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You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.

Maxwell Maltz

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Maxwell Maltz
Age: 86 †
Born: 1889
Born: March 10
Died: 1975
Died: April 7
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Adopt the motto: It doesn't matter who's right, but what's right.
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Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
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When a person has adequate self-esteem little slights offer no threat at all - they are simply passed over and ignored. Even deeper emotional wounds are likely to heal faster and cleaner, with no festering sores to poison life and spoil happiness.
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Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.
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Do not say to yourself, 'I am going to act this way tomorrow.' Just say to yourself - 'I am going to imagine myself acting this way NOW - for 30 minutes - today.'
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We are injured and hurt emotionally, Not so much by other people or what they say and don't say, But by our own attitude and our own response.
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Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.
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Mental pictures offer us an opportunity to practice new traits and attitudes, which otherwise we could not do. This is possible because again - your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an actual experience and one that is vividly imagined.
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You are embarking on the greatest adventure of your life - to improve your self-image, to create more meaning in your life and in the lives of others. This is your responsibility.
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This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind.
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Unthaw and become more natural.
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Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.
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If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
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One's capacity for friendship, which can be developed, is basic to one's capacity for happiness.
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A healthy strong ego, with plenty of self-esteem, does not feel itself threatened by every innocent remark.
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Live in the present. The past is gone the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.
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