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“The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn

“There is an old saying: "No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.”
― Florence Scovel

“You can control any situation if you first control yourself.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How To Play It

“Man must prepare for the thing he has asked for, when there isn't the slightest sign of it in sight.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How To Play It

“The subconscious mind has no sense of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy experiences.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“There is an old saying that man only dares use his words for three purposes, to "heal, bless or prosper." What man says of others will be said of him, and what he wishes for another, he is wishing for himself.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“Bills should be paid cheerfully, all money should be sent forth fearlessly and with a blessing.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play it : Classic Collection

“Do not neglect the day of small things, for little beginnings have big endings”
― Florence Scovel Shinn

“if you run away your problems will run after you. Be undisturbed by a situation, and it will fall away of its own weight.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, Wisdom of Florence Scovel Shinn

“What man condemns in others, he attracts to himself.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How To Play It

“act as if”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How To Play It

“How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.”
― Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie