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I make myself rich by making my wants few.


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Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.



There is no remedy for love but to love more.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.



The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.



It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.



If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...



I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.



be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.



What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.



The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.



The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.





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You are not what you seem to be. You are one of God's endless dreams in search of wakefulness. Meditation is wakefulness.

You are not what you seem to be. You are one of God's endless dreams in search of wakefulness. Meditation is wakefulness.



Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.

Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.



Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!

Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!



It is only when we decide that 'ordinary' is an insult, that we become the exquisite miracles we were born to be.

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Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor-unassisted.



Motivation fuels the attitude that builds the Confidence necessary to sustain the Persistence.

Motivation fuels the attitude that builds the Confidence necessary to sustain the Persistence.




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