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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."
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"When life gives you pain, give life your unconditional love."

"You, your thoughts, and your imagination control the doorway to happiness. Service to the humanity is key to that doorway."
Explore more quotes by Ethel Waters

"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."

"Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence."

"Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show."

"It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays."

"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."

"New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been."

"I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow."

"The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade."
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