People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Prescription: Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Decide what you want out of a situation. Always have something ahead of you to “look forward to” — to work for and hope for.

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Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy.

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To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

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I am a firm believer in 'negative thinking' when used correctly. We need to be AWARE of negatives so that we can steer clear of them. A golfer needs to know where the bunkers and sand traps are - but he doesn't think continuously about the bunker - where he doesn't want to go. His mind glances at the bunker, but he DWELLS upon the green.

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Successful people are able to rise above crises by relaxing no matter what the external situation. Their belief in themselves, the strength of their self-image is impenetrable armor, which protects them against shattering events.

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Do not say to yourself, 'I am going to act this way tomorrow.' Just say to yourself - 'I am going to imagine myself acting this way NOW - for 30 minutes - today.'

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What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live - with your self-respect alive and growing.

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Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible.

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Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possilble. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.

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The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

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The biggest secret of self-esteem is this: Begin to appreciate other people more; show respect for any human being merely because he is a child of God and therefore a thing of value.

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Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information which you give to it from your forebrain. Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you THINK or IMAGINE to be 'true.

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Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.

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We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something.

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If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever.

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A step in the wrong direction is better than staying on the spot all our life. Once you're moving forward you can correct your course as you go. Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're standing still.

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Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.

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A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.

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We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

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Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a definite goal to achieve, you can depend upon its automatic guidance system to take you to that goal much better than "you" ever could by conscious thought. "You" supply the goal by thinking in terms of end results. Your automatic mechanism then supplies the means whereby.

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Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.

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