Chris Prentiss Quotes
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If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.
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Stress comes from the way you relate to events or situations.
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You can be happy if you are willing to let go of your past and leave yourself unencumbered so you can fly freely.
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Stress and anxiety cause our brains to release chemicals that put lines in our faces and tear us down emotionally and spiritually.
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Most of the time, we respond to life without taking a moment
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The Universe doesn't make mistakes.
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The answers are never 'out there. ' All the answers are 'in there, ' inside you, waiting to be discovered.
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People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world.
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How you conduct yourself along the path that is your life determines how your life unfolds.
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Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.
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The Universe doesn’t make mistakes. Everything is happening just as it should. It’s only our perception of difficulties that causes us the distress and the difficulty we experience. Not only that, but when we label events as ‘bad,' we fail to perceive the benefit that is waiting for us.
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Everything that happens to me is the best possible thing that can happen to me.
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The path of the knowledgeable, successful person, which only leads to supreme good fortune and great success is always directly in front of you.
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The true source of happiness is within each of us.
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There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy.
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At the bottom of every person's dependency, there is always pain, Discovering the pain and healing it is an essential step in ending dependency.
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The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.
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If you feel depressed for an hour, you've produced approximately eighteen billion new cells that have more receptors calling out for depressed-type peptides and fewer calling out for feel-good peptides.
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I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.
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You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.
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The moment you make the internal changes necessary to obtain your goal, the outside world changes instantly.
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When people who believe themselves to be addicts or alcoholics come under great stress or trauma, they mentally give themselves permission to drink or use drugs as a remedy.
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Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where you are.
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Although you may have never sat down and defined what your philosophy is, it is fully operative and working in your life at all times. It deals with what you believe about the world in which you live, about its people and events, about how you affect them.
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Not only is the Universe aware of us, but it also communicates with us. We, in turn, are constantly in communication with the Universe through our words, thoughts, and actions. The Universe responds with events. Events are the language of the Universe. The most obvious of those events are what we call coincidence.
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Every belief that you hold manifests itself in some manner by either causing you to take some form of action or by preventing you from taking action. If you don't believe something is possible, you won't even attempt it.
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If you are surrounded by people who not only don't believe in your goals and your positive outlook on life, but who also continually try to tear you down, it will be extremely challenging for you to hold firmly in mind that you will succeed and that you can be happy.
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If you can stop using substance or stop your addictive behavior for extended periods of time without craving, you are not dependent. You are dependent only if you can't stop without physical or psychological distress (you have unpleasant physical and/or psychological withdrawal symptoms) or if you stop and then relapse.
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Whatever you are trying to achieve in life, it is essential that you surround yourself with people who believe that what you seek and what you believe in are not only possible but also very probable.
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A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer.
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