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«No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.»
«Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.»
«There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.»
«I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.»
«One has to wait without impatience for what should come, and yet at the same time do everything within one's power as though one were impatient and as though one were solely responsible.»
«This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.»
«One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.»
«I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.»
«This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.»
«'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.»
Author: Mary Worley Montagu | About: Duty, Power, Richness | Keywords: One Power