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“If there’s no enemy…”

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“If there’s no enemy within, the enemy outside can do us no harm.”-African Proverb

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“We become what…”-E. N.

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“We become what we think about it.”-Earl Nightingale

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“The reasonable man adapts…”-G.S.

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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”-George Bernard Shaw

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“You don’t get in life…”-L.B.

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“You don’t get in life what you want, you get in life what you are.”-Les Brown

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“Greatness attracts greatness.”

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Surround yourself with phenomenal people.

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“Giving up is way…”-KW

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“Giving up is way harder than trying.”-Kanye West

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“No one can make…”-ER

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“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”-Eleanor Roosevelt

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“I have not failed…”-TE

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“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”-Thomas Edison

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“Everything you can imagine…”-PP

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“Everything you can imagine is real.”-Pablo Picasso

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“The opposite of love is not hate…”-EW

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“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith isn’t heresy, it’s indifference. The opposite of life isn’t death, it’s indifference.”-Elie Wiesel

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“There is no greater agony…”-M.A.

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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”-Mary Angelou

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“Life isn’t about finding…”-GS

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“Life isn’t about finding yourself, it’s about creating yourself.”-George Bernard Shaw

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“If you got a problem…”-BTDJ

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“If you got a problem man or money can solve, you ain’t got no problem.”-Bishop TD Jakes

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“It’s never too late…”-GE

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“It’s never too late to be what you might have been.”-George Eliot

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“As we are liberated…”-MW

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“As we are liberated from our own fear, our prescence automatically liberates others.”-Marianne Williamson

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“It’s the possibility of having…”-PC

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“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”-Paulo Coelho

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“What lies behind us…”-RWE

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“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia…”-JG

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“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it’ll be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You use the future to escape the present.”-John Green

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“Our lives begin to…”-MLK

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“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”-MLK Jr.

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“Always do what…”-RE

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“Always do what you’re afraid of.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“None but ourselves…”-BM

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“None but ourselves can free our mind.”-Bob Marley

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“Pain is inevitable…”-HM

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“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”-Haruki Murakami

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“The future belongs…”-ER

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“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”-Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Your mind is a…”-LB

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“Your mind is a machine. You must program yourself for success.”-Les Brown

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“People don’t know what…”-SJ

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“People don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”-Steve Jobs

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“Do not go where…”-RE

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“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Prayer is a daily admission…”-MG

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“Prayer is a daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”-Mahatma Gandhi

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“The things you do…”-KN

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“The things you do for yourself are gone when you’re gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”-Kalu Ndukwe

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“Who at the worst…”-TR

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“Who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.”-Theodore Roosevelt

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“Nothing is as perfect…”-CP

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“Nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. It’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, and fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That’s the only lasting thing you can create.”-Chuck Palahniuk

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“Courage is not the…”-AR

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“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.”-Ambrose Redmoon

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“Reputation is what…”-LMB

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“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”Lois McMaster Bujold

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“Those who cannot change…”-GS

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“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”-George Bernard Shaw

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“The mind is its…”-JM

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“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”-John Milton

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“Unless you realize…”-SM

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“Unless you realize that the situation is over, you can’t move forward.”-Steve Maraboli

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“If you remember me…”-HM

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“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”-Haruki Murakami

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“If you are irritated…”-R

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“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”-Rumi

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“If you think you’re too…”-DL

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“If you think you’re too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”-Dalai Lama XIV

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“Everybody is going to…”-BM

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“Everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”-Bob Marley

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“In the end three things…”-GB

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“In the end three things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?”-Gautama Buddha

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“Don’t be afraid of…”CJC

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“Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.”-C. Joybell C.

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“Happiness is only…”-JK

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“Happiness is only real when shared.”-John Krakauer

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“People say nothing is…”-AAM

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“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”-A.A. Milne

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“When people don’t express…”-LHA

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“When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”-Laurie Halse Anderson

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“I’d rather be hated…”-KC

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“I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”-Kurt Cobain

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“Each one of us is…”-BS

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“Each one of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”-Bryan Stevenson

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“I have never met…”-GG

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“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.”-Galileo Galilei

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“The starting point of…”-NH

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“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE.”-Napoleon Hill

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“Accept no one’s definition…”-HF

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“Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.”-Harvey Fierstein

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“Success is getting…”-WPK

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“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”-W.P. Kinsella

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“Failure is the…”-TC

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“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”-Truman Capote

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“Try not to become…”-AE

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“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”-Albert Einstein

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“Happiness isn’t the absence…”-SM

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“Happiness isn’t the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them.”-Steve Maraboli

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“Whatever the mind can…”-NH

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“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”-Napoleon Hill

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“The people crazy enough…”-SJ

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“The people crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do.”-Steve Jobs

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“We cannot waste time…”-GA

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“We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.”-George M. Adams

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“Never give up on…”

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“Never give up on something you can’t go a day without thinking about.”

