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The more you have to talk yourself into it, the more it’s not ‘it’.

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Don't try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness.
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Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.
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Successful people pay more attention to their visions and goals than to history and the opinions of others.
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The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.
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Teach yourself freedom with the same zeal that the world has taught you limits.
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All limits exist only in thought, and that is where they are overcome.
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Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.
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I tend to write songs fast, so the process usually only lasts around 30 minutes. In the studio is where I really can artistically breathe, and let my ideas flow.
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I love the balls-to-the-walls rule-breaking approach the Beatles had in the studio (which I emulate), although I don't try to make my songs sound like their songs. But every time I crank a knob of some piece of equipment, or plug an instrument into the wrong amp/effect, I am channeling the Beatles.
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Today I set my mind and heart on a new path. I focus my energy on love, appreciation, and my highest possibilities.
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The difficulties of life do not keep you from greatness. They show you to its door.
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