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“ ”Always remember, child,’ her first teacher had impressed on her, ‘that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline — training — is about.
About James Clavell
James Clavell (born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell; 10 October 1924 – 7 September 1994) was an Australian World War II veteran and POW, who became a novelist, screenwriter and director.
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Shorter versions of this quote
Always remember, child,’ her first teacher had impressed on her, ‘that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort.
Additional quotes by James Clavell
If you smile when you lose, then you win in life.
I prefer the mist that surrounds me. Yes, I don’t like a lot of what I see nowadays.
What nonsense it all is! Catholic and Protestant and Calvinist and Lutherist and every other shitist.