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"I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room."
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"One of the drawbacks about adventures is that when you come to the most beautiful places you are often too anxious and hurried to appreciate them."
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Personal Development
"Live by your impulses, and you'll be just like them. You're better than that, aren't you, Red?"
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Personal Development
"One must say, be in charge of your fucking feelings and keep your mouth shut."
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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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Personal Development
"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more."
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Personal Development
"God in His perfect wisdom gave you power to control only one thing in the entire universe, and that is you."
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Personal Development
"Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity."
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"When you are angry, close your eyes, you will regain your inner peace."
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"Law, without force, is impotent."
Strength
"Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable."
Life
"We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavour to shine. We labour unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence, and neglect the real. And if we possess calmness, or generosity, or truthfulness, we are eager to make it known, so as to attach these virtues to that imaginary existence. We would rather separate them from ourselves to join them to it; and we would willingly be cowards in order to acquire the reputation of being brave. A great proof of the nothingness of our being, not to be satisfied with the one without the other, and to renounce the one for the other! For he would be infamous who would not die to preserve his honour."
Philosophy
"He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright."
Truth
"This dog is mine," said those poor children; "that is my place in the sun." Here is the beginning and the image of the usurpation of all the earth."
Life
"The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched."
Philosophy
"Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?"
Nature
"Losses are comparative only imagination makes them of any moment."
Philosophy
"We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end."
Life
"Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted."
Wisdom
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