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The best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best in the art of...
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When you open your eyes in the morning, say to yourself, I choose happiness today. I choose success today. I choose right action today. I choose love and good will for all today. I choose peace today. Pour life, love, and interest into this affirmation, and you have chosen happiness.
Desire is a wish with wings of imagination and faith.
Happiness comes in answered prayer.
Remember, your life is what your thoughts make of it.
The kingdom of happiness is in your thought and feeling.
There is no block to your happiness. External things are not causative, these are effects, not cause. Take your cue from the only creative principle within you. Your thought is cause, and a new cause produces a new effect. Choose happiness.
The happiest man is he who brings forth the highest and the best in him.
To judge is to think, to arrive at a mental verdict or conclusion in your mind. The thought you have about the other person is your thought, because you are thinking it. Your thoughts are creative, therefore, you actually create in your own experience what you think and feel about the other person. It is also true that the suggestion you give to another, you give to yourself because your mind is the creative medium.
This is why it is said, ‘For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged.’ When you know this law and the way your subconscious mind works, you are careful to think, feel, and act right toward the other.
The good you do for others comes back to you in like measure; and the evil you do returns to you by the law of your own mind.
The way you think, feel, and act toward others returns at ...
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Begin now to observe yourself. Observe your reactions to people, conditions, and circumstances.
He awakened to the simple truth that it is never what a person says or does that affects him, it is his reaction to what is said or done that matters.
‘I am the only thinker in my universe. I am responsible for what I think about my boss. My sales manager is not responsible for the way I think about him. I refuse to give power to any person, place, or thing to annoy me or disturb me. I wish health, success, peace of mind, and happiness for my boss. I sincerely wish him well, and I know he is divinely guided in all his ways.’
Becoming emotionally mature What the other person says or does cannot really annoy or irritate you except you permit him to disturb you. The only way he can annoy you is through your own thought. For example, if you get angry, you have to go through four stages in your mind: You begin to think about what he said. You decide to get angry and generate an emotion of rage. Then, you decide to act. Perhaps, you talk back and react in kind. You see that the thought, emotion, reaction and action all take place in your mind. When you become emotionally mature, you do not respond negatively to the
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Becoming emotionally mature What the other person says or does cannot really annoy or irritate you except you permit him to disturb you. The only way he can annoy you is through your own thought. For example, if you get angry, you have to go through four stages in your mind: You begin to think about what he said. You decide to get angry and generate an emotion of rage. Then, you decide to act. Perhaps, you talk back and react in kind. You see that the thought, emotion, reaction and action all take place in your mind. When you become emotionally mature, you do not respond negatively to the
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Becoming emotionally mature What the other person says or does cannot really annoy or irritate you except you permit him to disturb you. The only way he can annoy you is through your own thought. For example, if you get angry, you have to go through four stages in your mind: You begin to think about what he said. You decide to get angry and generate an emotion of rage. Then, you decide to act. Perhaps, you talk back and react in kind. You see that the thought, emotion, reaction and action all take place in your mind. When you become emotionally mature, you do not respond negatively to the
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Becoming emotionally mature What the other person says or does cannot really annoy or irritate you except you permit him to disturb you. The only way he can annoy you is through your own thought. For example, if you get angry, you have to go through four stages in your mind: You begin to think about what he said. You decide to get angry and generate an emotion of rage. Then, you decide to act. Perhaps, you talk back and react in kind. You see that the thought, emotion, reaction and action all take place in your mind. When you become emotionally mature, you do not respond negatively to the
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Recognize that every man wants to be loved and appreciated, and made to feel important in the world.