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"My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline."
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"If you understand that a wasted time is a wasted life, you will start running away from television, you will begin to run away from movies, you will run away from games like criminal case and candy crush."

"Godliness should promote the posture worth of exercise and fitness."

"In the absence of self-control, this primordial nature of the limbic brain often compels the mind to give in to evils of corruption."

"Every unit of time that passes daily should be accounted for."

"Working hard denies oneself from instant gratification."

"You are either going to go through the pain of disappointment or discipline in your life. The latter makes the pain worth it."

"If you always want to have whatever you want any time you want it with no delays, and denial of self, you would end up ruining your life."

"You cannot desire to be great when you cannot even focus on 8 hours of work a day."

"By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?"

"You have a shot at success if you can discipline yourself to eliminate the limiting thoughts from within and the disempowering words from without."
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"I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly."

"It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life."

"In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing."

"My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness."

"A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity."

"Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema."

"Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse."

"I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready."
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