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• The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.

  Joseph Campbell

  Quests, Release, Ecstasy

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.14, Anchor

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• The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me. It's fascinating because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today. I don't think we give ourselves enough credit for the overcoming.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, Ideas, Giving

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Apr 18, 2014

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• One definition of maturity is learning to delay pleasure.

  Dave Ramsey

  Maturity, Delay, Definitions

  FaceBook post by Dave Ramsey from May 02, 2011

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• You can’t have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Meaningful, Political, Democracy

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• Music connects with the soul. I think it's the quickest art form to the soul.

  Chris Tomlin

  Art, Thinking, Soul

  FaceBook post by Chris Tomlin from Feb 01, 2014

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• It's not where you start but where you finish.

  April Heinrichs

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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  A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.

  Ayn Rand

  Mistake, Suffering, Businessman

  "The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z".

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• By our attitude, we decide to read, or not to read. By our attitude, we decide to try or give up. By our attitude, we blame ourselves for our failure, or we blame others. Our attitude determines whether we tell the truth or lie, act or procrastinate, advance or recede, and by our own attitude we and we alone actually decide whether to succeed or fail.

  Jim Rohn

  Giving Up, Attitude, Lying

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 19, 2012

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• A leader should not take credit when things go right if they are not willing to accept responsibility when things go wrong.

  Simon Sinek

  Responsibility, Leader, Credit

  Twitter post from Jul 03, 2013

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• Remember, conflict doesn’t always mean we have to fight against something and tear it apart.... Conflict can also mean we’re fighting for something to make it even better and stronger than it’s ever been.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Mean, Fighting, Tears

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Sep 05, 2016

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• Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective or racial achievement. There are only individual minds and individual achievements-an d a culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Intellectual, Mind

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• Don't sacrifice your spirit for wealth. Grow your wealth by first growing your spirit.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Sacrifice, Self Motivation, Business Success

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Aug 14, 2012

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• Being is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still. When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Self, Mind, Trying

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.16, New World Library

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• You need to have the courage to fail.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Needs, Failing

  Twitter post from Jul 01, 2013

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• One of the most important lessons to learn about relationships is that it is not another person’s job to make you happy. Your happiness is not someone else’s job. Until you realize this, you will always be dissatisfied with your relationships. Ultimately, your relationship with others mirrors your relationship to happiness.

  Robert Holden

  Jobs, Mirrors, Important

  Robert Holden (2009). “Be Happy: Release the Power of Happiness in You”, p.181, Hay House, Inc

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• Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never returns.

  Nelson Mandela

  Taken, Past, Should Have

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.160, Pan Macmillan

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• The things you have that money won't buy are the things that will enable you to get more of the things that money will buy.

  Zig Ziglar

  Best Things In Life Are Free, Money Can't Buy Happiness

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Oct 07, 2013

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• The dream in your heart may be bigger than the environment in which you find yourself. Sometimes you have to get out of that environment in order to see your dream fulfilled.

  Joel Osteen

  Dream, Heart, Order

  Joel Osteen (2012). “Daily Readings from Become a Better You: 90 Devotions for Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't operate on the heart with a hatchet.

  Jim Rohn

  Heart, Hatchet

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 17, 2013

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• How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

  Robert Browning

  Freedom, Fetters, Seems

  "My Last Duchess and Other Poems".

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• What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.

  Denis Leary

  Inspirational, Life Is Too Short, Long

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• If your motivation for acquiring money or success comes from a non-supportive root such as fear, anger or the need to 'prove' yourself, your money will never bring you happiness.

  T. Harv Eker

  Motivation, Roots, Supportive

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Dec 20, 2015

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• The amount you give isn't important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life.

  Jim Rohn

  What Matters, Giving, Important

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 07, 2016

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• Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

  Dennis Wholey

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Christianity is not about how much faith you have. It's about Who your faith is in.

  Mike Donehey

  Christianity

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