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"Worry is a cloud which rains destruction."
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"As night goes round the Earth always there are hundreds of thousands of people who should be sleeping, lying awake, fearing a bully, fearing a cruel competition, dreading lest they cannot make good, ill of some illness they cannot comprehend, distressed by some irrational quarrel, maddened by some thwarted instinct or some suppressed perverted desire."

"It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand."

"Worry is to human beings - what a condom is to a man with erectile dysfunction."

"So many of our problems begin when we start worrying what others think of us."

"Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face."

"When your inner critic undermines your confidence, inner conflict, anxiety, and agitation take over. It tells you that you are not good enough, smart enough, handsome enough, worthy enough, or basically just plain NOT enough. It takes a toll on your self-confidence, doesn't it?"
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"Two people can illustrate crudity to you.The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone.The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the first one."


"The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured."


"A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without the bird."


"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."


"These lecture provide material for the consideration of common factors, in theory and in development, from the viewpoint of the idea of surrender to the Divine Will, reviewing some aspects of the interplay between Christians and Moslems, and introducing material from and about Sufis."


"Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions."


"When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it."


"Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction."
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