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"People can cry much easier than they can change."
"Love is energy of life."
"You cannot fix what you will not face."
"He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees."
"When you stop needing more of everything, more of what you desire seems to arrive in your life."
""We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.""
"You cannot solve a problem with the mind that created it. First you must change the mind."
"Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them."
"You'll see it when you believe it."
"Make yourself necessary to somebody."
"Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else."
"If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave."
"Poor and content, is rich and rich enough; But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter, To him that ever fears he shall be poor."
"In fact, I have a problem with too much money... I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer."
"This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity."
"Take what's useful, discard what is not."
"What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others."
"Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement."
"Our essential nature is one of pure potentiality."