"Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated."

-- Carlos Castaneda

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“Pray to God. She will help you.”
“God calls us not only to know His Word, but also to pray it.”

Source : Francis Frangipane (2006). “A House United: How Christ-Centered Unity Can End Church Division”, p.92, Chosen Books
“I'd rather be wrong to set you free than be right to do you harm (162).”
“A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.”

Source : David D. Burns (1980). “Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy”
“I grew up on welfare in the South Bronx; I had a very tough upbringing in that neighborhood. Reading books like The Four Agreements, A Return to Love, and The Power of Now helped me to overcome many internal battles. Had I not worked on myself, put value in myself, I would not have the loving and supportive people that I have right now in my life, including my husband and children”

Source : "Actor Andrea Navedo – Overcoming a tough upbringing and staying healthy and balanced". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was.”
“In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.”
“The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.”

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