When life is a horror....Don't look like a ghost!
I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my bodyand life and money and energy with. I can select what I eat and read and study. I can choose how I__ going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life__hether I will see them as curses or opportunities (and on the occasions when I can__ rise to the most optimistic viewpoint, because I__ feeling too damn sorry for myself, I can choose to keep trying to change my outlook). I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. Andmost of all, I can choose my thoughts.you need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes you__e gonna wear every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That__ the only thing you should be trying to control.Drop everything else but that. Because if you can__ learn to master your thinking, you__e indeep trouble forever
Eat, Pray, Love
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I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my bodyand life and money and energy with. I can select what I eat and read and study. I can choose how I__ going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life__hether I will see them as curses or opportunities (and on the occasions when I can__ rise to the most optimistic viewpoint, because I__ feeling too damn sorry for myself, I can choose to keep trying to change my outlook). I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. Andmost of all, I can choose my thoughts.you need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes you__e gonna wear every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That__ the only thing you should be trying to control.Drop everything else but that. Because if you can__ learn to master your thinking, you__e indeep trouble forever
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