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"Groceries, you need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes you're gonna wear 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. Drop everything else but that. Because if you can't learn to master your thinking, you're in deep trouble forever."
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"Evolving and bettering yourself is wonderful, but not if the set of standards and values you adopt smothers you into oblivion in the process."
"Be a bit of a challenge not because you're playing games but because you realize you're worth the extra effort."
"Your everyday actions will define you and your virtue."
"Be yourself, free being."
"Never become proud within yourself when you are seen as the one to cause that great effect. Never become timid if you know you can while others dare to prove otherwise! Mind your business and make the strike."
"For the first time maybe ever, it didn't matter if I looked beautiful or not. I felt it."
"You have to control the circumstances and things in your life. They should not control you."
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"It has taken me years to learn this, but it does seem to be the case if that I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something."
"Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people."
"He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown. And he was a scholar.... You can still live on that shimmering line between your old thinking and your new understanding, always in a state of learning. In the figurative sense, this is a border that is always moving-- as you advance forward in your studies and realizations, that mysterious forest of the unknown always stays a few feet ahead of you, so you have to travel light in order to keep following it. You have to stay mobile, movable, supple."
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"You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."
"But I was always coming here. I though about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen."
"We had more fun waiting in line together at the Department of Motor Vehicles than most couples have on their honeymoons. We gave each other same nickname, so there would be no separation between us. We made goals, vows, promises and dinner together. He read books to me..."
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