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The Only Power You Need to Be Free of Troublesome People Since what other people do to you is not in your power to change, you need only concern yourself with what you do to yourself, for that is in your power

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Guy Finley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: February 22
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If we only knew how many times our seemingly clever comment cut straight into the heart of the person with whom we have just spoken, it is we who would bleed.
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The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.
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The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!
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The only one interested in hearing your sad story is . . . you and even you wish you didn't have to relive it again!
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Make it your moment-to-moment aim to recognize the difference between being aware of your thoughts, and being carried along by them.
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Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. Drop all such sorrow permanently by daring to see through this deception of the unconscious mind. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today
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