!
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Emergency Language Occupied Operation Simple
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
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Rain Self Wind
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Great Knowledge Power Self
If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
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Loss Opposites Thinking
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Live Nothing Trying
Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can’t have both.
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Block Ground Higher Hurt
It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Creativity Dark Mistakes

If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.

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If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.

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