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"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
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"Rule your mind or it will rule you."

"Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures."

"Do your emotions influence You or are You influenced by your emotions?"

"It is wise for people to learn how to control their emotions instead of allowing it to overwhelm them and making them behaves irrational."

"Discipline is when we delay our gratifications."

"Refuse to react to any angry actions."

"A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean - or what we really think."

"We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more."

"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."

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."
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"To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides."


"The question of divine knowledge is so deep that it is really known only to those who have it."


"When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for."


"But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school."
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