"Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat."

Cicero, Marcus T. on food and eating
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"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do."

Carnegie, Andrew on action
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"Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen."

Epictetus on opinions
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"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."

Epictetus on happiness
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"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force."

Blandi, Tom on attitude
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"Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them."

Holtz, Lou on problems
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"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears."

Clark, Glenn on attitude
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"You got to sing like you don't need the money; Love like you'll never get hurt; You got to dance like nobody's watchin'; It's gotta come from the heart if you want it to work."

Clark, Susanna on attitude
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"It's not the situation. It's your reaction to the situation."

Conklin, Robert on attitude
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"It is not the position, but the disposition."

Dinger, J. E. on attitude
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"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on attitude
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"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

Epictetus on attitude
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"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it."

Holtz, Lou on attitude
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"What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are."

Morissette, Alanis on appearance   

"Woman cannot be content with health and agility: she must make exorbitant efforts to appear something that never could exist without a diligent perversion of nature. Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?"

Greer, Germaine on appearance   

"Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth."

Aesop on appearance
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"You're never s good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose."

Holtz, Lou on criticism
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"The one who pleased everybody died before they were born."

Proverb on popularity
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"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."

Lincoln, Abraham on popularity
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"One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth the beauty; play it falsely, and it will give forth the ugliness. Life is not at fault."

Unknown, Source on attitude   

"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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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than the opinions of others."

Aurelius, Marcus on self-esteem
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"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

Aurelius, Marcus on power
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"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks."

Aurelius, Marcus on opinions
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"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."

Aurelius, Marcus on anger
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"Your life is what your thoughts make it."

Aurelius, Marcus on life
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"If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now."

Aurelius, Marcus on judgment and judges
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"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."

Aurelius, Marcus on injury
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"Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life."

Aurelius, Marcus on happiness
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"Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain."

Aurelius, Marcus on focus
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"We are injured and hurt emotionally, Not so much by other people or what they say and don't say, But by our own attitude and our own response."

Maltz, Maxwell on attitude
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"Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become"

Maltz, Maxwell on self-image
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"Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving."

Maltz, Maxwell on love
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"There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment."

Sivananda, Sri Swami on happiness
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"There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient."

Sivananda, Sri Swami on failure
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"Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future."

Sivananda, Sri Swami on failure   

"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."

Carnegie, Dale on mistakes
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"Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date."

Carnegie, Dale on happiness
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"Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think."

Carnegie, Dale on happiness
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