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"Fighting external monsters is easy in comparison to how we fight those within us."
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"Live by your impulses, and you'll be just like them. You're better than that, aren't you, Red?"

"One must say, be in charge of your fucking feelings and keep your mouth shut."

"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."

"It is much easier to concentrate the mind on external things, than to concentrate on the mind itself. For example, a Neuroscientist can be the smartest man (or woman) on earth in his understanding of the human mind. He may know all the neurochemical changes underlying an outrageous behavior of a person. But when he gets mad himself, very little of his own scientific intellect would actually come in handy for him to control his rage. The virtue of self-control is a skill, which requires practice, regardless of all the neurobiological expertise in the world."

"God in His perfect wisdom gave you power to control only one thing in the entire universe, and that is you."

"Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity."

"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."

"Limitations can be reasonably expanded. We are constantly challenging our limitations. But a hobbled mind is not going anywhere."

"Don't try to control yourself, just learn to monitor your thoughts."

"If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled."
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"Go to where you do not know what you do not know. That is where you will find all your opportunities."

"Everyone in your life gives you something. The bad ones give you experience, the worst ones a lesson; the good ones give you memories, the best ones, joy."

"I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge."
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