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"Growth occurs when we discover how to remain authentically ourselves in the presence of potentially threatening things. Maturity is the possession of coping skills: we can take in our stride things that previously would have knocked us off course. We are less fragile, less easily shocked and hence more capable of engaging with situations as they really are."

"Find the right surroundings, the people who will help you to carry out your mission and realize your gift."

"The Larger A Purpose, The Bigger The Manifestation."

"In order to make our gifts perfect, you need to work on yourself but it hurts."

"Don't be too comfortable with employment discover yourself and see what you can achieve for yourself."

"You are at liberty to develop yourself when you are self employed."
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"The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty."


"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us."


"Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable."


"Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them."


"An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing."


"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles."


"It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done."


"The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted."


"Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers."
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