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"My purely practical advice: Don't get excited. Don't raise your voice. Bite back. Bite back hard, but never cry."
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"People who truly serve God embrace light, they fall in love with light, and they proclaim light, they fight with light."
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Personal Development
"Self-discipline is nothing but self-consciousness."
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Personal Development
"To truly be better than your past self, you must practice the rule of ten thousand hours and you must invest so much time building yourself up."
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Personal Development
"Do not allow yourself to act according to the flesh."
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Personal Development
"It is better to avoid the temptation than get entangled in the sin."
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Personal Development
"A faint smile played on his lips. "Obedience does not come naturally to you, does it?""No...sir""I must take some blame for that, I suppose. The sea does not like to be restrained."
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"Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations for sleep is a recreation. Add not therefore sauce to sauce. ... Pastime like wine is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head which hath lain fallow all night with some serious work."
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Personal Development
"Only a changed person can live according to the law."
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Personal Development
"Don't let your imperfections conveniently excuse you from having discipline. Have the courage to work through your imperfections."
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Personal Development
"Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in."
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"It is true that I suffered in a difficult and stupid love affair and that I worked at one bad job after another to try to keep myself going. Nevertheless, I remember that time as extraordinary, and I wouldn't trade it for anything. I don't even wish now that I had more money. And had I been asked if I was suffering at the time, I would have said a defiant no."
Resilience
"No doubt I would have felt reverent in less lovely places, because I imagined a past I connected to myself."
Memory
"Feminism was good for me, as were any number of causes, but as I developed as a thinking person, the truisms and dogmas of every ideology became as worn as that book's cover."
Ideology
"It encapsulates so neatly the lesson of expectation and reality that it could serve as a parable. The fact that tomatoes are good is beside the point. If you think you're getting an apple, a tomato will revolt you. That New York should be nicknamed the Big Apple, that an apple is the fruit of humankind's first error and the expulsion from paradise, that America and paradise have been linked and confused ever since Europeans first hit its shores, makes the story reverberate as myth."
Philosophy
"Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie."
Dreams
"A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other."
Literature
"I know, but he must have felt it that way, that evil was an emptiness, a lack of something, not a presence.'He turned his head fast and looked at me. 'That's what desire is, isn't it? The lack of something."
Desire
"My purely practical advice: Don't get excited. Don't raise your voice. Bite back. Bite back hard, but never cry."
Discipline
"Infancy is irretrievable. Its memories live underground. To what extent they return by stealth or are triggered by various catalysts remains an ongoing question."
Childhood
"Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don't know his work pick up a book and experience this writer's zealous, crazy, inventive, funny, sexy, often delirious prose."
Literature
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