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Am I equipped for nothing but to lie among the bed-clothes and keep warm?
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if you see that anything is within man's power, and part of his proper work, conclude that you also may attain to it
103
Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal.
Margaret Chase Smithverified·Declaration of Conscience (remarks in the United States Senate)·June 1, 1950
104
I had, and still have, determined perseverance, but I soon found that it was in vain to occupy my mind beyond a certain time.
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An honest man’s pillow is his peace of mind, and when you lay down on the pillow at night, no matter who’s in our bed we all sleep alone.
106
Give others and yourself more credit. It just happened, you witnessed it, you just did it, believe it.
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Instead of denying these fears, declare them, say them out loud, admit them, give them the credit they deserve.
108
Life is a verb. We try our best. We don’t always do our best.
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Life is not a popularity contest. Be brave, take the hill but first, answer the question, “What is my hill?”
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Life’s not easy…don’t try and make it that way. It’s not fair, it never was, it isn’t now, it won’t ever be.
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We give thanks for these things and that gratitude reciprocates, creating more to be thankful for. It’s simple, and it works.
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We have created a fictitious ceiling, a roof, to our expectations of ourselves, a limit — where we think it’s all too good to be true.
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It is good to enlarge one’s sorrows, since thus does enlargement come to our consciousness, and there, there alone do we truly feel that we live.
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Whoever expects punishment already suffers it, and whoever has deserved it expects it.
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The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know that he is his own.
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Wherever the mind is perplexed, it is in an entire disorder, and domestic employments are not less troublesome for being less important.
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Moreover men commonly deceive themselves in respect of the love which they imagine others bear them, nor can ever be sure of it until they have put it to the proof.
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Therefore it must be inferred that good counsels, whencesoever they come, are born of the wisdom of the prince, and not the wisdom of the prince from good counsels.
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Therefore, if he who rules a principality cannot recognize evils until they are upon him, he is not truly wise; and this insight is given to few.
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Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of life-energy.
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For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.
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I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them
123
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
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I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
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when people see their friends' houses on fire they put it out as quickly and energetically as they can, but when their souls are on fire they themselves bring fuel