"I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake."
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"The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering."
"When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow."
"The present moment is the still point around which the universe arises and subsides, only to be reborn again, fresh as a new born child."
"A man's life is what his thoughts make of it."
"Change your thinking. Change your life! Your thoughts create your reality. Practice positive thinking. Act the way you want to be, and soon you will be the way you act."
"My every thought has the power either to wound or heal. I will use my thoughts wisely and respect their power."
"Do well and you will have no need for ancestors."
"Give something back by becoming more"
"What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences."
"Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy."
"The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind."
"The more positive you are when you think and work toward your goals, the faster you achieve them."
"When you choose to be pleasant and positive in the way you treat others, you have also chosen, in most cases, how you are going to be treated by others."
"You might find it necessary to 'snap' out of your mental inertia, moving slowly at first, then increasing your speed, until you gain complete control over your will. Be persistent no matter how slowly you may, at first, have to move. With persistence will come success."
"Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others."
"Enlightenment is not the process of learning 'new' information. It is the process of 'reminding' ourselves that the answers are already 'within our consciousness'. All knowledge, all energy, all information is within us, not outside of us. it always has been and always will be."
"People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true."
"Positive thoughts keep you in harmony with the universe."
"There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly."