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One's Attitude Toward Life Makes Every Possible Difference In One's Living. You Know, You Don't Have To Study A Thousand Ancient Books To Discover That Fact. But Sometimes It Needs To Be Pointed Out Again That Life Doesn't Change So Much As You. ... The Day When You Stop Building Your Own Environment, When You Stop Building Your Own Surroundings, When You Stop Waving A Magic Hand And Gracing Everything Around You With Magic And Beauty, Things Cease To Be Magical, Things Cease To Be Beautiful. Well, Maybe You've Just Neglected Somewhere Back In The Last Few Years To Wave That Magic Hand.

-L. Ron Hubbard

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One's Attitude Toward Life

L. Ron Hubbard

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One's Attitude Toward Life Makes Every Possible Difference In One's Living. You Know, You Don't Have To Study A Thousand Ancient Books To Discover That Fact. But Sometimes It Needs To Be Pointed Out Again That Life Doesn't Change So Much As You. ... The Day When You Stop Building Your Own Environment, When You Stop Building Your Own Surroundings, When You Stop Waving A Magic Hand And Gracing Everything Around You With Magic And Beauty, Things Cease To Be Magical, Things Cease To Be Beautiful. Well, Maybe You've Just Neglected Somewhere Back In The Last Few Years To Wave That Magic Hand.

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I Would Say That 99 Per Cent Of What My Father Has Written About His Own Life Is False.

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The Wrong Thing To Do About Any Given Circumstance Or Situation Is To Do Nothing.

I Loved The Sea. I Loved Steamers And Sailboats And Surf And Sailors. And I Yearned And Strained To The Sea, Always The Sea, For It Is A Lovely, Vicious Lonely Thing. In Its Limitless Variety I Had A Sort Of Home.

Unfortunately, It Is All Too Often True That Suppressors To A Creative Action Must Be Removed Before Construction And Creation Takes Place. Any Person Very High On The Tone Scale May Level Destruction Toward A Suppressor.

Scientology 1970 Is Being Planned On A Religious Organization Basis Throughout The World. This Will Not Upset In Any Way The Usual Activities Of Any Organization. It Is Entirely A Matter For Accountants And Solicitors.

The Ultimate Freedom Depends On Knowing The Ultimate Truth. Truth Is Not What People Say It Is, It Is What It Is. And Truth, Quite Remarkably, Sets One Free, Just Like Philosophers Have Said Down The Ages.

No Man Is Happy Without A Goal, And No Man Can Be Happy Without Faith In His Own Ability To Reach That Goal.

A Culture Is As Rich And As Capable Of Surviving As It Has Imaginative Artists, Skilled Men Of Science, A High Ethic Level, Workable Government, Land And Natural Resources, In About That Order Of Importance.

A Man Who Is Willing To Accept Restriction And Barriers And Is Not Afraid Of Them Is Free. A Man Who Does Nothing But Fight Restrictions And Barriers Will Usually Be Trapped.

Never Regret Yesterday. Life Is In You Today And You Make Your Tomorrow.

The Artist Injects The Spirit Of Life Into A Culture.

The Sudden And Abrupt Deletion Of All Individuals Occupying The Lower Bands Of The Tone Scale From The Social Order Would Result In An Almost Instant Rise In The Cultural Tone And Would Interrupt The Dwindling Spiral Into Which Any Society May Have Entered.

Advanced Courses [in Scientology] Are The Most Valuable Service On The Planet. Life Insurance, Houses, Cars, Stocks, Bonds, College Savings, All Are Transitory And Impermanent... There Is Nothing To Compare With Advanced Courses. They Are Infinitely Valuable And Transcend Time Itself.

Those Fields Which Most Depend Upon Authoritative Opinion For Their Data Least Contain Known Natural Law.

Tolerance Is A Good Cornerstone On Which To Build Human Relationships.

Man Thrives, Oddly Enough, Only In The Presence Of A Challenging Environment.

The Man Who Has His Ideals, No Matter How Thoroughly He May Be Persuaded To Desert Them, Survives Well Only So Long As He Is True To Those Ideals.

If At This Moment You Simply Made Up Your Minds That You Were Handsome, Beautiful, Strong, Dangerous, Powerful, That You Knew Everything There Was To Know, You Were Totally Capable In Any Job That You Undertook Or Any Sport You Undertook-if You Really Believed That, And You Can Believe It, Some Of Your Faces Would Change Physically Before My Eyes.

As Long As Life Has The Level Of Being A Game, You Can Play It.

Morale Is Boosted To High Highs By Accomplishment. In Fact, It Can Be Demonstrated That Production Is The Basis Of Morale.

I Like To Help Others And Count It As My Greatest Pleasure In Life To See A Person Free Himself Of The Shadows Which Darken His Days.

Affection Can No More Spoil A Child Than The Sun Could Be Put Out By A Bucket Of Gasoline.

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Maintain Silence In The Presence Of Birth To Save Both The Sanity Of The Mother And The Child And Safeguard The Home To Which They Will Go.

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