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“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
— Gustave Flaubert
“To thine own self be true.”
— William Shakespeare
“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. ”
— Voltaire
“Never let the things you can't do stop you from doing what you can.”
— Ronald Reagan
“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”
— Aristotle
“Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”
— William James
“There will always be suffering. But we must not suffer over the suffering.”
— Alan Watts
“Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.”
— Deepak Chopra
“Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room?”
— Aaron Burr (Hamilton)
“The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.”
— Dan Millman
“Once a decision was made, I didn't worry about it afterward.”
— Harry S. Truman
“See what you're doing wrong, laugh at it, change and do better.”
— Spencer Johnson
“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.”
— Groucho Marx
“Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.”
— Dan Millman
“Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.”
— Charles Baudelaire
“If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.”
— Lao Tzu
“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.”
— Hippocrates
“If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to.”
— Alexander Pope
“Difficult and meaningful will always bring more satisfaction than easy and meaningless.”
— Maxime Lagace
“The greater the impact you want to make, the greater your influence needs to be.”
— Lolly Daskal
“If someone betrays you once, it's their fault; if they betray you twice, it's your fault.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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