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"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them."
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"One of the drawbacks about adventures is that when you come to the most beautiful places you are often too anxious and hurried to appreciate them."
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"Live by your impulses, and you'll be just like them. You're better than that, aren't you, Red?"
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"One must say, be in charge of your fucking feelings and keep your mouth shut."
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"If you want to change someone, start and end with yourself. You're all you've got control over.yes, other people can change.no, you can't change other people."
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"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."
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"It is much easier to concentrate the mind on external things, than to concentrate on the mind itself. For example, a Neuroscientist can be the smartest man (or woman) on earth in his understanding of the human mind. He may know all the neurochemical changes underlying an outrageous behavior of a person. But when he gets mad himself, very little of his own scientific intellect would actually come in handy for him to control his rage. The virtue of self-control is a skill, which requires practice, regardless of all the neurobiological expertise in the world."
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"We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more."
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"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."
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"God in His perfect wisdom gave you power to control only one thing in the entire universe, and that is you."
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"Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity."
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"I walked around the sad honkytonks of Curtis Street; young kids in jeans and red shirts; peanut shells, movie marquees, shooting parlours. Beyond the glittering street was darkness, and beyond the darkness the West. I had to go."
Travel
"You dont have to know a soul to know what I know --- to expect what I'm expecting --- to feel yourself alive and dying in your chest every minute of the livelong day --- When you're young you wanta cry, when you're old you wanta die. But that's too deep for you now, Ti mon Pousse."
Reflection
"And I go home having lost her love. And write this book."
Emotion
"I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life."
Love
"What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies."
Life
"At least I had frost on my nose, boots on my feet, and protest in my mouth."
Survival
"Be in love with your life, every detail of it."
Mindfulness
"Oh, I love, love, love women! I think women are wonderful! I love women!"
Love
"I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone's lapel and make them confess to me and to all."
Motivation
"I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too."
Art
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