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“What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.”
Spencer Johnson
“Open your mind before your mouth.”
Aristophanes
“Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“The wiser you get, the less you care to look like a fool.”
Maxime Lagace
“Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.”
Og Mandino
“The goal of meditation isn't to control your thoughts, it's to stop letting them control you.”
— Pema Chödrön
“It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.”
Epictetus
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
Albert Einstein
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Desire is suffering.”
Naval Ravikant
“Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.”
— Swami Muktananda
“Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.”
— Jacob Bronowski
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”
John Dewey
“The businessman's tool is value.”
Ayn Rand
“It doesn't matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go.”
Bob Proctor
“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
Lao Tzu
“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is; the tree is the real thing.”
Abraham Lincoln
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.”
Aldous Huxley
“Make yourself so useful to other people, that they think you are irreplaceable.”
Og Mandino
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
— Booker T. Washington
“Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.”
Kabir
“The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.”
— John Vance Cheney

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