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"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you."
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"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."

"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."

"Do your emotions influence You or are You influenced by your emotions?"

"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."

"If I could mark clearly, convincingly and consistently what was good for me and also what was bad-if I could say yes and also no, as if it were the law-it would become my law."

"He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power."

"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile."

"Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity."

"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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"Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions."

"Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream."

"LoveEmbracing Tao, you become embraced.Supple, breathing gently, you become reborn.Clearing your vision, you become clear.Nurturing your beloved, you become impartial.Opening your heart, you become accepted.Accepting the World, you embrace Tao.Bearing and nurturing,Creating but not owning,Giving without demanding,Controlling without authority,This is love."

"The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself."

"Too much thinking causes confusion and anxietybetter to stick with the simplicity of Tao."

"One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others."
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