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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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