"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."

Carnegie, Dale on Friends and Friendship
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"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Service
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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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"You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it."

Bixton, Charles on Time and Time Management
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"We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go."

Rohn, Jim on Risk
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"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal -- a commitment to excellence -- that will enable you to attain the success you seek."

Andretti, Mario on Desire
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"Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone."

Tillich, Paul on Loneliness
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"To every problem there is already a solution whether you know it or not."

Kleiser, Grenville on Problems
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"The best way out is always through."

Keller, Helen on Problems
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"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems."

Gardner, John W. on Problems
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"The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have."

Peale, Norman Vincent on Detachment
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"When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor."

Peale, Norman Vincent on Detachment
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"Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do."

Peale, Norman Vincent on Enthusiasm
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"Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds."

Peale, Norman Vincent on Problems
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"When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy."

Peale, Norman Vincent on Problems
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"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."

Peale, Norman Vincent on Belief
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"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

Peale, Norman Vincent on Change
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"If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal."

Peale, Norman Vincent on Expectation
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"The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson."

Bodett, Tom on School
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"Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness."

Covey, Stephen R. on Wisdom
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"The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character."

Covey, Stephen R. on Ethics
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"The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Eloquence
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"It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean."

Robbins, Anthony on Circumstance
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"All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief."

Robbins, Anthony on Belief
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"Realizing that our actions, feelings and behavior are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality."

Maltz, Maxwell on Self-image
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"Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs."

Maltz, Maxwell on Mind
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"Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquillity -- instead of anger and resentment"

Unknown, Source on Acceptance
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"At the moment of death there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides. Terrified, you will flee from the radiance. Try to submerge it is an obstacle blocking the path of liberation. yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego. Recognize that the boundless light of this true reality is your own true self, and you shall be saved!"

Tibetan on Death and Dying
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"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."

Hesse, Hermann on Growth
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"The ultimate Path is without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing."

Seng-Ts'an on Zen
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"The best way out of a difficulty is through it."

Frost, Robert on Difficulties
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"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Love
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"The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws."

Whitman, Walt on Liberty
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"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."

Johnson, Samuel on Achievement
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"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

Churchill, Winston on Difficulties
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"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

Einstein, Albert on Difficulties
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"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Churchill, Winston on Opportunity
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"Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character."

Robbins, Anthony on Character
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"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

Auerbach, Berthold on Music
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"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

Bryan, William Jennings on Destiny
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