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“Memory is the scribe of the soul.”
— Aristotle
“Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.”
— Yousef Munayyer
“You can't make someone feel good about themselves until you feel good about yourself.”
— Robin Sharma
“Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.”
— Lao Tzu
“These are thoughts that we can't think.”
— Bret Victor
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
— Walt Disney
“When you change what you believe, you change what you do.”
— Spencer Johnson
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
— Carl Jung
“Get busy living or get busy dying”
— Stephen King
“If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.”
— William Shakespeare
“Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Silence is sometimes the best answer.”
— Dalai Lama
“Your happiness is what truly matters most. Do what you have to do in order to be happy.”
— Brian Tracy
“A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
— Andrew Carnegie
“What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?”
— T.S. Eliot
“Your very silence shows you agree.”
— Euripides
“When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic. ”
— Charles Swindoll
“Confidence is not a guarantee of success, but a pattern of thinking that will improve your likelihood of success, a tenacious search for ways to make things work.”
— John Eliot
“The problem happens when we have multiple desires. When we have fuzzy desires. When we want to do ten different things and we're not clear about which is the one we care about.”
— Naval Ravikant
“When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.”
— Sophocles
“The only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.”
— Rita Mae Brown

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