The Game of Life and How to Play It Quotes

“You can control any situation if you first control yourself.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How To Play It

“Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“Man must prepare for the thing he has asked for, when there isn't the slightest sign of it in sight.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How To Play It

“Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How To Play It

“The subconscious mind has no sense of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy experiences.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“The robbers of time are the past and the future. Man should bless the past, and forget it, if it keeps him in bondage, and bless the future, knowing it has in store for him endless joys, but live fully in the now.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“There is an old saying that man only dares use his words for three purposes, to "heal, bless or prosper." What man says of others will be said of him, and what he wishes for another, he is wishing for himself.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“Bills should be paid cheerfully, all money should be sent forth fearlessly and with a blessing.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play it : Classic Collection

“Make an affirmation immediately upon waking. For example: "Thy will be done this day! Today is a day of completion, I give thanks for this perfect day, miracle shall follow miracle and wonders shall never cease." Make this a habit, and one will see wonders and miracles come into his life.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“Ask, and it shall be given you, seek, and ye shall find, knock, and it shall be opened unto you. (Mat. 7:7).”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How To Play It

“Infinite Spirit open the way for great abundance for — —. She is an irresistible magnet for all that belongs to her by divine right.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life And How To Play It

“I cast this burden of resentment on the Christ within, and I go free, to be loving, harmonious and happy.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“What man condemns in others, he attracts to himself.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How To Play It

“fear must be erased from the consciousness.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How To Play It

“Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How To Play It

“A keen observer of life once said, "no man can fail, if some one person sees him successful." Such is the power of the vision, and many a great man owed his success to a wife, or sister, or a friend who "believed in him" and held without wavering to the perfect pattern!”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How To Play It

“I told her God was her supply, and that there is a supply for every demand.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How To Play It

“So we see, to play successfully the game of life, we must train the imaging faculty.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How To Play It

“Wisdom's ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How To Play It

“act as if”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How To Play It

“Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap." This means that whatever man sends out in word or deed, will return to him; what he gives, he will receive.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How To Play It

“The horse-shoe or rabbit's foot contains no power, but man's spoken word and belief that it will bring good luck creates expectancy in the subconscious mind, and attracts a "lucky situation.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How To Play It

“Intuition means, intuition, or to be taught from within. It is man's unerring guide,”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How To Play It

“The superconscious mind is the God Mind within each man, and is the realm of perfect ideas.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How To Play It

“The student continued, “How long must one remain in the dark” and I replied, “Until one can see in the dark,” and “Casting the burden enables one to see in the dark.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“Agree with thine adversary quickly." This means, agree that the adverse situation is good, be undisturbed by it, and it falls away of its own weight. "None of these things move me," is a wonderful affirmation. The inharmonious situation comes from some inharmony within man himself. When there is, in him, no emotional response to an inharmonious situation, it fades away forever, from his pathway. So we see man's work is ever with himself. People have said to me, "Give treatments to change my husband, or my brother." I reply, "No, I will give treatments to change you; when you change, your husband and your brother will change.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“Make an affirmation immediately upon waking.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How To Play It

“All things whatsoever ye ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive." "You must act as if you had already received.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How To Play It

“There is a place that you are to fill and no one else can fill, something you are to do, which no one else can do." There”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“Before ye call I shall answer." This means that "every good and perfect gift" is already man's awaiting his recognition.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How To Play It