If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. — Dalai Lama

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The single biggest obstacle to us getting what we really need and want in life is right here. It's ourselves. — William Ury

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Philosophy has a practical power: it contributes to the changing of the world. ― Umberto Eco

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With popular rulers, the wife can become the guardian of their greatness: Peter the Great was succeeded by his wife, Catherine I. Sometimes the wives are an improvement. - Simon Sebag Montefiore

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I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it. -- Kenny G

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Be your own motivation. — Jon Jones

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An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be held in another. Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Tuesdays. You might as well say of a view of the cosmos that it was suitable to half-past three, but not suitable to half-past four. What a man can believe depends upon his philosophy, not upon the clock or the century. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. — Ralph Marston

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Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.

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Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent. — Benjamin Bloom

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