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"If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled."
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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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"We often bow down to our feelings without realizing how fickle and unreliable they are."
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"But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant's grip - one's faculties rise in revolt - and one pays for outward calm with an almost unbearable inner struggle."
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