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"No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character."
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"Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."
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"This is my life... my story... my book. I will no longer let anyone else write it, nor will I apologize for the edits I make."
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"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."
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"If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled."
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"If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves."
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"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."
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"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
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"Do your emotions influence You or are You influenced by your emotions?"
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"Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity."
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"Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another."
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"When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world I thank God I am alive."
Gratitude
"You have first an instinct then an opinion then a knowledge as the plant has root bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason."
Trust
"With the past I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now."
Present
"Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise."
Morality
"A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness."
Gender
"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey."
Health
"As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect."
Morality
"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."
Morality
"Things refuse to be mismanaged for long."
Order
"The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise."
Art
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