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Better
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He who stops being better stops being good.
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Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience… When one door closes, another one always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.
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Doing more of what doesn't work won't make it work any better.
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Your subconscious mind does not argue with you. It accepts what your conscious mind decrees. If you say, "I can't afford it," your subconscious mind works to make it true. Select a better thought. Decree, "I'll buy it. I accept it in my mind."
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In a humble state, you learn better. I can't find anything else very exciting about humility, but at least there's that.
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Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never grow bigger, better, or more useful.
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Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence. Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation. On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors. Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair... The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external. People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances.
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Better to ask twice than to lose your way once.
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Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.
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Never make your appeal to a man's better nature; he may not have one. Always make your appeal to his self-interest.
