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• The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Intelligent, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.92, Friederich Nietzsche

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• Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Life, Work, Successful

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “America and the World War”, p.260, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. So many look to eradicate fear from their lives, when that is an impossible task. You can certainly experience moments in absence of fear, however accept that fear will be with you whenever you are in the process of living creatively. The challenge is to go ahead regardless, simply notice the feeling and manage being courageous.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Challenges, Feelings

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• Strength, Courage, Mastery, and Honor are the alpha virtues of men all over the world. They are the fundamental virtues of men because without them, no 'higher' virtues can be entertained. You need to be alive to philosophize. You can add to these virtues and you can create rules and moral codes to govern them, but if you remove them from the equation altogether you aren't just leaving behind the virtues that are specific to men, you are abandoning the virtues that make civilization possible.

  Jack Donovan

  Men, Civilization, Leaving

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• The ancient yogis discovered that the secret of cosmic consciousness is intimately linked with breath mastery. This is India's unique and deathless contribution to the world's treasury of knowledge. The life force, which is ordinarily absorbed in maintaining the heart-pump, must be freed for higher activities by a method of calming and stilling the ceaseless demands of the breath.

  Sri Yukteswar Giri

  Heart, Unique, Secret

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• Self-mastery is a challenge for every individual. Only we can control our appetites and passions. Self-mastery cannot be bought by money or fame. It is the ultimate test of our character. It requires climbing out of the deep valleys of our lives and scaling our own Mount Everests.

  James E. Faust

  Passion, Character, Climbing

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• Our lives look a lot more interesting when they’re filtered through the sexy Facebook interface. We star in our own movies, we photograph ourselves incessantly, we click the mouse and a machine confirms our sense of mastery.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Sexy, Stars, Interesting

  Jonathan Franzen (2012). “Farther Away: Essays”, p.7, Macmillan

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• Love is the ability to live your life with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome, the ability within yourself to distinguish within yourself between love and fear and choose love regardless of what is going on inside yourself or outside. This is self-mastery or authentic power...that means you become clear, forgiving, humble and loving... you are grounded in harmony, cooperating, sharing and reverence for life.

  Gary Zukav

  Love, Mean, Heart

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• I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction. I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes, or variations that lead to mastery. I steer clear of definitions. I don’t know what I want. I am inconsistent, non-committal, passive; I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty.

  Gerhard Richter

  Style, Want, Variation

  Robert Storr, Gerhard Richter, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (2002). “Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting”, p.42, The Museum of Modern Art

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• I can slay a devil when I see one, Steady practice mastery of self so not to be one

  Jay Electronica

  Self, Practice, Devil

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• A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action.

  Gogen Yamaguchi

  Art, Men, Action

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• The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs from the predatory genius of the Greeks; no primitive peoples have ever come to study us. This is, on the one hand, a disinterested, intellectually inspired impulse. It is one of our glories. But it is, on the other, part and parcel of exploitation. [] The Western obsession with inquiry, with analysis, with the classification of all living forms, is itself a mode of subjugation, of psychological and technical mastery.

  George Steiner

  Spring, Unique, Men

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• Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

  Stephen Covey

  Self, Discipline, Good Relationship

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.228, Mango Media Inc.

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• Please take good care of it all, OK? Be an enlightened monarch who treats your domain with reverent responsibility. And make sure you also enjoy the full measure of fun that comes with such mastery. Glide through life as if all of creation is yearning to honor and entertain you.

  Rob Brezsny

  Fun, Responsibility, Empowerment

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.277, Frog Books

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• The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control of your body.

  Joseph Pilates

  Mind, Body, Pilates

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• There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of self-mastery. From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher.

  Robin Sharma

  Teacher, Pain, Powerful

  Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.42, Jaico Publishing House

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• Aside from mastery in the fine arts, success in learning anything is the result of genuine interest and amount of energy dedicated to it.

  Kató Lomb

  Art, Energy, Genuine

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• She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

  Frances E. Willard

  Cycling, Gains, Succeed

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• We shall no longer hang on to the tails of public opinion or to a non- existent authority on matters utterly unknown and strange. We shall gradually become experts ourselves in the mastery of the knowledge of the Future.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Public Opinion, Experts, Tails

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• Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.

  Steven Pressfield

  Self, Long Ago, Individual

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.37, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. In order to achieve happiness, it is imperative to gain mastery of your body. If at the age of 30 you are stiff and out of shape, you are old. If at 60 you are supple and strong then you are young.

  Joseph Pilates

  Strong, Order, Age

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• The challenge of preventing any further proliferation of nuclear weapons is just such a trial in the quest for world peace, one that cannot be achieved if we are defeated by a sense of helplessness. The crucial element is to ensure that any struggle against evil is rooted firmly in a consciousness of the unity of the human family, something only gained through the mastery of our own inner contradictions.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Struggle, Evil, Challenges

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• You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.

  Ngaio Marsh

  Writing, Design, Patterns

  Ngaio Marsh (1996). “Death on the Air and Other Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I sometimes still go out hunting for bad weather, flying low in simple airplanes to explore the inner reaches of the clouds. Less experienced pilots occasionally join me, not to learn formal lessons about weather flying, but with a more advanced purpose in mind - to accompany me in the slow accumulation of experience through circumstances that never repeat in a place that defies mastery.

  William Langewiesche

  Airplane, Simple, Hunting

  William Langewiesche (1998). “Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight”, Pantheon

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• An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, and leads him to self-mastery.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Self, Interesting

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