The Greatest Miracle in the World

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Roam capture metadata — Author: Og Mandino · Reading Status: Books Read · Source: https://medium.com/@kwharrison13/2018-in-books-part-i-7d3590e7f5e8 · Recommended By: Caleb Christensen · Tags: #Books

• ==Highlighted Quotes==
• “Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better life. They have surrendered their fight for self-esteem and they have compromised their great potential. They have settled for a life of mediocrity, days of despair and nights of tears. They are no more than living deaths confined to cemeteries of their choice. Yet they need not remain in that state. They can be resurrected from their sorry condition. They can each perform the greatest miracle in the world. They can each come back from the dead… and in those books are the simple secrets, techniques and methods which they can still apply to their own livest to become anything they wish to be and to attain all the true riches of life.”
• “Usually, I have discovered that most individuals are neither willing nor ready to accept help until they have hit bottom. At that point they figure that they have nothing to lose, and so they are far more receptive to my simple technique to help them try to begin a new life.”
• “What a shame, Ralph Waldo Emerson should be read by thirty- and forty- and fifty-year olds, not teenagers. Emerson wrote — “Our strength grows out of our weakness. The indignation which arms itself with secret forces does not awaken until we are pricked and stung and sorely assailed.When man is punished, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood, he has gained facts, learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit, has got moderation, and real skill.”
• “Maslow once wrote that either people do things which are fine and good, and thus respect themselves, or they do contemptible things and feel despicable, worthless, and unloveable. To my way of thinking, Maslow did not go far enough. I believe that most humans feel despicable, worthless, and unloveable without doing contemptible things. Just being sloppy in their work, or not caring about their appearance, or not studying or working a little longer to improve their position in life, or taking that unnecessary drink, or doing a thousand other stupid things, small acts that tarnish their already bruised self-image is enough to increase their Self-hatred. Most of us not only have a will to die…we also have a will to fail.”