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.
L. Ron HubbardIn a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts.
L. Ron HubbardI 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. These shadows look so thick to him and weigh him down so that when he finds they are shadows and that he can see through them, walk through them and be again in the sun, he is enormously delighted. And I am afraid I am just as delighted as he is.
L. Ron HubbardWhat is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.
L. Ron HubbardWell I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.
L. Ron HubbardThe mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.
L. Ron HubbardThe African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.
L. Ron HubbardI 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.
L. Ron HubbardCommunication is the root of marital success from which a strong union can grow, and noncommunicatio n is the rock on which the ship will bash out her keel.
L. Ron HubbardWriting for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.
L. Ron HubbardActually, have you ever noticed how a Negro, in particular down south, where they're pretty close to the soil, personifies MEST? The gatepost and the wagon and the whip and anything around there-a hat. They talk to them, you know. "What'sa mattuh wi' you hat?" They imbue them with personality.
L. Ron HubbardBlaming something else makes that something else cause; and as that cause takes on power, the individual in the same act loses control and becomes effect.
L. Ron HubbardThe only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.
L. Ron HubbardNot smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes.
L. Ron HubbardAll great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.
L. Ron HubbardWhat is important is how much service you can give the world and how much you can get done and how much better you can make things.
L. Ron HubbardImagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future.
L. Ron HubbardNot smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes. And what it does is start to run out the radiation dosage, don't you see.
L. Ron HubbardIt takes truth to live with a swiftly changing world. Nothing less than truth can survive. You cannot survive with anything less than truth.
L. Ron HubbardIf a person thinks he can be happy without making those around him happy, he's crazy.
L. Ron HubbardThe curve of imagination, the curve of brilliance and the curve of sanity are identical curves or at least similar curves... The more imagination a person has, why, the more intelligence, the more knowingness he has and the saner he's going to be.
L. Ron HubbardAny information is valuable to the degree that you can use it. In other words, any information is valuable to the degree that you can make it yours. Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place. It is not only the science of life, but it is an account of what you were doing before you forgot what you were doing.
L. Ron HubbardBefore the Beginning was a Cause and the entire purpose of the Cause was the creation of effect.
L. Ron HubbardAffection can no more spoil a child than the sun could be put out by a bucket of gasoline.
L. Ron HubbardPeople who tell you that control is bad are trying to tell you that automobile accidents and industrial accidents are good.
L. Ron HubbardThe goal of Scientology is making the individual capable of living a better life in his own estimation and with his fellows and the playing of a better game.
L. Ron HubbardPersonnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.
L. Ron HubbardA Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country.
L. Ron HubbardWhat is important is how much service you can give to the world and how much better you can make things. These are important things. These are all that are important. A bank account never measured the worth of a man. His ability to help measured his worth and that's all. A bank account can assist one to help but where it ceases to do that it becomes useless.
L. Ron HubbardWhen you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your pockets full of artillery, potential blackmail on every erstwhile rival, unlimited funds in your private account and the addresses of experienced assassins and go live in Bulgravia and bribe the police.
L. Ron HubbardSecurity is not a static thing. Security would only lie in a man's confidence in reaching his goals and, indeed, in his having goals to reach.
L. Ron HubbardTheta clearing is about as practical and simple as repairing a shoe lace. It is nothing to do with hypnotism, voodooism, charalatanism, monkeyism or theosophy. Done, the thetan can do anything a stage magician can do in the way of moving objects around. But this isn't attained by holding one's breath or thinking right thoughts or voting Republican or any other superstitous or mystic practice. So for the reason I brought up, rule out, auditor, any mumbo jumbo or mysticism, spiritualism, or religion.
L. Ron Hubbard