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"Healthy people know not to gorge on anger. At the end of the day, they walk away. They choose to end it. And it's an easier choice the next time."
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"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
"We often bow down to our feelings without realizing how fickle and unreliable they are."
"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."
"Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them."
"If you want to change someone, start and end with yourself. You're all you've got control over.yes, other people can change.no, you can't change other people."
"Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth."
"Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly."
"When you are angry, close your eyes, you will regain your inner peace."
"We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more."
"The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession."
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"I have not always chosen the safest path. I've made my mistakes, plenty of them. I sometimes jump too soon and fail to appreciate the consequences. But I've learned something important along the way: I've learned to heed the call of my heart. I've learned that the safest path is not always the best path and I've learned that the voice of fear is not always to be trusted."
"Causes do matter. And the world is changed by people who care deeply about causes ' about things that matter. We don't have to be particularly smart or talented. We don't need a lot of money or education. All we really need is to be passionate about something important, something bigger than ourselves. And it's that commitment to a worthwhile cause that changes the world."
"The world can use more light and less noise. More solvers and fewer blamers. More folks showing a better way and fewer folks complaining about how much better things used to be. More folks offering help and fewer folks wringing their hands about the problems. More hope bringers and fewer hope killers."
"An important decision I made was to resist playing the Blame Game. The day I realized that I am in charge of how I will approach problems in my life, that things will turn out better or worse because of me and nobody else, that was the day I knew I would be a happier and healthier person. And that was the day I knew I could truly build a life that matters."
"I'll never have to give an account for not being more like my favorite celebrity, that shining star in my chosen field or anybody else. And at the end of my life, the question I never want to be asked is, 'How come you weren't more like YOU? You had such great potential. You were a wholly unique person -- unrepeatable and irreplaceable. Why you weren't more like YOU?"
"Of course we need to accept ourselves as we are, but we can't stop there. We also need to value ourselves enough make needed changes."
"Who doesn't want to know that we notice them and value them? And who might respond to us better when they feel that they matter? It probably cannot be overstated ' it matters...that people matter."
"The truth is, I can choose to view tough times as growing times, I can choose to see aging as seasoning and I can choose to focus on whatever good there is to be found in living. I choose. After all, it's my point of view."
"Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you'll know what it means to live."
"Yes, love your family, and also love your friends. For some friends are truly family. Love the people in your life. Love them without measure. And don't worry about spoilage. Potatoes spoil, people don't spoil."
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