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Life didn't come with a fool-proof manual.

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Richard CarlsonDon't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life

Life didn't come with a fool-proof manual.

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Richard CarlsonDon't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life

Losing a belief in free will has not made me fatalistic—in fact, it has increased my feelings of fre...

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If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clea...

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If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clea...

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If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clea...

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If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clea...

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If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clea...

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If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clea...

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If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clea...

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If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clea...

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If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the w...

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How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?

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Seth GodinSmall Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs

There is no future in a job. The only future is inside oneself. We look inside rather than outside. ...

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The great obstacle to communication is the tendency to constantly evaluate or moralize with others, ...

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If you want to understand yourself,Then do not examine yourself.Just love yourself more sincerely,Mo...

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Sri ChinmoyThe Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

Your ability to get along with others flows naturally from how well you are getting along with yours...

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Our problems don’t stem from our ignorance so much as our disobedience of that which we know to be r...

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We can actually live out the trials and temptations of the day before they come. We can in prayer de...

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Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is s...

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Education is neither writing on a blank slate nor allowing the child's nobility to come into flower....

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Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Because much of the content of education is not cognitively natural, the process of mastering it may...

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Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where’s the self-help section?' She said if she tol...

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Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make...

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Everybody has somebody. It could be a friend, a lover, a spouse, a writing partner, or even That One...

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To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, tha...

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Determine never to be idle. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

It is the lot of mankind to feel not only insecure but also bored. To combat that experience, people...

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Thomas SzaszCruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted

Caleb told me that our mother said there was evil in everyone, and the first step to loving someone ...

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All we are not stares back at what we are.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your co...

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Not that I would not, if I could, be both handsome ...and well-dressed, and a great athlete, and mak...

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The great majority of people are “wandering generalities” rather than “meaningful specifics”. The fa...

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Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

There is a rose in every heart. Enlightenment is recognizing that rose.

Reconnect with the highest truth and ignite the divine sparks in you.

Witnessing is the alchemy of enlightenment. It can transform mud into gold.

Witnessing is not flowing with the current of the river but observing the flow from the bank of the ...

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Meditation is spending time with the self. It is the time to be intimated with the soul.

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

Be the music of your soul. Don't be a pawn in someone else's game.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Every once in a while you need to challenge yourself and learn new things.

Turn on the light within, expand your horizons and reach your full potential.

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Amit RayPeace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity

Sing your own song. There are always some earnest listeners.

Deep down there is a rose in every heart.

Learn to access the cosmic trust. Life will be easy.

Jnana yoga is the yoga of kindness and compassion - serving the self that is everywhere.

Samadhi is the journey from individual to collective consciousness. The steps of Samadhi are the ste...

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What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge tha...

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If she[…] had known how much her first half-inch beginning to let go would take - and how long her n...

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If you want to work on your acting, work on yourself.

The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in lov...

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Barbara EhrenreichBright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat o...

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Much popular self-help literature normalizes sexism. Rather than linking habits of being, usually co...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It...

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The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this i...

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Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future...

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The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality...

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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking ...

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So she goes to see the Old Man of the Mountains–looks just like you, Bear. Same face, same hair. A b...

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Bad habits have brought me this far: why change such a tried-and-true formula?

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflec...

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When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary." If there is some point you haven't th...

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there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it .

you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry

If I knew your thoughts, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you who you are. By chang...

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If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty...

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Dale CarnegieHow to Win Friends and Influence People

A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still

When the pain of being the same becomes greater than the pain of being different, you change.

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Deepak ChopraWhy Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people...

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This is what I think now; that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness. I...

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We were born in charge of our own being, our own personality. Other people's personalities are beyon...

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Little faults become great, and even monstrous in our eyes, in proportion as the pure light of God i...

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Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from bei...

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As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.

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Gloria SteinemRevolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

Do your best, and be a little better than you are.

I learn everyday what it means to love myself, and I'm constantly figuring out what makes me feel em...

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Resolution number one: Obviously will lose twenty pounds. Number two: Always put last night's pantie...

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...but doth not the person who expends vast sums in the furniture of his house or the ornaments of h...

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One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

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Henry Ward BeecherLife Thoughts Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher

I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.

Don’t play for safety. It’s the most dangerous thing in the world.

Once a day....call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have g...

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Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see farther.

Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility, or so I thought until I cast my mind ba...

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J. K. RowlingVery Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

However, he was happy. He felt he was conquering nature. He laughed aloud. He felt he was stronger t...

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the only source whence any thing like consolation or composure could be drawn, was in the resolution...

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Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be...

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Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.