Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can't have both.

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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

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The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.

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No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.

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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.

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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.

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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

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Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.

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It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.

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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.

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