Michael Neill Quotes

#1. There aren't enough cookies in the world to make you feel loved and whole.

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#2. We are not afraid of what we think we are afraid of ... we are afraid of what we think.

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#3. Financial security doesn't come from the amount of money you currently have; it comes from your ability to get more of it whenever you want ... Master the art of serving others and you will secure your financial future.

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#4. We think we are experiencing reality but what we are really experiencing is our thinking.

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#5. If you are doing things in order to be happy ...
you're doing them in the wrong order.

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#6. And by letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable ... you ironically increase ... the probability of getting what you want.

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#7. The secret of happiness is simply this ... your happiness does NOT depend on getting what you want.

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#8. Scout - oblivious to our jokes at her expense - pushed forward. "I don't understand why you're arguing with me. You know you have no chance."
Michael clutched at his chest dramatically. "You're killing me, Scout. Really. There's chest pain - a tightness." He faked a groan.

Chloe Neill

#9. By taking the time to live life in the slow lane, we quickly experience a deeper, more profound experience of contentment.

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#10. The universe runs on a fundamental and oh-so-wonderful principle ... when you get really clear and honest about what you want, everything in the universe conspires to help you get it.

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#11. If all you did was tell a lamppost your goals for each day, they would still be far more likely to happen.

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#12. Similarly, the idea of putting pressure on ourselves to strive for our goals now so that we can feel the rush of reaching them later is as bizarre and misguided a life strategy as hitting ourselves in the face because it fells good when we stop.

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#13. Success is the process of having a wonderful experience going for, getting, and having what you want.

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#14. You have a wisdom inside you - listen for it. You have a light inside you - feel its glow. You have the power to speak and act and make things manifest in the world - let your wisdom and light guide you as you do.

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#15. However little you think you need to do, there's less you need to do.

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#16. If a stick is floating down a river and gets stuck, it doesn't need years of therapy. It just needs a little nudge and then it will get back into the flow of the river.

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#17. How things ultimately turn out isn't up to us. It never was. But if do our bit and play our part, it's remarkable how far we can go.

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#18. Urgency is insecurity.

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#19. My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O'Neill, who is a photographer, Johnny Gold, who was the boss of Tramp, and Leslie Bricusse, who is a composer.

Michael Caine

#20. You are the expert on you.

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#21. Whatever you can do with unhappiness, you can do better when you're happy.

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#22. We live in a world of thought, but we think we live in a world of external experience.

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#23. The only real purpose of a goal is to inspire you to fall more deeply in love with life.

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#24. There's nothing you need to do, be, have, get, change, practice, or learn in order to be happy, loving and whole.

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#25. If it feels like you're choosing between the lesser of two evils, don't. There is always a higher choice.

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#26. We tend to think only in terms of what we think is plausible that we could pull off and decide that "that's what I want", instead of focusing on "what do I want?" and then figuring out how we could pull it off.

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#27. You aren't afraid of what you think you're afraid of - you're afraid of what you think.

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#28. The most important choice you make is what you choose to make important.

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#29. To be fully present with what is, is to be content ... and to be content is to be blessed by everything that happens in life.

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#30. When our thoughts look real, we live in a world of suffering. When they look subjective, we live in a world of choice. When they look arbitrary, we live in a world of possibility. And when we see them as illusory, we wake up inside a world of dreams.

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#31. We create other people by how we listen to them

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#32. Inner success is the ongoing experience of love, happiness, fulfillment and well-being - the experience of joy in your everyday life.

Michael Neill