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“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”
“He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.”
“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
“A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.”
“As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.”
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.”
“Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven. ”
“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”
“For ever and a day.”
“Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.”
“The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts.”
“Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.”
“Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.”
“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”
“Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.”
“Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.”
“Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.”
“If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl, but by all means, keep moving.”
“Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there.”
“The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.”
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