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Change your thoughts and you can change the world.

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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

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The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.

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Fill the day with enthusiasm. Give the day all you've got and it will give you all it's got, which will be plenty.

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Believe that problems do have answers. Believe that they can be overcome. Believe that they can be handled. And finally, believe that you can solve them.

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Hope is wanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it-you go right on wanting it.

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If you worry, you are a worrier because your mind is saturated with worry thoughts. To counteract these, mark every passage in your Bible that speaks of faith, hope, and courage.

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Tell yourself every morning as you go to work that you love your job. Think of it as interesting, even fascinating. By so doing you will ultimately get enthusiastic about your work — and you will undoubtedly do a better job.

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If you think in positive terms, you will achieve positive results.

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Go at life with abandon; give it all you've got. And life will give all it has to you.

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There is nothing at all wrong with having money unless money has you.

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It's not necessary to be born again. You have your way to God, I have mine. I found eternal peace in a Shinto shrine … I've been to Shinto shrines and God is everywhere. … Christ is one of the ways! God is everywhere.

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The big question isn't whether you have problems; the all-important factor is your attitude toward problems. How you think of the problem is more important than the problem itself.

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The word resentment means to re-feel...to feel again. Someone wrongs or wounds you; in resenting it, you re-feel the injury. And you re-hurt yourself. The Hebrew Talmud says that a person who bears a grudge is "Like one who, having cut one hand while handling a knife, avenges himself by stabbing the other hand."

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Don't tense up no matter what, for you only close off creative power when you do.

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The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

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Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive cannot be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.

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Believe that all the resources you need are in your mind. That is a formula that really works.

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When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.

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Whatever your problem, no matter how difficult, you can release spiritual power sufficient to solve your problem. The secret is--pray and believe.

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Even if you may be down to the worst, the best is potentially within you. You only have to find it, release it, and rise up with it. This requires courage and character, to be sure, but the main requirement is faith. Cultivate faith and you will have the necessary courage and character.

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Expecting the best means that you put your whole heart (i.e. the central essence of your personality) into what you want to accomplish. People are defeated in life not because of lack of ability, but for lack of wholeheartedness. They do not wholeheartedly expect to succeed. Their heart isn't in it, which is to say, they themselves are not fully given.

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Go to inspirational meetings, get to know men and women who are doing inspiring things. Above all, run as hard as you can from the cynics and gripers and the negativists. They are not going anywhere. You are.

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No matter how many worries and anxieties harass you, remember always that they are removable. Enthusiasm with its immense mental and spiritual power can cancel out all fear.

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Never let any mistake cause you to stop believing in yourself. Learn from it and go on.

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Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

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Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.

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Keep thinking, keep interested, keep praying, keep dreaming. Be mentally sensitive at all times so that the magic word that motivates you may one day speak to your deep inner self.

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You must never conclude, even though everything goes wrong, that you cannot succeed. Even at the worst there is a way out, a hidden secret that can turn failure into success and despair into happiness. No situation is so dark that there is not a ray of light

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You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing.

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