"Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly."
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"In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose."
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"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."
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"Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions."
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"No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind."
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"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly."
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"The soul's impurity consists in bad judgements, and purification consists in producing in it right judgements, and the pure soul is one which has right judgements, for this alone is proof against confusion and pollution in its functions."
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"When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to."
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"Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe."
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"These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits."
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"Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control."
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"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
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"Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire."
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"Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power."
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"When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are."
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"We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character."
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"You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest."
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"Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control."
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"Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems"
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"In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose."
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