There is an incredible power & intelligence witin you that is constantly responding to your thoughts and words. As you learn to control your mind by the conscious choice of thoughts, you align yourself with this power. Do not think that your mind is in control. You are in control of your mind. You use your mind. You can stop thinking those old thoughts.

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Be your own motivation. — Jon Jones

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Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.

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When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life. ― Roy T. Bennett

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Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

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The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.

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Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

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We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.

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If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. ― Amit Ray

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