Law Motivational Quotes

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Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.
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Steve Maraboli (Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience)
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LAW 4 Always Say Less Than Necessary When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.
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Robert Greene (The 48 Laws of Power)
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The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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LAW 46 Never Appear Too Perfect Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. Envy creates silent enemies. It is smart to occasionally display defects, and admit to harmless vices, in order to deflect envy and appear more human and approachable. Only gods and the dead can seem perfect with impunity.
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Robert Greene (The 48 Laws of Power)
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You attract who you are being. When you work at being the type of person that you want to attract, you attract those kinds of people into your life.
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Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)
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LAW 25 Re-Create Yourself Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define if for you. Incorporate dramatic devices into your public gestures and actions – your power will be enhanced and your character will seem larger than life.
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Robert Greene (The 48 Laws of Power)
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You don't have to be good at something to be liked.
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Stephen Richards
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When you concentrate your energy purposely on the future possibility that you aspire to realize, your energy is passed on to it and makes it attracted to you with a force stronger than the one you directed towards it.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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LAW 38 Think As You Like But Behave Like Others If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox ways, people will think that you only want attention and that you look down upon them. They will find a way to punish you for making them feel inferior. It is far safer to blend in and nurture the common touch. Share your originality only with tolerant friends and those who are sure to appreciate your uniqueness.
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Robert Greene (The 48 Laws of Power)
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Everything is within your power, and your power is within you.
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Janice Trachtman (Catching What Life Throws at You: Inspiring True Stories of Healing)
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Every sunrise is priceless and you can experience the richness that life holds only when you live life to the full instead of just being an onlooker.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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Without desires and dreams, your thoughts do not matter and you can think whatever you want to.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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The realisation that limitations are imaginary will make you strong and overpowering.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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Grateful souls focus on the happiness and abundance present in their lives and this in turn attracts more abundance and joy towards them.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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Never allow your mind to wander untamed like a wild animal that exists on the basis of survival of the fittest. Tame your mind with consistent focus on your goals and desires.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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We are exactly what our history made us to be.
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Stephen Richards (Boost Your Self Esteem)
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Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives. The vision of your true destiny does not reside within the blinkered outlook of the naysayers and the doom prophets. Judge not by their words, but accept advice based on the evidence of actual results. Do not be surprised should you find a complete absence of anything mystical or miraculous in the manifested reality of those who are so eager to advise you. Friends and family who suffer the lack of abundance, joy, love, fulfillment and prosperity in their own lives really have no business imposing their self-limiting beliefs on your reality experience.
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Anthon St. Maarten
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The universe and the law of attraction speak a language that knows no words, only discerning your intent through sacrifice and what you are willing to give up.
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Forrest Curran (Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love)
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Positive belief in yourself will give you the energy needed to conquer the world and this belief is the power behind all creation.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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Manifesting is a lot like making a cake. The things needed are supplied by you, the mixing is done by your mind and the baking is done in the oven of the universe.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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What we perceive about ourselves is greatly a reflection of how we will end up living our lives.
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Stephen Richards (Boost Your Self Esteem)
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Be yourself and become wealthy!
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Stephen Richards
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The first place where self-esteem begins its journey is within us.
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Stephen Richards (Boost Your Self Esteem)
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Whether between man and women, man and man, or woman and woman; look not towards any system that binds society created by man for guidance, but be guided by the principles of love. Love is the only law that commands this universe, and is the only language that is understood universally.
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Forrest Curran (Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love)
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The difference between being mediocre and achieving excellence is you.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.
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Napoleon Hill (Law of Success)
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A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life.
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Stephen Richards (Boost Your Self Esteem)
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Each person has got a voice inside them. Communicate with it and take hold of it. Do not let it push and shove you around – you are its master!
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Stephen Richards (Boost Your Self Esteem)
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Give yourself freedom to grow through love, as love is the most natural direction for humans to grow, just as every tree grows upward towards the sky. Don’t try to control the way that love moves, as any attempt will be futile, for love grows like the branches, wildly growing by the laws of nature, rather than by human rational. Let love grow by her own nature.
