Quotes by Manly P. Hall

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You can have a new and different life when you decide to shoulder the full responsibility for your own happiness and security.

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If we accept the idea that we live within a universe of purpose, then our own life becomes a purposed experience and a magnificent opportunity to cooperate in the fulfillment of this purpose in every way we can.

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Your very existence in human society is made possible by the cooperation of countless persons whom you will never know. They are all members of a team, and you, likewise, belong on that team.

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We sometimes wonder why we have to clean up other people’s messes. It is because somewhere, sometime, we have left our own.

Ignorance is a kind of sleep from which we awaken through the gentle insistence of learning.

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If we sow the seeds of love and truth, we will reap the harvest of happiness.

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Happiness, like affection, is an energy which must be free. It cannot be locked; it cannot be imposed upon a person; nor can it be demanded from a person.

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Human beings live and die; thoughts come and go; empires rise and fall; but love is eternal.

Illumination is the light of the soul shining outward through the body and transmuting every particle of the material nature with the power of beauty, virtue, and wisdom.

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It is far more important to help people to get better than it is to explain why they are not good.

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Contentment really means that we can remember the past without regrets, meet the present with a degree of serenity, and face the future without excessive fears.

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God is best served by man when men serve each other.

Happiness, contentment, peace of mind, love of beauty, wisdom, and serenity can all be ours without any other person being the poorer.

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The seed of happiness, when it finds good ground, sprouts and grows.

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The accomplishment of the greatest good is the fundamental purpose of life.

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Somehow each soul is in the place that it has earned for itself, with the insight that it has gained for itself, living according to the substance of previous achievement, patterning forward to a greater achievement.

Forms can change, civilizations can be audacious, Atlantean cultures can rise and fall, but life cannot cease; and where there is life, the great archetype of good is indestructible.

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Growth reveals itself as a degree of a process. Somewhere in the past we were less; somewhere in the future we will be more; today we are what we are. And on this very factual foundation we have to build.

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Every time we have a victory over a negation in ourselves, it is a victory over darkness, and we take another firm and important step forward into the light of truth.

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The whole world is like the traditional little red schoolhouse, and we are all students – willing or unwilling – learning our ABC’s in the university of life.

It is important to remember that it is the privilege of the wise man to find good in everything; and there is good in everything because God is in everything.

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The principle of zest is the natural spontaneous enjoyment, the laughing heart, the laughing soul, the soul that finds things good in spite of the ills that do exist.

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When we discover a mistake, the wise thing to do is correct it, build a new life, and prove that we have learned a valuable lesson.

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War is the supreme stupidity of the human race.

Honesty is a jewel of priceless value, and the forces of evil have little power over a life lived true to principle.

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We have to realize that the individual cannot stand still; he cannot be the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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It is not what a man does that causes him to suffer; it is the inharmony between what he does and what he should do.

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We are not here merely to succeed on the physical plane; we are here to succeed totally, which means that we must improve as persons, seeking richer internal values, deeper understanding, and a better orientation to the universal plan.

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Excerpt from Daily Words Of Wisdom

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