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• Depend only upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things.

  Christian D. Larson

  Harmony, All Things, Depends

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.308, Penguin

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• The desire to criticise becomes less and less as the character is developed. It is the mark of a fine character never to be critical and to mention but rarely the faults of others. A strong character does not resist evil, but uses their strength in building the good. They know that when the light is made strong, the darkness will disappear of itself.

  Christian D. Larson

  Strong, Character, Light

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• You may think that you are well, but you will not secure health until you think thoughts that produce health. You may persistently affirm that you are well, but so long as you live in discord, confusion, worry, fear and other wrong states of mind, you will be sick; that is, you will be as you think and not what you think you are. You may state health in your thought, but if you give worry, fear and discord to that thought, your thinking will produce discord. It is not what we state in our thoughts, but what we give to our thoughts that determine results.

  Christian D. Larson

  Thinking, Long, Giving

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.294, Penguin

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• When you think that you are beautiful, you are liable to think that you are more beautiful than others, and such a thought is not a beautiful thought. To recognize or criticize ugliness and inferiority in others is to create the inferior and the ugly in yourself, and what you create in yourself will sooner or later be expressed through your mind and personality.

  Christian D. Larson

  Beautiful, Thinking, Personality

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.296, Penguin

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• In everything, depend upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things. Do not depend even upon the Infinite, but learn to work and live in harmony with the Infinite. The highest teachings of the Christ reveal most clearly the principle that no soul was created to be a mere helpless instrument in the hands of Supreme Power, but that every soul should act and live in perfect oneness with that Power. And the promise is that we all are not only to do the things that Christ did, but even greater things.

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  Teaching, Hands, Oneness

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.339, Penguin

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• Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.

  Christian D. Larson

  Inspirational, Optimistic, Optimism

  Christian D. Larson (2009). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.10, The Floating Press

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• What we love in others we not only awaken in others, but we develop those very things more or less in ourselves.

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  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.304, Penguin

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• Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.

  Christian D. Larson

  Men, Thinking, May

  Christian D. Larson (2009). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.107, The Floating Press

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• The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.

  Christian D. Larson

  Hands, Waiting, Pessimist

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.322, Penguin

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• Whenever you permit yourself to think what persons, things, conditions, or circumstances may suggest, you are not following what you want to think. You are not following your own desires but borrowed desires. Use your imagination in determining what you want to think or do.

  Christian D. Larson

  Thinking, Imagination, Desire

  Christian D. Larson (2009). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.285, The Floating Press

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• The average mind requires a change of environment before he can change his thought. He has to go somewhere or bring into his presence something that will suggest a new line of thinking and feeling. The master mind, however, can change his thought whenever he so desires. A change of scene is not necessary, because such a mind is not controlled from without. A change of scene will not produce a change of thought in the master mind unless he so elects.

  Christian D. Larson

  Thinking, Average, Feelings

  "The Optimist Creed".

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• Whenever you appreciate a certain thing you become conscious of its real quality, and whenever you become conscious of the quality of anything, you begin to develop that quality in yourself. When we appreciate the worth of a person, we tend to impress the idea of that worth in our own minds, and thereby cause the same effect to be produced, in a measure, in ourselves.

  Christian D. Larson

  Real, Ideas, Appreciate

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.416, Penguin

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• The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.

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  Strong, Purpose, Mercy

  Christian D. Larson (2007). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.210, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are.

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  Thinking, May, Matter

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.295, Penguin

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• Make your optimism come true.

  Christian D. Larson

  Attitude, Optimistic, Positive Thinking

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.8, Penguin

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• When anyone is going wrong, it is a mistake to warn him not to go further. It is also a mistake to leave him alone. The proper course is to call his attention to something better, and frame our conversation in such a way that he becomes wholly absorbed in the better. He will then forget his old mistakes, his old faults and his old desires, and will give all his life and power to the building of that better which has engaged his new interest.

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  Mistake, Giving, Desire

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.393, Penguin

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• The more you think of harmony, of health, of success, of happiness, of things that are desirable, of things that are beautiful, of things that have true worth, the more the mind will tend to build all those things in yourself, provided, of course, that all such thinking is subjective.

  Christian D. Larson

  Beautiful, Thinking, Mind

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.283, Penguin

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• PROMISE YOURSELF To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.

  Christian D. Larson

  Friends, Optimism, Feels

  "Your Forces and How to Use Them".

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• True achievement in any sphere of action depends upon real ability, and a strong, deep, whole-souled love.

  Christian D. Larson

  Strong, Real, Achievement

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.41, Penguin

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• To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words but great deeds. To live in faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you.

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  Optimistic, Thinking, Your Side

  Christian D. Larson (2009). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.11, The Floating Press

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• It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.

  Christian D. Larson

  Have Faith, Mistrust, Deceived

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.359, Penguin

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• The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require.

  Christian D. Larson

  Average, People, Desire

  Christian D. Larson (2009). “The Ideal Made Real: Or Applied Metaphysics for Beginners”, p.224, The Floating Press

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• The real feeling of youth comes when we actually think in the consciousness of youth and give the realization of the now to every thought.

  Christian D. Larson

  Real, Thinking, Giving

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.294, Penguin

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• When you see evil do not form ideas that are in the likeness of that evil; do not think of the evil as bad, but try to understand the forces that are back of that evil—forces that are good in themselves, though misdirected in their present state. By trying to understand the nature of the power that is back of evil or adversity, you will not form bad ideas, and therefore will feel no bad effects from experiences that may seem undesirable. At the same time, you will think your own thought about the experiences, thereby developing the power of the master mind.

  Christian D. Larson

  Adversity, Thinking, Ideas

  Christian D. Larson (2009). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.284, The Floating Press

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• What you admire in others will develop in yourself. Therefore, to love the ordinary in any one is to become ordinary, while to love the noble and the lofty in all minds is to grow into the likeness of that which is noble and lofty.

  Christian D. Larson

  Mind, Ordinary, Noble

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.303, Penguin

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