"Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment."

Carlson, Richard on mind   

"The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes."

Courtney, Henry on mind   

"There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out."

Carlyle, Thomas on debt   

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"The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself."

Carlyle, Thomas on doubt
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"Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone."

Carlyle, Thomas on doubt
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"Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer."

Carlyle, Thomas on duty
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"All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone."

Carlyle, Thomas on evil   

"Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects."

Carlyle, Thomas on eyes
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"To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes."

Carlyle, Thomas on faith
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"A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder."

Carlyle, Thomas on goals   

"Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!"

Carlyle, Thomas on health
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"Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether."

Carlyle, Thomas on advice   

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"The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception."

Carlyle, Thomas on laughter
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"It is only the ignorant who despise education."

Syrus, Publilius on education
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"The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing."

Syrus, Publilius on eyes
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"The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them."

Syrus, Publilius on favors   

"Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken."

Syrus, Publilius on fortune
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"Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly."

Syrus, Publilius on friends and friendship   

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"If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest."

Syrus, Publilius on ambition   

"One ungrateful person, does an injury to all needy people."

Syrus, Publilius on gratitude   

"One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid."

Syrus, Publilius on ingratitude   

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"If you would live innocently, seek solitude."

Syrus, Publilius on innocence
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"It is not every question that deserves an answer."

Syrus, Publilius on interviews
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"Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm."

Syrus, Publilius on leadership
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"Pain forces even the innocent to lie."

Syrus, Publilius on lies and lying   

"I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about."

Williams, A.L. on effort   

"You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life."

Williams, A.L. on failure
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"We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep."

Schreiner, Olive on equality   

"Happiness is a sort of action."

Aristotle on happiness
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"We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve."

Horton, Doug on merit
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"Anyone can hate. It costs to love."

Williamson, John on hatred
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"Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination."

Shaw, George Bernard on kings
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."

Coolidge, Calvin on honor
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"No one every listened themselves out of a job."

Coolidge, Calvin on listening
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"Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped."

Coolidge, Calvin on prosperity   

"If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it."

Coolidge, Calvin on silence
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"We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen."

Coolidge, Calvin on vision
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"I have never been hurt by what I have not said."

Coolidge, Calvin on words
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