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Forrest Curran (Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love)
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A barrier is a limitation only when you perceive it as one.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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Though money cannot acquire you happiness, it does not mean that both money and happiness cannot exist together.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance, albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking processes attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect reality; it is the map we use for organizing our life.
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Erich Fromm (To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche)
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It is not enough if you just live life as it comes to you like a floating leaf in a pond. Make use of the powers bestowed in you and soar like an eagle.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.
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Philip Yancey
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Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.
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John C. Maxwell (The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential)
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A good self-esteem level is mostly dependant on how we value ourselves without any bias.
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Stephen Richards (Boost Your Self Esteem)
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How we relate with other people is dependent on how we rate ourselves and what we think about ourselves.
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Stephen Richards (Boost Your Self Esteem)
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There is nothing around me but money, money, money.
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Stephen Richards
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The law of attraction is synonymous to the law of sacrifice, in which you get in return what you are decisively choose to give up. The universe in all her infinity beauty generously opens up gates that you had no idea existed when you close others, but she requires you to walk through the gates solely on your own will and strength, with the other doors that you have left behind often times being forever locked and eternally inaccessible.
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Forrest Curran (Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love)
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If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.
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John C. Maxwell (The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential)
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Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment. An honest woman can sell tangerines all day and remain a good person until she dies, but there will always be naysayers who will try to convince you otherwise. Perhaps this woman did not give them something for free, or at a discount. Perhaps too, that she refused to stand with them when they were wrong β€” or just stood up for something she felt was right. And also, it could be that some bitter women are envious of her, or that she rejected the advances of some very proud men. Always trust your heart. If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to her.
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Suzy Kassem (Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem)
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Don't hang out with people who are: Ungrateful Unhelpful Unruly Unkindly Unloving Unambitious Unmotivated or make you feel... Uncomfortable
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Germany Kent
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If you take any step, no matter how small it is, towards achieving your dreams then you will surely find the right path and reach the abundance that lies in store for you.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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A person today who seems to have a great sense of self-esteem has his or her childhood days to thank for it.
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Stephen Richards (Boost Your Self Esteem)
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With every challenge you face, there is an opportunity hidden that will lead you towards the path of wealth and abundance.
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Stephen Richards (Be First: Achieve Every Dream)
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Limitations are like mirages created by your own mind. When you realise that limitation do not exist, those around you will also feel it and allow you inside their space.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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Failures can be called β€˜strengtheners’ as they make you determined to reach your goal with the lessons they teach.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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Not basing your principles of sex based on the judgment of other or on hearsay, uphold yourself to virtues that you believe in. Before any laws created by man, religion, and culture; the universe has always held us under the principles of love in all endeavors in life, and this applies to sex as well. Sex is a very personal experience and the morals you follow under this act are a personal notion that you create yourself for the sake of your personal happiness.
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Forrest Curran (Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love)
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But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn't, and the fallout bleeds right into his life? Whats stronger- the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?
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Jodi Picoult (Perfect Match)
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Sometimes what seems so right turns out wrong and what seems so wrong turns out right. What do I call this phenomenon? Life.
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Charles F. Glassman (Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life)
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Have faith in the universe and its capability to lead you to the path of abundance.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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Winning is great, but if it's not enough then then you'll never have enough!
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Stephen Richards
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If someone does not consider those around them to be valuable and hold only themselves in high regard, they too have a very bad self-esteem.
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Stephen Richards (Boost Your Self Esteem)
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Whatever belief we have actually stems from the thankfulness that we feel and this feeling further attracts more happy feelings towards us.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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Some people majored in English to prepare for law school. Others became journalists. The smartest guy in the honors program, Adam Vogel, a child of academics, was planning on getting a Ph.D. and becoming an academic himself. That left a large contingent of people majoring in English by default. Because they weren't left-brained enough for science, because history was too try, philosophy too difficult, geology too petroleum-oriented, and math too mathematical - because they weren't musical, artistic, financially motivated, or really all that smart, these people were pursuing university degrees doing something no different from what they'd done in first grade: reading stories. English was what people who didn't know what to major in majored in.
