"Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other."
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"Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it."
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"Awareness cannot be at the end of a process because the very striving, and the process itself, is arising and appearing in the Awareness which is timelessly present."
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"The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors."
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"May God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things."
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"I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself."
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"Faith is not the result of striving. It is the result of surrender."
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"Goodness strives not, and therefore it is not rebuked."
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"We can not guarantee success, we can strive to deserve it."
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"In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures."
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"Do not strive for things occurring to occur as you wish, but wish the things occurring as they occur, and you will flow well."
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"Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure - you as well as I: do so. You will forget me before I forget you."
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"When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness."
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"There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause."
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"To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God."
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"When the striving ceases, there is life waiting as a gift."
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"For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing."
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"Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive."
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"I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it."
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"Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone."
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