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"Your soul has a special mission. Your soul is supremely conscious of it. Maya, illusion or forgetfulness, makes you feel that you are finite, weak and helpless. This is not true. You are not the body. You are not the senses. You are not the mind. These are all limited. You are the soul, which is unlimited. Your soul is infinitely powerful. Your soul defies all time and space."
"Please remember that your greatest talent is so much more powerful than your biggest fear."
"The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful."
"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful."
"If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects."
"A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources."
"Today, begin to believe right by choosing to know and believe in the powerful truths of God’s Word and in His love for you."
"...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain."
"Don't shortchange the future, because of fear in the present."
"You are free. You are powerful. You are good. You are love. You have value. You have purpose. All is well."
"[T]he rule of law does more than ensure freedom from high-handed action by rulers. It ensures justice between man and man however humble the one and however powerful the other. A man with five dollars in the bank can call to account the corporation with five billion dollars in assets-and the two will be heard as equals before the law."
"The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history."
"Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end."
"The Prayer of the sick person is his patience and his acceptance of his sickness for the love of Jesus Christ. Make sickness itself a prayer, for there is none more powerful, save martyrdom!"
"Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might."
"Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious."
"Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion."
"I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to the statement that it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture."
"The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth in what seems to be an instant."
"Passion is a powerful force. Passion properly directed is unstoppable."