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Jeffrey Eugenides (The Marriage Plot)
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It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole body of which he is an integral part. In the same way no one can sin, nor suffer the effects of sin, alone. In reality, there is no such thing as 'separateness' and the nearest approach to that selfish state which the laws of life permit is in the intent or motive.
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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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WHEN YOU WORK FOR OTHERS, YOU ARE AT THEIR MERCY. THEY OWN YOUR WORK; THEY OWN YOU. YOUR CREATIVE SPIRIT IS SQUASHED. WHAT KEEPS YOU IN SUCH POSITIONS IS A FEAR OF HAVING TO SINK OR SWIM ON YOUR OWN. INSTEAD YOU SHOULD HAVE A GREATER FEAR OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU IF YOU REMAIN DEPENDENT ON OTHERS FOR POWER. YOUR GOAL IN EVERY MANEUVER IN LIFE MUST BE OWNERSHIP, WORKING THE CORNER FOR YOURSELF. WHEN IT IS YOURS TO LOSE-YOU ARE MORE MOTIVATED, MORE CREATIVE, MORE ALIVE. THE ULTIMATE POWER IN LIFE IS TO BE COMPLETELY SELF-RELIANT, COMPLETELY YOURSELF.
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Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson (The 50th Law)
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Without enthusiasm then what we have surrounded ourselves with becomes worthless.
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Stephen Richards
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Once we open our eyes to the infinite magic that the universe has in abundance, we are sure to be enthralled by what we see and this miraculous creation gets us closer to our dreams and to the world as a whole.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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Positive thinking is powerful thinking. If you want happiness, fulfillment, success and inner peace, start thinking you have the power to achieve those things. Focus on the bright side of life and expect positive results.
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Germany Kent
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According to the Law of Attraction, the physical reality that you experience at present is drawn towards the future probability you desired when it attains more power.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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Becoming wealthy is about accumulating wealth.
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Stephen Richards
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Morality and righteousness is based on intent, love, and in giving; yet, how is it that we as humans have come to view the act of sex with a different set of arbitrary laws? Specifically pigeonholed as an act between man and women, and with righteousness based on an unsystematic number of people we have slept with; as a civilization we have come to bind society with a set of laws largely advantageous to a specific sex, with the minority heavily antagonized and chastised. The universe knows not what sexual morality is, only what is right and wrong. The same principles that dictate morals also command the virtues of sex. Is it with the right intent? Is it based on love? Is it based on giving?
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Forrest Curran (Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love)
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The people around you are generally mysterious. You are never quite sure about their intentions. They present an appearance that is often deceptiveβ€”their manipulative actions don’t match their lofty words or promises. All of this can prove confusing. Seeing people as they are, instead of what you think they should be, would mean having a greater sense of their motives.
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Robert Greene (The 50th Law: Overcoming Adversity Through Fearlessness)
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We need more than just the Law of Attraction. We need to connect with its more successful twin, the Law of Generosity. And further entwine ourselves with their parent; the Law of Love.
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Steve Maraboli (Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience)
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When you are drowned by your sorry state, and you feel as if you are carried away from the road that leads to your desires, you should know that you are the one responsible for being led away from the right path.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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To control your life, control your mind. To control your mind, control your breath.
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Stephen Richards
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Our own self-esteem is something we can actually twist in whatever way we want.
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Stephen Richards (Boost Your Self Esteem)
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If we can acquire an attitude of self-belief, then we will surely determine our future actions and our future life opportunities.
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Stephen Richards (Boost Your Self Esteem)
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What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?
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Jodi Picoult (Perfect Match)
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The law of nature is: Do the thing, and you shall have the power, but they who do not the thing have not the power.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (Compensation: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series)
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Do not invest time and money into yourself to have others completely destroy it!
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Stephen Richards
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Choice forms the divider which is responsible for the formation of all futures that can be possible.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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On the other hand, if the future is not the one you chose then you may have to use your willpower to obtain the future of your liking.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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The gratitude that you feel leads to faith in the abundance and with every resonance that radiates from your mind more strong feelings of faith start to reside in you.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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Success is within reach of all people, but you can grasp it only when you realise the power within you.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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In reality there are no limitations. They are vibrant and changeable to whatever form you want them to take to realise your goals.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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The only secret of wealth creation is knowing how to use Cosmic Ordering.
