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Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch -what makes you go beyond the norm.
Author: Cicely Tyson
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Truth and History involve nothing more than convincing the masses that you are right.
Author: Jon R. Sime
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Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
Author: Annie Besant
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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.
Author: George Leonard
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Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.
Author: Ivern Ball
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Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Author: Lord Chesterfield
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If you want to be a winner, hang around with winners.
Author: Christopher D. Furman
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Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
Author: Lord Chesterfield
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There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.
Author: Lord Chesterfield
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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Author: Lord Chesterfield
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Present-moment living, getting in touch with your "now," is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives. One thing is certain, you cannot live it until it does appear.
Author: Wayne Dyer
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The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
Author: Carl Jung
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Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
Author: Wayne Dyer
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To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered. -Helena Petrova Blavatsky.
Author: Helena Petrova Blavatsky
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
Author: John Stuart Mill
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Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
Author: John Patrick
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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
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When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Author: Mark Twain
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
Author: William Blake
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Author: Montaigne
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't.".
Author: Oswald Chambers
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Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
Author: Wayne Dyer
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The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
Author: Noelie Alito
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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.
Author: Eric Allenbaugh
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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
Author: James Buckham
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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.
Author: Janet Jackson
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
Author: Edward Dahlberg
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Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.
Author: Robert Neville
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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.
Author: E. M. Bounds
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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.
Author: William M. Bulger
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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
Author: Ava Gardner
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I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.
Author: Billy Crystal
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Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
Author: Madeleine L'engle
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Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.
Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater
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No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
Author: Miguel De Cervantes
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The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.
Author: Professor William Buechner
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There's a compelling reason to master information and news. Clearly there will be better job and financial opportunities. Other high stakes will be missed by people if they don't master and connect information.
Author: Everette Dennis
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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.
Author: R. K. Bergethon
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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Author: Epictetus
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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
Author: Austin Farrar
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
Author: Miguel De Cervantes
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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
Author: Lord Chesterfield
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Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.
Author: Michael J. Gelb
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Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
Author: Eknath Easwaran
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Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission.
Author: Mourning Dove
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Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass. And golden rays will usher in the dawn.
Author: Sarah Knowles Bolton
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My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
Author: W. S. Gilbert
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.
Author: Walter Anderson
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