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Stephen Covey Author, Speaker
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"If you were to fault yourself in one of three areas, which would it be: (1) the inability to prioritize; (2) the inability or desire to organize around those priorities; or (3) the lack of discipline to execute around them? ... Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe that is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds. They haven't really internalized Habit 2 [Begin with the end in mind]."

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Stephen King Author
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"Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings."

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Stephen King Author
Heart

"Now I think all of us were born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You... you fill me up."

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Stephen King Author
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"and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended"

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Steve Jobs Entrepreneur
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"All we are is our ideas, or people. That's what keeps us going to work in the morning, to hang around these great bright people. I've always thought that recruiting is the heart and soul of what we do."

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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
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"Today, we're taking a break from the concerns and the bustle of the work-a-day world. But we're also making a new beginning... Let us renew our faith that as free men and women we still have the power to better our lives, and let us resolve to face the challenges of the new year holding that conviction firmly in our hearts. That, after all, is our greatest strength and our greatest gift as Americans."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"Truth will never come into our minds so long as there will remain the faintest shadow of Ahamkâra (egotism). All of you should try to root out this devil from your heart. Complete self-surrender is the only way to spiritual illumination."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"The test of ahimsa is the absence of jealousy. The man whose heart never cherishes even the thought of injury to anyone, who rejoices at the prosperity of even his greatest enemy, that man is the bhakta, he is the yogi, he is the guru of all."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"When you stop admiring yourself and let the eyes of the heart open your vision to vast other worlds then all you do, will become admirable"

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Heart

"Oh! joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these are other colors in the heart and the soul."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Heart

"O my choice beauty You've gone But your love remains in my heart Your image in my eye O guide on my winding road I keep turning round and round in the hopes of Finding you"

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Heart

"If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Heart

"‎Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds."

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