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"Rule your mind or it will rule you."
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"Live by your impulses, and you'll be just like them. You're better than that, aren't you, Red?"
"One must say, be in charge of your fucking feelings and keep your mouth shut."
"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."
"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."
"God in His perfect wisdom gave you power to control only one thing in the entire universe, and that is you."
"Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity."
"You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control."
"Limitations can be reasonably expanded. We are constantly challenging our limitations. But a hobbled mind is not going anywhere."
"Fighting external monsters is easy in comparison to how we fight those within us."
"Don't try to control yourself, just learn to monitor your thoughts."
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"Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit. (What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)"
"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."
"Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?"
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