Excerpts of Citations
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Courage is grace under pressure.
~Ernest Hemingway
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Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
~Bruce Lee
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Envy is ignorance. Imitation is suicide.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every positive change--every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness--involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through...
~Dan Millman
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Every Warrior of the Light has felt afraid of going into battle.
Every Warrior of the Light has, at some time in the past, lied or betrayed someone.
Every Warrior of the Light has trodden...~Paulo Coelho
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.
~Henry David Thoreau
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No mirror ever became iron again; No bread ever became wheat; No ripened grape ever became sour fruit. Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse. Become the light.
~Mevlana Rumi
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who ...~Marianne Williamson
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Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
~Steven Pressfield.
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Shedding one's skin. The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes. So do the spirits who are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be spirit.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
~Joseph Campbell
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The rain-weeping and the sun burning twine together to make us grow. Keep your intelligence white-hot and your grief glistening, so your life will stay fresh. Cry easily like a little child.
~Mevlana Rumi
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When you can’t choose between two evenly balanced course of action to take, choose the bolder.
~General W.J. Slim
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When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that anyone who keeps secret his inmost thought will soon attain the object of ...
~Mevlana Rumi
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. And could you keep yo...
~Kahlil Gibran
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Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-s...
~Kahlil Gibran