If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

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For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

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Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny. — Mahatma Gandhi

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Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy. - Robert H. Schuller

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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

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If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining. _ Guy Finley

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Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

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The first place we lose the battle is in our own thinking. If you think it is permanent then it's permanent. If you think you've reached your limits then you have. If you think you will never get well then you won't. You have to change your thinking. You need to see everything that's holding you back, every obstacle, every limitation as only temporary. Joel Osteen

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Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. – Willie Nelson

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

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