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“When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.”
— Paulo Coelho
“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
— Stephen King
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
— Nelson Mandela
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
— Carl Jung
“The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.”
— Albert Einstein
“Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.”
— Richard Bach
“We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening”
— Zhuangzi
“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.”
— Aldous Huxley
“If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.”
— Jeff Bezos
“I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.”
— Louisa May Alcott
“What people need and what they want may be very different.”
— Elbert Hubbard
“Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.”
— Vaclav Havel
“Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.”
— Ayn Rand
“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines practiced every day.”
— Jim Rohn
“We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
— Confucius
“As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.”
— Bodhidharma
“Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.”
— Dalai Lama
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Use your smile to change the world but don't let the world change your smile.”
— Unknown
“The key to success is failure.”
— Michael Jordan
“There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“Death is not sad; the sad thing is that most people don't really live at all.”
— Dan Millman

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