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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism
The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight
The direction of the mind is more important than its progress
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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