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“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

“So we see, to play successfully the game of life, we must train the imaging faculty.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How To Play It

“The only person to change, is yourself. As you change, all the conditions around you will change! People will change! When you are undisturbed by a situation it falls away of its own weight.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Power of the Spoken Word

“✵ ✵All bondage is an illusion of the race consciousness. There is always a way out of every situation, under grace. Every man is free to do the will of God.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Collected Wisdom of Florence Scovel Shinn: The Game of Life and How to Play It; Your Word Is Your Wand; The Secret Door to Success; The Power of the Spoken Word

“Prayer is telephoning to God, and intuition is God telephoning to you.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Magic Path of Intuition

“I desire the Divine ideas only to come to pass, under grace and in perfect ways.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Magic Path of Intuition

“When you are undisturbed by a situation it falls away of its own weight.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Collected Wisdom of Florence Scovel Shinn: The Game of Life and How to Play It, Your Word Is Your Wand, The Secret Door to Success, The Power of the Spoken Word

“What God has done for others He can do for me and more!”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Complete Works Of Florence Scovel Shinn

“No man is an enemy. No man is a friend. Everyman is a teacher”
― Florence Scovel Shinn

“Prayer is telephoning to God,
and intuition is God
telephoning to you.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Magic Path of Intuition

“Unexpected doors fly open, unexpected channels are free.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Complete Works Of Florence Scovel Shinn

“She is an irresistible magnet for all that belongs to her by divine right.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“She had a passion for anyone who did something top-notch.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“She had a passion for all people who did anything to perfection.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Злых людей нет на свете, есть только люди несчастливые.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning strikes, as a Finnish knife strikes! She, by the way, insisted afterwards that it wasn’t so, that we had, of course, loved each other for a long, long time, without knowing each other, never having seen each other… ”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

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

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

“Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How To Play It

“The robbers of time are the past and the future. Man should bless the past, and forget it, if it keeps him in bondage, and bless the future, knowing it has in store for him endless joys, but live fully in the now.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“YOUR WORD IS YOUR WAND. THE WORDS YOU SPEAK CREATE YOUR OWN DESTINY”
― Florence Scovel-Shinn, THE WRITINGS OF FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN: (Includes The Shinn Biography) The Game of Life/ Your Word Is Your Wand/ The Power of the Spoken Word/ The Secret Door to Success

“You are what you share.”
― Charles Leadbeater, We-Think : Mass Innovation, Not Mass Production

“If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.”
― Emmet Fox

“There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer: no disease that love will not heal: no door that enough love will not open...It makes no difference how deep set the trouble: how hopeless the outlook: how muddled the tangle: how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world...”
― Emmet Fox

“Do it trembling if you must, but do it!”
― Emmet Fox

“The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God.”
― Emmet Fox

“You can have anything in life that you really want, but you must be prepared to take the responsibilities that go with it. God is ready the moment you are.”
― Emmet Fox, Around the Year with Emmet Fox: A Book of Daily Readings