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"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."
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"All defensiveness stems from the need to be right and frustration over not being able to control others."
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"It is always a great honor to be the driver of your own car, to be the boss of your own fate!"
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"Meanness is a monster that usurps your self-control because you cowardly allow it to conquer you."
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"You will find there are times you must grasp your life with both hands and forcefully steer it in a new direction and then strain to hold your course until the storms of fear, weakness, and doubt abate."
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"The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection."
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"Ambalal Muljibhai' (Dada's relative self) is under the control of worldly interactions, and 'we' (The Gnani Purush) are in the control of nischaya (realm of the Self). Worldly interaction should not be scorned at, at all."
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"Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them."
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"One is called a saiyami [those with inner control] when no intent of transgression remains within him. Even during anger-pride-deceit-greed when there is no violent intent, that is called saiyam. A saiyami will go to moksha."
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"The rule is that when one's mind is controlled in a specific subject, he can control the other person's mind in that subject."
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"What you don't know, you can't tell. Or made to tell."
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"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."
Poetry
"We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with."
Money
"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."
Control
"Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them."
Happiness
"The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality."
Quality
"I would rather start a family than finish one."
Family
"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it."
People
"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
Earth
"The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram."
Art
"I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much."
Family
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