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The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones. (Peter McWilliams)
If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts. View quote
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Don't accept the limitations of other people who claim things are 'unchangeable'. If it's written in stone, bring your hammer and chisel. View quote
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The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted. View quote
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Nothing adventured, nothing attained. View quote
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While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die. View quote
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We are all, right now, living the life we choose. View quote
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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn. View quote
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The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks. View quote
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Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power. View quote
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Keep your goals away from the trolls. (Peter McWilliams)
If you want physical peace, stop the struggle of life. Don't push the body beyond its fatigue point. Rest the body enough. Exercise it enough. Then let it be. ... If you want peace with others, don't fight them. Go your own way. Live your own life. If some walk with you, fine. View quote
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To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real - a dream. To visualize is, in fact, to make visual lies. Visual lies, however, have a way of coming true. View quote
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Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth". View quote
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Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes. View quote
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For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three - the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings. View quote
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Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle. View quote
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No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it. No matter what happens to you, no matter how unfair, inequitable or wrong, there's something you can take from the situation and use for your advancement. View quote
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Guilt is anger directed at ourselves. View quote
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When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it. View quote
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This is our true wealth: the riches we take with us, the joy we carry inside, the support we learn to give ourselves, and the self-loving that flows as a natural by-product of that support. (Peter McWilliams)
I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous. View quote
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All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human consciousness. View quote
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Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury. View quote
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Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories We would be more alive if we did more of this, and, Life would be more lovely if we did less of that. Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away. View quote
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