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Stephen Richards (Cosmic Ordering Guide)
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The psyche cannot tolerate a vacuum of love. In the severely abused or deprived child, pain, dis-ease, and violance rush in to fill the void. In the average person in our culture, who has been only "normally" deprived of touch, anxiety and an insatiable hunger for posessions replace the missing eros. The child lacking a sense of welcome, joyous belonging, gratuitous security, will learn to hoard the limited supply of affection. According to the law of psychic compensation, not being held leads to holding on, grasping, addiction, posessiveness. Gradually, things replace people as a source of pleasure and security. When the gift of belonging with is denied, the child learns that love means belongin to. To the degree we are arrested at this stage of development, the needy child will dominate our motivations. Other people and things (and there is fundamentally no difference) will be seen as existing solely for the purpose of "my" survival and satisfaction. "Mine" will become the most important word.
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Sam Keen (The Passionate Life: Stages of Loving)
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Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy or consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.
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W.E.B. Du Bois (The Souls of Black Folk)
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Least effort is expended when our actions are motivated by love, because nature is held together by the energy of love.
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Deepak Chopra (The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams)
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Unhappiness can be like a virus spreading from one person, to the next person, to the next one and so on. When someone is mean or rude to you, do not let their unhappiness infect your own life. If you are the unhappy one, please quarantine yourself so you do not infect others!
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Jennifer O'Neill (Soul DNA: Your Spiritual Genetic Code Defines Your Purpose)
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In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion of holy solemnity.
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Criss Jami (Killosophy)
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Be yourself....and make the world adjust!
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Germany Kent
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If you are in a position where you can reach people, then use your platform to stand up for a cause. HINT: social media is a platform.
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Germany Kent
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The energy we put out is the energy we get back.
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Rachael Bermingham
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No matter what your wishes, they are not crazy so long as they are not crazy to you!
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Stephen Richards
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Willful blindness sees no end of damage done.
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Stephen Richards
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In the spiritual world many forms of the physical universe that are potentially effective can be perceived but with regard to time, we can observe only one form.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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That so many of us find it entirely plausible that a vast network of researchers and health officials and doctors worldwide would willfully harm children for money is evidence of what capitalism is really taking from us. Capitalism has already impoverished the working people who generate wealth for others. And capitalism has already impoverished us culturally, robbing unmarketable art of its value. But when we begin to see the pressures of capitalism as innate laws of human motivation, when we begin to believe that everyone is owned, then we are truly impoverished.
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Eula Biss (On Immunity: An Inoculation)
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Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns in to universal, rather than religion-specific, values... it requires that their proposals be subject to argument and amenable to reason. Now I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, to take one example, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God's will. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all.
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Barack Obama
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God has given you your identity, and that cannot be taken away. God has imbued you with infinite potential, and that cannot be taken away. God has provided you with the opportunity to change your thinking in an instant, and that cannot be taken away. God has given you the capacity to love, and that cannot be taken away. God has entrusted you with the power to live in the light of His abundance in any moment, and that cannot be taken away.
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Marianne Williamson (The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles)
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The sign of a good leader is easy to recognize, though it is hardly ever seen. For the greatest leaders are those who share as equals in the trials and struggles, the demands and expectations, the hills and trenches, the laws and punishments placed upon the backs of those governed. A great leader is motivated not by power but by compassion. Therefore he can do nothing but make himself a servant to those whom he rules. Such a leader is unequivocally respected, and loved for loving.
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Richelle E. Goodrich (Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year)
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We preach and practice brotherhood β€” not only of man but of all living beings β€” not on Sundays only but on all the days of the week. We believe in the law of universal justice β€” that our present condition is the result of our past actions and that we are not subjected to the freaks of an irresponsible governor, who is prosecutor and judge at the same time; we depend for our salvation on our own acts and deeds and not on the sacrificial death of an attorney.
