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"Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt."
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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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"Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Startwith what they know. Build with what they have. But with the bestleaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people willsay 'We have done this ourselves."
"Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream."
"Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses."
"It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins."
"Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions."
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