"Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut."
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"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."
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"Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up."
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"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."
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"This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself."
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"Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment."
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"Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!"
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"Act as if you are, and you will become such."
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"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."
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"There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right."
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"Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service."
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"It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success."
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"Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot"
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"Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone."
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"When you’re out there partying, horsing around, someone out there at the same time is working hard. Someone is getting smarter and someone is winning. Just remember that."
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"Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams."
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"The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable."
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"You get in life what you have the courage to ask for."
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"The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be."
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"What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?"
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