One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

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You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. — Thomas A. Edison

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The energy you bring, positive or negative, dictates your perceptions, receptions and radiations. ― T.F. Hodge

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The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.

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I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. — Winston Churchill

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With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.

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Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing. - Elbert Hubbard

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