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“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”
— Lao Tzu
“What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.”
— D. H. Lawrence
“Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.”
— Woody Allen
“A little impatience will spoil great plans.”
— Chinese Proverb
“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“Greatest success comes just one step beyond the point at which defeat overtakes you.”
— Unknown
“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.”
— John F. Kennedy
“Tough times never last - tough people do.”
— Anonymous
“Things cannot forever go downward. There are limits to everything—even the cold, and the darkness, and the wind, and the dying.”
— Ming-Dao Deng
“Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.”
— J. K. Rowling
“Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough always proves little enough. Let us then be up and doing, and doing to a purpose.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Without the confidence, nothing can be accomplished.”
— Sathya Sai Baba
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.”
— Tom Stoppard
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
— Aristotle
“Love is the expression of one's values.”
— Ayn Rand
“The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.”
— Bob Proctor
“Truth is exact correspondence with reality. ”
— Paramahansa Yogananda
“It is easy to discover what another has discovered before.”
— Christopher Columbus
“The first wealth is health.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.”
— Henry Ford
“Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.”
— Alexander Graham Bell
“The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.”
— Ben Okri
“Whatever happens always happens on time.”
— Zen Proverb

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