"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit."
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"Understanding a question is half an answer."
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"There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance."
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"I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you."
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"Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise."
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"Wisdom begins in wonder."
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"Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives."
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"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."
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"Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are."
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"When I was young, I believed that life might unfold in an orderly way, according to my hopes and expectations. But now I understand that the Way winds like a river, always changing, ever onward.. My journeys revealed that the Way itself creates the warrior; that every path leads to peace, every choice to wisdom. And that life has always been, and will always be, arising in Mystery."
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"What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?"
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"The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul."
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"I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles we fight are on the inside."
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"Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto."
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"To find yourself, think for yourself."
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"Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men."
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"We are what we think we are"
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"Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it"
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"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."
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"I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others."
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