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Life tip: Don’t allow your life to be controlled by these 5 things

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Do you ever feel like your life is out of your control – as if it’s being directed by some outside negative force?

Do you believe your happiness depends on things you have no control over?

Do you have trouble even deciding what happiness and success mean to you?

Each and every one of us has just one life to live on this Earth. And as you might have already noticed, the years we will spend living it will be gone before we know it.  [Read more…]

Time is both precious and fleeting. Use it wisely.

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“Time is what we want most and what we use worst.“
     -–William Penn

Chances are you’ve heard the oft-repeated adage “Youth is wasted on the young“.

When you think about it, there’s a lot of truth in that.

By the time most of us have life figured out, we’ve already used most of it up.

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“Waiting for ships that don’t come in…”

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“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
-–Benjamin Franklin

Have you ever known someone who always seemed to be longing for happiness, but they never quite seemed to find it?

That seems to be a common thread among a large percentage of the world’s population.

But it doesn’t have to be that way…

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Is the path you’re on leading you to happiness?

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“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
     –John Lennon

There’s some disagreement about whether this famous quote really originated with John Lennon.

While the Internet has numerous sources attributing these words to him, no one seems to be able to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.

But regardless of who originally said it, the quote itself makes a lot of sense. [Read more…]

“The Power of Positive Thinking”

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“Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.”
       –Norman Vincent Peale

The late minister and author Norman Vincent Peale wrote one of the most-read inspirational books of all time.

The Power of Positive Thinking was an instant best-seller, and it’s still quite popular many decades after it was first published.

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