Excerpts of Citations
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True wealth is living with passion & purpose.
~Unknown
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What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
~Leo Tolstoy
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
~Carl Jung
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Follow your bliss.
~Joseph Campbell
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Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.
~Seneca
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Success is achieved by development of our strengths, not by elimination of our weakness.
~Marilyn Vos Savant
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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
~Virginia Woolf
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
~Lord Byron
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A quiet conscience makes one so serene.
~Lord Byron
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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageous...
~Albert Einstein
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Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it.
Our life is shaped by our mind; we becom...~Buddha
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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
~Paulo Coelho
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As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.
~Buddha
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Believe nothing.
No matter where you read it,
Or who said it,
Even if I have said it,
Unless it agrees with your own reason
And your own common sense.~Buddha
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
~Leo Buscaglia