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"Let go of rousing speechand identification with thoughtsUntil your endyou will never be jaded."
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"Just because you have a past with someone, doesn't mean you should have a future with them."
"The eternal sea of politics is best left to politicians."
"Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good."
"Sometimes stepping away from what you desire the most, is the best action to take: because it gives the process the momentum to take its own course."
"I care as much as I can, but I don't spend energy caring about things I cannot resolve."
"I don't need to look at your primal, white-hot, mutant pirate eyes, big guy. Just forget that I'm there, and I'll try to block out the fact that I ever met you. Basically we'll just act like we do every day."
"Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the living."
"They had long ago found out that one could not be an owner unless one were cold."
"It isn't so much life's problems that challenge us but the emotional turbulence stirred up while trying to deal with them. People possessing the gift of emotional detachment are lucky in that their personal problems seem far less problematic."
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"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did this ourselves.'"
"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
"Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil."
"Heaven's Tao is impartial,yet those who follow its compassionate waywill always be nourished."
"Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here."
"I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men."
"Free from desire, you realize the mysterycaught in the desire, you see only the manifestations."
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