171. What I thought is what I got and what I got I thought. Wise am I if I don’t blame an outside cause that’s not.

172. THE MIRACLE CURE: Are you an anguished and troubled soul with worry, fear and dread? And though among the living you breathe do you walk as if you were dead? Do your should droop and hands hang down? Is mournful your very best smile? And though your health is ever as good, is your heart overflowing with bile? Are you inclined to pity yourself? Is your pillow soaked in tears? Would you even have a life without your misery and fears? The MIRACLE CURE is what you need; with it you’ll no longer whine. It will cure your woe am I looks caused by your woe am I mind. If perchance in your pain you should ask, “This cure sounds really great; what must I do to profit from it before it is too late?” My answer firm, if you please is this (though you may not feel to do) smile and say a kind word to someone who’s mournful as you. Give of yourself and do a kind deed (a secret gift will do) and give among the needy poor to they who are blessed less than you. And then like sunshine warms a cold day, you will feel in your heart and soul, a glowing light that makes the dark bright and takes away your woes.

173. How many tears must you cry before you learn that happiness is internal, not external? If you want life to make you happy you will be wanting and waiting forever. Happiness is an inside job, and The Thoughts You Think will determine whether you are at peace and happy or at war and miserable, which is WHY happiness is an inside job, SO ONLY THINK THOUGHTS WORTH THINKING.

174. If I have thoughts I do not like I tell them to take a hike. I think thoughts that inspire, avoid the ones that stir my fire. Mean thoughts create mean words, better that they’re never heard. Some thoughts can me mad; I don’t think them, makes me glad. I think thoughts that make me smile, keep them in my mental file. If kind and loving thoughts I do, I’m always happy, never blue. I live life the way I think, in peaceful joyful wonderment.

175. When it’s a done deal when it’s a fact and I can’t undo it because that’s that, I have two choices: I can resist that which I can’t change, get upset and angry condemn and caste blame, or, I can surrender in that moment in time and cope with it clearly with presence of mind.

176. Each human path has twists and turns, potholes and bogs. Should our paths cross I will be gentle, kind and loving so that I will not be a pothole in your path.

177. I live life on the edge of wonderment, not in the depths of despair. I live life enthusiastically. I live on the bright side of life. I refuse to be care-filled, pessimistic, gloomy, despondent or depressed. Stuff happens. People do things. That’s life. I can’t control everything, but I can control my thoughts. I can choose my attitude, and I choose to be optimistic about life.

178. There are no mistakes in life, and if you think there are, that’s no mistake. Judging life is like a blind man taking pride in what he doesn’t see.

179. You can’t know up if you haven’t been down, and you don’t know square if there’s no round, surely you know this is true. You know pleasure because you know pain, and you know loss because you know gain, which makes you nobody’s fool.

180. If it take a world of peace for you to be at peace you are not ready to live in a world of peace. Anyone who desires peace can be at peace when peace is all there is. When you can walk a war world in peace you can be at peace in any world. If you are waiting for a world at peace before you will be at peace, you wait in vain. Every person is his own world. Is there peace in yours?

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