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"Our self-conceit sustains and always must sustain us."
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"To say 'I want to have sex with this person' is to express a desire which is not intellectually directed in the way that 'I want to eradicate poverty in the world' is an intellectually directed desire. Furthernore, the gratification of sexual desire can only ever give temporary satisfaction. Thus as Nagarjuna, the great Indian scholar said: 'When you have an itch, you scratch. But not to itch at all is better than any amount of scratching."
"Cultivate confidence, and eradicate the need to control."
"I have a copy of you in my brain, when you make me angry I do very bad things to you."
"When animals behave like humans or when humans behave like animals, don't be surprised because in every animal there is a human and in every human there is an animal!"
"Both friend and enemy reside within us. One lives by the rule of compassion, the other by the rule of hard knocks. Though potential influence of either extreme is inevitable, our actions bear witness to the one we embrace."
"Help does not come from anywhere outside - it comes only from within ourselves."
"To open door to hatred is to open one's spirit to misery."
"Express your regrets to the right people and you will be encouraged positively."
"Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy of any one family's history."
"Negative thoughts about ourselves steals our energy."
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"It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out."
"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."
"When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once."
"I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better."
"Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day."
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