One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

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There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you will still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything.

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Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

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Failure cannot cope with persistence.

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Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

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Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

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You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need. ― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be.

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