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• Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.

  Laozi

  Life, Thinking, Light

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

  Abdul Kalam

  Negative Experiences, Negative

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• Love is not about others; love is a practice of self-mastery.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Love, Self, Practice

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• A pivotal spiritual attribute is that of self-mastery-th e strength to place reason over appetite. Self-mastery builds a strong conscience. And your conscience determines your moral responses in difficult, tempting, and trying situations.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Spiritual, Strong, Self

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• The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

  Pope John Paul II

  Life, Mean, Self

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• Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Integrity, Law Of Attraction

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.679, 谷月社

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• The price that must be paid for mastery is discipline. No one achieves lasting success without it. So from the moment you awake each day, devote yourself to the perfection of whatever you pursue. Do this and you will achieve self-mastery. Achieve self-mastery and you will have the makings of a great leader... Discipline is all about cultivating powerful habits that become part of your lifestyle.

  Robin Crow

  Powerful, Self, Discipline

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• One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Mastery, Action

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• Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.

  Steven Pressfield

  Self, Long Ago, Mastery

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.37, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.

  Gautama Buddha

  Integrity, Buddhism, World

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• To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

  Bruce Lee

  Relationship, Motivation, Acting

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.181, Tuttle Publishing

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• The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

  Herbert Spencer

  Motivational, Men, Self

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.206

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• The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Peace, Temptation

  Norman Vincent Peale (2016). “Reaching Your Potential”, p.76, Jaico Publishing House

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• The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

  Atisa

  Buddhism, Appearance, Things Are Not What They Seem

  "Perspectives on Mankind's Search for Meaning". Book by Walter Taminang, p. 63, 2008.

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• Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Expectations, Temptation, Able

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.679, 谷月社

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• The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.

  Atisa

  Letting Go, Buddhism, Meditation

  "Perspectives on Mankind's Search for Meaning". Book by Walter Taminang, p. 63, 2008.

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• I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse self-will, unaided by which the other three would be comparatively powerless.

  Augustus William Hare

  Motivational, Self, Enemy

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• Take what's useful, discard what is not.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Self Improvement

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• I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Karma

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Philosophical, Judging

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• If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art no better than a fly. Conquer thy heart that thou mayest become somebody.

  Aziz Ansari

  Art, Air, Water

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• The greatest effort is not concerned with results.

  Atisa

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Effort

  "Perspectives on Mankind's Search for Meaning". Book by Walter Taminang, p. 63, 2008.

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• Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.

  Rumi

  Motivational, Self, Grace

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• To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Awakening, Mastery

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.48, Rajpal & Sons

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• How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Motivational, Good Morning, Vices

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Seamus Perry (2002). “Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection”, p.71, Oxford University Press, USA

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