Your mind is your master. Learn to be its master and not its slave. |
-- Remez Sasson
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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business. |
-- Eric Hoffer
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Try not to become a
man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
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--Albert Einstein
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You should never let
your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.
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--Aung San Suu Kyi
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If I advocate for
cautious optimism, it is not because I do not have faith, but because I do
not want to encourage blind faith.
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--Aung San Suu Kyi
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I think, if you have
enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of
time and not feel diminished by it.
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--Aung San Suu Kyi
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If you are feeling
helpless, help someone.
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--Aung San Suu Kyi
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Its name is Public
Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the
voice of God.
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--Mark Twain
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When I let go of what
I am, I become what I might be.
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-- Unknown
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When I let go of what
I have, I receive what I need.
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--The Tao Te Ching
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We must be willing to
let go of the life we have planned so as to accept the life that is waiting
for us.
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--Joseph Campbell
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Sometimes letting go
is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
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-- Eckhart Tolle
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Expecting the world to
treat you fairly is like expecting a bull not to hit you because you're
vegetarian
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-- Unknown
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For every man there
exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
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-- Nietzsche
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The things you own
end-up owning you. It's only after you lose everything you're free to do
anything...
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-- Chuck Palahniuk
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No matter how far you
have gone on a wrong road, turn back.
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--Turkish Proverb
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What we resist
persists!
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-- Unknown
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Peace does not
mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hardwork. It
means to be calm in your heart even in midst of those things.
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-- Unknown
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There are two
tragedies in life: one is not to get your heart's desire, the other is to get
it.
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-- Bernard Shaw
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I’m indeed rich, since
my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my
wishes.
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– Khalil Gibran
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If you have a reason,
you do not need to shout.
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-- Zen Proverb
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…if you hear the truth
and do not live it, your life become a hideous confusion, the sorrowful mess
which it is…
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-- Unknown
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The happiness is
happiness to you only till you reach there!
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-- Unknown
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The strongest man in
the world is he who stands alone...
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-- Henrik Ibsen
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When neither hatred
nor love disturb our minds, serenely we sleep...
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-- Unknown
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Whatever the outcome
may be, the important thing is to step forward on the path that you believe
is right.
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-- Daiasku Ikeda
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All appointments are
ending up in disappointment; therefore have an appointment with
disappointment so you will never be disappointed...
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-- Unknown
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Nothing lasts forever,
and if you believe it does, you'll only put yourself in a world of misery...
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-- Unknown
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Life is like a
honey-gathering bee: after collecting all the honey from myriad flowers, they
age and their labour leaves them with nothing.
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-- Unknown
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Conventional opinion
is the ruin of our souls
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– Rumi
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Why do I not rather
seek some real good - one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
These things that draw the eyes of men, before which they halt, which they
show to one another in wonder, outwardly glitter, but are worthless within.
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-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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It was not only that I
could not become spiteful, I did not know how to become anything; neither
spiteful nor kind, neither a rascal nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an
insect. Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the
spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot become
anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything...
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-- Dostoyevsky
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