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"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
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"There is no difference between the person who wishes he can change his bad character and did not and the person who never wished for it. Wishes alone don't change the world!"

"Locate things that motivate you and surround yourself with people that inspire you."

"Groceries, you need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes you're gonna wear 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. Drop everything else but that. Because if you can't learn to master your thinking, you're in deep trouble forever."

"Evolving and bettering yourself is wonderful, but not if the set of standards and values you adopt smothers you into oblivion in the process."

"Be a bit of a challenge not because you're playing games but because you realize you're worth the extra effort."

"Your everyday actions will define you and your virtue."

"Be yourself, free being."

"Never become proud within yourself when you are seen as the one to cause that great effect. Never become timid if you know you can while others dare to prove otherwise! Mind your business and make the strike."

"For the first time maybe ever, it didn't matter if I looked beautiful or not. I felt it."

"You have to control the circumstances and things in your life. They should not control you."
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"I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it."


"Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too."


"When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get."


"You don't love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults."


"Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks."


"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."
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