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"The best yardstick for our progress is not other people, but ourselves. Am I better than I was yesterday? This is the only question worth asking. As long as you go to bed at night a better practitioner than the one who woke up that morning, you have succeeded. Your worth should have nothing to do with how your progress stacks up relative to another."
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"They say you can't change the past despite the fact it never stops changing you " but that doesn't mean we have to sit back and take it. It may change us, but we have ultimate control over how we let it."
"It's not about being ready or feeling prepared all the time, sometimes you just have to do what you know you have to do. And when you do " you will always see that you're more ready and more prepared than you realize. Never doubt yourself or you may never do anything of significance."
"Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new."
"Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you."
"If you can listen to yourself and obey yourself more, then you have increased your chances for attaining personal effectiveness."
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"Will you show me what you really look like? You don't sparkle, do you?"
"When you're about to judge, look in the mirror and start."
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"The best indicator of a man's philosophy is not what he reads or says, but the way in which he lives his life, the way in which he acts."
"We are the estranged orphans of our nations and tribes, and we now bear the weight not of survival of the group but of personal identity."
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"After I received my blue belt, I soon recognized that the belts were simply an external representation of an inner experience, and that they mattered little compared to the person I was becoming."
"The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance."
"This philosophy teaches us to leave safe harbor for the rough seas of real-world experience, and to accept that a rough copy out in the world serves us far greater than a masterpiece sitting quietly on our shelves."
"When you give your weakness permission to be because you understand that it is simply an expression of your strength, it tends to no longer be a weakness."
"The knowledge you acquire in an area of study is accompanied by an incalculable ignorance. The farther we get into anything, we learn that we have even farther to go."
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