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Paulo Coelho Writer
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"I am my own best friend and my own worst enemy. Before coming here, I was thinking I don't deserve it, that i wouldn't be able to meet your expectations, and that you had probably chosen the wrong candidate. At the same time, my heart was telling me that i was being rewarded because i hadn't given up and had fought to the end"

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Paulo Coelho Writer
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"Simplicity is the heart of everything. If you look to the desert, apparently the desert is very simple but it's full of life, it's full of hidden places and the beauty is that it looks simple but it's complex in the way that it expresses the soul of the world or God."

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Pema Chodron Buddhist Teacher, Author
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"Remember that this is not something we do just once or twice. Interrupting our destructive habits and awakening our heart is the work of a lifetime."

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Pema Chodron Buddhist Teacher, Author
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"I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person or situation that's right in front of you, and you miss so much."

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Dan Brown Author
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"Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows." Angels and Demons p. 484"

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Edgar Allan Poe Poet, Writer
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"To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair"

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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
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"Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying attention to you."

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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist
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"We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart."

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"The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die."

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist
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"Nobody climbs on skis now and almost everybody breaks their legs but maybe it is easier in the end to break your legs than to break your heart although they say that everything breaks now and that sometimes, afterwards, many are stronger at the broken places."

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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
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"I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze of glory, myself, or maybe simply disappear someday, far out in the heart of the wilderness I love, all by myself, alone with the Universe and whatever God may happen to be looking on. Disappear - and never return. That's my fantasy."

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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account."

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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
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"One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider this an overbroad characterization, but to me every time we exercise self-criticism, every time we test our ideas against the outside world, we are doing science. When we are self-indulgent and uncritical, when we confuse hopes and facts, we slide into pseudoscience and superstition."

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