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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.

Maxwell Maltz

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Maxwell Maltz
Age: 86 †
Born: 1889
Born: March 10
Died: 1975
Died: April 7
Author
Physician
Playwright
Psychologist
Surgeon
Writer
New York City
New York
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Greatest
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Others
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Self
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Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project.
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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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Your nervous system can't tell real failure from imagined failure.
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When you're not goal-striving, not looking forward, you're not really living.
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This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind.
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