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“Get busy living or get busy dying”
“If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.”
“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.”
“Silence is sometimes the best answer.”
“Your happiness is what truly matters most. Do what you have to do in order to be happy.”
“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.”
“What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?”
“Your very silence shows you agree.”
“When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic. ”
“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.”
“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.”
“When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.”
“Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible.”
“Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.”
“The only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.”
“It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.”
“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”
“Don't listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.”
“Diversity is the art of thinking independently together.”
“A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.”
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else.”
“No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.”
“Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.”
“Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within. ”
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