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Only you can control your future.

Future Control Only You
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I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.

Wet Sun Lot Good
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Life can always change, you have to adjust.

Change Life Adjust Always
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Strength isn’t always shown in what you can hold on to, sometimes it’s shown in what you can let go of.

Always Hold Strength Shown
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The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one’s education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.

Soul Next World Culture
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The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Society Describe Grow Reality
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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Dirt Nourish Grow Stunt
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Forgive Child Afraid Dark
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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Courage Potential Virtue Consistency
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
True Exist Equal Between
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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Angry Help Person Two
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The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it.

Purpose Life Bear Burden
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If you can't understand why someone is doing something, look at the consequences of their actions, whatever they might be, and then infer the motivations from their consequences. For example if someone is making everyone around them miserable and you'd like to know why, their motive may simply be to make everyone around them miserable including themselves.

Understand Someone Look Action
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You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.

Understand Complex Believe Think
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects. And you can say

Select Nature Make Success
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Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities. Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care with yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination and articulate your Being. As the great nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, “He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.

Power Vision Direction Force
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You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.

Protect Frighten Hurt Identify
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You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction. Random wandering will not move you forward. It will instead disappoint and frustrate you and make you anxious and unhappy and hard to get along with and then resentful, and then vengeful, and then worse.

Determine Life Move Instead
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If you have a comprehensive explanation for everything then it decreases uncertainty and anxiety and reduces your cognitive load. And if you can use that simplifying algorithm to put yourself on the side of moral virtue then you’re constantly a good person with a minimum of effort.

Effort Person Moral Virtue
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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Control Event Decide Reduce
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You can only become truly accomplished at something you love.

Love Become Something Truly
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Change Attitude Like Your
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If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

Good Anyone Else Myself
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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Courage Practice Virtue Kind
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If you’re always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

Always Never Amazing Normal
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You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Use More Have Creativity
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

Lucky Solitary Fantasy Transform
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There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

World Between Truth Fact
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Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

Best Better Know Until
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Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

Develop Courage Stand Enough
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You can’t really know where you are going until you know where you have been.

Going Really Know Where
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You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.

Goal Love Pursue Instead
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I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can’t ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won’t stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you’d be surprised that people say, “Can I be of help?”.

Stand Responsibility Somebody Surprise
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If one has courage, nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
Courage Dim Light Shine
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I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.

Change Happen Refuse Reduce
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The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud.

Prepare Rainbow Cloud Somebody
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You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.

Angry Bitter Cancer Host
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Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you… yet, someone survived… You can do anything you choose to do.

Hurt Hungry Beaten Rape
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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
Child Candy Library Best
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I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

Trust Love African Careful
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You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one’s own self.

End Forgive Other Real
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Cancer Host Anger Fire
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I’ve learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself.

Learn Great Gift Give
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I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.

Believe Art Full Life
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You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‘I forgive. I’m finished with it.

Forgive Much Stand Mean
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It’s very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.

Affair Hard Adult Respect
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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
Virus Happen Time Love
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Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Learn Artist Break Rule
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I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Order Always Which May
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Abstract Start Trace Reality
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