"Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love."
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"You are what you think about."
"Every action and feeling is preceded by a thought."
"Burn brightly without burning out. Throw your heart over the fense and the rest will follow. Keep your face to the sunshine and you wont see the shadows"
"It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is."
"I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society."
"When two people fall in love, past and future disappear."
"In order to dominate the soul you must also learn to dominate the body. And in order to dominate the body you cannot fear pain."
"Remember that when you truly want something, the entire Universe conspires to make it happen."
"Milk every moment for all the pleasure you can get from it."
"When you let go of the need for any and all outcomes life becomes a creative magical adventure."
"Have a go. Anybody can do it."
"Whatever I fight weakens me. Whatever I cooperate with strengthens me."
"Every thought that you have impacts you. Shift from a thought that weakens to one that strengthens you."
"You can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift...You get to choose"
"It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic."
"Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected and hard to resume. A measure of day-dreaming is a good thing, like a drug prudently used ... But too much submerges and drowns. Woe to the intellectual worker who allows himself to lapse wholly from positive thinking into day-dreaming. He thinks he can easily change back, and tells himself that it is all one. He is wrong! To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse poison with a source of nourishment."
"Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals."
"Positive thinking is about remembering that our internal world creates and is more powerful than the external."
"I wouldn't say 'most' people are prone to negativity. I think it's probably that most people allow negativity to color their thinking, depending on circumstances, but I also believe most people make the necessary efforts to return to positive thinking as quickly as possible."