It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

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Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

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Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same

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Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.

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Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

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average human “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.

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Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.

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Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

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