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"Rule your mind or it will rule you."
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"This is my life... my story... my book. I will no longer let anyone else write it, nor will I apologize for the edits I make."
"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."
"If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled."
"If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves."
"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."
"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
"Do your emotions influence You or are You influenced by your emotions?"
"We often bow down to our feelings without realizing how fickle and unreliable they are."
"Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness."
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"Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life."
"Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment."
"Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death."
"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it."
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