"Choose the words you say to yourself wisely; they are creating your reality."

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Source : Sean Stephenson (2009). “Get Off Your "But": How to End Self-Sabotage and Stand Up for Yourself”, p.62, John Wiley and Sons

Sean Stephenson

#Reality Quotes #Creating Quotes

“I wasn't good at sports and I needed a way to make girls like me.”
“Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.”

Source : Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.159, tredition
“The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads.”

Source : Giuseppe Mazzini (1891). “Life and Writings of Joseph Mazzini...: Autobiographical and political V.2,4,6, Critical and literary”
“Even if they don't know it consciously, people can feel when you are making them into a means to an end only. And people are much less likely to do what you want them to do - for example, to buy the car - when they feel you are reducing them into a means to an end.”
“If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.”
“...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.”
“School did give me one of the greatest gifts of my life, though. I learned how to read, and for that I remain thankful. I would have died otherwise. As soon as I was able, I read, alone. Under the covers with a flashlight or in my corner of the atticâ€”I sought solace in books. It was from books that I started to get an inkling of the kinds of ***** I was dealing with. I found allies too, in books, characters my age who were going through or had triumphed against the same bullshit.”
“I think my most favorite subject was Lena Horne, because she embodies soul and grace and elegance and 'street'. She embodies everything. And beauty â€” great beauty.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.

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