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" Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. "
Step
Acceptance
First Step
" A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain. "
Stronger
Weakest Link
Chain
" Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. "
You
Motivational
Does
" Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. "
Action
May
Happiness
" Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. "
Together
Will
Control
" A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. "
Think
People
Great
" A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him. "
Many
Who
Him
" An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible. "
Possible
Quality
Chosen
" An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation. "
Force
Revelation
Come
" Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. "
Motivational
You
Will
" Belief creates the actual fact. "
Actual
Belief
Fact
" Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. "
Positive
Living
Believe
" Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. "
Step
Acceptance
First Step
" Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake. "
Compared
Awake
Half
" Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. "
Young
Will
Walking
" Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. "
Find
You
Test
" Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. "
Two
Day
He
" Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not. "
Year
Force
Month
" Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible. "
Which
Faith
Belief
" Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. "
Genius
Way
Than
" Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. "
Than
Show
Resources
" How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. "
Secret
Men
Endure
" Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. "
Human
Mind
Lives
" I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing. "
Happy
Because
Sing
" If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick. "
Sick
Becomes
Fulfill
" If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. "
Feeling Good
Good
Feeling
" If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door. "
Subliminal
Grace
Through
" If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. "
Change
Believe
Reality
" If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. "
You
Result
Leadership
" If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. "
Leadership
You
Want
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