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“Every experience is a lesson. Every loss is a gain.”
“A zen master's life is one continuous mistake.”
“I didn't get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.”
“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.”
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”
“If you try, you might get exactly what you want. If you don't, you don't.”
“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners”
“I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.”
“Success is within the reach of just about everyone.”
“An un-examined life is not worth living.”
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world”
“Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.”
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Unoriginated thought is dangerous, for it is alive.”
“You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.”
“Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.”
“We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them. ”
“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. ”
“Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.”
“The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.”
“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.”
“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”
“A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control.”
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
“Those who realize their folly are not true fools.”
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