When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.

—Dale Carnegie

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Dale Carnegie ( KAR-nig-ee; spelled Carnagey until c. 1922; November 24, 1888 – November 1, 1955) was an American writer and teacher of courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills. Born into poverty on a farm in Missouri, he was the author of How to Win...

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

—Dale Carnegie

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.

—Dale Carnegie

all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon—instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

—Dale Carnegie

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

—Dale Carnegie

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

—Dale Carnegie

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Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

You can't just switch off your feelings because the other person did.

—Sophie Kinsella in Twenties Girl

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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

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The first boy is always the hardest to get over. It's just the way the world works.

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To embrace the child may threaten the adult who values information above wonder, entertainment above play, and intelligence above ignorance. If we were really to care for the child, we would have to face our own lower natures—our indomitable emotions, our insane desires, and the vast range of our incapacity.

—Thomas Moore

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