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"Nothing should lead you aside from your planned route."

"Solitude is a way of overcoming distraction so that you can convert your time into something of worth."

"Turn down things that are in consistence with your priorities."

"On your way to accomplish greatness, you will hear a lot of noise. Listen to your inner voice and never let the distraction of the crowd discolour your poise."

"Don't exert all your energy on employment, locate your purpose."

"There are so many things and people craving your attention such that you could so easily forget that you have a purpose to fulfill within a specified time on the earth."

"If you are not aware of your destination, you are likely to become used by someone in accordance with his purpose and to work for a person who knows his plans and goals."

"So because you are converting it, you are actually conserving it."
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"What am I but a little flesh, a little breath, and the thinking part that rules the whole?"

"If something is difficult for you to accomplish, do not then think it impossible for any human being; rather, if it is humanly possible and corresponds to human nature, know that it is attainable by you as well."

"The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle."

"Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts."

"As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: "What is his point of reference here?" But begin with yourself: examine yourself first."

"If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance."

"Look well into thyself, there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look."

"III. I have often wondered how it should come to pass, that every man loving himself best, should more regard other men's opinions concerning himself than his own. For if any God or grave master standing by, should command any of us to think nothing by himself but what he should presently speak out; no man were able to endure it, though but for one day. Thus do we fear more what our neighbours will think of us, than what we ourselves."
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