"To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy or to pursue any excessive desire diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self."

Life, Happiness, Contentment, Desire, Self-Awareness

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"To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy or to pursue any excessive desire diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

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"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

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"I am born to win."

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"The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves."

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"Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know."

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