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wants to be around someone like that? If one views their own experience<br />

with negativity, the same conclusion is likely.<br />

The fact is that while negative words or thoughts may or may not impact<br />

the object of their intent, they definitely impact the life of the speaker or<br />

thinker. The insidious aspect of words and thoughts is that people, for<br />

the most part, are not aware that there are specific consequences to them,<br />

determined in exact measure by their quality.<br />

This is not a new idea. Consider the thoughts of several of the great<br />

minds of the ages;<br />

Rule your mind or it will rule you.<br />

Horace (65-8 B.C.)<br />

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.<br />

Marcus Aurelius (121-180 A.D.)<br />

If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at<br />

all.<br />

My Nana (1875-1952 A.D.)<br />

And finally, a frightening notion:<br />

Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what<br />

you have. It depends solely upon what you think.<br />

Dale Carnegie (1888-1955)<br />

Thoughts are powerful, though subtle, forces. They are powerful<br />

enough to remove one’s attention, even from a subject that one had<br />

chosen to focus on, like a conversation, a lecture, or a play. The mind<br />

goes off on a tangent, captured by a thought, and precious moments are<br />

lost. Happens to us all. The question is, how much?

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