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Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome: for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, 'It's no use - I can't do it.'
Maxwell Maltz
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Maxwell Maltz
Age: 86 †
Born: 1889
Born: March 10
Died: 1975
Died: April 7
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Plan all you want for the future. Prepare for it. But don't worry about how you will react tomorrow, or even five minutes from now. Your creative mechanism will react appropriately in the 'now' if you pay attention to what is happening now.
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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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This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind.
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Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
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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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