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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
Personal Development

"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."
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"In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears."

"What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest."

"That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities, now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way."

"Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?"

"Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend of the coast, sent across the bay a shaft of brightness which paled to ashes in the red glitter of the illuminated boats."

"The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches."

"The fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done."
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