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“Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.”
Laurence Sterne
“What other people think of me is none of my business.”
— Gary Oldman
“Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. ”
Miguel de Cervantes
“Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“When the root is strong, the fruit is sweet.”
Bob Marley
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
— Walter Winchell
“Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Give more than you think you can, trusting that you are richer than you think.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Do good, live in the most positive and joyful way possible every day.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Play your part in life, but never forget that it is only a role.”
Paramahansa Yogananda
“Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.”
Carl Sagan
“Life goes by very fast. And the worst thing in life that you can have is a job that you hate, and have no energy and creativity in.”
Robert Greene
“Only the educated are free.”
Epictetus
“The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.”
Voltaire
“You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.”
Dan Millman
“It's easier to lose than to win. ”
Wayne Gretzky
“Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”
Benjamin Franklin
“When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.”
Brian Eno
“It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.”
Rumi
“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.”
John Locke
“On the other side of the clouds is a bright blue sky.”
— Unknown
“Embody what you teach, and teach only what you have embodied.”
Dan Millman
“The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.”
Ernest Hemingway
“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
Paulo Coelho

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