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"Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness."
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"Be on time! If you have a 15-minute appointment-keep it at fifteen minutes unless there is mutual agreement to continue."
"Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time criticizing the lives and work of others. Do what matters most to you and make a difference doing that."
"Do not indulge your weaknesses!"
"Why so eager to jump in and direct someone else's life when you can't stick to your own goals and resolutions?"
"The first person you have to conquer is you. This is because when at last you win over million people, the first person to bring you down could be you. Discipline yourself!"
"Growing nails breaks all conducts (aachar). When one conduct breaks, it breaks all other conducts."
"Furnishing was not a priority in the Citadel. Shelves, stools, tables... There was a rumor among the novices that priests towards the top of the hierarchy had golden furniture, but there was no sign of it here. The room was as severe as anything in the novices' quarters although it had, perhaps, a more opulent severity; it wasn't the forced bareness of poverty, but the starkness of intent."
"Only a changed person can live according to the law."
"Of all the forces in the universe, the hardest to overcome is the force of habit."
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"Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!"
"The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters."
"No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable."
"May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters."
"Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace."
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