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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.

Envy Prosperity Happiness People
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.

View Humility Essential Christianity
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The story that you tell yourself is exactly what holds you back from being successful.

Story Yourself Holds Successful
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Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.

Action Intentions World
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Reading . . . is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Reading Writing Civil Intellectual
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.

Heaven Hell Actions Men
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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is

Life Complicated Moment Man
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The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.

Choice View Act Culture
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.

Evil intention Perverts Actions Sins
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All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity — it is to destroy it.

Idealisation Life Beautify Destroy
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Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.

Life Character Expression Belief
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A woman's true tenderness, like the true virility of man, is expressed in action of a conquering kind.

Woman's Tenderness Virility Action
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Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

Action Enemy Friend Illusions
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Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.

Propaganda Manipulated Confident Free will
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A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity

Media system Diversity Uniformity
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Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.

Intellectual Danger Building Character
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They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.

Death Act Lady
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We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.

Virtues Defects Character Live
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Retract Opinions Love Truth
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Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions

Impulses Naught Good Actions
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I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.

Find Emotionally Character's Convincing
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I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

Write Strength Characters Afraid
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The secret to multitasking is that it isn't actually multitasking. It's just extreme focus and organization.

Secret Multitasking Focus Organization
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Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level

Trust Facts Conscious
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As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care

Celebrity Position People Care
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Love comes when manipulation stops when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully.

Love Manipulation Person Reveal
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Death is just the last scene of the last act.

Death Scene Act
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I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end

Time Fixed Forgotten Misery
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Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.

Writing Activity Bribe Suicide
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

Reality Facts Romantic Imagination
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Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.
Anger Meant Acted upon
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You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you.

Work Spiritual Fact God
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Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often visible to us, but invisible to those around us.

Artist Visionaries Faith Creative goal
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Creativity requires activity…And most of us hate to do something when we can obsess about something else instead.

Creativity Activity Hate Obsess
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Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace, and power in it

Believe Begin Action Power
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Once writing becomes an act of listening instead of an act of speech, a great deal of the ego goes out of it.

Writing Act Listening Ego
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I just get so happy when I think about the fact that I get to do what I love every day as a job.

Happy Think Love Job
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The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

Dowry Wife Object Attraction
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For every failure there’s an alternative course of action. you just have to find it.

Failure Course Action Find
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Criticize the act, not the person.

Criticize Act Person
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

Sense Creativity Happiness Alive
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

Gifts Faithfully Practice Knowledge
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Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.

Knowledge Vain Fruitless Practice
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It’s a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates.

Scientific Fact Gratitude
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Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

Scientific Knowledge Pursuit Purpose
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Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?

Life Fear Faith Threats
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People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.

People Watching Act Listening
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You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.

Act Person Conceive
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To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

Change Habit Decision Behavior
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We fear disturbance, change, fear to bring to light and to talk about what is painful. Suffering often feels like failure, but it is actually the door into growth.

Fear Change Painful Growth
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