"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."

Hoffer, Eric on change
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"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones."

Seneca on pleasure   

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on change
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"Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass."

Santaguida, Paul on life
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"The weakest spot in any person is where they think themselves to be the wisest."

Emmons, G. on weakness
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"Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good."

Mitford, William on death   

"No good deed goes unpunished."

Boothe Luce, Clare on pessimism
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"But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon."

Milton, John on secrets
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"Belief gets in the way of learning."

Heinlein, Robert on belief
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"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."

Bierce, Ambrose on anger
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"When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone."

Scott, Thomas on goals   

"False friends are worse than bitter enemies."

Proverb, Scottish on enemies
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"The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns."

Picabia, Francis on failure   

"Instinct is the nose of the mind."

Girardin, Madame de on instinct
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"Let us choose to believe something good can happen."

Kohe, J. Martin on choice
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"While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us."

Franklin, Benjamin on control
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"Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with."

Leighton, Robert on adversity
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"A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others."

La Bruyere, Jean De on secrets
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"Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison."

Bagehot, Walter on progress   

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"When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package."

Ruskin, John on egotism
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"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."

Arendt, Hannah on evolution   

"Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are."

Dyer, Wayne on gratitude
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"The beginning of wisdom is to desire it."

Gabirol, Ibn on wisdom
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"The truth is found when men are free to pursue it."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on truth
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"It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything."

Coty, Rene on understanding
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"It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree."

Mckern, Leo on freedom   

"Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless."

Holland, Josiah Gilbert on pride   

"We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself."

Butler, Samuel on argument   

"Mighty things from small beginnings grow."

Dryden, John on power
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"Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent."

Churchill, Winston on character
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"Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world."

James, Clive on vision
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"Wit is educated insolence."

Aristotle on wit
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"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on common sense
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"Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on ability
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"To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble."

Twain, Mark on teacher
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"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."

Maslow, Abraham H. on change
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"We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation."

Shinn, Florence Scovel on affirmation
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"There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work."

Niro, Robert De on discipline
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"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."

Barrie, Sir James M. on happiness
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them."

Hoffer, Eric on self-sabotage
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