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Since self-talk is so powerful, however, it’s important to choose your words carefully. If you use destructive language, you’ll muddy your wisdom and create perceptions that can ruin your life. A good rule to follow in self-talk is to talk to yourself the way you want others to talk to you.

You create your own perception and your own meaning, but reality is reality.

Optimism comes from pain—from finally realizing that the more painful the event, the more powerful the lesson.

Even with this protection, of course, much of the pain of life will remain, because life without pain is just a dream, unreal, and ultimately empty. But this remaining pain will never be all that’s left of life, as it so often is for the defenseless people who abdicate their personal power and let others dictate the terms of their existence.

Thus, choice is the human burden—and the human blessing. It is our only path to genuine appreciation of self, and this aspect of appreciation is absolutely indispensable for happiness. If you don’t love yourself, you can’t possibly love your life.

lots of good quotes today, was c/p paragraphs.

“Happiness isn’t the art of building a trouble-free life. It’s the art of responding well when trouble strikes.”

You can’t just decide to be happy any more than you can decide to be taller. That’s because happiness is not a finite entity unto itself, but is the sum of the 12 most important qualities of happiness: love, optimism, courage, a sense of freedom, proactivity, security, health, spirituality, altruism, perspective, humor, and purpose. These are the things you should make up your mind to achieve.

“Participation in your own destiny can help make you happy. But struggling for power cannot. Perfectionism cannot. Control cannot.”

excited for this book!

Being happy is hard. Being happy means turning a deaf ear to fear, even when it’s screaming for attention. It means being your true self, even when it hurts. It means going after what you really want, even when you don’t think you’ll get it.