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"I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing."
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"There is no aspect of life that you take that does not demand discipline. It is a requirement of life. It is not a matter of choice."
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"You may not be able to do anything about how you feel, but you can do something about how you act. People will definitely offend you willing or unwilling by their words and actions...but you can choose to let that offence sink you down or not...."
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"Don't be your own devil."
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Personal Development
"Self-control is a divided battle in one body. The "self" produces desires that "you" must battle with and kick off. Two wrestlers in one body. Just imagine. It's difficult, though rewarding!"
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Personal Development
"When you have learned to love and control yourself, then you become the master of yourself."
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Personal Development
"Control your anger, be calm."
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Personal Development
"In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless."
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Personal Development
"But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins."
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"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
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"I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing."
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"I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing."
Self-control
"They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not."
Life
"Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else."
People
"Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined."
Relationship
"I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction."
Truth
"Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled."
Life
"The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being."
Life
"Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you."
Experience
"It is such a relief to be told the truth."
Truth
"I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that."
History
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