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“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
“The majority of what you want will come from the minority of what you do.”
“It's your outlook on life that counts.”
“To be able to forget means sanity.”
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
“I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.”
“You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb a little himself.”
“Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you're doing is as valuable as gold.”
“Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.”
“The present moment has always been available to spiritual seekers, but as long as you are seeking you are not available to the present moment. “Seeking” implies that you are looking to the future for some answer, or for some achievement, spiritual or otherwise. Everybody is in the seeking mode, seeking to add something to who they are, whether it be money, relationships, possessions, knowledge, status.. or spiritual attainment”
“There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.”
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ”
“If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.”
“Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.”
“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.”
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
“Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.”
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
“No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”
“History doesn't crawl; it leaps.”
“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”
“No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”
“The world is full of kings, but only one is yours to follow.”
“It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.”
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