“The evil in the world allowed there to be saints, just as the failures of your life – and there really are none – allow you to create the groundwork for success. However, if you recall the disaster and say, “That is the energy pattern I experienced last time so I had better be careful this time,” you restrict your areas of personal development.

Negative thought is self-fulfilling: The farther you fall into negativity, the harder it is to climb out of the morass. The prophecy of negativity grows stronger and stronger, and each event in your life serves to confirm its truth.To make affirmations of thought work, you have to create within you a parabola of hope and positive expectancy. The thought-form has to become a natural habit that says, “There is a way, and I will definitely find it.”

Stuart Wilde, in “Affirmations”

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“Accepting something doesn’t mean refusing to change it. In fact, the opposite is true. You cannot change that which you do not accept – in yourself especially, and outside of yourself as well.

Accept everything, therefore, as the divine manifestation of the divinity within you. Then you declare yourself to be its creator, and only then can you “uncreate” it. Only then can you recognize – that is, know again – the power within you to create something new.

To accept something is not to agree with it. It is simply to embrace it, whether you agree with it or not.”

God, as spoken to Neale Donald Walsch, “Friendship with God”

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“Whatever it is that you want to know or accomplish in your life, if you are truly ready and trust in your divine powers to manifest it, the teachers will be there. You WILL be guided. Money will not make a difference. If you want the education (or anything else), you will find a way to create it.

Only you are responsible for what you think. It is at this level that you exercise choice. I encourage you to change your thinking about the importance of goals. Instead, have a divine idea of how you would like to serve and help and how to improve the quality of life for others. You will find the way.

Far more important than goals in your life is your willingness to allow things to happen and your willingness to know.”

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, in “Your Sacred Self”

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“Self-esteem means believing in yourself, knowing that you did the best you knew how, even though two days later you could see a better way. It involves making yourself right rather than wrong and allowing yourself to feel good about who you are.

Some of you try very hard all the time, pushing yourselves, rushing around and feeling that whatever you do, it is not enough. Trying and working hard to get things done is not necessarily the road to joy. Respect yourself by following your inner flow. Rest, play, think, and take time to get silent. Doing those things that nurture you are ways to increase your self-esteem.”

Sanaya Roman, in “Living with Joy”

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“The love emanating from your essence wants you to experience your highest version of you. And for this to happen, you must act from love. You can’t act from love, though, when you are buying into some limited belief about yourself. It is your ego that would have you believe you are so small and insignificant that there is no way you could make those “pipe dreams” in your heart your reality. You – the proverbial grain of sand on a vast beach – don’t really matter, right? You don’t have anything of value to offer, correct? You have a choice: sink into those thoughts OR listen to your essence scream “That’s bullshit!”

Your essence is guiding you to realize that if you continue to choose your ego’s narrow path, you guarantee an unfulfilled life of frustration.”

Michelle Bersell, in “F.E.E.L.: Feel Every Emotion as Love”

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