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"All defensiveness stems from the need to be right and frustration over not being able to control others."
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Personal Development
"It is always a great honor to be the driver of your own car, to be the boss of your own fate!"
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Personal Development
"Meanness is a monster that usurps your self-control because you cowardly allow it to conquer you."
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Personal Development
"You will find there are times you must grasp your life with both hands and forcefully steer it in a new direction and then strain to hold your course until the storms of fear, weakness, and doubt abate."
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Personal Development
"The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection."
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Personal Development
"Ambalal Muljibhai' (Dada's relative self) is under the control of worldly interactions, and 'we' (The Gnani Purush) are in the control of nischaya (realm of the Self). Worldly interaction should not be scorned at, at all."
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Personal Development
"Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them."
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Personal Development
"One is called a saiyami [those with inner control] when no intent of transgression remains within him. Even during anger-pride-deceit-greed when there is no violent intent, that is called saiyam. A saiyami will go to moksha."
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Personal Development
"The rule is that when one's mind is controlled in a specific subject, he can control the other person's mind in that subject."
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Personal Development
"What you don't know, you can't tell. Or made to tell."
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"You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined."
Faith
"But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful."
Hope
"You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life."
Life
"I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves."
Food
"If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that."
People
"A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live."
Time
"I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us."
Control
"The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human."
Strength
"It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home."
Family
"I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me."
Death
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