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Virchand Gandhi (The Monist)
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A strong and capable leader can stand on their own two feet. A wimpy puppet of a leader needs to have their father, their father-in-law, mother, mother-in-law, sister, nursemaid, paid 'yes' people, etc. prop him up. That's fine if he is a baby, but not fine when he is a grown man. If he is capable of leading a company without the help of nepotism, then his workers will respect him and naturally get motivated to support him as a leader. - Strong by Kailin Gow
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Kailin Gow
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I figure... ...that the people are now more deeply conscious than ever before in history of the existence and functioning principles of universal, inexorable physical laws; of the pervading, quietly counseling truth within each and every one of us; of the power of love; and--each man by himself--of his own developing, dynamic relationship with his own conception of the Almightiness of the All-Knowing. ...that our contemporaries just don't wear their faith on their sleeves anymore. ...that people have removed faith from their sleeves because they found out for themselves that faith is much too important for careless display. Now they are willing to wait out the days and years for the truthful events, encouraged individually from within; and the more frequently the dramatic phrases advertising love, patriotism, fervent belief, morals, and good fellowship are plagiarized, appropriated and exhibited in the show windows of the world by the propaganda whips for indirect and ulterior motives, no matter how meager the compromise--the more do people withdraw within themselves and shun taking issue with the nauseating perversions, though eternally exhibiting quiet indifference, nonchalance or even cultivating seemingly ignorant acceptance.
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R. Buckminster Fuller
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The United States has 250 Billion tons of recoverable coal reserves - enough to last 100 years even at double the current rate of consumption.' We humans have inhabited the earth for many thousands of years, and now we can look forward to surviving for another hundred by doubling our consumption of coal? This is national security? The world-ending fire of industrial fundamentalism may already be burning in our furnaces and engines, but if it will burn for a hundred more years, that will be fine. Surely it would be better to intend straightforwardly to contain the fire and eventually put it out! But once greed has been made an honorable motive, then you have an economy without limits. It has no place for temperance or thrift or the ecological law of return. It will do anything. It is monstrous by definition.
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Wendell Berry
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Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor. For me, at least, I can declare that when I wrote THINGS FALL APART I couldn't have told anyone the day before it was accepted for publication that anybody was going to read it. There was no guarantee; nobody ever said to me, Go and write this, we will publish it and we will read it; it was just there. But my brother-in-law who was not a particularly voracious reader, told me that he read the novel through the night and it gave him a terrible headache the next morning. And I took that as an encouraging endorsement! The triumph of the written word is often attained when the writer achieves union and trust with the reader, who then becomes ready to be drawn deep into unfamiliar territory, walking in borrowed literary shoes so to speak, toward a deeper understanding of self or society, or of foreign peoples, cultures and situations.
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Chinua Achebe (There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra)
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This vacillation between assertion and denial in discussions about organised abuse can be understood as functional, in that it serves to contain the traumatic kernel at the heart of allegations of organised abuse. In his influential β€˜just world’ theory, Lerner (1980) argued that emotional wellbeing is predicated on the assumption that the world is an orderly, predictable and just place in which people get what they deserve. Whilst such assumptions are objectively false, Lerner argued that individuals have considerable investment in maintaining them since they are conducive to feelings of selfβ€”efficacy and trust in others. When they encounter evidence contradicting the view that the world is just, individuals are motivated to defend this belief either by helping the victim (and thus restoring a sense of justice) or by persuading themselves that no injustice has occurred. Lerner (1980) focused on the ways in which the β€˜just world’ fallacy motivates victim-blaming, but there are other defences available to bystanders who seek to dispel troubling knowledge. Organised abuse highlights the severity of sexual violence in the lives of some children and the desire of some adults to inflict considerable, and sometimes irreversible, harm upon the powerless. Such knowledge is so toxic to common presumptions about the orderly nature of society, and the generally benevolent motivations of others, that it seems as though a defensive scaffold of disbelief, minimisation and scorn has been erected to inhibit a full understanding of organised abuse. Despite these efforts, there has been a recent resurgence of interest in organised abuse and particularly ritualistic abuse (eg Sachs and Galton 2008, Epstein et al. 2011, Miller 2012).
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Michael Salter (Organised Sexual Abuse)