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“It may take some hard work. But the more you say no to the things that don't matter, the more you can say yes to the things that do.”
— Ryan Holiday
“There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.”
— Neale Donald Walsch
“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
Charles Swindoll
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
Carl Jung
“To live outside the law, you must be honest.”
Bob Dylan
“Self-discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back.”
— W. K. Hope
“We rise by lifting others.”
— Robert Ingersoll
“Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.”
Herodotus
“Know thyself.”
Socrates
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”
— Adam Smith
“Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and there's a purpose to it.”
— Michael J. Fox
“I have not yet begun to fight!”
— John Paul Jones
“The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.”
Eric Hoffer
“Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.”
— John Ruskin
“Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every single day.”
Henri Nouwen
“Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.”
Herbert Hoover
“Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.”
Paramahansa Yogananda
“What we do for ourselves alone dies with us; what we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.”
— Albert Pine
“Fortitude is the capacity to say no to yourself and yes to your higher purposes.”
— J.R. Miller
“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who masters himself is mightier still.”
Lao Tzu
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
— L.P. Hartley
“The mind is like a turbulent ocean, but meditation is the stillness that reveals the depth beneath.”
— Eknath Easwaran
“Real humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.”
C.S. Lewis
“If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.”
Vincent Van Gogh

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