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“Bring a timer.”
— Steve Jobs
“Failing is another stepping stone to greatness.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien
“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Study the past, if you would divine the future.”
— Confucius
“Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot find deliverance and peace even in prayer, then quickly go and give some pleasure to someone lowly or sorrowful, or to a guilty or innocent sufferer! Sacrifice yourself, your talent, your time, your rest to another, to one who has to bear a heavier load than you -- and your unhappy mood will dissolve into a blessed, contented submission to God.”
— Abdul'-Baha
“All great peoples are conservative.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near.”
— Paulo Coelho
“At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.”
— Steve Maraboli
“With great power comes great responsibility.”
— Ben Parker
“Encourage over Praise”
— Anonymous
“Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there – buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.”
— Deepak Chopra
“If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. if you are at peace, you are living in the present.”
— Lao Tzu
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Time flies whether you are having fun or not.”
— Mary Engelbreit
“The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.”
— Robert F. Kennedy
“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.”
— Plato
“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Be flexible, but stick to your principles.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.”
— Sun Tzu
“The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.”
— Spencer Johnson
“You have to dream before your dreams can come true.”
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“I don't walk away from things that I think are unfinished.”
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Test”
— Me

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