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"The gift of love is the gift of the power and capacity to love, and therefore, to give love with full effect is also to receive it. So love can only be kept by being given away, and it can only be given perfectly when it is also received."
"A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there."
"Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities - organize around them."
"I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken."
"Man may become the master of himself, and of his environment, because he has the POWER TO INFLUENCE HIS OWN SUBCONSCIOUS MIND, and through it, gain the cooperation of Infinite Intelligence."
"All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?"
"Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would."
"It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones."
"I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work."
"The dreamers are the saviors of the world."
"Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it."
"There is no such thing as no chance."
"Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it."
"There was never any fear for me, no fear of failure. If I miss a shot, so what?"
"Life is a promise; fulfill it."
"We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal."
"But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite."
"You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere."
"Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy."
"The law of attraction is most understood when you see yourself as a magnet getting more and more of the way you FEEL."
