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“I think that the church in America today is so obsessed with being practical, relevant, helpful, successful, and perhaps well-liked that it nearly mirrors the world itself. Aside from the packaging, there is nothing that cannot be found in most churches today that could not be satisfied by any number of secular programs and self-help groups.”

“Do yourself and your family a favor: Decide right now that you will write a self-help book someday. I'm serious. A self-help book is a great way to capture what you think makes a good person, a good life and a good world. It's also a "forever document" that you can pass down to future generations. We need more people sharing positive messages and books with the world. Why not be one of those people?”

“The American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World (2009) . She talks about the happiness industry, the rise of medication to make us happy and of self-help books, and the influence of all this on religion. In many ways religion has become another form of self-help. We all suffer from over-exposure to positive thinking.”

“Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.”

“There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.”

“Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories. Lucy doesn't read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just IS a dog. All she wants to do is chase ducks and sticks and do other things that make both her and me happy. It makes me wonder if that was the intention for man, to chase sticks and ducks, to name animals, to create families, and to keep looking back at God to feed off his pleasure at our pleasure.”

“You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge. Apologize for mistakes. Apologize for unintentionally hurting someone - profusely. But don't apologize for being who you are.”

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

“The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.”

“Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being.”

“You cannot change the past, but you can make a difference now”

“Ignite the light within you, it will make your world brighter.”

“If you do not completely accept yourself, you can not love yourself fully. It would be hard to love anything unconditionally.”

“Everything starts from inside of us, then comes outside of us.”

“Don't believe everything you are told, if it resonates within you, then listen and act.”

“Follow your heart. It will lead you to where you need to be.”

“The difficulties and challenges in your life are the lessons you need to learn to grow and development.”

“Failures and mistakes are lessons to be learned from. They are opportunities for growth.”

“We are all teachers, we all have knowledge and experiences that can teach others.”

“Your past karma is what you found difficult or challenging in this life. To heal your past karma you would need to learn your life lessons for this life.”

“Love brings you closer to yourself”