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Happiness is a mental habit, a mental attitude, and if it is not learned and practiced in the presen...

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I have found that one of the commonest causes of unhappiness among my patients is that they are atte...

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Our errors, mistakes, failures, and sometimes even our humiliations, were necessary steps in the lea...

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Maxwell MaltzPsycho-Cybernetics

Your crown has been bought and paid for. Put it on your head and wear it.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you’re ready or not,...

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A philosophy a system of principles that will guide your thoughts and actions.

Tell the world what you intend to do but first show it.

IF - and this is the greatest of them all - I had the courage to see myself as I reallyam, I would f...

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Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set...

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Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

Disappointment over love affairs generally has the effect of driving men to drink, and women to ruin...

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Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, putting faith into action, big things happen.

when one's avenue of retreat is cut off there is only one way to go - forward.

The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.--"Wanda

Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place fo...

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Don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and...

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An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help...

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I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran...

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Too many are trying to conquer higher weaknesses such as procrastination, impatience or pride while ...

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I must change in order to change the world. The only revolution with any permanent value takes part ...

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We can actually live out the trials and temptations of the day before they come. We can in prayer de...

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Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is s...

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If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straig...

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The main reason that violence correlates with low socioeconomic status today is that the elites and ...

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Steven PinkerThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Determine never to be idle. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Everybody's got skeletons in the closets. Every once in a while, you've got to open up the closet an...

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Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help BookorHow you can survive in the Cosmos about which you know ...

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Walker PercyLost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

Come, said my SoulSuch verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,)That should I after death i...

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It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.

Make the mental physical, and the physical mental, and things will improve.

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A. M. HomesThis Book Will Save Your Life

Suffering is normal. Pain is normal, it is part of life... What is its texture, the weight of our su...

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A. M. HomesThis Book Will Save Your Life

Loneliness makes us more capable of true intimacy if ever better opportunities do come along. We mig...

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When you feel sad, you are participating in a venerable experience, to which I, this monument, am de...

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A fundamental truth, is that there is simply no such thing as an inherently boring person or thing. ...

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In reality, we live in everyone. I live in you. You live in me. There is no gap, no distance. We all...

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We live in everyone. I live in you. You live in me. There is no gap, no distance.

Reconnect with the highest truth and ignite the divine sparks in you.

Highest miracle is to discover who you are – the ultimate possibility.

Meditation is spending time with the self. It is the time to be intimated with the soul.

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

Every struggle is like mud - there are always some lotus seeds waiting to sprout.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Be the music of your soul. Don't be a pawn in someone else's game.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Turn on the light within, expand your horizons and reach your full potential.

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Amit RayPeace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity

Sing your own song. There are always some earnest listeners.

Learn to access the cosmic trust. Life will be easy.

And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to b...

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The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in lov...

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Barbara EhrenreichBright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

Much popular self-help literature normalizes sexism. Rather than linking habits of being, usually co...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

The opposite of "never enough" isn't abundance or "more than you could ever imagine." The opposite o...

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Brené BrownDaring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live

Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do...

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Brené BrownDaring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live

Compassionate people are boundaried people.

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Brené BrownThe Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Your thoughts, vividly imagined and repeated, charged with emotion, become your reality.

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Brian TracyMaximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills that Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed

You'll always get out of life what you put in-and you control what youput in.

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Brian TracyMaximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills that Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed

Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses

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Brian TracyNo Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline

All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.

The world is your perception of it. Inside and outside always match - they're reflections of each ot...

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Byron KatieA Friendly Universe: Sayings to Inspire and Challenge You

it does seemthe more we drinkthe better the wordsgo.

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two y...

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Dale CarnegieHow to Win Friends and Influence People

Just handle what's in front of you now. and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll s...

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Dan MillmanSacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

There is no need to search; achievement leads to nowhere. It makes no difference at all, so just be ...

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Dan MillmanWay of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

Where are you? HereWhat time is it? NowWhat are you? This moment.

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Dan MillmanWay of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

If someone who is agitated comes to visit you, wanting to discuss their agitation and weigh the pros...

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Horror. I can't manage it. I become--well--horrified. Self-help books have a similar effect. When as...

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The wind of God is always blowing... but you must hoist your sail.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she tol...

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You have no obligations to your former self, they are dumber than you and they don’t exist.

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Hank GreenThe Lizzie Bennet Diaries Transmedia Booklet

Don’t play for safety. It’s the most dangerous thing in the world.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see farther.

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be...

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Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so th...

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The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead...

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A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic...

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Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new ent...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

All businesses -- no matter if they make dog food or software -- don't sell products, they sell solu...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you lov...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive break...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have some...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn'...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be di...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation