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“An un-examined life is not worth living.”
Socrates
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world”
— Gandhi
“Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Unoriginated thought is dangerous, for it is alive.”
— Pearl S. Buck
“You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.”
Steve Maraboli
“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.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them. ”
Seneca
“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. ”
Orison Swett Marden
“Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.”
Mae West
“The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.”
Carl Jung
“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.”
Vince Lombardi
“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”
Richard Bach
“A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control.”
Naval Ravikant
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Those who realize their folly are not true fools.”
Zhuangzi
“In the real world, the true test of economics is whether the system operates in a way that is consistent with basic moral principles.”
— Ha-Joon Chang
“It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.”
Dave Barry
“Don't let someone elses. opinion become your reality.”
Les Brown
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.”
Seneca
“Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The truth... It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
Albus Dumbledore
“How to get more opportunity: Create more opportunity for others.”
Jack Butcher
“Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.”
Dale Carnegie
“The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.”
Bertrand Russell

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