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If the ingredients for happiness are not within a person, no material success or entertainment or platinum credit cards can make that person smile.

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Og Mandino
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 1
Died: 1996
Died: September 3
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Framingham
Massachusetts
Augustine Og Mandino II
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To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
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Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.
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The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.
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Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
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And so long as I can laugh, never will I be poor. This then, is one of nature's greatest gifts and I will waste it no more.
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God will never give you any problems that he thinks you can't solve.
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The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work.
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Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all.
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I will laugh at the world! Never will I allow myself to become so important, so wise, so dignified, so powerful, that I forget how to laugh at myself and my world.And so long as I can Laugh never will I be poor
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Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be
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The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.
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... women have their roots in the ground, and often those roots are starved and ravaged, yet there is not a human alive who cannot reach and touch, with... her fingers, the very top of God's rainbow.
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Use wisely your power of choice.
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And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.
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You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.
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I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.
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My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.
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