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“The heaviness of being…”-SJ

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“The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.”-Steve Jobs

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“If you’re not willing to risk…”-LB

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“If you’re not willing to risk, you cannot grow. And if you cannot grow, you cannot become your best. And if you cannot become your best, you cannot be happy. And if you can’t be happy, then what else is there…”-Les Brown

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“Be ashamed to die…”-HM

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“Be ashamed to die until you’ve made some major contribution to humankind.”-Horace Mann

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“You’re not having a bad…”-LB

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“You’re not having a bad day. You’re having a character building day.”-Les Brown

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“Entrepreneurship is living…”

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“Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t.”-Unknown

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“It’s an opportunity…”-ET

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“It’s an opportunity, not an obligation. I GET to…not I GOT to.”-Eric Thomas

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“Opportunity is one of…”-AS

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“Opportunity is one of those things that depends on the eye of the beholder.”-Andrew Sanchez

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“All things are possible…”-Bible

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“All things are possible for him who believes.”-Mark 9:23

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“In order to manifest…”-LB

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“In order to manifest your greatness, you’ve got to put yourself in a perpetual state of discomfort.”-Les Brown

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“All that I am…”-AL

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“All that I am and all that I ever hope to be, I owe to my mother.”-Abraham Lincoln

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“Unless you try to do…”-REO

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“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”-Ronald E. Osborn

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“Life is short and…”-HK

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“Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first.”-Hellen Keller

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“Your network determines…”-GF

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“Your network determines your net worth.”-George Fraser

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“You will win…”-LB

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“You will win if you don’t quit.”-Les Brown

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“You must be willing…”

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“You must be willing to do the things today others won’t do, in order to have the things tomorrow others won’t have.”

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“Most people die at…”-LB

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“Most people die at age 25 and don’t get buried until they are 65.”-Les Brown

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“If you’re casual…”-BB

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“If you’re casual about your dream, you’ll end up a casualty.”-Bill Bailey

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“If you want a thing bad enough to go out and fight for it…”-Les Brown

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“If you want a thing bad enough to go out and fight for it, to work day and night for it. To give up your time, your sleep and peace for it. If all that you dream and scheme is about it. And life seems useless and worthless without it. And if you’ll gladly sweat for it, fret for it and plan for it. And lose all you’ll terror of the opposition for it. If you simply go after that thing that you want with all of your capacity, strength and sagacity. Faith, hope, confidence, and stern pertinacity. If neither cold poverty, famish or gold. Sickness and pain, body and brain can keep you from the thing that you want. If dogget and grim you’ve besieged and beset it. With the help of God, you’ll get it.”-Les Brown

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“An uneducated person…”-Epictetus

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“An uneducated person accuses others when he is doing badly; a partly educated person accuses himself, an educated person accuses neither someone else nor himself.”-Epictetus

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“What upsets people…”-E

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“What upsets people is not things themselves but their judgments about things.”-Epictetus

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“Do not seek to…”-E

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“Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen.”-Epictetus

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“Attitude is everything…”-WD

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“Attitude is everything. Pick a good one.”-Dr. Wayne Dyer

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“The great test to…”-AD

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“The great test to be able to love someone is to say ‘I leave you free to be yourself. To think your thoughts, to indulge your taste, to do exactly as you please…and I will still love you.”-Anthony De Mello

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“Ego stands for…”-WD

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“Ego stands for ‘edging God out’“-Dr. Wayne Dyer

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“True nobility isn’t about…”-WD

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“True nobility isn’t about being better than anyone else. It’s about being better than you used to be.”-Dr. Wayne Dyer

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“We are interested in…”-PS

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“We are interested in others when they are interested in us.”-Publilius Syrus

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“You must have a good time…”-DC

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“You must have a good time meeting people if you expect them to have a good time meeting you.”-Dale Carnegie

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“Our deepest fear is not…”-MW

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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”-Marianne Williamson

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“There is nothing either…”-WS

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“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”-William Shakespeare

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“It isn’t what you have…”-DC

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“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”-Dale Carnegie

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“Humility is not thinking…”-CSL

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“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.”-C.S. Lewis

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“There are seven days…”

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“There are seven days in the week, and ‘someday’ isn’t one of them.”-Unknown

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“Conventional wisdom…”

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“Conventional wisdom yields conventional results.”

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“Perspective. Just because it don’t…”-ET

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“Perspective. Just because it don’t look like a blessing, doesn’t mean it ain’t.”-Eric Thomas

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“Delay don’t mean…”-ET

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“Delay don’t mean deny. The successful work while they wait.”-Eric Thomas

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“The most powerful way…”-AR

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“The most powerful way to control your focus is through the use of questions.”-Anthony Robbins

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“You’ve got to make sure every aspect…”-RB

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“You’ve got to make sure every aspect of what you do is better than the competition.”-Richard Branson

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“Your beliefs attract to you…”-IA

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“Your beliefs attract to you the life you experience.”-Ilya Alexi

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“The most common weakness of all…”-NH

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“The most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.”-Napoleon Hill

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“Don’t measure yourself by what…”-JW

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“Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.”-John Wooden

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“Everything we hear is an opinion…”-MA

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“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”-Marcus Aurelius

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“Strength lies in differences…”-SC

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“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.”-Stephen Covey

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“Wisdom is knowing I…”

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“Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.”

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“Whatever we plant in our…”-EN

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“Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind & nourish with repetition & emotion will one day become a reality.”-Earl Nightingale

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“We accept the reality…”-Kristoff, from ‘Truman Show’

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“We accept the reality of the world with which we’re presented.”-Kristoff, from ‘Truman Show’

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“To believe with certainty…”-Polish Proverb

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“To believe with certainty, we must begin by doubting.”-Polish Proverb

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