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• You are where you are in life because of what you believe is possible for yourself.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Insightful, Where You Are In Life

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• Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.

  Ellen Langer

  Growth, Mind, Possibility

  Ellen J. Langer (2009). “Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility”, p.24, Ballantine Books

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• This is hard. This is fun.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Fun, Growth, Hard

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• If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.

  Seneca the Younger

  School, Men, Fool

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• The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear.

  Confucius

  Anxiety, Virtuous, Perplexity

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.

  Saadi

  Men, Hands, Enemy

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• All true success flows out of giving something to someone.

  Mike Hernacki

  Wisdom, Clever, Giving

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• The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Learning, Ignorance, Greatest Wisdom

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.72, Shambhala Publications

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• Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Suffering

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• A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Judging, Justice

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• How wise are they that are but fools in love!

  Josh Cooke

  True Love, Fool

  "How a man may choose a Good Wife" by Josh Cooke, (Act I); Attributed in "Dictioanry of National Biography", 1970.

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• The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past.

  Brian Tracy

  Success, Past, Today

  Twitter post from Dec 16, 2014

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• The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Foolish, Extremes, Balanced

  Sakyong Mipham (2012). “Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind”, p.82, Harmony

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• Education does not necessarily make one wise?

  Benjamin Carson

  Doe

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• You’re in charge of your mind. You can help it grow by using it in the right way.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Growth, Mind, Way

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• Love's for fools wise enough to take a chance.

  Amy Grant

  Fool, Chance, Enough

  Twitter post from Feb 11, 2014

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• Wherever you put the mind, the body will follow.

  Ellen Langer

  Mind, Body

  "Aniston in Mindfulness Movie". bigthink.com.

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• Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being.

  Frederick Franck

  Art, Hobbies, Way

  Frederick Franck (1993). “Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing: Meditation in Action”, Bantam

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• Sometimes, in order to go forward, You must first go back.

  Julia Cameron

  Order, Firsts, Sometimes

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• Sometimes, I think the things we see are shadows of the things to be; that what we plan we build

  Phoebe Cary

  Thinking, Shadow, Sometimes

  Phoebe Cary (1882). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”

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• Seeing, observing, listening, these are the greatest acts

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Listening, Seeing, Observing

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• No one can upset you, unless you give them permission.

  Paul Robert Hanna

  Giving, Upset, Permission

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• Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.

  Plato

  Giving, Imagination, Soul

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• The only thing we can be certain of in this life is that we can be certain of nothing.

  Albert Einstein

  Life Is, This Life, Certain

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• You will rarely make wise decisions if you surround yourself with fools

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Decision, Fool, Surround Yourself

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