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The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now

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The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

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The only reason we don't have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can't have them.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. There is the situation or the fact, and here are my thoughts about it. Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

It is assumed by many reformers that the principal and major cause of unhappiness is economic insecurity, but this theory forgets that there are economic problems only because men have not solved the problems of their own souls. Economic disorder is a symptom of spiritual disorder.

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