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"It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you down. It's the pebble in your shoe."
(Muhammad Ali)
If you understand that the world is full of irrational and irrelevant reactions to mental events, then even if you react to them, you can recognise your reaction and control it better.
(Orgyen Chowang)
- “It's so simple, yet makes such a difference. Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.'”
from Brain Food: Maximum Flexibility
- Entrepreneur Phil Levin on the importance of neighborhoods:
"You are going to spend 1000x more time in your surrounding 5 blocks than you will in any other neighborhood in your city. Thinking about all the things that New York City has—or the next city has—is a lot less important than thinking about the things within the five blocks where you live.
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“Love is more important than opinion.
If people love each other, the most varied opinions can be reconciled.
That’s why one of the most important tasks for humanity today and in the future is that we must learn to live together and understand each other. “Rudolf Steiner
“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
- “If only we wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is difficult, since we think them happier than they are.”
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Charles de Montesquieufrom A quote by Montesquieu
"My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man’s mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you’re sorry and get on with it. Don’t haul stuff around with you."
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