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Seo Do-young Actor
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"A sack that can contain a person's greed...doesn't exist in this world. If your hearts not content, no matter how much you put in the sack, it's never enough."

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
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"If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works."

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Shania Twain Singer-songwriter
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"And it only hurts when I'm breathing My heart only breaks when it's beating My dreams only die when I'm dreaming So, I hold my breath--to forget"

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Richard Pryor Comedian, Actor
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"In March I had a minor heart attack while I was vacationing in Australia. it scared me, but it was nothing compared to what someone had in store for me down the road."

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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Author, Actress
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"But what is the heart, madame? It's worth less than people think. it's quite accommodating, it accepts anything. You give it whatever you have, it's not very particular. But the body... Ha! That's something else again! It has a cultivated taste, as they say, it knows what it wants. A heart doesn't choose, and one always ends up by loving."

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Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist
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"At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done"

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Sophocles Playwright, Philosopher
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"When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth toward death? Anyone who warms their heart with the glow Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all. The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said."

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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
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"Determination can change your mind. Determination can change your heart. Determination can change your life altogether."

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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
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"Before the final curtain goes down On my life, I shall say to my Mother-Earth, "My gratitude-heart is all for you, All for you.""

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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
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"Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness."

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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
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"Meditation gives us peace of mind without a tranquilizer. And unlike a tranquilizer, the peace of mind that we get from meditation does not fade away. It lasts for good in some corner of the inmost recesses of our aspiring heart."

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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
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"This mind is the doubting mind, and in the doubting mind we can never feel the presence of peace. We can feel the presence of peace only in the loving heart."

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Sri Aurobindo Philosopher, Poet, Politician
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"I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me."

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Sri Aurobindo Philosopher, Poet, Politician
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"What you call the psychic being is the mind of the vital. The heart is the seat of this mind. And this mind is the essence of the senses. It receives things from outside, acts upon things that are outside - knows, gives consent, takes interest in them. But this mind cannot be the Ishwara, but it is the knower, the giver of the consent."

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Robert Hughes Art Critic, Author
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"Christmas began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the heart of man.Why wait for a call when you have a command?"

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Stefan Zweig Writer
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"Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart as the defeat of a human being who battles against the invincible superiority of fate. This is always the most grandiose of all tragedies, one sometimes created by a dramatist but created thousands of times by life."

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