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Having an identity that is specifically linked to your age or how you look would definitely set you up for pain because these things will change. If we have a broader sense of who we are, our identity never becomes threatened.
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Pain is part of life. Suffering is an option.
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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.
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You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear.
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What's talked about is a dream, What's envisioned is exciting, What's planned become possible, What's scheduled is real.
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Everybody has a different strategy, but everybody agrees that active management does not beat the market.
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The power of reading a great book is that you start thinking like the author. For those magical moments while you are immersed in the forests of Arden, you are William Shakespeare; while you are shipwrecked on Treasure Island, you are Robert Louis Stevenson; while you are communing with nature at Walden, you are Henry David Thoreau. You start to think like they think, feel like they feel, and use imagination as they would. Their references become your own, and you carry these with you long after you've turned the last page.
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Change your story, change your life. Divorce the story of limitation, and marry the story of the truth and everything changes.
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It's not about the goal. It's about becoming the type of person that can accomplish the goal.
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Begin to live as though your prayers are already answered.
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Why wait to be memorable?
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The quality of my life was the quality of my questions.
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If your life's worth living, it's worth recording.
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Often people talk about how they feel 'stuck' in a situation. You're never stuck! You may be a little frustrated, you may not have clear answers, but you're not stuck. The minute you represent the situation to yourself as being stuck, though, that's exactly how you'll feel. We must be very careful about the metaphors we allow ourselves to use.
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If you are driven by certainty you can't grow. If you are driven by certainty if somebody messes with you, you can get very intense, even violent, depending upon the person's personality.
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The words that we attach to our experience become our experience.
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Success without happiness is failure.
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The past doesn't equal the future. All great leaders, all people who have achieved in any area of life, know the power of continuously pursuing their vision, even if all the details of how to achieve it aren't yet available
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If you don’t trust, you will die if not physically then emotionally. To do anything in life, you must have faith.
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If you don't master money, it's going to master you.
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Don't be afraid of new ideas. Be afraid of old ideas. They keep you where you are and stop you from growing and moving forward. Concentrate on where you want to go, not on what you fear.
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I'm always loading my brain with new ways of looking at something.
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I always believe leaders are readers, so you've got to read 30 minutes a day of something that's going to inspire you.
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Information without execution is poverty.