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"Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater."
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"Limitations can be reasonably expanded. We are constantly challenging our limitations. But a hobbled mind is not going anywhere."
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Personal Development
"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
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Personal Development
"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."
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Personal Development
"Refuse to react to any angry actions."
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"Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them."
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"Immediate gratification is a dream killer."
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Personal Development
"Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."
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"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."
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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."
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"When you are angry, close your eyes, you will regain your inner peace."
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"It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting."
Wisdom
"Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents."
Education
"It is much better to die of hunger unhindered by grief and fear than to live affluently beset with worry, dread, suspicion and unchecked desire."
Survival
"Don't put your purpose in one place and expect to see progress made somewhere else."
Purpose
"Bear and forbear."
Self
"And where there is ignorance, there is also want of learning and instruction in essentials."
Knowledge
"It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death."
Courage
"Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly."
Self-Control
"The philosopher's school, ye men, is a surgery: you ought not to go out of it with pleasure, but with pain. For you are not in sound health when you enter."
Philosophy
"People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them."
Wisdom
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