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Do not then vainly imagine that you can obtain the heavenly possessions without making an effort.
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Do not then vainly imagine that you can obtain the heavenly possessions without making an effort.
Cease your complaining and fretting; none of these things which you blame are the cause of your poverty; the cause is within yourself, and where the cause is, there is the remedy.
To be swayed by your fluctuating thoughts and impulses is to be weak and powerless; to rightly control and direct those forces is to be strong and powerful.
Idleness and a strong will cannot go together, and procrastination is a total barrier to the acquisition of purposeful action.
To be able to do a thing, you must begin to do it, and keep on doing it until the thing is mastered.
Man is a thought-being, and his life and character are determined by the thoughts in which he habitually dwells.
Give scrupulous attention to the duty of the present moment.