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"But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what you're fighting for."
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"In order to fulfil our life mission we also need to develop perseverance."

"Life is a personal race. Run the race of life with all endurance."

"Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory."

"It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them."

"A man going straight towards his goals overcomes difficulties and obstacles in his paths, and turns them into benefits."

"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."

"The gospel of the kingdom talks about perseverance."

"Day and night, their frail and crippled ships defy the tempest."

"You can strive in life with courage, faith and hope."

"One is to cross this ocean in the form of obstinacy. We are standing on this side of obstinacy and we have to go to the other side. If someone becomes instrumental in removing your obstinacy; do not be disturbed about it, consider him to be extremely beneficial and undergo that experience with equanimity."
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"To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."

"The acomodador or giving-up point: there is always an event in our lives that is responsible for us failing to progress: a trauma, a particularly bitter defeat, a disappointment in love, even a victory that we did not quite understand, can make cowards of us and prevent us from moving on. As part of the process of increasing his hidden powers, the shaman must first free himself from that giving-up point and, to do so, he must review his while life and find out where it occured."

"When we want something, we have to have a clear purpose in mind for the thing that we want. The only reason for seeking a reward is to know what to do with that reward."

"A threat leads to nothing if it is not accepted. In fighting the good fight, you should never forget that. Just as you should never forget that both attacking and fleeing are part of the fight. What isn't a part of the fight is becoming paralyzed by fear."

"I've been through all this before,' he says to his heart." 'Yes, you have been through all this before,' replies his heart. 'But you have never been beyond it."

"I ask myself: Are Defeats necessary ?Well,necessary or not, they happen.When we first begin fighting for our dream, we've no experience and make many mistakes.The Secret of life, though,is to fall seven times and to get up eight times !"

"Fear exists before and after, but not while the shots are being fired, because, at that moment, you see men at their very limit, capable of the most heroic of actions and the most inhumane."

"We are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility."
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