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“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
Anne Frank
“It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.”
Franz Kafka
“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”
Mark Twain
“Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty.”
Pema Chodron
“Evil is whatever distracts. ”
Franz Kafka
“In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.”
Alan Watts
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”
Pema Chodron
“The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.”
Meister Eckhart
“If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.”
— Morgan Freeman
“What a liberation to realize that 'the voice in my head' is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.”
Eckhart Tolle
“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
William James
“I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.”
— Giorgio Armani
“Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.”
John Lennon
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.”
Nelson Mandela
“Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. ”
W. Clement Stone
“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”
Andrew Carnegie
“Fishing is much more than fish.”
Herbert Hoover
“All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.”
Paulo Coelho
“Small men think they are small; great men never know they are great. ”
Chinese Proverb
“The sun is new each day.”
Heraclitus
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
— Louisa May Alcott
“Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.”
George Carlin
“The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.”
Huang Po

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