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"Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater."
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"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."
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"If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves."
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"Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity."
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"Never worry about what you can't control...Focus on what you can."
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"It is wise for people to learn how to control their emotions instead of allowing it to overwhelm them and making them behaves irrational."
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"Discipline is when we delay our gratifications."
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"But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant's grip - one's faculties rise in revolt - and one pays for outward calm with an almost unbearable inner struggle."
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"Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."
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"A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean - or what we really think."
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"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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"Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world."
Happiness
"Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope."
Hope
"Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant."
Education
"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."
Challenge
"What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery."
Philosophy
"I cannot call somebody 'hard-working' knowing only that they read and write. Even if 'all night long' is added, I cannot say it " not until I know the focus of all this energy."
Work
"The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going."
Leadership
"Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them."
Wisdom
"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them."
Attitude
"It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting."
Wisdom
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