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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 need to impress others causes half the world's woes.
The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
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.
Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.
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.