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You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them

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The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
To change what you get you must change who you are.
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.