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"Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."
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"Limitations can be reasonably expanded. We are constantly challenging our limitations. But a hobbled mind is not going anywhere."
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"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
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"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."
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"Refuse to react to any angry actions."
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"Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them."
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"Immediate gratification is a dream killer."
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"Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."
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"You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes 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."
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"This is my life... my story... my book. I will no longer let anyone else write it, nor will I apologize for the edits I make."
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"When you are angry, close your eyes, you will regain your inner peace."
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"I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."
Unity
"How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them."
Courage
"Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."
Self-Control
"Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house. [Letter to his wife, 17 July 1757, after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck; often misquoted as "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."]"
Guidance
"He that can have patience can have what he will."
Unity
"I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things."
Perception
"Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day."
Happiness
"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
Ambition
"We must indeed all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately."
Unity
"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
Mystery
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