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True success and true happiness not only go together but each other enhances the other.

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
Enhances
Happiness
Success
True
Together

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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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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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Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.
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Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.
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Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.
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Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have not goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal.
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Self-discipline is the golden key without it, you cannot be happy.
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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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Change your mental imagery, and the feelings will take care of themselves.
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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
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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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Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.
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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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As soon as the error has been recognized and corrections made, it's equally important that the error be forgotten and the successful attempt remembered and dwelt upon.
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You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.
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Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
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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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Times will change for the better when you change.
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