"What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement."

Hill, Napoleon on Perseverance
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"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."

Carlyle, Thomas on Perseverance
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"A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying."

Burroughs, John on Blame
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"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."

Edison, Thomas A. on Failure
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"How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory."

Harris, Franco on Thoughts and Thinking
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"If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself."

Angelis, Barbara De on Self-love
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"Winners take chances. Like everyone else, they fear failing, but they refuse to let fear control them."

Simms, Nancy on Control
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"You can be right or you can be happy."

Jampolsky, Gerald G. on Right and Rightness
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"Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others."

Jampolsky, Gerald G. on Peace of Mind
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"Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate."

Chuang Tzu on Control
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"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"

Thoreau, Henry David on Busyness
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"Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets."

Moustakas, Clark on Acceptance
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"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

Brown, Les on Fear
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"Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear."

Carnegie, Dale on Fear
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"Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill."

Freud, Sigmund on Self discovery
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"Everything begins with accepting oneself. Without self-acceptance, one cannot accomplish anything."

Nguyen, Xuan-Thu on Self-acceptance
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"It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others."

Harris, Sidney J. on Self-Conflict
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"When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life."

Bolen, Jean Shinoda on Self-love
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"You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output -- how much you produce -- not in terms of the quality of your life experiences. To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution."

Bolen, Jean Shinoda on Soul
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"Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving."

Maltz, Maxwell on Self-love
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"A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life."

Matthews, Andrew on Self-love
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"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."

Dowd, Maureen on Acceptance
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"Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules."

Dyer, Wayne on Present
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"The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls."

Jampolsky, Gerald G. on Control
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"Even the people we most admire often feel inadequate."

Matthews, Andrew on Idols
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"A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not."

Talmud, The on Enjoyment
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"Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow."

Talmud, The on Adversity
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"Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future."

Unknown, Source on Fate
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"There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down -- until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living."

Sheehan, George on Procrastination
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"Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto."

Carnegie, Dale on Present
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"When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present -- our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love -- everything that moves us most deeply."

Kornfield, Jack on Present
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"Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future. You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity, and the sour sound of whining will certainly frighten away any opportunity for success. Never again. There is a better way."

Mandino, Og on Present
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"Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating."

Sher, Barbara on Present
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"You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning."

Sher, Barbara on Dreams
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"Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph."

Selassie, Haile on Procrastination
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"I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day."

Sher, Barbara on Health
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"People have to face regrets. Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen. When someone attaches unkindness to criticism, she's angry. Angry people need to criticize as an outlet for their anger. That's why you must reject unkind criticism. Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish. Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle between misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle at all. And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life is just okay, sometimes it's comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your day's not perfect, it's not a failure or a terrible loss. It's just another day."

Sher, Barbara on Regret
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"You don't have to get it right the first time."

Sher, Barbara on Action
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"Look well to this day, for it, and it alone is life."

Unknown, Source on Present
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"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."

Hill, Napoleon on Procrastination
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