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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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"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."
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"Do your emotions influence You or are You influenced by your emotions?"
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"If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves."
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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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"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."
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"The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession."
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"Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them."
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"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile."
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"Refuse to react to any angry actions."
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"Never worry about what you can't control...Focus on what you can."
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"A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world."
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"Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars."
Life

"Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow."
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"All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together."
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"It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on."
Humor

"If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime."
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"All of life is a foreign country."
Perception

"Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end."
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"Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?"
Destiny

"I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too."
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