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Why not imagine yourself successful?

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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Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.
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We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.
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