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Your nervous system can't tell real failure from imagined failure.
Maxwell Maltz
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Maxwell Maltz
Age: 86 †
Born: 1889
Born: March 10
Died: 1975
Died: April 7
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Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are not holy gospel. Nor are they intimations of a set and decided fate which means that failure is decreed and decided. They originate from your own mind.
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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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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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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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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.'
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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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Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy.
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Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.
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See yourself reacting to threats, not by running away or evading them, but by meeting them, dealing with them, grappling with them in an aggressive intelligent manner.
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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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The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognise your own worth.
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